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4th of July (2013)

I don't think that anything happening in America on this July 4th comes at all close to the huge party happening in Tahrir Square and other parts of Egypt last night.  Boy...what a party.  When I was young, my mental image of Egypt was pyramids.  Now, it's green lasers.  Anyway, who knows how that will turn out.

As for the United States, I'm more negative about it than at any point since the Bush administration.  In fact, it might be a new low, because the lesser of the two evils is showing himself to be a pretty pathetic lesser evil.

To me, it seems that American rights are under attack.  On top of that, I am absolutely convinced that the whole American and world economy is a Ponzi scheme.  I don't think that we'll even have one more year of this tepid growth.  Ten years from now, we'll look back at the days of this poor economy and remember them as the good old days.

Some Romans lived through the fall.  If you know about Rome, you'll know that the decline began even before Rome fell in earnest.  Now is the time when the American Empire is declining.  But the whole world will go along with it.  The outlook doesn't look good.

There will be a point at which the world's population is living sustainably on earth.  The population will have to fall for that to happen, though.  Our world economy is a pump and dump on a massive scale, and it's being played not only with stock shares, but also with lives.

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