You Could've Heard a Pin Drop

JFK'S Secretary of State, Dean Rusk, was in France in the early 60's when DeGaule decided to pull out of NATO. DeGaule said he wanted all US military out of France as soon as possible.
Rusk responded "does that include those who are buried here?
DeGuale did not respond.
You could have heard a pin drop

When in England , at a fairly large conference, Colin Powell was asked by the Archbishop of Canterbury if our plans for Iraq were just an example of empire building by George Bush.
He answered by saying, 'Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.'

You could have heard a pin drop.
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There was a conference in France where a number of international engineers were taking part, including French and American. During a break, one of the French engineers came back into the room saying 'Have you heard the latest dumb stunt Bush has done? He has sent an aircraft carrier to Indonesia to help the tsunami victims. What does he intended to do, bomb them?'
A Boeing engineer stood up and replied quietly: 'Our carriers have three hospitals on board that can treat several hundred people; they are nuclear powered and can supply emergency electrical power to shore facilities; they have three cafeterias with the capacity to feed 3,000 people three meals a day, they can produce several thousand gallons of fresh water from sea water each day, and they carry half a dozen helicopters for use in transporting victims and injured to and from their flight deck. We have eleven such ships; how many does France have?'

You could have heard a pin drop.
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A U.S. Navy Admiral was attending a naval conference that included Admirals from the U.S. , English, Canadian, Australian and French Navies. At a cocktail reception, he found himself standing with a large group of Officers that included personnel from most of those countries. Everyone was chatting away in English as they sipped their drinks but a French admiral suddenly complained that, whereas Europeans learn many languages, Americans learn only English. He then asked, 'Why is it that we always have to speak English in these conferences rather than speaking French?'
Without hesitating, the American Admiral replied, 'Maybe it's because the Brit's, Canadians, Aussie's and Americans arranged it so you wouldn't have to speak German.'

You could have heard a pin drop.
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AND THIS STORY FITS RIGHT IN WITH THE ABOVE...
Robert Whiting, an elderly gentleman of 83, arrived in Paris by plane. At French Customs, he took a few minutes to locate his passport in his carry on.
"You have been to France before, monsieur?" the customs officer asked sarcastically.
Mr. Whiting admitted that he had been to France previously.
"Then you should know enough to have your passport ready."
The American said, 'The last time I was here, I didn't have to show it."
"Impossible. Americans always have to show your passports on arrival in France !"
The American senior gave the Frenchman a long hard look. Then he quietly explained, ''Well, when I came ashore at Omaha Beach on D-Day in 1944 to help liberate this country, I couldn't find a single Frenchmen to show a passport to."

You could have heard a pin drop.
(copied from an e-mail)

Don't Tread on Me

..."I sincerely believe... that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies, and that the principle of spending money to be paid by posterity under the name of funding is but swindling futurity on a large scale." --Thomas Jefferson to John Taylor, 1816. ME 15:23

This great nation was founded on a very low tax structure and as a result courted some of the best and brightest in the world to our shores. The National Bureau of Economic Research has concluded that the combined federal, state, and local government average marginal tax rate for most workers to be about 40% of income. In other words you work from January 1st until May 26th for the government. The rest of the year you get to keep your money.

I also haven't been able to figure out how borrowing and printing money we don't have is a long term solution to a very real current problem.

It also seems to me that whoever controls the money supply in any organization or actually controlls that organization, no matter what everyone else in the organization thinks or does. "The Golden Rule" can also be stated, He who has the gold, makes the rules. These realities are concerning to me and I've begun to believe there is a fourth branch of our government that has no checks or balances. I'd call this the financial branch but I'm really giving the "branch" too much credit because as you've perhaps already heard the "Federal Reserve" is no more federal than Federal Express. Meaning the federal reserve is a private corporation. To show my point I'd like to ask you a question you've maybe never been asked. Who's picture is on the $10,000 bill? You'd think it must be a very famous president wouldn't you. Getting the honor of being on such a large bill.

The face on the $10,000 bill belongs to Salmon P. Chase. Chase served as Secretary of the Treasury in President Lincoln's cabinet from 1861 to 1864, during the first three years of the Civil War. That period of crisis witnessed two great changes in American financial policy, the establishment of a national banking system and the issue of a legal tender paper currency. (Info in this paragraph taken from Wikipedia)

Have you ever heard the name Chase before as it relates to finance?

I've never been one for conspiracy theories but the longer I look at our national banking system and see what is happening, I've become concerned. There are many extreeme opinions about this subject and I have to honestly say my opinions are still being formed but what I've seen so far has me thinking.

Other points that are economically concerning include the percentage of our debt that is owned by other countries, listening to cries from China and Russia to make another currency the international currency of choice, and watching the devaluation of the U.S. dollar.

What to do? A person would be wise to move some of their assets into commodities. Things that will be needed or valuable should the dollar continue to lose it's value relative to other world currencies. This dollar devaluation is a way we will pay back some of our debt and it will be hidden from most Americans. Your purchasing power will continue to erode while currencies of other industralized nations will strengthen relative to the dollar.



The U.S. Dollar falls vs. the Euro over the last 5 years.

A War on God in America

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An Arkansas Redneck

A Redneck from Batesville, Arkansas walked into a Bank in New York City and asked for the loan officer. He told the loan officer that he was going to Paris on an international redneck festival for two weeks and needed to borrow $5,000 and that he was not a depositor of the bank.

The bank officer told him that the bank would need some form of security for the loan, so the redneck handed over the keys to a new Ferrari. The car was parked on the street in front of the bank. The redneck produced the title and everything checked out. The loan officer agreed to hold the car as collateral for the loan and apologized for having to charge 12% interest.

Later, the bank's president and its officers all enjoyed a good laugh at the redneck from the south for using a $250,000 Ferrari as collateral for a $5,000 loan. An employee of the bank then drove the Ferrari into the bank's private underground garage and parked it.

Two weeks later, the redneck returned, repaid the $5,000 and the interest of $23.07. The loan officer said, 'Sir, we are very happy to have had your business, and this transaction has worked out very nicely, but we are a little puzzled. While you were away, we checked you out on Dunn & Bradstreet and found that you are a highly sophisticated investor and multimillionaire with real estate and financial interests all over the world. What puzzles us is, why would you bother to borrow $5,000?

The good 'ole Arkansas boy replied, 'Where else in New York City can I park my car for two weeks with valet service for only $23.07 and expect it to be there when I return?

One Man's Prediction

Gerald Celente is on the record for accurately forecasting: the 1987 Stock Market Crash, the Fall of the Soviet Union, the Dot.com bust, Gold Bull Market, 2001 Recession, the Real Estate bubble, the "Panic of '08", Tax Revolts, The "Collapse of '09", the coming "Greatest Depression" and many more social, economic, business, consumer and geopolitical trends...

Please consider the words of Gerald Celente.



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