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.
Friday, October 23, 2015
Bring Back the Draft!
I’ve been thinking about why the US population is so oblivious to U.S.-initiated wars and the destruction that they bring; both to the US and its foreign victims.
The average US citizen isn’t very bothered by the death, damage, and misery the US military inflicts worldwide. The majority seem not to care at all.
But I figured out why.
The reason why is that too little US citizens experience the military, and have to live with the nasty consequences of war.
This also makes most US citizens quite complacent, and ignorant of world affairs. If more of them served in the military, then they’d be more interested in what their country’s military does, how it does it, and in the ugly results of the military’s actions. US citizens would then hold the government more accountable for its policies.
US citizens generally don’t care about these wars and what happens if it’s ‘someone else’ who does the fighting and dying. But when everyone is expected to put their ass into the fire, they’ll start caring, because at that point it will be, literally, a matter of life and death for all of them.
That’s why I believe that the military draft must be brought back, for males and females.
This would finally wake up all these corn-syrup fed, iphone hugging, coffee-swilling lard-asses and pathetic flakes from their consumerist comas, and force them to think beyond just a few hours into the future.
When the military becomes a must, many of these people, and their families, would personally experience the danger, anxiety, and loss that comes from being in the military and from knowing that their son, daughter, brother, sister may be sent somewhere to die.
The age-old instinct of self-preservation would kick in with a vengeance.
People would start educating themselves about what is going on in the world, and would begin scrutinizing the US government’s every word, action, and policy. Protests against the draft and wars would also force people to wake up and educate themselves.
It also comes down to simple psychology: When people are forced to do something dangerous that may cost them their lives, they’ll start scrutinizing the reason for that action very closely, and won’t let propaganda, bare-faced lies, and manipulations by war-hawk demagogues to slip by anymore.
The draft would also do wonders for the USA’s bulging waistlines as well.
By bringing back the draft, US citizenry would finally start asking questions, and holding the government accountable for what it does. This would have very dramatic, and positive, repercussions for the entire world. Bases would close, soldiers would come home, needless wars for profit would have to be wound down, military budgets would be cut, and more people would get to live to a ripe old age.
Now, wouldn’t this be a better idea than perpetual, wasteful wars fought by only those who want to?
The average US citizen isn’t very bothered by the death, damage, and misery the US military inflicts worldwide. The majority seem not to care at all.
But I figured out why.
The reason why is that too little US citizens experience the military, and have to live with the nasty consequences of war.
This also makes most US citizens quite complacent, and ignorant of world affairs. If more of them served in the military, then they’d be more interested in what their country’s military does, how it does it, and in the ugly results of the military’s actions. US citizens would then hold the government more accountable for its policies.
US citizens generally don’t care about these wars and what happens if it’s ‘someone else’ who does the fighting and dying. But when everyone is expected to put their ass into the fire, they’ll start caring, because at that point it will be, literally, a matter of life and death for all of them.
That’s why I believe that the military draft must be brought back, for males and females.
This would finally wake up all these corn-syrup fed, iphone hugging, coffee-swilling lard-asses and pathetic flakes from their consumerist comas, and force them to think beyond just a few hours into the future.
When the military becomes a must, many of these people, and their families, would personally experience the danger, anxiety, and loss that comes from being in the military and from knowing that their son, daughter, brother, sister may be sent somewhere to die.
The age-old instinct of self-preservation would kick in with a vengeance.
People would start educating themselves about what is going on in the world, and would begin scrutinizing the US government’s every word, action, and policy. Protests against the draft and wars would also force people to wake up and educate themselves.
It also comes down to simple psychology: When people are forced to do something dangerous that may cost them their lives, they’ll start scrutinizing the reason for that action very closely, and won’t let propaganda, bare-faced lies, and manipulations by war-hawk demagogues to slip by anymore.
The draft would also do wonders for the USA’s bulging waistlines as well.
By bringing back the draft, US citizenry would finally start asking questions, and holding the government accountable for what it does. This would have very dramatic, and positive, repercussions for the entire world. Bases would close, soldiers would come home, needless wars for profit would have to be wound down, military budgets would be cut, and more people would get to live to a ripe old age.
Now, wouldn’t this be a better idea than perpetual, wasteful wars fought by only those who want to?
Sunday, October 4, 2015
US - Dazed and Confused
The US regime has been so embarrassed by Russia’s air strikes against ISIS that they don’t know what to do. In haphazard and wily ways, the US regime’s spokes-creatures have lowered their rhetoric to grade-school level.
At the same time, the US President admitted
that the Pentagon’s support to the so-called moderate rebels has not worked the
way it was planned, because the rebels consider President Assad their primary
target and are not willing to confront Islamic State.
“The training and equip program was a specific initiative by the Defense Department to see if we could get some of that moderate opposition to focus attention of ISIL in the eastern portion of the country,” Obama said. “And I’m the first one to acknowledge it has not worked the way it was supposed to, and I think that the Department of Defense would say the same thing.”
“Lavrov added: "If it looks like a terrorist, if it acts like a terrorist, if it
walks like a terrorist, if it fights like a terrorist, it's a terrorist,
right?"
So Kerry has a different concept of what terrorism is, and judging by the US regime’s past
flirtations with proxy terror forces, it’s clear that he means the US is
supporting terrorists in Syria.
Even former CIA director and retire general David Petraeus has spilled the beans about what US policy ought to be, and probably already is:
“To achieve victory in the Middle East, the US needs to establish and protect rebel enclaves in Syria, and launch another “surge” in Iraq, former CIA director and retired US Army general David Petraeus told a Senate panel.” (4)
From their own words, we can ascertain the following facts:
The bottom line going forward is that the US and its regional and European allies are going to have to decide whether they want to be on the right side of history here or not, and as we’ve been careful to explain, no one is arguing that Bashar al-Assad is the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft but it has now gotten to the point where Western media outlets are describing al-Qaeda as “moderate” in a last ditch effort to explain away Washington’s unwillingness to join Russia in stabilizing Syria.
This is a foreign policy mistake of epic proportions on the part of the US and the sooner the West concedes that and moves to correct it by admitting that none of the groups the CIA, the Pentagon, and Washington’s Mid-East allies have trained and supported represent a viable alternative to the Assad regime, the sooner Syria will cease to be the chessboard du jour for a global proxy war that’s left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead." (6)
Russian involvement has been
denounced as ‘unprofessional, ‘destabilizing,’ and ‘ineffective.’ (Such descriptions don't seem to apply to the year-long-plus US bombing of ISIS in Syria and Iraq, which has done nothing to blunt ISIS, stop its spread, and end their on-going control of Mosul, Iraq's second biggest city)
Russia has also been accused
of targeting civilians, dropping ‘dumb’ bombs, and targeting ‘US sponsored
opposition.’
In the litany of lies,
contradictions, and hypocrisy, the US terror-supporting racket has been
exposed.
Check this out from Barry the
Bomber’s recent speech:
“The moderate opposition in
Syria is one that, if we ever going to have a political transition, we need.
And the Russian policy is driving those folks underground or creating a
situation in which they are decapacitated and it is only strengthening ISIL,” said Obama.
“The training and equip program was a specific initiative by the Defense Department to see if we could get some of that moderate opposition to focus attention of ISIL in the eastern portion of the country,” Obama said. “And I’m the first one to acknowledge it has not worked the way it was supposed to, and I think that the Department of Defense would say the same thing.”
But right after this, Obama was quoted as saying:
“The problem here is Assad and the brutality
he’s inflicted on the Syrian people,”
Obama stated, adding that the US will continue to support moderate opposition
groups to ensure an eventual transition to “democracy. (1)
Obama
also lays down his final prophetic vision of the future:
“It was in our interest to make sure that we
were engaged with[the] moderate opposition inside of Syria because eventually
Syria will fall. The Assad regime will fall, and we have to have somebody who
are working with, that we can help pick up the pieces and stitch back together
a cohesive, coherent country.”(1)
Wow!
All that’s missing from the picture is for Barry to beat himself over the head with
a shoe while screaming ‘Assad will fall! His regime will fall!’
It’s
clear that Barry is becoming unhinged, and is having some sort of a nervous
breakdown. He’s visibly unable to cope with the mess he helped create. Maybe he
just needs to take some vacation and clear his head.
Does Obama really expect the world to believe that his
priority isn’t to overthrow the Syrian government? The entire US involvement
there is for that specific purpose. He’s just basically throwing his rebel
creatures under the bus by saying that they’re interested in regime change, but
the US isn’t.
So
which is it, Barry? Regime change or just fighting terrorism? You can’t do
both; they’re mutually exclusive.
Syria already has, and had a
legitimate national opposition, but since this opposition didn’t want to be
bribed and high-jacked by the US, and refused to support the violence that the
US-sponsored foreign fighters unleashed on Syria, the US totally ignores them.
Further evidence of on-going
US support for rebel groups in Syria which are linked to Al Qaeda, Al Nusra,
and ISIS has been forthcoming, much of it from the US regime’s spokes-creatures
themselves. Check out Mr. Hairy Kerry’s answer to a question about terrorism
posed by Russia’s foreign minister Sergey Lavrov recently:
Asked if he
agreed with Lavrov, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said: "Well, in concept."
"What
is important is Russia has to not be engaged in any activities against anybody
but ISIL," Kerry said. "That's clear. We have made that very
clear."(2)
Even former CIA director and retire general David Petraeus has spilled the beans about what US policy ought to be, and probably already is:
“To achieve victory in the Middle East, the US needs to establish and protect rebel enclaves in Syria, and launch another “surge” in Iraq, former CIA director and retired US Army general David Petraeus told a Senate panel.” (4)
From their own words, we can ascertain the following facts:
1. US government has been
sponsoring ISIS, Al Qaeda, Al Nusra, and affiliated rebel groups either directly,
or through their Arab sheikh proxies
2 US priority in Syria is not
fighting terrorism, but regime change for the USA’s own political,
economic, and strategic reasons; no matter how much they try to hide, or dress
it up as something else
3. US doesn’t really care
about what rebel groups in Syria it supports, and what their ideology or
motives are, as long as they can be used to fight the Syrian government.
This whole PR about ‘secular’ or ‘moderate’ rebels is bullshit. There never
were such groups, and the US doesn’t really care whether they’re moderate or
not. Also, the astonishment and disappointment of US officials that their
‘moderate’ rebels changed sides to the Islamic extremists is also suspect. The US knows those rebels were extremists from the get-go; there was no ‘changing sides.'
Russian airstrikes in Syria have exposed these things,
and the US is so unhappy with the fact that Russia is bombing their monsters,
that the US regime is practically admitting its supporting these religious
extremist freaks. This whole thing has caught the US in a PR nightmare. Their
criminal policies have been exposed.
Look at what the US regime’s wonderful Free Syrian
Army has been up to for four years.
Since 2012, Syrian president Bashar Al Assad has been
ready and willing to sit down and bring this chaos to a peaceful end. Putin has
also offered to help. But the US has slapped away the hand of cooperation,
while talking about ‘peaceful transition to democracy.’
If the US wants a peaceful, negotiated solution to
Syrian war, why does it even support any rebels there at all?
The truth is that the US doesn’t want a peaceful
resolution to the Syrian crisis. It wants to aid its rebel proxies to overthrow Assad, so the US can
then step in and have everything its own way in Syria. The US knows that they'll get more by using violence than by negotiations.
Even the US regime’s rotten ally, Saudi Arabia, is
exposing what it’s really all about:
“Analysts are concerned about the apparent escalation, which
many fear could further exasperate the already bloody four-and-a-half-year
civil war. An independent analyst told the Guardian that Qatar –
acting with the agreement of Saudi Arabia – may already have started sending
planeloads of weapons to Turkish airbases.
“I would expect a
huge influx of weapons into the north to try to blunt any ground assault by
the regime,” the analyst said. “The stakes are very high.” (5)
How much things have changed
since 9/11.
What happened to "Either you are with us, or you are
with the terrorists” tough-talk of George W. Bush?
It seems that today the US
just cannot live up to its own expectations, because it has decided to side
with Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in Syria.
Hillary
Clinton said on September 13, 2001: "Every nation has to either be with us, or against us. Those who
harbor terrorists, or who finance them, are going to pay a price."
Sadly, Hillary defied herself
when in 2011 she and her boss enthusiastically sent US warplanes to Libya
to aid ISIS-type Islamic fanatics and overthrow the secular regime of Muammar
Gaddafi. After Gaddafi’s murder-execution, she bragged about it in front of the
cameras, all smiles.
But at least the last part of
her quote is coming true: the US is paying the price for supporting violent
extremists in Syria.
There have also been accusations of Russia killing civilians.
Overnight, actually before any Russian airstrikes even started, photos of
maimed and killed Syrian ‘civilian’ victims of perfidious Russian bombings were
immediately posted on You Tube and social media. These images were either fake
or were made days or weeks before, as we’ve seen with similar atrocity
propaganda in the past.
For example:
Where the FUCK were these US/western
media pricks in the last fifteen years during which the US and its allies, and
Israel, have bombed, burned, and massacred country after country from the air, including
wedding parties and funerals? There was no talk of innocent civilians back
then; no! There was only ‘collateral damage,’ ‘enemy combatants,’ ‘terrorists,’
or ‘suspected militants;’ toddlers and infants included.
Why is the US regime and its controlled media
apparatus suddenly concerned about civilian casualties and bombing of
residential areas when Russia is conducting airstrikes? The US doesn’t have the
right to condemn anyone of bombing civilians after its own sordid and criminal
history.
The bloody and autocratic Saudi regime has been
bombing Yemen for months, and has killed thousands of civilians. Just the other
day a US ‘collision’ airstrike hit a hospital In Kunduz, Afghanistan and killed
civilians. But there’s no US regime and
media outrage about it. It’s being presented as just an honest, unfortunate
mistake; It’s all apologetics; it was simply unintended ‘collateral’ damage,
and everyone is just supposed to hug, say sorry, and let the US regime move on
to its next atrocity.
“Lt. Gen. Robert Otto, deputy
chief of staff for intelligence and surveillance for the Air Force, said the Russians
have been dropping "dumb bombs" — munitions that are not
precision-guided. The use of such indiscriminate targeting could lead to the
deaths of innocent civilians, he said, and create more terrorists than they
kill.”(3)
No one in the world has
dropped more ‘dumb’ bombs than the US
military, whether it was from their planes or their mouths.
And why are barrel bombs
which end up killing civilians suddenly worse than a laser-guided US missile
which kills civilians?
After all, the use of barrel bombs
was pioneered by the Israelis during their war in 1948. The US army used them
in Vietnam as well.
And who the fuck gave the US
the authority to decide which governments to overthrow, and which leader stays
or goes? This is blatantly illegal in international affairs, and the US should
be condemned for this, by the UN and by everyone else.
Deciding another country’s
government and leaders for them without bothering to even consult its citizens
is the antithesis of democracy, which the US professes to care so much about.
The US and its allies better be
careful, because they all have quite spotty, if not nasty records of war
crimes, human rights abuses, bombing civilians, and colluding with terrorists.
They better look over their shoulder so their regimes don’t get changed by
anyone else.
The fascist-infested,
war-criminal regime ruling Ukraine today is a marvelous example of US and
western double-standards.
"We
can all agree that when any US regime official opens their mouth about the
Russian airstrikes in Syria, the world is left more and more confused, and/or
disgusted about what exactly the US wants, and what it’s doing. US rhetoric seems
to change every few hours.
The bottom line going forward is that the US and its regional and European allies are going to have to decide whether they want to be on the right side of history here or not, and as we’ve been careful to explain, no one is arguing that Bashar al-Assad is the most benevolent leader in the history of statecraft but it has now gotten to the point where Western media outlets are describing al-Qaeda as “moderate” in a last ditch effort to explain away Washington’s unwillingness to join Russia in stabilizing Syria.
This is a foreign policy mistake of epic proportions on the part of the US and the sooner the West concedes that and moves to correct it by admitting that none of the groups the CIA, the Pentagon, and Washington’s Mid-East allies have trained and supported represent a viable alternative to the Assad regime, the sooner Syria will cease to be the chessboard du jour for a global proxy war that’s left hundreds of thousands of innocent people dead." (6)
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