GRExit

In the last few weeks the new leftist Greek government has been in negotiations over their debt with the EU.

The Greek finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, has been appealing in countless articles and TV interviews to the common sense and rationality of the EU, hoping that they'd understand Greece's, and their own awful predicament. But his time is wasted on such exercises.

Below are thoughts, mine and others', which cut to the bone of what Greece is facing, and what it must ultimately do.

"The EU is controlled by finance capital. These monsters don't care about eloquent words or reason. They want their money back, with interest. They want to get it in the easiest and quickest way, by making people suffer. There is no appealing to these freaks common sense. They simply don't care. Every second in the EU is a second wasted for Greece. Get out of it and start your recovery. In the long run it's the best option."

--Comment posted by myself on ICH

"Varoufakis will learn, if he has not done so already, that the troika are not his "partners" but his masters. They couldn't give a damn whether Greeks prosper or they don't. What is important to them is that Greece owes and is a servant of the ECB. It is also essential that Greece is docile and accepts without a whimper whatever austerity medicine Merkel & Co dispense."

--Comment posted by newsens on ICH 

"The troika doesn't care about the best interests of Europe. The political actors represent the moneyed elite, particularly the bankers & hedge funders, & particularly their imperial superiors, the policy makers in the USA. Europe's & the world's interests are probably the exact opposite of theirs. This gov't has a choice of caving, returning to the drachma, &/or strengthening its alliance w/ the BRICS, particularly Russia, & China, or confiscating the unpaid taxes & property of the Greek oligarchs (which would just about cover their debt), & nationalizing everything that can be nationalized. They should also get out of NATO, but that would create too much opposition. YV is being disingenuous when he says that he wants to avoid playing power politics & get the troika to think in terms of pan-European welfare. These parties are immune to persuasive rhetoric; golden tongues are for the masses, the owners only want real gold."

--Comment posted by americatemychildren on ICH 

This is a simple sketch I drew which illustrates how things really are between Greece and the EU

'Nuff said!

Three Strikes, you're out!

The attacks in Paris, France upon the offices of Charlie Hebdo, the outfit that has for years poked a finger into the world’s 1.6 billion Muslims by printing blasphemous cartoons with the Prophet Mohammed, have brought a collective shock to western governments and public.

The whole entire affair is being spun as simply a ‘free speech’ issue, and is being exploited by the Zionists and other assorted Islamo-phobes to manipulate public opinion far away from where it should be.

Strange, when anyone prints a cartoon criticizing Jewish beliefs or Israel, then there’s unanimous condemnation of the artist and publisher. They’re accused of being anti-semitic, provoking hatred, and threatened with lawsuits and shut-down. This has, in fact, happened already. But no one dared to protest and cite ‘free speech.’

But let’s cut straight to the meat of the matter:

These attacks, like the attacks on September 11, 2001 in New York, are a result of bad government foreign policy, and ignorance of the facts and reality.

It looks like the day has finally come for France to pay its bills.

Second, this whole affairs reeks of a false flag operation, and the timing itself is quite convenient for the French government.

Why do I suspect this?

1. The French economy is in the gutter, with unemployment rising

2. France has supported Palestinian statehood bid at the UN

3. Hollande’s popularity ratings are in the gutter

4. Hollande has been trying to reconcile with Russia

5. One of the shooters left their ID on the scene of the crime, which seems quite odd

So maybe the Zionists decided to pull out all the stops, recruit some patsies, and end this silly pro-Palestinian sympathy of the majority of the French population, and switch it to where the Zionists want it to be: on Israel’s side. It may also be a warning by the Zionists and/or US for France to turn their backs on Palestinians and Russia, or else. 

Maybe Hollande, together with his scummy foreign pals, decided to rescue his sinking presidency by orchestrating a French 911. This would make people forget their daily troubles, reorient their ire and frustration at others, and maybe even trick the populace to agree to a tightening of civil rights and increased state surveillance, which is what the ruling class wants.

But at the very least we have these examples of French stupidity:

France rampages through N. Africa with their NATO pals, causing chaos and death. This makes a lot of people there angry-STRIKE ONE

France supports militants in Syria who want to overthrow Assad. This radicalizes the fanatics-STRIKE TWO

A bunch of irresponsible French idiots publish blasphemous cartoons which insult the Prophet Mohammed, and piss off the same fanatics France helped radicalize in Syria-STRIKE THREE.

Now France is seeing 'unity marches' to protest the fanatics' acts of violence. But I fear that the French people, and especially their government, will in the tradition of classic western arrogance and self-righteousness, draw the wrong conclusions from all this.

Instead of clamping down on foreign interventions, and cease the support for fanatics in Syria and elsewhere, the French government will cry 'revenge!' and continue the same broken and dangerous foreign policy that led to this latest mayhem

Such is the standard operating procedure in western countries after a 'terrorist' attack.

What will most likely not happen is the realization by the French public and government that meddling in other nations affairs is not right, and adopting a more neutral foreign policy.

In such a fit of anger and vengeful blood lust, the US and zionist vampires will find fertile ground to push their evil idiocy, which in the end will only compound the danger for France.

What France needs to do is 

1. Stop its foreign interventions and bring their troops home
2. Adopt a neutral stance and not interfere in other nations' affairs
3. Severely limit or totally cut off all further immigration from the Mideast
4. VOTE OUT, AND THROW OUT EACH AND EVERY LEADER, PAST AND PRESENT, WHO ENGAGED IN THE INVASION OF ARAB COUNTRIES AND MEDDLING IN THEIR AFFAIRS!

The French have to shoulder at least a part of the blame for these shootings due to their reckless foreign policies in the last 4 or so years.

Their OWN leaders, and their OWN government are the supreme terrorists. They are ultimately responsible for what happened because of their decisions.

How fucking stupid can you get? You'd figure that after 9/11 other world leaders would get the point that invading other nations and tormenting their people will one day come back to haunt the invaders. 

Only an idiot would not see all this coming.

Cuba Beware!

One piece of surprising news lately has been the announcement by Obummer that the US will move to re-establish relations with Cuba.

On the outside, this may seem like something that was a long-time coming, and has received praise from many people-except for the handful of nasty malcontents in Southern Florida and their political whores on capitol hill.

It’s clear that for fifty years that the US kept the Cuba blockade going, it was not isolating Cuba, but itself!

Year after year since the 1980s the UN General Assembly had a vote on lifting the Cuban embargo. Each year the US, along with the Zionist shit-pit and a South-Pacific micro-stan or two, voted no while the rest of the world vote to lift the embargo.

So it’s clear who has been isolated internationally, and it wasn’t Cuba.

This blockade has cost Cuba over $100 billion in revenue since it was enacted. Think of how better things would’ve be there if there was no embargo.

But as good as this sudden US about-face on a very stupid and hopeless policy seems, there’s a cause for concern. Below are some suspicious caveats

For one, it’s very important to read between the lines. Pay attention to the way Obama’s statements are written, and it’s clear that he’s not after reconciling with the Cuban government, but trying to continue the policy of overthrowing it from the inside. He speaks about the policy of sanctions as failed, and then talks about achieving ‘change’ in Cuba by ‘engaging’ with the Cuban people.

It sounds like regime change from the inside, which has been tried in Ukraine and other countries, and which left them in chaos.

There are also strategic reasons to engage with Cuba.

Cuba and Russia are again growing close economically and strategically. Russian gas companies have discussed gas exploration off Cuba’s coast. Cuba also has a barter system with Venezuela, whose government the US hates and wants to get rid of.

So this so-called engagement with Cuba is a clever ruse to drive a wedge between Cuba, Venezuela, Russia, and any other nations who support Cuba whom the US doesn’t like.

It’s also an attempt by the US to sneak enough operatives, money, and equipment into Cuba that will be used to subvert the country from within and lead to a Maidan-style scenario.

There are some clues that point to this direction, namely:

-The US isn’t lifting the sanctions totally. Only a little bit of business will be done with Cuba, and the amount of remittance money that Cuban-Americans can send to their relatives in Cuba will be raised.

-In return for this so-called ‘re-engagement,’ Cuba must release political prisoners and dissidents, as well as allow greater internet access for Cubans.

So the US will allow conditions to improve just enough to make it possible to inject saboteurs and other subversives into Cuba to work for regime change, but not enough for Cuba to see substantial change that would give credit to the Cuban government, thereby weakening opposition to it.

-A few months ago this year the US voted no against lifting the blockade on Cuba, something that it has done consistently for almost thirty years. So why the sudden change? If the US was really serious and meant well, then it would’ve abstained or vote yes. It would’ve considered lifting the blockade months or some years ago. This is all too fast, and contradictory.

-Obama said that the economic blockade of Cuba has failed to meet US objectives, and that it was the wrong policy, but at the same time he sanctions Iran and Russia ever more.

It’s clear that this so-called rapproachment is just a way to isolate Cuba from their true allies, and bring down its government.

The US will NEVER accept Cuba as it is, and the only way the blockade will be totally lifted is if the island is ruled by 100% pro-US puppets for the economic and strategic benefit of the US, and no one else, including the Cuban people.

Let's Talk About the Rich

In today’s warped and narcissistic consumer culture, idolization of the rich and powerful has been turned into a religion.

The constant TV shows and specials about this or that millionaire or billionaire keep the vast majority of the public spellbound by wealth and falsely give them the illusion that they too can be rich.

Becoming a millionaire or billionaire is taught and implanted into the heads of the public as the pinnacle of achievement. It’s the aim around which everything revolves around, no matter what the ways to get there are.

But it’s all a part of the subtle brainwashing and conditioning of the dumbed-down public to see the wealthy 1% as intelligent and hard-working people who made their riches through good decisions, judgment, and sacrifice. People are manipulated into accepting the wealthy as good, as people to be revered and respected.

The insinuation is that ‘you too may be wealthy like these people someday, so you shouldn’t talk mean about them.’

This fake carrot has been dangled in front of the gullible public for decades now. The main aim of this false premise is to force the people into shutting up and stop criticizing the wealthy and their actions. It’s also to smear any person that dares to criticize the wealthy, and who airs out their dirty laundry of fraud, deceit, and thievery for all to see as ‘engaging in class warfare,’ being a ‘socialist,’ and ‘Anti-American.’

People who criticize the wealthy are demonized as losers, as lazy, stupid, and if all else fails, jealous.

This worship of the wealthy is primarily driven by the stale myth that every wealthy person in America got to where they are because of great ideas, dedication and hard work.

But the historical facts are not as kind to the rich. Self-made millionaires/billionaires who made their money by doing something revolutionary only number about 13% in the US overall. The vast majority of them were either born into wealth and inherited it, or earned it by hook, crook, and murder.

For example, JP Morgan, the great financier of the 20th century started his fortune selling shoddy and defective second-hand rifles to the Union Army during the civil war.

The other great industrialists were no better, and the immense wealth they enjoyed came from the blood and sweat and exploitation of their legions of miserable workers and numerous dirty tricks.

Today, speculators and hedge fund managers who make tens, hundreds of millions, or even billions of dollars a year are a great example of how the rich get rich.

These people are the vultures of society. They don’t do any meaningful and honest work, but get paid vast sums of money that the average worker will never see in multiple lifetimes.

There is no one in this world that deserves a salary of millions or billions of dollars a year, no one! It doesn’t matter what school they went to, how smart they think they are, and what position they’re in.

For one person to be getting so much money is terribly wasteful and unfair. How many people had to lose their jobs, retirement pensions, homes or life-savings just so one of these already-wealthy vultures could collect their $5 million bonus on top of an already disgustingly high salary of millions or billions of dollars?

How much is enough for these people? Excess wealth is a sickness, an addiction. It’s not normal at all!

No one in this world should be making more than $500,000-including salary, stock options, bonuses, etc. This amount is already way above the average working person’s pay per year.

Anyone who thinks $500,000 is too little is abnormal, period.

These excess salaries are also a drain on the economy, because it doesn’t get spent at home. It will be put into Wall St. investments and expensive goods in another state or country, contributing nothing to the local economy.

The average worker who’s given a raise will spend most if not all of that extra money locally, making the economy better.

So contrary to popular belief, the rich can’t save us. Their vast sums don’t equal more spending by the wealthy because they won’t go to the store and buy 300 pairs of jeans, twenty new cars, or buy 500 meals at a restaurant at one time. There’s a limited amount the wealthy will buy. The rest of the money they make gets saved or invested, creating no long-term value for the wider economy.


The very presence of millionaires and billionaires in any society is a sign of serious dysfunction. It means that there is a chronically uneven distribution of income, and such a situation doesn't bode well for the long-term economic well-being of any country.

My criticism of the rich is not driven by personal resentment. I’m angry at the ones who do despicable things to the people below them, and who profit from exploitation or theft.

If tomorrow I won $100 million in the lottery, my thoughts about the rich wouldn’t change. I’d still live a modest life, contribute to the community in which I live, and I’d give zero dollars to the Wall St. or hedge fund vermin.

My thoughts of rich and poor are inspired by Charles Wagner. He spoke of the bad rich and good poor and vice versa. Not all rich people are venal and greedy.

But most of the wealthy out there are jerks that just don’t care about those below them. This is especially true about the rich of today.

I recently read the results of a poll done where people were asked if they prefer socialism even though it means everyone has less or capitalism with poor people and millionaires.

Sadly, too many people opted for capitalism even though it meant that some people will end up poor. This is a sad indictment of the human race as a whole. It shows how very far we are from being truly civilized. That someone would rather have another person be poor so they themselves end up with more is just disgusting.

The rich are the ultimate representation of the materialistic disease that affects capitalist economies. It infects peoples’ mind and judgment. It makes them want more, want bigger and better everything. There’s never enough. It’s a constant race to out-buy the other person and show off that new possession, even if it leaves people in debt or ends in bankruptcy.

As long as this sick behavior is present in society, and people don’t learn to curb their needs and wants, and become modest, the rich will get away with whatever greasy methods they employ. And they will continue to be fed by the weak-willed people below them.

Russia in the EU (?)

The sanctions war on Russia has brought out two separate sides that normally don’t get a lot of attention in the media.

One side advocates EU membership for Russia, and the other is against it.

Let’s examine both sides’ arguments, and whether it would make sense for Russia to become an EU member.

The first side says that if Russia wants to show its friendly intentions toward Europe, and modernize itself, it should join the EU.

First problem with this argument is the veiled arrogance that any nation outside of the EU is poor, broke, and backward; that no nation can be advanced and move forward without becoming a EU vassal.

As if Russia, with its superior rockets, impressive military technology, and well-trained technicians and scientists needs the west. All that Russia needs to advance and modernize is peace and quiet, something which the west refuses to provide.

Second problem with this argument is that Russia stands to lose a good deal of its freedom and sovereignty if it became a member of the EU, just like all the Eastern European countries lost. This has led to a situation where EU members are forced by Brussels to support politically-motivated policies which hurt their own economies.

Russia knows this, and President Vladimir Putin has also stated this simple fact in public.

Third, if Russia became an EU member it would have to submit to rules, regulations, and policies from Brussels that primarily benefit the west. Worse, Russia would have to follow US dictat since the US is the political and ideological overseer of the EU.

Russia’s entry into the EU would be a total invasion and takeover of Russia by the US and the EU by non-military means. Russia knows this, and that’s why it won’t join.

Besides, Russia has the human, technical and natural resources, infrastructure, and the culture to survive and thrive. It doesn’t need a patron to give it instructions, and a crutch to sustain it with hand-outs—which is the situation with the former ex-communist EU member countries.

The second side is against Russia’s membership in the EU, primarily the US and its Eastern European vassal nations like Poland and Romania.

These countries are afraid that if Russia joins the EU, the EU would have to let Russia play a decisive role in economic and political decision-making. This is something Russia would insist on during any EU-accession negotiations, as Russia’s economic potential and natural resources, especially in energy, would make the EU a global energy giant.

It would also insist on the EU dumping it’s outdated and stale pro-US Trans-Atlanticist mentality. A new European-only security realignment would be created in which the US has no role.

Naturally, this would make NATO totally unnecessary as a nuclear Russia would be the natural protector of the EU, and could no longer be provoked and demonized by the US as a convenient enemy. Russia would probably demand that NATO be either dissolved or Russia became a leading member with decision-making powers.

Of course this would eradicate Russia as a very cherished enemy of the US military-industrial complex, which thrives from having Russia as an officially-designated threat.

Russia’s entry into the EU would not come free for Brussels. Yes, the EU, under heavy and unrelenting US pressure would try to screw and cheat Russia in the most creative and nasty ways, but Russia wouldn’t succumb.

So if Russia ended up joining the EU on terms favorable to itself, it would have powerful influence on the EU’s foreign and economic policies. This would result in the US losing most, if not all of its influence over EU policies.

Russia in the EU would make the bloc the richest and most powerful economically and militarily. Russia would also serve as the EU’s gateway to Asia, which would make transport cheaper and quicker with less peril as opposed to sea lanes, which the US can block if it wants to.

This would also cause Asian countries, even traditional US vassals like South Korea and Japan, to switch sides as well.

The US ruling establishment is scared to death of Russia joining the EU. Such an act would undermine US influence, and seriously erode weapons sales.

And where would the US be as the number one weapons peddler and the ‘Protector of Europe?’

Personally, I don’t think Russia will ever join the EU.

Russia cherishes its independence and not being tied to some ineptly-ran, indecisive bloc. It also doesn’t want to run the risk of being exploited and aggravated on a continual basis by the EU’s virulently pro-US ‘old guard’ and their newly-minted pawns from Eastern Europe, who would undoubtedly vote Russia’s accession down because of personal and historical hatred, and pernicious US influence.

Russia also wouldn’t want itself to be an unwitting vassal of indirect US control via pro-US EU regimes. This would undermine EU cohesion and security. Taking into consideration the two US/German spy scandals of the past two summers, it’s a given that the US has spies in high levels of Eastern European governments who will do anything to prevent greater Russian and EU cooperation.

Talk is Cheap!

Iran and the P5+1 group are currently in the 11th hour of hammering out a permanent agreement that will govern Iran's nuclear program and the lifting of sanctions.
 
The technical obstacles have been overcome, and the main stumbling block to inking a final, permanent agreement is the refusal of the US to commit to the removal of sanctions against Iran.


It seems that the US wants Iran to be under strict international obligation to limit its nuclear work, but at the same time get only limited sanctions relief. The US wants the UN sanctions at least to stay in-force even if an agreement is signed.


This is hypocritical and unfair. The reason why the US wants the UN sanctions to stay is because it obligates all nations to abide by the sanctions, thus isolating Iran globally. It's easier for Iran to go around US or EU-only sanctions than UN ones. 

Second, if these UN sanctions are lifted, the US knows that if it tries to pass more in the future it will never happen because Russia, and most likely China as well, will veto any anti-Iranian sanction resolutions from now on.
 
It's indeed strange that the US insists on some sanctions to stay even if an agreement is signed. This shows that there's more going on behind the scenes, and that this whole Iranian nuclear crisis is not just about Iran's nuclear program. It's also about other things.


Undoubtedly the US and the EU are using the cover of these nuclear negotiations to cajole and twist Iran's arm to be more compliant with US/EU foreign and economic policies. Should Iran relent, the west will certainly use Iran's increased access to the west, and vice-versa, as a springboard and tool to fund, form, and create 'pro-democracy' groups and other corrupt troublemakers to enact regime change inside Iran. This technique was used in Libya, with terrible results.


So those who think that these nuclear negotiations were/are just about Iran's nuclear program are naïve and foolish. There's a lot more to it than that.


Frankly, if I was an Iranian diplomat or politician, I'd be more weary and suspicious if the US DOES sign an agreement. Any entry given to the US by any country, especially a country with which the US was at odds in the past, must be strictly guarded and watched.


Judging by the back-pedaling, and refusal of, the US to commit to the total lifting of all sanctions in return for Iran's cooperation, I suspect that the US regime has changed its mind and doesn't want an agreement.

Why?

It's all about shallow politics at this point. The US currently has a democratic administration which has by now outdone the Bush regime in lies, scandal, and war-crimes. The democrats just lost control of the house and senate. The democratic party will desperately seek to restore those majorities in future elections, and that's where wealthy and influential pro-Israeli Jews come in. In order to get their money and votes, the democrats will have to do what these pro-Israeli Jews want, and the number#1 item on their list undoubtedly is NO AGREEMENT WITH IRAN. 


If this happens, Obummer and Hairy Kerry will just falsely blame the failure on Iran's "intransigence" and "duplicity" and most likely put some blame on the Russians as well.
 
I'd like to be optimistic about the outcome of this agreement, but judging by the vile and criminal US behavior in the world just in the last 3+ years, I just don't see anything good coming out of all this talking.
 
All I have to say is: Iran, be ready with a powerful deterrent.

Mid-Term Misery

The US has just finished another mid-term election, with Republicans gaining a majority in both houses of Congress. Now we can all be happy because everything will change for the better. Poverty will be eliminated, unemployment rate will plummet to .002%, wages will go up like 500%, and God will once again restore the US of A to its rightful place on top of the world as his shining beacon of hope and democratic holiness. 

And if grandma had a penis, she’d be a grandpa!

This election was just like the other mid-term and presidential elections: a farcical popularity contest of wealthy jerk-offs so rotted out through and through by private corporate money and corruption that I’M embarrassed for all those people who voted for these liars, on either side!

There is no democracy in the US anymore, only the perception of democracy. The wealthy, unelected elites and corporations RULE the US, and control the agenda. The recently-elected officials are their stable herd, sent out to pasture to do their bidding, and of course, to crap all over everything below and around them.

With only 37% of eligible voters turning out for the 2014 mid-term election, it’s easy to see how hopeless and despondent the American public has become. This is a truly sad indictment of what is supposed to be the most democratic country on earth.

But who can blame them? Because the truth is, there can’t be any change for the better within the current system. Regardless of all the patriotic propaganda beamed down from Washington DC and their mainstream media allies, the US system of governance, including its sacred bill of rights, is pretty much dead. It has not stood the test of time. It has been warped, twisted, and corrupted by arrogant and venal liars and freaks to serve the agenda of the wealthy and powerful.

There will not be any meaningful and lasting change for the better in the US without some type of unrest. But the longer people wait, the worse it will be. Non-violent civil disobedience is the first step.

The foundations upon which the US rests are damaged. The system has to be thoroughly reformed from the dirt up. The present dysfunctional political system has outlived its usefulness and no longer meets the needs, hopes, and expectations of most Americans. The present broken state of the country is a testimony to this fact.

Obama and the other bought-and-paid-for corporate-selected vermin can blather all they want about delusional notions of ‘American exceptionalism,’ freedom, and other kitschy pseudo-historical clap-trap, but that won’t change the truth that things are getting worse.

I EXIST in the US. I don’t look upon myself as LIVING in the US, because to live is to be happy, content, and confident of the future because the conditions in the country in which I live are conducive to such an outlook. Currently, these conditions barely exist. In fact, they slip away with each passing day. 

History has shown time and again that there's a limit to how far the powers-that-be can squeeze their people. There is a limit, and when it's reached, the results won't be pretty. The US is not immune to this. 

So the congress critters better change their ways or someone will change it for them, whether they like it or not. When that day comes, the FBI, CIA, NSA, the military and police forces won't be able to save them.

For now, this is just a word of caution.