As you know by now, I don’t like to talk about politics because it’s a losing game. Inevitably, no matter what is said someone will get their feathers ruffled and just shut down. When I say “shut down” I am saying this, I have written over these years to try to urge or be an impetus for people to wake up and protect themselves financially and any other way possible. If I wrote about politics then some on the right or the left might stop reading and my message would reach fewer who have the need to prepare for the mathematically inevitable future. That said, I am sure that what I say today will ruffle some feathers on both sides and in between. So be it, maybe just maybe it will jar some of those sleeping soundly into action. I will tell you here exactly how I see it.
Here goes. We have lost our country. We are mathematically bankrupt and morally bankrupt. I do believe that even the average person does know today or at least senses that something is wrong. The vast majority doesn’t know what it is but they have a “sense” or a “feeling” that something just isn’t quite right.
It is my opinion that the United States is being taken down purposely. I can say this because no sane man or woman would have put in place the policies that we have over the last 15-20 years. Think about it, who would have put NAFTA or CAFTA into place? How could this ever have been “good” for the American worker? As a side note, our last chance at having a leader who clearly knew how to run a business and told it as it really was was Ross Perot. He caused a groundswell that could have taken the helm to use common sense business practice and ethics but even he was scared into exiting the race until his conscience got to him too late. Yes there was also Ron Paul but he was tainted and smeared as a “wacko” ever since he was first elected to congress. The press didn’t cover him and when they did, they mocked him, and the Republicans silenced him, he never had a chance. He did (and does) however know that the fiscal and monetary policies that we were (and still are) following would end up bankrupting the nation. He was smeared as a “lunatic” from the first day he entered congress so to put a lid on him. It worked well enough I guess because here we are.
I would also like to say before going any further that our “two party” system in my opinion does not give you any choice because both sides work for the same masters. I will also say that the old saying “it doesn’t matter who you vote for, it matters who counts the votes” applies more today than when it was first spoken. I do not believe that we have had even a “slightly untainted” presidential election in the last 4 cycles. Would it have mattered if Gore won twice followed by 2 stints by McCain? No, I don’t think so. We would still be broke, the currency would still be on the precipice of death and the country would still be as divided as it is.
“Divided” is a very important word and concept today. I watched from afar (Costa Rica) our country begin to divide and take diametrically opposed sides so to speak. Yes we used to have “debates” between the Dems and Repubs, the liberals and conservatives but there was not so much “hate”. My wife Kathy was reading me some comments from a Yahoo article about the border situation last night, the hatred from both sides is staggering. We have become divided like no other time since the Civil War. Both sides are calling the other side a bunch of idiots. Both sides are hurling insults at the “Tea Baggers” (independents?) and the Tea Party fires back in both directions. They all somewhat miss the point in my opinion but at least the Tea Party wants to go back to using The Constitution. There is no respect from any side, there is little logic if any and downright hatred of those with opposing “stupid” views. It is my opinion that this part of “the plan” has worked and is working like a charm, divide the American people …as in “divide and conquer”.
My personal politics? I would say that I am “independent of the independents”. You know my views on business and finance. You could describe me as an Austrian economist even though I never studied it. I have arrived at the “Austrian school” through common sense and digging for the truth. On the social side of things, I lean toward being conservative yet have several liberal views when it comes to personal liberty. The Costa Ricans call it “Pura Vida”, (pure life). I believe that people should be able to live their own lives as they wish as long as they don’t infringe on others. “Others” in this case means “other AMERICANS”. There are so many things today that are politically incorrect and are no no’s because we might offend someone. I don’t give a rats ass if someone who is not an American is offended by anything that I do on American soil as an American citizen. Today you say that hanging the American flag might offend someone? Really? Who cares? This is America, it is our soil and if it offends you then please leave, we don’t need you! On the other hand, “burning the American flag” is OK. Really? It offends me because I am an American. It offends me so much that if I saw this from my neighbor I would probably go to jail for beating him senseless after putting the fire out. Before finishing this thought process, how is it offensive to recite the pledge of ALLEGIANCE ( you know “allegiance” to YOUR COUNTRY) or have a moment of prayer in school before it starts? Everyone has a moment to pray to their own God and the atheists get a few moments to daydream …does this infringe on anyone’s rights?
There are way too many topics to cover, the latest being the border situation. Yes I feel for the poor women and children but I’m sorry, they are not our problem. Yes we are all from foreign descent and yes it says at the Statue of Liberty “Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free” but 100 years ago people came here to work …not get free health insurance, EBT cards, rent subsidies, disability payments and on and on. They came here to WORK and make their lives better, NOT to receive free handouts. 100 years ago, foreigners were not sent here in droves with all sorts of infectious diseases that will surely spread and poison us. Does anyone not see this for what it is? Our country will have whatever remaining life blood sucked out of it. We are being attacked from within which was exactly what Thomas Jefferson warned us of 200+ years ago. Let me also say this, an American with no passport cannot leave or enter this country…while a foreigner with no passport can enter or leave at will, is there something wrong with this picture? Maybe just a little? I read this morning where TSA is not requiring any ID from aliens to board domestic flights if they have a “court appearance” form. What is this? No picture, no ID, no nothing? “ID less” voting has also been suggested and if you don’t agree with it you are called heartless or even racist. How about calling me an AMERICAN because I believe in following The Constitution? In my opinion, a country with no borders will not remain a country for very long and we now have no border.
OK, so now it’s time to piss everyone off by saying what I believe about the “right and the left”. Let me start with the “right”. These people believe that the “left” has bankrupted the country both fiscally and morally. They blame the Democrats for over spending and they blame the liberals for the social insanity that is gripping the nation. The conservatives in my opinion “look down” upon the liberals and say that they don’t use logic in any argument or thought process. The liberals on the other hand (again this is my opinion which as of today I am still allowed to fleetingly have) really and truly don’t use any logic in their arguments. Have you ever spoken to or debated a liberal? I usually stop after about 30 seconds because you cannot argue with them. They blow off logic and often get downright mean and either call you sexist, racist or just plain stupid so what’s the point?
Don’t get me wrong, the conservatives are just as wrong as the liberals and have done more than their fair share in bankrupting this country. We have had presidents and congress’ from both sides with various mixes over the years and no matter the mix we always and every year spent more than we had. I believe that 1960 was the last year that this country was on any sort of “track” at all. We even had a president (Eisenhower) who warned us of a greedy (and dangerous) military industrial complex. We went off of the gold standard in 1971 because we had to, we were overspending and losing our gold. We have run a deficit every single year since 1960 and Clinton’s “surplus” was a bogus batch of smoke and mirrors. Kennedy was killed because he didn’t want to go into Vietnam and wanted to go back to a metal backed money. Nixon fell into the MIC line, Reagan blew out our budgets, “deficits didn’t matter” with Bush Sr., and our moral compass started spinning around with Clinton. Then came Bush II and Obama and the lunacy really began. We have become an Orwellian state in the name of security. We have had false flags to get us into wars and others to try to disarm us. I will tell you that pure and raw logic tells me that steel buildings cannot collapse from fire, school children cannot die without dead bodies and men with their legs blown off cannot wheel “consciously” down the street without bleeding blood, ANY blood.
Anyone who has these same beliefs are “branded” a wacko conspiracy nut by the mainstream. If you believe that I am one of these crazies then I ask; have you ever really researched the facts before forming this opinion or do you solely rely on the official story? I know that these are very touchy subjects and many will get turned off but I would ask you this very simple and basic question to which everyone knows the answer. If the “official” inflation rate is something less than 2% and your personal experience is that the real inflation rate is at an absolute minimum 5-10%, then what else are you not being told the truth about? Please, do your own research and don’t rely on ideas being planted in your head and remember, there is a reason “why” for much of what we hear. The “truth” will not fall in your lap or be handed to you, you have to seek it and discover it for yourself…”logic” will help you in this quest.
Think about the top leadership today. We have watched as our president cannot open his mouth without some sort of “untruth” or downright lie spurting forth. Our current speaker of the house has no backbone and is prone to tears while the past speaker Nancy Pelosi told us “we have to pass Obamacare to see what’s in it”. Really? She giggled like a little schoolgirl yearning to open her birthday present to “see what’s in it”. The problem is that “what was in it” affects something close to 10% of U.S. GDP and every single American citizen not to mention giving care to those who enter here illegally! I could of course get into the Supreme Court on this subject but what’s the point?
We as a nation are divided as never before, un Constitutional laws have been put in place, our industry has been pulled out from under us, “free stuff” abounds everywhere for anyone willing to take it, our borders have been thrown wide open so that real terrorists can enter while real Americans are spied on and deemed terrorists. The only thing left to ignite the pressure cooker is some sort of banking/currency event. When this thing blows it will be every man and woman for themselves. Unlike the civil war, who is your enemy? Everyone? People are angry. People feel trampled on and ignored yet few really know why. The banking system is squeezing you dry because the purchasing power of your currency is going away. This was by design and was planned and put into place 101 years ago when the Federal Reserve was created… on purpose… not a “policy error”. Yes, we are all sheep and have all been sheared to varying degrees. Soon there will be nothing left to shear and it will be real blood that they want …and unfortunately they will get it as Americans fights Americans.
People are bewildered but so few are or have done anything to figure out what has really happened. Surely less than 2% of Americans have moved any capital out of banks and into real money. I see it as “lethargy and ignorance” not to mention a school system that purposely keeps inquiring minds from wanting to know. So few are really seeking anything at all much less the truth. An example is CNBC. I believe them to be mostly blatant disinformation but they have less than 200,000 viewers so the harm is limited. This by the way is less than the remainder of population in the once booming Detroit. There are some who are “seeking” the truth but not many. In my opinion the truth or at least real logic can be found at the Zero Hedge website as they offer real topics and usually real logic. Yet their most read articles only have 200,000 reads or so. Maybe they have 1 million clicks per day but I would guess probably less than 500,000 on an average day. Please remember, many of their readers are not Americans as they are read worldwide but let’s use this figure of 1 million clicks anyway. One million is only 3 tenths of 1 percent of the U.S. population. Where are the other 99.7% of the U.S. population getting their information from? Bloomberg? MSNBC? The White House press conferences? All you need to do is look at the retail volume numbers on Wall St. to see that people have mostly thrown up their arms and tuned out.
Let me wrap this up by saying that we are now a pot of boiling gasoline ready to explode. Few, very few even understand why there is so much anger seething just below the surface. It doesn’t and will not matter because even if you know “why”, you can and will be just as hungry as your neighbor when food is hard to come by. If people are angry now, what do you think it will be like when the general population finds out that the money they worked for was a fraud? What will happen when the banks “bail in” depositors and confiscate funds? What will it be like when WalMart doesn’t have food to sell whether you have cash, an unfunded EBT card or even silver to buy with?
I am sorry if any of this has offended you, it was not my intention. My intention was to try to “stir the pot” a little in the hopes that someone who reads this may finally do something about it and prepare. Yes some are “prepping” but the vast majority are not because they don’t know that they should. I assure you that life is about to change for everyone, life will be a little “less bad” if you can see it now and plan for it. I am sure that I will receive e-mails telling me how worthless gold and silver are as part of your preparations because you can’t eat them if there is no food. This is correct to some extent but gold is your tool to arrive at the next monetary system with some wealth, some “money”. Silver can be used to barter with as even during the coming train wreck, something will need to serve as currency.
I will leave you with this and yes I am pro 2nd amendment. I play golf occasionally with 2 British nationals who tell me I’m nuts because I own guns. They tell me “why would I need a gun to protect myself when the government will do it for me? They have protected me my whole life, what has changed?” (In case you did not know or forgot, the 2nd amendment was written by our forefathers as a protection …against a tyrannical government.) When the pot blows, who will protect you physically? Who will protect your finances and money? Who will feed you? Hopefully you understand that the answer is “you” and yours (or small community around you). Unfortunately we are now ripe for “something” (it’s called a false flag) to happen so that the sheep scream, even beg for “more protection”. Regards, Bill Holter
Well said, Bill. There isn’t anything in this article that I disagree with.
thanks.
Bill,
All I can say is “bravo!”
You have pointed out many things that should be obvious to all, but like ostriches many find it temporarily comforting to keep their heads hidden in the sand.
I don’t agree with everything you said above, but I believe you are the sort of American that can rationally and respectfully discuss differences of opinions with others that are equally rational and respectful.
I look forward to all of your blog entries, and this one was exceptional! Keep up the good work.
rational and respectful are two traits not often found in conversations these days.
That pretty much sums it up. No disagreement here (but then again I am part of the 0.3% “choir”). God help us all when this goes down.
And God Bless you for speaking the truth, Bill. I pray that you and yours weather the coming storm as safely as is possible. I think that none of us will emerge unscathed.
thank you Chris.
I agree with most of what you say and consider myself more in the Austrian economics camp – fiscally conservative and socially liberal. The way I see it, the elites get bailed out and crony deals facilitated by gubment, and the bottom 50% vote themselves other people’s money. Though I will never, ever vote for a democrat, I blame republicans more for our problems because they should know better. Democrats are simply retarded and have no common sense or math skills, so cannot be held accountable for their stupidity. My sincere hope is the youth will kick out the democrats and rhinos and turn to the Ron Paul/Ross Perot types. But I realize it can only come about after our current socialist/crony capitalist/corporate fascist system collapses.
they are equally guilty for different reasons.
Bill,
Yes, everytime I hear “you can’t eat Gold/Silver” I always respond “try filling you’re belly with $100 bills”. I hate to say it, those that haven’t already woken up and stopped drinking the MSM Koolaid, are lost. I stopped trying to talk sense into my family members years ago.
family can often times be more difficult to convince or guide.
I can gratefully say that i agree with EVERYTHING you have written. Thanks once again for all you do!
welcome Craig
That was great Bill. I read other writers who say that they get lots of cancellations when they write something the reader doesn’t like. That too is a part of the “downfall of America”. So short sighted.
Keep giving me your opinion. If I don’t agree, so be it, but I will keep reading your letters.
Bill
thank goodness I don’t rely on subscribers
Bill,
The entire article is 100% spot on !!!
There will be 2% or less that can handle what is coming upon us in fast motion.
God help us all.
yes, thanks Farrell
Great article Bill. I read them every day and love the way you put it all together in common sense terms.
It is truly insane what has happened over the past 20-25 years in this country with an example you mentioned such as NAFTA. I think the Elites have had this planned for decades. Build this country up and then gut it. Let it rot, we got what we needed. It’s just beyond all means of turning it around anymore so just let it die , we will move onto other opportunities. Sad.
and getting “sadder”.
Other good sites for good articles and information for liberty/freedom lovers who want the truth are brotherjohnf, dollarcollapse, peakprosperity, oftwominds, monty pelerin’s world and the burning platform.
hello Bill
First off I am a Canadian. we travel into the states quite often. Security between Can/US is quite stringent. What I see happening at US/Mexican makes me feel like a fourth world citizen in US eyes. But in all honesty I am glad I am not an American. This is by far your best article ever. Andy`s technical and statistical advice is okay but I find common sense and gut feelings are more important in certain things. Keep up the good work.
regards
garry
thanks Garry
Bill
You are a breath of fresh air.
Thank you for letting me know I am not crazy.
b
no, not crazy.
No longer do I care about politics or the difference between Right and Left. My only concern now is the difference between Right and Wrong. Unfortunately “Right” is is a commodity more in short supply than Gold these days.
You hit the nail on the head once again Bill.
mark from Victoria
yes, very scarce indeed.
Bill: Jeff Nielson talks about the “one bank”. You talk about the “one party”. Both of you are, unfortunately, correct. It’s the “one bank” that has corrupted the “one party” through bribery and perhaps threats. If I had founded a school, I would have required reading of The Creature from Jekyl Island and the Road to Serfdom. There is a definite reason that public school teachers became unionized and, as a result, civic classes that explain how government is supposed to work under our Constitutional framework, are no longer taught. I am at an age (pre-boomer) where I have witnessed the progression (pardon the pun) of social Marxism and corporate Fascism I have seen the best of the USA, and now am awaiting the worst. Keep the truth coming to all those who have not yet connected all the dots.
thanks Andy, will do.
My God that was beautiful – finally someone with common sense – I so wanted Mr Perot to win – that would have been dandy. Im 65 yrs old, I woke up 4 yrs ago – We now need either God himself or aliens to land to help our SORRY ASS’s out of this BS we’re knee deep in.
Even God himself might find it impossible to get us out of the financial quicksand because math is math.
Great article. You and Andy nail it on a daily basis. Ya’ll are the best or at least up there with the best who are trying to warn the complacent and ignorant American populace. I do not think most will awaken before They pull the trap door on these gallows upon which our once great Nation is now standing.Sadly, this global financial and civil calamity is foretold in the Holy Bible, but even as the religious leaders were asleep at the Lord Jesus first advent – the Christian leaders of today are likewise asleep for this huge event also. If this will cause Christians to return to the Lord and look to Him instead of their (things), then so be it – bring it on.
in agreement.
Thanks Bill for your forthright messages, speaking your truth. That’s all each one of us can do. If we turn off a few people, so be it. This kind of message is something few people are willing to look at directly. I see it everyday with friends and family. It’s a turnoff, a conversation stopper. You Bill are willing to let it fly, and in a very public way. Not many people are up to that.
So please know that there’s plenty of us folks out here that know exactly what you are saying, and that we know you are doing it out of the kindness of your heart to wake people up.
It’s hard to be a messenger with such news. Thanks for keeping me fired up and caring greatly about the outcome of all this. We need each other to keep a certain kind of vigilance going. It is through our witness that this thing has a chance of seeing the light of day.
thank you for the kind words Andrew.
Hey Bill, You are not stepping on my feelings. Sometimes stirring the pot causes an overflow in the fire and that is needed sometimes for people to smell the danger(something burning). I was thinking the other day, all this talk about security and terrorist threats, and the border is wide open like a prostitute opened for 24hr business. This is the BS people allow themselves to get subjected to! Was there not an article talking about a nuke being stolen and gone into Mexico? False flag may be right and it may be right at the border. After all, remember there is the “no child left behind” theory they are using at the border also.
Thanks and be safe!
U2
Fantastic article Bill..
I wish everybody on the planet could read this and understand that this is the truth.
Thank you Steve, please feel free to forward the article.
Bill, Your thoughts are almost word for word of what I think. Politics is evil and will get you nowhere but worse off. I feel bad for the countless people who are not awake or even question anything that goes on (mostly because they are told everything is fine by cnn or whatever “news source” they listen to) Something bad is coming down the pipe and its going to happen sooner than anyone thinks. Like the bible says “they took no note until the flood came and swept them all away”
thanks Joe, yes coming soon.
Another great article Bill. Clear commonsense journalism is difficult to find that is why I look forward to your daily writing. As I have said in the past you should
be required reading for the masses. Thank you for your honest and spot on opinions.
thanks.
Thanks for stirring the pot. I’m an unapologetic Liberal and I think where we meet in common is that we mostly want the government (and big business) to LEAVE US ALONE. In other words, we all believe in the Right to Privacy. If you think about it, by and large, the Bill of Rights exist for the purpose of letting us do as we wish as long as we don’t infringe on the rights of others. That’s it.
I’m happy to own plenty of firearms; precious metals and other stuff I’d rather not disclose on the internet. I think the media is by and large a vast wasteland controlled by corporate giants whose only interest is getting us to think as ‘consumers’ instead of ‘citizens’.
I’ll close by merely pointing out that where 85% of my conservative brethren fail to acknowledge is that government is NOT the problem. WE are the government. The problem is that our government has been captured by big money. Big money causes our government to undertake idiotic pursuits because that is profitable to those interests. Witness Iraq. It didn’t do much good for the Iraqis; our soldiers; you or I; but Halliburton and the military industrial complex did pretty good. Cui bono.
Saluations Bill!
we have common ground.
Mark, I agree with much of what you have to say, as big business and corporations merging together to control things is bad for everyone and the government’s main role should be to protect our freedoms.
Where I differ, however, is with things like the VA (government monopoly, terrible service to veterans)and entitlement programs, which are nothing more than socialist Ponzi schemes that are massively underfunded by trillions of dollars. Socialism is a problem as well and we are now in 50th year of the War On Poverty and it’s been a massive failure. So was the New Deal. The government has no resources of its own and exists due to taxation (theft) and borrowing.
As someone who has lived and worked around the Washington, D.C. area, I can tell you that there is a massive disconnect between a federal employee who gets a pension, a lot of leave time, nice benefits, etc. and Main St. USA. They have no clue and think that they are the answer to everything. We also see this with public unions who continue to lobby politicians to get wonderful pensions at the taxpayer’s expense. These states, like Illinois and California, are terrible places to do business and people are leaving there. At the top level, we have a bunch of sociopaths who, yes, are influenced by corporations, but that’s not the only game in town. What about the CFR for foreign policy? George Soros? The Koch Brothers? There’s a lot you’re missing here.
Mark, So what does the government actually do well? And do you think all the problems it creates will magically go away if we hold off the influence of corporations? If so, I would consider legally changing your name to Paul E. Anna.
I’m only going to bother responding to 1 of your ‘arguments’ because it is a common misperception. ‘Entitlement’ is often lazy thinking. Some are actually earned benefits. I have paid into Social Security. So have most people. We have EARNED those benefits. Social Security contributes not one penny to the deficit. In fact, our greedy congresscritters stole that money and instead blew it on all kinds of stuff that has nothing to do with Social Security. It has worked like a charm for more than 50 years.
I’m not going to debate you on this as you typify the problem Bill has laid out. You are looking to score points with dated and cowardly thinking. Bill and I are looking to move forward to what brings us together than what divides us. You could not resist the cheap shot and that about says it all.
Where exactly in the Constitution is the government supposed to create a pension fund? While it certainly would work better if something was in the fund itself and we were all allowed to access the money. Social Security depends on more workers paying into the system for those that have retired, but demographics have shifted and we now have millions of Baby Boomers retiring versus a lot less people to support them. Medicare in and of itself isn’t sustainable and, yes, corporations do contribute to problems in healthcare.
I also wasn’t trying to take any shots at you, however, the facts are the facts. Most of the tax revenue collected goes to entitlement programs and the interest on the debt. You can look it up yourself. You can also look up how many trillions we’ve spent on the War on Poverty and what the poverty rate is today, especially amongst African-Americans. Or the fact that the New Deal prolonged the Great Depression.
If you would like to give more money to the government, that’s fine. I would prefer to do that on a more local level and have more choices in the matter.
@ Matt R.,
If you happen to be in one of the younger generations, I can understand your anger at having to pay into something that won’t be there for you. You should be able to opt out of the system if that’s what you want to do. A heck of lot of retirees will be in for a shock when the checks keep coming and no longer have purchasing power after the dollar tanks.
Thank you, Woodrow Wilson, for giving us the income tax, involving us in WWI, and helping to create the Creature from Jekyll Island. That signified the end of real capitalism in the United States.
Charles Maurer
Way to go Bill! I have to respect you for letting it fly but the problem is you are preaching to the converted. And as you say, there’s nothing really you can say to convert the brainwashed if they don’t want to learn. They won’t be coming to this site! This is something I have been amazed by myself and it provides great insight into the human mind.
I don’t necessarily agree with everything you have said, but most of it. It has little to do with religion or lack thereof, left vs. right, or people getting “freebies”, or too-loose borders. It’s simply the predictable and 100%-of-the-time repeated progression of societies as empires are built and grow beyond what the resources supporting them can sustain (“but this time it will be different”, we’re told. We have somehow invented a perpetual motion machine). The Romans, the Incas, the Mayans, successive Chinese empires, the list is endless. Without population die-off, or some new technology to greatly increase access to energy, the empires inevitably collapse, and all this manipulation of markets, media propaganda, increased financial corruption, and restrictive laws we’re seeing are just the last ditch efforts the elites are using to keep the thing scotch-taped together, to keep it profitable — for them.
The Tea Party probably started out with good intentions but from what I have learned it simply got corrupted like them all — this time by the Koch Brothers and the oil industry with its ridiculous pseudo-patriotic drive to get America “independent in energy” again via some mystical revolution in tight oil that amounts to almost nothing.
But keep it coming.
thanks, I will.
Agreed.United States is finished.However, I think there is
still hope for Texas.
When you were riding and encountered a federal employee,
she referred to the “zombies”.Who do you think she was
talking about?
those on autopilot who do not think.
Today, you succumbed to the very thing you admonish your readers against:
“have you ever really researched the facts before forming this opinion…?”
You used the well-established fact that our inflation rate is much higher than the commonly-reported CPI (and the reasonable conclusion that the CPI is basically a lie) to conclude:
“I will tell you that pure and raw logic tells me that steel buildings cannot collapse from fire”, thereby implying not only that we’ve been lied to about the WTC, but that there must have been some kind of conspiracy behind it. Your implication is that if they lie to us about the CPI (and gold manipulation and LIBOR, etc.), they must be lying to us about everything.
I can tell you that I, for one, have “researched the facts”. My best friend is an independent consultant in metallurgy. As an expert in steels, he often does failure analyses in the oil and gas industry and has looked at the conditions involved in the collapse of the WTC. It is his professional conclusion that those buildings did, in fact “collapse from fire”, for good, technically understandable reasons.
For this reason and others, it was a disappointment to me to read your comments today. You have depreciated your own credibility and caused me to take your words and opinions less seriously in the future. No, I’m not branding you a “whacko conspiracy nut”. Just someone who has allowed yourself to ignore the inconvenient facts that don’t support your beliefs, which is exactly what you admonish your readers against.
Please keep up your good work and try to avoid wandering into areas that you either don’t know enough about or are not amenable to factual or logical analysis.
TommyGuy
5,000+ architects and engineers disagree with your metallurgist friend.
Really? You encourage everyone to check out the facts. So please show us.
you haven’t come across architects and engineers for truth yet? they are on the record all over the web and are staking their careers and reputations on their work and conclusions. Research it for yourself, my intent is not to debate this any further.
What scares me the most is what will Americans do if they try to take their guns. If everyone obeys then we are gone as a country, if citizens fight back then all he’ll will break loose. Is the average office worker with two kids going to stand up for the second admendment and defend his rights to own a gun? If Americans resist, then there is hope for a future as the country could rally around this topic. I have no clue how it will come down. I saw on the news last yr in Watertown mass residents get pulled out of their homes with no warrants with machine guns pointed at them and no one resisted during the boston bombing. I’m sure they watched how the people behaved and are calculating the odds of a resistance. Just typing this makes me feel like this is Germany 1939. Power and control , history repeating.
yes, the odds of a violent outcome have increased greatly.
mostly agree…. however
if you are willing to become violent over your neighbor burning a flag, then you are very foolish. the flag is just a symbol. putting this piece of information in your article detracts from your main points. Also, I don’t really care if you golf or own a gun. More information that detracts from your points right at the end.
Oh well
MiLords are banking on ignorance and stupidity to protect them from charges of Treason when the sky falls. The more we can anticipate the lies they will tell, to explain why Fort Knox is empty for example, the better able we will be to counter those lies. But alas, the lack of historical perspective and understanding of money and banking will allow smooth sailing for MiLords who are truly guilty of treason. Their favorite sport is no doubt watching left and right ream each other out. Let’s stop blaming W and Obama and start going after Cargill and Halliburton and the Fed and …
Superb article Bill. I couldn’t agree more.
thank you Pat.
Wow Bill, I think you pretty much nailed it on all points. I don’t think many people could put it together as succinctly as you did, and it’s a tragic tale that has been purposely obscured, but one we’ve all had the misfortune of witnessing first hand. It does appear that the sinister forces are intent on their next installment of 9/11 part two. May God Almighty help us all.
thanks.