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2010 09 01      Gold Dinar, Silver Dirham

The 2000 rupiah now has become the new standard. But without realizing it, we lost half of our spending power. A 500 rupiah not is worthless now. Even fish chips will cost you 1000 rupiah. Eventually, even a 100,000 rupiah note will be worthless.

Paper money is a deception. It is used to rob us of our possessions.

- Video 10m

2010 08 31      Atrium House

2010 08 26      Quote of the Day

Our public school system is really quite unique, and profoundly unnatural that way, it is as if someone read Lord of the Flies and decided it was prescriptive rather than descriptive.

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2010 08 24      12T

The amount the Fed and the U.S. government lent, spent and guaranteed to stem the recession and rescue the banking system peaked in March 2009 at $12.8 trillion, most of it following the September 2008 bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc.

Bloomberg article

2010 08 21      Central Banking

I have had men watching you for a long time and I am convinced that you have used the funds of the bank to speculate in the breadstuffs of the country. When you won, you divided the profits amongst you, and when you lost, you charged it to the Bank... You are a den of vipers and thieves.

- Andrew Jackson, 1834, on closing the Second US Central Bank

2010 08 20      Leaving Iraq

"First of all we are not leaving," Petraues insisted, adding that "there are 50,000 US troops that are remaining in Iraq" and that they retain an "enormous capability." It is a capability that is tough to reconcile with the official story that these are all just trainers.

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2010 08 19      Johannes Norlander Arkitektur

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