Earlier this week I was driving home from work, and in front of me was a stinky diesel truck. I noticed that it had a ‘Vietnam War Veteran’ sticker on it.
I’ve seen these stickers around for years, and it’s now time to say something about it.
When we take all that is known today about the US involvement in Vietnam, how can any rational, decent person in any way think that their, or their family member’s part in that sad conflict was in any way good and noble?
The US role in Vietnam was absolutely criminal and disastrous.
It wasn’t a war to save anyone from any communists or any ‘evil.’ It was a war of neo-colonial occupation, subjugation, and plunder against a colonized people who wanted to be free of foreign control.
During WW2, Ho Chi Minh and his guerilla forces fought against the Japanese with the US and other allied forces. They liked the US, admired its principles, and hoped that after WW2 the US would help them gain their freedom.
But the US did the opposite. It took the place of the colonialist French, and carried on even worse atrocities into the future.
There is nothing honorable or patriotic about anyone who fought in that disgusting, unnecessary, and homicidal war.
All those who wear their ‘Vietnam Veteran’ hat and display those stickers on their vehicles are shameful vermin. They have as much to be proud of as all those Germans in Hitler’s army did. Both fought for nefarious and morally repugnant aims, and disgraced themselves, their families, and countries.
The modern and militaristic US propaganda machine since 9/11 has done much to erase the stain of shame of that war. Propaganda has been unleashed to make that failed and unnecessary war look good, and turned all those who fought in it into ‘heroes.’
But there’s nothing heroic about invading and occupying another country that hasn’t done you harm, and massacring its native inhabitants.
All those who took part in the Vietnam War (except the deserters), are war criminals. They should be in jail, not putting stickers on their damn cars or wearing hats to celebrate their war crimes.
Many of these Vietnam War vets are tortured people. They, and the society they live in, simply can’t accept the fact that they or their family members took part in a war of repression, and have done themselves such dishonor.
To cover up the deep-seated guilt and embarrassment they feel about their part in that war, VW veterans and their co-patriots engage in pathetic, self-soothing rationalizations and tell themselves warm lies about how the Vietnam War was all about freedom and democracy, and that no matter what happened there, the intentions of the US were ‘good.’
Too bad 3+ million Vietnamese and thousands of villages and cities had to be destroyed, and Vietnam’s environment poisoned up to today in furtherance of these ‘good intentions.’
Nothing good came out of that war. The US ended up virtually bankrupt; millions of Vietnamese lay dead, and 50+ thousand US soldiers; US society was torn apart because of it. Communism was neither rolled back or expanded. In all, it was a stupid, miserable, unnecessary war; a total waste of lives, material, resources, and money.
This is certainly not an accomplishment to be proud of, and the US became worse off because of it.
Vietnam Veterans aren’t heroes and they sure as fuck shouldn’t be honored. They are war criminal vermin, who deserve all the pain and psychological anguish they got.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Tuesday, November 24, 2015
Turkish Death-LITE
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.
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.
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.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Bring Back the Draft!
I’ve been thinking about why the US population is so oblivious to U.S.-initiated wars and the destruction that they bring; both to the US and its foreign victims.
The average US citizen isn’t very bothered by the death, damage, and misery the US military inflicts worldwide. The majority seem not to care at all.
But I figured out why.
The reason why is that too little US citizens experience the military, and have to live with the nasty consequences of war.
This also makes most US citizens quite complacent, and ignorant of world affairs. If more of them served in the military, then they’d be more interested in what their country’s military does, how it does it, and in the ugly results of the military’s actions. US citizens would then hold the government more accountable for its policies.
US citizens generally don’t care about these wars and what happens if it’s ‘someone else’ who does the fighting and dying. But when everyone is expected to put their ass into the fire, they’ll start caring, because at that point it will be, literally, a matter of life and death for all of them.
That’s why I believe that the military draft must be brought back, for males and females.
This would finally wake up all these corn-syrup fed, iphone hugging, coffee-swilling lard-asses and pathetic flakes from their consumerist comas, and force them to think beyond just a few hours into the future.
When the military becomes a must, many of these people, and their families, would personally experience the danger, anxiety, and loss that comes from being in the military and from knowing that their son, daughter, brother, sister may be sent somewhere to die.
The age-old instinct of self-preservation would kick in with a vengeance.
People would start educating themselves about what is going on in the world, and would begin scrutinizing the US government’s every word, action, and policy. Protests against the draft and wars would also force people to wake up and educate themselves.
It also comes down to simple psychology: When people are forced to do something dangerous that may cost them their lives, they’ll start scrutinizing the reason for that action very closely, and won’t let propaganda, bare-faced lies, and manipulations by war-hawk demagogues to slip by anymore.
The draft would also do wonders for the USA’s bulging waistlines as well.
By bringing back the draft, US citizenry would finally start asking questions, and holding the government accountable for what it does. This would have very dramatic, and positive, repercussions for the entire world. Bases would close, soldiers would come home, needless wars for profit would have to be wound down, military budgets would be cut, and more people would get to live to a ripe old age.
Now, wouldn’t this be a better idea than perpetual, wasteful wars fought by only those who want to?
The average US citizen isn’t very bothered by the death, damage, and misery the US military inflicts worldwide. The majority seem not to care at all.
But I figured out why.
The reason why is that too little US citizens experience the military, and have to live with the nasty consequences of war.
This also makes most US citizens quite complacent, and ignorant of world affairs. If more of them served in the military, then they’d be more interested in what their country’s military does, how it does it, and in the ugly results of the military’s actions. US citizens would then hold the government more accountable for its policies.
US citizens generally don’t care about these wars and what happens if it’s ‘someone else’ who does the fighting and dying. But when everyone is expected to put their ass into the fire, they’ll start caring, because at that point it will be, literally, a matter of life and death for all of them.
That’s why I believe that the military draft must be brought back, for males and females.
This would finally wake up all these corn-syrup fed, iphone hugging, coffee-swilling lard-asses and pathetic flakes from their consumerist comas, and force them to think beyond just a few hours into the future.
When the military becomes a must, many of these people, and their families, would personally experience the danger, anxiety, and loss that comes from being in the military and from knowing that their son, daughter, brother, sister may be sent somewhere to die.
The age-old instinct of self-preservation would kick in with a vengeance.
People would start educating themselves about what is going on in the world, and would begin scrutinizing the US government’s every word, action, and policy. Protests against the draft and wars would also force people to wake up and educate themselves.
It also comes down to simple psychology: When people are forced to do something dangerous that may cost them their lives, they’ll start scrutinizing the reason for that action very closely, and won’t let propaganda, bare-faced lies, and manipulations by war-hawk demagogues to slip by anymore.
The draft would also do wonders for the USA’s bulging waistlines as well.
By bringing back the draft, US citizenry would finally start asking questions, and holding the government accountable for what it does. This would have very dramatic, and positive, repercussions for the entire world. Bases would close, soldiers would come home, needless wars for profit would have to be wound down, military budgets would be cut, and more people would get to live to a ripe old age.
Now, wouldn’t this be a better idea than perpetual, wasteful wars fought by only those who want to?
Sunday, October 4, 2015
US - Dazed and Confused
The US regime has been so embarrassed by Russia’s air strikes against ISIS that they don’t know what to do. In haphazard and wily ways, the US regime’s spokes-creatures have lowered their rhetoric to grade-school level.
At the same time, the US President admitted
that the Pentagon’s support to the so-called moderate rebels has not worked the
way it was planned, because the rebels consider President Assad their primary
target and are not willing to confront Islamic State.
“The training and equip program was a specific initiative by the Defense Department to see if we could get some of that moderate opposition to focus attention of ISIL in the eastern portion of the country,” Obama said. “And I’m the first one to acknowledge it has not worked the way it was supposed to, and I think that the Department of Defense would say the same thing.”
“Lavrov added: "If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it
walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist,
right?"
So Kerry has a different concept of what terrorism is, and judging by the US regime’s past
flirtations with proxy terror forces, it’s clear that he means the US is
supporting terrorists in Syria.
Even former CIA director and retire general David Petraeus has spilled the beans about what US policy ought to be, and probably already is:
“To achieve victory in the Middle East, the US needs to establish and protect rebel enclaves in Syria, and launch another “surge” in Iraq, former CIA director and retired US Army general David Petraeus told a Senate panel.” (4)
From their own words, we can ascertain the following facts:
The bottom line going forward is that the US and its regional and European allies are going to have to decide whether they want to be on the right side of history here or not, and as we’ve been careful to explain, no one is arguing that Bashar al-Assad is the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft but it has now gotten to the point where Western media outlets are describing al-Qaeda as “moderate” in a last ditch effort to explain away Washington’s unwillingness to join Russia in stabilizing Syria.
This is a foreign policy mistake of epic proportions on the part of the US and the sooner the West concedes that and moves to correct it by admitting that none of the groups the CIA, the Pentagon, and Washington’s Mid-East allies have trained and supported represent a viable alternative to the Assad regime, the sooner Syria will cease to be the chessboard du jour for a global proxy war that’s left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead." (6)
Russian involvement has been
denounced as ‘unprofessional, ‘destabilizing,’ and ‘ineffective.’ (Such descriptions don't seem to apply to the year-long-plus US bombing of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, which has done nothing to blunt ISIS, stop its spread, and end their on-going control of Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city)
Russia has also been accused
of targeting civilians, dropping ‘dumb’ bombs, and targeting ‘US sponsored
opposition.’
In the litany of lies,
contradictions, and hypocrisy, the US terror-supporting racket has been
exposed.
Check this out from Barry the
Bomber’s recent speech:
“The moderate opposition in
Syria is one that, if we ever going to have a political transition, we need.
And the Russian policy is driving those folks underground or creating a
situation in which they are decapacitated and it is only strengthening ISIL,” said Obama.
“The training and equip program was a specific initiative by the Defense Department to see if we could get some of that moderate opposition to focus attention of ISIL in the eastern portion of the country,” Obama said. “And I’m the first one to acknowledge it has not worked the way it was supposed to, and I think that the Department of Defense would say the same thing.”
But right after this, Obama was quoted as saying:
“The problem here is Assad and the brutality
he’s inflicted on the Syrian people,”
Obama stated, adding that the US will continue to support moderate opposition
groups to ensure an eventual transition to “democracy. (1)
Obama
also lays down his final prophetic vision of the future:
“It was in our interest to make sure that we
were engaged with[the] moderate opposition inside of Syria because eventually
Syria will fall. The Assad regime will fall, and we have to have somebody who
are working with, that we can help pick up the pieces and stitch back together
a cohesive, coherent country.”(1)
Wow!
All that’s missing from the picture is for Barry to beat himself over the head with
a shoe while screaming ‘Assad will fall! His regime will fall!’
It’s
clear that Barry is becoming unhinged, and is having some sort of a nervous
breakdown. He’s visibly unable to cope with the mess he helped create. Maybe he
just needs to take some vacation and clear his head.
Does Obama really expect the world to believe that his
priority isn’t to overthrow the Syrian government? The entire US involvement
there is for that specific purpose. He’s just basically throwing his rebel
creatures under the bus by saying that they’re interested in regime change, but
the US isn’t.
So
which is it, Barry? Regime change or just fighting terrorism? You can’t do
both; they’re mutually exclusive.
Syria already has, and had a
legitimate national opposition, but since this opposition didn’t want to be
bribed and high-jacked by the US, and refused to support the violence that the
US-sponsored foreign fighters unleashed on Syria, the US totally ignores them.
Further evidence of on-going
US support for rebel groups in Syria which are linked to Al Qaeda, Al Nusra,
and ISIS has been forthcoming, much of it from the US regime’s spokes-creatures
themselves. Check out Mr. Hairy Kerry’s answer to a question about terrorism
posed by Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recently:
Asked if he
agreed with Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said: "Well, in concept."
"What
is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody
but ISIL," Kerry said. "That's clear. We have made that very
clear."(2)
Even former CIA director and retire general David Petraeus has spilled the beans about what US policy ought to be, and probably already is:
“To achieve victory in the Middle East, the US needs to establish and protect rebel enclaves in Syria, and launch another “surge” in Iraq, former CIA director and retired US Army general David Petraeus told a Senate panel.” (4)
From their own words, we can ascertain the following facts:
1. US government has been
sponsoring ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, and affiliated rebel groups either directly,
or through their Arab sheikh proxies
2 US priority in Syria is not
fighting terrorism, but regime change for the USA’s own political,
economic, and strategic reasons; no matter how much they try to hide, or dress
it up as something else
3. US doesn’t really care
about what rebel groups in Syria it supports, and what their ideology or
motives are, as long as they can be used to fight the Syrian government.
This whole PR about ‘secular’ or ‘moderate’ rebels is bullshit. There never
were such groups, and the US doesn’t really care whether they’re moderate or
not. Also, the astonishment and disappointment of US officials that their
‘moderate’ rebels changed sides to the Islamic extremists is also suspect. The US knows those rebels were extremists from the get-go; there was no ‘changing sides.'
Russian airstrikes in Syria have exposed these things,
and the US is so unhappy with the fact that Russia is bombing their monsters,
that the US regime is practically admitting its supporting these religious
extremist freaks. This whole thing has caught the US in a PR nightmare. Their
criminal policies have been exposed.
Look at what the US regime’s wonderful Free Syrian
Army has been up to for four years.
Since 2012, Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has been
ready and willing to sit down and bring this chaos to a peaceful end. Putin has
also offered to help. But the US has slapped away the hand of cooperation,
while talking about ‘peaceful transition to democracy.’
If the US wants a peaceful, negotiated solution to
Syrian war, why does it even support any rebels there at all?
The truth is that the US doesn’t want a peaceful
resolution to the Syrian crisis. It wants to aid its rebel proxies to overthrow Assad, so the US can
then step in and have everything its own way in Syria. The US knows that they'll get more by using violence than by negotiations.
Even the US regime’s rotten ally, Saudi Arabia, is
exposing what it’s really all about:
“Analysts are concerned about the apparent escalation, which
many fear could further exasperate the already bloody four-and-a-half-year
civil war. An independent analyst told the Guardian that Qatar –
acting with the agreement of Saudi Arabia – may already have started sending
planeloads of weapons to Turkish airbases.
“I would expect a
huge influx of weapons into the north to try to blunt any ground assault by
the regime,” the analyst said. “The stakes are very high.” (5)
How much things have changed
since 9/11.
What happened to "Either you are with us, or you are
with the terrorists” tough-talk of George W. Bush?
It seems that today the US
just cannot live up to its own expectations, because it has decided to side
with Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in Syria.
Hillary
Clinton said on September 13, 2001: "Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who
harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."
Sadly, Hillary defied herself
when in 2011 she and her boss enthusiastically sent US warplanes to Libya
to aid ISIS-type Islamic fanatics and overthrow the secular regime of Muammar
Gaddafi. After Gaddafi’s murder-execution, she bragged about it in front of the
cameras, all smiles.
But at least the last part of
her quote is coming true: the US is paying the price for supporting violent
extremists in Syria.
There have also been accusations of Russia killing civilians.
Overnight, actually before any Russian airstrikes even started, photos of
maimed and killed Syrian ‘civilian’ victims of perfidious Russian bombings were
immediately posted on You Tube and social media. These images were either fake
or were made days or weeks before, as we’ve seen with similar atrocity
propaganda in the past.
For example:
Where the FUCK were these US/western
media pricks in the last fifteen years during which the US and its allies, and
Israel, have bombed, burned, and massacred country after country from the air, including
wedding parties and funerals? There was no talk of innocent civilians back
then; no! There was only ‘collateral damage,’ ‘enemy combatants,’ ‘terrorists,’
or ‘suspected militants;’ toddlers and infants included.
Why is the US regime and its controlled media
apparatus suddenly concerned about civilian casualties and bombing of
residential areas when Russia is conducting airstrikes? The US doesn’t have the
right to condemn anyone of bombing civilians after its own sordid and criminal
history.
The bloody and autocratic Saudi regime has been
bombing Yemen for months, and has killed thousands of civilians. Just the other
day a US ‘collision’ airstrike hit a hospital In Kunduz, Afghanistan and killed
civilians. But there’s no US regime and
media outrage about it. It’s being presented as just an honest, unfortunate
mistake; It’s all apologetics; it was simply unintended ‘collateral’ damage,
and everyone is just supposed to hug, say sorry, and let the US regime move on
to its next atrocity.
“Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy
chief of staff for intelligence and surveillance for the Air Force, said the Russians
have been dropping "dumb bombs" — munitions that are not
precision-guided. The use of such indiscriminate targeting could lead to the
deaths of innocent civilians, he said, and create more terrorists than they
kill.”(3)
No one in the world has
dropped more ‘dumb’ bombs than the US
military, whether it was from their planes or their mouths.
And why are barrel bombs
which end up killing civilians suddenly worse than a laser-guided US missile
which kills civilians?
After all, the use of barrel bombs
was pioneered by the Israelis during their war in 1948. The US army used them
in Vietnam as well.
And who the fuck gave the US
the authority to decide which governments to overthrow, and which leader stays
or goes? This is blatantly illegal in international affairs, and the US should
be condemned for this, by the UN and by everyone else.
Deciding another country’s
government and leaders for them without bothering to even consult its citizens
is the antithesis of democracy, which the US professes to care so much about.
The US and its allies better be
careful, because they all have quite spotty, if not nasty records of war
crimes, human rights abuses, bombing civilians, and colluding with terrorists.
They better look over their shoulder so their regimes don’t get changed by
anyone else.
The fascist-infested,
war-criminal regime ruling Ukraine today is a marvelous example of US and
western double-standards.
"We
can all agree that when any US regime official opens their mouth about the
Russian airstrikes in Syria, the world is left more and more confused, and/or
disgusted about what exactly the US wants, and what it’s doing. US rhetoric seems
to change every few hours.
The bottom line going forward is that the US and its regional and European allies are going to have to decide whether they want to be on the right side of history here or not, and as we’ve been careful to explain, no one is arguing that Bashar al-Assad is the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft but it has now gotten to the point where Western media outlets are describing al-Qaeda as “moderate” in a last ditch effort to explain away Washington’s unwillingness to join Russia in stabilizing Syria.
This is a foreign policy mistake of epic proportions on the part of the US and the sooner the West concedes that and moves to correct it by admitting that none of the groups the CIA, the Pentagon, and Washington’s Mid-East allies have trained and supported represent a viable alternative to the Assad regime, the sooner Syria will cease to be the chessboard du jour for a global proxy war that’s left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead." (6)
Sources:
Thursday, October 1, 2015
Russian Roulette
The US regime is currently in a bind over their failed Syria regime change policy.
Ever since their 70 or so so-called ‘moderate rebels,’ who were trained to the tune of $500 million flew the coop and gave their US-provided weapons over to the extremist freaks, and Russia’s announcement that it will help Syria fight ISIS, the US has been scrambling to provide damage control.
Their initial asinine demands of ‘Assad must go,' and their stupid accusations that 'Russia has invaded Syria,' and that it’s 'destabilizing the region' have now become more muted, if not silly and hypocritical.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has finally had enough, and decided to call the US out on their so-called fight against ISIS. He offered to cooperate with the US in fighting the militant group.
The US doesn’t know what to do since their aim is to overthrow the current Syrian government under the guise of fighting terrorism, while secretly aiding and abetting the militants to further that aim.
The US also can’t say ‘yes’ to Russia, because that would be against the US regime’s core objectives. But by not taking Russia up on its offer to help, the US would also expose the truth about its involvement in that region. Saying no to Russia will mean that the US isn’t serious about fighting ISIS, and that the US aim in Syria is not to get rid of ISIS but to overthrow governments.
The US will be exposed as a liar if it says no to Putin and does anything to hamper Russia’s efforts to help fight ISIS.
Will the rest of Europe be just as immature? Will they hamper Russia, whose help may be vital to stemming the tide of Syrian refugees? But since the EU has a habit of shooting itself in the foot by blindly going along with looney and destructive US demands, it remains to be seen how they react to all this.
Putin is clearly giving the US an opportunity to correct its mistakes, just like he has multiple times during the last few years. But if the US doesn’t take advantage of this opportunity, and continues its nefarious and failed policies, then Putin will turn his back and act with the Syrian government in whatever way he can to destroy ISIS, and every single rebel. There will be no differentiation.
So either way, US regime change policy is doomed to failure. Either they join with Russia and truly fight ISIS, or Russia will help Syria fight ISIS, and every other militant group.
And if Russia is successful, the US won’t be able to call the shots at all. If the US joins Russia to truly fight ISIS it will still have to talk to Assad and Russia at the negotiating table.
But the US can also forget about their Plan B, namely to cajole Russia into persuading Assad to leave. This was actually the main reaction from the US State Dept. freaks after Russia announced their involvement in Syria, that Russia tells Assad leave. It clearly shows what the priority of the US is.
But whether Assad leaves or not can only be decided by the Syrian people, not the US regime nutcases and their bought fake Syrian ‘opposition’ puppets sitting in Turkish and European hotel room suites.
Putin is too smart not to notice such US scams. What he’ll do is extend a genuine hand of cooperation to test US sincerity. If, and when, he sees that the US regime isn’t serious, that they’re trying to stall and make idiotic and unreasonable demands, Putin will turn his back and do what he and the Syrians need to do.
Once the Russian base in Syria is ready, we shall see what a real anti-terror operation looks like.
So the US has only two choices:
1. Join with Russia, the Syrians, Iraq and Iran in a genuine coalition against ISIS and other militant groups, give up on regime change, and work for a negotiated solution where it won’t get all it wants
2. Refuse to join Russia, Syria, and Iran, be exposed as a liar and a hypocrite, still fail to overthrow the Syrian government, and have no say whatsoever after ISIS is destroyed.
It’s up to the US what it wants out of all this Syria business: a little, or nothing. It can’t, and won’t have it all this time.
Putin has loaded a bullet into a gun, spun the chamber, and handed the gun to the US. Will the US dare to pull the trigger?
Ever since their 70 or so so-called ‘moderate rebels,’ who were trained to the tune of $500 million flew the coop and gave their US-provided weapons over to the extremist freaks, and Russia’s announcement that it will help Syria fight ISIS, the US has been scrambling to provide damage control.
Their initial asinine demands of ‘Assad must go,' and their stupid accusations that 'Russia has invaded Syria,' and that it’s 'destabilizing the region' have now become more muted, if not silly and hypocritical.
Russian president Vladimir Putin has finally had enough, and decided to call the US out on their so-called fight against ISIS. He offered to cooperate with the US in fighting the militant group.
The US doesn’t know what to do since their aim is to overthrow the current Syrian government under the guise of fighting terrorism, while secretly aiding and abetting the militants to further that aim.
The US also can’t say ‘yes’ to Russia, because that would be against the US regime’s core objectives. But by not taking Russia up on its offer to help, the US would also expose the truth about its involvement in that region. Saying no to Russia will mean that the US isn’t serious about fighting ISIS, and that the US aim in Syria is not to get rid of ISIS but to overthrow governments.
The US will be exposed as a liar if it says no to Putin and does anything to hamper Russia’s efforts to help fight ISIS.
Will the rest of Europe be just as immature? Will they hamper Russia, whose help may be vital to stemming the tide of Syrian refugees? But since the EU has a habit of shooting itself in the foot by blindly going along with looney and destructive US demands, it remains to be seen how they react to all this.
Putin is clearly giving the US an opportunity to correct its mistakes, just like he has multiple times during the last few years. But if the US doesn’t take advantage of this opportunity, and continues its nefarious and failed policies, then Putin will turn his back and act with the Syrian government in whatever way he can to destroy ISIS, and every single rebel. There will be no differentiation.
So either way, US regime change policy is doomed to failure. Either they join with Russia and truly fight ISIS, or Russia will help Syria fight ISIS, and every other militant group.
And if Russia is successful, the US won’t be able to call the shots at all. If the US joins Russia to truly fight ISIS it will still have to talk to Assad and Russia at the negotiating table.
But the US can also forget about their Plan B, namely to cajole Russia into persuading Assad to leave. This was actually the main reaction from the US State Dept. freaks after Russia announced their involvement in Syria, that Russia tells Assad leave. It clearly shows what the priority of the US is.
But whether Assad leaves or not can only be decided by the Syrian people, not the US regime nutcases and their bought fake Syrian ‘opposition’ puppets sitting in Turkish and European hotel room suites.
Putin is too smart not to notice such US scams. What he’ll do is extend a genuine hand of cooperation to test US sincerity. If, and when, he sees that the US regime isn’t serious, that they’re trying to stall and make idiotic and unreasonable demands, Putin will turn his back and do what he and the Syrians need to do.
Once the Russian base in Syria is ready, we shall see what a real anti-terror operation looks like.
So the US has only two choices:
1. Join with Russia, the Syrians, Iraq and Iran in a genuine coalition against ISIS and other militant groups, give up on regime change, and work for a negotiated solution where it won’t get all it wants
2. Refuse to join Russia, Syria, and Iran, be exposed as a liar and a hypocrite, still fail to overthrow the Syrian government, and have no say whatsoever after ISIS is destroyed.
It’s up to the US what it wants out of all this Syria business: a little, or nothing. It can’t, and won’t have it all this time.
Putin has loaded a bullet into a gun, spun the chamber, and handed the gun to the US. Will the US dare to pull the trigger?
Monday, September 14, 2015
Migrant Mayhem
The increasing fallout from the mass inflow of migrants from N. Africa and the Mideast due to US aggression has created a refugee crisis not seen since WW2.
Europe is being swamped daily with boat-loads of migrants who risk their lives to escape the violence of their homelands. Many have given up everything they owned to pay their way to Europe, and some have paid the ultimate price by drowning at sea.
It’s clear that this migrant crisis is the fault of the US and their misguided, rotten allies. From Afghanistan to Libya to Ukraine, US aggression and regime change in pursuit of world hegemony has created chaos and death in its wake.
All the countries and peoples’ whom the US ‘helped’ have turned into failed states with broken economies, no public safety, and no future for the people affected.
What we are seeing in Syria today is a direct consequence of US meddling, and sponsoring of violent militant groups which the US and their cohorts trained, armed, funded and encouraged to go to Syria and overthrow the government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the west about this. He told them to leave Syria alone, that any attempts at regime change will result in bad consequences.
But the US doesn’t listen to reason. The further accumulation of power, control, and the wealth of other nations is all that matters to these demented inbreds in Washington, and their silly little European lap-dogs.
By pursing its mad dreams of world domination, the US has caused a crisis for multiple nations, including its allies in Europe. Certainly Europe bears responsibility for their current refugee problems. EU governments take orders from the US, and are members of the NATO terror club. That makes them equally responsible.
The question is: why does Europe allow itself to be dragged into this mess by the US? Haven’t they been paying attention to US actions and their ugly consequences for the past fifteen years? Why can’t they summon the courage and decency to stand up to the US and stop being accomplices to Washington’s horrendous crimes? With each stupid idea Europe allows the US to shove down their throats, things only go from bad to worse.
Europe has not yet recovered since the economic meltdown of 2008, yet it keeps on swallowing Uncle Scam’s putrid cum every time he has an orgasm of war. It swallowed the Iraqi load, Libyan load, Syrian load, Ukrainian load. As a result, Europe’s economy has become worse, and now it will have millions of new foreign mouths to feed and provide for. It may also cause ethnic tensions.
This sad state in Europe will continue until Europe has leaders and governments who are intelligent, patriotic, and have the courage to cut the bleeding and decaying umbilical cord between Europe and the US. Until that happens, they can only expect more of the same.
What did these European countries think? That their membership in the EU and NATO clubs is going to be all peaches and cream? That it’s all foreign investments, protection, dollars, feel-good propaganda, and some kind of a warped sense of prestige?
Oh no, no, no! As with any club membership, there’s a price to be paid for all these ‘benefits.’ Nothing is free.
Now the bill for Europe’s foolish and misguided collusion with the criminal regime in Washington, DC has come due.
As if on que, the neo-con filth, along with their deluded liberal interventionist buddies and the starry-eyed morons in the general population are once again trotting out their old discredited, failed, and dishonest arguments about ‘responsibility to protect,’ and are screaming that the world ‘must do something’ about this flow of migrants. Of course, such concerns do not exist when it comes to the people in E. Ukraine who are bombed by the Kiev junta.
What do the neo-cons want to do about this ‘crisis?’
They want to get rid of Bashar Al Assad, who they accuse of being the source of ‘evil’ in the region, and are accusing him of causing the refugee crisis.
These neo-con criminals want the Libya solution to be applied to Syria. They want to overthrow the government so they can ‘save’ the poor Syrians.
Yes! Like they ‘saved’ the poor Libyans by bombing their country, overthrowing the government, and murdering Muammar Gaddafi.
And what was the result of this US/NATO ‘protection’ of Libya?
Thousands of dead civilians, the same ones the US swore to ‘protect.’ The country was overran by ISIS-type militants, and descended into anarchy, chaos, and economic destitution. It has been there ever since.
Have people already forgotten the FACT that it was US/NATO ‘humanitarian’ intervention which CREATED the refugee crisis and turned Libya into a failed state in the first place? Are people so fucking dumb that they don’t see this?
What has been the result of the US intervening in Syria? For a year now the US and its allies have been bombing ISIS with nothing to show for it. ISIS is now stronger, and has made more gains, thanks to US intervention.
To add insult to injury, the US is also deliberately hampering the efforts of forces which are truly fighting ISIS, namely the Syrian Arab Army, Hezbollah, Kurdish militias, and other pro-Syrian government fighters.
Furthermore, how is the so-called US ‘coalition’ against ISIS supposed to work? After all, isn’t this coalition made up of countries which have been quietly sponsoring and arming these ISIS militants in the first place? How can there be an effective coalition against ISIS when members of said coalition are sympathetic to ISIS?
But when forces which truly want to fight ISIS, and have been effective in doing so, want to join this anti-ISIS coalition, they’re told they can’t, are shunned, and are accused by the US of ‘destabilizing the region,’ ‘engaging in terrorism,’ and ‘war crimes.’
What is the US aim in all this? Is it to fight and defeat ISIS, or regime change? Judging by its behavior and that of its allies, the latter seems to be the case. The US is just doing so by stealth, and falsely claiming that they’re just ‘fighting ISIS.’
After all, the US and its allies are the creators of ISIS. The US invasion of Iraq gave birth to this group. 3-4 years ago the US and some Arab autocracies, along with Turkey started training, arming, and encouraging these freaks to go into Syria and fight the government.
It seems the US is helping ISIS more than it’s fighting it.
But as with all US misadventures in pursuit of world control, this one has backfired. Now Russia has sent advisers, trainers, and equipment to Syria to help it fight ISIS.
What is the US reaction to this?
They’re screaming that ‘Russia has invaded Syria!’ and that ‘Russia is destabilizing the region.’ This coming from a nation that has openly supported lunatic rebels, and has publicly called for the overthrow of multiple governments.
Syria asked for Russia’s help, so Russia is providing it. If this constitutes a Russian invasion of Syria, then all US and NATO military assistance for Kiev is also a US/NATO invasion of Ukraine, right?
But the real reason behind all this angry whining and vituperations against Russian assistance for the Syrian government and military is that with Russia backing Syria, US efforts at regime change will be fruitless. It will mean serious reversals for ISIS and other anti-government groups. It will also mean that Assad is here to stay, and eventually he (and Russia) will be a part of any solution to this US-manufactured crisis.
The US must be forced to act in a civilized and decent manner, no matter what.
As for the neo-cons and their failed policies, these criminals are screaming for the overthrow of the Syrian government to cover up their own mistakes and crimes.
These people have lied to the world, and have been proven wrong time and time again. They’re nervous that people will see through their criminal bullshit. So what do they do? They push the same old failed policies and looney stories and broken logic upon the world. They must distract the world from their failures by brainwashing and manipulating people into accepting more of the same.
These filthy neo-con creatures like Perl, Krauthammer, Cheney and others also know that their authority and livelihoods depend on the constant application of their demented worldviews by those stupid enough to listen.
This time, though, they’ve ran into a brick wall. As with Iran, their Syria plans won’t be realized. This time they won’t get a free pass at the UN from an ambivalent Russia and China.
Above all, it must be kept in mind that this refugee crisis is the result of US and its allies’ meddling, aggression and destabilization, from Afghanistan to Ukraine and everywhere in between. It’s not the fault of Syria, Ghadaffi, Putin or anyone in Iran. This chaos is a US product.
Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar Al Assad both warned the US against sponsoring these rebel groups. Both individuals told the west that they’ll be sorry. It turned out that they were right.
And as with every mess created by the juvenile US, adults will have to clean it up.
If things keep on degenerating anymore, in the years ahead the EU will become overran with non-Europeans to the point that native Europeans will no longer want to, or be able to live there normally, and for safety may very well flock to Russia, which will be the last outpost of European civilization.
When this starts happening, itwill get very interesting.
Europe is being swamped daily with boat-loads of migrants who risk their lives to escape the violence of their homelands. Many have given up everything they owned to pay their way to Europe, and some have paid the ultimate price by drowning at sea.
It’s clear that this migrant crisis is the fault of the US and their misguided, rotten allies. From Afghanistan to Libya to Ukraine, US aggression and regime change in pursuit of world hegemony has created chaos and death in its wake.
All the countries and peoples’ whom the US ‘helped’ have turned into failed states with broken economies, no public safety, and no future for the people affected.
What we are seeing in Syria today is a direct consequence of US meddling, and sponsoring of violent militant groups which the US and their cohorts trained, armed, funded and encouraged to go to Syria and overthrow the government.
Russian President Vladimir Putin warned the west about this. He told them to leave Syria alone, that any attempts at regime change will result in bad consequences.
But the US doesn’t listen to reason. The further accumulation of power, control, and the wealth of other nations is all that matters to these demented inbreds in Washington, and their silly little European lap-dogs.
By pursing its mad dreams of world domination, the US has caused a crisis for multiple nations, including its allies in Europe. Certainly Europe bears responsibility for their current refugee problems. EU governments take orders from the US, and are members of the NATO terror club. That makes them equally responsible.
The question is: why does Europe allow itself to be dragged into this mess by the US? Haven’t they been paying attention to US actions and their ugly consequences for the past fifteen years? Why can’t they summon the courage and decency to stand up to the US and stop being accomplices to Washington’s horrendous crimes? With each stupid idea Europe allows the US to shove down their throats, things only go from bad to worse.
Europe has not yet recovered since the economic meltdown of 2008, yet it keeps on swallowing Uncle Scam’s putrid cum every time he has an orgasm of war. It swallowed the Iraqi load, Libyan load, Syrian load, Ukrainian load. As a result, Europe’s economy has become worse, and now it will have millions of new foreign mouths to feed and provide for. It may also cause ethnic tensions.
This sad state in Europe will continue until Europe has leaders and governments who are intelligent, patriotic, and have the courage to cut the bleeding and decaying umbilical cord between Europe and the US. Until that happens, they can only expect more of the same.
What did these European countries think? That their membership in the EU and NATO clubs is going to be all peaches and cream? That it’s all foreign investments, protection, dollars, feel-good propaganda, and some kind of a warped sense of prestige?
Oh no, no, no! As with any club membership, there’s a price to be paid for all these ‘benefits.’ Nothing is free.
Now the bill for Europe’s foolish and misguided collusion with the criminal regime in Washington, DC has come due.
As if on que, the neo-con filth, along with their deluded liberal interventionist buddies and the starry-eyed morons in the general population are once again trotting out their old discredited, failed, and dishonest arguments about ‘responsibility to protect,’ and are screaming that the world ‘must do something’ about this flow of migrants. Of course, such concerns do not exist when it comes to the people in E. Ukraine who are bombed by the Kiev junta.
What do the neo-cons want to do about this ‘crisis?’
They want to get rid of Bashar Al Assad, who they accuse of being the source of ‘evil’ in the region, and are accusing him of causing the refugee crisis.
These neo-con criminals want the Libya solution to be applied to Syria. They want to overthrow the government so they can ‘save’ the poor Syrians.
Yes! Like they ‘saved’ the poor Libyans by bombing their country, overthrowing the government, and murdering Muammar Gaddafi.
And what was the result of this US/NATO ‘protection’ of Libya?
Thousands of dead civilians, the same ones the US swore to ‘protect.’ The country was overran by ISIS-type militants, and descended into anarchy, chaos, and economic destitution. It has been there ever since.
Have people already forgotten the FACT that it was US/NATO ‘humanitarian’ intervention which CREATED the refugee crisis and turned Libya into a failed state in the first place? Are people so fucking dumb that they don’t see this?
What has been the result of the US intervening in Syria? For a year now the US and its allies have been bombing ISIS with nothing to show for it. ISIS is now stronger, and has made more gains, thanks to US intervention.
To add insult to injury, the US is also deliberately hampering the efforts of forces which are truly fighting ISIS, namely the Syrian Arab Army, Hezbollah, Kurdish militias, and other pro-Syrian government fighters.
Furthermore, how is the so-called US ‘coalition’ against ISIS supposed to work? After all, isn’t this coalition made up of countries which have been quietly sponsoring and arming these ISIS militants in the first place? How can there be an effective coalition against ISIS when members of said coalition are sympathetic to ISIS?
But when forces which truly want to fight ISIS, and have been effective in doing so, want to join this anti-ISIS coalition, they’re told they can’t, are shunned, and are accused by the US of ‘destabilizing the region,’ ‘engaging in terrorism,’ and ‘war crimes.’
What is the US aim in all this? Is it to fight and defeat ISIS, or regime change? Judging by its behavior and that of its allies, the latter seems to be the case. The US is just doing so by stealth, and falsely claiming that they’re just ‘fighting ISIS.’
After all, the US and its allies are the creators of ISIS. The US invasion of Iraq gave birth to this group. 3-4 years ago the US and some Arab autocracies, along with Turkey started training, arming, and encouraging these freaks to go into Syria and fight the government.
It seems the US is helping ISIS more than it’s fighting it.
But as with all US misadventures in pursuit of world control, this one has backfired. Now Russia has sent advisers, trainers, and equipment to Syria to help it fight ISIS.
What is the US reaction to this?
They’re screaming that ‘Russia has invaded Syria!’ and that ‘Russia is destabilizing the region.’ This coming from a nation that has openly supported lunatic rebels, and has publicly called for the overthrow of multiple governments.
Syria asked for Russia’s help, so Russia is providing it. If this constitutes a Russian invasion of Syria, then all US and NATO military assistance for Kiev is also a US/NATO invasion of Ukraine, right?
But the real reason behind all this angry whining and vituperations against Russian assistance for the Syrian government and military is that with Russia backing Syria, US efforts at regime change will be fruitless. It will mean serious reversals for ISIS and other anti-government groups. It will also mean that Assad is here to stay, and eventually he (and Russia) will be a part of any solution to this US-manufactured crisis.
The US must be forced to act in a civilized and decent manner, no matter what.
As for the neo-cons and their failed policies, these criminals are screaming for the overthrow of the Syrian government to cover up their own mistakes and crimes.
These people have lied to the world, and have been proven wrong time and time again. They’re nervous that people will see through their criminal bullshit. So what do they do? They push the same old failed policies and looney stories and broken logic upon the world. They must distract the world from their failures by brainwashing and manipulating people into accepting more of the same.
These filthy neo-con creatures like Perl, Krauthammer, Cheney and others also know that their authority and livelihoods depend on the constant application of their demented worldviews by those stupid enough to listen.
This time, though, they’ve ran into a brick wall. As with Iran, their Syria plans won’t be realized. This time they won’t get a free pass at the UN from an ambivalent Russia and China.
Above all, it must be kept in mind that this refugee crisis is the result of US and its allies’ meddling, aggression and destabilization, from Afghanistan to Ukraine and everywhere in between. It’s not the fault of Syria, Ghadaffi, Putin or anyone in Iran. This chaos is a US product.
Muammar Gaddafi and Bashar Al Assad both warned the US against sponsoring these rebel groups. Both individuals told the west that they’ll be sorry. It turned out that they were right.
And as with every mess created by the juvenile US, adults will have to clean it up.
If things keep on degenerating anymore, in the years ahead the EU will become overran with non-Europeans to the point that native Europeans will no longer want to, or be able to live there normally, and for safety may very well flock to Russia, which will be the last outpost of European civilization.
When this starts happening, itwill get very interesting.
Wednesday, August 19, 2015
Slave State Ukraine
The letter below is a response from US Senator Richard Durbin to the criminal Ukrainian junta PM Arseniy Yatseniuk.
Read it, and see if there's anything about this letter that strikes you as odd.
This letter is clear proof of who really runs the show in the Ukraine, and it's not the Ukrainians. Here we have a Ukrainian Prime Minister taking orders from a US senator about who should, and shouldn't be in a Ukrainian government post.
This letter says a lot about the sad state that Ukraine has plunged to. It's just one of countless pieces of evidence that clearly shows that the country is directed by foreign powers.
It's also proof of who the Ukrainian government works for. If there was ever any doubt that the creatures who run Ukraine today aren't US-installed drones doing US political and economic bidding, then this letter puts that doubt to rest.
At the very least it shows how incompetent the current Ukrainian authorities are to seek direction from a foreign power about routine cabinet appointments.
Add to that the fact that the Ukrainian finance minister is an ex-US banker Natalie Jaresko, and the mayor of Odessa Region is Mikheil Saakashvilli, the Georgian ex-president who fled to the US to escape criminal charges in his native Georgia for corruption and abuse of power.
Ukraine, all the way from Porky Pig on down, is being ruled by a miserable line-up of losers and criminals financed and propped up by western governments. These pathetic fakes don't have an independent bone in their weak bodies. These pro-western elements have up to now racked up an impressive amount of criminal violations against their fellow citizens.
Sooner or later they will be kicked out. When that day comes, we'll also see how much the US and EU truly care about 'Ukrainian peoples' democracy' when their Kievan sock puppets face expulsion and loss of power.
Read it, and see if there's anything about this letter that strikes you as odd.
This letter is clear proof of who really runs the show in the Ukraine, and it's not the Ukrainians. Here we have a Ukrainian Prime Minister taking orders from a US senator about who should, and shouldn't be in a Ukrainian government post.
This letter says a lot about the sad state that Ukraine has plunged to. It's just one of countless pieces of evidence that clearly shows that the country is directed by foreign powers.
It's also proof of who the Ukrainian government works for. If there was ever any doubt that the creatures who run Ukraine today aren't US-installed drones doing US political and economic bidding, then this letter puts that doubt to rest.
At the very least it shows how incompetent the current Ukrainian authorities are to seek direction from a foreign power about routine cabinet appointments.
Add to that the fact that the Ukrainian finance minister is an ex-US banker Natalie Jaresko, and the mayor of Odessa Region is Mikheil Saakashvilli, the Georgian ex-president who fled to the US to escape criminal charges in his native Georgia for corruption and abuse of power.
Ukraine, all the way from Porky Pig on down, is being ruled by a miserable line-up of losers and criminals financed and propped up by western governments. These pathetic fakes don't have an independent bone in their weak bodies. These pro-western elements have up to now racked up an impressive amount of criminal violations against their fellow citizens.
Sooner or later they will be kicked out. When that day comes, we'll also see how much the US and EU truly care about 'Ukrainian peoples' democracy' when their Kievan sock puppets face expulsion and loss of power.
Tuesday, August 11, 2015
Some Thoughts on the MH17 Disaster
It is the Kiev regime and its western benefactors that had the most to gain from shooting down this plane. They blamed it on their two chief enemies, Russia and the rebels, who had nothing to gain and much to lose. When trying to find the guilty, the question 'who benefits' must be asked first and last.
The MH17 crash has primarily benefited US geopolitical interests by forcing the EU to pass sanctions against Russia, freeze its assets, cancel the Mistral ship sale, as well as the South Stream gas pipeline project. Why would Russia deliberately do anything to cause such things to happen, and shoot itself in the foot? It's not in its interest.
Why was the plane rerouted over Donbass when on previous routes it flew near the Black Sea in S. Ukraine? Who made the decision to reroute the plane? Why did the Kiev regime allow non-military planes to fly over an active conflict zone? (bad weather is absolutely no excuse here)
These questions must be answered, and those who made these stupid and reckless decisions must be held accountable. The 'what' and 'who' brought the plane down is secondary at this point.
Why is the investigation taking so long? To date, it's been over a year. If Russia and/or the rebels were guilty, the US would've surely came out with all evidence proving this immediately. So what's the hold-up?
So far, the west has piled on heaps of accusations against Russia with no trace of credible evidence to back up any of it. Are they hiding something, or protecting someone?
The MH17 crash has primarily benefited US geopolitical interests by forcing the EU to pass sanctions against Russia, freeze its assets, cancel the Mistral ship sale, as well as the South Stream gas pipeline project. Why would Russia deliberately do anything to cause such things to happen, and shoot itself in the foot? It's not in its interest.
Why was the plane rerouted over Donbass when on previous routes it flew near the Black Sea in S. Ukraine? Who made the decision to reroute the plane? Why did the Kiev regime allow non-military planes to fly over an active conflict zone? (bad weather is absolutely no excuse here)
These questions must be answered, and those who made these stupid and reckless decisions must be held accountable. The 'what' and 'who' brought the plane down is secondary at this point.
Why is the investigation taking so long? To date, it's been over a year. If Russia and/or the rebels were guilty, the US would've surely came out with all evidence proving this immediately. So what's the hold-up?
So far, the west has piled on heaps of accusations against Russia with no trace of credible evidence to back up any of it. Are they hiding something, or protecting someone?
Wednesday, August 5, 2015
The STILL Ugly American
I recently finished reading the book titled “The Ugly American.”
Although published in 1958 during the height of the cold war, and colored with the now-discredited ‘international communist conspiracy’ paranoia, the book does give an interesting insight into the workings of the US diplomatic corps overseas.
The book describes the bumbling, arrogance, cynicism, opportunistic careerism, and incompetence of US embassy diplomats, their American staff, and various ‘experts’ in Southeast Asia. The story starts in a fictitious country named Sarkhan, but also includes the real nearby nations of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
In the book, all these countries are backward and striving for development, and all face the ‘communist menace.’
The US ambassadors and other Americans there are pampered, privileged, untrained people who don’t bother associating with the regular natives or learning their language. These Americans stay within their comfortable embassy compounds, get whatever they need cheap at the US-built commissary and PX, and hob-nob with other American staff and French dignitaries at dinners and cocktail parties.
The book also tells the stories of Americans who really do want to make a difference for the better by starting small, spending little, and making the native peoples self-sufficient in producing what the need. They frown on the big multi-million-dollar projects that aren't practical and which don’t do anything to address the basic necessities of the peasants in the country who can barely eke out a subsistence living.
The book is fictional, but it’s based on real-life experiences of the authors, who served in diplomatic positions overseas.
There are some sobering chapters on how the US diplomatic corps operates, and why it failed more often than it succeeded.
One story deals with a man who spent time in the countryside talking with Cambodian peasants. He saw that they could really benefit from getting a stock of chickens from the US which would improve their native ones, and get more eggs out of them. This would increase the peoples protein intake, making them more productive.
He came up with a plan to just that, but when he presented it to the US ambassador and the Cambodian government, they shot it down in favor of ‘big’ (read expensive and profitable) projects like a multi-lane highway (in a country with very little vehicular traffic) and military aid.
When the man said he’d go back to Washington to complain, he was hustled by a French officer who took him on a tour of Asian countries, France, and back to New York, all expenses paid. The man was wined, dined, given expensive gifts all the way home.
After he arrived back in the US, he didn’t think writing a letter of complaint was worth it anymore. It’s not hard to see what happened here.
Another story involves a US Navy Captain, a weapons expert, who was to attend a very important conference where military aid and weapons would be discussed. At the same time he also met a Chinese lady who studied in the states, as well as in a school on the ‘outskirts of Moscow.’ He ended up having an affair with the lady, which distracted him so much that he made a fool of himself at the conference, and insulted all the Asian attendees with his lack of attention. The conference was a failure.
There are other stories where good ideas and good advice given by people who genuinely cared was ignored or even reprimanded in favor of the ‘big picture,’ namely politics, propaganda, and various officials career prospects in Washington.
There are things that this book teaches, but also things that it omits. Part of the reason is that it came out in the late 1950s, a decade before the worst excesses and failures of the Vietnam war.
The book’s positive attributes are:
1. It admits that US diplomatic corps personnel are driven by self-interest, propaganda, and career prospects
2. US diplomatic staff are ignorant of the country they serve in. They don’t know the local language, customs, traditions, and don’t spend any time with the native populations. They only associate with the wealthy and influential English-speaking elites
3. Aid efforts are concentrated on big projects that benefit the pockets of US-based companies which reap great profits from supplying equipment and materials, and serve pro-US propaganda purposes
4. Very little, if any projects are undertaken to genuinely help the native people by teaching them to become self-sufficient by starting and running their own industries
5. The admission that the Russians were better at engaging the populations of the countries where they had a diplomatic presence. The Russian ambassador knew the language and customs of the country he served in, and so did his staff, which was all Russian. The Russians also sent their workers to live among the people and teach them basic techniques for farming and automation so they could be self-sufficient
6. It admitted that the writings and tactics of major communist revolutionaries like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao were valuable information that should be studied by western diplomats, not ignored
The book’s negative attributes are:
1. It tends to label those who resist westerners as ‘communists.’ It never considers those ‘communists’ as people who are simply fighting to be free of foreign control and colonization
2. It never makes the connection between hatred of the west and embrace of communism, which is quite simple: the people in Southeast Asia were colonized, oppressed, and exploited by westerners, not Russians Therefore, in the minds of the people everything associated with the west, especially the capitalist system, was seen as bad. These people then saw that Russia and communism also were against the western system. Russians also offered real help on the ground where the Americans wouldn’t go. This made Russia and communism look good. This is why countries like Laos and Vietnam gravitated toward socialism. The enemy of their enemy was their friend.
3. It never asked why the US seems compelled to occupy, and order a country half a world away to do things their way. It’s very involvement in a country’s internal affairs is testimony to America’s disregard for real freedom of those countries
This book politely admits that the Russian and communist ways of operating were more effective because the Russians associated with the common people.
When we add the experience of the Vietnam war to the mix, it only reinforces the above fact with another very important one: It was the westerners, first the French then the Americans, who bombed, killed, and devastated while saying they’re there to ‘help.’ The Russians didn’t fire a single bullet in Vietnam. This is the chief reason why the US lost in Vietnam. Its actions contradicted its words and propaganda, while the Russians supported the Vietnamese from a distance, both economically and militarily.
The Vietnamese weren't fighting so much for communism as they were against colonialism. The US failed to learn from the mistakes of the french before them, and ended up being much worse than the French.
This book also presents another important, but unfortunate reality about Americans.
There are intelligent Americans that genuinely care about others, and truly want to help. The problem was, and is, that these types of Americans are a scant, unnoticed—and ignored--minority.
The majority of Americans are ignorant, self-centered fools who don’t give a shit about the world, and those their government exploits and hurts.
This sad tradition continues to this day, and in fact has gotten worse.
The US seems to have this notion that just because some country out there likes them, that that country is automatically willing to be exploited and abused by the US.
This kind of disgusting attitude isn’t winning the US any friends, and frankly has been responsible for more countries dissociating themselves from it.
The diplomatic shortcomings and lack of respect and professionalism of US diplomats described in this book haven’t changed. If anything, they've gotten more brazen.
The fallout and failures from such behavior are also sure to become more frequent.
Although published in 1958 during the height of the cold war, and colored with the now-discredited ‘international communist conspiracy’ paranoia, the book does give an interesting insight into the workings of the US diplomatic corps overseas.
The book describes the bumbling, arrogance, cynicism, opportunistic careerism, and incompetence of US embassy diplomats, their American staff, and various ‘experts’ in Southeast Asia. The story starts in a fictitious country named Sarkhan, but also includes the real nearby nations of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam.
In the book, all these countries are backward and striving for development, and all face the ‘communist menace.’
The US ambassadors and other Americans there are pampered, privileged, untrained people who don’t bother associating with the regular natives or learning their language. These Americans stay within their comfortable embassy compounds, get whatever they need cheap at the US-built commissary and PX, and hob-nob with other American staff and French dignitaries at dinners and cocktail parties.
The book also tells the stories of Americans who really do want to make a difference for the better by starting small, spending little, and making the native peoples self-sufficient in producing what the need. They frown on the big multi-million-dollar projects that aren't practical and which don’t do anything to address the basic necessities of the peasants in the country who can barely eke out a subsistence living.
The book is fictional, but it’s based on real-life experiences of the authors, who served in diplomatic positions overseas.
There are some sobering chapters on how the US diplomatic corps operates, and why it failed more often than it succeeded.
One story deals with a man who spent time in the countryside talking with Cambodian peasants. He saw that they could really benefit from getting a stock of chickens from the US which would improve their native ones, and get more eggs out of them. This would increase the peoples protein intake, making them more productive.
He came up with a plan to just that, but when he presented it to the US ambassador and the Cambodian government, they shot it down in favor of ‘big’ (read expensive and profitable) projects like a multi-lane highway (in a country with very little vehicular traffic) and military aid.
When the man said he’d go back to Washington to complain, he was hustled by a French officer who took him on a tour of Asian countries, France, and back to New York, all expenses paid. The man was wined, dined, given expensive gifts all the way home.
After he arrived back in the US, he didn’t think writing a letter of complaint was worth it anymore. It’s not hard to see what happened here.
Another story involves a US Navy Captain, a weapons expert, who was to attend a very important conference where military aid and weapons would be discussed. At the same time he also met a Chinese lady who studied in the states, as well as in a school on the ‘outskirts of Moscow.’ He ended up having an affair with the lady, which distracted him so much that he made a fool of himself at the conference, and insulted all the Asian attendees with his lack of attention. The conference was a failure.
There are other stories where good ideas and good advice given by people who genuinely cared was ignored or even reprimanded in favor of the ‘big picture,’ namely politics, propaganda, and various officials career prospects in Washington.
There are things that this book teaches, but also things that it omits. Part of the reason is that it came out in the late 1950s, a decade before the worst excesses and failures of the Vietnam war.
The book’s positive attributes are:
1. It admits that US diplomatic corps personnel are driven by self-interest, propaganda, and career prospects
2. US diplomatic staff are ignorant of the country they serve in. They don’t know the local language, customs, traditions, and don’t spend any time with the native populations. They only associate with the wealthy and influential English-speaking elites
3. Aid efforts are concentrated on big projects that benefit the pockets of US-based companies which reap great profits from supplying equipment and materials, and serve pro-US propaganda purposes
4. Very little, if any projects are undertaken to genuinely help the native people by teaching them to become self-sufficient by starting and running their own industries
5. The admission that the Russians were better at engaging the populations of the countries where they had a diplomatic presence. The Russian ambassador knew the language and customs of the country he served in, and so did his staff, which was all Russian. The Russians also sent their workers to live among the people and teach them basic techniques for farming and automation so they could be self-sufficient
6. It admitted that the writings and tactics of major communist revolutionaries like Lenin, Stalin, and Mao were valuable information that should be studied by western diplomats, not ignored
The book’s negative attributes are:
1. It tends to label those who resist westerners as ‘communists.’ It never considers those ‘communists’ as people who are simply fighting to be free of foreign control and colonization
2. It never makes the connection between hatred of the west and embrace of communism, which is quite simple: the people in Southeast Asia were colonized, oppressed, and exploited by westerners, not Russians Therefore, in the minds of the people everything associated with the west, especially the capitalist system, was seen as bad. These people then saw that Russia and communism also were against the western system. Russians also offered real help on the ground where the Americans wouldn’t go. This made Russia and communism look good. This is why countries like Laos and Vietnam gravitated toward socialism. The enemy of their enemy was their friend.
3. It never asked why the US seems compelled to occupy, and order a country half a world away to do things their way. It’s very involvement in a country’s internal affairs is testimony to America’s disregard for real freedom of those countries
This book politely admits that the Russian and communist ways of operating were more effective because the Russians associated with the common people.
When we add the experience of the Vietnam war to the mix, it only reinforces the above fact with another very important one: It was the westerners, first the French then the Americans, who bombed, killed, and devastated while saying they’re there to ‘help.’ The Russians didn’t fire a single bullet in Vietnam. This is the chief reason why the US lost in Vietnam. Its actions contradicted its words and propaganda, while the Russians supported the Vietnamese from a distance, both economically and militarily.
The Vietnamese weren't fighting so much for communism as they were against colonialism. The US failed to learn from the mistakes of the french before them, and ended up being much worse than the French.
This book also presents another important, but unfortunate reality about Americans.
There are intelligent Americans that genuinely care about others, and truly want to help. The problem was, and is, that these types of Americans are a scant, unnoticed—and ignored--minority.
The majority of Americans are ignorant, self-centered fools who don’t give a shit about the world, and those their government exploits and hurts.
This sad tradition continues to this day, and in fact has gotten worse.
The US seems to have this notion that just because some country out there likes them, that that country is automatically willing to be exploited and abused by the US.
This kind of disgusting attitude isn’t winning the US any friends, and frankly has been responsible for more countries dissociating themselves from it.
The diplomatic shortcomings and lack of respect and professionalism of US diplomats described in this book haven’t changed. If anything, they've gotten more brazen.
The fallout and failures from such behavior are also sure to become more frequent.
Tuesday, July 7, 2015
The Fake Crisis Continues . . .
The P5+1 negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program are in their final stretch.
After following this issue since it first reared its fake head in 2003, it’s clearly obvious that this has nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program.
Throughout these negotiations the US has been insisting on unreasonable and excessive demands from Iran, mainly the inspections of their military sites for any evidence of illicit, military-related nuclear work.
Iran has refused to allow this measure, and rightly so. After all, wasn’t the demand for inspections of Iraq’s military sites, under threat of US bombing, that led to the eventual regime change in 2003?
The world knows where the US is going with its demand for surprise, non-announced inspections of Iran’s military sites. This is all about espionage and recon of Iran’s military capabilities so that the Pentagon and Israhell, along with their EU whores, can size up Iran’s military capabilities for the eventual regime change bombing campaign.
Such access would allow US, the Zionist criminal mafia state, and their European vassals to inject spies and agents into the inspection teams to gather information, plant bugs, engage in sabotage, and get precise targeting information.
This is EXACTLY what happened in Iraq, and it’s the reason why in 1998 Saddam Hussein ordered all inspectors out of the country and blocked any further inspections until 2002.
But what if an agreement is signed, and Iran even allows inspections of its military sites? What can we expect from all this?
1. It must be borne in mind that even if an agreement is signed, it will only end the nuclear-related sanctions. Sanctions that the US/EU passed on Iran based on self-serving politicized reasons such as ‘human rights,’ ‘sponsoring terrorism,’ etc., are still intact, and will continue to be.
2. Will the US and its vassals, after signing the agreement, keep all the sanctions in place by simply finding other reasons for them such as the ones mentioned above? This will effectively tie Iran’s hands while providing virtually no sanctions relief.
3. What guarantee does Iran have, if it allows inspections of military sites, that the US and its vassals won’t use Iran’s possession of ballistic missiles as an excuse to find Iran ‘in breach’ of the agreement, and therefore turn on the sanctions switch again? US will most likely argue that because the missiles can technically (although not truly) carry nuclear warheads, that they are illicit and must be scrapped. US will totally ignore evidence that Iran has no nuclear warheads to place on the missiles, though. This will be part of the plot to destroy Iran’s most effective conventional weapon since the US knows Iran has no nukes, and no nuclear weapons program. Without the ballistic missiles, it will be less risky to bomb Iran in the future.
I’m not very hopeful that the west will abide by whatever agreement it signs with Iran. After all, not long after Iran signed up to the interim agreement in 2013, the US and EU still enacted sanctions against Iran. They did so again earlier this year against Iranian banks. Never mind that Iran has faithfully abided by the interim agreement until now, and no evidence of illegal nuclear weapons-related work has been found.
There’s also a fly in the ointment, the pathetic US congress. This bunch of inept failures, willfully-ignorant know-nothings, and simple-minded extremists have insisted that any final deal with Iran be approved by them.
If it comes to that, and congress votes it down for whatever idiotic, zionist-inspired reasons, then the US will shame and embarrass itself. It will have only itself to blame for any and all consequences, and the world will know this.
Originally, the US planned regime change in Iran not long after Iraq. But Iraq turned into such an embarrassing quagmire that those plans were put on-hold.
So the US trotted out more sanctions against Iran, hoping that this would make life for Iranian people so bad that they'd overthrow their government. US even attempted to use the 2009 Iranian elections to launch a color revolution. That didn't work, either.
After President Rouhani was elected, the negotiations were started. The US then decided to use the process to further regime change by attempting to trick and trap Iran, and giving back very little.
This hasn't worked, either. So now the US is making unreasonable and unfair demands which they know Iran won't agree to. The US plans to push those demands in order to force the Iranians to walk away first.
The US will then use this to show that Iran wasn't being serious, acted dishonestly and refused to cooperate. This Iranian 'non-cooperation' will then be used to scare the world and rally US vassals and other fools into another war against Iran.
If Iran does accept these demands, then the US will simply wait for Iran to be softened up militarily, then find some trivial excuse (real or made-up) to bomb and invade.
These so-called negotiations are just a ploy by the US to get what they want by non-military means: to subjugate Iran politically and economically. But if Iran doesn’t fall for any of the US tricks and refuses to get suckered, the US will most likely try the military route. Whether this will take the form of what was done to Iraq in 2003, or the form of ISIS, or some other CIA-manufactured terror group that will be let loose on Iran is still uncertain.
Agreement or not, regime change in Iran was, is, and will be the aim of the US.
The nuclear program was always just a cover.
UPDATE: Just found this tid-bit of news below on rt.com. It backs up perfectly what I stated in point #3!
Source: rt.com
After following this issue since it first reared its fake head in 2003, it’s clearly obvious that this has nothing to do with Iran’s nuclear program.
Throughout these negotiations the US has been insisting on unreasonable and excessive demands from Iran, mainly the inspections of their military sites for any evidence of illicit, military-related nuclear work.
Iran has refused to allow this measure, and rightly so. After all, wasn’t the demand for inspections of Iraq’s military sites, under threat of US bombing, that led to the eventual regime change in 2003?
The world knows where the US is going with its demand for surprise, non-announced inspections of Iran’s military sites. This is all about espionage and recon of Iran’s military capabilities so that the Pentagon and Israhell, along with their EU whores, can size up Iran’s military capabilities for the eventual regime change bombing campaign.
Such access would allow US, the Zionist criminal mafia state, and their European vassals to inject spies and agents into the inspection teams to gather information, plant bugs, engage in sabotage, and get precise targeting information.
This is EXACTLY what happened in Iraq, and it’s the reason why in 1998 Saddam Hussein ordered all inspectors out of the country and blocked any further inspections until 2002.
But what if an agreement is signed, and Iran even allows inspections of its military sites? What can we expect from all this?
1. It must be borne in mind that even if an agreement is signed, it will only end the nuclear-related sanctions. Sanctions that the US/EU passed on Iran based on self-serving politicized reasons such as ‘human rights,’ ‘sponsoring terrorism,’ etc., are still intact, and will continue to be.
2. Will the US and its vassals, after signing the agreement, keep all the sanctions in place by simply finding other reasons for them such as the ones mentioned above? This will effectively tie Iran’s hands while providing virtually no sanctions relief.
3. What guarantee does Iran have, if it allows inspections of military sites, that the US and its vassals won’t use Iran’s possession of ballistic missiles as an excuse to find Iran ‘in breach’ of the agreement, and therefore turn on the sanctions switch again? US will most likely argue that because the missiles can technically (although not truly) carry nuclear warheads, that they are illicit and must be scrapped. US will totally ignore evidence that Iran has no nuclear warheads to place on the missiles, though. This will be part of the plot to destroy Iran’s most effective conventional weapon since the US knows Iran has no nukes, and no nuclear weapons program. Without the ballistic missiles, it will be less risky to bomb Iran in the future.
I’m not very hopeful that the west will abide by whatever agreement it signs with Iran. After all, not long after Iran signed up to the interim agreement in 2013, the US and EU still enacted sanctions against Iran. They did so again earlier this year against Iranian banks. Never mind that Iran has faithfully abided by the interim agreement until now, and no evidence of illegal nuclear weapons-related work has been found.
There’s also a fly in the ointment, the pathetic US congress. This bunch of inept failures, willfully-ignorant know-nothings, and simple-minded extremists have insisted that any final deal with Iran be approved by them.
If it comes to that, and congress votes it down for whatever idiotic, zionist-inspired reasons, then the US will shame and embarrass itself. It will have only itself to blame for any and all consequences, and the world will know this.
Originally, the US planned regime change in Iran not long after Iraq. But Iraq turned into such an embarrassing quagmire that those plans were put on-hold.
So the US trotted out more sanctions against Iran, hoping that this would make life for Iranian people so bad that they'd overthrow their government. US even attempted to use the 2009 Iranian elections to launch a color revolution. That didn't work, either.
After President Rouhani was elected, the negotiations were started. The US then decided to use the process to further regime change by attempting to trick and trap Iran, and giving back very little.
This hasn't worked, either. So now the US is making unreasonable and unfair demands which they know Iran won't agree to. The US plans to push those demands in order to force the Iranians to walk away first.
The US will then use this to show that Iran wasn't being serious, acted dishonestly and refused to cooperate. This Iranian 'non-cooperation' will then be used to scare the world and rally US vassals and other fools into another war against Iran.
If Iran does accept these demands, then the US will simply wait for Iran to be softened up militarily, then find some trivial excuse (real or made-up) to bomb and invade.
These so-called negotiations are just a ploy by the US to get what they want by non-military means: to subjugate Iran politically and economically. But if Iran doesn’t fall for any of the US tricks and refuses to get suckered, the US will most likely try the military route. Whether this will take the form of what was done to Iraq in 2003, or the form of ISIS, or some other CIA-manufactured terror group that will be let loose on Iran is still uncertain.
Agreement or not, regime change in Iran was, is, and will be the aim of the US.
The nuclear program was always just a cover.
UPDATE: Just found this tid-bit of news below on rt.com. It backs up perfectly what I stated in point #3!
7 July, 2015
16:06
Iran to face restrictions on missile program even if nuclear deal agreed - US
A senior US official has said Iran will continue to face restrictions on its missile program under an emerging nuclear agreement. Tehran will also be limited in trading conventional arms, the official added, as cited by Reuters. The official, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, said there were still differences between the two parties. The 5+1 group and Iran are still trying to reach a nuclear deal, which would restrict Iran’s nuclear ambitions, but in return Tehran would get relief from Western economic sanctions.Source: rt.com
Sunday, July 5, 2015
No Means No!
Thankfully, the Greek people have issued a resounding NO to the Eurocrat bankster mafia’s latest threats of financial fleecing of the country.
And why would Greeks make any other choice? After five years
of depraved thievery by banksters from the EU/IMF/ECB, voting yes for more of
the same would’ve been nothing less than collective national suicide.
The yes/no referendum in Greece was an excellent exercise in
democracy, something that the rest of the EU is seemingly repelled by, judging
from their admonitions and threats.
Now why wasn’t the Greek populace consulted like this back
in 2010? It would’ve most likely prevented things from getting as bad as they
have for Greece. But back then, Greece’s government didn’t care about the
people, but only their wealthy supporters, within and outside Greece.
The decision by Alexis Tsipras to hold the referendum
quickly was also a great move. Doing so deprived the Eurocrats from highjacking
and manipulating the entire process in their favor.
If this referendum was held a month later, then by the time
the polls opened the Eurocrat banksters would’ve had Greeks believing that they
will be nuked from space by extra-terrestials if they didn’t vote yes.
But even with the short time the Eurocrats had they did make
sleazy attempts at ad hoc disinformation and psy-ops by releasing so-called ‘opinion
polls’ done by EU banks and pro-EU institutions and other non-official EU outfits
that predicted a majority yes vote.
So there was some manipulation, but thankfully not long enough to brainwash and scare the Greek voters.
So now the ball is in the EU’s court. From the actions they will
take the EU bosses will show everyone, once and for all, what the EU is really
about, and where their priorities lie: the people or the banks.
This referendum was more than just about Greece. It was
about what type of a Europe and world we shall live in. A yes vote would’ve
told the EU bankster mafia that threats, pressure, financial fleecing, and rule
by decree works, and this would then be applied to other nations.
By voting no, the Greeks nullified the Eurocrats project of
perpetual debt servitude.
The Greek government now has a truly popular mandate to
reject further economic rape of Greece. It’s now time for the EU to accept
reality, and deal with Greece in a respectful manner that helps Greece, not
hurts it further.
No more lies, threats, ultimatums and bluffs from Brussels. They have been
called and rejected.