September 02, 2022
Bank of America, the wokest of wokies, is offering a sweetheart deal to first time homebuyers. No money down and closing cost mortgages! There's just one catch; you have to be black to get it.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/09/01/bank-of-america-to-help-minorities-buy-first-homes-with-new-mortgages.html
If racism is disgriminating against someone on the basis of their skin color, then how is this not racism? Anybody?
And it is being implemented right here in the United States where we have laws against discrimination.
Of course this program will be a disaster; these first time buyers have zero skin in the game and will treat these homes like a transcient apartment, just leaving when the going gets tough. In that regard I hope BOA loses a large fortune.
But the fact they are willing to do this, ,to discriminate against the majority of Americans for a favored class, is reprehensible. We need to boycot these creeps.
This has been something creeping in for a long time. Many banks created Sharia-compliant loans for Muslims, not charging any interest on money borrowed, for example. So we already saw discrimination against Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and atheists. Now we are seeing racial discrimination imposed.
If you have special privileges given to you, despite the justifications ("historic discrimination") you have defacto supremacism. This is black privilege, black supremacism. You can call it what you like but in the end people are being given greater rights and privileges solely based on their race. If that was wrong in the Jim Crow South, is it not equally wrong now?
The beginnings of our modern ideas of rights can arguably be traced to the imposition of the Magna Carta in England. That charter guarateed rights to all Englishment and restricted the power of the King and of the great nobility. It had it's genesis in no small part to the discrimination against Saxons and Angles and the other peoples who were conquered when the Normans invaded in 1066. The pre-Norman peoples had been made second class by the invading Normans (who were, actually, an amalgamation of lesser nobility who had flocked to Williams' call for help in invading England) and the Crusades had removed all the better people from the Ruling Class.
The point is the Magna Carta set standards for all Englishmen, not just those who had the power to enjoy those rights.
In this way we are essentially moving to a post-Magna Carta era. Definitely a post-Constitutional one. We labored for a hundred years to finally enshrine equality under the law as a part of America, and now we are imposing inequality under the law again, only this time against the majority of the population.
It's racism in it's ugliest form. We were promised a color blind society. Now we are getting a very, very biased society promoting minorities at every opportunity over the majority. If it was unfair when it went against the black community how is it not unfair now? Discrimination is discrimination. You can try to dress it up, but a pig is still a pig. Discrimination of any sort is a filthy pig.
How can we create a society that transcends race when we are laboring so hard to enshrine it? And how can we heal any wounds when we keep slicing them open?
This is an abominable thing.
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The Federal Reserve Bank plans to launch a new settlement system called FedNow by next summer. While it’s not blockchain-based, like cryptocurrency, it would route credit and debit card transactions through the Fed—meaning instant government records of card purchases.
See more here.
Tim adds:
This is outside the mandate of the Federal Reserve, which is a quasi-private bank with the authority to print money. But they have no authority to take over credit reporting or anything to do with credit. It's mission creep, and it will further squeeze the rights of Americans to be free of government interference.
This has the sulphurous stench of the Mark of the Beast, if you ask me.
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https://tapnewswire.com/2022/09/europes-bacon-saved-by-russian-gas-coming-from-china/
Welcome back to reality…
China wanted to keep its arms-length gas dealing with Russia as unclear as possible, which is why the General Administration of Customs of China stopped publicizing the breakdown in trade volume for pipeline natural gas since the beginning of the year, with spokesman Li Kuiwen confirming that the move was to "protect the legitimate business rights and interests of the relevant importers and exportersâ€.
Well, we now know the answer: China has been quietly reselling Russian LNG to the one place that desperately needs it more than anything. Europe... and of course, it is charging a kidney's worth of markups in the process.
As the FT reported recently, "Europe’s fears of gas shortages heading into winter may have been circumvented, thanks to an unexpected white knight: China." The Nikkei-owned publication further notes that "the world’s largest buyer of liquefied natural gas is reselling some of its surplus LNG cargoes due to weak energy demand at home. This has provided the spot market with an ample supply that Europe has tapped, despite the higher prices."
What the FT ignores, is that it's not "surplus" - after all, if it was Chinese imports of Russian LNG would collapse. No - the correct word to describe the LNG that China sells to Europe is Russian.
Going back to the story, the details are intuitive: with Russian pipeline gas to Europe effectively shuttered...
... Europe’s imports of LNG have soared 60% year on year in the first six months of 2022, according to research firm Kpler.
Some more details:
China’s JOVO Group, a big LNG trader, recently disclosed that it had resold an LNG cargo to a European buyer.
A futures trader in Shanghai told Nikkei that the profit made from such a transaction could be in the tens of millions of dollars or even reach $100mn.
China’s biggest oil refiner Sinopec Group also acknowledged on an earnings call in April that it has been channelling excess LNG into the international market.
Local media have said that Sinopec alone has sold 45 cargoes of LNG, or about 3.15mn tonnes. The total amount of Chinese LNG that has been resold is probably more than 4mn tonnes, equivalent to 7 per cent of Europe’s gas imports in the half year to the end of June.
Make no mistake: all of this "excess" LNG was soured in part or in whole in Russia, but since it has been "tolled" in China, it is no longer Russian. It is instead - drumroll - Chinese LNG.
Hilariously, it also means that instead of being dependent on Russia for gas, Europe is now becoming dependent on Beijing instead for its energy - which is still Russian gas, only this time imported from China - which makes a mockery of US geopolitical ambitions to defend a liberal international order with its own energy exports.
Worse, while Europe could buy Russian LNG for price X, it instead has to pay 2X, 3X or more, just to virtue signal to the world that it won't fund Putin's regime, when in reality is is paying extra to both Xi and to Putin, who is collecting a premium price thanks to the overall market scarcity.
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Apparently, there’s been emails discovered that show weekly meetings between Biden Officials and Social Media Giants planning censorship…and here I thought that Biden claimed Republicans were "Semi-Fascistâ€.
This tactic is directly out of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Accuse the other side of that which you are guilty is not only effective but has been used by actual Fascists/Socialists for decades.
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Iran closer to being a nuclear power, playing the Biden admin like a cheap drum.
@nahaltoosi
NEW: Senior Biden admin official tells me, "We are studying Iran’s response but the bottom line is that it is not at all encouraging.†😬
Abas Aslani
@AbasAslani
#Iran submitted its views on the US response tonight to the European coordinator of the talks, said Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman adding "the submitted text has a constructive approach aimed at finalizing the talksâ€.
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The Federal Reserve Bank plans to launch a new settlement system called FedNow by next summer. While it’s not blockchain-based, like cryptocurrency, it would route credit and debit card transactions through the Fed—meaning instant government records of card purchases.
See more here.
Tim adds:
This is outside the mandate of the Federal Reserve, which is a quasi-private bank with the authority to print money. But they have no authority to take over credit reporting or anything to do with credit. It's mission creep, and it will further squeeze the rights of Americans to be free of government interference.
This has the sulphurous stench of the Mark of the Beast, if you ask me.
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Re-writing history certainly was the standard approach for ​ conquerers. After visiting Cusco a while back, I remember thinking how sad it was that the Spannish attempted to demolish the existance of the Incas by razing a city and rebuilding in the Spanish way. Their catholic Cathedral used the massive and precisly cut granite blocks which supported the Inca temple for its founda​​​​​t​io
With perfect hindsight we might criticise the colonialists but they also brought technology, order, and for many a better standard of living and safety. The places which were colonised were often in a continuous state of conflict among themselves and/
What's happening in the West is entirely different. It's not a conquerer rewriting history. It's the useful idiots of the left who wouldn't have the comfortable lives they have, if it were not for the society they are destroying from within. In your country, the 1619 project is a good example of re-writing history. In mine the 'Stolen Generation', or the book Dark Emu (written by a white guy who claims to be Aboriginal through a grandmother, but both his grandmothers are English), are examples.
It's the enemies within who are rewriting our history and destroying our heritage.
Tim replies:
James Doogue - excellent points James!
I live in the city of St. Louis, which used to be called Mound City. It was so nicknamed because there were all sorts of mounds built by the Mound Builder culture, a civilization that dominated the American Midwest prior to Columbus. Their capital was in Illinois, just across the river from the current St. Louis, a place now called Cahokia. Cahokia was larger than London in the year 900! They had an impressive civilization. Their biggest mound - and the center of the city - was named Monks Mound later, and it is like a small mountain in the flat lowlands of southern Illinois. Quite an insprational view! And a whole village of people was built halfway up the mound after the fall. It's huge!
But when the city of St. Louis was settled the mounds were just an annoyance; they bulldozed them all down. There is just one mound left in St. Louis. The ancient culture that spawned it was nearly forgotten.
You are right; while colonization was the end of their culture many times it brought something better too. Yes, slavery was ubiquitous in the New World prior to the coming of the Europeans, contrary to what the Left tries to teach. Cannibalism was not that uncommon either. The Karankawa were well known cannibals and were as much a part of why the Spaniards never really settled Texas. The Caribe' were known to enjoy a little human meat too (which is why the Tainu and other such Carribean tribes welcomed the Spanish; they wanted them as allies against the cannibals.)
The Aztecs and Mayans and Incans all practiced human sacrifice. And they weren't sacrificing their own people but those they conquered.
There was ar eason why the Conquistadores had such an easy time of it; they had plenty of allies who wanted their overlords gone.
I agree James; it's the enemy within. The whole point is they want to rewrite history and remake civilization along lines they think are better (and most of what they promote was tried and failed in the past.)
I would argue Leftism is a Christian heresy. It's Christianity without Christ - or God. The Left has stolen the ideals of Christianity but removed the religious aspects and promote a kind of parody. Those who promote it are desperate as they do not believe in an afterlife or any sort of ultimate justice and so must be "the ones we have been waiting for" as Obama put it. And it must happen here and now. It's utopianism with a large measure of desperation. They can't bear the idea that they will leave this world without their project being completed, or at least well underway.
They are trying to create a paradise on Earth. But this world is not cut out for paradise. It never will be - which is a sore point with them. They believe in the perfectability of Man and of Nature.
So they MUST tear down the old and utterly erase it so that the New Man is born. It's basically the Protestant Christian view of being born again.
It is actually a most dangerous and energizing form of paganism. A worship of Man and Man's Will.
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September 01, 2022
On her most recent visit to Australia our fawning media commentators openly wished New Zealand PM Jacinda Ardern was in charge of Australia. They and the NZ media ignore the train wreck she's creating in her home country where 20% of New Zealanders want to flee the country.
https://www.national.org.nz/one_million_kiwis_set_to_leave
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern’s destructive, racially divisive policies are responsible for around 1 million New Zealanders, about one-fifth of the population, expressing interest in leaving. Some 40% of those have actively taken steps towards leaving. They want out of NZ not only because of better living opportunities overseas but from concern about the racist initiatives Ardern is so determinedly promoting.
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We are in a Depression. The real inflation rate has averaged 17% so far this year, when calculated the way it was when it was supposed to actually measure inflation (prior to 1990).
And that means, the real inflation adjusted GDP has lost 10% so far this year.
Double digit loss in GDP? Is pretty much the definition of Depression. And our markets haven't even crashed...yet.
You know, when your government systematically and cynically lies to you about something so fundamental? They're completely out of control. Just think, compounded interest on wage and benefits that are indexed by contract or law on the CPI would have just about DOUBLED wages and benefits in the last 30 years.
You know, you'd think that the Biden Administration would be on the right side of at least one issue in almost two years. Just by accident, if nothing else. But no. And, it is no accident. It takes a team of experts to be wrong on every issue, unfailingly.
And it takes an entire industry devoted to propaganda to keep such incompetence and corruption from being driven out by the rising tide of outrage by a furious citizenry.
Tim adds:
This proves it is intentional and not accidental. They are systematically dismantling the country, no doubt so they can remake it along lines more poleasing to them. They hate America.
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"The threat of environmental crisis is the 'international disaster key' to unlock the New World Order.â€
The Late Mikhail Gorbachev
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Official Whitehouse spokesperson statement today:
@thejcoop
Karine Jean-Pierre says that people who voted for Donald Trump are "a threat to our democracy, to our freedom, to our rights."
The Whitehouse has officially declared itself my enemy.
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"Comradeship always sets the cultural tone at the lowest possible level, accessible to everyone. It cannot tolerate discussion; in the chemical solution of comradeship, discussion immediately takes on the color of whining and grumbling. It becomes a mortal sin. Comradeship admits no thoughts, just mass feelings of the most primitive sort.â€
—Sebastian Haffner, Defying Hitler: A Memoir
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There is no logical endpoint to the progressive agenda except a world with far less human habitation, living a life Thomas Hobbes described as:
"Hereby it is manifest that during the time men live without a common Power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called War; and such a war as is of every man against every man. […] In such condition there is no place for Industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no Culture of the Earth; no Navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by Sea; no commodious Building; no Instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no Knowledge of the face of the Earth; no account of Time; no Arts; no Letters; no Society; and which is worst of all, continual Fear, and danger of violent death; And the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.â€
Their paganism has given way to a misanthropic Ludditism in which modern energy, the source of wondrous advances in global standards of living, is denied to all of those without sufficient riches and status.
Even the beasts of the field and fowl of the sky will suffer thorough lack of modern veterinary care, the standard of which is deployed from city backyards to gigantic commercial farms and ranches all across the fruited plain.
The policies of the progressives seek to return humans to a state which civilizations have fought for millennia to escape.
Of course, they style themselves as gods, immune to the suffering they cause.
Why would they not?
They live in a constancy of moral hazard, acting quite differently than if they were subject to the characteristics of those who feel the viper's sting of the policies they enact and the actions they take.
They expect to rule over a weak, cold and starving human race.
And yet, these Gaia worshipers are the ones who call the children of God evil.
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!"
~ Isaiah 5: 20-21
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