The recent attacks in Brussels have, once again, got everyone throughout the world in a tizzy.
Once again, the ignorant, naïve, and the dishonest are asking ‘Why?’
The tired, worn-out knee-jerk reaction seems to be ‘Islam is at fault.’
The EU Foreign Minister Frederica Mogherini cut her press conference short after she teared up over these attacks.
But what else did she and the rest of the EU ‘leadership’ expect? After all, let’s look at the EU’s complicity in this violence:
1. EU supports US foreign policy of invasion and regime change in Muslim countries, and encouraging and arming of fanatics in Syria
2. France, UK, and other countries sell weapons to miserable and despotic regimes like Saudi Arabia, which is a known sponsor of ISIS and Al Qaeda-type groups.
This kind of behavior creates future terror. This is the same kind of terror that the west has supported and encouraged for the past four years in Syria. Now, that terror is coming back to bite the hand that fed it.
What needs to happen right now, is for every EU politician, whoever and wherever they are, and regardless of their current post that had anything to do with colluding with the US in encouraging, supporting, and arming proxy fanatics in Syria to overthrow the Syrian government, to be thrown out of office, tried, convicted, and at the very least sentenced to life imprisonment for conspiracy to commit murder, material support for terrorism, and state treason.
Because that’s exactly what the EU has done in Syria and elsewhere; it has colluded with terrorists to commit murder; outside and inside Europe.
There is no excuse whatsoever for this.
These reckless and criminal acts have also caused the biggest refugee crisis Europe has seen since the end of WW2.
Shit-brained politicians like Merkel and others who try to take in and accommodate these refugees are doing so to cover up their guilt for creating these refugees in the first place.
The reaction to these attacks are going to be wrong and pig-headed. There will be lock-downs, curfews, states of emergency, more surveillance, and taking away of freedoms.
But these things are useless, for they may only address the symptoms, not the causes.
Idiotic talking heads from all sorts of US and EU think tanks will appear on TV and feed the masses endless lies and nonsense about how this is the fault of Islamic beliefs, that west is not to blame, and they’ll probably blame Russia, too.
Terrorism is the symptom, not the cause.
If the EU doesn’t want these acts of violence to reoccur, it needs to:
1. Stop accompanying the US regime on its regime change misadventures
2. Change EU foreign policy to a non-interventionist one
3. Stop supporting proxy militant groups
4. End all arms sales to terror-supporting nutcase states like Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar
5. Nothing short of these steps is going to solve the terrorist problem.
Why is it that when acts of terror like these, or worse, occur in Syria, Iraq, or Lebanon, none of them get even a quarter of the attention in the west that the Paris and Brussels attacks got? Let’s not forget that the vast majority of the victims of Islamic terrorism today are in fact Muslims themselves.
Whiny and deluded demagoguery and talking points about how ‘Islam is evil,’ ‘Why do they hate us?’ and ‘They’re trying to destroy our democracy,’ isn’t going to solve anything. It’s just a bunch of sorry ass-talk by sorry-ass, irresponsible politicians and incompetents to get themselves off the hook, and distract people with straw-men arguments and manufactured enemies.
If the EU bureaucrats wants to find the true culprits responsible for these bombings in Brussels, they simply need to look in the mirror.
Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Some more Thoughts
Every country that saw/sees itself as chosen, special, exceptional were/are the worst criminals in history. No nation, no matter how wealthy or advanced, should EVER look upon itself as superior than all the others, because out of this egotistical, deluded arrogance flows out genocide, war, theft, oppression, and eventually that nation's fall. If a country achieves greatness, it should not use its abundant resources for evil, but serve as an example to others, stay humble in temperament, check its ambitions, and see its fortunes multiply. Great Britain, Germany, and the US failed to do so, and have either become 2nd rate powers, or are on the decline.
There is no economic rebound in the US. This is a fiction; a deception. Look under the PR and the rigged numbers, and you'll see a nation hanging on by a thin thread. The stock market is rigged, unemployment report is glossed up (a lot), and all sorts of gimmickry and sleight-of-hand is being perpetrated by US government agencies to hide the true economic rot. Don't believe the DOW Jones numbers. They only reflect the deceptions of the 1%. US economy is smoke and mirrors. There is no recovery.
US has a trap-door economy. The wealthy and well-connected know where to step so they don’t fall through, but the vast majority do.
After the US Iraq debacle, the US regime realized that it is not invincible, and that it is incapable of fighting these long wars directly, much less win them. So it made a decision to employ proxy forces comprised of religious fanatics to do their work for them. Al Qaeda, the US arch-enemy number one after 9/11, and other such like-minded groups, became re-branded by the US as the ‘Free Syrian Army,’ and as the ‘Moderate opposition.’ They were then trained and armed by the US and its allies, then sent into Syria to do what the US no longer could: overthrow regional governments hostile to US strategic and economic interests.
Another reason why the US regime doesn't like Russia's government and Vladimir Putin is that unlike the cowardly EUrocratic governments and other US vassal states throughout the world, Russia isn't afraid to tell the US 'No,' and condemn the US governments for its own blunders. For far too long, no one has had the courage to do this, and this only fueled the false US feeling of superiority and impunity. They regarded this silence as a stamp of approval. Now that this era has ended, the US doesn't like it, because it knows that it can only get away with its crimes when everyone stays silent and turns their backs. This Russian candor is like a needle in the US eye.
If it wasn't for the US, Turkish, Saudi, and EU countries arming and support of the armed gangs in Syria, the so-called rebellion wouldn't of even happened, or fizzled out a few months after it started. The ONLY reason why these groups still exist is because of foreign sponsorship. None of this was a result of an indigenous Syrian grass-roots people power movement. If it was, and most Syrians supported it, then Assad would've been thrown out of power years ago. There is no way he would last this long if most Syrians hated him, and wanted him out. This is something that the west will never explain to their audiences because that would require facts and logic, something the western powers and their media whores fear like cockroaches do light.
The US will never achieve global supremacy. They can try to do so, but their efforts will stop the moment that a Russian and/or Chinese nuclear ICBM vaporizes western Europe and the US. Because inevitably it will come to that if the US pushes things too far. Neither Russia and China will budge. These two countries may have had their temporary moment of weakness, but that's no longer the case. Color revolutions, manipulating elections, and destabilizing won't work for the US in Russia.
There is no economic rebound in the US. This is a fiction; a deception. Look under the PR and the rigged numbers, and you'll see a nation hanging on by a thin thread. The stock market is rigged, unemployment report is glossed up (a lot), and all sorts of gimmickry and sleight-of-hand is being perpetrated by US government agencies to hide the true economic rot. Don't believe the DOW Jones numbers. They only reflect the deceptions of the 1%. US economy is smoke and mirrors. There is no recovery.
US has a trap-door economy. The wealthy and well-connected know where to step so they don’t fall through, but the vast majority do.
After the US Iraq debacle, the US regime realized that it is not invincible, and that it is incapable of fighting these long wars directly, much less win them. So it made a decision to employ proxy forces comprised of religious fanatics to do their work for them. Al Qaeda, the US arch-enemy number one after 9/11, and other such like-minded groups, became re-branded by the US as the ‘Free Syrian Army,’ and as the ‘Moderate opposition.’ They were then trained and armed by the US and its allies, then sent into Syria to do what the US no longer could: overthrow regional governments hostile to US strategic and economic interests.
Another reason why the US regime doesn't like Russia's government and Vladimir Putin is that unlike the cowardly EUrocratic governments and other US vassal states throughout the world, Russia isn't afraid to tell the US 'No,' and condemn the US governments for its own blunders. For far too long, no one has had the courage to do this, and this only fueled the false US feeling of superiority and impunity. They regarded this silence as a stamp of approval. Now that this era has ended, the US doesn't like it, because it knows that it can only get away with its crimes when everyone stays silent and turns their backs. This Russian candor is like a needle in the US eye.
If it wasn't for the US, Turkish, Saudi, and EU countries arming and support of the armed gangs in Syria, the so-called rebellion wouldn't of even happened, or fizzled out a few months after it started. The ONLY reason why these groups still exist is because of foreign sponsorship. None of this was a result of an indigenous Syrian grass-roots people power movement. If it was, and most Syrians supported it, then Assad would've been thrown out of power years ago. There is no way he would last this long if most Syrians hated him, and wanted him out. This is something that the west will never explain to their audiences because that would require facts and logic, something the western powers and their media whores fear like cockroaches do light.
The US will never achieve global supremacy. They can try to do so, but their efforts will stop the moment that a Russian and/or Chinese nuclear ICBM vaporizes western Europe and the US. Because inevitably it will come to that if the US pushes things too far. Neither Russia and China will budge. These two countries may have had their temporary moment of weakness, but that's no longer the case. Color revolutions, manipulating elections, and destabilizing won't work for the US in Russia.
Thursday, March 3, 2016
False Choices
The 2016 US Presidential Election flea circus is heating up.
Now that the field of candidates has been narrowing, the remaining ones are starting to play dirty.
Scandals and embarrassing past misdeeds are being dragged out into the light about the candidates’ murky pasts.
As in presidential elections past, demagoguery and appearance have again won out over substance.
Watching the presidential debates, or what passees for them, is like watching a group of adolescents flinging insults at one another in the school yard. It's more of a comedy show than serious debate.
All this brings me to the main point that needs to be discussed.
The millionaires/billionaires running for president cannot, and will not, save us.
Their business acumen and success doesn’t automatically translate into the ability to govern well.
The obscenely wealthy individuals vying for the presidential office won’t make things better for those who aren’t wealthy. These people can talk all day long about how they’re going to ‘make America great again,’ about ‘moving forward,’ and about how they will ‘stand up to Wall Street.’ But we’ve heard this crap before in 2008 from none other than Barack Obama.
Didn’t he promise to stand with the middle class and those struggling at the bottom of the income ladder? Didn’t he promise to end Wall St. thievery and excess, and hold them all accountable? And he made these promises at the time of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
So if that real-time economic melt-down, and its ugly consequences throughout the globe, wasn’t enough for him to hold the bankster elites to account (which he hasn’t) AT ELECTION TIME, then there’s no use expecting it from any of the current gaggle of wealthy liars and nutcases.
To think that any of these obscenely wealthy, pampered, well-connected candidates will go against the status quo that made them wealthy is sheer delusion.
How can Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, who’ve made their fortunes off this system, act against it?
Does anyone really expect these candidates to fight Wall St., big corporations, and big banks? They’re never going to do this because it would mean fighting against their own interests. These candidates are in full collusion with Wall St. and their corporate/bankster pals. They take their money in the form of campaign donations. They worked for them, or with them in the past or in the present. Their businesses benefit from the tax breaks and bailouts Wall Street and their ilk lobby for, and mostly get.
These candidates certainly aren’t going to saw their arms and legs off for the sake of some middle class schmuck or a poor welfare check-cashing slob.
These wealthy candidates were born into, or spent the vast majority of their lives in, privilege and opulence. They don’t know how the working people and the poor live. They don’t have that frame of reference. Therefore, it’s not possible for them to help those below them.
Helping those below them means that these wealthy presidential candidates would eventually have to give up their own money, and that of their family and wealthy friends, then hand it over to those who aren’t wealthy. That’s just not going to happen.
There is only so much wealth to go around. So either the bottom takes it from the top, or the top takes it from the bottom; and income equality is anathema to the wealthy class. They are only taught to take. Sharing or giving is a loss for them.
When obscenely wealthy people get into power, they will naturally pull any and all wealth toward themselves, and do things that financially benefit them and their friends first and foremost. It’s their instinct; they can’t help it; regardless of what they say and promise to do for the working man.
So don’t expect anything from these wealthy smooth-talking asshole liars. They can’t help you. They won’t help you.
For them, being president is the height of their careers. It’s that one extra feather in their cap to add to all the others.
After you elect them, they will sell you out and forget about you.
Unless you’re a millionaire, of course.
Now that the field of candidates has been narrowing, the remaining ones are starting to play dirty.
Scandals and embarrassing past misdeeds are being dragged out into the light about the candidates’ murky pasts.
As in presidential elections past, demagoguery and appearance have again won out over substance.
Watching the presidential debates, or what passees for them, is like watching a group of adolescents flinging insults at one another in the school yard. It's more of a comedy show than serious debate.
All this brings me to the main point that needs to be discussed.
The millionaires/billionaires running for president cannot, and will not, save us.
Their business acumen and success doesn’t automatically translate into the ability to govern well.
The obscenely wealthy individuals vying for the presidential office won’t make things better for those who aren’t wealthy. These people can talk all day long about how they’re going to ‘make America great again,’ about ‘moving forward,’ and about how they will ‘stand up to Wall Street.’ But we’ve heard this crap before in 2008 from none other than Barack Obama.
Didn’t he promise to stand with the middle class and those struggling at the bottom of the income ladder? Didn’t he promise to end Wall St. thievery and excess, and hold them all accountable? And he made these promises at the time of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression.
So if that real-time economic melt-down, and its ugly consequences throughout the globe, wasn’t enough for him to hold the bankster elites to account (which he hasn’t) AT ELECTION TIME, then there’s no use expecting it from any of the current gaggle of wealthy liars and nutcases.
To think that any of these obscenely wealthy, pampered, well-connected candidates will go against the status quo that made them wealthy is sheer delusion.
How can Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, who’ve made their fortunes off this system, act against it?
Does anyone really expect these candidates to fight Wall St., big corporations, and big banks? They’re never going to do this because it would mean fighting against their own interests. These candidates are in full collusion with Wall St. and their corporate/bankster pals. They take their money in the form of campaign donations. They worked for them, or with them in the past or in the present. Their businesses benefit from the tax breaks and bailouts Wall Street and their ilk lobby for, and mostly get.
These candidates certainly aren’t going to saw their arms and legs off for the sake of some middle class schmuck or a poor welfare check-cashing slob.
These wealthy candidates were born into, or spent the vast majority of their lives in, privilege and opulence. They don’t know how the working people and the poor live. They don’t have that frame of reference. Therefore, it’s not possible for them to help those below them.
Helping those below them means that these wealthy presidential candidates would eventually have to give up their own money, and that of their family and wealthy friends, then hand it over to those who aren’t wealthy. That’s just not going to happen.
There is only so much wealth to go around. So either the bottom takes it from the top, or the top takes it from the bottom; and income equality is anathema to the wealthy class. They are only taught to take. Sharing or giving is a loss for them.
When obscenely wealthy people get into power, they will naturally pull any and all wealth toward themselves, and do things that financially benefit them and their friends first and foremost. It’s their instinct; they can’t help it; regardless of what they say and promise to do for the working man.
So don’t expect anything from these wealthy smooth-talking asshole liars. They can’t help you. They won’t help you.
For them, being president is the height of their careers. It’s that one extra feather in their cap to add to all the others.
After you elect them, they will sell you out and forget about you.
Unless you’re a millionaire, of course.
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