For the record, my last post wasn't directed at you but I'm glad you responded.
I also am against gay marriage, and strongly against any effort to legitimize sexually deviant behavior, or grant bona fide minority status to those who practice it. I am opposed to abortion but believe that it is not government's role to decide when or if, unless the child has fully developed in the womb(legs, hands, feet, eyes, nose, mouth, etc), after which I believe it is murder.
I won't bother to expostulate my views on Islam as they are well-known.
I could as well call myself a Libertarian but for the present will remain a Democrat and hold my nose. I think this is better than the platform of the Republicans, who preach the evils of big government in the marketplace but think it is not big enough when it comes to regulating our private lives. Congrats!
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It seems to me like a good time and place to write a word or two about some of my good friends who I know and have known to be republican-leaning in principle if not in fact. I would like it to be known that I do not automatically group republican-leaning or republican-voting members of this board with the evils of republican political strategy or tactics. The republican party platform has quite a few attractive features...self-reliance, individualism, low taxes, strong national defense...things I also believe in. It is no great wonder why many have been drawn by its message. It was however the methods used to make its case that have repelled so many erstwhile supporters in recent times.
I know I've been a bit hard on the idea of anything 'republican' but I respect the views of persons whose politics may differ somewhat from my own and hope my criticisms have not been personally offensive to any, however slim that hope may be. Perhaps this particular disclaiming post is not necessary, but it seems to me to be in order.
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I can well imagine that while the presidential race was still in the running some may have judged many of my comments and/or observations concerning race and ethnicity as rather sensationalized and perhaps bordering on paranoia; typical(some would say) of American-born african-americans suffering from a well-worn 'cry racism' syndrome.
Truth to tell, I did from time to time feel like a town crier whose message so grieved the village that no one wanted to hear it... but duty called, and the rope follows the bucket, so, with many posts I sought to show for what it was the base group(no pun intended) that formed the core republican party. I like to think I have succeeded to some extent but nothing I have written could have done more to illustrate my general opinion of the republican base than the candidate for the republican national committee chairman Chip Saltsman and his release of the "Barack the Magic Negro" video and other ethnicity-inspired vulgarities, favorites among the rank(pun intended) and file. I have more to say on the subject but am in a hurry right now. Below is a link to the L.A. Times article that gave Mr. Saltsman the material for his warped operetta.
L.A. Times article
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After all that Obama has done to uplift people of African descent in the eyes of the whole world, along comes a cheesy little rat like Roland Burris whose blind ambition symbolically links african-americans with political sleaze and tends to legitimize the Illinois governor by spreading the opprobrium to blacks in general. The message the public gets is that black folks can co-exist comfortably with corruption. Add to this equation the antiquated and lilliputian reasoning of Bobby Rush and you have the makings of a real political tragedy for black people just when things were going so well. We don't need a black senator from Illinois if his appointment is to be tainted by sleaze. Why don't these two idiots understand this?
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There is a probable possibility this will not happen in Nigeria and if it does, there will be RELIGIOUS riot and mayhem to make it happen. Nigeria as we all know is a country of three nations, the Igbos, Hausa and Yoruba. These nations pretend to like or trust each other. This is one reason Ghana is more civilized than Nigeria and officials haul public money knowing that the Republic is a frick show. The ruling Nigeria Party wants rotational power between the South and the North. They have allocated one to a Yoruba on behalf of Abiola and now to Hausa, who knows? when the time comes for an Igboman, they might decide to throw away the pledge, flip-flop and go British. READ THIS.
OPPOSITION CANDIDATE WINS GHANA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION:
CNN) -- Opposition candidate John Evans Atta Mills has narrowly won Ghana's presidential election, the Ghana Electoral Commission said on its Web site.
The chairman of the Ghana Electoral Commission, Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, said Mills had garnered about 4,521,032 votes, or about 50.2 percent of the total votes cast. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, of the incumbent New Patriotic Party, won about 49.77 percent of the total valid votes cast, Afari-Gyan said, according to the commission's Web site. The two men led a field of eight candidates in the December 7 general election, but neither secured a majority of the votes. Akufo-Addo had held a slight lead in that vote. The runoff election was so close that it could not be decided until the last of the 230 constituencies, the Tain constituency, voted on Friday. "On the basis of the official results given, the results of the run-off election in the Tain constituency in the Brong Ahafo Region, which was held on the 2nd January 2009, it is my duty to declare Professor John Evans Atta Mills the President-elect of Ghana," Afari-Gyan said, according to the government's Web site. Both parties had alleged irregularities in voting in the Ashanti region and Volta regions, but Afari-Gyan said the commission did not find evidence in "purely electoral matters" that invalidated the results. Mills, 64, will replace John Agyekum Kufuor as Ghana's president on January 7. Kufuor is stepping down after serving two four-year terms, the maximum allowed. Mills is a law professor who served as vice president from 1997 to 2000 under Jerry Rawlings. He lost to Kufuor in the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections. Ghana, a country about the size of England, is the world's second-biggest cocoa and gold producer. In 2007, leaders announced the discovery of oil off its shore. The world recession, however, has hindered growth. Ghana has seen a decline in its exports and will not tap into its oil resources until 2010. Part of a former British colony, Ghana was among the first African countries to gain independence in 1957. It endured a series of coups before military dictator Rawlings took power in 1981. A decade later, Rawlings led the country through the transition to a stable democracy with multi-party elections.
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Again Nigeria will fall as a country unless Aburi stands...CONFEDERACY.
The Roman Empire failed because it was too large and too costly to manage.
The British empire failed because it was also too large and too costly to manage.
The Soviet empire failed because it was too large and too costly to manage.
Ghana is doing well because they are not too large or too costly to manage.
Nigeria is not only too large and too costly to manage.It has four nations clustered as a country. The Igbos, Yorubas and Hausa. It also has the Christian Igbo, the Hausa moslems and the Yoruba moslems/Christians. It has English as a popular language, Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo. The Hausas, the Igbos and the Yorubas have distinctive cultural dress, food and behavior. The only common cultural behavior that brings these people together is sports after that they go to hell. The North are lazy and depend on the South to survive. They forbide alcohol for religious reasons, yet the taxes from alcohol in the south is shared among the federation including the North. This is why Nigeria is not country, no matter how loud they call themselves as a country.
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Oh no, Dubai's feat is out of this world to the likes of the listed Nigeria's adventurers (Gowon, Murtala, Obasanjo, Shagari, Buhari, Babangida, Shonekan, Abacha, Salam, Obasanjo part 2 and visionless president-select "Umoru"!
Only in Nigeria are misfits pushed into corridors of power just to retain "control" and yet expect different result!
To them, leadership means nothing but self help (from the federal till), family and tribe even to their own long-term detriment; after all they can't seem to see beyond their respective noses. As they, each one of them pushed Nigeria into this rudderless ditch, they, meanwhile, continued to flaunt their ill-gotten wealth at the gleeful expense of their fellow, hapless Nigerians.
I recall the picture that floated on the web about a week ago- of IBB with his family as they disembarked from a supposed private jet and later frolicked in one of the exclusives of French Monaco in full view. Which begs the question: What manner of men are these people? And how, and what did they tell their wards they made these stupendous riches from? As entrepreneurs, inventors? How did they make their riches?
Lest not forget, Dubai, according to 60 Minutes, is what it is today due to the due diligence, foresight, and astute management of one man, its sole administrator- a one 59 year-old former pilot who saw the vision to replicate whatever the world's best has to offer in Dubai for the total upliftment of its people. Not for himself. Not for Family. Not for tribe. But for the generality of the people of Dubai!!
So much on the worn-out "one Nigeria" mantra by our charlatan "leaders"!!
Again, to Nigeria's mis-rulers, the only way Nigeria can attain such a feat as Dubai, is by way of some serious "prayers"! I read recently Gowon is now a minister/pastor, whatever he calls himself. I bet you in no distant future, OBJ would open his own pastoral ministry. After all god spoke to him several times while he, OBJ was angling for his unconstitutional third term.
So much on "prayers" and their constant reference to god as they continue to thief themselves blind. It was my late dad who once admonished and on quote: "It's only God that knows who is deeply, and internally religious and not by the proclamation from one's lips"!
And like you said, which I'm quoting and multiplying here by seven folds:
"May the blood of innocent lives denied existence because of lack of functional hospitals, those that died as a result of fire or carbon monoxide due to lack of electricity, numerous lives lost on death-traps we called roads, those that died of hunger and of cause the enslaved Nigerians in Diaspora, never let you no peace until you repent and restitute. AMEN"- Adejinmi
Now, Ghana has left us scratching our heads since Nigeria can't seem to elect its leaders- no thanks to our named mis-leaders above! And before that, we have also proven we can't seem to count our population. And in no time, we would be sharing pictures of Ghanaian developmental feats!!
Thanks for reading. Arinze V. Chukwuneta
"A government that covertly and overtly encourages corruption has no honour in its arsenal of power to dispense honour. Consequently, I reject the dishonour of OFR termed �honour� given to me by the Federal Government."- Chief Gani Fawehinmi
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To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2009 21:50:50 -0500 Subject: [NaijaElections] SEE DUBAI AND CRY FOR NIGERIA - I SAW, AND I CRIED
Fellow Nigerians,
I don't usually download attachment sent to me using the general forum but I bent my own rule to download this, judging from the source and I'm glad I did.
I implore you, therefore, to please do the same by downloading the attached, watch and let me know what you think about Nigerian leaders dating back to Yakubu Gowon era of 5-10 years development plan.
The slides you are going to watch shows how oil money ought to be used even if only for the development of Niger Delta region, Abuja and Lagos only. Developing a country located in the desert to become the world's centre of attraction just under 20 years is a shame to all of Nigerian leaders.
I say this with no apology to any of them:
1. Yakubu Gowon; 2. Late Murtala Mohamed; 3.Olusegun Obasanjo part 1; 4. Sheu Shagari; 5. Mohamed Buhari; 6. Badamosi Babangida; 7. Ernest Shonekan; 8. Late Sanni Abacha; 9. Abdul Salam; 10. Aremu Obasanjo part 2 and 11. Umoru Musa Yar 'Adua
All governors, Ministers, State and National Assembly Members, Head of Parastatals and deputies that served during the period in question, WHATEVER YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO NIGERIA'S PROGRESS OR BACKWARDNESS, MAY THE ALMIGHTY GOD REWARD YOU AND YOUR BENEFACTORS ACCORDINGLY.
May the blood of innocent lives denied existence because of lack of functional hospitals, those that died as a result of fire or carbon monoxide due to lack of electricity, numerous lives lost on death-traps we called roads, those that died of hunger and of cause the enslaved Nigerians in Diaspora, never let you no peace until you repent and restitute. AMEN
Amos Akin Adejinmi
SHALOM
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Mebiafra was the guy who first introduced Barack Obama to this forum years back, he brought him to notice here even before the world got to know about him or before he made the anti-war speech at the Democratic National Convention 2004 that brought him to the notice of the world.
Everything that we were told then about Barack were all truth, the only thing i can not now understand is Mebiafra's silence on Barack Obama now that he will be President, we were made to understand then that when Barack becomes US Senator that he was going to help us on Biafran issue and help to add his voice to redress Nigerian injustice against a cross section of it's citizens.
Although Mr. Obama's stay in the US Senate was brief, we are however, not hearing from Mebiafra now that Mr. Barack Obama will become the US President in the next few hours.
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Ikenga, you are spot on in what you said about Mebiafra. But I know we are all Ndigbo, but some of us are like what I may regard as NdiyorubaIgbo who like to dance whereever the tune is played. The same goes for an ol friend of mine Kokori who rather saw the oldman McCain and his T.Trash vice win and Mrs H.R.Clintin wins the democrates nomination. Wherever you are my friend Kokori, I hope you're covering your face in shame Mr 3rd class citizen. Hail to the new chief and C-in-C Barrack H. Obama and long may he live, for making the dream which Dr.Martin Luther-King had over forty years ago to come through. And I tell you that Biafra shall like the phonex raise from the ashes to become a formidible nation in black Africa. I pray that the Igbos and their ethnic minorities have learnt the lesson of the past and why we lost the struggle during the war. We shall definitely come back and the territory that was Biafra shall come back into existence. If America could elect a black president after centuries of black supression and seggregation, Biafra coming into existence again will be a reality one day.
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Bobby Jindal came to America from Bangladash while his mother was preg of him. Now, Governor of Louisiana is no Obama and probably would never be Obama, or close to him.
How in the hell was this man elected Governor of a Southern state?, by the whites to spite the blacks? I would think so. This man performed very poorly last night. He performed like a bollywood actor or rather, he looked like one of them. He was simply, boring. The GOP could do better.
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The republican party of today is out of touch with mainstream America as much as those who live in stark affluence are out of touch with regular people who have to work for a living. I hope everyone understands that republican politicians can easily live with the notion of millions of people living in tent cities for years. These unfortunates would form the basis for new cheap labor for the next boom cycle of market. If America experiences a deep depression it would be an opportunity for the affluent to buy land and property for pennies on the dollar and make spectacular profits. Don't believe a word these republican politicians say. They are the epitome of hypocrisy.
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Bobby Jingdall the saviour of republican party, I watched that guy make a mockry of himself trying to be Obaama. If this is the best Republicans have Obama will cruise to Victory come 2012.
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I know the election is over but I think this is a good place to call the Republican Party base what it really is, a bunch of lying, thieving, hypocritical bastards who don't count the rest of us as even being Americans. For them real Americans are white, own most of the land, and have most of the money, or white, racist, and ignorant enough to believe the most outrageous lies,and who base most of their political and economic decisions on race and ethnicity. These people I despise, and I always have, because I knew them to be like this since I was old enough to understand hypocrisy, and they are hypocrits al extremo.
Just take a look at all these idiots disrupting the national debate on healthcare. None of them know their @$$ from a hole in the ground but they want to lecture the rest of us with the lies they heard from Rush Limbaugh and that dimwit Sarah Palin, repeating lies that they and the Republican party are deseminating via surrogate PR firms and republican party operatives. Nothing fires me up more than these damned republicans and their dirty tricks. We saw it in the election(some of which I exposed), and we are seeing it now. So this is the so-called Party of Lincoln. I have complete contempt for these people. I don't tolerate them or apologize for the way I feel about them. They are the scum of the earth as far as I am concerned and hypocrits all.
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Well I guess you all know what I think about the republican party base membership and their leaders. I just wish I had said it in a different way. Oh well. I do get upset sometimes.these republican dirty tricks really push my buttons.
CSE, have you checked your PM's lately?
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I see Greg is battling the 'rethugs' on healthcare. I have noticed how they have dragged in the UK's national health service to portray the 'evil' of socialised medicine. I wish they had the courage to engage in an honest assessment of the NHS which I believe is one of the best systems in the world.
The worse part about the "republican party/insurance industry" propaganda is that although the US spends twice as much as any other nation on healthcare, it is something like 35th in life expectancy, far behind the UK, Canada, Sweden and other so-called socialist countries.
And another part of the republicans' list of "talking points" that rubs me the wrong way is the idea of carrying out the "original intent" of the founding fathers. Well I for one don't want to be enslaved, which thing appears to be their original intent for persons of African descent, especially since the most prominent ones(like Thomas Jefferson and George Washington) were dedicated slave-holders and of course considered Africans to be only three-fifths of a real human being. Original Intent? Rubbish! Republican healthcare lies? Business as usual.
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Hey Crazy Duke. Are you done with your town hall itinerary? I hear you are the newest member of Sarah Palin's Alaskan-based 'think tank.' Congratulations upon your promotion! Please forward my warmest regards to your esteemed colleagues Curly, Larry, Moe, Leon and Bozo.
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Until now, I never had an issue with you, but I take it that you don't approve of my last post or rather my idea of "comic relief" when there's not much else going on. Well everyone is entitled to their opinion and I will allow you yours. Others have posted items meant to humorous, even you, but I failed to see you call for the shutting down of the site as a result. The activity on this site slows down...and picks up...slows down again, and picks up again, but after my post joking with Crazy Duke you want to shut down the site, as though you were some kind of profound commentator. I'll refrain from saying anything more than that you seem to be bothered by something other than just my post. But if it bothers you that much, don't shut down the site, I'll clear out instead.
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Seriously, you think this fora should be shut down? I don't think so, even though the point has been made way back when the charlatans at Chuck's place, Nigeriaworld, thought being Igbo and mentioning the pogrom and Biafra was a fabricated Nigeria problem. And why should the fora be shut down, anyway? Has it served its purpose? Maybe!
Well, the forum is there for all to use, network and provide informations we all might need one way or the other. So, what happened to the lively debates and our public intellectuals? The news and views. The dialogues. The symposiums. The drama and all the fascinating topics.
Where is Ukaobasi? Where is Bababoyz? Where is MeBiafran? Where is Chiboy, CSE, Icheoku, Waypoint1Biafra, Igboblood, Jude Olisa, Teddy, Chinyere, Amadi O, and the rest?
Where are they and what happened?
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I hear you but if the news section can be updated daily and current articles published, you will bring this place back to life.
I do want to disagree with you that that this place was set up to make a point. That is a limited way of looking at the creativity of those that set up this place and used their funds to run it all this while. I also think that the purpose of setting up this place continues.
Greg, you are one funny guy.
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Makes no sense to say this site has served it's purpose when the dreams of independent Biafra is still elusive and NdiIgbo still slughtered in hundreds every now and then in Nigeria with leper hands still power. Odili's site is still thriving and strong so what are we talking about. The work is not yet half done and the majority seems tired already.
I'm ready to buy this site and keep the hope of umuigbo alive!
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Makes no sense to say this site has served it's purpose when the dreams of independent Biafra is still elusive and NdiIgbo still slughtered in hundreds every now and then in Nigeria with leper hands still power. Odili's site is still triving and strong so what are we talking about. I'm ready to buy this site and keep the hope of umuigbo alive!
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It may well be that I mistook your meaning with my reaction to your first post. I don't want to make the same mistake with your second, but it's very tempting.
In the interest of a good understanding between us, I will, for the moment, reserve further comment.
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Ednut You like to rouse the crowd as always, it looks like you and Red State of Texas have settled all that back cupport they were hounding you for?
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I was in your neck of the woods couple of weeks ago. I was at Rancho Cucomonga/Fontana area. Too dry I might say even for this Texas boy, but had some fun all the same.
Speaking of Red, what's with all the fire, you guys?
TGIF. Audi A6. Get Yours
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At the beginning of this thread I wrote profusely about race and the Republican party base. I tried to show early on how the that party's leadership was introducing race into presidential politics beginning with soft references to African-americans as not being real americans but somehow foreign and subversive, and how they ought to be subservient. I used the term 'subliminals' to describe the method by which the Republican National Commitee was communicating with and coaxing to the surface the resident racism of the republican base. I think many people on this site thought my comments about the MLK mugshot were come of some paranoia and were a bit 'over the top,' and that I was seeing the race issue raised where really there was none. Over and again, I attempted to demonstrate what are the true values of the base republican membership whether it were by witnessing its affinity to mis-information and outright lies against opponents, or by historical account of its transformation after the Civil War, by isolated political instance, or by demographical analysis. I don't know if I convinced anyone of what I was saying but I think the events surrounding the activities of the republican party during and after the 2008 election and up to this very day bear out the veracity everything I wrote. Contemporary headlines echo the general principles of what I wrote six months to a year ago. Even my most uncomplimentary descriptions of these people should earn me courtesy points when compared with the reality of their thinking and their doings.
Persons of african descent should be aware that the same hatred and vitriol shown for the first African-american president will have a spill-over effect. It's unfortunate but that is part of the America we live in today thanks to the republican party's stoking of the fire of racism in their base membership. But in reality that fire has been something of an eternal flame, smouldering beneath the ashes. Thankfully these people appear to be in the minority. It was not always the case. I remember only too well when tyranny came from the majority. I think it would be wise to keep a sharp eye out for the nut-cases that can and will spawn from the cesspool of dirty tricks and extreme politics overflowing in the present-day republican party. In other words, be acutely aware of your surroundings as it regards random acts of violence that may be racially inspired. Be 'In Omnia Paratus.'
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Thankfully these people appear to be in the minority<........GREG:
.....Just bunch of southern confederate loosers on 1000 miligrams of prozac still delusional about the outcome of the civil war and they lost the election, my Gawd, can't stop shelling from the shock. However,it is quite a stooge to see the other side of America marching on the street, singing "we shall overcome" in a different way, it just tickles your fancy .
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President Obama is doing a wonderful job. He has the gift of knowing what ought to be said, how it should be said, and how he should proceed with the business of doing it. This causes great alarm in the ranks of his opponents as can readily be seen.
Perhaps you're right when you say we liberals will never learn in that we have a desire for fairness and truth in government, and somehow expect that everyone can and will identify with these values. What we are not learning, it seems, is that the republican leadership doesn't care whether or not what they say is the truth but they say what they know will please their members, their rank and file.
Even the rank and file, or most of them, know already that what is being deseminated are lies and half-truths but they fall in line with the party line for the grand purpose of bringing the legitimacy and authority of this president into question. If the great image of legitimacy and confirmed leadership given to Barack Obama by millions in America and around the world(remember the Chicago acceptance speech) was not challenged(the republicans reasoned), then he, Obama, would be able to do just about anything he wanted, hence all these bogus charges and claims intended to chip away overtime at the image of his presidency and thereby reducing it(and him) to a manageable quantity.
In so doing this, the republicans counted on seemingly unbiased elements of the news media who in the guise of fairness took up their false mantras in secret efforts to help along the overarching design. Thus the tirade by the representative from South Carolina was simply the icing on the cake in trying to bring Obama down in the eyes of the world. Imagine for a moment if there was a sitting judge, and the accused was able to make him shed his robes for bluejeans, make him sit in a regular chair instead of his elevated place in the courtroom, and take away the lighting effects above the bench, and then present him to the rest of the people in the court as not being qualified. This is basically what the republicans are attempting to do with Obama. Granted, even with all this, such an attempt would fail among fair and upright persons, but the republican base wants this sort of thing to occur with Obama so fairness and truth for them are expendable until they get their desire. Afterwards they will import the words 'fairness and truth' into their activities, just as hypocrits always do.
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...economic pressures will cause a run on banks in this country, that is, persons and corporations removing their assets from banking institutions, especially if those institutions hold lots of short-term debt, which is being defaulted on in alarming numbers. If your money is in one of these institutions that declares bankruptcy, you may lose big time. Most, however, of the "movers and the shakers" in the economy will move quickly to protect their assets by alternatively investing in precious metals, leaving the general public to pay the bills of the risky debt they have taken on paper. I predict that if Obama wins, these same will overreact and stay out of the market altogether...
I wrote the above on September 1, 2008. I wonder if anyone actually put any of their assets in precious metals as I said would be the case with many of the "movers and shakers." Do you wonder why the banks are not lending? Well, maybe it's because many investors have fled stocks(bank stocks especially) altogether. As you may know, today gold prices hit an all-time record high. Those who bought gold last year in October at between 800 - 850 dollars an once have today realized about a 20 percent return on investment. Oh well, time now to cash out for a while...at least for some it is.
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