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Stranger than Fiction

The Truth IS & WILL BE -- Stranger than Fiction

If reading about UFOs, (other) religions, reincarnation, science, or anything "out of the ordinary for YOU" makes you think "cuckoo-cuckoo,"
maybe you should rethink that position. YOU may learn a lot by comparing and contrasting many different things.
Here is a comparison of the financial cost of "saving the world."

FICTION

The Core - 50 billion dollars

The Core - Will You Take A Check?

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To build a ship that will drill down to the center of the earth and "Save the WARld" only costs $50 billion.

$50,000,000,000
10 zeros

Austin Powers & Dr.Evil - 100 billion dollars

Dr.Evil - 1 million dollars

VirtuaCON makes over 9 billion dollars / year!

To "save the WARld" from Dr. Evil requires a ransom payment of only $100 billion dollars!

$100,000,000,000
11 zeros

REAL WORLD

Wall Street, Corporate, Main Street Lies - Trillions of dollars

September 19, 2008

To "save the WARld" from the lies of Wall Street and Global Corporate Titans will cost -- at least $1 TRILLION dollars!

$1,000,000,000,000+
12 zeros

....it ain't just Wall Street -- it's the lies of greedy & delusional home buyers, CONsumers and loans, etc, etc.... everywhere.

In ONE WARd -- LIARs - to others or themselves. -- "I BeLIEve my home will appreciate 20% every year!"

It's like the drug problem (Cocaine, heroin, meth, marijuana) that plauges our planet. People too often blame just the PROducers.
Well, let's blame the CONsumer, and the forces / people who cause the CONsumers to turn to drugs in the first place!
The politicians (who want your vote) and media may give CONsumers a free pass and blame the other politicial party, etc....but not here. Look in the mirror.

Make your head spin -- read some more! Figure out the logic of acCOUNting!

Credit Crisis (Reuters) - nice graphs. As high as 1.8 trillion! - Bailout cost unknown - CBO (CNN)

Financial Crisis Tab Already In The Trillions and Counting (CNBC) - Calculating Bailout (Ritzholtz Blog) - Bailout costs (Boing Boing)

Total Cost Of The Financial Bailout To Date (Upstream) - Total Bailout Cost Heads Towards $5 TRILLION (Infowars)

APRIL 2008 - Credit crisis could cost nearly $1 trillion, IMF predicts (IHT) - clueless blokes...Goodbye IMF!

As of December 2008 - the figure to "save the world from financial armageddon" keeps going higher. Here is an easy translation table.
With a fantasy baseline of $100 billion from Dr.Evil, you may see how much stranger our world is.

Hollywood	Real WARld	Truth
$100 billion	$1 trillion	10x stranger
$100 billion	$2 trillion	20x stranger
$100 billion	$3 trillion	30x stranger
$100 billion	????	You get the idea

Note: This does not include -- Enron, Worldcom, Arthur Andersen, and all those other corporate titans you have already forgotten about (Wiki).
The FAcade, FArce, and FAlse FAith in eCONomics is about to end.

Wall Street Meltdown song -- Redux