Hi doma,
The oldest reported mine in the world is 43,000 years old. It isn't a gold mine. You can find some details here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining
The source is a shaman? ... Okay. For me, that's not a resource I'd use for working up a theory about the origins of humanity. But if you wish to, that's no problem; and thanks for providing the source of the theory. I doubt he's lying. He's likely just telling a story he learnt or dreamt.
I linked the Enuma Elish. I think that was the text from which you provided your Sumerian/Babylonian quotes. The Enuma Elish doesn't appear to mention the Adam or the word gold from what I can find. http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/enuma.htm
Nor does the Epic of Gilgamesh.
Reptilian/dragon god - Egyptians were fond of cat worship. The Canaanites worshipped a fish. The Easter Islanders worshipped the frigate bird. Alaskans worshipped the raven. It's pretty popular for primitive peoples to worship animals. Serpents included. So you're going to find serpent gods where you have serpents around the world. Some people think that the notion of dragons originates with the discovery of dinosaur fossils. Others think the cobra is the beginning of the idea. The thing that ties these things together is that primitive humans do animal worship. I don't know why you would see anything more than that in it.
Re unemployment. I read the report. The folks from the Labor Department clarified things for the media. Unemployment reduced unambiguously. As usual, they added information about the increase in the population from census data which they do annually - reflecting the fact that old people live longer. Republicans didn't want to accept the statistical improvement, of course. But I don't get my news from Fox News or Rush Limbaugh!!
The $16 Trillion - yes. It makes a big difference. The federal reserve lends money for short term loans to banks. That is one of its normal roles. The fact it leant the same smaller amount of money to different people in sequence, and that adding these together makes a big number, is rather a different idea to lending it all at once. What you are saying is rather like saying that because a supermarket has bought tons of fruit during the year, the shelves in the store today must be overflowing with apples etc. No. They have the right quantity on them. The new fruit replaces the old. It matters that folks are taking food off the shelves.
So back to the Fed. These short term loans get repaid, often within a few days. The Fed was providing liquidity for banks which needed it. Over time, the number of those loans increased, but they were not all outstanding at the same time.
There was no $16 trillion loan. There was no $16 trillion outstanding balance. There were sequential smaller short term loans to banks. They were larger than normal. But they were repaid as time passed. New ones took their place. All of them together in a long sequence of short term loans amounted to $16 trillion. No mystery gigantic pot. Just liquidity to keep the market in motion.
In my view you have not linked Elizabeth I to the serpent as a god. You've shown a portrait of a queen with a snake in it, which was painted over. Snakes were one of many symbols used at the time. On your logic, she also worshipped sieves. But I daresay she didn't.
Doubtless there are some sieve worshippers out there. Apologies for the offence!
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