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The best way to buy euros is to open a foreign bank account. You don’t always have to visit in person, but if you open an account in most European countries you will have to. Try Panama, the Caymans or St. Kitts. The transaction fee should be very low, and you can “purchase” in any quantity you want. Additionally, an offshore account is a great thing to have, now more than ever. American banks are now shakier than a hooker in church, and I fear that exchange controls in the not-so-distant future.

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The best way to buy euros is to open a foreign bank account. You don’t always have to visit in person, but if you open an account in most European countries you will have to. Try Panama, the Caymans or St. Kitts. The transaction fee should be very low, and you can “purchase” in any quantity you want. Additionally, an offshore account is a great thing to have, now more than ever. American banks are now shakier than a hooker in church, and I fear that exchange controls in the not-so-distant future.

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The best way to buy euros is to open a foreign bank account. You don’t always have to visit in person, but if you open an account in most European countries you will have to. Try Panama, the Caymans or St. Kitts. The transaction fee should be very low, and you can “purchase” in any quantity you want. Additionally, an offshore account is a great thing to have, now more than ever. American banks are now shakier than a hooker in church, and I fear that exchange controls in the not-so-distant future.

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The best way to buy euros is to open a foreign bank account. You don’t always have to visit in person, but if you open an account in most European countries you will have to. Try Panama, the Caymans or St. Kitts. The transaction fee should be very low, and you can “purchase” in any quantity you want. Additionally, an offshore account is a great thing to have, now more than ever. American banks are now shakier than a hooker in church, and I fear that exchange controls in the not-so-distant future.

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The best way to buy euros is to open a foreign bank account. You don’t always have to visit in person, but if you open an account in most European countries you will have to. Try Panama, the Caymans or St. Kitts. The transaction fee should be very low, and you can “purchase” in any quantity you want. Additionally, an offshore account is a great thing to have, now more than ever. American banks are now shakier than a hooker in church, and I fear that exchange controls in the not-so-distant future.

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“I am concerned that a Dem in the White House will give Americans a fresh set of new faces, and they will think all troubles are behind them, not realizing that the damage caused is already a done deal.”

That’s true, which is why the hoopla over Obama is particularly annoying. That man won’t — and can’t — change a thing. We are on course to hit a slew of icebergs, and no President can change that outcome at this point. Obama can’t “undo” the housing bubble, or the credit crisis, or the dollar’s death spiral. As you say, the damage has already been done.

But more importantly, I’m not sure either party is particularly invested in changing our course. I’ve got a scarier proposition for you: the Dems and the GOP are merely two factions of the same group with the same ultimate goal: reduction of the middle class to a cheap labor force that will allow us to compete globally andto “survive”. The two parties just have slightly different ways of going about it: the GOP is content to haul us out to the shed and clobber us over the head with a blunt instrument before shipping us off to slaughter, whereas the Dems would invite us into the house to and offer us a drink laced with slow-acting poison…in the end, we’ll die either way. *Sigh* Because American politics today are all about the illusion of choice = hope = the ability to manipulate/lead. Once the populace realizes that hope is a pipe dream, they will grow restless and seek change outside of the political process. This is the worst nightmare for both the Dems and the GOP.

Don’t you find it odd that our so-called Democrat-controlled Congress — in particular, our professed “Fighters of Freedom” (this would include Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and the other usual suspects) — have not made any efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the Patriot Act? Or that they have rubber-stamped all funding for the war? They parties grandstand and make a big deal as they “bicker” over the issues, but the truth is that the rank and file always end up with the short end of the stick on the major issues and score a few hollow victories on the minor ones.

I feel like I’m trapped in the Matrix with a hoardes of drones who refuse to unplug themselves. Wake up, everyone. The only way out of this is revolution. Everything else is B.S.

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“I am concerned that a Dem in the White House will give Americans a fresh set of new faces, and they will think all troubles are behind them, not realizing that the damage caused is already a done deal.”

That’s true, which is why the hoopla over Obama is particularly annoying. That man won’t — and can’t — change a thing. We are on course to hit a slew of icebergs, and no President can change that outcome at this point. Obama can’t “undo” the housing bubble, or the credit crisis, or the dollar’s death spiral. As you say, the damage has already been done.

But more importantly, I’m not sure either party is particularly invested in changing our course. I’ve got a scarier proposition for you: the Dems and the GOP are merely two factions of the same group with the same ultimate goal: reduction of the middle class to a cheap labor force that will allow us to compete globally andto “survive”. The two parties just have slightly different ways of going about it: the GOP is content to haul us out to the shed and clobber us over the head with a blunt instrument before shipping us off to slaughter, whereas the Dems would invite us into the house to and offer us a drink laced with slow-acting poison…in the end, we’ll die either way. *Sigh* Because American politics today are all about the illusion of choice = hope = the ability to manipulate/lead. Once the populace realizes that hope is a pipe dream, they will grow restless and seek change outside of the political process. This is the worst nightmare for both the Dems and the GOP.

Don’t you find it odd that our so-called Democrat-controlled Congress — in particular, our professed “Fighters of Freedom” (this would include Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and the other usual suspects) — have not made any efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the Patriot Act? Or that they have rubber-stamped all funding for the war? They parties grandstand and make a big deal as they “bicker” over the issues, but the truth is that the rank and file always end up with the short end of the stick on the major issues and score a few hollow victories on the minor ones.

I feel like I’m trapped in the Matrix with a hoardes of drones who refuse to unplug themselves. Wake up, everyone. The only way out of this is revolution. Everything else is B.S.

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“I am concerned that a Dem in the White House will give Americans a fresh set of new faces, and they will think all troubles are behind them, not realizing that the damage caused is already a done deal.”

That’s true, which is why the hoopla over Obama is particularly annoying. That man won’t — and can’t — change a thing. We are on course to hit a slew of icebergs, and no President can change that outcome at this point. Obama can’t “undo” the housing bubble, or the credit crisis, or the dollar’s death spiral. As you say, the damage has already been done.

But more importantly, I’m not sure either party is particularly invested in changing our course. I’ve got a scarier proposition for you: the Dems and the GOP are merely two factions of the same group with the same ultimate goal: reduction of the middle class to a cheap labor force that will allow us to compete globally andto “survive”. The two parties just have slightly different ways of going about it: the GOP is content to haul us out to the shed and clobber us over the head with a blunt instrument before shipping us off to slaughter, whereas the Dems would invite us into the house to and offer us a drink laced with slow-acting poison…in the end, we’ll die either way. *Sigh* Because American politics today are all about the illusion of choice = hope = the ability to manipulate/lead. Once the populace realizes that hope is a pipe dream, they will grow restless and seek change outside of the political process. This is the worst nightmare for both the Dems and the GOP.

Don’t you find it odd that our so-called Democrat-controlled Congress — in particular, our professed “Fighters of Freedom” (this would include Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and the other usual suspects) — have not made any efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the Patriot Act? Or that they have rubber-stamped all funding for the war? They parties grandstand and make a big deal as they “bicker” over the issues, but the truth is that the rank and file always end up with the short end of the stick on the major issues and score a few hollow victories on the minor ones.

I feel like I’m trapped in the Matrix with a hoardes of drones who refuse to unplug themselves. Wake up, everyone. The only way out of this is revolution. Everything else is B.S.

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“I am concerned that a Dem in the White House will give Americans a fresh set of new faces, and they will think all troubles are behind them, not realizing that the damage caused is already a done deal.”

That’s true, which is why the hoopla over Obama is particularly annoying. That man won’t — and can’t — change a thing. We are on course to hit a slew of icebergs, and no President can change that outcome at this point. Obama can’t “undo” the housing bubble, or the credit crisis, or the dollar’s death spiral. As you say, the damage has already been done.

But more importantly, I’m not sure either party is particularly invested in changing our course. I’ve got a scarier proposition for you: the Dems and the GOP are merely two factions of the same group with the same ultimate goal: reduction of the middle class to a cheap labor force that will allow us to compete globally andto “survive”. The two parties just have slightly different ways of going about it: the GOP is content to haul us out to the shed and clobber us over the head with a blunt instrument before shipping us off to slaughter, whereas the Dems would invite us into the house to and offer us a drink laced with slow-acting poison…in the end, we’ll die either way. *Sigh* Because American politics today are all about the illusion of choice = hope = the ability to manipulate/lead. Once the populace realizes that hope is a pipe dream, they will grow restless and seek change outside of the political process. This is the worst nightmare for both the Dems and the GOP.

Don’t you find it odd that our so-called Democrat-controlled Congress — in particular, our professed “Fighters of Freedom” (this would include Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and the other usual suspects) — have not made any efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the Patriot Act? Or that they have rubber-stamped all funding for the war? They parties grandstand and make a big deal as they “bicker” over the issues, but the truth is that the rank and file always end up with the short end of the stick on the major issues and score a few hollow victories on the minor ones.

I feel like I’m trapped in the Matrix with a hoardes of drones who refuse to unplug themselves. Wake up, everyone. The only way out of this is revolution. Everything else is B.S.

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“I am concerned that a Dem in the White House will give Americans a fresh set of new faces, and they will think all troubles are behind them, not realizing that the damage caused is already a done deal.”

That’s true, which is why the hoopla over Obama is particularly annoying. That man won’t — and can’t — change a thing. We are on course to hit a slew of icebergs, and no President can change that outcome at this point. Obama can’t “undo” the housing bubble, or the credit crisis, or the dollar’s death spiral. As you say, the damage has already been done.

But more importantly, I’m not sure either party is particularly invested in changing our course. I’ve got a scarier proposition for you: the Dems and the GOP are merely two factions of the same group with the same ultimate goal: reduction of the middle class to a cheap labor force that will allow us to compete globally andto “survive”. The two parties just have slightly different ways of going about it: the GOP is content to haul us out to the shed and clobber us over the head with a blunt instrument before shipping us off to slaughter, whereas the Dems would invite us into the house to and offer us a drink laced with slow-acting poison…in the end, we’ll die either way. *Sigh* Because American politics today are all about the illusion of choice = hope = the ability to manipulate/lead. Once the populace realizes that hope is a pipe dream, they will grow restless and seek change outside of the political process. This is the worst nightmare for both the Dems and the GOP.

Don’t you find it odd that our so-called Democrat-controlled Congress — in particular, our professed “Fighters of Freedom” (this would include Obama, Clinton, Pelosi and the other usual suspects) — have not made any efforts to eliminate or at least curtail the Patriot Act? Or that they have rubber-stamped all funding for the war? They parties grandstand and make a big deal as they “bicker” over the issues, but the truth is that the rank and file always end up with the short end of the stick on the major issues and score a few hollow victories on the minor ones.

I feel like I’m trapped in the Matrix with a hoardes of drones who refuse to unplug themselves. Wake up, everyone. The only way out of this is revolution. Everything else is B.S.

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Ricechex, I wasn’t going to go there in my previous post, but you are spot-on: the world (especially America) is in for one helluva ride in the coming years. Only a fool would be blind to the fact that our economy is being held together at present with paper clips, gum and hope. The dollar is breaking new, historic lows EVERY week now, the stock market is on life support (even with billions being pumped into it weekly by the Fed), and you can’t even give away a condo in Florida these days. Rappers and supermodels are rejecting the dollar in favor of Euros. Starving African nations in search of food and aid are doing the same thing! And yet the average American doesn’t have a clue or care to have a clue about what this will soon mean for them. Why? Because they still have another $900 of available credit on their cards, fajitas are still being served up at Chili’s and the “Dancing with the Stars” finale is coming up next week (I think).

And Arraya is 150% correct about the insidious effects of denial on our populace. People literally will not wake up to the fact that the train is hurtling off the cliff as we speak — because they happen to be in the caboose and don’t realize the first 5 cars have already tumbled over the edge.

People, the next few months are going to be very strange, very sad and very scary, indeed. We may limp through the holidays with gas less than $4/gallon, and Wal Mart and JC Penney may squeeze the last few bucks out of the consumer. But this will be the last “happy” holidays for a long, long, LONG time, my friends. Come January 2008, people are going to bitch-slapped in a major way, suddenly and unexpectedly, and the real effects of a falling dollar are going to make themselves known.

And of course, Americans will turn to their leaders and ask, “Why didn’t anyone tell us this was happening???”

We are so deep in crap at this point, I don’t know what kind of rope we could possibly find to pull us out. The Dem candidates know this; the GOP candidates know this. At the end of the day, they are all fighting to become the next leader of a banana republic. Let’s be clear: Ron Paul can never possibly get elected. But it is just cathartic to hear him raising the only issues that matter now. And when the SHTF, he can honestly look into the eyes of Americans and say, “I warned you.”

No one else can say that.

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Ricechex, I wasn’t going to go there in my previous post, but you are spot-on: the world (especially America) is in for one helluva ride in the coming years. Only a fool would be blind to the fact that our economy is being held together at present with paper clips, gum and hope. The dollar is breaking new, historic lows EVERY week now, the stock market is on life support (even with billions being pumped into it weekly by the Fed), and you can’t even give away a condo in Florida these days. Rappers and supermodels are rejecting the dollar in favor of Euros. Starving African nations in search of food and aid are doing the same thing! And yet the average American doesn’t have a clue or care to have a clue about what this will soon mean for them. Why? Because they still have another $900 of available credit on their cards, fajitas are still being served up at Chili’s and the “Dancing with the Stars” finale is coming up next week (I think).

And Arraya is 150% correct about the insidious effects of denial on our populace. People literally will not wake up to the fact that the train is hurtling off the cliff as we speak — because they happen to be in the caboose and don’t realize the first 5 cars have already tumbled over the edge.

People, the next few months are going to be very strange, very sad and very scary, indeed. We may limp through the holidays with gas less than $4/gallon, and Wal Mart and JC Penney may squeeze the last few bucks out of the consumer. But this will be the last “happy” holidays for a long, long, LONG time, my friends. Come January 2008, people are going to bitch-slapped in a major way, suddenly and unexpectedly, and the real effects of a falling dollar are going to make themselves known.

And of course, Americans will turn to their leaders and ask, “Why didn’t anyone tell us this was happening???”

We are so deep in crap at this point, I don’t know what kind of rope we could possibly find to pull us out. The Dem candidates know this; the GOP candidates know this. At the end of the day, they are all fighting to become the next leader of a banana republic. Let’s be clear: Ron Paul can never possibly get elected. But it is just cathartic to hear him raising the only issues that matter now. And when the SHTF, he can honestly look into the eyes of Americans and say, “I warned you.”

No one else can say that.

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Ricechex, I wasn’t going to go there in my previous post, but you are spot-on: the world (especially America) is in for one helluva ride in the coming years. Only a fool would be blind to the fact that our economy is being held together at present with paper clips, gum and hope. The dollar is breaking new, historic lows EVERY week now, the stock market is on life support (even with billions being pumped into it weekly by the Fed), and you can’t even give away a condo in Florida these days. Rappers and supermodels are rejecting the dollar in favor of Euros. Starving African nations in search of food and aid are doing the same thing! And yet the average American doesn’t have a clue or care to have a clue about what this will soon mean for them. Why? Because they still have another $900 of available credit on their cards, fajitas are still being served up at Chili’s and the “Dancing with the Stars” finale is coming up next week (I think).

And Arraya is 150% correct about the insidious effects of denial on our populace. People literally will not wake up to the fact that the train is hurtling off the cliff as we speak — because they happen to be in the caboose and don’t realize the first 5 cars have already tumbled over the edge.

People, the next few months are going to be very strange, very sad and very scary, indeed. We may limp through the holidays with gas less than $4/gallon, and Wal Mart and JC Penney may squeeze the last few bucks out of the consumer. But this will be the last “happy” holidays for a long, long, LONG time, my friends. Come January 2008, people are going to bitch-slapped in a major way, suddenly and unexpectedly, and the real effects of a falling dollar are going to make themselves known.

And of course, Americans will turn to their leaders and ask, “Why didn’t anyone tell us this was happening???”

We are so deep in crap at this point, I don’t know what kind of rope we could possibly find to pull us out. The Dem candidates know this; the GOP candidates know this. At the end of the day, they are all fighting to become the next leader of a banana republic. Let’s be clear: Ron Paul can never possibly get elected. But it is just cathartic to hear him raising the only issues that matter now. And when the SHTF, he can honestly look into the eyes of Americans and say, “I warned you.”

No one else can say that.

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Ricechex, I wasn’t going to go there in my previous post, but you are spot-on: the world (especially America) is in for one helluva ride in the coming years. Only a fool would be blind to the fact that our economy is being held together at present with paper clips, gum and hope. The dollar is breaking new, historic lows EVERY week now, the stock market is on life support (even with billions being pumped into it weekly by the Fed), and you can’t even give away a condo in Florida these days. Rappers and supermodels are rejecting the dollar in favor of Euros. Starving African nations in search of food and aid are doing the same thing! And yet the average American doesn’t have a clue or care to have a clue about what this will soon mean for them. Why? Because they still have another $900 of available credit on their cards, fajitas are still being served up at Chili’s and the “Dancing with the Stars” finale is coming up next week (I think).

And Arraya is 150% correct about the insidious effects of denial on our populace. People literally will not wake up to the fact that the train is hurtling off the cliff as we speak — because they happen to be in the caboose and don’t realize the first 5 cars have already tumbled over the edge.

People, the next few months are going to be very strange, very sad and very scary, indeed. We may limp through the holidays with gas less than $4/gallon, and Wal Mart and JC Penney may squeeze the last few bucks out of the consumer. But this will be the last “happy” holidays for a long, long, LONG time, my friends. Come January 2008, people are going to bitch-slapped in a major way, suddenly and unexpectedly, and the real effects of a falling dollar are going to make themselves known.

And of course, Americans will turn to their leaders and ask, “Why didn’t anyone tell us this was happening???”

We are so deep in crap at this point, I don’t know what kind of rope we could possibly find to pull us out. The Dem candidates know this; the GOP candidates know this. At the end of the day, they are all fighting to become the next leader of a banana republic. Let’s be clear: Ron Paul can never possibly get elected. But it is just cathartic to hear him raising the only issues that matter now. And when the SHTF, he can honestly look into the eyes of Americans and say, “I warned you.”

No one else can say that.

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Ricechex, I wasn’t going to go there in my previous post, but you are spot-on: the world (especially America) is in for one helluva ride in the coming years. Only a fool would be blind to the fact that our economy is being held together at present with paper clips, gum and hope. The dollar is breaking new, historic lows EVERY week now, the stock market is on life support (even with billions being pumped into it weekly by the Fed), and you can’t even give away a condo in Florida these days. Rappers and supermodels are rejecting the dollar in favor of Euros. Starving African nations in search of food and aid are doing the same thing! And yet the average American doesn’t have a clue or care to have a clue about what this will soon mean for them. Why? Because they still have another $900 of available credit on their cards, fajitas are still being served up at Chili’s and the “Dancing with the Stars” finale is coming up next week (I think).

And Arraya is 150% correct about the insidious effects of denial on our populace. People literally will not wake up to the fact that the train is hurtling off the cliff as we speak — because they happen to be in the caboose and don’t realize the first 5 cars have already tumbled over the edge.

People, the next few months are going to be very strange, very sad and very scary, indeed. We may limp through the holidays with gas less than $4/gallon, and Wal Mart and JC Penney may squeeze the last few bucks out of the consumer. But this will be the last “happy” holidays for a long, long, LONG time, my friends. Come January 2008, people are going to bitch-slapped in a major way, suddenly and unexpectedly, and the real effects of a falling dollar are going to make themselves known.

And of course, Americans will turn to their leaders and ask, “Why didn’t anyone tell us this was happening???”

We are so deep in crap at this point, I don’t know what kind of rope we could possibly find to pull us out. The Dem candidates know this; the GOP candidates know this. At the end of the day, they are all fighting to become the next leader of a banana republic. Let’s be clear: Ron Paul can never possibly get elected. But it is just cathartic to hear him raising the only issues that matter now. And when the SHTF, he can honestly look into the eyes of Americans and say, “I warned you.”

No one else can say that.

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