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July 16, 2008
Throughout The Moderate Independent's
5-plus years, people have wondered how M/I has consistently reported
the news accurately months or even years before it happens, while
other "news" sources never manage to get it right even in the
present?
Examples
include:
- Writing
for years about the looming ARM mortgage/credit card crisis, even
detailing exactly when it would all occur, years before it
happened - while others were saying the economy was healthy. For
example, on June 19, 2005, an article M/I ran said, Thirdly,
make no mistake, the housing market will collapse - not
necessarily because it is straight out over-inflated, but because
of something called ARMs (see
The
Economy Over The Cliff). This was year before anyone
else started talking about the issue - while the entire non-M/I
media was reporting "growth" and a strong economy.
- Writing
about what Vladimir Putin was
doing in Russia as, "The Biggest
Story No One is Talking About," for four years before TIME
Magazine finally made him this year's cover story (see The
Biggest Issue No One is Talking About).
- Predicting
that the appointment of John Negroponte as Ambassador to Iraq back
in 2004 was an indication that there were human rights abuses that
the Bush administration wanted to cover up, shortly after which
the now famous abuse photos surfaced (see President
Bush Appoints "Colonel Death" as US Ambassador to Iraq,
Displaying Why the War is Going So Badly and Victory is Impossible
Under His Administration.)
Now, I could
claim to be a prophet. Or I could claim like Rush Limbaugh to
be a "genius" (except one who actually, unlike Rush, gets things
right.)
But the reality is, to
report things, all you have to do is look at things. And
think.
Don't talk to "experts"
who have agendas and corporate clearance. Don't ask
"economists" who have yet to predict anything right but instead talk
in hypothetical platitudes that don't play out in reality.
No, simply look.
What is the state of the economy? Is it recession? Is it
better? Is it worse?
Now here are the simple
facts. All of our major car companies have gone from largest
in the world to on the verge of bankruptcy. Our airlines have
either gone into bankruptcy or are dangerously near. Our major
financial institutions are going under or having major solvency
issues, from Bear Stearns to Lehman to Merryl Lynch to Bank of
America to Citigroup to Indymac. Oh yeah, and
half-a-trillion-of-debt-holders Fannie and Freddie Mae, near
collapse.
Our federal government
is so saddled in debt and war that it can barely stay afloat itself,
never mind help out.
Then throw in the oil
drain. Throw in that there already were record number of
personal bankruptcies basically every year for the past decade
before any of this started.
What does this sound
like to you?
And as a note, Osama bin
Laden's goal was to destroy American economically - that is why he
attacked the World Trade Center, to make that point and affect our
pocketbooks via taking out our trade center. I don't give him
credit for our current financial state, but his evocation of the
Bush response that led us into Iraq and kept Bush in office for a
second term has played a significant role in this. Hmm, it
almost begins to seem that six box cutters were all it took to take
out the mightiest nation in the history of mankind while it was
under the leadership of Republican religious conservatives.
So using our new
strategy of looking at facts and thinking for ourselves - rather
than the other media's preference of talking to "experts" - let's
see if we can answer another question.
How is the War on Terror
going, and who is winning?
Umm... let's recycle....
Osama bin Laden's goal was to destroy American economically - that
is why he attacked the World Trade Center, to make that point and
affect our pocketbooks via taking out our trade center. I
don't give him credit for our current financial state, but his
evocation of the Bush response that led us into Iraq and kept Bush
in office for a second term has played a significant role in this.
Hmm, it almost begins to seem that six box cutters were all it took
to take out the mightiest nation in the history of mankind while it
was under the leadership of Republican religious conservatives.
See how easy it is to
see the truth, even as the rest of the nation denies it, once you
get Independent? There's not really much of a question to
things when you look with your own two eyes and think with your own
Moderate Independent mind.
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