Prof Willy, year 2030

[JohnB]

just saw this 'banned' commercial on a CBS affiliate in Spokane. I guess the ban got banned.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTSQozWP-rM

I think this is Prof Willy giving the minute speech. 

[RobertBfrom aust]

ha , aint that the truth , but it could be 2020 .

[Neil]

that's a great commercial.  They really should put that on national television. 

and America should get it's financial house in order. 

[lfputman3]

it's been making rounds on facebook. it gets deleted, then pops up again. I guess the truth is hard for some folks to swallow.

but then those folks that keep taking it down, are the same ones who are running "the show" and burning Rome to the ground. Of course, I'm not talking about Italy either.

[shaun]

America's freedom of speech.   Gotta love it.

[Willy The Londoner]

Which just goes to show that it is not just my adopted country that wants to control the internet.

But you have to smile when you think that the US Dollars held by China could remove the debts of the USA at a stroke.

Willy

[David K]

Which just goes to show that it is not just my adopted country that wants to control the internet.
Willy

Actually Willy, your adopted country cannot hold a candle to your native country for the desire to control 

This from
http://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Countries-Weve-Ever-Invaded/dp/0752479695
"Of 193 countries that are currently UN member states, Britain has invaded or fought conflicts in the territory of 171"

That's close on 90% of the globe over 2000 or so years

We are mostly familiar with the first and second opium wars but this??
" On the 14th of September 1793, Lord Macartney was introduced to the Chinese emperor, Ch’ien-Lung.  The wonders of the British export trade were displayed: a planetarium, optical and magnetic instruments, Irish poplins, Birmingham metalware and Wedgwood dishes. The embassy was received with polite condescension, then taken through a succession of pavilions filled with far superior products, and finally  brusquely dismissed. Macartney recorded in his diary that ‘Our presents must hide their diminished heads’.  Yet within half a century perfidious Albion had turned the Chinese world upside down."

Countries NOT (yet)  invaded by the British:
Andorra   Belarus   Bolivia   Burundi    Central African Republic  Chad   Congo, Republic of    Guatemala    Ivory Coast   Kyrgyzstan  Liechtenstein
Luxembourg   Mali  Marshall Islands  Monaco   Mongolia    Paraguay   Sao Tome and Principe   Sweden   Tajikistan   Uzbekistan   Vatican City ...
However, the US is working hard to catch up 

[Willy The Londoner]

Yes we really did rule the World and the Seas.   Like no other has done before or since. 

Willy

[David K]

Yes we really did rule the World and the Seas.   Like no other has done before or since. 
Willy

Agreed....
So what went wrong??

This from Max Keiser of The Keiser Report... see
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/max-keiser-barack-obama-is-clueless-mitt-romney-will-bankrupt-the-country-8269633.html

" Frenetic and controversial as he may be, Keiser has a decent record on prediction. He was in Reykjavik, issuing bleak warnings, months before Iceland's catastrophic economic collapse.
  He was talking about Athens years ago, predicting civil unrest and what now appears to be an inevitable Greek default.

 "I came to London," he says, "because being here gives you a front-row seat on the imminent collapse of an entire city.
  I think that the Eurozone is over-rated as a disaster area. They are not yet in as bad shape as Britain.
  The UK pound," he continues, "is about to collapse.
  And the collapse of the British economy will be one of the biggest in modern economic history.
  Of course you will take the American dollar and the euro down with you, for sure.
  But this place – London – is about to go belly up.
  It's … how can I put this?" Keiser pauses. "If you see me walking the streets of your town," he adds, "then you're probably fucked."

Sounds like Zhongshan, China is the ideal place to watch the laws of Karma unfold 

[Philip]

"Keiser has a decent record on prediction. He was in Reykjavik, issuing bleak warnings, months before Iceland's catastrophic economic collapse.
  He was talking about Athens years ago, predicting civil unrest and what now appears to be an inevitable Greek default.
  It's … how can I put this?" Keiser pauses. "If you see me walking the streets of your town," he adds, "then you're probably fucked."

David. Sounds like the solution to the global financial crisis is to get rid of this Keiser bloke, or at least lock him up. He sounds like a walking disaster area. Is it just a coincidence that these economies collapse after he visits? I wonder. And he doesn't even try to hide his crimes - he brazenly advertises his crimes as "predictions". Pure Evil.

[Willy The Londoner]

But then he has made so many other 'predictions' that never came about. 

Still not my problem - But I look forward to scoffing at a few more of his teutonic fantasies.

Its like half of America that thinks Mitt the nit has the right idea to bring them out of their problem..  Wake up America it was the 8 years of Republican policies that put them there.

Wake up UK and get rid of the worst idea ever - a coalition government.  How can these two parties survive the next election.  How can you be in bed together one minute and then at each others throat the next. 

I think our friends in Australia have the same problem.

Thank goodness for a one party state I say.  No hassle no waste of 2 billion dollars and more  (Just think how many tens of thousands of start up businesses could be helped with the money spent on one election.)  How many jobs would that created in the long term.

Willy

[Vince G]

Blissful Ignorance, Willy.

[Rhonald]

Thank goodness for a one party state I say.  No hassle no waste of 2 billion dollars and more  (Just think how many tens of thousands of start up businesses could be helped with the money spent on one election.)  How many jobs would that created in the long term.

Willy

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. - Henry Ford

Just think how much money could be saved if companies did not need to advertise. Instead, that extra savings could be turned into creating new factory jobs. Of course marketing and advertising jobs would be lost. Less magazines and periodicals would be published because of lack of advertising income to sustain them. Thus less trees would need to be cut down to make pulp & paper. The environment would be saved, a plus, but more jobs would be lost in the forest industry.

Now with a one party system, with that extra money, just think how the new leader can push the nepotism bill and help his friends create new lucrative businesses. Of course all forms of government can be corrupt, but as Kenneth Lieberthal puts it:

"Lieberthal cited one of the fundamental philosophical differences between the two systems. He believes the American political system is premised on the notion that anyone exposed to power could be tempted to stray, therefore checks and balances — in the form of term limits and a transparent legal system — are in place to constrain them. In contrast, China assumes its leaders are virtuous, and so has a system that maximizes their power, assuming they’ll shape a good society."

Since 2 billion is spent on elections, then it supports a form of business with jobs being created to sustain it. This is a price of democracy, and just like an expensive wine, only a connoisseur would spend $100 on a rare vintage.

[David K]

David. Sounds like the solution to the global financial crisis is to get rid of this Keiser bloke,

Hi Phillip.. might be an idea to read the original article in "The Independent" before bringing out the firing squad 
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/max-keiser-barack-obama-is-clueless-mitt-romney-will-bankrupt-the-country-8269633.html
Or even better, watch one of his presentations on RT ..(google Keiser RT )

" You may never have heard the name Max Keiser, even though, once he begins to broadcast across China in the New Year, he will have confirmed his status as the most widely watched news commentator on the planet. .. Keiser, 52, mercilessly castigates rogue financiers and the politicians notionally required to oversee them, on programmes already transmitted by international networks including France 24, Al Jazeera and Iran's Press TV. No channel in the United States will carry his broadcasts"

So sorry folks,  just sanitised FOX News and CBS for you in "the land of the free"...
But in Totalitarian China, Willy will soon be able to view an alternative perspective on what banksters have done to the global economy..
And btw Keiser  was born in New Rochelle, New York and has had a successful career on Wall St    No sauerkraut here ! 

[David K]

But then he has made so many other 'predictions' that never came about. 

Care to name a few??

Still not my problem - But I look forward to scoffing at a few more of his teutonic fantasies.

He claims Scottish ancestry... 
Better check with Scottish Robbie as to what this lineage means

Thank goodness for a one party state I say.  No hassle no waste of 2 billion dollars and more  (

Closer to to your "old" home, incompetence  leads the way
" Almost £1 billion a year is being forfeited by the NHS because hospitals are spending their cash treating patients with private medical insurance who could be paying for their care"
but its nothing compared to the financial irregularities in your "new"  one party home
(Wen Jiabao's family has accrued at least $2.7 billion)
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/10/25/business/the-wen-family-empire.html?ref=global