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To: Ilaine who wrote (78205)	8/22/2011 3:22:38 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219926

“Ben Bernanke is a student of history, and he is not going to be the central banker that lets financial markets melt down and the economy go into a depression,” said Mark Gertler, a professor of economics at New York University who has co-written research with the Fed chairman, who’s due to speak at 10 a.m. Eastern on Friday . Gertler said all options are on the table, including another round of asset purchases, or quantitative easing. In the first round of bond purchases between Dec. 2008 and March 2010, the Fed bought $1.7 trillion of mostly mortgage securities, and in the second round between November and June, the central bank snapped up $600 billion of Treasury bonds. “QE3 is an option if there is a significant downturn in the economy or extraordinary stress in financial markets,” Gertler said. marketwatch.com

To: Ilaine who wrote (78205)	8/22/2011 4:21:04 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 219926

CB, I doubt that any squatters leave property better than they found it. Their whole mentality is a thieving concept. It's not a careful husbandry. It is certain that the properties are damaged and things stolen. That's what happens. There is a fundamental divide in consciousness between enhanced survival chances and reduced survival chances. There is a nihilistic argument that nothing matters. It's a false idea. There is only existence. Carrot juice improves survival chances, ethanol reduces it [don't bother with the silly superficial medical idea that a bit of ethanol reduces heart attacks]. <Why would a bottle of gin be any different than a bottle of carrot juice, or a salad? It's calories, it's nutrients. Would you feel any different about a bottle of fine French wine? How about a Beethoven symphony or a Bach cantata? > Hedonism is not improved survival. Social pleasure is consciousness bonding for tribal survival. Hedonism is hazardous in social contexts. Pleasure is just a bunch of reward centres which are designed by nature to propel people. Pain and fear are to protect them. Pleasure centres are hazardous to your health in the modern world in which chemists can stimulate sweetness taste buds without the naturally associated vitamins and minerals which are supplied in carrots, apples, blackberries, bananas and regular food. Fat taste buds are likewise defrauded by factory made "food" which includes hydrogenated oils of no nutritional value. Other flavours are used to defraud our naturally developed food detectors. Survival of consciousness is like gravity, a fundamental [note the mental component of funda-mental] force of the Cosmos. Humans are only a little way into its development. Nihilism is nothing. Mqurice