Turkey has committed a vile and stupid act by shooting down the Russian Su24 fighter today.
It’s clear that Turkey sponsors terrorism in Syria. Turkey’s pathetic and lame excuse that the Russian plane violated its airspace makes no sense since Turkey is supposedly in the anti-terrorist coalition, and should understand Russia’s mission, especially when Russian planes fly so close to the Turkish border.
There’s absolutely no doubt that Turkey’s actions were revenge for Russia successfully obliterating Turkey’s terrorist goon allies, and cutting off of millions of dollars in illicit oil trade with ISIS, off of which Turkish officials certainly profit, including Erdogan’s son.
There’s also no doubt that the US gave Turkey a green light to do so.
Russia could exercise the following options, or a mix of them:
-Suspend diplomatic relations with Turkey
-Close Russian embassy in Ankara
-Officially designate Turkey as a state-sponsor of terrorism
-Draw red lines in N. Syria which if crossed by any uninvited Turkish aircraft, will result in that aircraft being shot down
-Drag Turkey’s name through the mud by labeling it as an insecure, terrorist-infested land
-Stop all flights to/from Turkey, ban Turkish airlines, and suspend Russian tourism there
-Seize Turkish foreign assets in Russia
-Expose the 40 nations, entities, institutions, and individuals who are benefitting from handling terror group finances and who profit from illicit ISIS oil smuggling from Syria
-Form new alliances with Kurds, and arm them with weapons capable of taking out aircraft
-Conduct clandestine operations involving Russian special forces and intelligence agencies to neutralize anyone involved in terror financing and support within Turkey, Qatar, KSA, Bahrain and elsewhere-NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE OR WHO THEY KNOW!
-Quietly target those involved in the shoot-down of the Su24 fighter
-Exponentially increase airstrikes on all rebel groups and their accomplices within
Syria, with little or no warning
But no matter how Russia chooses to respond, it MUST respond in a way that will leave Turkey’s and NATO’s heads spinning. If Putin doesn’t do this, he will disgrace himself and the entire Russian nation.
Hopefully, Putin has now learned, once and for all, that the US and NATO are not his friends and partners.
His attempts to build a true coalition to fight terrorism has been rebuffed by the US and NATO. Nothing that Putin does will change the fact: that the US/NATO want Russia’s defeat and subjugation. They don’t want Russia to be an equal, or a ‘partner;’ they want Russia to be a subordinate whore like the rest of the NATO whores are, including Turkey, and their new whore-in-the-making, Ukraine.
US also isn't interested in fighting terrorism in Syria. For over a year US did nothing while ISIS convoys and fighters streamed into Syria in broad daylight. US didn't even lift a finger against them. US priority and aim is regime change in Syria, and nothing less.
This sad incident also sheds some light on past history, and to a point even vindicates Joseph Stalin’s actions after WW2, where he tried to be on good terms with the US and the west and hoped that a post-war alliance could be built on trust and mutual respect.
But Stalin’s hopes were dashed by anti-Russia, pro-fascist sympathizers within US banking and business circles, and their allies in the US government.
To make matters worse, these anti-Soviet fascist sympathizers within the US government started listening to anti-communist propaganda peddled by the Gehlen Organization, which was a notorious intelligence group formed by the US after WW2. This group was made up of former Nazi functionaries.
These vermin spread all kinds of bullshit stories and false intelligence about Soviet power and invasion plans which the allies naively bought. This fake intelligence was responsible for the stupid US anti-Russian policies and actions, which alienated the Soviets from the west, and convinced Stalin that the west wanted war.
The rightly paranoid Stalin then decided that he has to distance himself from any potential western threats, so he installed Soviet-friendly regimes in East European countries. Those countries served as buffers against a potential western invasion.
If US wouldn’t have fallen for the Russian boogeyman propaganda peddled by bitter ex-Nazis, Stalin may not have reacted as he did, and not imposed his will on Eastern Europe.
Contrary to popular belief, Stalin never broke his promises to the western allies during WW2, and after. They broke theirs, and that resulted in the cold war.
But this was only one knot in a long string of back-stabbing and betrayal of Russia by the west. From the western-sponsored white armies in 1920 revolutionary Russia to the nuclear bomb, to provoking Russia when it wanted a more peaceful co-existence throughout the 1950s and 1960s, to the recent shoot-down of the Su24 fighter jet whose only crime was bombing terror groups, and which posed no threat to Turkish security, the west has not given Russia a good, solid reason to trust them.
Someone wanted to provoke this act in furtherance of their sick goals. Not only will their plans fail, but they will pay dearly in the days and weeks to come.
The stupid Turkish regime and their US masters have unwittingly hampered their cause by now ensuring that Russia will stay in Syria much longer, and by doing so will keep Bashar Al Assad in place indefinitely, or until his natural death. Nice job, Team USA!
There is also one final historical fact regarding Russia that needs to be known by all: when Russia is hit, it hits back twice as hard.
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Thursday, November 12, 2015
About Those Muslim Refugees
I’ve been watching some interesting You Tube videos recently, and from both the content of those videos, as well as the accompanying comments, it seems like there’s a lot of vitriol against the Muslim and Arab refugees flooding into Europe from Syria, Iraq, North Africa, and elsewhere.
Europeans and residents of the US view the encroachment of these Arab and Muslim refugees into their countries as a threat to European civilization, traditions, culture, and Christianity. Numerous nationalist groups are taking to the streets to protest against the refugees’ arrival, and warning them to stay away, or else.
The European anti-refugee activists and nationalists are afraid that with the arrival of more Muslims, their societies will become Islamized, and Islamic extremism will spread.
In addition, some Muslim immigrants have been calling for specifically Islamic laws to be adopted as national laws in their host European countries.
This has really sparked angry reactions from the native populations, who see this demand as evidence of an Islamic conspiracy to subdue Europe, and turn its people into Muslims.
Now, as far as adopting religious laws of any religion goes, it’s not a good idea, whatever the religion or religions involved.
Why should someone abide by laws dictated by a different religion?
If Europeans have a problem with an alien religion foisting its laws onto a public that by and large doesn’t share them, then forget Muslims. For example, just look at the Jewish Kosher food certification racket that’s been going on in the US and Europe for pretty much forever. Do European and US Christians like the fact that every time they go to a supermarket they’re forced to pay money to support an alien religious minority’s belief system? Why isn’t there an outcry against this in the streets of European cities?
Of course, Christians have no compunction about foisting their religious views, dogmas, laws, and symbols on others who aren't Christians. Remember the crusades and the colonial periods when Muslims and other non-Christians were subdued by the sword and gun, and forced into abiding by European, Christian ways? How did those people feel? Now that the shoe's on the other foot, Europeans and US citizens don't like it. But it's history coming back to bite them.
Nevertheless, those Muslim refugees don’t belong in Europe. The reasons are strictly pragmatic and practical. Their increased presence will cause tensions and problems in the long-run due to cultural, traditional, religious, and ethnic differences. It will mean discrimination against them in non-Arab/Muslim societies. This will make their lives more difficult than they need to be. They eventually need to go back to their native countries, and fight for what they want there. Fleeing to Europe or the US won’t solve their, and their countries' long-term issues.
But again, this European anger at both the arrival of Arab and Muslim refugees to Europe, and those refugees’ demands that Europe should adopt Islamic laws is hypocritical.
Because why are these refugees even in Europe? They are there because of European and North American interference in the affairs of Muslim countries, destabilizing Muslim societies, overthrowing Muslim governments, bombing Muslim cities, telling Muslims there how they should run their affairs, and sponsoring Islamic fundamentalists as proxies against certain governments in the region. All this turns those Muslims into refugees, which then flee to Europe for safety and make demands of their own.
Islam isn’t the problem. The problem is Islamic religious fundamentalism, and it is no more disgusting, pernicious, cruel, and stupid than Jewish or Christian religious fundamentalism-which certainly exists today.
The vast majority of Muslims aren’t terrorists. Ironically, Arab Muslims today are the main victims of terrorism-Islamic, Christian, and Jewish! No other group suffers more from acts of religiously-inspired terror on an everyday basis than Arab Muslims in the Mideast.
They are victims of Islamic terrorism in their midst on one hand, and violent foreign armed interventions and regime changes on the other. This is something the ignorant and silly Islamophobes need to consider the next time they decide to do a You Tube video about the ‘Muslim Menace.’
So if anyone from Europe and the US doesn’t want these Muslim refugees swarming into their countries and telling them what to do, perhaps the citizens of European countries and the US should demand that their governments leave those Muslim countries alone, so that the Muslims living there stay where they are, which is surely what they would prefer anyway.
Now isn’t that a good idea? Who would’ve of thought?
Europeans and residents of the US view the encroachment of these Arab and Muslim refugees into their countries as a threat to European civilization, traditions, culture, and Christianity. Numerous nationalist groups are taking to the streets to protest against the refugees’ arrival, and warning them to stay away, or else.
The European anti-refugee activists and nationalists are afraid that with the arrival of more Muslims, their societies will become Islamized, and Islamic extremism will spread.
In addition, some Muslim immigrants have been calling for specifically Islamic laws to be adopted as national laws in their host European countries.
This has really sparked angry reactions from the native populations, who see this demand as evidence of an Islamic conspiracy to subdue Europe, and turn its people into Muslims.
Now, as far as adopting religious laws of any religion goes, it’s not a good idea, whatever the religion or religions involved.
Why should someone abide by laws dictated by a different religion?
If Europeans have a problem with an alien religion foisting its laws onto a public that by and large doesn’t share them, then forget Muslims. For example, just look at the Jewish Kosher food certification racket that’s been going on in the US and Europe for pretty much forever. Do European and US Christians like the fact that every time they go to a supermarket they’re forced to pay money to support an alien religious minority’s belief system? Why isn’t there an outcry against this in the streets of European cities?
Of course, Christians have no compunction about foisting their religious views, dogmas, laws, and symbols on others who aren't Christians. Remember the crusades and the colonial periods when Muslims and other non-Christians were subdued by the sword and gun, and forced into abiding by European, Christian ways? How did those people feel? Now that the shoe's on the other foot, Europeans and US citizens don't like it. But it's history coming back to bite them.
Nevertheless, those Muslim refugees don’t belong in Europe. The reasons are strictly pragmatic and practical. Their increased presence will cause tensions and problems in the long-run due to cultural, traditional, religious, and ethnic differences. It will mean discrimination against them in non-Arab/Muslim societies. This will make their lives more difficult than they need to be. They eventually need to go back to their native countries, and fight for what they want there. Fleeing to Europe or the US won’t solve their, and their countries' long-term issues.
But again, this European anger at both the arrival of Arab and Muslim refugees to Europe, and those refugees’ demands that Europe should adopt Islamic laws is hypocritical.
Because why are these refugees even in Europe? They are there because of European and North American interference in the affairs of Muslim countries, destabilizing Muslim societies, overthrowing Muslim governments, bombing Muslim cities, telling Muslims there how they should run their affairs, and sponsoring Islamic fundamentalists as proxies against certain governments in the region. All this turns those Muslims into refugees, which then flee to Europe for safety and make demands of their own.
Islam isn’t the problem. The problem is Islamic religious fundamentalism, and it is no more disgusting, pernicious, cruel, and stupid than Jewish or Christian religious fundamentalism-which certainly exists today.
The vast majority of Muslims aren’t terrorists. Ironically, Arab Muslims today are the main victims of terrorism-Islamic, Christian, and Jewish! No other group suffers more from acts of religiously-inspired terror on an everyday basis than Arab Muslims in the Mideast.
They are victims of Islamic terrorism in their midst on one hand, and violent foreign armed interventions and regime changes on the other. This is something the ignorant and silly Islamophobes need to consider the next time they decide to do a You Tube video about the ‘Muslim Menace.’
So if anyone from Europe and the US doesn’t want these Muslim refugees swarming into their countries and telling them what to do, perhaps the citizens of European countries and the US should demand that their governments leave those Muslim countries alone, so that the Muslims living there stay where they are, which is surely what they would prefer anyway.
Now isn’t that a good idea? Who would’ve of thought?
Monday, November 2, 2015
The Real Estate Racket
One of the most prevalent examples of what a ramshackle farce the US economy has become is the real estate market.
Since the US no longer manufactures much, it has fallen back on house and car sales, and student loans to augment its hollowed-out economy.
Walking around my neighborhood, which again has seen a house-building boom in the last few years, I started to notice a few things about the way these houses are being built, and have concluded that the real estate market is one big rip-off; a racket; a cynical conspiracy between the builder, mortgage lenders, homeowners association, and the local government.
These are the four primary things I’ve noticed:
- Too many houses are being squeezed into an area
- Virtually all the houses are large, two-story structures on lots barely large enough to hold them
- The quality of the workmanship and materials is shoddy
- Houses seem to be overpriced
As with all strange, nonsensical ideas and projects that look, or go bad, money is usually the culprit, and new house construction is no exception.
After noticing the four anomalies above, the following seems to be going on:
Squeezing too many large homes into a small amount of land works out great for the town, mortgage companies, and the homeowners association. The town gets more money in property taxes, and more taxpayers. The HOA gets more dues paying residents. The mortgage companies give out bigger loans, to more customers, and charge more interest.
Another nasty scam that seems to be embedded into these new house sales is that they’re being sold for more than they’re worth. I suspect that the builder is marking them up to pocket future equity, which should rightfully belong to the homeowner.
This way, when someone buys a house, the owner will unknowingly be paying the builder the equity that they should get in the near future. So instead of waiting 10 years to build up, say, 10K in equity, they’ll have to wait twice that long because the builder scammed them out of that first 10K by overpricing the house.
This is reminiscent of the mark-to-market ploy that builders and real estate agents used during the pre-crisis housing boom of the last decade to lend people the estimated market value amount the house WILL be worth after construction, instead of what the house would normally cost to construct. This enticed people to build even larger homes, many of which now stand vacant and unsold.
Now these vultures don’t even care for that. They’re just seeking to drain every unwitting fool that comes along purely for their own benefit.
Everyone makes money, but the owner gets ripped off, bad!
Who knows? Maybe someone is trying to fatten themselves up real fast before everything goes kaboom again?
The builders also use shoddy materials and workmanship. After a few years, the materials degrade, and before you know it you have water leaks, bug infestations, uneven floors, and broken appliances and parts.
I’ve seen it with my own house, specifically the aluminum siding trim which was painted with regular interior paint and is now peeling off all around. I have to spend money on spray paint to repaint all of these. So far it’s taken up a day and a half of work, and I’m not even done. All this lost time and money because of bad workmanship.
I’ve had enough!
I will fix up my house, sell it, and I’m NEVER EVER going to buy a house again anywhere in the US. Since I’m planning to permanently emigrate from this land of sorrows too numerous to count, this won’t be a problem for me. NONE of that money I get for my house is going to EVER get recycled back into this running real estate scam EVER again!
For those staying here, my advice to you as far as home buying is this: find a low-priced, structurally-sound older house that needs work-maybe even a lot of it. Then gut it, and update it. Try to do as much of the work yourself as you can. In the long-run, you’ll be way better off than the schmucks buying these newly-built, vinyl-clad piece of shit McHouses, with no yard around them.
Since the US no longer manufactures much, it has fallen back on house and car sales, and student loans to augment its hollowed-out economy.
Walking around my neighborhood, which again has seen a house-building boom in the last few years, I started to notice a few things about the way these houses are being built, and have concluded that the real estate market is one big rip-off; a racket; a cynical conspiracy between the builder, mortgage lenders, homeowners association, and the local government.
These are the four primary things I’ve noticed:
- Too many houses are being squeezed into an area
- Virtually all the houses are large, two-story structures on lots barely large enough to hold them
- The quality of the workmanship and materials is shoddy
- Houses seem to be overpriced
As with all strange, nonsensical ideas and projects that look, or go bad, money is usually the culprit, and new house construction is no exception.
After noticing the four anomalies above, the following seems to be going on:
Squeezing too many large homes into a small amount of land works out great for the town, mortgage companies, and the homeowners association. The town gets more money in property taxes, and more taxpayers. The HOA gets more dues paying residents. The mortgage companies give out bigger loans, to more customers, and charge more interest.
Another nasty scam that seems to be embedded into these new house sales is that they’re being sold for more than they’re worth. I suspect that the builder is marking them up to pocket future equity, which should rightfully belong to the homeowner.
This way, when someone buys a house, the owner will unknowingly be paying the builder the equity that they should get in the near future. So instead of waiting 10 years to build up, say, 10K in equity, they’ll have to wait twice that long because the builder scammed them out of that first 10K by overpricing the house.
This is reminiscent of the mark-to-market ploy that builders and real estate agents used during the pre-crisis housing boom of the last decade to lend people the estimated market value amount the house WILL be worth after construction, instead of what the house would normally cost to construct. This enticed people to build even larger homes, many of which now stand vacant and unsold.
Now these vultures don’t even care for that. They’re just seeking to drain every unwitting fool that comes along purely for their own benefit.
Everyone makes money, but the owner gets ripped off, bad!
Who knows? Maybe someone is trying to fatten themselves up real fast before everything goes kaboom again?
The builders also use shoddy materials and workmanship. After a few years, the materials degrade, and before you know it you have water leaks, bug infestations, uneven floors, and broken appliances and parts.
I’ve seen it with my own house, specifically the aluminum siding trim which was painted with regular interior paint and is now peeling off all around. I have to spend money on spray paint to repaint all of these. So far it’s taken up a day and a half of work, and I’m not even done. All this lost time and money because of bad workmanship.
I’ve had enough!
I will fix up my house, sell it, and I’m NEVER EVER going to buy a house again anywhere in the US. Since I’m planning to permanently emigrate from this land of sorrows too numerous to count, this won’t be a problem for me. NONE of that money I get for my house is going to EVER get recycled back into this running real estate scam EVER again!
For those staying here, my advice to you as far as home buying is this: find a low-priced, structurally-sound older house that needs work-maybe even a lot of it. Then gut it, and update it. Try to do as much of the work yourself as you can. In the long-run, you’ll be way better off than the schmucks buying these newly-built, vinyl-clad piece of shit McHouses, with no yard around them.
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