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Hedge funds are gambling, while production is crashing. The real estate bubble is over, and going down. New York City is beautiful, that's why I take pictures of it, but it's the belly of the beast.

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Why is the US Space Shuttle retiring?

February 8th 2010 00:46
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
US Space Shuttle
US Space Shuttle


I have been thinking about the space program issue, and I think it is quite awful that the Space Shuttle is retiring. Now this is made even worse with the fact that there is no replacement. How could such a horrible thing happen? And now the Constellation will not replace it, in 7 years or ever (unless we change this). We need a vehicle to go to the International Space Station, and to return to the Moon. Then we will need another vehicle, preferably with a fusion powered engine, to take astronauts to Mars.

Why have we Americans become so small as a nation? What is wrong with us? Why didn't the magic "free enterprise machine" bail us out on this one? Pres. John F. Kennedy said that we planned to put a man on the moon (paraphrase) not because it is easy, but because it is hard.

Have we decided to let this nation collapse, this beacon of hope and temple of liberty, not because it is hard to collapse (although very unpleasant), but in fact because it is easy?

Links: More on the Space Shuttle

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Star Trek Take Two

February 7th 2010 02:06
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
Space, the Final Frontier
Star Trek



If you like scientific progress and a Moon, Mars manned-landing project, you may have to stick to Startrek re-runs, at least until the Russians and the Chinese get there. Then, there is the other matter of Obama killing NASA behind the back of leading officials that are supposed to be babysitting the Obama administration. At a hearing on the Department of Defense budget before the House Armed Services Committee, Feb. 3, Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was asked if anyone had consulted with the Defense Department about how cancelling NASA's next generation rockets for Constellation would affect defense programs. His answer was "no." The Utah Deseret News reported yesterday that, at the hearing, Rep. Rob Bishop (R-UT) asked that question, out of concern for the hundreds of jobs that could be lost at Utah-based solid rocket booster manufacturer, ATK.

ATK manufactures the twin boosters for the Space Shuttle, and was contracted to produce them for the Ares rockets NASA is developing for Constellation. ATK-produced solid rocket boosters are also used on rockets that launch Department of Defense payloads.

Rep. Bishop said at the meeting that the cancellation would hurt defense, which needs rocket scientists to keep military projects alive. "This really is rocket science," Bishop said, "and therefore we must make every effort to preserve and continue these cutting-edge scientific advancements for future generations." Bishop said that "thousands of people in Utah...are losing good-paying, high-tech jobs."

Rep. Gabriella Giffords (D-AZ), who chairs the House Science & Technology space subcommittee, and is an outspoken critic of the Obama plan, is also on the Armed Services Committee, and says she will raise the issue of the NASA cuts there, as well.

Do you want a future for your children? Do you want to keep the USA first in aerospace? Then impeach President Obama, and listen to the geezer.

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What Kind of Jobs?

February 3rd 2010 12:46
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
You can Dance, but not Produce
You Can Dance, but not Produce



What kind of jobs are available today, in our largely jobless so-called recovery? You can have a job if you are willing to work for peanuts and not be productive. The space program is being killed. With the killing of the Moon-Mars program, there will not even be a space vehicle to go to the International Space Station, except if the US astronauts get a ride from the Russians. It is beyond belief, but this is life in the world of President Obama. Green jobs are funded that are totally non-productive, such as unreliable wind mill power. Got to get the four powers agreement and dump Obama. USA, Russia, China and India have the power to issue new credit, create a stable monetary system, and bring down the British Financial Empire. Screw the City of London.
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Your Warming's Like Bad Medicine

January 30th 2010 00:13
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
That's what you get for falling in love
That's what you get for falling in love


Yes, Global Warming is like bad medicine, at least the theory. The theory is worse than the disease. First came the revelations of the East Anglia Climate Research Unit. Then the lies about the Himalayan Glacier meltdown. Now, on Jan. 25, the EUReferendum blog took apart the United Nations International Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) claim that --up to 40% of the Amazonian forests could react drastically to even a slight reduction in precipitation,-- such as global warming might cause, thus making it --more probable that forests will be replaced by ecosystems ... such as tropical savannas. Now this is exposed as another lie. No wonder more and more people don't believe in global warming.

So here's the Bon Jovi spoof of Bad Medicine

IPCC's like bad medicine;
Poison, that we just don't need;
Shake it up;
Bad medicine;
Banning Civilization is worse than the disease;

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New York City Blues

January 29th 2010 11:47
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
Nothing to offer but tears, blood and sweat
Nothing to offer but tears, blood and sweat


The New York City blues is hitting hard, with threats to close essential hospitals and needed bus routes. St. Vincent Hospital, in the West Village is threatened with immediate closure. In a city of 8 million, and 15 million or more in the daytime, it's a big risk to have 50 blocks on the West Side with no hospital. Up here in the Bronx, we face an immediate threat of losing the #10 bus route that gets us to the so-called Green Line and D train, key subways to the East Side of Manhattan and to Brooklyn and Queens. Do you get the feeling that they want to kill us and that it is too expensive for us regular citizens to exist? Even the NY Times has similar reflections on the new Bloomberg budget. Time to listen to LaRouche and go with the 4-powers agreement, USA, China, Russia, India. You might not like this plan for various reasons. Perhaps it offends your jingoistic sensibilities to have to work with nations said to have totalitarian tendencies, and not traditionally our friends and allies. But do you and your family want to survive?
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Alaska and the Bering Strait

January 29th 2010 02:32
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
Alaska is where it's at
Alaska is where it's at


The Russians want to get the USA into the act, of the four powers for development and against the financial bubble. Vladimir Yakunin, president of Russian Railways and a close associate of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, continued to advocate building of the Russian-American rail connection across the Bering Strait, in a Jan. 20 online interview given at Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. Excerpts appeared in the Jan. 27 issue


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Poker in Afghnistan

January 26th 2010 20:54
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
One pill makes you larger...
One pill makes you larger...



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New York City Food Stars

January 25th 2010 14:33
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
Eat, Boobalah, Eat!
Eat, Boobalah, Eat!



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Paul Volcker Missed Again

January 24th 2010 22:54
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
Paul Volcker Missed Again
Paul Volcker Missed Again


spoof song, Phil Collins-- I Missed Again


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The Glaciers are Back

January 23rd 2010 17:51
Real Crash- Looking at Capitalism and its Laws:
The Glaciers are Back
The Glaciers are Back


On Wednesday, the IPCC was forced to eat its words and express its "regret" for publishing the unsupported claim that the Himalayn glaciers would melt by the year 2035, a


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