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Our stuation in the proverbal nutshell: This isn't the first time in our history when the richest few gained too much power over the country. In the past, the poor and middle classes united to successfully push back, to the benefit of both. Not this tme. This time, the middle class was successfully pitted against the poor. What the middle class did to the poor, the rich are now doing to the middle class, and there wll be no push-back.
Rachael or Lawrence said they got the explosives for $199*2 from a place on the Mass border. They paid cash. Where did they get the cash.
Gary, have you ever worked on Wisconsin Ave north of Georgetown? Your name rings a bell...I think I might have known a Gary Reber many years ago. Not sure of the first name...but definitely a Reber. Mother Fletcher's boat house ring a bell? Just askin'...won't blame you for not saying one way or the other.
There is only one reason why all of the firefighters and other first responders reported sounds of multiple explosions and then later...in the rubble...their rescue efforts, and clean up later, were hampered by the "molten pools of metal" in the basement levels. There were 7 basement levels and a lot of molten steel down there. And even satellite IRAS monitoring of the site weeks later showed a very, very hot area down there. The only reason for all that molten steel (since it is well established that the jet fuel, which burned out quickly and even that did not reach temperatures needed to melt or even sufficiently weaken the structural steel to cause a collapse, and the subsequent office fires were not hot enough either) would be lots of incendiary activity severing the central core beams ability to support the load. There is just no way to explain why there was all that molten steel, beams hurled hundreds of feet from the buildings, the collapse at near free-fall speed, the collapse in the building's own footprint, the evidence in the dust, the corrosion, the chemical fingerprints, and so much more unless you conclude that the buildings came down as a result of demolition.
In this case, "banksters," hedge funds, and individual investors are basically engaged in "flipping" houses––the process of buying at down market prices, waiting while renting at premium rents, then selling after the market prices have jumped. These are generally cash transactions, which tend to be favored by sellers because of the assurance of the sale, even though they may have gotten higher offers from people who actually intend to live in the houses but who need approved "consumer" loans to purchase. Such mortgaged loans require a separate source of income. Given the limited supply market conditions they are able to control long term the market pricing of houses and reap greater profits from higher sale prices. This scenario is creating a competition between the average homeowner seeker wanting a place to live and raise a family and the for-profit investors who want to maximize their return on "flipping." Effectively, poor families are priced out of the market and cannot buy their own homes, and thus are losing out one of the most regarded cornerstones of opportunity in America. Instead, increasingly more people are being forced to rent and thus subject to rent increases and perpetual consumer debt over time rather than a fixed mortgage cost, which builds equity overtime, which results in greater wealth.
All kinds of corruption will occur as long as Republicans are tyrranizing our congress.
UNC Tarheels: "The federal definition of WMD is ANY explosive device that is meant to kill or maim."
You mean something like Drones or Helicopter gunships that spray blankets of bullets or any one of the many other WMDs that our military has used to murder all those civilian men, women, and children in the Middle East? The US has done many, many Boston Marathon Bombings killing hundreds of thousands of innocent people in the Middle East. But they get away with it, in some people's minds, by using the propaganda that they really aren't trying to kill civilians..they are just "collateral damage". Yeah, right! Total garbage lies!
How do you like it, Amerika? It's not much fun is it? But, unfortunately, I suspect that we have not seen the end of these kinds of violence. The US has made millions of enemies for their criminal terrorist behavior in the Middle East and I suspect more than a few will get their revenge.
And those two brothers were most probably, according to recent reports, not even connected to Al Qaida or any other group like that. They were just really, really ticked off at how the US has brazenly murdered so many innocent people...and for what? Control of the oil? Or, maybe the US criminal actions in the Middle East has more to do with creating lots of enemies so that they would keep scaring us into supporting, with our tax dollars, the military industrial complex and the national security state? Jingos can get their jollies by having an excuse, and a pardon, to continue their racist and hateful speech against anyone they can.
One thing, though, if future terrorists would please not target innocent civilians themselves, then their cause might be more acceptable to more people. If they went after the wealthy elite...especially the banksters, wall street criminals, heartless and cruel corporatists who are getting wealthy off of killing innocent civilians in the Middle East...then they would have fewer people, among the disenfranchised, that would shed tears for these criminal elite. Why hurt your own people? That only detracts from your cause. Now, if the FBI were behind it...they would go after the people...and not the criminal elite. Because they want us all to be very afraid.
I wouldn't even be surprised that one of our 3 letter agencies like the FBI set these two up. They are very well known to do things like that. They have done things like that before..a number of times. They find patsies that might have issues and then trick them into acting out something they would not have acted out, had they not had the explosive material (for example) and the urging or egging on by FBI undercover agents. The FBI supplies the material and then, usually, moves in for the sting to take all the credit and glory for 'protecting us from terrorists'. Whether or not they actually try or even, perhaps, fail to stop it in time may depend upon what kind of psyops they have in mind. How critical is it to scare people at the right times to affect people's attitudes about say...gun control laws about to be passed, or CISPA that will further erode our privacy issues. Or, even make a case for invading other countries like Afghanistan, or Iraq, or Iran, or even...maybe...Venezuela.
Where did these brothers get all of those explosives? And from whom?
Well said, The Anonymous Phantom aka Occupy Wallstreet! But you might want to check the spelling of one of those words before the censor gets a hold of it...I don't know if they would censor it. I have no problem with it, myself. But, I'd hate to see your whole message be censored for just one little word.
Also...'A real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach Florida, Jack McCabe, complained: "Lower income families will loose their opportunity for the American dream of building wealth through owning a home." ' ---maybe that's part of the problem...making lower income families think they even have a chance of "building wealth through owning a home."
That seems to me to be the sales pitch that real estate people make to get people to sign on the dotted line. After all, isn't that what led to the housing crisis? Real estate people and finance centers not caring that the people that are buying these houses don't have a hell's chance of staying in them...because they wouldn't normally qualify for them?
These real estate and financial people, the banks, know what they are doing well enough to ensure that they will be able to take the money and run and duck later when they have all their wealth hidden in offshore banks. They slice and dice and repackage the mortgages to sell to some other manipulator...probably a hedge fund manager who takes his big cut and passes the problem to the retirees.
The high stakes gamblers with other people's money (ours) know that if they get into trouble that the corrupt government will make the tax payers bail them out. And they will keep doing this because of "Moral Hazard"..get bailed out once and you know that you will continue to get bailed out..so you have no incentive of doing anything different.
No one will bail out all of the new home owners who got suckered into buying the houses. And then, they will get blamed for the problems by the ones who gamed the system to begin with.
There is only one way to overcome this...and it is massive rebellion. When the masses get really, really angry because their loved ones are dying from starvation or lack of health care or over-exposure to living in one's car or a tent...maybe then..they'll take to the streets...but if you wait till then...well, maybe you could have saved your loved ones but didn't..you may end up regretting you didn't act sooner.
OWS -- I assume you know in order to make it illegal for a corp to bid on a primary dwelling, we need that amendment that money is not speech.
Other than that, Bravo!
I voted "No" but I don't think cigarettes should be banned. I'm somewhat disappointed in Thom for giving a false choice in his survey.
We've decided as a society, although arbitrarily, that the age of adulthood is 18 years old. With that being said, people at age 18 should be able to make thier own decisions about whether or not to smoke. I think we should continue to educate people about the dangers of smoking. Education has been very effective in the U.S. in stemming the number of people who smoke, and should used along with other measure to move forward on issue like gun regulation/safety as well as the decriminalization or legalization of drugs.
Mark Saulys -- My main point was that it would be nice if dictionaries were written according to how people speak (for the most part they are). However, if the 1% (AKA 0.01%) do like the way certain words are defined they will change them to direct how the people speak. It certainly worked for the word fascism for the masses. At least it certainly made me not understand what the liberal elitist meant when they said fascism.
Protect Dzhokar Tsarnev rights? Really what about the civil rights of the injured, maimed and the dead? The federal definition of WMD is ANY explosive device that is meant to kill or maim. I have no problem with not mirandising a terrorist for 48 hours to discern if there are in other attacks in the works. The rights of a suspect far out weigh the rights of a victim, so much so that the judicial system is in fear of falling flat on its back. I read that in the Iowa Law Review in the 80's. I agree that he should be treated as an enemy combatant. I also agree that there should be a universal background check nationwide, an assault weapons ban and 10 round magazines.
...uh,duh? i saw that coming when it crashed. think about it. OUr retirement accounts? if they buy up enough of it? will be funded by renters...the dream of owning a home? GONE! and any smart home owner if they "are" able to move up? should keep what "they" have and rent it! sound advice as i have done plenty of appreciation tracking for the folks i calc schedule Es for. If you have property and you are sitting on sizable equity? pull the cash buy some dirt cheap forclosure prop and rent it. yup! thats the ticket. Good luck...oh and one last tid bit? if you have sizable $$$ in your retirement account and can afford to pull 30% without crippling your funds? have your tax planner run a test on the tax and penalty verses continuing to be a prisoner of the bank over the life of your current loan. good luck!
Thanks for all the info. A whole lot to analyze. I remember from my studies in 1960's that wood beams were better than steel beams in keeping a structure intact during a fire. Since wood burns at a much lower temp than 1000 F, I wonder why steel would fail first.
Exactly! It is precisely when the crime is so heinous, so horrible and so shocking; when it causes people to lose objectivity, become hysterical and seek to strike out more or less blindly; when we have trouble keeping our heads that those rights are necessary. It's then that we're likely to lynch somebody. It's for times like those that those rights and considerations were invented.
HOUSING SPECULATION SHOULD BE ILLEGAL
WELCOME TO SERF CITY USA...
Major Hedge Funds Buy Up Foreclosed Houses And Rent Them Back At High Prices.
The End Of The American Dream.
Big investors and hedge funds are buying up foreclosed American homes and renting them back to desperate families at high prices. If you want a place to live, you have to pay the man, and pay, and pay, and pay. Areas with the poorest populations are being preyed upon first, the areas where the the most junk mortgages were floated first: Florida and Nevada. The average person in the U.S. is competing with these corporations in an effort to find a place to live.
Last month's report of an up swing in the housing market was a false rise in the economy as fat cat investors snapped up the foreclosure "bargains". But, how can there be any bargains when prices haven't been allowed to drop low enough for poor families to buy their own homes?
A real estate consultant in Deerfield Beach Florida, Jack McCabe, complained: "Lower income families will loose their opportunity for the American dream of building wealth through owning a home."
Real estate investors are bidding on hundreds of houses at a time and dumping the money they stole by selling phoney mortgage backed securities back into the market. They are confiscating the houses they forced into foreclosure. The poor will have no option but to rent from them, and when the poor make a bit more money, the rent will go up. 'Twas ever thus.
When I started this page, I wrote an essay showing that after the Civil War the rich kept black people in slavery by getting them in debt. Now, in the modern age, they want to keep all of us in debt and bonded servitude. We will soon be slaves. What's the next step? The "right of the first night" (jus prima noctis) where they get to fuck a pretty girl on her wedding night before her husband because they can? Don't rule it out the pigs did it in the middle ages and why would they want to stop now? When you can be thrown out into the street you may become humbled and desperate.
How did this happen? It happened because we, the American people. were asleep. It happened because we the people didn't look the bosses in the eye and say "F*k You and the thoroughbred horse you rode in on." We need to unite and destroy our oppressors. We need to fight this in every way possible...
WE SHOULD MAKE IT ILLEGAL FOR CORPORATIONS TO BID ON PRIMARY DWELLINGS FOR ANY REASON, AND WE SHOULD LIMIT INDIVIDUAL SPECULATION ON PRIMARY DWELLINGS AS INVESTMENTS.
A house is not an investment -- it is a necessity like food. You need it to survive the elements, your children need it to grow up in and live in. It's not something to be speculated on in the casinos of greed. Our homes are our castles. We will likely end up like they did in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries: people lived and died in the houses they were born in. Houses were passed down, because they were they last bastion of protection from the elements and the predators that lurk in the banks. If you have a house, pay it off, leave it to your kids so they will have more choices in life, more freedom. So they can look the bosses in the eye and tell them to do to themselves what they are doing to the rest of us.
Sincerely,
The Anonymous Phantom (aka) Occupy Wallstreet.
https://www.facebook.com/occupy.wallstreet.1217?ref=tn_tnmn
Right on! We definitely need to break up the big banks! And it might not be just the "taxpayers" who will get left out in the cold this time. Cyprus has set a new precedence. And what happens in Cyprus can happen here. It may not go down exactly the way it did in Cyprus but the end result is that your savings accounts will be greatly reduced if not completely sacked.
Consider this...the authorities want us all to believe that a Cyber War with a country like China is possible. Some even are saying we are in a Cyber War now. Since the US may not be able to fund their illegal wars anymore on the backs of countries like China the US warmongers now considers these countries to be enemies (perhaps not out loud). China no longer trusts US funny money and is stocking up on gold. They can't use their US funny money to by US property they want to buy. Yes, they can buy houses and some businesses but not the really big things. So they have all these treasury notes based on the US dollar that are really nearly worthless. No one wants them anymore.
One of the reasons the US attacked Iraq was because Saddam was not willing to be a puppet and useful idiot for the US..he was going to break from the dollar standard for his oil which would have cause a lot of problems for the US. If the dollar standard is no longer a standard, then the US loses control.
I experienced some of this when I went to Slovakia and tried to exchange my US dollars for Slovak koruna or even Euros. The banks wouldn't take my US dollars. I was lucky I still had some koruna and Euros that I got at the airport back in the states.
So, since China won't allow themselves to be pushed around anymore by the US dollar hegemony, the US sees China as not a gullible useful idiot anymore and the US corporate capitalist maggots are seeing red flashing upon their panels saying "Terminate"! Well, they will at least try to control China through limiting the oil they can get from the oil producing nations.
They will also try to convince the American people, that China is an enemy that is snooping around in our computers. And they might be...but why not? The US snoops around in theirs!
Did the US and Israel not produce the Stuxnet, Flame, and DuQu viruses to infect Iranian nuclear reactor computers? Did it not launch a Cyber War against Iran? But the really bad parts, for the rest of us, is that those viruses got out and started infecting computers outside of Iran.
So, in the pretext of a massive Cyber War strike against America massive bank transfers out of our accounts could take place...records screwed up...and the bankers make off with the loot while the rest of us are hating China for doing such a thing. Under the cover of a massive attack, the bankers will just claim they've been wiped out...our savings gone...FDIC would not be able to cover the losses..nor would they really know who to pay because the records were destroyed.