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To: RMF who wrote (65996)	6/29/2013 6:54:33 PM
From: LLCF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

LOL.... besides, shows you what he knows... it's the Federal Reserve that has been trying to destroy the $US.... if they had tight money policy it wouldn't matter WHAT Obama did, it would be stronger. In fact, if rates hadn't been kept WAY too low, the government wouldn't have been lulled to sleep for the past 20 years as to how bad the deficits WERE. Cheap credit allowed EVERYONE to borrow at false rates to buy and invest in stupid things, including the government. Some people are so ignorant of these things it's amazing they bother to vote. Wait till rates rocket to 4X their lows... then we'll see how business likes that :-( Why Peter doesn't sell it all and move to Costa Rica with Glen Beck only the lord knows for sure. DAK

To: RMF who wrote (65996)	7/1/2013 5:33:19 PM
From: Peter Dierks	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Actually it is the economic effects of demographic that I am tracking. Too many Baby Boomers in the US are taking their long term investments out to live off of. Without a lot of new immigrants the US economy will remain in the dumps for another five years or so. The good news is that as oldsters die off their heirs tend to squander their estate in an average of 18 months. All that spending helps mitigate the effects of slower investing.

To: RMF who wrote (65996)	7/9/2013 5:39:36 PM
From: calgal	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Did Iranian Meddling Prompt Egyptian Uprising? Rachel Marsden \| Jul 09, 2013 In January, Egyptian newspapers reported that the commander of Iran's Quds Force, Qassem Suleimani, had traveled to Cairo that month to meet with Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi's aides about setting up a spy service that would answer to Iran and circumvent the Egyptian military. Were the Egyptian people really going to sit back and allow Iran to take over their country? Imagine a conflict in which American, Egyptian and Israeli intelligence are all on the same side as the Egyptian people, draining the swamp of the Islamic extremists who subverted Egypt's fledgling democratic structures to run a de facto dictatorship and explored the idea of crawling into bed with Iran. It's not the first time that a recent popular uprising in the region wasn't what it appeared to be on the surface and, on a clandestine level, involved Iranian influence. I suggested in a column last month that the popular protests in Turkey were cover for an Iranian intelligence operation to disrupt the staging base for the Western-backed Syrian opposition. Mossad (Israeli foreign intelligence) chief Tamir Pardo confirmed as much in a Times of Israel article entitled "Mossad head, in Ankara, reveals Iran's anti-Turkish activity." Anyone taking what they were seeing at face value would have mistakenly concluded that the Turkish people had suddenly gotten fed up, en masse, all by themselves. All that the general public has seen transpiring in Egypt is a massive popular uprising, but what we've most likely been witnessing is a multi-actor counterinsurgency operation that serves a dual purpose: preventing Iran from getting its tentacles into yet another a Western ally, and liquidating extremist Islamic elements under the guise of popular insurgency. It would explain this week's massacre at the Muslim Brotherhood protest that left 51 dead and several hundred injured. A civil war? Or a counterinsurgency operation leveraging the fog of war? It all follows Pentagon Field Manual 3-24 on counterinsurgency: "With good intelligence, counterinsurgents are like surgeons cutting out cancerous tissue while keeping other vital organs intact." The COIN (counterinsurgency) principles of minimal/appropriate force and empowerment of the lowest levels, and also the primary objective of legitimacy, are all at play.