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• Tungsten-Filled Gold Bar Found in U.K. — Here’s Why You Should be Worried

  March 26, 2012 at 3:11pm

  In reply to Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}.

  You just contradicted yourself. If there is a barter system, don’t you think it would be easier to trade with something that every recognizes as being of value?

  So what are going to barter? Okay, seeds and food will be needed, but what if I have enough seeds and food and you want something of mine? What do you have that I need? What if I need some copper wire and you don’t have any? What I need some children’s clothes and you don’t have any? What if I need a wrench and you don’t have one?

  So let’s use the wrench as an example. You will have to find someone with a wrench and wants what you have. Do you realize what a mess this would be and hard it would be to acquire what is needed?

  Gold is something that will always buy stuff. I can take my gold across the country or the world and it’s value will be recognized. As long as we can validate that the gold is pure and isn’t fake, you will always be able to get what you need with gold and silver.

• See the ‘World’s Largest’ 800-Pound Paper Airplane That Flies 98 MPH

  March 23, 2012 at 12:23pm

  It is important to point out that our great technology requires a massive amount of people with knowledge. While this type of thing may appear (on the surface) to be a waste as its value cannot be measured at this point in time, the long term value of people experimenting and learning is vast. Even if it is with current technology.

  We HAVE to have people learn these things, and they need opportunities to do so in a substantive way. Those that really want to learn these things will show it by their relentless pursuit of it. This was a fantastic demonstration. We need this kind of creativity and desire in all of us.

  Hats off to you Arturo (and all those that helped), well done my friend.

  –Kevin

• NSA Chief Denies Spying on Communications of American Citizens

  March 21, 2012 at 7:54pm

  In reply to COFemale.

  The problem is that ALL traffic would have to go through the Utah facility. There is no way that is going to happen. There would have to be a NSA “listening post” scattered though out the entire country. That is how networks work. Packets don’t go “everywhere” when they are sent, they take the shortest route possible.

  Think about it, if they do their data analysis in real-time, and they were to grab every packet, these monster supercomputers would have to be all over the place or you would have to build a network with as much capacity as the current commercial networks owned by all the different providers in order to move that data to where the super computers are.

  The scale of the operation necessary to listen to everything is beyond comprehension. You don’t realize just how much data is being slammed everywhere, and to think that they would set things up so that it would go through one pipe in the middle of the Utah desert is not realistic.

• New Ron Paul Ad Takes Aim at Romney, Perry & Bachmann

  August 17, 2011 at 4:39am

  In reply to desertspeaks.

  The only problem with your assertion is that in the last 100 years, Iran hasn’t been attacked.

  I agree that we are over stretched militarily, we do need to pull back. But I think the thoughtful question that needs to be asked is, don’t we afford ourselves a level of protection by having a presence throughout the world?

  In the days when you had to send ships and an army over to a country to attack them, perhaps leaving all our firepower at home made sense. But how do we protect ourselves when folks can hurt us remotely (i.e. nuclear tipped missiles, etc).

  I’m not sure we can ignore Iran.