... darn it, now I have to Google the legal term for mankind. OK,  Wikipedia mentions the total world population. Interesting. I knew there would be something fishy about it.  Ya this is gonna get ugly. Lord help us all.

Eagless.adice for you.

Make your peace with God. Take care of all of your family.

Get over the mental anguish. 

Prepare yourself.  22lr, 30-06 or 7mm Mag with good scope, 12ga Pump, & nice handgun-I like Glocks.   Buy primers, reloaders & 1000 rounds for each. 22 is very cheap.   If funds are available-body armour & Kevlar helmut along with survival books for worst case scenario..Grow a garden, no hybrid seeds.   Enlist help of 4-5 good friends you can depend on at all times.

Stock up on Food & keep some well hidden... cans (tuna, sardines), beans, rice etc to last for 3-6mo, medicine, water purifier & heat source (insert).  Get out of Cash-Now.   Buy silver & gold to hedge, along with Yen, Juan or Swiss Francs. Euros might be ok, I dont own any.

Thats it, it will get ugly, youre right.  There is no other choice but this..or trust your govt in a FEMA Camp  somewhere that Haliburton is building...contract awarded & reported on Dow Jones News Wire.

(HAL:
Halliburton Company
 
  HAL 36.51, -1.12, -3.0%)

I think the biggest threat to the breed is uninformed buyers who purchase non standard dogs (esp. temperament) from uninformed BYB's who then use those dogs to BECOME uninformed BYB's.

There is so much ignorance by BYB's it is overwhelming.  DId Jessie Owen's children automatically come out of the womb as world class athletes? Or Einstein's children instantly qualify to be world renowned physicists? Chopin's children were gifted composers by virtue of his talent? Of course not. Delusional ideas perpetrated by those who do not desire to illustrate accomplishment by their own stock onto delusional daydreamers who want "instant bragging rights with no effort".

The potential (or lack thereof) is completely beyond the comprehension of these breeders or buyers. In my opinion this isn't only a threat to the GSD but a conversion of it into something else entirely.

Thank God there are still quality breeders of known quantity GSD's.

Europe idle as US battles meltdown

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph, UK
 

The US Federal Reserve has resorted to the nuclear option in its ever-more depleted arsenal, invoking a Depression-era clause to shoulder the risk of losses stemming from the collapse of Bear Stearns, and to lend money directly to broker dealers.

It is the first time since the Great Depression that the Fed has stepped in directly to absorb credit losses, crossing a line deemed unthinkable just months ago. The dramatic late-night move on Sunday required dredging up Article 13 (3) of the Federal Reserve Act, which allows the Fed to shower money on almost anybody it wishes by a vote of five governors in "unusual and exigent circumstances".

The Fed also took the extraordinary step of cutting the Discount Rate a quarter point to 3.25pc just two days before its scheduled policy meeting in Washington, a move underscoring the high drama of the crisis. The markets have priced in an emergency 100 basis point cut in the key Fed funds rate to 2pc today.

"These are massive, unprecedented actions," said Hank Calenti, from RBC Capital Markets. "Their gravity is likely to scare the markets to death, but the Fed is trying to inhibit a margin-meltdown."

Bernard Connolly, global strategist at Banque AIG, said invoking a 1930s-era emergency clause was a "very big deal".

"We have moved one step closer to the direct purchase of assets by the US authorities. I'm afraid this has horrible implications but it may be the only way to avoid a serious risk of Depression. This is a Greek Tragedy set in motion by Alan Greenspan a long time ago," he said.
 

The Collapse of AMerican Power. 

3/18/2007    Paul Craig Roberts, Founder of Reagan Nomics.

A troubled currency and financial system and large budget and trade deficits do not present an attractive face to creditors. Yet Washington in its hubris seems to believe that the US can forever rely on the Chinese, Japanese and Saudis to finance America's life beyond its means. Imagine the shock when the day arrives that a US Treasury auction of new debt instruments is not fully subscribed.

The US has squandered $500 billion dollars on a war that serves no American purpose. Moreover, the $500 billion is only the out-of-pocket costs. It does not include the replacement cost of the destroyed equipment, the future costs of care for veterans, the cost of the interests on the loans that have financed the war, or the lost US GDP from diverting scarce resources to war. Experts who are not part of the government's spin machine estimate the cost of the Iraq war to be as much as $3 trillion.

The Republican candidate for President said he would be content to continue the war for 100 years. With what resources? When America's creditors consider our behavior they see total fiscal irresponsibility. They see a deluded country that acts as if it is a privilege for foreigners to lend to it, and a deluded country that believes that foreigners will continue to accumulate US debt until the end of time.

The fact of the matter is that the US is bankrupt. David M. Walker, Comptroller General of the US and head of the Government Accountability Office, in his December 17, 2007, report to the US Congress on the financial statements of the US government noted that "the federal government did not maintain effective internal control over financial reporting (including safeguarding assets) and compliance with significant laws and regulations as of September 30, 2007." In everyday language, the US government cannot pass an audit.

Moreover, the GAO report pointed out that the accrued liabilities of the federal government "totaled approximately $53 trillion as of September 30, 2007." No funds have been set aside against this mind boggling liability.

Just so the reader understands, $53 trillion is $53,000 billion.

Frustrated by speaking to deaf ears, Walker recently resigned as head of the Government Accountability Office.

As of March 17, 2008, one Swiss franc is worth more than $1 dollar. In 1970, the exchange rate was 4.2 Swiss francs to the dollar. In 1970, $1 purchased 360 Japanese yen. Today $1 dollar purchases less than 100 yen.

If you were a creditor, would you want to hold debt in a currency that has such a poor record against the currency of a small island country that was nuked and defeated in WW II, or against a small landlocked European country that clings to its independence and is not a member of the EU?

Would you want to hold the debt of a country whose imports exceed its industrial production? According to the latest US statistics as reported in the February 28 issue of Manufacturing and Technology News, in 2007 imports were 14 percent of US GDP and US manufacturing comprised 12% of US GDP. A country whose imports exceed its industrial production cannot close its trade deficit by exporting more.

The dollar has even collapsed

in value against the euro, the currency of a make-believe country that does not exist: the European Union. France, Germany, Italy, England and the other members of the EU still exist as sovereign nations. England even retains its own currency. Yet the euro hits new highs daily against the dollar.

Noam Chomsky recently wrote that America thinks that it owns the world. That is definitely the view of the neoconized Bush administration. But the fact of the matter is that the US owes the world. The US "superpower" cannot even finance its own domestic operations, much less its gratuitous wars except via the kindness of foreigners to lend it money that cannot be repaid.

The US will never repay the loans. The American economy has been devastated by offshoring, by foreign competition, and by the importation of foreigners on work visas, while it holds to a free trade ideology that benefits corporate fat cats and shareholders at the expense of American labor. The dollar is failing in its role as reserve currency and will soon be abandoned.

When the dollar ceases to be the reserve currency, the US will no longer be able to pay its bills by borrowing more from foreigners.

I sometimes wonder if the bankrupt "superpower" will be able to scrape together the resources to bring home the troops stationed in its hundreds of bases overseas, or whether they will just be abandoned.

Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury in the Reagan administration. He was Associate Editor of the Wall Street Journal editorial page and Contributing Editor of National Review.

Eagles...Ill break it down for you so you know. Forewarned.

US Dollar is collapsing though they are trying, to no avail, to save it. WIthin a year or so, it may probably be worthless... 

Our Oil is purchased in US Dollars. Once US Dollars are NO Longer accepted by OPEC (as it is worthless with the printing done) , we are stuck.  We have a few months in strategic supplies of oil.    After that, we are done.  Trucks wont move.  And the reason for some food stockpiling I mentioned.  Plan on terrible  rioting near any cities. Looting & Mayhem.   Possible Civil war. 

The US Dollar will likely be De Monotized.  Which means worthless, By the Govt. ..02- 05c on the dollar.  You Go to bed a millionaire, & wake up with pennies. This Happened in Russia & Argentina.  Gold may be confiscated, so silver or platinum is also recommended, as are foreign bank accounts in Francs, Yen or Pounds.

Feds are compiling lists of all (20,000 Mo) that own guns, speak out, chat with certain people or groups etc. The good news is that our Intel & Military also have spies that are doing counter intel  on these Neo CONs & may well be a coup/when this happens. It will be brutal, those in the know say by Feb next year...we'll see.   Stay well & be armed.   Boonies will be fine & Also recommended.

Dawgs:  Well said, I agree 100%.

DRFN...I do take issue with you on Ron Paul.  He isnt "Sexy".   He has been married for the same woman for 50 years. He has delivered 4000 babies as an OBGYN.  He has never voted for a tax increase.  He voted Against this War that is killing us.  He was a Vietnam veteran..   He voted against Amnesty, unlike McCain, Hillary & Obama.  In short, he isnt a Politician.  Well, I dont want one. Havent we had enough of them? 

RP favors following the Consitution.  He wants to end the war & Close some military bases.   We have 700 bases in 130 countries & we are broke.  

Why do we have 35,000 troops guarding Koreas border but none guard ours?  Meanwhile 50,000 citizens have been killed BY Illegals since 911.   And the inflation, printing money to fund this war is breaking are back...gas, milk, eggs, bread, dog food all are going higher.  Direct result of inflation.  Caused by the Fed & Govt printing & Spending money we dont have.

Vote for who you wish..I will not vote for any of those other traitors in this coming eleciton.

Lastly, we arent Democratic. We arent Capitalist.   Notice that a Bank-Bear Sterns, got a Fed Bailout, along with other major US Banks. That is Not capitalism. That is Socialism,  for the elitists. 

Have a nice night, yall

allaboutthedawgs- my thoughts exactly.