Collapse and Complexity: Empires on the Edge of Chaos

Collapse and Complexity: Empires on the Edge of Chaos
Niall Ferguson  FOREIGN AFFAIRS March/April 2010
http://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/65987/niall-ferguson/complexity-and-collapse

THOMAS COLE - 5 PAINTINGS...'THE COURSE OF EMPIRE'

http://pasleybrothers.com/jefferson/course_of_empire.htm

THE CYCLE OF CIVILIZATIONS...SO FAR

The average age of the world's greatest civilizations has been two hundred years.
These nations have progressed through this sequence:

From bondage to spiritual faith;

from spiritual faith to great courage;

from courage to liberty;

from liberty to abundance;

from abundance to selfishness;

from selfishness to complacency;

from complaceny to apathy;

from apathy to dependence;

from dependency back again into bondage.

Sir Alex Fraser Tyler: (1742-1813) Scottish jurist and historian

The Swaps That Swallowed Your Town

By GRETCHEN MORGENSON

Published: March 5, 2010
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/business/07gret.html?ref=business
"AS more details surface about how derivatives helped Greece and perhaps other countries mask their debt loads, let’s not forget that the wonders of these complex products aren’t on display only overseas. Across our very own country, municipalities, school districts, sewer systems and other tax-exempt debt issuers are ensnared in the derivatives mess."

Collapse of the American Empire: swift, silent, certain

Commentary: Historians warning of a sudden 'thief at night,' an 'accelerating car crash'
By Paul B. Farrell, MarketWatch
http://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-rise-and-certain-fall-of-the-american-empire-2010-03-09

Days Not to Buy Gold Identified

By Patrick A. Heller, Numismatic News

March 09, 2010
http://numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=9741
GOOD ARTICLE ABOUT THE MANIPULATION OF GOLD

WORDS OF PREVIOUS 'ENLIGHTENED' ONES OF THE 'ISMS'

Brahmanism: This is the sum of duty: Do naught unto others which would cause you pain if done to you.: Mahabharata 5:1517

Christianity: All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.: Matthew 7:12

Islam: No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother what which he desires for himself. Sunnah

Buddhism: Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.: Udana Varga 5:18

Judaism: What is hateful to you, do not to your fellowmen. That is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary.: Talmud, Shabbat 31:a

Confucianism: Surely it is the maxim of loving-kindness: Do not unto others that you would not have them do unto you.: Analects 15:23

Taoism: Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain, and your neighbor's loss as your own loss.: T'ai Shag Kan Ying P'ien

Zoroastrianism: That nature alone is good which refrains from doing unto another whatsoever is not good: for itself. : Dadistan-i-dinik 94:5

Calling All Rebels

Calling All Rebels

By Chris Hedges

There are no constraints left to halt America's slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24941.htm

Lewis Black Tells It Like It Is

 Lewis Black Tells It Like It Is
By Mike Ferner
 http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24937.htm

VIDEOS OF LEWIS BLACK SKITS...HE'S HILARIOUS
http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&sourceid=navclient-ff&rlz=1B3GGGL_enMX313MX313&ie=UTF-8&q=Lewis+Black#

Time for a U.S. Revolution - Fifteen Reasons

Time for a U.S. Revolution - Fifteen Reasons

By Bill Quigley

It is time for a revolution. Government does not work for regular people. It appears to work quite well for big corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors, lobbyists, and for the rich and powerful. But it does not work for people.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article24935.htm

GT IS TAKING A REST THIS WEEK, BUT WILL POST MORE SOON