I'm sorry.

I don't buy it when Gore peddles it.

I don't buy it when Hanson peddles it.

I don't buy it when Mann peddles it.

I don't buy it when Pitts peddles it.

And I don't buy it when escheie peddles it.

You can not learn anything useful about reality from models, movies, or anything but reality.

At most you can learn something about the authors of the movies and other models, but I don't think there is much there worth the effort.

If you want to learn about reality, you have to study reality.

Larry:

Sounds quite sensible. The problem is that covert cash flows and operations have a profound influence on our lives and access to information about these are hidden, invisible. Many of the people who have tried to provide information about these subjects find it much safer to tell what they know in fiction. Trying to use non-fiction creates legal liabilities and sometimes physical danger.

As a result, trying to access this information by direct experience is dangerous or impossible, trying to access it through intellectual sources is time consuming and draining and the movies provide a practical way for busy people to do their best.

Catherine Austin Fitts (not Pitts)

Whose reality, Mr Sheldon?

I have two families - my father's and my mother's.

My father's side is all inclusive, once a member always a member, and everybody has faults but we love them anyway.

My mother's side is "a side must be taken in any dispute, forgiveness is conditional, and gossip reigns.

When my mother and father divorced after 40 years, my mother's family disowned my father. Except for one brother, who disowned my mother.

My father's family welcomed my mother at family reunions right along with my new step-mother.

Family dynamics are a good vehicle for understanding larger scale interactions.

Now, that said, I found the comments at that site disturbing at a conspiracy theory level. Perhaps that is because I don't understand what's been going on. I've just always been suspicious of anything that might elicit a "Wake Up People!"

Donna,

Read:

http://solari.com/articles/scoop_narco_dummies.htm

And then come to your own conclusion. Another name for what we are going through is a secular decline. Profits are insufficient to support the debt load. There is a lot of new technology coming on line that could reverse that. Basically what it means is that R&D has been underfunded. Too much $$$ went into consumption.

I read, and I think I understand. I don't if I'm not quite smart enough, or way to naive. Or both!