A Trifecta of Three Phony “Scandals”

This is a letter I just received. The Republicans are going to gin up another fake impeachment proceeding, along with another Congressional investigation. We are back in the Clinton years, when US democracy dove to the stinkingist fascist and totalitarian depths in its history with endless investigations of one phony scandal after another.

Finally, they impeached Clinton on totally ridiculous grounds (Clinton beat the impeachment handily at a trial). There is one place you see the sort of sick, twisted, corrupt politics crap, and that’s in the 3rd World. The Turd World. The Republican Party has turned America into a gigantic Turd World country.

In the Turd World, there are constant fake investigations of fake scandals, and Presidents are always being impeached on phony political grounds. In addition, Presidents are assaulted, placed under arrest, tortured and even murdered on a regular basis, generally in the context of a military coup. This is particularly prevalent in the Sewer of the World, Latin America. This nonsense has gone on in most Latin American shitholes, including Venezuela, Bolivia, Argentina, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Grenada, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Ecuador, Guyana, Colombia, Brazil, Peru and Chile.

All of these coups and assassinations have been done by the Latin American rightwing, which is an objectively fascist rightwing movement and always has been. Whenever any populist or progressive government comes in, the rightwing in that Latin American country tries to oust them via assassination, coup or a fake impeachment. The US has supported 100% of these radically antidemocratic and fascist incidents in Latin America. There has never been a single fascist coup in Latin America that did not have the 100% backing of the United Snakes.

In the rest of the world, it is as bad or worse. In Pakistan, presidential candidates are murdered on a regular basis.In the rest of the Turd World, opposition candidates are often jailed or worse. This is what is happening in Turkey at the moment, and it was going on earlier in Iran. Opposition party candidates are murdered on a regular basis in the Philippines.

Scandal hearings should be reserved for the worst of the worst. Iran-Contra and the S & L Crisis are good examples. If you recall, the Democrats did not turn either of those hearings into impeachment proceedings. Impeachment should only be for the worst of crimes. A good example was President Nixon, who would have been impeached had he not resigned, for bugging the headquarters of the Democratic Party during the 1972 campaign. I can hardly think of a single impeachable case since 1972. This is just dirty politics and nothing else, and it is sleazy as Hell.

Every Administration will have scandals of various types. It is inevitable under our money infested system where both parties are tied to big money and corporate rule. In almost all cases, these scandals are run of the mill things that any Administration goes through. However, whenever a Democratic President is in office, any of the usual scandals that any Administration deals with will have huge hearings in Congress, threats of impeachment and special prosecutors.

Objective evidence shows that there were far more scandals and there was far more corruption under Bush and Reagan than under Clinton or Obama. But no matter how corrupt or scandal ridden a Republican is, the spineless Democrats will never do anything about it. Not a single hearing, no special prosecutor, no impeachment proceedings. On the other hand, the far fewer scandals under a Democrat will be turned into a Ringling Brothers affair that dominates the idiotic headlines for months to years.

Nothing Obama has done warrants impeachment or even a hearing.

The Benghazi Consulate was a CIA office – 80% of the personnel there were CIA officers. The Islamists knew that, and that is why it was attacked. The CIA failed to provide enough security for the consulate, and they relied too much on unproven Libyan security.

The call for backup amounted to a call for “4 men” to arrive. Do you think 4 armed US forces would have turned the situation around? There was a call to bring in a helicopter gunship to fire missiles or machine gun fire or a jet to bomb the area. However, the area is surrounded by civilians, and in the initial attack, no one really had any idea what was going on.

There was an order given to stand down and not send in air power until more could be learned about the confused situation. The forces on the ground evacuated the Americans from the consulate to a safe house, but the Islamists were waiting at the safe house for them.

In a hazy situation were no one knew what was going on, it would have been madness to drop bombs or shoot missiles at the heavily inhabited area at the consulate, the safe house and the area in between. The forces at the consulate fought very well. Although 4 Americans were killed, 32 were rescued. In addition, ~100 Islamist attackers were killed.

          Benghazi #killed

Americans 4
Islamists 100

This was a battle in a war we are fighting with Al Qaeda and allied Islamists. By any standard metric, we won this battle. It is beyond me why this is some sort of a scandal. We fight battles all the time in the war with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and other Islamists. Some we win, some we lose. Sometimes our men are killed or wounded. Should there be hearings, special prosecutors or impeachment proceedings every time an American is killed by the enemy overseas? What kind of insanity is that?

The IRS scandal is a joke. As a result of Citizens United, many political outfits such as Karl Rove’s Crossroads set themselves up as tax exempt social welfare organizations that do not engage in political work. Obviously, this is a lie. This was mostly done on the Right, as word went out via Karl Rove to the rightwing grassroots to claim social welfare status to pay no taxes.

Approximately 250-300 groups with “tea party” in their name engaged in this crime by lying and calling themselves social welfare organizations. The IRS identified all of these groups engaged in this fraud and crime and sent them letters demanding to see their paperwork.

Since a vast amount of “tea party” groups were engaging in this sort of crime, lower level IRS officials in Indianapolis targeted every group with “tea party” in their name and sent them these letters demanding that they prove they were a political group or a social welfare group. Unfortunately, a number of liberal organizations also committed these crimes and called themselves social welfare groups to claim tax exempt status. All of these liberal groups were also targeted by the IRS and they received letters demanding to see their paperwork.

The IRS was completely correct to do what they did. There was no scandal, not even the whiff of one. When 300 groups with tea party in their name are engaging in crime, it looks like smoke. Where there is smoke, there is fire. That massive crime spree by tea party groups was enough to put every group with tea party in their name under suspicion.

It is right and proper for the IRS to determine if any political group of any stripe of committing crime by falsely representing themselves. In addition, liberal groups committing these crimes were also questioned. When you commit crimes, you may get called in for questioning by authorities. This is the job of the authorities. If you abuse tax laws and cheat on your taxes, expect a call from the IRS. This was no political prosecution. The local Indianapolis office was 100% correct in what they did.

Obama caved in spinelessly as usual, firing the IRS Director for the crime of enforcing tax law and fighting tax criminals and massive tax fraud and evasion. A cop was fired for enforcing the law because the Republican criminals and their friends demanded he be fired.

I do not know enough about the targeting of AP reporters’ phone records. This is not a prosecution of the media. Instead, they were trying to find out who was leaking to the AP about the CIA’s secret wars overseas. So this is part of Obama’s war on whistleblowers.

The war on whistleblowers went completely wild under Ronald Reagan, who attacked whistleblowers more than any previous president. It has continued to this day. It was particularly nasty under George Bush and included the outrageous outing of active CIA agents for political purposes. Republican and Democratic Administrations both have gone after whistleblowers in a vicious way.

Republicans screaming about this were utterly silent when George Bush and Ronald Reagan waged all out war against whistleblowers. In addition, Republicans have, up until this point, backed all of Obama’s anti-whistleblower activities.

In fact, they have accused him of being soft of whistleblowers – see the Bradley Manning case, where Republicans have called for Manning to be executed – and the Wikileaks case, where the Republicans have called for Julian Assange to be arrested, sent to the US, tried and executed for treason. They have also called for Assange to be assassinated by a US hit squad. So you see, even if Obama wages a war on whistleblowers, the Republicans support it and even double down on it.

Impeach the President. Seriously?

That’s where the Republicans are going. Rep. Jason Chaffetz could barely keep from giggling at the possibility on CNN yesterday. Even Wolf Blitzer looked a little uncomfortable.

Of course, they want a special prosecutor.

Scott Walker spent his day telling everyone from the La Crosse Tribune to middle-school tour groups that we must appoint a special prosecutor. Guess who’s running for president?

Anyone old enough to remember the nineties knows this can turn ugly fast.

Meanwhile, back in reality, there’s a real scandal taking place: Tens of thousands of kids have been kicked out of preschool. Teachers are being laid off. Meals on Wheels for housebound seniors have been cut.

While GOP consultants across the DC area put Ken Starr back on speed dial, millions of people are suffering from the sequester. The young, the poor and the elderly. Every day, it will get worse.

US Conservatives Are Not Evil; They Are Insane

I really don’t think most US conservatives are evil or bad. I just think they are wrong. Actually I do not think they are wrong. I know they are wrong. Almost everything they say and believe is simply wrong. For the most part, what they believe are lies, nonsense, crap, idiocy and bullshit. If we know a human being whose beliefs are all nonsensical, we usually won’t say he is evil. We might be charitable and just say he is a nutcase.

Almost all of the problems with US conservatives are because they are ludicrously partisan. To be partisan is one thing, but a conservative will never admit he is partisan.

Let us look at some examples:

Benghazi Embassy scandal: There was no scandal. Al Qaeda is waging a global war on us, and they will attack our troops and embassies any chance they can get. The Administration tried their hardest to fortify the embassy, as hard as any other administration would have tried. The diplomatic aspect of the state in the State Department is nonpartisan. Embassy personnel are staffed via the Pentagon and the CIA and contractors. Under any administration, priority will be on protecting the lives of diplomatic personnel and the integrity of US embassies.

Democratic administrations are not so stupid as to scrimp on security overseas, and there is no evidence that Republicans protect embassies any better than Democrats. One of the worst attacks ever on a US embassy occurred in 1983 when Hezbollah hit the US Embassy in Beirut. Almost all the American “civilians” killed were working for the CIA, but don’t let that bother you.

As sometimes happens, our enemies got the best of us one day in Libya. This would never have happened under Gaddafi, but we overthrew him and put Al Qaeda in charge of Libya, so that’s why our embassy got overrun.

Truth be told, wasn’t the 9-11 attack on the US far worse than the Benghazi attack in which one ambassador was killed? On 9-11, 3,000 Americans were killed, on our own soil nonetheless. But somehow to conservatives this is not a failure to protect the US homeland and citizens, but an attack that kills one ambassador is? That’s just partisan bullshit; it’s nothing more and nothing less.

If the Benghazi attack occurred under a Republican President, conservatives would not have said a word. Security failures only occur under Democratic Presidents, never under Republican Presidents. If 9-11 would have occurred under a Democratic President, conservatives would still be screaming about how “the liberals let Al Qaeda attack us.” But since it happened under a Republican, you will never hear a word of this. This makes no sense. 9-11 was either a security failure or it was not. It can’t be the case that it would have been a security failure under a Democrat, but since it occurred under a Republican, it could not possibly be one.

Lie: Obama represents something called “Chicago-style politics.” The implication here is that Obama is corrupt to the core, a representative of corrupt Chicago Democratic Party-labor union machine politics going back decades. The truth is that that corrupt machine got dismantled quite some time ago. It is true that Democratic politics in Chicago used to be very corrupt, especially under Mayor Daley. Corrupt elections were the norm, and dead people voted early and often.

Corrupt Democratic crooks in Chicago stole so many votes in Chicago in 1960 that they probably gave John F. Kennedy the election. So JFK no doubt stole his way into office. The dead have not voted in Chicago in quite some time, and federal RICO prosecutions and raids have pretty much shut down the overtly corrupt aspect of Chicago politics. To my knowledge, Chicago politics nowadays is no more corrupt than the politics of any other large US city.

Furthermore, there is no evidence that Obama is part of any Chicago corrupt Daley-style machine. That machine was made up of old style ethnic Whites, and the new Democratic politics in Chicago is much more progressive, even radical, and clean. It’s true that Penny Pritzger, Rahm Emanuel and Bill Ayers were part of the local politics scene, but neither one is corrupt. In fact Ayers and other radical types would be very against that sort of thing. Emanuel and and Pritzger come out of US finance capital and are as corrupt or non-corrupt as anyone tied at the hip to Wall Street as almost 100% of the Republican Party is.

How about Obama since he has been in office? There is no evidence that the Obama Administration is particularly corrupt as an Executive Branch. Sure, they take lots of corporate money, but the Republicans take way more, and that’s all legal anyway. There have been very few serious corruption cases under Obama.

The truth is that corruption in the US reached an all-time recent high under Ronald Reagan. It was also very high under George Bush Jr. The more capitalist the political party is, the more corrupt it is. The Democrats are not so wedded to US big business and multinational corporations as Republicans are, hence you see a lot less corruption. Any political party with profound ties to Big Capital will almost always be extremely corrupt. This fact can even be shown on a worldwide scale. Parties that are more socialist or populist and less tied to the rich and Big Capital will tend to be less corrupt since there is less Big Money to go around and they at least pay lip service to the lower 80% of the population.

Conclusion: There is no “Chicago-style politics” anymore, and even if there is, Obama is not representative of it. The old machine is dead and gone, possibly never to be revived. That Obama is some corrupt, vote-stealing, bribe-taking, brutal Daley style machine crook is simply nonsense.

Lie: Obama is killing the Keystone XL pipeline because he has ties to the Waltons, heirs to the Walmart fortune, who will lose big money if the pipeline goes through. Truth is that Obama, corporatist that he is, largely supports the Keystone XL, but he is under huge pressure from environmentalists to cave in. So Obama the corporatist is caught between his Big Money backers in Big Oil (Obama is a strong supporter of Big Oil) and the environmentalists on the Left of his party.

Obama, being a rightwing corporate capitalist whore, is inclined to support the pipeline because his corporate pimps demand it of him. However, he is pressured from the Left to kill the pipeline. So he is caught in a bind. The only wavering he is doing at all is because he is under pressure from environmentalists. If he stops Keystone XL, it will be because the environmentalists convinced him.

Conclusion: Obama has no position on Keystone XL, but is inclined to support it. But he is under pressure from his Left to kill it. The verdict is up to him.

Lie: Environmental organizations lie about the environment because they are paid many millions of dollars to lie about it. This is simply not true. Environmental groups are not corrupt, and there is no money in protecting the environment. There are no rich or business interests paying off environmental activists to do this or that. The entire environmental movement really is anti-capitalist.

Its goal is to shut down or regulate various capitalist enterprises so they can not make any money at all since they are not allowed to start up or because their operations are shut down. In other cases, it seeks to regulate capitalist enterprises in such a way as to limit the profits of Capital. The capitalists are the ones with money in capitalist societies. Since the goals of environmentalists’ projects are to limit or in some cases to disallow capitalists’ profits, no capitalist will ever support this movement.

It is certainly possible that there are rich people somewhere dishing out millions of dollars to environmental groups in order to lie about environmental problems, but there is no evidence that this is occurring. Anyway, US environmental problems are bad enough that there is no need to lie about anything; the truth is bad enough as it is. I have been following this movement for decades now and I have never uncovered a single case of environmentalists inventing nonexistent problems or even exaggerating current ones. There’s no need to do so. If projects are environment-friendly, environmentalists are content to let them go forward.

Conclusion: There are no environmental groups lying about environmental problems as the truth is bad enough. 100% of the lying is on the side of the capitalist destroyers and polluters who obviously have huge pecuniary interest in lying. No one is giving millions of $ to environmentalists to make up lies, and there is no evidence that no one ever has.

Lie: China and India are causing the majority of global warming, so we needn’t worry about global warming here in the US. Pollute away!

The truth is that China and India together cause ~8% of global warming in the world. Sure it is on the rise, but that is the current figure. Most global warming is coming out of the West.

Conclusion: The West is causing global warming, not the rest of the world.

Lie: Barack Obama, radical Islamist Kenyan born Muslim, is supporting the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. The MB are radical Al Qaeda style terrorists who hate the US and Israel. It is true that the MB are radical Islamists and they are pretty nasty. But a Republican administration would probably also support the MB regime in Egypt. Egypt gets that $2-3 billion/year as a payoff for making peace with Israel back in 1979.

So all those billions are not going for the radical Islamist MB in Egypt, instead it is going for a bunch of Jews squatting in Palestine. It’s a payoff to the Jews, nothing more, nothing less. If you’re upset about it, head on over to Hymietown, find yourself a deli, and complain to anyone who will listen to you.

Truth is that due to geopolitics, a Republican administration would probably have to support the MB to the tune of $2-3 billion a year too. If you cut off all that aid, Egypt might just tear up that peace treaty with Israel, and we can’t have that. So the aid stays, no matter which administration is in charge.

Besides, there is not a whole lot of evidence that the Egyptian MB is any more radical Islamist than the radical Sunni Islamist regimes in the Gulf. Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Oman and Yemen are all run by radical Islamist regimes. In fact, the Egyptian MB has very deep ties to the Wahhabi clergy in Saudi Arabia, and it was the emigration of many MB Islamists to Saudi Arabia due to persecution by secular regimes that helped fuel Al Qaeda in the first place.

What created Al Qaeda? Al Qaeda was created when large numbers of MB activists from Egypt and then later from Syria migrated to Saudi Arabia due to persecution by secular regimes in Egypt and Syria. The Wahhabi clerics had been rather quietist up until this point. But the MB cadres were radicalized by persecution and torture in their homelands, and they riled up the locals, turning up the heat on the quietist Wahhabi clergy. It was out of this union of Mediterranean MB activists with Saudi Wahhabi clergy that Al Qaeda itself was born.

Conclusion: Obama probably doesn’t like the Egyptian MB regime any more than any Republican would. But the rules of geopolitics are that Egypt must be supported as a consequence of US support for Israel. As with so many things in the Middle East, all roads lead back to Jerusalem.

A Capitalist World is a World of Crime, Corruption and Wars of Agression

Dota says:

I think Roger Hill is onto something here. Robert mistakes capitalism for opportunism and sociopathic behaviour in general. As I’ve pointed out before, we’ve seen exploitation in non-capitalist societies during various periods of history. Feudalism and Caste immediately come to mind.

Lee Kwan Yew once said that in order to spread the wealth around, a society must first create it. Capitalism is a good engine for wealth creation. Historically, its egalitarian societies that have been expansionist. The Arabs and Mongols come to mind. They were expansionist because they failed to create any wealth for themselves. Once they acquired wealth through conquest, they divided it amongst themselves equally (more or less).

It’s obvious that the Rockerfellers/Fords etc. represent a ‘capitalism’ that is alien to Smith’s wealth of nations. Capitalism is merely privately owned factors of production. The elites mentioned above represent plutocratic sociopathic insanity at its highest degree.

Under capitalism, all manner and degrees of opportunism, corruption, lying, cheating, stealing and sociopathic behavior becomes positively epidemic.

That is because in pursuit of money, humans will do just about anything: lie, cheat, steal, become opportunists or corrupt, and behave sociopathically in every manner and degree possible. They will also commit tons of crime and will tend to abuse women in all sorts of ways.

We saw much less of this behavior in the socialist societies of the last century. When these socieites such as Eastern Europe, the USSR and China went to capitalism, the crime rate went through the roof, entire nations became corrupt to the core, and the abuse of women increased dramatically. In fact, some socieites were almost completely taken over by organized crime. Russia to this day is significantly controlled by Organized Crime. Organized crime elements run Russia and rule it via the state.

In the past century, the most egalitarian societies committed little aggression, started few wars and committed few acts of conquest in order to obtain more land and acquire new markets and resources. On the contrary, almost all aggression in the past century was committed by unequal capitalist (and imperialist) countries trying to conquer new lands and peoples for new markets and to steal their resources for the capitalists.

In fact a world regime of capitalism virtually guarantees almost continuous wars among capitalist countries over dividing markets and resources. Capitalist countries will always fight each other over markets and resources.  This is almost guaranteed under capitalism, and there does not seem to be any way around it. A world of capitalism is a world of constant war with no way out.

Under more socialist systems, crime, corruption, abuse of women, wars of aggression, homelessness, hunger and preventive disease are dramatically reduced, as is all manner of egoistic sociopathic behavior.

As those societies transition to a capitalist model, crime, corruption, abuse of women, aggressive (imperialist) wars, homelessness, hunger and deaths due to preventive disease often skyrocket.

Bottom line is capitalism is bad for your health.

Fracking Stopped in California

I received this mail:

We just won a major victory against fracking in California, and I wanted you to be the first to know.

In response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity and allies, a federal judge ruled today that the Obama administration violated the law when it issued oil leases in Monterey County without considering all the risks that fracking poses to water, air and wildlife.

It’s a watershed moment in our fracking campaign — the first court ruling invalidating a federal lease sale for failing to address the monumental dangers of fracking.

The court decision, at last, recognizes that fracking poses new, unique risks to California’s environment and can no longer be ignored.

These companies are increasingly vying for Monterey Shale, a massive geological formation holding some 15 million barrels of oil. Extracting that oil will almost certainly require fracking, a controversial practice that uses huge volumes of water mixed with sand and unregulated toxic chemicals to blast open rock formations and extract oil and gas.

Fracking’s bad news for animals and people that rely on clean air, water and land.

Today’s decision was the result of a lawsuit we brought in late 2011 challenging the federal Bureau of Land Management’s decision to auction off 2,500 acres in Monterey County to oil companies.

I am a sensible person. I generally support oil and gas drilling on land and even in water where wells already exist. However, this latest fracking scheme seems like a gigantic mess. Vast amounts of water are injected into the ground combined with a witch’s brew of chemicals, many of them toxic. This mess is intended to break up shale rock formations that hold oil or natural gas, which is then pumped from the Earth.

There are very serious problems with this process. In many parts of the US, fracking has resulted in serious pollution of ground water. The water coming out of your tap smells terrible and seems toxic. In some cases, you can light a match over a glass of water and catch it on fire. Your tap smells like gas fumes. Many people in the area start getting strange illnesses, apparently from drinking the water. In many cases, so much water is sucked out of the ground that personal wells go dry. Now you don’t have any more water for your home. There seems to be evidence that it is killing people too, as death and cancer rates rise in fracking areas.

There is even evidence that fracking is causing earthquakes by breaking up underground rock formations.

Fracking makes people sick.
Fracking kills people via diseases.
Fracking dries up local ground water supplies.
Fracking pollutes local ground water, making your tap water toxic.
Fracking causes earthquakes.

It seems to me that this technology is stupid and toxic, and it makes no sense to utilize it. We probably shouldn’t even be doing it altogether.

All over this ultra-corrupt land, oil and gas companies have bought off local, state and national officials to fast track fracking over residents’ objections. The “liberal” Obama Administration has been strongly in favor of fracking and has often tried to force it through without any environmental reviews, saying that is won’t have any environmental effects.

In California, “liberal” Jerry Brown (who has reinvented himself as another Barack Obama as he has become much more conservative over the years) has similarly shoved through fracking proposals for all of California. Brown’s commission quickly issued a ruling that fracking would have no environmental effects and was fast-tracked for all of California. Brown is wrong, but this is just one more example of his endless treks into conservatism.

With “liberal” friends like Jerry Brown and Barack Obama, who needs conservative enemies?

India, Land of Rapes

Interesting video by Journeyman Pictures focusing on the horrific deadly rape case in New Delhi recently. For the first time, Indian society is confronting this sort of thing.

Also details the gang rape and torture of a young girl when she was 13 years old. She is now 21, and the case has yet to come to trial. This is typical of the Indian justice system, which is one of the most crippled justice systems on Earth. It simply does not work. Cases take years to come to trial, that is if they ever come to trial. High powered persons escape justice. Thugs persecute victims. Hush money is offered to victims to make them shut up and drop the case.

This young woman has refused to drop the case even after 8 years. Her family has been offered money beyond their wildest dreams to drop the case, but they ill not take it. Interestingly, it is her father who is the most steadfast. Over the 8 years, she has somehow lost all of her friends, and now she has none. She is under constant threat, and has received countless threats of death and harm. She requires a 24-hour armed watch outside her home to protect her from thugs who want to kill her.

In India, as in some other parts of the world, a woman who has been raped is seen as damaged goods, so she normally shuts up about it. In many cases, attempts are made to get her to marry her rapist. This is seen as the preferred solution. Unfortunately, this seems to be the case in parts of the Arab World too.

An undercover TV investigation of police officers shows that in India, cops (and society at large) blame women for their rapes. If they dress scantily, the man cannot control himself and apparently he is forced to rape her. This is similar to Islamic teaching which says that women must be covered up for their own good since otherwise men would be unable to control themselves around them and would presumably raped. Such thinking insults both men and women. It reduces men to nothing more than lower animals who are incapable of controlling their impulses, and it treats women as helpless children who require the continual protection of the state.

The cops also say that only 10% of rape cases are legitimate. The rest are consensual. I really doubt if that is true. Rape is so little reported in that country, and the stigma is so great to reporting a rape, that one would assume that most if not the vast majority of rape allegations are true. In India, a woman probably would not even bother to make a false rape charge against a man.

One of the most painful things about the MRA movement is that it is full of young Indian men. They scream that their country has been taken over by feminists (!?) and demand to go back to the old order. What they really want, obviously, is a permanent instantiation of all the abuses against women detailed above. It was about that time that I threw in the towel with regard to the MRA movement. They’re just as nuts as the lunatic feminists.

Gypsies in Romania

This is an excellent video about Gypsies in Romania, narrated by a young Romanian man who absolutely hates Gypsies, as do most Romanians. A number of commenters below chime in from various countries in the region to report that everything the narrator says about Gypsies is true based on their experience.

Gypsies in Romania are somehow getting ahold of some serious money, apparently mostly through crime, scams and various schemes. Almost no Gypsies go to school, even though there are slots allotted to them. And when they do go to school, they almost always do very poorly. Despite having satellite dishes, luxury cars and gold chains, they live in the most sickening hovels which they refuse to fix up. They even shit in the open just like people in India since they often don’t bother to build a toilet in their homes.

Their homes quickly become horribly overcrowded with all of their relatives and hangers-on. They start having sex at age 12-14 and the females spend most of their lives pumping out one baby after another. They openly refuse to work (85% are unemployed) and instead choose to live off the welfare system, beg, steal, con or run various scams. Many Gypsies for some reason never learn to speak, read or write Romanian properly. They send their children off at a very early age to beg for a living. The adults then collect the wages that the children earn from begging, which can be a considerable sum.

Many Romanian Gypsies are now migrating to other parts of the EU because those countries are richer and there is more to steal. In France, they gave the Gypsies $1000 to take off and start a new life. They immediately blew the money and then they were back in France. In other cases, the Gypsies were given a pig to start a farm. The Gypsies quickly killed the pig and then they were right back in France. Gypsies often squat in legitimate buildings. No matter what kind of a building it was beforehand, the Gypsies inevitably trash the place.

Perhaps the most disturbing revelation of all was when the narrator discussed on Gypsy Organized Crime steals houses from Romanians with the assistance of the Attorney General, the judges, the cops and all of the other authorities, all paid off with Gypsy stolen wealth. The Gypsies come into town and try force residents to leave by harassing them, throwing things at them, shitting on their doorstep, urinating on their walls, vandalizing their place, threatening them, etc.

They try to get the residents to sell the place for, say, 5% of the value of the home. Somehow the Gypsies are able, and I am not sure how, to get the residents to leave. Then they buy the home at 5% of the value and sell it at 100% of the value. Many crimes are committed along the way, and the bribed authorities let the Gypsies get away with all of it. I have heard that in Hungary, 85% of property crime (theft) is the result of Gypsies. The way that Gypsy Organized Crime is allowed to run amok in Romania is truly depressing and it suggests that with the return of capitalism, Romania has turned into a Third World nation. Congratulations, revolutionaries.

You will see many similarities between Gypsies and US ghetto Blacks, in fact, it is said that Gypsies are “the thieving ghetto Blacks of Europe.” However I dare say that Gypsies are vastly worse than Black people in the US. I make that comparison because it is true that Black people cause quite a few problems in my country. However, this is nothing compared to an overt criminal culture that the Gypsies lead.

Many Black people in the US are not dedicated to living a career criminal existence. Blacks do not ordinarily destroy all their homes and neighborhoods, nor do they shit in the streets and fields. Many to most Blacks are in school, at least until age 14-16 or so. Quite a few Blacks do well in school, and many go on to college, where quite a few even graduate and go off to work in various professions and good jobs. Blacks have not yet formed organized crime gangs that have paid off cops, DA’s, judges and other authorities. Blacks do not send their children out to beg in the streets all day and then live off the earnings.

Many Black people are in fact employed; indeed, most are employed. Black people in the US speak English well and generally learn to read and write it at least passably. Black criminal gangs do not, thank God, force legitimate homeowners to move so they can buy the homes at 5% of value, committing many crimes along the way. While some Blacks have many children, the Black fertility rate in the US is not particularly high. Blacks are not responsible for 85% of the theft in the US. There is a vast Black middle class and even a small upper class that is relatively to highly well-behaved and is far removed from ghetto culture.

It’s hard to say what to do with Gypsies. It’s anti-human to kill them, although that is frequently proposed. Hitler already tried that. Many countries such as France are throwing them out of the country (they are immigrants after all). This is a great idea; however, every time a country does this, the Left screams and hollers about racism. In fact, anytime anyone criticizes the deplorable behavior of the Gypsies, they are called racists. Considering how horrific Gypsies act, it’s hardly racism to dislike them. It would simply be a normal reaction. At the end of the day, there really is nothing to be done with these people who are obviously a criminal race and a plague upon nations.

One wonders how or why Gypsies have adopted this parasitic and criminal lifestyle. It appears to be cultural, but the roots of this hostile and anti-human culture are uncertain. They came from India 1000 years ago, but what this explains is unknown. One thing is for certain is that it is not due to their genes.

It is true that some small number of Gypsies are well behaved and believe it or not are not even criminals. A few have gone to college and gotten university degrees. There are even Gypsy university professors. These good actors should not be forced to bear the brunt of racist hatred against the Gypsy people, however well deserved it might be, as they are acting as responsible citizens.

The Catastrophe of the Iraqi Resistance

Repost from the old site. This is a good article, the first article I wrote on the Internet in December 2004. It was widely posted all over the Net and got a lot of comments on the Net. I believe it is still relevant today.

By any progressive standards, the Iraqi resistance seems to have morphed in recent days into one of the most unprincipled, unethical, fanatical, unreasonable, and reactionary resistance factions on Earth.

From a progressive standpoint, it would seem the Iraqi rebels have some principled grounds to fight for – we see them as resisting a US imperialist, neocolonialist and Zionist invasion of Iraq, one intended to subdue all of those forces in the Middle East resisting US and Israeli desires for total economic, military and political domination of the region.

The US invasion was completely contrary to international law, there has been massive colonization and outright theft of Iraq’s resources and economic base, and the US appears to be demanding the right to establish several colonial garrisons in the conquered land in furtherance of its imperial plans for the region.

We could go on and on about the larger political and economic schemes at play here, but that’s all been dealt with extensively by others. The point I am trying to make here is that merely from anti-imperialist or anti-colonialist point of view, the Iraqi resistance would seem to have a valid cause for armed struggle to throw the invaders and occupiers off their homeland.

Given the seedbed for a patriotic, nationalist, principled resistance the US has sown in Iraq, what have the Iraqi guerrillas done? In 2003, one could still hold out hope for some sort of a progressive, secular, nationalist armed resistance in Iraq. Through 2003, a plethora of resistance groups appeared, with new ones popping up every week or so.

A number of them were standard nationalist groupings, others stridently opposed sectarian politics, and a number were decidedly secular. Some of these groupings were associated with the former regime, but many were not.

They were generally made up of Sunni Arabs, though there were also a number of Shia Arabs, along with a few Kurds, Turkmen and even Iraqi Christians filling out the ranks. Further, there were a number of openly Leftist armed groups, though their numbers were small.

From the point of view of the Iraqi resistance, the best thing to do would be to cast aside all sectarian nonsense and try to unite as many groups as possible against the occupiers. This is what a sensible, intelligent, nationalist resistance does. Even in a region where tribal politics holds sway, the fighters close ranks in the name of “national unity”, as the guerrillas in Palestine have done.

The resistance should avoid imposing noxious, draconian law on the peoples under its control, proceed cautiously in the case of spies, and avoid trying to form local government. The case of Palestine is instructive for how a “national unity” resistance should be run.

Prior to the founding of Hamas in 1987, Islamists in Palestine were hardly involved in the armed struggle – they spent most of their time, believe it or not, arguing about how long to grow one’s beard. If one took up arms, one was regarded as a “Communist”, since armed struggle against Israel was for “Communists”.

There was a great deal of sectarian conflict in those days and the precursors to Hamas killed and wounded many Leftists, who the Islamists despised.

Around this time, Israel helped found Hamas as both a divide and conquer strategy against the Palestinians and to Islamicize the face of Palestinian struggle in order to make it less appealing on the international front. In many ways, this strategy was a complete failure. Before the founding of Hamas, the Islamists were attacking Leftists in Palestine all the time.

This internecine conflict came to an end soon after the founding of Hamas. After things settled down a bit, the Palestinian resistance moved to a point of equilibrium called “national unity”. Presently, open Leftists and Communists in the PFLP and DFLP fight side by side, with no problems whatsoever, with the hardline Islamists in Hamas.

Professors on Palestinian campuses write openly atheist and blasphemous tracts against Islam and are not harmed. One of the top figures in the PLO is an acknowledged atheist and no one bothers him. There are large marches against suicide bombings. Hamas eschews all local law enforcement and refuses to implement an Islamic dress code.

In Ramallah, one can walk into a bar and order a drink during Ramadan – the only place in the Arab World one may do this – and Hamas refuses to even issue an official denunciation. Hamas has never tried to shut down the numerous bars in Palestine.

Although Hamas is officially the Palestinian branch of Muslim Brotherhood, Hamas keeps this a big secret because the MB is so disliked in Palestine (it is regarded as an Islamic extremist organization). Most Palestinians are not even aware of the relationship. Last Christmas, Hamas members actually presented gifts and toys to churches in Bethlehem – an unthinkable act for a hardline Islamist group.

Hardline Islamist imams in Gaza have called for Palestinian Christians and Muslims to fight side by side against Israel. Palestinian Christians, and some Muslims, wear whatever they please, and miniskirts and not unheard of, even in Gaza. The Islamists don’t like Western dress, and comments are made, but Hamas has never tried to enforce any kind of Islamic dress code in Palestine.

Palestinian papers are filled with articles that many hardline Palestinians would consider to be openly treasonous – calls for calling off the armed struggle, for settling for the most debasing peace agreements with Israel, for peaceful struggle a la Gandhi, for disarming the armed groups, etc.

Through it all, Hamas and the hardliners generally keep their mouths shut and tolerate openly “sellout” positions, all in the name of national unity. Although the differences between the Left, the PLO and the Islamists are often very wide, there is not much discussion of these differences – they are all temporarily glossed over in the name of national unity.

PFLP and DFLP fighters, open Leftists, came out for the funerals of Hamas leaders Sheik Yassin and Abdulaziz Rantissi and were seen fighting in the battles with the IDF that erupted afterward. Human rights organizations operate openly in Palestine, criticizing both the Israeli and the Palestinian sides, and the armed factions leave them alone.

Most importantly of all, all Palestinian factions have deep roots in their communities and do not brutalize the people they live amongst. In many places, almost everyone in the community is part of the resistance in one way or another, from young kids to women to old folks – everyone serves some function. You can’t get closer to the people than that.

Journalists, politicians, government workers, UN employees, aid workers, Christians, Druze, students, innocent civilians, even ISF volunteers, have nothing to fear from Hamas, the most radical of the Palestinian factions. Hamas has never been known kidnap foreigners for ransom, or to behead prisoners, much less to do so on videotape.

Hamas has never attacked a Palestinian school, store, campus, neighborhood, mosque, church, bar, press office, polling place, government office or hospital. Only informers for Israel have something to fear, and usually only after a serious investigation.

Even on the rare occasions when Hamas has taken an Israeli soldier hostage, the captives were treated fairly well, at least until Israel made the mistake of trying to “free” them. Hamas held them as ransom to try to get its own prisoners out of Israeli prisons.

When Israel refused to negotiate and stormed the hideout, the guerrillas executed the prisoner, which is a crime, but that is still not the same thing as wanton execution of all enemy prisoners or beheading prisoners on tape and peddling the gorefest around the Internet.

Even during the 90’s, while the PA spent much of its time arresting Hamas and Islamic Jihad activists as favors for the US and Israel, Islamic guerrillas generally refrained from attacks on the PA, a breathtaking show of self-restraint.

While controversy has swirled over the Palestinian terror tactic of suicide bombings against civilians, the world fails to recognize that almost all Palestinian attacks have been against military or settler targets in the Territories, and only a relative few attacks have occurred inside the Green Line.

Palestinian guerrillas have repeatedly offered to cease all attacks on civilians inside Israel, only to be endlessly rebuffed. One gets the feeling that Israel wants a suicide attack inside the Green Line now and again to malign the enemy and feed its propaganda machine. Even here, though, Palestinian terrorists have taken a nuanced stance.

Note the International Solidarity Movement’s (ISM) volunteers that swarm the Territories, standing by the besieged Palestinian people and helping protect civilians. Most people don’t realize that 1/3 of ISM volunteers are Jewish.

Generally, these Jews who have chosen to stand by the Palestinian people do not complain of racism from the supposedly Jew-hating Palestinians. How long would a Jewish civilian volunteer last in Iraq’s Sunni Triangle, no matter how pro-resistance he was?

The point here is that all of these people – atheists, blasphemers, bartenders and bar patrons, women in miniskirts, “sell-outs” and compromise at any cost types, human rights activists, journalists, humanitarian workers, Leftists, Communists, feminists, Christians – are basically left alone!

There may be some words exchanged here and there, but in general, no one threatens them, puts a gun to their head, beats them up, attacks them, tortures them, much less kills them or chops their head off on tape. This is the intelligent way to run a principled, intelligent, nationalist resistance to a colonizer, occupier or invader.

Why? Because by fracturing and fighting amongst themselves, the resistance serves the needs of the occupier. Divide and conquer is the age-old colonial game and the smartest resistance movements try not to fall for it.

So what has the Iraqi resistance done? Exactly the opposite of the Palestinian resistance! Instance of uniting for national unity, they are presently pursuing one of the most reactionary, backwards, barbaric, sectarian, fascistic, oppressive, domineering, racist, tribalistic, and downright stupid agendas imaginable.

Allow me to elaborate: In late 2003, after the capture of Saddam, the resistance started moving towards Sunni Islamism and the pro-Saddam factions started drying up. Although there have been a couple of serious, and commendable, flare-ups of Shia nationalistic Islamism with the 2 Sadr rebellions in 2004, at the moment, the resistance is probably 90% Sunni Arab.

Furthermore, as 2004 wore on, the Sunni Islamists became more and more extreme, with a movement towards Salafism or Wahhabism, the most extreme Sunni Islam with roots in the Arabian Gulf.

Through 2004 the Leftist, nationalist, and unified front type groupings gradually seemed to give way to this extreme fanatical Sunni Salafist Islam, which now dominates the Iraqi resistance with its bleak, cruel, Medieval, puritanical, theocratic agenda.

With each passing month, more and more Shia are alienated from the resistance as the Sunni extremists attack the Shia with increasing regularity. In the areas they control, the Sunni fanatics have imposed the most backwards, insane, brutal and stupid version of Islamic law since the fall of the Taliban.

Even Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Sudan are not this harsh. Women are threatened and then shot dead for the crime of wearing blue jeans. Drivers listening to music are pulled out of their cars, beaten, and ordered to listen to religious music. Stores selling musical instruments and music and video CD’s are ordered to close and attacked when they don’t close. Hairdressers and makeup shops are ordered to close.

Women refusing to wear the hijab are threatened with guns and sometimes killed for not covering up. Alcohol stores are ordered to close and bombed when they don’t comply. Alcohol sellers are flogged in public. Men with long hair are given mock public trials where they are beaten and their “Western” haircuts shorn.

In recent days, the Sunni guerrillas around Latifiyah in the so-called Death Triangle have committed the ultimate outrage of shutting down the schools in the region, either in “solidarity with Fallujah” or because “schools are cooperating with the Occupation”.

One has to think hard to think of a resistance group in recent years that has shut down the schools of very same people they are claiming to “protect”. The damage that could be done to the Sunni youngsters in these areas from long-term school shutdowns is hard to calculate.

Journalists are kidnapped, beaten, tortured, shot dead, and even beheaded on tape in a frenzy of delirious rage that is hard for the sane mind to comprehend. News agencies are attacked for not sufficiently toeing the guerrilla line.

And in the ultimate crime and the nadir of stupidity, an aid worker who dedicated her life to the Iraqi people and hated the Occupation was kidnapped and brutally murdered for reasons only an asylum inmate could comprehend.

God forbid, even hospitals are attacked; in the most egregious case, after the idiotic bombing of a Christian church, in order to doubly punish the “infidel Christian” victims of the blast ferried to the hospital.

Execution of “spies”, “informers” and the like is utterly random and at the whim of the guerrillas, often without much evidence or the slightest hint of a proceeding.

The upshot of all of this is that in the areas where they Sunni fanatics hold sway, they are often feared and hated by a certain number of residents, Sunni Arabs themselves. Some residents are so fed up with guerrilla high-handedness and cruelty that they have welcomed the re-Occupation of their cities by US troops.

When a guerrilla faction is reduced to ruling and surviving through terror and not through the deep, passionate support of the people, that resistance faction is utterly failing in one of the primary rules of guerrilla war.

This rule, cited from Mao to Che to the finest war colleges on Earth, that the guerrillas need to gain support from civilian populations through good deeds and by the passionate commitment to the guerrilla cause of the people the guerrillas live amongst. The people’s support for the guerrilla works best when freely given and not coerced – terrorizing the people you claim to represent only gets one so far.

And how are the Sunni Islamists treating other religious groups, whom any half-sane Sunni resistance ought to be trying to enlist in a national resistance? Christians are threatened, ordered to close their alcohol, hairdressing and makeup shops and wear the hijab. If they refuse, they are killed.

Some Christians are being ordered to convert to Islam on penalty of death and there have been a few deaths in these cases. Iraqi churches, some of the oldest and most beautiful in the Christian World, have been repeatedly and shamelessly bombed.

It is true that many Christians have supported the Occupation in the past, but many others have not, and some large Christian parties have recently strongly opposed the Occupation.

The Shia are threatened, bullied, humiliated and ultimately ethnically cleansed. An entire region, from Abu Ghurayb down to Yusufiya and Latifiyah, is being systematically cleansed of Shia in an attempt to expand the Sunni Zone west of Baghdad.

Clearly, this is no better than what Israel does in their Territories. In Latifiyah, Shia mosques have been ordered to close and Shia are being thrown off the land so that Sunnis can take their farmland. Landowners renting to Shia are threatened with death unless they throw the Shia off the land.

The Sunni Islamists have begun setting up checkpoints in Latifiyah, on the popular Shia pilgrimage route between Baghdad and Najaf/Karbala. When Shia pilgrims arrive at these checkpoints, they are pulled out of their cars and ordered to denounce Ali, their patron saint. If they refuse, they are shot dead on the spot.

Other Shia are pulled out of their cars, beaten, and ordered not to come that way again. A Shia armed brigade, the Fury Brigades, was formed recently in Basra to deal with the blatant Sunni racism and oppression of the Shia in Latifiyah.

This Shia armed group recently fought a battle with Sunni Salafists in Latifiyah. Of course, US forces sat back and watched for a couple of hours while they bloodied each other. Obviously, it serves the occupier, the US Coalition, Israel, and imperialism in general to have various Iraqi factions fighting against each. This is exactly what the US and Israel want – the better to control Iraq.

The long-term strategy of the Israeli Right has long been that in order for Israel to survive its hostile neighborhood, Israel needs to become the dominant imperialist state in the Middle East and take control of the neighborhood by attacking its various hostile Arab neighbors (or getting the US to do it for them) and breaking up hostile Arab states into endlessly warring ethnic statelets.

This strategy was laid out in an internal Israeli document published in 1980 and uncovered and revealed to the world by the brave Israeli dissident Israel Shahak. Other more recent documents echo the same line, especially Securing the Realm in 1996 (The Securing the Realm document appears to lay the groundwork for the Iraq invasion).

The 1980 Israeli paper said that the optimal situation for Iraq, from Israel’s point of view, would be endless civil war between the various sects and ethnic groups, especially the Kurds and the Shia and Sunni Arabs. An eventual breakup of Iraq into unstable ethnic mini-states would be ideal.

A number of prominent American thinkers have also recently published on the benefits of breaking up Iraq into unstable, weak, easily controlled ethnic statelets. So, in their bottomless tribal stupidity, the Iraqi resistance is playing into the precisely laid plans and wildest dreams of their worst enemies – the Israelis and the Americans!

At the moment, the Sunni resistance has various goals. The first and only noble goal, from the point of view of an ideal resistance faction, is to throw the US Coalition out of Iraq. Beyond that, the Sunnis increasingly fear a Shia takeover in the coming elections in January. The Sunni Arabs have brutally ruled Mesopotamia, and later Iraq, for many centuries, lording it over the Shia Arabs in the process.

This 20% oligarchic elite, the Sunni Arabs, feel somehow entitled to lord it over Shia Arabs and Kurds like the worst feudal overlords.

A Shia victory in the coming elections would be the end of the reign of this racist ruling class Sunni elite, the end of their supremacism and domination of the other groups in the nation, and the end to their ill-deserved privileges obtained by brutally exploiting the other groups. The Sunni Arabs need to get used to the fact that they are a minority in Iraq.

If the Sunnis had any sense, they would be negotiating deals with the Shia at this very moment. Instead, like a typical ruling class thrown out of power, they are not giving up the tiniest bit of their illegitimate power and privileges without a vicious fight.

These deals would take the form of some sort of apology rituals by the Sunnis, such as statements of apology by the Sunni clergy for the crimes the Sunnis have committed against the Shia over the centuries, or perhaps pilgrimages to Shia mosques where prominent Sunnis essentially repent to the Shia for their crimes and ask for their forgiveness. The fact that these rituals would be largely symbolic is not the point.

In this sort of socio-political ritual, the symbolism itself can have potent sociological and political ramifications. The Sunnis could also cut deals for some sort of affirmative action or power sharing in government, a la Lebanon.

The Sunnis could point out that the Shia can hardly run the country without Sunni expertise and wealth. In return, the Shia would offer the Sunni Arabs, say, 20% of the seats in Parliament, 20% of the positions in the Cabinet, and perhaps one top-ranking post.

The basis for this deal would be that sharing power is preferable to civil war and that Iraqi Muslims ought to unite against the US and Israel instead of serving the enemy by infighting. Now that’s if the Sunni Arabs had any sense. But it appears that deep-rooted tribalism and bigotry and the towering arrogance and sense of entitlement of an ancient ruling class is trumping pragmatism in Iraq.

The Sunnis feel that they have enough power, guns and money to both throw out the US Coalition and then put the Kurds and Shia back under their boot, just like in the good old days. And they are willing to gamble a lot to get it all back. The game here is the zero-sum game.

Each group – Sunni Arabs, Kurds and Shia Arabs feels that either their tribe gets it all, or their tribe gets nothing. There is one winner who gets everything, and two losers who get zero. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Certainly sharing the wealth and power is preferable to endless civil war that only serves the enemy.

There are plenty of logical, historical reasons for Shia Arabs, secular Iraqis, progressive Iraqis, nationalist Iraqis and even Iraqi Christians to oppose the Coalition’s Occupation of Iraq. In 1920, all these groups rose up against the British.

At the moment, many amongst these groups are either supporting the US Coalition or sitting on the sidelines because the Taliban-like Sunni resistance either offers them nothing or seems even worse than the US. In this case, the US presence at least offers Christians, the Shia, the secular, progressives and even nationalists some modicum of protection against the nightmare of a brutal Sunni theocracy.

The leading figurehead for this insane, fanatical, brutal Sunni nonsense is none other than Mr. Zarqawi. This man is a certified sadist, a sociopathic freak with the mind of a serial killer who delights in personally sawing off the heads of live human beings for the whole world to see.

A few of his more famous victims have been utterly innocent in any sense of the word. Zarqawi harbors a crazed, pathological hatred of Shia Muslims and Christians in general, not to mention Sunni Muslims who are insufficiently fanatical. One could hardly think of a more backwards, terrifying, medieval, monstrous, criminal, racist pig of a man to head the Iraqi Resistance.

The US and Israel must be delighted. Zarqawi is a grade-A villain right out of the movies, with virtually no redeeming qualities and a mortifying, bloodthirsty, genocidal vision. The elevation of Zarqawi to the symbolic leadership of the Iraqi resistance symbolizes the depths of the depravity and lunacy to which the Iraqi Sunni Salafist rebels have sunk.

On the one hand, we have the ultra-reactionary, backwards, racist, corrupt, sexist, cruel-hearted, supremacist, chauvinist, criminal, fundamentalist, crusading Bush Administration and its imperial armies smashing around the globe picking fights and bullying the planet.

Lined up against them, in Iraq and Afghanistan, are some of the most backwards, ultra- reactionary, supremacist, chauvinist, medieval, fundamentalist, racist, corrupt, sexist, cruel-hearted criminals on Earth, offering a vision at least as vicious, animalistic, cold, primitive and fascist-like as Bush’s crusaders, if not much worse.

Rational people realize that religious wars are some of the stupidest of all possible wars. This war – the “War on Terror” – is a becoming a war between insane reactionary religious fanatics, one side waving the banner of Christianity (and more surreptitiously, Judaism), the other the banner of Islam.

The failure of the rest of the Earth, inhabiting the relatively sane terrain between these terrifying extremes, to offer a substantive vision between these two utterly bleak alternatives, is profoundly dispiriting.

Are the Rich Better Than the Rest of Us in Some Way? No

Objectivity writes:

“High IQ is not a prerequisite for anything, it just increases the odds. It’s like height. You don’t have to be a giant to make the NBA (short men have done it) but it sure helps. And if a rich person isn’t smart, they’re almost always superior in some other way (exceptional beauty, athleticism, energy, family background, special talents) 99.9% of the population can never be super rich no matter how hard they try because the typical American is already working half the day so doubling their efforts would at best, double their income, which is still leaves than making less than six figures.”

Look man, there is nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing, nothing exceptional about rich people.

They generally have no special talent.

I will agree with you that the rich are often good looking, but so what? They didn’t get rich via their looks.

Athleticism may be more prevalent among the rich, as many are sports freaks. But I never met a rich person who was a super athlete. Some of them were good athletes in school, mostly because they hated academics so much.

The only thing that they have is sheer utter ruthlessness, high confidence and an absolutely crazy and out of control desire and need to get rich at any cost, come Hell or high water. Many are very aggressive verging on being sociopathic. The world of the rich is not a pretty place. Many to most rich people got rich by being monsters. They walk, ran or bulldozed over everyone below them and everyone in their way. They used, abused and exploited everyone around them. They violated agreements, back-stabbed, lied, cheated and stole. Want to know how to get rich? That’s how you do it.

Many of them are in some shady line of business that is near criminal. They sell products that don’t work, rip off other businesses but stealing from them, steal products, ideas and patents from other businesses, sell sleazy or shady products to consumers over the phone, engage in fraudulent investment schemes, get involved in slimy or shady businesses like online business, online dating sites, online porn, etc.

The business of getting rich is dirty. You not only get your hands dirty, your whole body gets covered in mud. That’s why the rich hate intellectuals. We make them think, and when they think, they start to feel guilty sometimes. We make them feel guilty. THIS is why they shut us down.

As a general rule, you don’t get rich by being a good, decent, right, correct, proper or even honorable person. You get rich by being a fucking scumbag. Many to most rich people are “legal criminals.” They’re basically just criminals, but it’s just that they are not breaking the law technically, though they love to skirt laws. There are “illegal criminals” and “legal criminals.” Now many of the rich are actually “illegal criminals,” in particular, they are involved in “Organized crime,” and they simply never get caught or law enforcement doesn’t really care about what they do. Only the feds go after organized crime, and they are usually short of cash.

Many rich people deal dope. I have seen this with my very eyes. One of my best friends from high school got very rich dealing cocaine. He was one of the biggest dealers in San Francisco, and he never got caught. He’s now back in Orange County, selling real estate. The guy is not smart. He might have a 110 IQ. He is a typical rich person.

Not only do the rich screw all their competitors, which is basically proper in capitalism, but typically they have screwed all of their partners too. The rich are always cutting each other out, ripping each other off, betraying each other, ripping up and violating agreements, etc. The word of a rich man is worth nothing. Nothing.

The rich are exceptional in certain ways. They are extremely aggressive. They are exceptionally ruthless. They are extraordinarily cold blooded. They have dramatically low levels of guilt. They have “Type A personalities.”

The rich don’t work harder than anyone else. In fact, they work much, much, much less hard. The rich are basically lazy. Being rich is all about not working.

This is what happens. Typically, you have to work pretty hard in order to get rich in the first place. But then what happens? What happens is that once the rich get rich, they stop working. They own the joint, so they show up once a week for an hour or so. The guy who owns the joint works maybe 1-2 hours/week.  Sure, they have to manage their businesses or investments or whatever, but guess what? They hire people to do that. A very serious problem with the rich is boredom. Many rich people are bored. They are bored because they have nothing to do. Hence the wild levels of degenerate and depraved behavior among the rich, the wild sex orgies, the very high levels of bisexuality, the kinky sex lives (bored with real sex), and heavy alcohol use (many of the rich are drunks) and in particular the high levels of drug abuse, especially drugs like cocaine, heroin and pills.

Are Mexican Emigrants Destined to Recreate Mexico?

Inaki writes:

Robert, I think it is urgent we say it is because of culture, not race or biology that a person can create a bad condition. Of course, you generalized by saying “Everywhere a Mexican goes in the world, he can only recreate the disaster that is Mexico.” Of course, not all Mexicans are the same, just like you wouldn’t say, “Whatever human being comes out of Mexico is mestizo”… that would miss a large segment of that population.

You say Mexico is Mexico because it’s filled with Mexicans, but you know what? Mexicans can be programmed to have a different culture, so it’s not something permanent. No nation or culture remains the same, as you might know since you have studied the history, culture, religion, language, ethnicity, and race of people and how these change over time. I foresee Mexico becoming different as a society, just like the US will become a different society in terms of cultural beliefs.

I guess it depends on the type of Mexicans.

To be honest, in the towns and cities that Mexicans have seriously taken over here in California, in general, they have not reproduced the catastrophe that is Mexico.

Schooling functions here, and most go to school at least to high school, whereas in Mexico, you have many still dropping out at 2nd grade. The schools are well funded, whereas the funding for Mexican schools in nightmarish. Medical services are well funded here, whereas in Mexico, you might wait in line 24 hours at a public clinic. The class hatred that one sees in Mexico is in little evidence here. The extreme abuse of labor by bosses is also not common here, though it is reproduced by Mexican farm labor bosses in the fields, it is true.

The Catholic Church has not yet destroyed my state. California women have full rights in all senses and gays have very good rights here. Mexicans here are rather lackadaisical about their Catholicism, and Mexican-American politicians are fully liberal on all social issues. All Mexican-American politicians are strong liberals, for the poor and working classes and against the rich. There are no stooge parties for the rich as you see in Mexico. Everyone has a toilet here that goes to a nice sewage treatment plant, while 27% of Mexicans send their sewage right into rivers and oceans. There are no beggars on the streets, and pathetic child beggars in rags are nonexistent.

Corrupt cops Mexican style are not common, and US Army is not corrupt at all, nor is it involved in law enforcement. Most Mexican-American politicians are not corrupt here, whereas 100% of Mexican pols are horribly corrupt. We don’t have human shit flying through our very air as is the case in the nightmare called Mexico City with its shit-air phenomenon.

However, there are a few cities here that have gone nearly 100% Mexican or Mexican-American, and these places have been pretty clusterfucked.

In the Central Valley, Parlier is a 99% Hispanic city that is frankly simply “Mexico in the US”, complete with ugly corrupt pols and the whole nine yards. It’s sucking so bad that many Hispanics themselves are leaving to go to nearby towns that are still more or less American. Parlier is “Mexican-wrecked.”

Other Mexican wrecked towns are Bell and Bell Gardens in Southern California. These towns are so corrupt that they are have gone completely broke because the city money was all stolen. Last I heard they were in receivership, and the cities were being administered by outsiders.

But in general, most substantially to heavily Mexican or Hispanic towns in California are not Mexican-wrecked. There exists a decline from the previous level as a White town, but the decline is not to the level of Mexico. The more heavily Mexican towns look something like Mexico with a US overlay, however, it’s a substantially upgraded version of Mexico.

So Mexicans in the US are not really recreating Mexico, instead, they seem to be creating substantially upgraded versions of it with a heavy American overlay.

Indian Morality Compared to American Morality

Jaipal writes:

By the way, speaking of morals and whatnot, what morals does Western society increasingly have?

Skyrocketing divorce rates, with no real family values or respect for the basic functional unit of society, namely the family.

Out-of-Wedlock births and a growing bastard population,
increasing welfare dependency parasites on the dole, a drug and gun culture where a shooting now takes place  every now and then?

Growing Christian Evangelism which emphasizes irrationality over reason like the creationism versus evolution debate.

What about gay marriage permissiveness. Should be the last to talk about morals!

Surely the low morals of America are vastly trumped by the devastatingly low morals of Indians. As humans, Indians are probably by far some of the morally lowest humans on the face of the Earth.

1. Of all humans on Earth, no humans care less about their fellow man than Indians. This is the most serious form of condemnation. Further, India has always been this way. As far back as we can go in history, Indians have never cared one whit about their fellow man.

2. One of the most viciously racist societies on Earth. India has actually instituted the most cruel and savage racism into every single crevice of its society in the form of the caste system. Is India the most racist society on Earth? In terms of the racist abuse doled out to its citizens, it may well be. In racist terms, what you have in India is nearly an entire nation of Nazi-like racists. And it is no wonder that Indians have long revered Hitler and the 3rd Reich.

3. Callous abuse of women. Of all societies on Earth, women are less safe in India than most other countries. Rapes are out of control, and possibly this has been the case for hundreds of years. For millenia, widows were set on fire on the streets of India. There are many 1000′s of cruel and horrific dowry murders of women every year in India. These murders are supported by the majority of the Indian people.

4. Child abuse. There is a long standing tradition of child abuse in India, actually sanctioned by Hindu priests. Hindu temples have been havens for the open sexual abuse of female children and even boys for hundreds of years. There are almost no arrests for these crimes, and they continue in vast numbers to this very day.

5. Slavery. Everywhere you look in India, you see frank and obvious slavery. Many millions of Indians are slaves, bonded into unpaid labor to higher castes for perpetuity. Many children are also slaves. Most of the women in Indian brothels are sex slaves, trafficked into slavery.

6. Callous abuse of traffic laws. There are few traffic laws in India, and what laws there are are violated by almost everyone. This is one of the worst countries on Earth to be a driver of a vehicle or a pedestrian on foot or bicycle. Indian drivers simply do not care and will gladly run into or over any pedestrian or bicyclist who gets in their way. There is no consideration of other drivers, and you take your life in your hands every time you step on the gas.

7. Widespread fraud, thievery and scamming. India has a business community in which ethics are nearly nonexistent. Indian businessmen constantly steal from each other, so no one trusts each other. There are no criminal prosecutions for fraud because all Indian politicians are criminals themselves. You can pursue the civil suit route, but it will take years to decades. Most Indian judges are corrupt criminals themselves, so there is no guarantee of any justice.

8. Corruption everywhere. Whether there is a single honest politician anywhere in India would be a great question. It is automatically assumed that all or nearly all politicians are criminals. This level of governmental crime is not seen much in the world outside of parts of Africa.

9. The worst starvation on Earth. India has the worst malnutrition and starvation figures on Earth. The only country that is worse is Ethiopia, and they live in the desert. Indians starve because their fellow Indians don’t care whether they starve or not or whether they live or die. India grows enough food to feed all of its people, but it is not distributed properly. Indian government programs to feed the poor are handed over to corrupt locals. Probably 95% of the food aid is then stolen by these locals and diverted to the open market.

10. A medical system based on callous abuse of the sick and dying. There are few places on Earth where you have to pay the doctor to keep you alive. India is one of those places. If you don’t pay the doctor, you get no treatment. You either live or die, or get better or worse. The only way to assure that you get any kind of treatment of all is to pay off the doctor-criminal.

11. Shit and piss everywhere. 600 million Indians lack toilets, so half a billion Indians shit and piss outdoors every day. The sidewalks and fields of India are covered with shit. It is difficult to walk in many Indian cities because there are shits everywhere you step on the ground.

Indian men piss openly, often on walls of cities. Many walls in cities smell horrifically of piss. If you look around big Indian city in the daytime, you will see city walls along sidewalks with dozens to scores of men lined up pissing on the wall. The piss rolls off the wall, down the sidewalk and into the gutters. The rich and middle class walk by carrying briefcases and care nothing whatsoever about the men pissing right next to them. No one will give these poor wretches toilets or build pubic restrooms because the Indians that have money don’t want any of it going to poor people, and the Indian state exists to serve the rich and only the rich, forever.

12. The most horrific beggars anywhere on Earth. In any Indian city, you will see beggars. You will see young boys, completely covered in shit, trying to steal food to survive. You will see men and women living on the streets, covered in in filth and degradation. You will see human skeletons everywhere, begging for food. If you give any of these wretches food, many Indians will rush up to and demand to know why you gave food to the “scumbag beggar.” According to Indians, giving food to beggars “only encourages them.” Instead of giving it to him, you should have given it to them instead.

13. If you go to the Indian holy city on the Ganges, you will see countless Indians drinking, bathing and swimming in the filthiest river the world has ever seen. Dead bodies float everywhere on the river, bloated, rotting, sickening. Crows perch on the bodies, gnawing on the dead. The rotting bodies loll up onto shore, where packs of roving dogs hound in on them and feast on the rotten corpses. This is India. This is the holiest city in all of India, the holiest city in Hinduism, the citadel of Hindu India.

14. Crabs in a barrel, dog eat dog, the law of the jungle. India has been this way as far back as anyone can remember. This is normal for India. Every man for himself, fuck everyone but me and mine. India is a nation of 1.2 million Mitt Romneys.

15. Nonexistent schools. Many villages lack schools. The state is only for the rich, so they don’t want to build villages for the poor. In many Indian villages, the schools have no toilets, so the children shit and piss outside all through the day. In many of these schools, the teachers simply never show up. They collect a paycheck for many years, but they never spend a day in class. This situation often goes on for many years.

16. The worst religion on Earth. One reason why Hinduism is the worst religion can be exemplified by Hindu temples. All Christian churches, especially Catholic churches, are mandated to give many to most donations to the poor. The churches also raise money to serve the poor. Mosques are also mandated to serve the poor.

Muslims must tithe a certain portion of income to the mosque, which is then distributed to the needy. Mohammad himself mandated this tithe and the destination of its funds. Mosques and Islamist groups often run all manner of social services agencies from schools to day care to hospitals for services for the poor and needy. Islam is essentially a socialist religion, and this impulse dates back to Mohammad himself, who was actually a bit of a 7th century socialist.

Buddhist societies have cultures that mandate a lot of distribution of income to the poor and needy. Buddhism is at core a socialist or Communist religion, which is why forms of these economic systems were easily implemented in Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Korea and Japan.

In contrast, the Indian rich give their money to Hindu temples with the comforting knowledge that not one penny of those riches will ever go to the poor. For the Indian rich, if any of their money went to the poor it would be seen as wasted. So all of their money goes to the temple instead. Hindu temples accumulate vast riches, but not one dime of it goes to the poor. For the Indian Hindu, this curious dispensation is the proper one.

One gives money to the temple in the pagan tradition of trying to buy favors from the Gods. You give the Gods money, and they give you stuff and money in return. It’s analogous to the buying of indulgences in Medieval Catholicism, and it’s as corrupt, backwards and primitive as human religion gets.

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As you can see, America has none of these problems. Sure, American society has some serious moral transgressions, but at its core, it is a profoundly more decent, moral, cleanly and functional society than we see in India. America is a much more moral society than India, though things are on a downswing. India is much more morally degenerate.

America is a more moral country because Americans are morally superior people. India is a depraved and vicious country because Indians are immoral, savage and animal-like people.

Societies are a reflection of the people who live in and create them. Mexicans created Mexico. Mexico blows for one reason and one reason only. Mexico blows because it’s full of Mexicans. Everywhere a Mexican goes in the world, he can only recreate the disaster that is Mexico. This is because this is what his culture has programmed him to do.

80% of Mexico wants to come to America. If we let 90 million more Mexicans flood our heaving shores, America will become Mexico North by default.

400 million Indians want to come to the US. If we give in and let them in, America, the shining city on the hill, will be gone. In its place will be Calcutta from sea to shining sea.