Tuesday, March 10, 2009

Relinquish Your Salary

It's time for the President to accept a $1 dollar a year salary. According to his
2007 tax returns, his estimated net worth is $7 million dollars. In these times of national crisis, it's important for our leaders to sympathize with the population in trouble and show solidarity and sacrifice. It is not uncommon for leaders to
"eat with the enlisted men" so to say and show the people that they are not afraid of coming down into the trenches with them.

As Nancy Pelosi is "upset" about not getting her military aircraft at her disposal 24 hours a day, She and many other rich Congress members should take a symbolic salary only as well as major pay cuts for ALL executives working for companies which are receiving government bailout money.

LNR Warned Long Ago of the Financial Tsunami

LNR already warned readers last year about the coming financial "Tsunami" and that
word was and is quite appropriate because we have only seen the tip of this Tsunami so far, the real damage is yet to come.

The mainstream media are often wrong on two points: First, that there is a "coming" global recession- ... it's already here. It is amazing that financial reporters
don't emphasize that numbers and stats that we use "today" to look at our financial
situation has a 1-3 month lag time. Second, there is suprisingly a lot of American
mainstream media claiming- 'recovery' in last quarter of 2009 or first quarter of
2010. This is a cruel joke, we are not anywhere near bottoming out, this has become a multi-pronged recession hitting the economy from several angles. LNR believes we "might" see the bottom begin by the end of 2009 and we will "ride" that bottom for at least through 2010, hence, any sort of recovery may begin in 2011 as inventories of consumables and housing are slowly used up, thereby requiring more- which in turn will provide the catalyst for a recovery.

Jobs are the key to recovery- as LNR has reported several times.

Monday, March 9, 2009

National Security Threat: South of the Border

America's intelligence agencies are identifying MEXICO as the second most
important security threat after Pakistan. Mexico "has become" destablized by the
drug cartels. Here is the opportunity for Obama to take bold action. Constrained
constitutionally from using US troops on American soil for police actions (Posse comitatus 1878) here is a great chance to secure our border as well as a massive employment action. Because of the long border and terrain with Mexico, aside from all the technology you can muster, you need "boots on the ground." So, Obama can create an auxillery border force (Homeland Border Security- HBS) and employ upwards of 400,000 unemployed Americans to patrol the border- both armed and unarmed.

It will take at least this number to both fight off the drug gangs as well as cover the vast territory. In this way we also avoid using the US military unconstitutionally as well as not sapping an already overstretched US army.

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Mid East Nuclear Showdown One Step Closer

Iran tests missile which can reach Israel, we are another step closer
to nuclear war in the Middle East as LNR has already warned a few days
ago.

Remember, Israel keeps a "first strike" option open as stated by late
Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, "never never never again" he said about
any possibility of the Jewish race being wiped out. He clearly indicated
that they HAD the BOMB and would use it to protect Israel and defend against
any "mass" killing of Jews.

Saturday, March 7, 2009

Two Negatives that are Positive

Trade deficit and global warming:

As global warming is a natural occurring event, there is no stopping it. So, we must stop wasting time trying to prevent it (of course affordable measures to clean our air and keep our water clean are needed) and instead find the positive factors of global warming, climate change and its inevitable effects. The effects are being extremely hyped by the media, in the context that even if it were true that global warming is accelerating (highly doubtful- because of imprecise methods of measurement and very dubious and complex computer modeling) it will take years to change temperatures by more than a few degrees. But, if temperatures are really rising over the long term, then great- we will have more of the earth’s landmass that is habitable and available for farming- this is good ! The same eco-radicals, basing their rants and raves on pseudo-science and the more legitimate people who joined the chorus because of the money to be made, in the past lamented the earth’s overcrowding and falling food supply (all false alarms) are now against the obvious solution- GLOBAL WARMING !! with warmer temperatures people can alleviate overcrowding by settling the northern hemisphere and feed people more easily with all the extra farm land- so where is the problem ?

Trade deficits are not bad, as long as you can pay for them, and we can, buying more than you are selling is absolutely NO indicator of the health of an economy. If your nation is rich and mainly produces and consumes your own products and services, as the US does, there is then plenty of wealth to buy even more products from overseas. In fact, although America in absolute terms is the largest exporter and importer in the world, America itself produces 2/3rd s of its own consumption and is NOT an export based economy as other leading economies are i.e. China, Japan, German, South Korea, Canada, etc. So comparing the import numbers and the trade deficit with other countries is comparing apples and oranges- they are export driven economies since their internal markets are not strong enough to consume all that they produce. America is service- based production and thus it easily consumes all it manufactures- thereby requiring imports. There is NOTHING wrong with that. In addition, we import products that are produced abroad more cheaply which in great effect- INCREASES the standard of living of all Americans. When you buy the SAME product cheaper from overseas, it means that prices are lower for American consumers, thus lower economic classes in America can afford more and better things- thus- raising their standard of living. Ten years ago it was only luxury homes that you would find a wine fridge in, whereas today its common place and they are sold very cheaply at Home Depot and Lowes, etc. Big screen TV’s, electronics, etc. are within reach of MOST Americans- they are NOT within the reach of lower classes in other countries. The trade deficit for America is a NET plus because you are raising the standard of living for 300 million Americans- instead of trying to raise the standard of 5-10 million Americans who might have otherwise produced those products in America. If we produced those products- yes, maybe there would be an extra 5-10 million jobs in manufacturing- but those products would be priced out of reach for most Americans, thus, the standard of living would be much lower for MOST of America. Embrace trade deficits and global warming, they are good things !

Friday, March 6, 2009

America Drops Atomic Bomb on Iran (almost)

Brent Scowcroft, former general and National Security Advisor to President's Ford and Bush (and serving in the White House as far back as Nixon) and Zbigniew Brzezinski, former National Security Advisor to President Jimmy Carter and wanna-be successor to
Kissinger as America's foremost foreign policy expert, have (almost) dropped the

BOMB on Iran.

In a startling and shocking move, Scowcroft and Brzezinski, acting as an indirect
protocol for President Obama, announce to the world and Iran, that Israel is now under America's nuclear umbrella. In a bold move to counter Iran and the prospect that a nuclear first strike by Iran would wipe out Israel, thereby negating any retaliatory action against Iran, America is making clear that indeed a retaliatory nuclear strike on Iran would take place by the United States. Clearly this move is intended to block Iran and any notions it had of using a first strike against Israel which without American retaliation, would leave Iran otherwise unharmed by such a move against Israel.

Reported in today's press

WASHINGTON —" The United States should extend its nuclear umbrella to its Middle East allies and offer enriched civilian-use uranium to Iran and other countries in the region to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon, two respected former presidential national-security advisors told senators Thursday.
Brzezinski suggested that before any serious discussions with Tehran , the United States should say that it's prepared to extend its nuclear umbrella to friends and allies in the Middle East .
"

It's well known that both Brzezinski and Scowcroft are strong and early supporters of Obama and have been closely advising him since early on in the elections last year. The weight of both these men add legitimacy and credibility to this new major policy move by the United States. It is a clever move by Obama because using Scowcroft and Brzezinski as a "secondary protocol" it allows this bold counter-move by the US to be announced without a presidential directive, order or vetting through the State Department or Congress. It is also a policy which, being delivered via secondary protocol, can be denied distanced or denied by the White House, if Obama wishes so. However, Iran will clearly get the message of the new strategic stance of the US vis-a-vis Israel and this move might be enough to halt Iran in its tracks in regards to its nuclear first strike plans against Israel. This bold stroke is also intended to forestall an impending Israeli attack on Iran by extending the US nuclear umbrella to Iran has America has done for Japan, South Korea and other allies.

It should also be noted that both Scowcroft and Brzezinski are prominent members of the Trilateral Commission and the Council for Foreign Relations, thereby further emboldening their statements by virtue of the de facto approval of America's two most powerful foreign policy entities outside the White House.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Stock Market.. Almost at Collapse

The stock market is days or weeks from an all out collapse, perhaps falling as low as 2,500- 3,000 level which will induce further economic disasters.

There are two possible emergency solutions: As done in the past, albeit, very quietly, the White House can "lean' heavily on big funds (like California Pension Funds) to aggressively "buy" into the market. Otherwise, the government will have to "halt" trading or itself- set up a third party buyer fund to buy into the market itself. Allowing the stock market to continue its free-fall will extend the depth and breadth of the recession into at least 2012 with uncontrollable severity.

Middle East Nuclear Catastrophe

Unless Hillary Clinton, or Obama himself turns the pressure on Israel,
Syria and Iran, LNR has learned of a probable massive Israeli strike on
Iran planned for no later than mid-June. This strike, however, will not
be effective as Iran now has multiple projects which will allow for
a retaliatory strike on Israel.

Saudi Arabia is now plowing countries like Egypt and Syria with cash
hoping to enlist them in efforts to restrain Iran. There is also an
alternative Mossad plan in place to make a massive strike at Iran's
leadership in the hopes of being left with moderates who have already
stated that they would NOT use the "bomb" against Israel.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Do any of the Democrats pay their taxes ?

Another Obama nominee is caught as not having reported income, thus requiring him to pay over $10,000 USD in back taxes. It is incredible that from such a small sampling of major democratic political players, we have found so many tax cheats. If this small sampling is ‘any’ indication of the number of high government officials who do not pay their fair share, then LNR finds it absolutely unacceptable and hypocritical that the Obama administration is going after Americans who are “supposedly” hiding taxable income in Swiss banks. Perhaps the Obama administration should audit all its employees FIRST and pick up extra revenue by cleaning its own house before pushing the Swiss government to turn over bank records of Americans.

NY waiting 14 inches of snow- I want my Global Warming ! Increase the Co2

Here we are, global warming rate increasing rapidly, icebergs melting away… could someone please tell New York !

The clear “evidence” which is our weather, clearly points out that not only are the so-called global warming propaganda nuts wrong about global climate change being “man-made” but that even “global warming” is in question. If they are making the case, which is baseless scientifically, that temperatures are increasing more rapidly than thought before, why are we in the second year of some of the coldest temperatures on record ? Why, because they are WRONG and Mother Nature is right- it is her that is causing the changes of temperatures, up and down. Is nothing so clear as when it is right in front of you for you yourself to observe ? The weather these past two years is cooling down, not up. Will the public believe “advanced weather forecasting” telling us what temperatures are going to be in 20 years- yet they cannot tell us what the weather will be next month- yet alone often getting next WEEKs weather wrong. Global warming hype is a money making, headline grabbing, job getting , flat earth science lie.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Fiscal Stimulus NOT Solution

The wide ranging, and now ever increasing, fiscal stimulus program touted by some in Congress and President Obama is not and cannot be the solution. Not only will it not provide short-term recovery, it will bankrupt the government (it's already technically bankrupt but it will exceed the legitimacy of credits extended) cause very high and possibly catastrophic inflation and leave America with no tools to enact recovery.

As LNR has stated several times before, the First key is jobs- a massive job creation/retention program to be implemented now- without jobs you have the three
L's-

Lack of consumer spending (this drives 2/3rd of our economy)
Lack of savings (savings provide cheap money for banks to lend- instead of getting
expensive - inflationary printed money from the government)
Lack of homebuyers - jobless people cannot afford nor qualify to buy homes which
would be a key to asset and equity recovery)

Once you get the minimum of five million jobs created/retained needed to stabilize the economic situation, you revive the property market with the following program:

A. Back up new mortgages for five years with government guarantees
B. Lower payments by amortizing loans over 50-60 years instead of 30 years
C. 5 year low fixed rates- like many other countries already have been doing
D. Credit checks/ income check by banks- the runaway lending did not go wrong
because people lost jobs and could not pay their mortgages, it was caused by the banks going crazy in loaning low-doc and no-doc money ( low document and no document loans- where no credit or income checks were done)

These two programs would stabilize the economic situation by year's end if implemented now.

Thursday, February 26, 2009

What are “really” the Largest Economic Markets ?

A major mistake in mainstream media is how you measure the largest markets. Often the media uses “population” as the measurement tool. Market worth cannot count people who “dont” consume much, thus, counting markets by population is not relevant. If you look at “future” “potential” markets that is another matter, however, that is very speculative- why ? In the past, in the late 1960’s observers looked at Brazil, Argentina and even Africa as future large economic markets- based on the idea that those large populations would equate into consuming, importing economic markets. Those predictions did not pan out. We need to look at economic markets by the size of their economy ( in real dollars today, not Purchasing Parity Power PPP) and what their imports amount to; so, instead of wasting time with mainstream economic incompetence, let’s examine who the largest markets really are by economy and imports:

T= Trillion USD 2008 Stats/est.
By Economy By Imports

1. European Union 16.8 T 1. NAFTA 2.7 T
2. NAFTA 16.4 T 2. USA 2.0 T
3. USA 14.3 T 3. European Union 1.6 T
4. Japan 4.4 T 4. Germany 1.1 T
5. China 4.2 T 5. China 0.95 T


In stark contrast to most mainstream media, that China is the SECOND largest economic power, or that it’s the most important or soon to be important market, it’s not even close. China by economic market ranks 5th and by imports- meaning- how
important is it to sell to China more than others, it also ranks 5th- not even close to second. In fact, NAFTA and the EU are eight (8) times larger than China. The point is, for economic recovery, looking to China is a huge mistake. World economic recovery will strongly and almost wholly depend on what the US, EU and Japan does with their employment rates, banks and currency. If you are a company looking to sell things, NAFTA and the EU imports $4.3 Trillion dollars a year- that is your market, while China imports just under $1.0 Trillion. As one can see from the stats, just like global warming issues, the mainstream media completely distorts the hard facts. Yet, headline after headline exclaim how it may be up to China to save America and the world- with what ? 1.5 Trillion in reserves that it can’t spend (it needs those reserves to protect against their own teetering banking system due to a high percentage of non-performing loans) against some 42 Trillion USD and Euros outstanding in 2008 ? It’s truly a tiny paltry number. Also consider the Chinese stimulus spending package of some $585 billion USD announced recently. First, most of that was already planned spending on infrastructure and secondly, that planned spending is not for fiscal 2009 but over the 2009-2014 fiscal years. In reality, you’re really looking at some 10-23 billion of new spending over what was already planned in infrastructure spending over the next few years. Do you really think 23 billion dollars is going to save a 80 trillion dollar world economy in 2009 ? You’re wasting your time reading mainstream media.

Watch Gold Soar- just as LNR predicted months ago

Two major predictions by LNR will soon be realized, gold near $2,000 an ounce and the stock market medium-term floor of 6,900. Why did you have to wait until mid-February 2009 to find this out, by reading LNR you would have known the numbers back in October 2008 !

Oil will also become, again, THE major entity for which to park investment funds, while confidence in government bonds are being eroded, the stock market is imploding, real estate is in a depression, oil will once again, as last summer be the safe haven for trillions of investment dollars. As LNR states here, yes gold will reach $2,000 an ounce, however, gold as a commodity is in very limited supply and therefore can never be a haven for trillions of dollars, therefore, oil will sustain a cash dump and prices will shoot up again this summer. Note, that the oil jump, as LNR said before and was proven correct, is not a function of short supply. LNR is clear to state as many times before, there is no shortfall in oil for at least the next 25 years, even then, current sources will still supply foreseen demand. Oil exploration consultants state that it maybe in 2050 that oil demand exceeds new oil finds. Until then, gas up your hummer and drive like the wind !

Did Aliens Seed Man on Earth?

It’s interesting that although science has proven the existence of mankind long before, thousands of years before, Jesus Christ, that God did not intervene to save the cave man from numerous perils of life, like the dinosaur, floods, disease and such, and decided to let man suffer for thousands of years before he sent his Son down to introduce Christianity as the savior of man.

Regarding the premise that aliens “seeded” the earth with themselves- MAN, unless MAN was perhaps a pet for aliens, that with their obvious high technology at the time, they would have seeded us with NO technology? No language, tools, knives, guns, just primitive MAN among the ferocious jungle animals and dinasours? Having obviously seen the condition of earth at that time, why even seed man on earth if it was likely to fail as they gave no instruments or technology for man to survive? Why travel hundreds of millions of light years to seed man as a primitive monkey with a high likelihood of failure? Why, -…. Cause it’s just not true. Of course aliens would have given some technology and instruments for man to survive, aliens would have given even a snippet of their advanced technology to give man a running start on such a perilous earth. We have no evidence of any advanced technology or tools for early man. The “seeding” idea is a ridiculous idea on which to sell books.

全球变暖——啊,这不是真的,只是一种传感器故障罢了

Kaboom!另一个荒唐的观点“全球变暖”也被暴露出是谎言了。该传感器故障是和不予考虑的比较城市变暖模式,新的玻璃建筑物和几英里长的土沥青反射热量使读者感到温度升高一样的典型——关于温度实际上升的比率和速度对我们来说是毫无意义的,然而城市温度的上升通常被用来作为媒体传播的主流。

2月20日(布隆伯格电)——一个卫星传感器上的故障使得科学家们低估了北极圈内海冰500,000平方千米的范围(193,000平方英里),相当于一个加州的面积。美国国家冰雪数据中心说。

由于一个被成为“传感器漂移”的问题,这个错误从今年1月初开始,并且引发了缓慢增长的海冰范围的低估。这个错误一直持续到2月中旬,直到“困惑的读者”提醒美国国家冰雪数据中心关于被冰层覆盖的区域的数值已经延伸到了不结冰的洋面。博得尔、Colorado-based集团在其网站上说。

“虽然罕见,“传感器漂移”确实会偶尔出现。它是一种在质量控制措施之前数据存档的一种东西。 该中心说。“尽管我们认为1月初之前的数据是可靠的,我们依然会进行一次完整的质量检查。”

“北极海冰的范围被看做是如何影响地球温度升高的关键措施。在2007年冰帽曾经融化到了它的最低线,去年据说它达到了年度最小值第二。最近发现的错误不会改变北京冰层消退的事实。”该中心说。

该中心说由于全面的核对还没有执行,所以,关于海冰的实时数据总是不如存档后的数据可靠。历史数据是通过其它的来源来核查的。它说。

LNR——这个巨大的全球变暖的崇拜再一次作为一种欺诈而被暴露出来(也就是说,全球变暖正在迅速地上升并且失去控制。这正是人类的活动为其提供了温床)就像它操纵计算机模型来支持关于全球变暖的事先形成的猜想。