Hard to believe it has been one week since I last posted. The last week has a lot of meaning for me.
The US Marine Corp’s birthday was on Nov. 10th followed by Veteran’s Day (Nov. 11th) and the day I entered Marine Corps boot camp (Nov. 13th). Do not forget, I was discharged on Oct. 21st a couple weeks before. This year a lot of memories of the Corps came back. I think it was primary spurred by my return to the weight room. I want to get in the same physical condition as I was in the Marines. My 30 minutes – 2 hour per day workouts are showing some results, I have lost about 6 kilos (13 pounds) in the last 3 weeks. I got another 8 kilos (18 pounds) to go and I think I will reach it in about two months.
The drama with EVN still continues. Last Thursday they came to my house, unannounced and turned off my electricity. They did not even ring my bell before. The bill for the last two months, even the one in question, was paid but EVN refused to send somebody out to turn it back on at my house. They wanted some “coffee” money to turn it back on. This is one of the most corrupt companies in Vietnam and I plan to continue to fight them. A consumer protection agency will help me, a friend will set up an appointment for me.
Facebook is blocked again by both Viettel and FPT. You can still view Facebook with VNPT and the mobile phone carriers. This is a huge response to this by the Vietnamese Internet users, they are passing around DNSs to get past the newly dubbed “Great Firewall of Vietnam”. OpenDNS will become popular with Internet users in Vietnam in the next coming weeks. Twitter, and some fear, LinkedIn, may be next.
Lastly, some of you may be surprised, I am using Windows again. I fell in love with Windows 7 last Saturday. It is amazing. It is one of the best Desktop Experiences I have had in a long time. Microsoft listened to their customers. Even Linux users, such as myself, like it. If Microsoft plays it’s cards right, Windows 7 will be a “Linux Desktop Killer”. One question I would like answered, though, is how much open source code went into Windows 7. I suspect a lot. 
Well, time for my evening workout now…
Peter Schiff was interviewed by Revolutionary Politics. He made some comments in regards to the current global and US markets. As usual, he recommends buying gold and silver instead of US dollars which he feels will collapse. He recommends investing in Asia, not in the US, arguing that when the US dollar collapses, the Asia economies will stop supporting it.
He makes many other interesting points as well:
- Housing market will not hit bottom until the interest rates higher, only then will real estates prices drop
- Americans purchasing power will decrease due to the devalued US dollar while the purchasing power of Asians will increase
- US unemployment rate is higher then official Federal statistics which doesn’t take into consideration those working part-time jobs just to survive
View his full interview at this URL: Peter Schiff : “Our Economy is a Disaster!”
View his other videos at YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/schiffreport
Still on the topic of the US Economy, Fox’s Freedom Watch with the Judge interviewed Ron Paul, Peter Schiff and Tom Woods a couple days ago.
Ron Paul is trying to get a bill passed in Congress that will require the GAO to audit the Federal Reserve. Many Americans do not realize that the Federal Reserve (Fed), which prints the US dollar, is NOT a government agency but an unregulated private company. By law, the GAO cannot audit the Federal Reserve so the US government really does not know the activities of the Fed. Congress wants to know what involvement the Fed played with the housing bubble burst.
Peter Schiff, who predicted the housing bubble burst in 2006, and Tom Woods, who wrote a book explaining the stock market crash, were also interviewed which can be viewed below or by this link:
If you are curious to see how the US dollar is created, view the first part of Zeitgeist Addendum (roughly the first three clips will explain how money is created in the US, it should surprise most of you). The US dollar bill is backed by nothing, not even gold. Peter Schiff argues that the US needs to return to the gold standard since nations have started to lose faith in the US dollar which has already lost 96% of it’s value since 1913.
President Obama announced that the world has avoided economic disaster. Yet trends expert, Gerald Celente, begs to differ. According to the Yonders Tribune, Gerald Celente stated that:
The Greatest Depression is at hand. The stimulus, bailout and buyout packages being forced on the nation by an Administration that “misread how bad the economy was” will only lead to “Obamageddon”: The Fall of Empire America.
He blames the Obama stimulus plan and the misreading of the economy by the Obama’s economic advisors as culprits that will lead to the Greatest Depression. This week he predicted Obamageddon and the Fall the of the America Empire by 2012. View one of his interviews:
Gerald Celente is an interesting person since he has accurately predicted the stock market crash of 1987, housing collapse and many others.
You can view more video interviews at this link -> http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=gerald%20celente#
Lets start with the Foreign Policy’s article stating that one billion people around the world are now suffering from hunger. That is 1/6 of the world population! FP blames the global recession and rising food costs as one of the culprits of the increased hunger. If you watched the Home global warming documentary, they mentioned that in the US alone, roughly half of the grain harvested turns into animal feed or biofuels. That half could easily feed 1 billion people. Unfortunately hamburgers and clean fuels are more important than starving people.
Next up, the Moderate Voice, a site that gives another perspective on US politics and global political economics, stated that the economy in the US may not recover in a long time. The author used examples from the Great Depression. I think this argument is very plausible but I will let you read the article to decide.
Ron Paul may agree with recent legislation from the US. Check out the latest video about Ron Paul’s views on the current “Fed Power Grab” at the The Atlantean Conspiracy. Ron Paul suggested the the Federal Reserve Bank should be regulated!
Finally, from WWdn: IN Exile, something far more serious than the current global economic crisis and world hunger. What would happen if you fed a dog chocolate, put a tin hat on it’s head and then microwaved it. Just watch the following video to see what will happen:
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