It is not a pleasant subject to talk about, but the signs are around us.
The next, and inevitable, economic collapse may be just a few years away. Major economies are going through seizures, stock markets have been losing hundreds of points per day, and deflation is rearing its ugly head.
All the financial criminality and flawed and failed economic theories of Wall St., London, and their disciples have brought the world to this sad and sorry state.
Printing money and giving it to the big banks is no longer possible. There are no more tricks available to the “Masters of the Universe’ to keep their house of economic cards going.
The fraudulent employment numbers just don’t add up if one looks at them carefully enough, and the entire raising of interest rates is just a desperate attempt by the US to squeeze the chains around other countries’ economies, and extract more wealth. Gone are the days when finance served the global economy. Today the global economy serves finance, and feeds its rapacious fraud and extortion schemes.
The current world order is based on US economic superiority. The US has high-jacked the world’s financial systems and mechanisms, and is holding them captive to its own interests. The US is in essence a plantation, with the rest of the world as its field, and the people as slaves working them.
The US extracts the wealth of other nations through predatory lending and ‘aid’ via the World Bank and the IMF, which it controls.
Any nation that doesn’t want to be a part of this rotten neo-liberal system is seen as an enemy. These countries are then labeled as tyrannies, dictatorships, are sanctioned, embargoed, and isolated.
The refusal to subordinate their economies to the US neo-liberal model of austerity, wholesale privatization at fire-sale prices, depressing wages, raising taxes on productive labor, and cutting taxes for the wealthy, are the real reasons for the treatment meted out by the US against Iran, North Korea, Russia, Syria, and others.
Russia’s attempts to stave off US economic vassalage, and protection of its interests has resulted in cooked-up US/western destabilization campaigns in Ukraine, sanctions, dirty tricks against Russia’s military in Syria, and all kinds of false accusations.
The US is broke. The system of fractional reserve currency needs more debt to pay off the old debt. Therefore, any country which refuses to recycle old US debt in order to keep the US dollar artificially afloat, and thereby keeping the US from economic collapse, is seen as enemy number one in Washington.
Putin’s and Jinping’s decision to use their native non-dollar currencies in oil and energy purchases is a serious threat to the dollar. This is why the US wants to pivot to Asia and pass the TPP agreement, to prevent other nations from doing the same. But without China, that agreement is hollow since it locks out the Asian region’s and the world’s most powerful economy.
But the US bag of tricks is running out. Deliberately manipulating oil prices in the long run hurts US producers and US allies, not just those whom the US doesn’t like. Attempts to change the rules in financial institutions to lock out US adversaries and make life for them more difficult will only accelerate those countries’ alienation from the western financial system and their move to create alternative banking and financial transaction systems, thereby cutting out US influence and control over them. This weakens the dollar, and makes the situation worse for Washington itself.
The US system of economic carrots and sticks is no longer working. It is actually having the opposite effect, and is hurting the US and its allies.
The world now stands at a crossroads, and there are only two choices to be made:
Will the rest of the world’s economies destroy themselves to save the United States, or will the United States economy have to die to save the world?
Sooner or later, something’s got to give, and someone’s got to. There will have to be a winner and a loser. There’s just no way around this.
This brings us to the final, and the most ominous of facts that must be mentioned:
The only thing right now that can rescue the US from the insurmountable amounts of debt and impending economic ruin it has piled up on itself is a world-wide war. It is the only way for the US to reset its debt clock, and capture control of whatever of value is left, at least for a very long time.
This allows us to view US military interventions in a whole new light.
Let’s not forget that it was WW2 that finally got the US out of the depression, and the cold war to sustain it.
Will the US be mad enough to take this risk? Will its allies be mad enough to go along with it?
Thursday, February 11, 2016
Sunday, February 7, 2016
US Down and Out in Syria
After some months of hard-slogging, the Syrian Arab Army, with the help of Russian air cover, and aid from pro-government militias, Hezbollah resistance movement, and the Iranian IRGC, has scored important victories in the Norther Aleppo province. Their combined efforts are starting to bear noticeable fruit, and the scale is being tipped in their favor.
The pro-government forces and their allies have seized control of important towns surrounding the Syrian city of Aleppo, and have cut off highway access for the rebels which depend on these roads for vital supplies coming in from Turkey.
As a result, the city of Aleppo is now virtually surrounded by Syrian pro-government forces. The only rebel resupply route remains a highway through Idlib, but this road is very dangerous as Russian jets patrol it, and will take out any suspicious cargo moving along it.
The rebels have been surrendering en-masse or fleeing North toward Turkey and Eastern Syria. Rebel control is crumbling in the North, East, and South of the country.
Thanks to Russian firepower and the de-facto no-fly zone over Syria provided by the Russian S-300 and S-400 anti-aircraft batteries, Turkey and US are basically locked out from flying over those regions. They are unable to assist their terror proxies.
Border areas in Northern Syria are again coming under control of the Syrian forces. Towns and villages are being liberated, and grateful citizens are forming volunteer battalions to fight the western/Saudi/Turkish-sponsored terror groups.
The stupid Turkish move to shoot down the Russian Su-24 fighter jet in November has backfired dramatically on the Dirty Sultan of Ankara and his Turkmen minions, who Russia has decimated.
As a result, the mood in Washington and NATO HQ has been quite desperate. The US aim of regime change in Syria has failed, and is being effectively reversed.
US terror proxies are being routed and defeated.
In an act of sheer desperation, the US asked for a meeting in Geneva between Syrian government and the opposition groups, who are nothing more than US-controlled puppets, and which don’t have any real support among Syrians.
The purpose of these negotiations isn’t real peace and end to the conflict; it is a sneaky and underhanded ploy to con the Russians and the Syrian government into enacting a ceasefire, and stop the bombing of rebels so that they can lick their wounds, regroup, be rearmed by Turkey and the US, and launch new offensives. The US isn’t interested in true peaceful end to this conflict.
The US always opts for negotiations when it is losing, and failing to achieve its objectives.
It is important at this time for Russia and the Syrian government not to fall for this ‘negotiations’ deception. The Syrians have been burned by these ceasefires before.
Thankfully, Russia isn’t buying this negotiations nonsense, and sees it for what it really is.
One clue that the US isn’t serious about these negotiations is that their ‘opposition’ groups continue to make unreasonable demands, refuse to meet unconditionally, and walked out. Another clue is that the US insists on including known terror groups in the negotiations, groups affiliated with Al Qaeda and Al Nusra.
The US and its rotten allies have launched a propaganda campaign that they will ‘invade’ Syria if there is no agreement. This is a way to scare and force Russia and Damascus to give in.
The US wants a ceasefire, then use the lull in fighting to stall and drag out the negotiations for as long as it needs to rearm, resupply, and re-deploy more terrorists into Syria. Once everything is in place, the US will walk away from the negotiations, and of course it will blame Russia and Assad for the failure of the negotiations.
But this strategy won’t work. Putin’s plan seems to be to continue bombing the US-sponsored terror groups until a real agreement is signed. This is exactly what the US doesn’t want.
Now there is talk of Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE sending their troops to fight in Syria.
But the question is, who are these troops are going to fight? ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra? No. They will try to fight the Syrian Army and overthrown the government.
The US at this point is not interested in fighting terrorism; it wants these Arab tools and patsies to go into Syria to save the terror groups on Washington’s behalf.
Some US allies seem to be joining in as well. UK, Germany, Netherlands and others have sent some planes. This is meant to fight ISIS. The Arab forces seem to be included to augment US efforts on the ground.
But this is just desperate and deluded fear-mongering to pressure Russia and Damascus. The presence of these forces in Syria without permission from Damascus will be an invasion.
Add to that the fact that these forces will inevitably go against Russia. What would the outcome be if Saudi or Turkish troops started shooting at Russians, Iranians, or Hezbollah?
It would mean a possible hot war between nuclear powers. But with Russia in Syria, there won't be an invasion.
As stupid and deranged as the US regime is, even they realize that this will be suicide. They will try to send some more planes and some special forces into Syria, but it will be nowhere near what is needed to make a difference.
The US reaction to Russian and Syrian successes has been frustration and anger.
It is this very reaction that gives the US ‘war on terror’ away as a supreme farce, and the US aim of fighting ISIS as a sham.
For if the US aim was truly dedicated to fighting terrorists in Syria, it would appreciate and applaud the Russian and Syrian efforts, and would assist them.
That the US is acting in the exact opposite way shows that the US is only interested in regime change, and that fighting ISIS is a secondary consideration, to be undertaken only after pro-US creatures are in power in Damascus.
The Syrian army offensive also exposes the lie of sectarian hatred in Syria promoted by western governments and their media that this is a battle against Alawite oppressors and oppressed Sunnis; that the so-called rebellion is driven by religious hatred. Here we have Alawite Shiites, Lebanese Shiites, Iranians, Syrian and Palestinian Sunnis and other govt. militias of mixed sects fighting together against sick Saudi Wahhabi apostates of Islam. It is this unity that scares the US and its saudi and turkish cohorts the most.
The US is losing in Syria, and is surrounding itself with their Gulf Arab and EU whores for moral support. It is trying to huff and puff against Russia and Damascus, by hinting that there will be 'an invasion,' but elicits only a bored yawn from Putin and Assad.
This entire tragedy in Syria is the fault of the US and its rotten Saudi and Turkish cohorts. It is their training, arming, and aiding of terror groups and sending them into Syria through Turkey that has wreaked havoc on that unfortunate land.
The US plans for Syria are illegal, immoral, and plain wrong. These plans are failing because they are based on lies and unrealistic aspirations; and policies based on lies seldom succeed. Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia and others are living examples of what US delusions of grandeur and fake propaganda beamed down by their corrupt media acolytes lead to: failed stated drowning in violence and freakishness of the lowest sort.
Let’s hope that the scale against this fake, western-supported rebellion is finally being tipped in favor of Syria, and that soon there WILL be a real negotiation on Syria’s future, with terror groups excluded, and with the Syrian people having the final say—whether the US likes it or not.
For the US, it’s either this or WW3. So the choice is obvious.
Sunday, January 17, 2016
Those Clever Jews!
You’ve got to hand it to the Jews. They’re damn smart. They figured out an excellent way to get everything they want by acting like scumbags.
Their plan is simple:
1. Say and do bad things to non-Jews to provoke them into not liking and hurting Jews
2. Play the innocent victim--wail, cry, and accuse everyone you can for your plight
3. Collect the reparation money, and anything else of value from the world for free
4. When someone criticizes your behavior, exposes your racket, or tries to hold you accountable for your crimes, repeat steps 1-4
Judging by all the freebies and immunity Israel enjoys up to this day, this plan has worked quite well for almost 70 years.
Sunday, December 20, 2015
Vietnam War Vermin
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.
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.
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.
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