The United States border continues to buckle under the weight of Central American illegals (we say 'illegals' around here, not 'undocumented' or 'unaccompanied'). Tens of thousands continue to flood the border each month in hopes of getting through - news got out south of the border that 'now is the time to cross' due to recently relaxed immigrant-friendly policies, along with the perception that if border jumpers say they have family here, they can be granted temporary status with the *promise* to check in within 30 days for re-evaluation. Cause honor system always works here. Combine that with drug cartels chasing these families north to the border and you can see why this is such a chaotic state of affairs. Let me establish some context, because the mainstream networks are doing a great job of confusing everybody and covering up 'their guy's' tracks.
Many in the media will be quick to point to the oft-talked about William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 signed under George Bush that basically granted asylum to any child believed to be victim of assorted types of trafficking. Now Bush did nothing substantial to defend the border in his eight years in office (which disgusts me), but this law is HARDLY the reason why in 2014 we would see a spike from an 6,800/year average from 2004-2011 to 100,000+ this year and an incremental climb of 25-50% in subsequent years. That's a problem we can't blame on George Bush. Sorry Obamabots. Liberals are obviously using a form of Common Core math to equate 6,800=150,000=Bush! This is all manufactured to play on people's emotions. Check out the links below - they knew this was coming, and DHS even advertised jobs based on November 2013 reports of the influx:
http://www.usccb.org/about/migration-policy/upload/Mission-To-Central-America-FINAL-2.pdf
http://www.thedailysheeple.com/stunning-dhs-solicited-bids-for-vendor-to-handle-65000-unaccompanied-minors-in-january_062014
Anyway, as mentioned in a prior post, this is all aimed at achieving the Hegelian Dialectic of 'Problem- Reaction-Solution'. Flood the border with unaccompanied minors (80% are males in their late teens, it's not like a bunch of pudgy legged toddlers in saturated diapers are waddling up from Guatemala). Relocate illegals across the United States against the will of the citizens. Have the mainstream non-Fox media in your back pocket to sell the idea that it's 'all about the children'. Guilt law-abiding Christians into adopting these children, and question their religious faith if they don't automatically agree to adopt them. Infuriate the general public so that 'something needs to be done.' Whip out pen and phone and sign an executive order to grant official amnesty to millions of illegals. Game. Set. Match. Democrats win general elections for life, the country collapses, and government replaces rugged individualism and capitalism with socialism. This is what's going to happen. But it's not the brainchild of Barack Hussein Obama - it's the liberal wet dream of the Cloward-Piven Strategy.
Husband and wife political activists Richard Cloward and Frances Fox Piven (never trust someone who insists on being called three names) gained notoriety in the 1960's by developing a diabolical plan from their Columbia ivory towers. The strategy was straightforward - eradicate poverty in the United States by agitating activists within the Democrat party to come out in force through demonization of the middle class and ethnic working class. Pitch the idea of mass redistribution of wealth. Combine with Alinsky tactics of dividing voting blocs into targets, personalizing them and ridiculing them to the point where no sympathy can be garnered for said bloc. This also involved bloating the welfare system to the point that it became unsustainable for taxpayers to maintain without broad and far reaching reform. Basically enable the poor and destitute to rise up and crash the system with their new demands since it will be a public relations nightmare to do otherwise. Success would mean bringing in the right administration to 'do the right thing' and usher in a national system that guaranteed a salary for EVERYBODY, thus wiping out poverty forever. In the process, Democrats would lead this mission, and through their victory guarantee loads and loads of new voters. Because if there's one thing liberals like, it's free stuff that they don't have to pay for!
So how has Cloward-Piven worked over the past five years? Pretty damn well. Those on some type of government dependence have surpassed 100 million. Food stamp usage approaches 50 million. The left continues to demonize the rich, choke out the middle class through tax hikes, cripple the heavily indebted youth demographic with an unfair burden of healthcare premiums despite the fact that they face lower quality/lower paying jobs. Manufacturing ain't coming back, people (thanks NAFTA, CAFTA, and granting most favored nation status to China). Jobs lost pre-2008 crisis have been replenished with either 1) lower wage jobs or 2) more folks taking on a second job. That's not what you're being told. We have an unemployment rate of 6.1% (good), but yet have the lowest workforce participation rate in 40 years (62.8%, not good). The debt remains unserviceable, the country politically/morally/economically bankrupt, and now we are poised to witness the signing of an executive order around Labor Day (ironically) that fundamentally transforms this nation forever (didn't I hear that line on the campaign trail?).
The final stage of the Cloward-Piven strategy will play out as follows - Obama will sign legislation that in essence grants instant amnesty (was previously de-facto amnesty, so shame on the failed Left-Right paradigm that 'has our best interests'). 11-20 million illegals then become citizens. Trespassing will become legal, so feel free to exploit this wherever you go. "But what about the children?" The border will become a joke (ok, more of a joke) or dissolve completely. Wages will be driven down, legal citizens here will get mad, have more competition for jobs now. "But what about the children?" Since we refuse to do what Australia does with its immigrants (ie - admit people based on what they can do for the country), expect more menial/manual labor jobs, swelling of government welfare rolls, civil unrest, 'calls for sweeping change', and even phony impeachment calls (just recently voted down by Wussy Speaker of the House, John Boehner). Impeachment inquiries build compassion for the victim and allow the base to coalesce around him (so Obama benefits by taunting GOP with this - he WANTS them to push for impeachment, its the only shot the Dems have of keeping the Senate in November). The resulting civil unrest will cause more extreme legislation to grant some type of comprehensive welfare reform that accommodates these illegals. Taxes go up, middle class decimated, we all know the rich get richer (whether D or R in the White House), poor but legal citizens get poorer, and the Big G that we used to know as God (since thrown out of America for being too offensive), now becomes Government. Mission Accomplished.
Stay tuned for Labor Day......
Thursday, July 31, 2014
Thursday, July 3, 2014
ISIS Origins and Their Surprising Benefactors
2014 has been a wild year and its only half over. We've got a border crisis, a Ukrainian crisis, a 'chained in the basement' economic crisis looming, and out of nowhere, the Iraq that we have spent trillions of taxpayer dollars on, suddenly has to deal with a seemingly 'brand new' terror threat, one that is even WORSE than Al Qaeda (didn't think that was possible did you?). This post will give a holistic view of the ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and al-Sham) problem in Iraq - where they came from, who funded them, what do they want, and where this crisis is ultimately headed. Hope it's more interesting than another 1-0 World Cup game.
So first things first, I'm not a poli-sci major, have no history degree, am not an expert on muslim studies or geopolitical studies (so I guess that means I'm 'gainfully employed'), or give a shit who wins the Sunni vs Shiite war (I'm in the 'nuke them, let God sort them out' group, as they probably feel about us, so whatever). In case things get testy to any wimpy knee-jerk liberal reader who lacks contextual interpretation, nonlibs feel the need to provide disclaimers so here goes:
"I don't dislike followers of Islam. 99% are nice people. I know a handful of them and they are all good people who do not hold extreme and dangerous beliefs. They've been hijacked by fanatics and are probably embarrassed to even be associated with them." <end disclaimer>
Anyway, ignore what you are hearing on cable news, as its just finger pointing. CNN/MSNBC/ABC/CBS/NBC/PBS/NPR/NYT will all pull the 'I told you so' card with Iraq (and like a broken clock, they would be right). Fox News and mainstream talk radio will blame Obama's hasty withdrawal of troops (as if he put them there in the first place). Anything coming out of a Bush administration official should be summarily dismissed, because they were wrong. Their criticism of Obama is invalid. Stick to making fun of Obama on every other policy that he screwed up (there's upwards of 40), but he gets a pass on Iraq because YOU put the troops there in the first place. Hell, I voted for the Bush twice and supported the war and have friends who proudly served, and I can actually look back and say "Saddam was a piece of shit, but he kept these fringe groups at bay." Watch this 1994 clip from none other than Dick Cheney on how BAD it would be to invade Iraq, because it would be a quagmire from which we would create even more havoc and a power vacuum:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YuD9kYK9I
They KNEW going in that it would be a disaster that could give rise to extreme elements of a mentally unstable Islamo-fascist groups. But....but '9/11' so therefore all bets are off. Here's the rundown of where we are today.
Sunni vs Shiite Battle
If you take away one thing from this, its that the rise of ISIS stems from the boiling hatred between Sunni and Shiite factions within Syria and Iraq. Both sects have hated each other for centuries, and its not going to change any time soon. ISIS aligns themselves with the Sunni side of the fence (mostly Saudi Arabia), whereas Iran is predominantly Shiite. Both groups have had their core principles compromised by the extremist islamofascists, and much like the Catholics of the 12th through 18th centuries, they have themselves a public relations nightmare. Please indulge me in a Tale of the Mohammedan Tape:
This is a Christian capturing a lazy Cliff's Notes version of the Shia/Sunni war. If I overlooked or oversimplified, get over it. So here's the deal - 2010, post US troop surge, Iraq holds elections and prime minister, Iranian-backed Shia Nouri Al-Maliki retains power and refuses to tap his opponents for positions in his cabinet (as promised). Over the next three years, there is an antagonistic attitude against Sunnis by the Shia-led government, which results in unrest, rampant poverty, and job discrimination (among other things). ISIS breaks away from Al Qaeda after a handful of victorious village skirmishes, and breaks 500 militant prisoners out of Abu Ghraib in Baghdad. Fast forward to now, and ISIS keeps taking over large cities like Mosul and Tikrit (Saddam's hometown). On Sunday, they did the ballsiest thing yet - they declared an Islamic Caliphate across Syria and Iraq. That is a huge development, as this is the equivalent to rebuilding an ancient empire. Here is their new map:
They have declared a caliphate ("Islamic State"). Their five year plan involves Northern Africa, Russia, and most of Europe. Their religious and political leader is the newly declared caliph, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. They are deemed too extreme by Al Qaeda. No one is stopping them. They are planning to take Baghdad within weeks, and will basically claim the state of Iraq for ISIS, which has now just been renamed Islamic State. They've also just asked for all muslims to pledge allegiance to them (calls not returned by 99% of well-behaved muslims). All this in a few weeks span. US can't do anything except gradually send in hundreds of troops every so often. The Shiite government says they have everything under control (because Iran is funneling troops and weapons to them). Russia is also arming them, but I fear ISIS will cut through them like a knife through butter. But one question that no one is asking is this: Who the hell is arming these savages? Where did they get their weapons? The answer may surprise you.
It's no mistake that Saudi Arabia has special status with the United States. 15 of the 19 terrorists on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia (yet we attacked Iraq and Afghanistan). Saudi Arabia loses if Russia, Iran, and Syria unite to build oil pipelines through their countries as an inroad through Turkey and up into southeastern Europe. They also control the Chechen rebels in the Russian Caucasus, who also happen to be Sunni. So we have Sunni Saudi Arabia who gaves us Sunni Saudi 9/11 attackers orchestrated by Sunni Saudi Osama Bin Laden, who control Sunni Chechen rebels, refuse to stop Sunni Al Qaeda, and now we watch as Sunni ISIS takes over the Middle East. Notice a trend?
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and little cute baby Kuwait that we 'liberated' in 1991 are showing their gratitude by engaging in major money laundering in Kuwait. Funds, weaponry, and personnel are being kicked to the ISIS cause by wealthy Gulf donors. The splintered Sunni rebel factions in Syria (you know, the ones we armed against Assad last year?) are now joining ISIS in droves because of their hatred of the Assad regime. Saudi Arabia coordinates with Kuwait Sunni donors the funneling of funds through Jordan and Turkey ultimately to the rebel groups in Syria. It creates chaos for the Syrian regime as well as the al-Maliki government, which both have Shiite ties. It also keeps Iran nervous and 'at bay' in the conflict (despite Iran supporting the Iraqi government). But most importantly, chaos in the middle east fomented by Sunni terrorist groups, funded by oil-rich nations who NEED a petrodollar recycling scheme to stay relevant prevents a Russia/Iran/Syria gas pipeline to Europe. So again, I'm not a 'war for oil' guy, since we aren't benefiting from this (gas up from 2003-2008 followed by crash then up again since 2009?). I'm firmly in the 'war for stabilization of the petrodollar' camp. Saudi Arabia is now pumping 90% WATER instead of oil these days. They are desperate. Their money train (the US) is about to crash and their oil revenues that served them well since the Kissinger Petrodollar Scheme of the early 1970's will start to dry up. They can't let this happen under any circumstances. So they create unrest. They quietly and tacitly allow terrorists to run roughshod through Shiite strongholds. They harbor terrorists of different spectrums inside their borders. They've also engaged the US to help them train the rebels.
Jordanian officials have come forward to explain how the US specifically TRAINED Syrian rebels in Safawi, Jordan in 2012, with the intent on being used to overthrow Assad in Syria. Remember - we have Alawite Assad (friend of Iran, various high ranking Shiite leaders) against Sunni rebels. US was on record arming rebels in Syria, as we did in Libya. Except we didn't properly 'vet' the rebels. Turns out they were extremists and have now aligned themselves with what we now know as ISIS. According to German newspaper Der Spiegel and London's Guardian news site, we trained these rebels in anti-tank weaponry at a Safawi training base. According to WorldNetDaily, it also appears that A) Obama has known about the advancing forces for two months and done nothing and B) we also had a joint training exercise at the Icirlik Base in Adana, Turkey that also trained ISIS personnel, and it was upon completion that a good number of these rebels made their way through Syria to enter Iraq. To date we've given upwards of $150 million to provide support to various unvetted rebels, most noble, but a portion diabolical, maniacal, and pure evil. Obama is now asking Congress to approve an additional $500 million for the rebel causes in the middle east, but this time its for MODERATE Sunni rebels. To me that is an admission that we blew the vetting process in Libya and last year in Syria. Remember McCain going apeshit when he was accused of hanging out with known terrorists last summer? Poor guy sounded like an old woman who'd been ripped off by a telephone scam. "They sounded so nice...... I thought I could trust them...."
To reiterate, we started training what we thought were noble Free Syrian Army rebels, non-terrorists that simply wanted to overthrow the Al-Assad regime. Ok, cool. No beef with the US policy and Obama at that point. But then we just started training every Tom, Dick and Hassan without even vetting their background. Inevitably, Al Qaeda and ISIS started to take advantage of this and infiltrate the ranks. There was growing a rift between the two groups in January - while most stayed in FSA, many went to ISIS since it was the shiny new toy. The rest was history. It's almost like a redeux of the 'Rumsfeld armed Bin Laden in the early 1980's' meme that resurfaced ten years ago. The world is a wild place, and the enemy one day becomes the reluctant ally the next. My infantile brain can't process it.
So here we are. ISIS is forming a caliphate, we aren't doing a damn thing to stop it (although watch the slow, quiet ramp-up in troops. It started with 250 military advisers. Now its been upped to 300 new ground troops. Air strikes are expected if Iraq can't quell the invasion). Combine this with the looming Ukraine crisis I've spoken off twice recently, as well as the growing Mexico border conflict (I would imagine islamofascists are slipping through every day). Can you see a recipe for disaster if ISIS takes the middle east and northern Africa? Hit your knees and pray for peace. Until next time, Happy 4th of July to liberty loving Americans.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9YuD9kYK9I
They KNEW going in that it would be a disaster that could give rise to extreme elements of a mentally unstable Islamo-fascist groups. But....but '9/11' so therefore all bets are off. Here's the rundown of where we are today.
Sunni vs Shiite Battle
If you take away one thing from this, its that the rise of ISIS stems from the boiling hatred between Sunni and Shiite factions within Syria and Iraq. Both sects have hated each other for centuries, and its not going to change any time soon. ISIS aligns themselves with the Sunni side of the fence (mostly Saudi Arabia), whereas Iran is predominantly Shiite. Both groups have had their core principles compromised by the extremist islamofascists, and much like the Catholics of the 12th through 18th centuries, they have themselves a public relations nightmare. Please indulge me in a Tale of the Mohammedan Tape:
This is a Christian capturing a lazy Cliff's Notes version of the Shia/Sunni war. If I overlooked or oversimplified, get over it. So here's the deal - 2010, post US troop surge, Iraq holds elections and prime minister, Iranian-backed Shia Nouri Al-Maliki retains power and refuses to tap his opponents for positions in his cabinet (as promised). Over the next three years, there is an antagonistic attitude against Sunnis by the Shia-led government, which results in unrest, rampant poverty, and job discrimination (among other things). ISIS breaks away from Al Qaeda after a handful of victorious village skirmishes, and breaks 500 militant prisoners out of Abu Ghraib in Baghdad. Fast forward to now, and ISIS keeps taking over large cities like Mosul and Tikrit (Saddam's hometown). On Sunday, they did the ballsiest thing yet - they declared an Islamic Caliphate across Syria and Iraq. That is a huge development, as this is the equivalent to rebuilding an ancient empire. Here is their new map:
They have declared a caliphate ("Islamic State"). Their five year plan involves Northern Africa, Russia, and most of Europe. Their religious and political leader is the newly declared caliph, Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi. They are deemed too extreme by Al Qaeda. No one is stopping them. They are planning to take Baghdad within weeks, and will basically claim the state of Iraq for ISIS, which has now just been renamed Islamic State. They've also just asked for all muslims to pledge allegiance to them (calls not returned by 99% of well-behaved muslims). All this in a few weeks span. US can't do anything except gradually send in hundreds of troops every so often. The Shiite government says they have everything under control (because Iran is funneling troops and weapons to them). Russia is also arming them, but I fear ISIS will cut through them like a knife through butter. But one question that no one is asking is this: Who the hell is arming these savages? Where did they get their weapons? The answer may surprise you.
It's no mistake that Saudi Arabia has special status with the United States. 15 of the 19 terrorists on September 11th were from Saudi Arabia (yet we attacked Iraq and Afghanistan). Saudi Arabia loses if Russia, Iran, and Syria unite to build oil pipelines through their countries as an inroad through Turkey and up into southeastern Europe. They also control the Chechen rebels in the Russian Caucasus, who also happen to be Sunni. So we have Sunni Saudi Arabia who gaves us Sunni Saudi 9/11 attackers orchestrated by Sunni Saudi Osama Bin Laden, who control Sunni Chechen rebels, refuse to stop Sunni Al Qaeda, and now we watch as Sunni ISIS takes over the Middle East. Notice a trend?
Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and little cute baby Kuwait that we 'liberated' in 1991 are showing their gratitude by engaging in major money laundering in Kuwait. Funds, weaponry, and personnel are being kicked to the ISIS cause by wealthy Gulf donors. The splintered Sunni rebel factions in Syria (you know, the ones we armed against Assad last year?) are now joining ISIS in droves because of their hatred of the Assad regime. Saudi Arabia coordinates with Kuwait Sunni donors the funneling of funds through Jordan and Turkey ultimately to the rebel groups in Syria. It creates chaos for the Syrian regime as well as the al-Maliki government, which both have Shiite ties. It also keeps Iran nervous and 'at bay' in the conflict (despite Iran supporting the Iraqi government). But most importantly, chaos in the middle east fomented by Sunni terrorist groups, funded by oil-rich nations who NEED a petrodollar recycling scheme to stay relevant prevents a Russia/Iran/Syria gas pipeline to Europe. So again, I'm not a 'war for oil' guy, since we aren't benefiting from this (gas up from 2003-2008 followed by crash then up again since 2009?). I'm firmly in the 'war for stabilization of the petrodollar' camp. Saudi Arabia is now pumping 90% WATER instead of oil these days. They are desperate. Their money train (the US) is about to crash and their oil revenues that served them well since the Kissinger Petrodollar Scheme of the early 1970's will start to dry up. They can't let this happen under any circumstances. So they create unrest. They quietly and tacitly allow terrorists to run roughshod through Shiite strongholds. They harbor terrorists of different spectrums inside their borders. They've also engaged the US to help them train the rebels.
Jordanian officials have come forward to explain how the US specifically TRAINED Syrian rebels in Safawi, Jordan in 2012, with the intent on being used to overthrow Assad in Syria. Remember - we have Alawite Assad (friend of Iran, various high ranking Shiite leaders) against Sunni rebels. US was on record arming rebels in Syria, as we did in Libya. Except we didn't properly 'vet' the rebels. Turns out they were extremists and have now aligned themselves with what we now know as ISIS. According to German newspaper Der Spiegel and London's Guardian news site, we trained these rebels in anti-tank weaponry at a Safawi training base. According to WorldNetDaily, it also appears that A) Obama has known about the advancing forces for two months and done nothing and B) we also had a joint training exercise at the Icirlik Base in Adana, Turkey that also trained ISIS personnel, and it was upon completion that a good number of these rebels made their way through Syria to enter Iraq. To date we've given upwards of $150 million to provide support to various unvetted rebels, most noble, but a portion diabolical, maniacal, and pure evil. Obama is now asking Congress to approve an additional $500 million for the rebel causes in the middle east, but this time its for MODERATE Sunni rebels. To me that is an admission that we blew the vetting process in Libya and last year in Syria. Remember McCain going apeshit when he was accused of hanging out with known terrorists last summer? Poor guy sounded like an old woman who'd been ripped off by a telephone scam. "They sounded so nice...... I thought I could trust them...."
To reiterate, we started training what we thought were noble Free Syrian Army rebels, non-terrorists that simply wanted to overthrow the Al-Assad regime. Ok, cool. No beef with the US policy and Obama at that point. But then we just started training every Tom, Dick and Hassan without even vetting their background. Inevitably, Al Qaeda and ISIS started to take advantage of this and infiltrate the ranks. There was growing a rift between the two groups in January - while most stayed in FSA, many went to ISIS since it was the shiny new toy. The rest was history. It's almost like a redeux of the 'Rumsfeld armed Bin Laden in the early 1980's' meme that resurfaced ten years ago. The world is a wild place, and the enemy one day becomes the reluctant ally the next. My infantile brain can't process it.
So here we are. ISIS is forming a caliphate, we aren't doing a damn thing to stop it (although watch the slow, quiet ramp-up in troops. It started with 250 military advisers. Now its been upped to 300 new ground troops. Air strikes are expected if Iraq can't quell the invasion). Combine this with the looming Ukraine crisis I've spoken off twice recently, as well as the growing Mexico border conflict (I would imagine islamofascists are slipping through every day). Can you see a recipe for disaster if ISIS takes the middle east and northern Africa? Hit your knees and pray for peace. Until next time, Happy 4th of July to liberty loving Americans.
Sunday, June 22, 2014
Wheels Coming Off The Wagon
Apologies to my 2.3 readers that I haven't posted since April (busy forecasting period at work, kids activities, blah blah blah no one cares). Lots of stuff going on in the world and it warranted getting back in the game to disseminate the news that our lamestream media flat out refuses to report with any coherence. The credibility of the US government continues to plummet as the IRS scandal, hemorrhaging Mexican border, NSA scandal, Benghazi scandal, Iraq 3.0, VA scandal, Ukraine crisis, Bundy Ranch standoff are making the failed two party system look like Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels in 'Dumb and Dumber'. My renewed goal as I rejoin the blogosphere is to create friction among readers still subscribing to the left-right paradigm. You NEED to decouple ASAP from having a (D) or an (R) after your name, because both sides will let you down. They keep lowering our expectations. I defended Bush and he made me look stupid. Liberals defend Obama and he makes them look REALLY stupid. I see an Obama bumper sticker and question how the driver successfully got dressed for the day. But what's the common denominator? WE the American public look stupid. Stop looking stupid. I feel like this is a Direct TV 'Get Rid of Cable - Slippery Slope' commercial. Decouple, take a step back and laugh at how foolish both sides look.
IRS Scandal Rekindled
The Lying Lois Lerner Debacle gets worse by the minute. We're now hearing that two months after the steepest period of hijinx (January 2009-April 2011), her hard drive broke and the email couldn't be retrieved. The hard drive crash is dated around June 13, 2011. Ok, fine, whatever. Pull it from the server where every company is mandated to keep email backups. "The hard drive is broken." Yeah I heard you buddy, please retrieve these emails from the mandated backup server. "Yeah, but...but the hard drive is broken, we can't." You and I are not on the same page, IRS. I realize in lots of companies anything after 6 months typically gets deleted from local computers for storage space issues; my company has a 1 year policy. Others never 'outlook janitor' their emails. But everything is backed up on a server. See IRS Manual blurb below reminding us that copies of each email are placed in a Microsoft Exchange Server:
1.10.3.3.1 (07-08-2011)
And then this subtle implication (not sure what extent of service was, but even if they no longer do business together, a backup server process EXISTS):
You. Are. Being. Lied. To. Typical liberal response: "Yeah, but WMD's, Halliburton, Bush ruined the economy." Take a step back from ideology and read the above, and then put on your hypothetical cap and pretend the IRS was targeting liberal groups and a republican was president. Feel free to have the same anger and vitriol. It's the first step to going independent. So what's the resolution here? More stonewalling. Nothing will happen. Those that perform the best on the stand will receive promotions within the next eight months. One more thing - I mention above that her hard drive crashed around June 13, 2011. On June 3rd, 2011, Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Dave Camp, wrote the below letter to then IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman about the potential of unfairly targeting conservatives:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/non_6103_ltr_final.pdf
Let that timeline sink in for a few minutes. Ten days after the cat leaps out of the bag, Lerner and six others' hard drives start to magically crash, and the same IRS that mandates YOU the taxpayer keep 5-7 years of tax records, claims that there is no server with backups of employee emails. Methinks this letter got passed around the IRS like Ke$ha's vagina at a Grammys afterparty. Folks panicked and stuff got 'broken', 'disappeared', 'crashed', 'deleted' (insert other past tense verbs here), aaaaand here we are. Not sure about you, but I don't like being held to a different standard than government. What do I know, though, I'm just a racist tea-bagger, right Obamabots?
Hemorrhaging Mexican Border
Not saying this is necessarily Obama's fault, but the overall lack of border security has reached comical levels. Neither Bush nor Obama have done a thing to quell the flow of illegals. "But Obama has deported more illegals than ever." Cause his administration changed the formula. Now 'catch and release' applies, where you block at the border and count it as a deportation. We have tens of thousands of unattended minors being shipped up and dropped off on the border as we speak, mainly on the misinformation that any mothers with young children traveling to the border will be given permits to stay, and that US border protocols have been, como se dice, 'relaxed'. Families come in, husbands are quickly deported, then mothers and children are shipped to the closest US-based relative on the taxpayer's dime via free bus vouchers. Feel free to pass go, feel free to collect your $200. FEMA coordinates the process (you know, the Katrina and Sandy FEMA), while the mothers slowly fall off the radar within the mandated 30 days to 'check back in'.
And then THIS nugget comes out:
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/proof-obama-knew-illegal-immigrant-minors-were-coming-has-no-plans-to-deport/
It now appears that administration officials KNEW some type of mounting crisis would occur, so they started building up capability/resources ahead of time to properly plan the mission. This is what you get when there are three decades of inaction on the border. Everything begins to explode at once (driving down wages, giving up on strict border security, more burden on the taxpayer to support these people, spread of new diseases (oh yes, this is already happening), rising crime, path to citizenship ultimately culminating in millions of new democrats! Yay!!!! Soooo excited for my children to inherit this!
The gameplan is this - stage a 'crisis' at the border, pretend to talk tough, force the issue into the news so that the president 'has to do something' with his limp wrist, pen, and a phone. Boom - executive action to expedite path to citizenship 'because we are too overwhelmed at the border'. Cloward and Piven strategy (subject of a future blog post) in full view to weaken America and build reliance on government Watch for this to politically 'catch fire' over the next few weeks.
Malaysian Plane
Ummm.......pssst........it didn't crash in the Indian Ocean. In fact, it didn't crash period. Oh, it WILL crash, but not until it's retrofitted with new electronics and some unsavory weapons. Think of it as 'on sabbatical'. Next stop: Tel Aviv or some other ally so that we can concoct a reason to attack Iran/Syria (you know, for the tenth year in a row).
Ukraine Crisis
As widely expected, Vladimir Putin continues to play chess while the NATO/West play Angry Birds. He is biding his time, slowly swallowing up pro-Russia regions of Ukraine (Crimea through secession referendum, Donetsk and Lugansk through 'self rule' referendums, but for all intents and purposes, they flip to Russia's side). We've now seen a largely unreported explosion on the biggest pipeline from Ukraine to Germany, Italy, France, and eastern European countries. This was ONE DAY after Russia basically refused to supply Ukraine gas unless it is paid for in advance. This is called s-a-b-o-t-a-g-e. While it was quickly 'quelled', we should expect more of the same type of stuff this summer. I've talked before about how the US and Saudi Arabia have assets in the region aimed at destabilization. We've spent $5 billion over the past 15+ years fomenting unrest in Ukraine so they would turn on their Russian neighbor and join NATO/the EU. We are failing miserably, and our dollar will ultimately pay the price.
The method is this - we pay off activists/terrorists in the region to start skirmishes with Russian military on the borders, start fires or flat out bomb areas close to major pipelines, stir up civil unrest in the major cities, etc. Basically draw Russia in so that they can be viewed as the aggressor, and then BOOM something happens: protesters die, gas supplies get disrupted and blamed on Russia, and then we issue more useless sanctions on big bad Russia and Vladimir Putin. Demonize the opponent as a bully/jerk and public opinion for foreign intervention is an easier sell. We succeeded (from a public opinion sales pitch perspective) with Iraq, kind of succeeded in Libya (through a NATO invasion), got our asses kicked in Syria when the whole 'blame Assad for chemicals weapons even though it was really the (US-funded) Al Qaeda-linked rebels who used them' fiasco was exposed. Now we're doing it in Ukraine and out of nowhere, Iraq, with another attempt at Syria sometime later this year waiting in the wings.
So what happens next? Based on the alternative media sites that I read and insider intelligence/financial newsboards that I subscribe to (I have no connections, I'm just a loser with a keyboard so I need to get the info from connected 'sources' not named Alex Jones....so spare me the 'get over yourself, dude, you're not important' speech), there is....financial 'chatter' in the heavily manipulated commodities markets that include strong buy signals/'pings' on silver and a HUGE looming uptick in oil very soon. Oil spikes are indicative of market crashes and heavy/instant recessions since everyone, everywhere relies on oil for their day to day existence. BTW - Bush and Obama don't dictate the price of oil/gas, so don't blame them and make it political (just an aside). Additionally, there is geopolitical intelligence that suggests a serious escalation in the Ukraine region in which Vladimir Putin plans to do something drastic to 'resolve' the crisis. Both financial and geopolitical intelligence have a mid-July timeframe for these events. Again, this is based on what I've read and heard through recent posts. I shy away from 'date-setting' due to humans generally having a poor track record with this art form. I will say that these alternative media crusaders have been right about the metals markets, Syria, banker suicides before they started happening, the disaster of Japans economic policy, and the multitude of bilateral non-USD energy deals being signed internationally. Therefore the credibility of these alternative media personalities is through the roof.
Given the daily happenings in border skirmishes, the 65k troop buildup on the Russia/Ukraine border for 'military drills/exercises' and the intense need to distract countries from their domestic economic woes, my guess is that sometime this summer, most likely around July 15th, Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale attack on pro-Western areas of Ukraine, which will force NATO intervention. Putin will then unequivocally beat the shit out of NATO. Like, curbstomp them. Embarrass them. Send them running in the opposite direction faster than an NBA player on Father's Day. This will spook the world and our spineless president won't do a damn thing. He can't do a damn thing. He's powerless to do anything, because RUSSIA was the one that cock-blocked us in Syria. RUSSIA is the one that coordinated the chemical weapons destruction/handover in Syria. RUSSIA is the one that says 'You won't lay a finger on Iran, do you understand me?' RUSSIA is the one that just signed the Holy Grail gas deal with China, with $250 billion of non-USD denominated funds changing hands (so long, petrodollar). I'm no Russia apologist, but I can detect when someone means business, and Vladimir Putin means business. No red lines, no equivocating, no gray area, no fake threats, etc. He's a bad dude. You don't mess with him.
So that's a snapshot of my two-part 'Welcome Back to Trousered Apes' post. Later this week I will have updates on the emerging Iraq crisis (and our role as one of the benefactors of ISIS), as well as the widely expected HYPERINFLATION we are seeing in the food we eat, the energy we consume, and basically anything we spend our discretionary income on besides batteries and shampoo. Have a good week.
IRS Scandal Rekindled
The Lying Lois Lerner Debacle gets worse by the minute. We're now hearing that two months after the steepest period of hijinx (January 2009-April 2011), her hard drive broke and the email couldn't be retrieved. The hard drive crash is dated around June 13, 2011. Ok, fine, whatever. Pull it from the server where every company is mandated to keep email backups. "The hard drive is broken." Yeah I heard you buddy, please retrieve these emails from the mandated backup server. "Yeah, but...but the hard drive is broken, we can't." You and I are not on the same page, IRS. I realize in lots of companies anything after 6 months typically gets deleted from local computers for storage space issues; my company has a 1 year policy. Others never 'outlook janitor' their emails. But everything is backed up on a server. See IRS Manual blurb below reminding us that copies of each email are placed in a Microsoft Exchange Server:
1.10.3.3.1 (07-08-2011)
Don’t Slow Down the System
- To avoid slowing down transmission of information:
- Use Arial or another simple font on a plain background.
- Do not use animation, fancy background, "wallpapers," borders, graphics and photographs as part of your "stationery" or message format. Exceptions will only be allowed for special IRS Commissioner initiatives.
- Refrain from sending large attachments to work groups or audiences. Remember every email message and any attachments, embedded graphics and photographs require a copy for each Exchange server store where each recipient’s mailbox resides. Instead store the document on an IRS public web archive or SharePoint repository and insert a hyperlink into the message. Ensure the permissions allow access by all recipients prior to sending the message.
You. Are. Being. Lied. To. Typical liberal response: "Yeah, but WMD's, Halliburton, Bush ruined the economy." Take a step back from ideology and read the above, and then put on your hypothetical cap and pretend the IRS was targeting liberal groups and a republican was president. Feel free to have the same anger and vitriol. It's the first step to going independent. So what's the resolution here? More stonewalling. Nothing will happen. Those that perform the best on the stand will receive promotions within the next eight months. One more thing - I mention above that her hard drive crashed around June 13, 2011. On June 3rd, 2011, Chairman of House Ways and Means Committee, Congressman Dave Camp, wrote the below letter to then IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman about the potential of unfairly targeting conservatives:
http://waysandmeans.house.gov/uploadedfiles/non_6103_ltr_final.pdf
Let that timeline sink in for a few minutes. Ten days after the cat leaps out of the bag, Lerner and six others' hard drives start to magically crash, and the same IRS that mandates YOU the taxpayer keep 5-7 years of tax records, claims that there is no server with backups of employee emails. Methinks this letter got passed around the IRS like Ke$ha's vagina at a Grammys afterparty. Folks panicked and stuff got 'broken', 'disappeared', 'crashed', 'deleted' (insert other past tense verbs here), aaaaand here we are. Not sure about you, but I don't like being held to a different standard than government. What do I know, though, I'm just a racist tea-bagger, right Obamabots?
Hemorrhaging Mexican Border
Not saying this is necessarily Obama's fault, but the overall lack of border security has reached comical levels. Neither Bush nor Obama have done a thing to quell the flow of illegals. "But Obama has deported more illegals than ever." Cause his administration changed the formula. Now 'catch and release' applies, where you block at the border and count it as a deportation. We have tens of thousands of unattended minors being shipped up and dropped off on the border as we speak, mainly on the misinformation that any mothers with young children traveling to the border will be given permits to stay, and that US border protocols have been, como se dice, 'relaxed'. Families come in, husbands are quickly deported, then mothers and children are shipped to the closest US-based relative on the taxpayer's dime via free bus vouchers. Feel free to pass go, feel free to collect your $200. FEMA coordinates the process (you know, the Katrina and Sandy FEMA), while the mothers slowly fall off the radar within the mandated 30 days to 'check back in'.
And then THIS nugget comes out:
http://downtrend.com/robertgehl/proof-obama-knew-illegal-immigrant-minors-were-coming-has-no-plans-to-deport/
It now appears that administration officials KNEW some type of mounting crisis would occur, so they started building up capability/resources ahead of time to properly plan the mission. This is what you get when there are three decades of inaction on the border. Everything begins to explode at once (driving down wages, giving up on strict border security, more burden on the taxpayer to support these people, spread of new diseases (oh yes, this is already happening), rising crime, path to citizenship ultimately culminating in millions of new democrats! Yay!!!! Soooo excited for my children to inherit this!
The gameplan is this - stage a 'crisis' at the border, pretend to talk tough, force the issue into the news so that the president 'has to do something' with his limp wrist, pen, and a phone. Boom - executive action to expedite path to citizenship 'because we are too overwhelmed at the border'. Cloward and Piven strategy (subject of a future blog post) in full view to weaken America and build reliance on government Watch for this to politically 'catch fire' over the next few weeks.
Malaysian Plane
Ummm.......pssst........it didn't crash in the Indian Ocean. In fact, it didn't crash period. Oh, it WILL crash, but not until it's retrofitted with new electronics and some unsavory weapons. Think of it as 'on sabbatical'. Next stop: Tel Aviv or some other ally so that we can concoct a reason to attack Iran/Syria (you know, for the tenth year in a row).
Ukraine Crisis
As widely expected, Vladimir Putin continues to play chess while the NATO/West play Angry Birds. He is biding his time, slowly swallowing up pro-Russia regions of Ukraine (Crimea through secession referendum, Donetsk and Lugansk through 'self rule' referendums, but for all intents and purposes, they flip to Russia's side). We've now seen a largely unreported explosion on the biggest pipeline from Ukraine to Germany, Italy, France, and eastern European countries. This was ONE DAY after Russia basically refused to supply Ukraine gas unless it is paid for in advance. This is called s-a-b-o-t-a-g-e. While it was quickly 'quelled', we should expect more of the same type of stuff this summer. I've talked before about how the US and Saudi Arabia have assets in the region aimed at destabilization. We've spent $5 billion over the past 15+ years fomenting unrest in Ukraine so they would turn on their Russian neighbor and join NATO/the EU. We are failing miserably, and our dollar will ultimately pay the price.
The method is this - we pay off activists/terrorists in the region to start skirmishes with Russian military on the borders, start fires or flat out bomb areas close to major pipelines, stir up civil unrest in the major cities, etc. Basically draw Russia in so that they can be viewed as the aggressor, and then BOOM something happens: protesters die, gas supplies get disrupted and blamed on Russia, and then we issue more useless sanctions on big bad Russia and Vladimir Putin. Demonize the opponent as a bully/jerk and public opinion for foreign intervention is an easier sell. We succeeded (from a public opinion sales pitch perspective) with Iraq, kind of succeeded in Libya (through a NATO invasion), got our asses kicked in Syria when the whole 'blame Assad for chemicals weapons even though it was really the (US-funded) Al Qaeda-linked rebels who used them' fiasco was exposed. Now we're doing it in Ukraine and out of nowhere, Iraq, with another attempt at Syria sometime later this year waiting in the wings.
So what happens next? Based on the alternative media sites that I read and insider intelligence/financial newsboards that I subscribe to (I have no connections, I'm just a loser with a keyboard so I need to get the info from connected 'sources' not named Alex Jones....so spare me the 'get over yourself, dude, you're not important' speech), there is....financial 'chatter' in the heavily manipulated commodities markets that include strong buy signals/'pings' on silver and a HUGE looming uptick in oil very soon. Oil spikes are indicative of market crashes and heavy/instant recessions since everyone, everywhere relies on oil for their day to day existence. BTW - Bush and Obama don't dictate the price of oil/gas, so don't blame them and make it political (just an aside). Additionally, there is geopolitical intelligence that suggests a serious escalation in the Ukraine region in which Vladimir Putin plans to do something drastic to 'resolve' the crisis. Both financial and geopolitical intelligence have a mid-July timeframe for these events. Again, this is based on what I've read and heard through recent posts. I shy away from 'date-setting' due to humans generally having a poor track record with this art form. I will say that these alternative media crusaders have been right about the metals markets, Syria, banker suicides before they started happening, the disaster of Japans economic policy, and the multitude of bilateral non-USD energy deals being signed internationally. Therefore the credibility of these alternative media personalities is through the roof.
Given the daily happenings in border skirmishes, the 65k troop buildup on the Russia/Ukraine border for 'military drills/exercises' and the intense need to distract countries from their domestic economic woes, my guess is that sometime this summer, most likely around July 15th, Vladimir Putin will launch a full-scale attack on pro-Western areas of Ukraine, which will force NATO intervention. Putin will then unequivocally beat the shit out of NATO. Like, curbstomp them. Embarrass them. Send them running in the opposite direction faster than an NBA player on Father's Day. This will spook the world and our spineless president won't do a damn thing. He can't do a damn thing. He's powerless to do anything, because RUSSIA was the one that cock-blocked us in Syria. RUSSIA is the one that coordinated the chemical weapons destruction/handover in Syria. RUSSIA is the one that says 'You won't lay a finger on Iran, do you understand me?' RUSSIA is the one that just signed the Holy Grail gas deal with China, with $250 billion of non-USD denominated funds changing hands (so long, petrodollar). I'm no Russia apologist, but I can detect when someone means business, and Vladimir Putin means business. No red lines, no equivocating, no gray area, no fake threats, etc. He's a bad dude. You don't mess with him.
So that's a snapshot of my two-part 'Welcome Back to Trousered Apes' post. Later this week I will have updates on the emerging Iraq crisis (and our role as one of the benefactors of ISIS), as well as the widely expected HYPERINFLATION we are seeing in the food we eat, the energy we consume, and basically anything we spend our discretionary income on besides batteries and shampoo. Have a good week.
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Radically Change America: Choose Where YOUR Taxes Get Spent!
I decided instead of just whining about our worthless, incompetent, lifer-infested, self-serving, loser government, I'd start to crap out ideas on how to restore the country back to those who deserve it - the taxpaying United States citizen. My idea is far-fetched and 99.9% unlikely to ever be adopted anywhere on earth because government knows best. But it fixes a fundamental problem with our country - the misappropriation of our tax revenues. I'm basically proposing a survey that is filled out when filing taxes that let's the taxpayer CHOOSE (by percentages) WHERE and WHAT their taxes get spent on. Here's how it works.
Step 1: You need to be a federal taxpayer. If you are a taxpayer, move on to Step 2. If you are not a taxpayer, come join us when you pay taxes. Until then, GFY.
Step 2: When you file your federal income taxes, you will get a list of budget line items and a percentage next to them. It's almost like filling out your 401k contribution/allocations. Looks a little something like this:
The form will show what the recent spending allocations were, and you can then add in YOUR preferences on the right hand column. You will notice that the government spending is in brown highlights, because they are poop. Big smelly toilet bowl poop. They suck at life and if government were a person, I hope they would fall in a sewer, break their neck and then have their dick eaten off by a rat. Anyway, this is where your political leanings come into play.
Step 3: Create a transitionary five year window to ease in and reallocate funds based on emerging trends. In other words, say the first five years we see an emerging trend where taxpayers have asked to give less to the military and entitlements. The CBO or Budget Appropriations Committee gradually reallocates more and more each year as we get to our new 'taxpayer approved' budget funding amount.
Step 4: No matter what you choose, you are on the hook to have an 'off the top' amount of your taxes go to paying interest on our lovely $17.6 trillion debt. If that doesn't make you pay more attention to government expenditures and what the Federal Reserve is doing to print money into oblivion to monetize the debt, I don't know what will. Right now it's about $250 billion annually, and only going up (wait till treasury yields spike and it doubles). Scared or pissed off yet?
Without getting to soapboxy, here's my mindset as I filled this out (in case you can't figure it out, I've turned heel on the failed two-party system and am a full-blown libertarian):
Presumably, if enough people 'wake up' and start to question the government's ineptitude as steward of our tax revenues, we will start to see improvements. If a democrat wins, that won't necessarily mean entitlements go through the roof, because we the people have seen the wastefulness and have had enough. If a republican wins, that won't necessarily mean misguided foreign adventures and corporate welfare, because we the people have seen the incompetence and have had enough. Over time, military spending contracts (or gets reallocated to areas of military spending important to our nation's defense). Maybe removing us from other countries that we have no business being in will make other countries hate us less? Did that occur to anyone? Less terror attacks? Less reliance on foreign oil? Do we reinvest our tax revenues in energy expansion so that it's all in house? Who knows - YOU would get to choose that!
What else could happen? Social program funding begins to subside when we realize people got jobs 4x faster in the post-Depression era than they do now. Pssst - there was also a flimsier safety net 70 years ago. And they still got it done. What about healthcare? If we start reducing healthcare subsidies, will that perhaps change our behavior? Do we take care of ourselves better? You know one of the main drivers of expensive healthcare here is adult onset diabetes and preventable diseases that we funnel craploads of money into treatment because Americans are careless eaters? Through behavioral economics, WE could stem the tide of rising healthcare costs. Finally, we reform the education system because the usual sacred cows are put out to pasture and a new wave of thinking gribs academia. Charter schools abound, which are privately funded and have better success rates. Vocational schools help redirect millions of students away from traditional four year colleges where 80% of graduates choose a career outside of what they actually majored in. Over a 10-20 year period, we have the power to change the very complexion THE VERY complexion of the United States expenditures. Does this excite you?
Next post: radically changing government.
Step 1: You need to be a federal taxpayer. If you are a taxpayer, move on to Step 2. If you are not a taxpayer, come join us when you pay taxes. Until then, GFY.
Step 2: When you file your federal income taxes, you will get a list of budget line items and a percentage next to them. It's almost like filling out your 401k contribution/allocations. Looks a little something like this:
The form will show what the recent spending allocations were, and you can then add in YOUR preferences on the right hand column. You will notice that the government spending is in brown highlights, because they are poop. Big smelly toilet bowl poop. They suck at life and if government were a person, I hope they would fall in a sewer, break their neck and then have their dick eaten off by a rat. Anyway, this is where your political leanings come into play.
Step 3: Create a transitionary five year window to ease in and reallocate funds based on emerging trends. In other words, say the first five years we see an emerging trend where taxpayers have asked to give less to the military and entitlements. The CBO or Budget Appropriations Committee gradually reallocates more and more each year as we get to our new 'taxpayer approved' budget funding amount.
Step 4: No matter what you choose, you are on the hook to have an 'off the top' amount of your taxes go to paying interest on our lovely $17.6 trillion debt. If that doesn't make you pay more attention to government expenditures and what the Federal Reserve is doing to print money into oblivion to monetize the debt, I don't know what will. Right now it's about $250 billion annually, and only going up (wait till treasury yields spike and it doubles). Scared or pissed off yet?
Without getting to soapboxy, here's my mindset as I filled this out (in case you can't figure it out, I've turned heel on the failed two-party system and am a full-blown libertarian):
- We have troops in 150+ countries. No need. Constitution was set up to for DEFENSIVE purposes not OFFENSIVE purposes. So beef up the border and defense capabilities. Cut offense. Boost veteran benefits. 30% of my taxes will go to benefits and defense boosting.
- Cut Medicare in half. If you are over the average age of 78 years old, you are on your own for healthcare. It's been a nice ride, and if you make it to 90 years old, we throw you a big party and then drop an anvil on your head to kill you. All partygoers are onboard with this, and you sign off on the timing/circumstances. Government funds your party, and you can actually choose how you get killed. Ok 100% kidding, you humorless douchenozzle. Stop getting all worked up. 18% of my taxes go to the sloppy healthcare system.
- Cut social benefits. Food stamps cut in half, housing assistance, and supplemental income as well. You're already getting supplemental income by selling drugs. Let's be honest with each other. You're not actively looking for a job for 94 weeks but kick it into second gear from 95-99 weeks. I'm onto you. 12% of my taxes go to social benefits.
- Quadruple education spending, but to new categories. Let charter schools flourish, because public schools aren't getting the job done. Instead of throwing good money after bad, time to throw it somewhere else. My suggestion is to put most of the increases to vocational schools so that it dovetails with my previous suggestion in a prior blog post to redirect students who are not a perfect fit for college and would waste their four years with a stupid useless major when they could skip all that debt and choose a vocation. This changes the game and also deflates the tuition cost bubble (ever so slightly) for universities due to slightly lower demand. 13% of my taxes to education.
- Other neat areas to defund: International Aid, Foreign Affairs, discontinue $1 billion annual dues to United Nations, space is cool, but we've done what we've set out to do, so sorry NASA. But reallocate to border security (as mentioned earlier), and give our veterans more benefits (as mentioned earlier). This loosely takes care of the other 27% of my tax dollar.This can be a fun exercise - feel free to print out the image and fill this out yourself. I took it from the Congressional Budget Office website (I think) and made my own excel file with it. You feel empowered filling it out, and it helps you cope with the fact that your vote no longer counts in this country. So instead of being bitter about 'your guy' not winning, you can at least rest assured knowing you have some say in where your hard-earned money gets spent. But what does this mean for the future of our country?
Presumably, if enough people 'wake up' and start to question the government's ineptitude as steward of our tax revenues, we will start to see improvements. If a democrat wins, that won't necessarily mean entitlements go through the roof, because we the people have seen the wastefulness and have had enough. If a republican wins, that won't necessarily mean misguided foreign adventures and corporate welfare, because we the people have seen the incompetence and have had enough. Over time, military spending contracts (or gets reallocated to areas of military spending important to our nation's defense). Maybe removing us from other countries that we have no business being in will make other countries hate us less? Did that occur to anyone? Less terror attacks? Less reliance on foreign oil? Do we reinvest our tax revenues in energy expansion so that it's all in house? Who knows - YOU would get to choose that!
What else could happen? Social program funding begins to subside when we realize people got jobs 4x faster in the post-Depression era than they do now. Pssst - there was also a flimsier safety net 70 years ago. And they still got it done. What about healthcare? If we start reducing healthcare subsidies, will that perhaps change our behavior? Do we take care of ourselves better? You know one of the main drivers of expensive healthcare here is adult onset diabetes and preventable diseases that we funnel craploads of money into treatment because Americans are careless eaters? Through behavioral economics, WE could stem the tide of rising healthcare costs. Finally, we reform the education system because the usual sacred cows are put out to pasture and a new wave of thinking gribs academia. Charter schools abound, which are privately funded and have better success rates. Vocational schools help redirect millions of students away from traditional four year colleges where 80% of graduates choose a career outside of what they actually majored in. Over a 10-20 year period, we have the power to change the very complexion THE VERY complexion of the United States expenditures. Does this excite you?
Next post: radically changing government.
Sunday, March 23, 2014
Newest Craze - 'Motor Oil-Pulling'
If you are like me, you can't get through a day without researching the latest trendy craze sweeping social media or the internet. There has been much hullabaloo recently about a new way to detoxify - it's called 'oil-pulling', which is the act of swishing around any type of oil in your mouth for twenty minutes a day, and in the process you are bringing forth all of your mouth's toxins and spitting them out in one fell swoop. This can result in whiter teeth, fresher breath, stronger gums, a better night sleep, and lower overall tooth sensitivity.
I tried it for a few weeks and it worked pretty well. My sleep improved, my teeth got 2% whiter, and I didn't wake up with dick-breath every morning (ummmm....). But I wanted more. When I do an internet trend, I like to shoot for the stars and get out-of-this-world results. Balls to the wall. So I took this trend one step further and created my own journey - it's called 'Motor-Oil Pulling'. Boy, did I get more than I bargained for!
So here's what you do - go to your nearest Pep Boys and find a preferred motor oil. My go-to is Castrol GTX, since it collects soot and mouth sludge, uses only organic additives, and protects my body against viscosity and thermal breakdown. Obvi. Swish it around for 45 minutes (no less) and spit it out in a homeless person's face (if you don't live near homeless people, a lazy goth with black nail polish will do). You will notice things start to get better right away. Here's a few of the outcomes:
Blackened/Sooty Teeth
The first thing I started to notice was that my teeth instantly blackened. It appeared that motor-oil pulling does its stated job of collating sludge, but when you spit it out, the sooty glaze will linger. You might wanna get used to that, cause I don't think it's going away any time soon.
Mechanic Breath
After I spit out the oil, I noticed a numbing feeling in my mouth. I think it's cause I had MOTOR OIL in it! Whatever, agree to disagree. Feedback from family members and colleagues was that my breath smelled like the inside of an auto repair joint. It was so bad, I went to kiss my kids goodnight and their eyebrows singed the hell off! What's the big idea? I thought this was supposed to collect and remove toxins from my mouth? Why does it have to be so hard? Did my taste buds get sucked out too?
Creates Hangover/Increases Sleep
Normal oil-pulling techniques 'supposibly' (white person version of mis-pronouncing 'ask') cure hangovers, or at the very least limit them. Not so with motor-oil pulling. My head was pounding, I felt like I ate a cooler full of jelly beans that were soaked in Zima, and then had an anvil dropped on my dome. My urine was jet black, yet the consistency of sweet crude, which led me to the conclusion that if I professed a misplaced hatred of Jews and a willingness to behead Christians, then OPEC would consider doing business with me on a regular basis! My poop looked like fresh clumpy tar/newborn baby meconium. That's a normal side effect of oil-pulling, right? No? My hangover and GI issues continued for two weeks. And then I flat out almost died. Woke up each night, wandered down the hallway, stood in front of the bathroom mirror as I sized myself up, invoking the 'Larry David Staredown' in a hallucinatory state. Then I wet myself. I'd come-to no less than fourteen hours later and find myself in the garage/face down on the wet morning dew of my front lawn. But yes, a better night sleep was obtained.
Intense Skin Dryness
After motor-oil pulling for a month, my skin lost any moisture inside of it and started flaking off all over the place. Picture a pile of powdery eczema near the copy machine and multiply it by 10. The hair on my arms fell off, and I grew scales, black bags under my eyes and open sores all over my neck and genetalia. When people would shake hands with me, five layers of skin would fall off and stay in the palm of their hand, creating an awkward situation that 'deflecting with humor' couldn't resolve. My company tried to fire me, but I couldn't generate enough strength to hold a pen still enough to sign my severance package without leaking out blood and veins all over the document. I felt like a mix between Beetlejuice and Bill Murray's dead boss in 'Scrooged'.
Elongates your teeth/gums/jaw
Something happened when I started doing motor-oil pulling - my mouth region turned somewhat ape-ish. The teeth actually GREW a centimeter, my blackened gums started to pus over and grow up my teeth, and my bottom jaw began to protrude like I was cro-magnon man/steroid user. Combine that with my Armenian features and I was one step away from being in a Geico commercial/prehistoric exhibit in a museum. In fact, you could have hung me up mid-gait in the 'bipedal' wing of the museum and folks would think nothing of it, had I not been wearing a Brooks Brothers shirt and LL Bean moccasins.
Extreme hormonal imbalance
I flat out grew a vagina. Started menstruating oil (southern phonetic spelling 'erl'). Used mechanic rags in my boxer shorts to stem the flow. Got overemotional and developed an extreme false sense of urgency for everything. I lost the ability to compartmentalize the drama in my personal life and lashed out at others in the workplace. I refused to change the water bubbler when it was empty. I started snapping selfies of myself with a trout-pout. Started complaining to anyone who would listen about equal pay. Exclusively ate yogurt and salads, and held in my fahhhts for five days. Randomly called female associates 'girlie', 'sexy mama', and 'bestie'. I don't think coconut oil pulling yields the same side effects, but I could be wrong.
So that's the basics so far. Gonna continue this for another two weeks then may go back to coconut oil. Plus the jury is still out on this new fangled 'oil pulling'. According to the first dentist that showed up in Google, a man calling himself 'Dr. Isaac Yankem' (who moonlights as WWE superstar Kane) was quoted as saying, "The long term effects of oil-pulling have yet to be proven. Like any study, the results will be contradicted 15 years later by another study, so have at it. But using motor oil is ill-advised. You'd have to be mentally deranged to do such a silly thing." Well there you have it. My 'holistic' approach doesn't JIVE with the experts. Shows what they know. Until next time....
I tried it for a few weeks and it worked pretty well. My sleep improved, my teeth got 2% whiter, and I didn't wake up with dick-breath every morning (ummmm....). But I wanted more. When I do an internet trend, I like to shoot for the stars and get out-of-this-world results. Balls to the wall. So I took this trend one step further and created my own journey - it's called 'Motor-Oil Pulling'. Boy, did I get more than I bargained for!
So here's what you do - go to your nearest Pep Boys and find a preferred motor oil. My go-to is Castrol GTX, since it collects soot and mouth sludge, uses only organic additives, and protects my body against viscosity and thermal breakdown. Obvi. Swish it around for 45 minutes (no less) and spit it out in a homeless person's face (if you don't live near homeless people, a lazy goth with black nail polish will do). You will notice things start to get better right away. Here's a few of the outcomes:
Blackened/Sooty Teeth
The first thing I started to notice was that my teeth instantly blackened. It appeared that motor-oil pulling does its stated job of collating sludge, but when you spit it out, the sooty glaze will linger. You might wanna get used to that, cause I don't think it's going away any time soon.
Mechanic Breath
After I spit out the oil, I noticed a numbing feeling in my mouth. I think it's cause I had MOTOR OIL in it! Whatever, agree to disagree. Feedback from family members and colleagues was that my breath smelled like the inside of an auto repair joint. It was so bad, I went to kiss my kids goodnight and their eyebrows singed the hell off! What's the big idea? I thought this was supposed to collect and remove toxins from my mouth? Why does it have to be so hard? Did my taste buds get sucked out too?
Creates Hangover/Increases Sleep
Normal oil-pulling techniques 'supposibly' (white person version of mis-pronouncing 'ask') cure hangovers, or at the very least limit them. Not so with motor-oil pulling. My head was pounding, I felt like I ate a cooler full of jelly beans that were soaked in Zima, and then had an anvil dropped on my dome. My urine was jet black, yet the consistency of sweet crude, which led me to the conclusion that if I professed a misplaced hatred of Jews and a willingness to behead Christians, then OPEC would consider doing business with me on a regular basis! My poop looked like fresh clumpy tar/newborn baby meconium. That's a normal side effect of oil-pulling, right? No? My hangover and GI issues continued for two weeks. And then I flat out almost died. Woke up each night, wandered down the hallway, stood in front of the bathroom mirror as I sized myself up, invoking the 'Larry David Staredown' in a hallucinatory state. Then I wet myself. I'd come-to no less than fourteen hours later and find myself in the garage/face down on the wet morning dew of my front lawn. But yes, a better night sleep was obtained.
Intense Skin Dryness
After motor-oil pulling for a month, my skin lost any moisture inside of it and started flaking off all over the place. Picture a pile of powdery eczema near the copy machine and multiply it by 10. The hair on my arms fell off, and I grew scales, black bags under my eyes and open sores all over my neck and genetalia. When people would shake hands with me, five layers of skin would fall off and stay in the palm of their hand, creating an awkward situation that 'deflecting with humor' couldn't resolve. My company tried to fire me, but I couldn't generate enough strength to hold a pen still enough to sign my severance package without leaking out blood and veins all over the document. I felt like a mix between Beetlejuice and Bill Murray's dead boss in 'Scrooged'.
Elongates your teeth/gums/jaw
Something happened when I started doing motor-oil pulling - my mouth region turned somewhat ape-ish. The teeth actually GREW a centimeter, my blackened gums started to pus over and grow up my teeth, and my bottom jaw began to protrude like I was cro-magnon man/steroid user. Combine that with my Armenian features and I was one step away from being in a Geico commercial/prehistoric exhibit in a museum. In fact, you could have hung me up mid-gait in the 'bipedal' wing of the museum and folks would think nothing of it, had I not been wearing a Brooks Brothers shirt and LL Bean moccasins.
Extreme hormonal imbalance
I flat out grew a vagina. Started menstruating oil (southern phonetic spelling 'erl'). Used mechanic rags in my boxer shorts to stem the flow. Got overemotional and developed an extreme false sense of urgency for everything. I lost the ability to compartmentalize the drama in my personal life and lashed out at others in the workplace. I refused to change the water bubbler when it was empty. I started snapping selfies of myself with a trout-pout. Started complaining to anyone who would listen about equal pay. Exclusively ate yogurt and salads, and held in my fahhhts for five days. Randomly called female associates 'girlie', 'sexy mama', and 'bestie'. I don't think coconut oil pulling yields the same side effects, but I could be wrong.
So that's the basics so far. Gonna continue this for another two weeks then may go back to coconut oil. Plus the jury is still out on this new fangled 'oil pulling'. According to the first dentist that showed up in Google, a man calling himself 'Dr. Isaac Yankem' (who moonlights as WWE superstar Kane) was quoted as saying, "The long term effects of oil-pulling have yet to be proven. Like any study, the results will be contradicted 15 years later by another study, so have at it. But using motor oil is ill-advised. You'd have to be mentally deranged to do such a silly thing." Well there you have it. My 'holistic' approach doesn't JIVE with the experts. Shows what they know. Until next time....
Sunday, March 16, 2014
The Next Penn State In The Making? New Hampshire Colleges Caught With Their Pants Down
It recently came to light in the New Hampshire local news that a close friend of mine was the victim of several sexually explicit overtures during his time at New England College by a trusted member of the community, the former head men's basketball coach (look it up). Arguably worse, when my friend and his teammates (also victims of this individual's sexual abuse) told NEC school officials, they did nothing....sound familiar? As this story unfolds, we could be potentially looking at a large-scale cover-up of sexual abuse on multiple college campuses in one concentrated area. These institutions and their "guidelines to protect the students" they are "sworn to protect" are ironically the SAME "guidelines" that these child sexual predators are using for their own protection. What might soon be uncovered in NH, is a raw look into "how" these predators swarm our college campuses like a plague of locusts only seen or heard of in Biblical times. Make no mistake about it parents, friends and neighbors - this is a problem of epic proportions...one that affects us all NOW and for the foreseeable future...
In 2014, after the national spectacle of Penn St./Jerry Sandusky, the atrocities that were performed, not only by Sandusky, but everyone that covered it up, are apparently being repeated on an albeit smaller scale. How can this happen again? Didn't we as a society set a scary enough precedent/example by punishing Penn St. and Jerry Sandusky? Didn't we send a message to the perverts that were still on campuses or thinking about making school campuses their "safe havens"? Apparently not! Not as a legal system, or as citizens!!! I thought the children were our future according to Whitney Houston? How can we have the moral authority on anything when we don't even act to protect our own? Now in NH, as in the Penn St. case, this is about to turn into an out of control freight train...we find out that numerous people and organizations that have the power and authority to take action, did quite the opposite...it appears this individual's work roles on campus via a school website page were deleted while an ongoing investigation is still going on (no indication who performed this 'scrubbing'), and not nearly enough resources were allocated to investigate even though the campus knew the severity of the problem. These kinds of allegations are always a nightmare for an institution, especially in the aftermath of the Jerry Sandusky scandal here in Pennsylvania. But the collective 'deer in headlights' response by these blowhards to any accusation is comical yet predictable. Nobody wants this stuff to happen, and nobody intends to cover it up. But what inevitably happens every single time is just the opposite of the intended response - the issues get covered up and eventually the poop starts leaking out the top like a clogged toilet. And instead of pie on their face, it's fecal matter. THAT is what the University System of New Hampshire is now dealing with. Let's quickly go back in time and recap the allegations.
New England College
Before I go any further, this is all part of the public record and corroborated by other parties as determined by the academic institution, culminating in the termination of said employee, so I'm not trying to be a 'super-sleuth' and destroy someone's reputation for no reason. Read the Keene Sentinel newspaper for a great summary of this (what follows below is the detailed CONTENT of what led to this individual's termination). Ok, so a former head coach of New England College's mens basketball team garnered a creepy reputation by constantly asking his players sexual questions about their genitals and what kind of sexual acts they like to perform. He would gain his players' trust and then ask the normal basketball questions like (WARNING: GRAPHIC):
- "How big is your penis?"
- "How, and how much do you masturbate?"
- "Rate the players penis sizes on the team from biggest to smallest."
- "How long do you last when you masturbate?"
- "Would you like me to tell you ways you can last longer?"
- On a few occasions would also be masturbating on the phone while asking a common player/coach question like, "Would you like to stay over my house? I only have bunk-beds but that's ok, kiddo, you can have the bottom."
Keene State College
This individual resurfaced as the Director of Basketball Operations, program coordinator at the Youth Student Center, and ran the Nite Owl Cafe at the student center. He was also the 'voice' of Keene State's athletic broadcasts, culminating in a tenure as Director of Basketball Operations for the school in 2010. Unfortunately, they were employing a sexual deviant all along and no action was taken to rid the community of him. The claims from NEC victims started in 2005, to the then athletic director, and then began pouring in May of 2011 by multiple past NEC players. What did the senior leadership including athletic directors and mens basketball coaching staff of Keene State College do about these serious allegations? NOTHING! Sound familiar? How could a guy so involved in the school community be a perv? This just can't be! As a devout Catholic, I'm overly sensitive to pedophiles and others of their ilk being allowed to simply 'move jobs' and sweep stuff under the carpet. Nobody has any patience for it, and it seems like we as a society always instantaneously blame the whistleblowers whenever our rosy view of reality is tampered with. This looming 'scandal' is no different.
University of New Hampshire
Last week, news broke of a UNH athletics employee who was terminated and subsequently arrested for locker room voyeurism, which was alleged to have included secretly photographing players changing after a game. Yet another member of the community who volunteers his time with lots of athletic and community programs. How could he ever do such a thing? Anyway, when confronted by police via a search warrant, he hastily tried to hide/destroy evidence on his cell phone and generally engaged in resisting arrest. Preeeeeetttty sure that constitutes tampering or falsifying evidence, brosef. But I'm sure you weren't hiding anything related to your spelunking. No confirmation of whether or not he asked the police officers if they needed to take a quick shower or not before their search.
So now we have three New Hampshire schools embroiled in less-than-savory happenings, and the question begs to be asked - are these events linked? What is being done to keep creepers like this off of university campuses? Is there a 'coaching tree' that arranges for these sleazeballs to land work at basketball institutions across New Hampshire? Rumors at Penn State is that Sandusky was part of a larger child prostitution/rape ring with wealthy community members - is this a Division III version of that in NH? How did the NEC coach become a coach so quickly and rise to a prominent rank in the athletic community despite a three year stint at Bank of America in the years preceding his head coaching gig? Why weren't emails responded to at NEC when complaints were filed? Why weren't they responded to at KSC? How did UNH let this video camera creeper into their inner circle? Is there someone connected to these two perverts? Have investigators looked in to WHO brought these men to campus? Is mens basketball such a sacred cow at these schools that sexual deviants must have their acts swept under the carpet? WHO HIRES THESE PEOPLE?!?!?
Luckily, things are moving. To her credit, New Hampshire Governor Margaret Hassan has reached out to Todd Leach, chancellor of the University System of New Hampshire (USNH) to make any findings from these investigations available to the general public. Contrast this response to the response of current Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett (then State Attorney General) - an insistence on more victims before fast-tracking the case and applying the full-court press on the investigation. Feet Dragging 101. He was also interested in running for governor at the time, so naturally didn't give this the time of day. Finally, it was Penn State and Joe Paterno's football program. We can't let anything disturb that. Hassan at least appears to get it (conveniently in an election year). Here's a recent letter that she sent out - so kudos to her acting as quickly as she could:
But it needs to go beyond that. Listening to school personnel spew platitudes about how they have a specific process and protocol for these types of cases and then constantly breaking that protocol and panicking when trouble lurks does not instill faith in the student community. Ignoring emails, hoping they'll go away, and allowing staff to move on to different gigs is no different than what's going on in the Vatican and various archdioceses (sp?) across the globe. Let's hope this spate of scandals is the last for quite some time. More to follow as things heat up!
Sunday, March 2, 2014
Cold War II: Ukraine and the Proxy War with Russia (Or "What The Lamestream Media Isn't Reporting")
The news has been ablaze with Ukraine coverage over the past two weeks, and my fellow slovenly Americans have had to actually put down their iPhones for two minutes and look up Ukraine on a map. Just kidding, they have the MapApp so they luckily don't need to surgically detach the device. Phew.
We are witnessing the latest chapter in the long fall that is the petrodollar's imminent demise. If you think the US is a conscientious objector, you are dead wrong, and you should probably consider getting your news from somewhere OUTSIDE of the mainstream media (and that includes Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, NYT, WashPost, WSJ and countless other news media - PS - if you are calculating in your head, 82% of those networks/publications just listed are liberal leaning, so in my book the news media is still biased). They operate in five second sound bytes - alternative media doesn't. So let me break it down for you.
What's Happening Now?
First and foremost, I'm not supporting anything the West (US/Europe) does with Ukraine, nor am I actually supporting anything Russia is doing with Ukraine. But you need to hear something other than "Putin is being a mean bully and Obama is a pussy." Cause that's what the US media is pushing. You see, the US wants Ukraine to fall into anarchy, only to have the IMF and NATO pick up the pieces, bail them out, and suck them into the vacuum that is the European Union. Doing so keeps Russia isolated, unable to expand it's natural gas empire as fast as they would have liked. The 21st century has quickly evolved away from military-driven warfare to covert, bankrolled proxy wars where local dissidents are paid off to cause trouble (see Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria to name a few, and now Ukraine). Did you know that the US has spent $5 billion over the past twenty years pushing for Ukraine to detach itself from Russia and conduct itself like a wannabe EU-eligible country? Don't believe me? Jerk off to this, Kool-Aid-drinking faux patriot:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm
Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland let it slip that we have been pushing for a new Ukrainian government for four years, ever since pro-Russia leaning Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (democratically elected) took power. He's always maintained close ties to Moscow, so by default he is a thorn in the side to the West. Like any other country, Ukraine eventually fell on hard times and needed a bailout. The past two parties in power in the Ukraine were wildly corrupt and have somehow lost billions of dollars and run the country into the ground (sounds like the US). The citizens wanted the EU to bail them out, which would be a condition-laden package pulled together by the IMF that would basically culiminate in abandoning their sovereignty and local currency (the hryvnia) by folding themselves in with the European Union (an insolvent leviathan that has spawned the PIIGS nations of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, among 10+ others, fraught with high unemployment, negative growth, civil unrest, technical default, and downward-spiraling standards of living). President Yanukovych basically saw this and said "yeahhh.....we're gonna go ahead and just ask for a no strings attached $15 billion loan from Russia." This did not sit well with the country, and here we are. Unfortunately, peaceful protesters were killed and injured. That part sucks, I wish it never happened. However, it is on record that billionaire globalist rabble-rouser George Soros has thrown millions of dollars to central European activist NGO's to destabilize governments that his ilk don't like.
Combined with the more subtle US/Western involvement in destabilizing the region, it now becomes clear that Ukraine is basically Egypt all over again. Cause that worked out well (fund protests and civil unrest, put Muslim Brotherhood in power, only to watch it get kicked out after a year despite Obama's unending support). Same shit in Libya (overthrow Gaddafi, replace with Al Qaeda, funnel weaponry through Benghazi 'consulate'/safehouse in order to arm the rebels in Syria). And then we had Syria - where a false flag chemical weapons attack by rebels was intentionally blamed on President Assad as a means to launch a war. We got to the one yard line before.....Vladimir Putin saved the day and negotiated the surrender of Syrian CW's, averting war in the process. Reiterating how much Obama is a giggle-inducing lightweight on the global stage. Remember, our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President was gung-fucking-ho about attacking Syria. Then UK buckled, then Saudi Arabia buckled. Why? Russia, that's why. Not because they necessarily fear their rusty and atrophied military, but because Russia has all of the natural gas in the world at its disposal, and Ukraine and Syria are huge, strategic pipeline conduits. Gazprom is the largest energy agency in the world. See the below graphic, courtesy of zerohedge.com:
Russia officially needs to be handled with kid gloves, kind like that quirky-but-wealthy benefactor that you need to constantly pacify to keep the gravy training rolling. If Putin shuts off the energy switch, eastern Europe freezes to death. Can't let that happen, can we? So what results is a huge battle for the future of Ukraine. The European Union/the West want Ukraine in its corner to stop Russia dead in its expansionist tracks. Putin desperately wants Ukraine so he can keep the energy revenues coming in (estimates show that the loss of Ukraine pipelines would reduce overall Russian GDP by 25%!!! That's worth fighting to protect!!!)
What's Happening Next?
Contrary to some reports, this will NOT morph into World War III. We are bound to protect Ukraine's democratic sovereignty as a result of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, and can do so militarily.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570335/Former-British-Ambassador-Moscow-warns-Russia-invaded-Ukraine-difficult-avoid-going-war.html
I doubt this will happen, since Ukraine is not worth setting off nukes over. Plus, as mentioned earlier, Obama is a pussy. He'd rather attack his own citizens than another country's. Especially if they're conservative or libertarian. As we found out this weekend, Russian troops have overrun Crimea, the pro-Russia southern peninsula of Ukraine, AT THE REQUEST OF ITS PRIME MINISTER. Now to be fair, Sergey Aksyonov had just been installed, but this was not some out of the blue event. Crimea predominantly identifies as pro-Russian, as does most of the eastern half of Ukraine. The Chernobylized, negative growth, insolvent, bail-out needing unproductive half of Ukraine is - you guessed it - the protesting, pro-EU western side!!!! So basically, Russia is sending troops to maintain stability in one of its supportive areas. Kinda like if Greenland invades Canada. We would protect Canada, because they are our friends. But this brands Putin as a 'really mean bully jerk' by the Western media, while bumbling Obama and Biden struggle to look tough (their only foreign policy success was ordering Seal Team 6 to pump bullets into Bin Laden, but then this turned into a security failure, as 20+ Seal Team 6 members were systematically taken out over the next 24 months like they were living a fucking Nelson DeMille novel - subject of another post once a few more die under mysterious circumstances). Here's the divide linguistically, and why it makes perfect sense that Putin would be protecting the pro-Russia half of Ukraine:
Watch the Russian troop response expand across the eastern half of the country for stability purposes, but then stop without stirring the pot further. This is merely a show of Russian strength, and the ultimate solution will be to unfortunately split the country in half - the West goes to the Europian Union, and the East goes to Russia. Case closed. No need to fight a war over it. Also, knowing our propensity for false flags and instigations, expect our friend Prince Bandar Bin-Sultan (head of Saudi Intelligence) to rear his ugly head and 'activate' various terrorists groups in the region to destabilize Russia and make them look ripe for the pickens, and 'unable' to accommodate a Ukraine secession - at the very least, Crimea will fall to Russia and so will control of the ports along the Black Sea. Putin is being portrayed as the bully, but in the end he will be the victim. Again, not taking sides here, I just think it's important to establish context outside of the narrative that our 'homer' mainstream media likes to pump out.
Big picture - as I've said before - the petrodollar scheme is winding down. Forty years ago, Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (high level globalist/Illuminati scum) arranged for the US dollar to be the main means of settlement for all oil transactions. It led to our growth as the #1 world economic power, and it will ultimately be our undoing when Russia expands their energy footprint and revenue-generating pipelines, entering into energy settlements in currencies outside of the US dollar with countries like China, India, and other parts of Europe. Saddam tried an alternative means of settlement, and he lost. Gaddafi tried an alternative means of settlement, and he lost. Chavez tried to circumvent the dollar/US and died of cancer (you know the kind that doesn't respond to any chemo treatments, then infects the lungs, then gives you heart attacks when you are otherwise healthy - 'CIA Cancer'). Iran wants to work around the dollar, and has had its nuclear program cut out from underneath them. Assad wanted to help Russia expand its energy pipelines in Syria - and was promptly accused of using chemical weapons on his own citizens, bringing us to within five minutes of World War III. The below picture tells you everything you need to know about false flags and international actors. This is John and Theresa Heinz Kerry dining with eeeeevil Bashar Al-Assad and his wife in 2009:
Are you getting the picture folks? The American people and global community will fall for anything and everything as long as the storyline is drummed home (WMD's in Iraq, war on terror, protests over youtube videos, 'if you like it you can keep it', 'there is no real estate bubble', 'we have no domestic drone program', 'Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros are solvent', etc). We need to isolate Russia and do whatever necessary to keep them at bay. That keeps our fraudulent economy alive and our toilet paper currency the fiat monetary note of record. Obama is no different than Bush and Clinton. They have different means to an end but still the same outcome - destabilization and strife in other countries to make us look like the cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper. It's worked so far, and it's working in Ukraine. PS - how's that Russian Reset Button working out for you, Barack Obama? Consider yourself informed. Until next time.......
We are witnessing the latest chapter in the long fall that is the petrodollar's imminent demise. If you think the US is a conscientious objector, you are dead wrong, and you should probably consider getting your news from somewhere OUTSIDE of the mainstream media (and that includes Fox News, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, NPR, NYT, WashPost, WSJ and countless other news media - PS - if you are calculating in your head, 82% of those networks/publications just listed are liberal leaning, so in my book the news media is still biased). They operate in five second sound bytes - alternative media doesn't. So let me break it down for you.
What's Happening Now?
First and foremost, I'm not supporting anything the West (US/Europe) does with Ukraine, nor am I actually supporting anything Russia is doing with Ukraine. But you need to hear something other than "Putin is being a mean bully and Obama is a pussy." Cause that's what the US media is pushing. You see, the US wants Ukraine to fall into anarchy, only to have the IMF and NATO pick up the pieces, bail them out, and suck them into the vacuum that is the European Union. Doing so keeps Russia isolated, unable to expand it's natural gas empire as fast as they would have liked. The 21st century has quickly evolved away from military-driven warfare to covert, bankrolled proxy wars where local dissidents are paid off to cause trouble (see Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Syria to name a few, and now Ukraine). Did you know that the US has spent $5 billion over the past twenty years pushing for Ukraine to detach itself from Russia and conduct itself like a wannabe EU-eligible country? Don't believe me? Jerk off to this, Kool-Aid-drinking faux patriot:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article37599.htm
Assistant Secretary of State for Europe and Eurasian Affairs Victoria Nuland let it slip that we have been pushing for a new Ukrainian government for four years, ever since pro-Russia leaning Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych (democratically elected) took power. He's always maintained close ties to Moscow, so by default he is a thorn in the side to the West. Like any other country, Ukraine eventually fell on hard times and needed a bailout. The past two parties in power in the Ukraine were wildly corrupt and have somehow lost billions of dollars and run the country into the ground (sounds like the US). The citizens wanted the EU to bail them out, which would be a condition-laden package pulled together by the IMF that would basically culiminate in abandoning their sovereignty and local currency (the hryvnia) by folding themselves in with the European Union (an insolvent leviathan that has spawned the PIIGS nations of Portugal, Ireland, Italy, Greece, and Spain, among 10+ others, fraught with high unemployment, negative growth, civil unrest, technical default, and downward-spiraling standards of living). President Yanukovych basically saw this and said "yeahhh.....we're gonna go ahead and just ask for a no strings attached $15 billion loan from Russia." This did not sit well with the country, and here we are. Unfortunately, peaceful protesters were killed and injured. That part sucks, I wish it never happened. However, it is on record that billionaire globalist rabble-rouser George Soros has thrown millions of dollars to central European activist NGO's to destabilize governments that his ilk don't like.
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| The darker the berry, the sweeter the.....Eastern GDP. |
Combined with the more subtle US/Western involvement in destabilizing the region, it now becomes clear that Ukraine is basically Egypt all over again. Cause that worked out well (fund protests and civil unrest, put Muslim Brotherhood in power, only to watch it get kicked out after a year despite Obama's unending support). Same shit in Libya (overthrow Gaddafi, replace with Al Qaeda, funnel weaponry through Benghazi 'consulate'/safehouse in order to arm the rebels in Syria). And then we had Syria - where a false flag chemical weapons attack by rebels was intentionally blamed on President Assad as a means to launch a war. We got to the one yard line before.....Vladimir Putin saved the day and negotiated the surrender of Syrian CW's, averting war in the process. Reiterating how much Obama is a giggle-inducing lightweight on the global stage. Remember, our Nobel Peace Prize-winning President was gung-fucking-ho about attacking Syria. Then UK buckled, then Saudi Arabia buckled. Why? Russia, that's why. Not because they necessarily fear their rusty and atrophied military, but because Russia has all of the natural gas in the world at its disposal, and Ukraine and Syria are huge, strategic pipeline conduits. Gazprom is the largest energy agency in the world. See the below graphic, courtesy of zerohedge.com:
Russia officially needs to be handled with kid gloves, kind like that quirky-but-wealthy benefactor that you need to constantly pacify to keep the gravy training rolling. If Putin shuts off the energy switch, eastern Europe freezes to death. Can't let that happen, can we? So what results is a huge battle for the future of Ukraine. The European Union/the West want Ukraine in its corner to stop Russia dead in its expansionist tracks. Putin desperately wants Ukraine so he can keep the energy revenues coming in (estimates show that the loss of Ukraine pipelines would reduce overall Russian GDP by 25%!!! That's worth fighting to protect!!!)
What's Happening Next?
Contrary to some reports, this will NOT morph into World War III. We are bound to protect Ukraine's democratic sovereignty as a result of the 1994 Budapest Memorandum, and can do so militarily.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2570335/Former-British-Ambassador-Moscow-warns-Russia-invaded-Ukraine-difficult-avoid-going-war.html
I doubt this will happen, since Ukraine is not worth setting off nukes over. Plus, as mentioned earlier, Obama is a pussy. He'd rather attack his own citizens than another country's. Especially if they're conservative or libertarian. As we found out this weekend, Russian troops have overrun Crimea, the pro-Russia southern peninsula of Ukraine, AT THE REQUEST OF ITS PRIME MINISTER. Now to be fair, Sergey Aksyonov had just been installed, but this was not some out of the blue event. Crimea predominantly identifies as pro-Russian, as does most of the eastern half of Ukraine. The Chernobylized, negative growth, insolvent, bail-out needing unproductive half of Ukraine is - you guessed it - the protesting, pro-EU western side!!!! So basically, Russia is sending troops to maintain stability in one of its supportive areas. Kinda like if Greenland invades Canada. We would protect Canada, because they are our friends. But this brands Putin as a 'really mean bully jerk' by the Western media, while bumbling Obama and Biden struggle to look tough (their only foreign policy success was ordering Seal Team 6 to pump bullets into Bin Laden, but then this turned into a security failure, as 20+ Seal Team 6 members were systematically taken out over the next 24 months like they were living a fucking Nelson DeMille novel - subject of another post once a few more die under mysterious circumstances). Here's the divide linguistically, and why it makes perfect sense that Putin would be protecting the pro-Russia half of Ukraine:
Watch the Russian troop response expand across the eastern half of the country for stability purposes, but then stop without stirring the pot further. This is merely a show of Russian strength, and the ultimate solution will be to unfortunately split the country in half - the West goes to the Europian Union, and the East goes to Russia. Case closed. No need to fight a war over it. Also, knowing our propensity for false flags and instigations, expect our friend Prince Bandar Bin-Sultan (head of Saudi Intelligence) to rear his ugly head and 'activate' various terrorists groups in the region to destabilize Russia and make them look ripe for the pickens, and 'unable' to accommodate a Ukraine secession - at the very least, Crimea will fall to Russia and so will control of the ports along the Black Sea. Putin is being portrayed as the bully, but in the end he will be the victim. Again, not taking sides here, I just think it's important to establish context outside of the narrative that our 'homer' mainstream media likes to pump out.
Big picture - as I've said before - the petrodollar scheme is winding down. Forty years ago, Nixon's Secretary of State Henry Kissinger (high level globalist/Illuminati scum) arranged for the US dollar to be the main means of settlement for all oil transactions. It led to our growth as the #1 world economic power, and it will ultimately be our undoing when Russia expands their energy footprint and revenue-generating pipelines, entering into energy settlements in currencies outside of the US dollar with countries like China, India, and other parts of Europe. Saddam tried an alternative means of settlement, and he lost. Gaddafi tried an alternative means of settlement, and he lost. Chavez tried to circumvent the dollar/US and died of cancer (you know the kind that doesn't respond to any chemo treatments, then infects the lungs, then gives you heart attacks when you are otherwise healthy - 'CIA Cancer'). Iran wants to work around the dollar, and has had its nuclear program cut out from underneath them. Assad wanted to help Russia expand its energy pipelines in Syria - and was promptly accused of using chemical weapons on his own citizens, bringing us to within five minutes of World War III. The below picture tells you everything you need to know about false flags and international actors. This is John and Theresa Heinz Kerry dining with eeeeevil Bashar Al-Assad and his wife in 2009:
Are you getting the picture folks? The American people and global community will fall for anything and everything as long as the storyline is drummed home (WMD's in Iraq, war on terror, protests over youtube videos, 'if you like it you can keep it', 'there is no real estate bubble', 'we have no domestic drone program', 'Bear Stearns and Lehman Bros are solvent', etc). We need to isolate Russia and do whatever necessary to keep them at bay. That keeps our fraudulent economy alive and our toilet paper currency the fiat monetary note of record. Obama is no different than Bush and Clinton. They have different means to an end but still the same outcome - destabilization and strife in other countries to make us look like the cleanest dirty shirt in the hamper. It's worked so far, and it's working in Ukraine. PS - how's that Russian Reset Button working out for you, Barack Obama? Consider yourself informed. Until next time.......
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