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richwicks says

It's been said all of the US' wars have been done for the benefit of Israel. I cannot say that is true, but I can say it didn't benefit the United States.

In my opinion, all US military wars were fought for the sole purpose of maintaining the dollar as the reserve currency. In parallel, US has fought continuous financial wars. And won and this is why we are here talking about it. Otherwise, the world would be a different place, there would be a World War 3 (3 will happen only under this circumstance).

gabbar says

richwicks says

It's been said all of the US' wars have been done for the benefit of Israel. I cannot say that is true, but I can say it didn't benefit the United States.

In my opinion, all US military wars were fought for the sole purpose of maintaining the dollar as the reserve currency. In parallel, US has fought continuous financial wars. And won and this is why we are here talking about it. Otherwise, the world would be a different place, there would be a World War 3 (3 will happen only under this circumstance).

You may be correct, but if WWIII is what is takes to remove the criminals in power, so be it.

This thread is not a good thread. Very dark and gloomy.richwicks says

if WWIII is what is takes to remove the criminals in power, so be it.

Actually WWIII is what the criminals will use to reassert their power. As a bonus for them they get more genocide (population control). Billions dead.

richwicks says

You may be correct, but if WWIII is what is takes to remove the criminals in power, so be it.

Like you said earlier and it is unarguable, life is good, for most of us, relative to the past (I know a couple of people who live on government assistance and they too have a very good life, a comfy life). Even the poor in our country have a good life or access to good life. Therefore WW3 is not appropriate to remove the criminal psychopaths. We just have to learn to live with these mother fuckers because they have created an unaccountable system for themselves. And of course, WW3 will be about reassertion of more control and continuance of power. I don't think we can do much except live out our lives, there is no solution, with the human species, and I apologize for souring up this thread.

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gabbar says

The economy does not look great right now. Things are slowing down. You are seeing layoffs in many, many sectors of the economy. If we are not in a recession right now, we are likely to be in one very soon. The probabilities in this economy tell you to batten down the hatches. If you are an individual and you are thinking about buying a large-screen TV, maybe slow that down, keep that cash, see what happens. Same thing with a refrigerator, a new car, whatever. Just take some risk off the table. - Jeff Bezos, November 2022

This is when you let Bezos propaganda turn the tread dark. I wonder Jeff, how big of a big screen TV will it take to buy our way through the “recession?”

Or did his online sales just start to dry up when people started shopping what remains of their local businesses and Bezos is trying to make them hurt a little more by panicking everyone again?

Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time - Patrick Killelea in The Housing Trap, page 29

It's cheaper to rent the house than to rent the money. - Patrick Killelea

The short term gain derived by companies that outsource operations offshore is eclipsed by the long term damage to the U.S. economy. Over time, the loss of jobs and expertise will make innovation in the U.S. difficult, while, at the same time, building the brain trust of other countries. - Angie Mohr

gabbar says

The short term gain derived by companies that outsource operations offshore is eclipsed by the long term damage to the U.S. economy. Over time, the loss of jobs and expertise will make innovation in the U.S. difficult, while, at the same time, building the brain trust of other countries. - Angie Mohr

This is exactly the problem caused by outsourcing to China.

Big short-term profits for US executives who do not care about America at all, and big long-term pain for America.

In the beginning, the outsourcing movement was meant to transfer low-skill jobs out and retain highly-skilled jobs as an important asset for the advancement of the country's economy. However, as emerging economies work hard to build their own intellectual capital, American companies are increasingly contracting accountants, engineers and IT specialists at a rate far lower than it would cost them in the U.S. This "brain drain" has long-term repercussions for American industry. Once a skill has been largely moved offshore, it is difficult to regain. For example, if most publishers outsource book design and layout work to Chinese firms, over time there will be fewer designers in the U.S. who have that skill. It also means that there are fewer students of the craft, due to lack of opportunities. - Angie Mohr

Patrick says

Big short-term profits for US executives who do not care about America at all, and big long-term pain for America.

Unless we go back to nation and people first philosophy in our businesses, we will be in trouble, but we have our bankers and military to bail us out (not).

"We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people." --JFK

As we survey the prospects for the global economy, we see many reasons for concern, including continued challenges from the pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war, high inflation, and headwinds from central bank rate hikes. Reflecting these factors, the global economy is likely to endure 'rolling' country-level recessions during the coming year. - Citi chief economist Nathan Sheets

I'm not interested if you've stood with the great. I'm interested whether you've sat with the broken.

S. Fitzmaurice

There is nothing is more deceptive than an obvious fact.

Arthur Conan Doyle

"You have been trained to take orders and obey people in authority from your first day of kindergarten. School is only partly about learning. The secondary and unspoken goal of schooling is to teach conformity and obedience, which prepares you to take on a mortgage and obey your boss" - Patrick Killelea in The House Trap

The real estate agent and the seller both have an incentive to fake recent comparable sales data to get the buyer to believe he must pay more. Do not attach any meaning to comps, even if you can confirm them with the county. The only measure of house value that you can rely on is its rental value. - Patrick Killelea, The Housing Trap, Page 66

Buy a house only when a landlord would buy it. - Patrick Killelea, The Housing Trap p81

The MLS is a used house sales tool designed to restrict access to critical market information in order to prevent the free market from working efficiently. - Patrick Killelea, The Housing Trap, p68

gabbar says

Yet Chomsky repeated the lies about the vaxx, apparently without investigating anything for himself.

He simply forgot to add, "Except when you're paid to obfuscate and hide the lies".

Always remember that everyone can express an opinion and that opinions can be paid for.

"It's just a lot of uncertainty right now. But one thing I'm certain of : The housing market is collapsing at a level I haven't seen since 2008. I haven't seen this kind of drop since 2008."- Gary Friedman, CEO, Restoration Hardware, November 9, 2022

“Submission is identified not with cowardliness, but with virtue, rebellion not with heroism, but with evil.

To the Roman slave owners, Spartacus was not the hero and obedient slaves were not cowards. Spartacus was not a hero, and obedient slaves were virtuous. The obedient slaves believed this also. The obedient always think about themselves as virtuous, rather than cowardly.

If authority implies submission, liberation implies equality. Authority exists when one man obeys another, and liberty exists when one man do not obey other men.

Thus, to say that authority exists is to say that class and cast exist, that submission and inequality exist. To say that the liberty exists is to say that classlessness exists, to say that brotherhood and equality exist.

Authority, by dividing men into classes, creates dichotomy, disruption, hostility, fear, disunion. Liberty, by placing men to equal footing, creates association, amalgamation, union, security.”

― Robert Anton Wilson, The Illuminatus! Trilogy

I've always found it ironic that anytime someone cries about "religious freedom", their definition of that term always forces someone else to lose their actual freedom.

You go talk to kindergartners or first-grade kids, you find a class full of science enthusiasts. They ask deep questions. They ask, "What is a dream, why do we have toes, why is the moon round, what is the birthday of the world, why is grass green?" These are profound, important questions. They just bubble right out of them. You go talk to 12th graders and there's none of that. They've become incurious. Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade. ~ Carl Sagan in Conversations with Carl Sagan

gabbar says

Something terrible has happened between kindergarten and 12th grade

Smart phones and social media would be a good place to start. Then try conspicuous consumption and "the one with the most toys at the end wins" mentality.

The notion of allowing aliens to vote negates the very idea of the nation and democracy. The participation of everyone in the exercise of power, in making political decisions affecting the whole, is possible only within a human ensemble possessing the same values, memories, and culture. A multi-racial, multi-confessional society can in no case be democratic, since it lacks commonly shared references. Such a society would be endemically oppressive and culminate in a caste system. - Why We Fight, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance by Guilllaume Faye

An ethnically heterogeneous population — a kaleidoscope of communities — becomes an anonymous society, without soul, without solidarity, prone to incessant conflicts for domination, to an endemic racism ('every multi-racial society is a multi-racist society') — ungovernable because there's no shared vision of the world. Ethnic chaos is an open door to tyranny. - Why We Fight, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance by Guilllaume Faye

Ethnicity is the sole stable basis of human community. - Why We Fight, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance by Guilllaume Faye

Worse: Muslim and alien 'minorities' have ceased, in many areas where they live, to be minorities and have turned the tables on Europeans, who are compelled to assimilate the culture and mores of the colonisers! All assimilation is equivalent to cultural genocide, for the assimilator or the assimilated. - Why We Fight, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance by Guilllaume Faye

They [Jews] put the Jewish interest above America's interest, and it's about goddamn time that the Jew in America realizes he's an American first and a Jew second. - Richard Nixon. 37th president of the United States

Jews had always thrived in nations and empires with multicultural, pluralistic and tolerant environments, while they fared badly in strong ethnic or nationalistic societies. ... Therefore, by definition, a society where the stranger is welcome is good for the Jews, although they have not always appreciated this link. The future of European Jewry is dependant on our ability to shape a multicultural, pluralistic and diverse society. - Göran Rosenberg. The Future for Jews in Multicultural Europe. December 18, 2008