Posted by shakezilla
on October 25, 2009, 8:17 am, in reply to "How are your skills lately?"
Absolutely, been feeling really weird lately. It might be just that I've really tried to focus more on school lately, but I don't think that's it.
Remember the stuff at g20 about Iran? Well, I thought that Obama had said he would take a peaceful track with Iran. And, although I know that he's lied just as much, if not more, than Bush, I thought that would have been just too big of a promise to go back on. Yet here we are warmongering with Iran, I guess because regime change failed.
Another thing, the recent guardian (or was it independent?) article about the status of dollar as reserve currency, the meeting of saudis, chinese, russians, etc. Now you know that I've been talking about petrodollars for a long time, and I always thought that was something that American / British MM would never allow out in the open. Because that knowledge would plant seeds of doubt, both morally and financial-security-wise, in the minds of Americans.
But now, lots of articles are openly talking about it, I hear it on radio, and see people openly talking about on dotslash. What was conspiracy theory just six months ago is now more and more becoming openly accepted.
There was a point earlier this year when I was wondering whether I was right about the petrodollar theory. But all this new talk as well as our newfound belligerence with Iran has renewed my faith in it.
It's more surreal than anything else. Everything right now seems like a surreal calm before the storm. Around the election, I got the same feelings about Obama that I got about Bush after 911. People worshipping him, Big Brother society, newthink, etc. They subsided for a while, but I'm getting those feelings again. Wondering if a convenient emergency will happen for this admin like it did for the last one.
As far as what I'm doing, not much, since I'm strapped for cash right now. I'm going to try to get a water filter sometime in the near future, and maybe a pack/tent/camping stuff, and maybe some food. I'd like some metals, but that may be out of my budget. So basically, lightyears behind what you've done.
Btw, I'm gone from dotslash now, but I'm still trying to keep up with things here.
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