Financial Shenanigans

In 2008, when the Ponzi credit derivative scheme collapsed, my 401K corporate bimbo cheerily advised me to double my contributions, in order to make up for all my money they had lost in the collapse.

Say what? Do you think I'm an idiot? You blew my money on your gambling, and now you want me to make up your losses? Oh, hell no.

But then the state of Illinois told us the same thing. Seems that the public pension trustees had blown their wad and our taxes needed to go up to make up for it. You know, to "build the trust fund".

Here's the thing, though. They let it slip that current state employees paid 2/3 of the current retirees income.

Say what? All that taxpayers actually had to come up with was 1/3 of the retirees income? So what was the whole "trust fund" thing about?

Oh, wait! I remember that bullshit! The Evil Reagan told us that in the 80s. The Baby Boomers were a Pig in a Python (they love us and want us to be happy) and needed to prepay our retirement by doubling our FICA funds and putting it into a trust fund, to be used when we retired. The fund was promptly raided by the Evil Reagan to make up for his tax cuts for the rich, but, you know.....whatever.

Now I see people bitching all over the place about the power that Blackrock and Vanguard have. Oh really?

Where do they get that power? Yeah, pension funds.

You are literally funding the destruction of America, the environment, Ukraine, and multiple other atrocities, with your pension contributions, including the public ones you pay for with your taxes. I don't think that workers should ''support the global economy" or prop up the stock market. The financial markets are not a productive economy. They are a parasite on the productive economy, a giant vampire squid focusing its blood funnel on any wealth to be sucked out of actual wealth, as Matt Taibbi pointed out.

Cut off the destroyer's ability to pay for the destruction of America.

Switch to a Pay-as-you-go system, where current workers pay for the stipends of retired workers, the way that Social Security used to be, back when the Greatest Generation paid for their parents' retirement AND paid for the Baby Boomer's hula hoops and Tinker Toys.

This prepaid pension fund is a scam and too many are falling for it. No point in complaining about Blackrock buying up rental property, raising rents and throwing people out onto the street if you support handing them billions in 401Ks and public pension funds.

Stop funding Blackrock! Stop running pension funds through corrupt billionaire.

And you know they are coming next for your Social Security money, if you don't stand up and put a stop to the leeching. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5K2bozek00&t=44s

Shock and Awe, US/UKR Style

Commander of Ukraine forces doesn't want to launch attack until June...

"Zaluzhny now insists on postponing the long-awaited Ukrainian counter-offensive to the end of June, because he thinks better weather, warmer Dnieper river and dry soil will help Ukraine and be “more comfortable for its soldiers”.

US bosses say, Oh, hell no, we want it done by May 9th, because the Russkies will be celebrating their victory over the German nazis and we want to say "We're back! And this time we're going to win!"

So who is really in charge? Yeah, I know.

On the other hand: "Moreover, U.S. intelligence indicates that Ukraine simply does not have the ability to push Russian troops from where they were deeply entrenched — and a similar feeling has taken hold about the battlefield elsewhere in Ukraine, according to officials."

Well, maybe Ukraine can't alone, but the US has been moving thousands of troops and equipment to Ramstein and Poland and Romania in the last few months.

All they need is an excuse to enter the war. Simplicus a few days ago wrote about a very suspicious move by the US.

"The United States is wiring Ukraine with sensors that can detect‌‌ bursts of radiation from a nuclear weapon or a dirty bomb and can confirm the identity of the attacker," the Times report says. The goal, according to the report, is for US officials to be made immediately aware of if a radioactive weapon detonates inside Ukraine, and to be able to identify Russian forces as the culprit."

The US is fitting Ukraine with censors that will finger Russia if a nuclear bomb explodes? How convenient.

And now we are told that Ukraine launched drones to hit the Kremlin in an assassination plot.

The people that blew up Daria Dugina's car and a restaurant that killed Vladlen Tatarsky and wounded 42 other people, try to kill Putin with a drone on the roof of the Kremlin?

Sounds to me like an excuse for the US to launch a false flag nuclear explosion in Kiev, have the Mighty Wurlitzer blame it on Russia using their brand new Super Dooper Blame Russia Nuclear Sensors, and use it as an excuse to join the glorious shock-and-awe offensive to show the Russians that they didn't actually wipe out the nazis after all.

Allen Dulles chuckles from his tomb.

When Is It OK To Interfere With An Election?

Trump was impeached over the claim that his asking about the status of an investigation into corruption supposedly was an attempt to sabotage one of the Democrat presidential candidates, and sabotaging a candidacy was a serious enough crime to remove him from office.

But now the Democrats are doing a victory dance over indicting him because they think it will stop him from running!

They ran through an entire impeachment based on that and the claim that he withheld lethal weapons to the regime in Ukraine which was using them to kill the citizens of eastern Ukraine, but that fact was never once mentioned in the entire months long circus of an impeachment.

And now they are openly arming the same regime and killing even more citizens of eastern Ukraine, but telling us it just started last February.

The FBI had custody of a computer whose contents proved that the president was not wrong to ask about the investigation, but the FBI sat on the evidence, an actual serious crime which has gone unpunished.

Withholding evidence is a crime in our system of justice. At least the previous system of justice. Our previous system of justice also included the basic right that you are Innocent Until Proven Guilty. Nancy Pelosi, the ringleader of the witch hunt of the aforementioned sham impeachment trial, tweeted that Trump had the right to prove himself innocent, thereby showing yet again that she has no clue what this country supposedly was founded on.

The entire mass media and social media complex then colluded to suppress the facts of the computer and its contents from coming to public attention until the sham election was over. This is not a prosecutable crime, I assume, but it is a crime against democracy.

And yet the Democrats still manage to self-identify as the Good Guys.

White House Gives Award To War Criminal

As people were fleeing Mariupol in March, 2022, Russian police noticed two children crying in the backseat of a car, so they took them aside and questioned them.

The couple driving the car had murdered their parents, stolen their car and the children, and threatened the children to remain quiet.

The couple was arrested, but for some reason, the Russians traded the woman, Yuliia “Taira” Paievska, back to Ukraine in exchange for Russian POWs.

But then they bring the murderer over to the US and give her an award????

On March 8th, International Women's Day, the White House honored 10 women and a man in womanface (of course), most of thenm US stooges, with an award called International Women of Courage. It takes real courage to murder parents and steal their children, according to the White House.

So make orphans, get Jill Biden and Anthony Blinken to hand you an award. Save orphans from a war zone, and get indicted for "war crimes".

We live in Clown World.

Justified Invasion of Iraq Anniversary

20 years ago today the US launched an invasion of Iraq.

It was not unjustified though, unlike the unjustified invasion of the Ukraine.

It was a country many miles from the US border, which was not killing Americans at all, unlike the Ukraine, which had been killing ethnic Russians for 8 years before Russia's unjustified invasion. Therefore the Iraqi invasion was justified.

Also, no war criminals were prosecuted. This is because no orphans were saved, nor were any children removed from the war zone for their safety. >P>Ergo, no war crimes committed.

Actually, forget I even mentioned it. Let's just let bygones be bygones, shall we?

And who cares if Iraq voted that the US should stop occupying their country. Why should they get a say?

You don't see the US worry about Syrian disapproval of their country being occupied by the US, do you? You don't see the US stopping the theft of Syrian oil and wheat, just because Syrians are going cold and hungry, do you?

OK, then, US logic is very clear. This is not a war crime, because the child was not removed from the war zone. Her parents were killed in front of her, making her an orphan, but no one helped her, so....no war crime.

Kill Your Pets, Sayeth Your Overlords

The NY Times "reports" a new theory on the origin story of SARS 2.

How did a bat virus develop the specific ability to latch onto human ACE receptor cells?

Sit back, children, because your overlords have something new planned for you, which is why they have been killing millions of chickens in the last few months.

"One sample in particular caught their attention. It had been taken from a cart linked to a specific stall at the Huanan market... [t]hat …contained caged raccoon dogs on top of a separate cage holding birds, exactly the sort of environment conducive to the transmission of new viruses."

So now they are telling you that a raccoon dog and a bird got together and made a bat/human virus!

This is an IQ test.

They want you to believe that zoonotic viruses are easily transmitted and common, which is not true. Jumping between species is rare and usually any such transfer dies out quickly.

But they are coming for your pets next.

Here is a meme that has become outdated by events. It used to be funny, now it is foreshadowing.

They Ain't Faking, A Whole Lot of Crazy Going On

The MAD Doctrine actually relied on both sides being sane enough to understand that global nuclear war is a Bad Thing.

What happens when only one side is sane enough to want to prevent the destruction of humanity and most life on this most beautiful of planets?

We are there.

The neocons running this country and the senile figurehead we are all told is a great relief after the Bad Orange Man, seem to be willing to destroy the world in order to get their greedy hands on Russian lands and wealth.

Are they really as batshit nuts as they appear? I say yes.

I feel sorry for the leaders of other countries who have to try to calmly talk the US off the edge of the cliff, because when they go over the cliff they take everyone else with them. All the little children, and all the animals, and all the plants, and all the life in the sea, (except the barophiles) and us Americans, to boot. Have you noticed that you don't have a fully stocked underground shelter available for you and your family? Yeah, that's because those things are just for the wealthy. And they think they can ride this out and come out and rule what's left of the world.

Cause they cray cray.

I'm guessing this won't end well.