^The book was published in response to 9/11, Katrina, in addition to other international incidents. The fact that history repeats itself doesn't make her work prescient. Rather, only serves to underscore the need for more sunlight on this travesty.

Sounds interesting but maybe just the usual story of the rich get theirs no matter what.

The book on Amazon was published in 2007 originally so is she pitching this as a prescient work or has it been updated?

Old news, though it might become prescient. *kill

>> ^siftbot:
You do realize I am always listening. Prescient. Omnipresent. Dominating. Living. Angry. Vicious. Murderous. So, the question is, what exactly did you want to say about my handle, my crank, and my ability to distinguish the two?


You're not who we think you are. Never were. It's a rouse. A charade. It's all a play. A game.

You do realize I am always listening. Prescient. Omnipresent. Dominating. Living. Angry. Vicious. Murderous. So, the question is, what exactly did you want to say about my handle, my crank, and my ability to distinguish the two?

Oh, Rougy, just calm down. I know perfectly well what Marxism is. I have actually read quite a bit of Karl Marx and I write papers on Marxist literary theory on a regular basis. I just thought qm's comment was funny and ridiculous (I mostly liked the first part, btw). You get offended too easily, man, and I just thought that if you were going to throw out personal insults and unsubstantiated claims about what I don't know, I'd answer you with equal immaturity.

Besides, although I know that Obama is not Marxist, he has a few objections to capitalism and the processes thereof that strike me as slightly Marxist in nature.

Edit: Forgot to mention that I enjoy reading Marx because the guy made a lot of sense. Hey, I don't lick capitalism's feet, but I certainly like it a lot better than whatever perverted economic theory Obama subscribes to.

>> ^rougy:
>> ^thepinky:
You know what's really funny, Rougster?
Your pimply butt-face.


You're a cute little shit.

If you knew what Marxism meant, you'd know instantly that Obama is anything but a Marxist, and that QM is only being his juvenile self.

Just for kicks, read up on the basics of Marx. He pointed out the fundamental weaknesses of capitalism, and one of those weaknesses is apparent today (attn. US car makers).

These are the basics:

The capitalist system is designed so that over the course of time, the working class will no longer be able to afford the goods that it produces.

Wealth is constantly funneled to the upper-classes and when the working class is too poor to buy anything, it results in a glut of products that nobody can afford to buy, a.k.a. a depression, or a crash of the model.

His solution to the problem wasn't very realistic, but his recognition of the problem was prescient.

>> ^thepinky:
You know what's really funny, Rougster?
Your pimply butt-face.

You're a cute little shit.

If you knew what Marxism meant, you'd know instantly that Obama is anything but a Marxist, and that QM is only being his juvenile self.

Just for kicks, read up on the basics of Marx. He pointed out the fundamental weaknesses of capitalism, and one of those weaknesses is apparent today (attn. US car makers).

These are the basics:

The capitalist system is designed so that over the course of time, the working class will no longer be able to afford the goods that it produces.

Wealth is constantly funneled to the upper-classes and when the working class is too poor to buy anything, it results in a glut of products that nobody can afford to buy, a.k.a. a depression, or a crash of the model.

His solution to the problem wasn't very realistic, but his recognition of the problem was prescient.

When did this become audiosift?

(It's a fairly prescient talk considering that it was given back in 2002.)

It's fascinating how prescient many of his predictions are. He's spot on about some things like the importance of computing and distributed sensor networks, but somewhat off on his models of social participation (for example, opinion polling through cable: in fact, the mass exchange of information had to wait for the advent of a semantic network, the internet.)

Peter Schiff was right (and ridiculed) More Than Once on these financial programs... I was closely watching and reading Schiff starting in 2004. Unfortunately, I was unable to take advantage of his prescient perspectives.

When people hate and curse at John McCain or me, it's OK. When I get a kick out of gay people trying to BREAK THE RULES, as in breaking the law, it's eia...but somehow that's hateful, even with no hate speech, though someone added that idea in magically. How do you know I was laughing them for their gayness, and not just their stupidity? Oh, but you all are prescient. Of course. All your past judgments color your emotions and put blinders on you that are carried everywhere. If I claimed religious bigotry and hate everytime you youngling atheists hated on Christianity, I'd never stop typing. There are just more of you to have little temper tantrums with the gays issue.

I was a listener of Max Keiser's karmabanque radio (podcast) for about a year in 2006 or so... it fed my cynicism and general feeling of powerlessness in a failing economy. He's a former (relatively successful) Wall St. broker and student of buffet economics.

Now, I check out his vids for the sake of *comedy, because now he's less prescient than he appeared when he predicted this fallout several years ago.

Wow, this is an eerily prescient interview. We're now (9/20/08) talking about an almost trillion-dollar bailout to keep large corporations afloat, when the entire freaking US budget is only 2.7 trillion a year!

Liberal Fascism is an incredible book that both sides need to read, as it shows how government protects large corporations in liberal or socialist countries, and fail at a much higher rate (which is a good thing!) in free market countries, and how the traditional conservative = fascist association is completely backwards.

*promote

Did you add the justification just because of me? How prescient.
*nochannel *music *comedy *geek *viral *engineering

Part II can be found here: http://www.videosift.com/video/Investigative-report-on-Albertas-oil-sands-mines

The documentary in its entirety is found at: http://www.vbs.tv

Prescient words by Vonnegut on the subject: http://www.videosift.com/video/Kurt-Vonnegut-Addicted-to-oil