Saturday, May 7, 2016

The Jew Hating, Jew Baiting Cowards Club

Within the relatively small population of Jews in the world, there is enormous religious diversity. A secular Jew, a reform Jew, has as little in common with some types of orthodox Jews as he or she does with a remote Amazonian tribe. Politically, socially, economically, Jews are widely diverse. One Jew was a member of a far right wing Jew hating organization in Hungary until he learned that he was a Jew himself, and it opened his eyes to how weak and narrow minded he had been. Only the weak minded cannot conceive that no two humans are alike. Only the weak minded lump all people together that belong to a religion, race or ethnic group as though they are a monolithic glob incapable of independent thought. And so the weak minded whine on endlessly, as though they are educated scientists, about how Jews think, believe, and act. Jew hatred is a cancer, and it attracts generation after generation of weak, cowardly men and women that need a soft target to hate. Some of these cowards that do not know the meaning of work gain wealth and fame out of making a career of Jew hating and Jew baiting, knowing there are many people too stupid to see in the world the complexities that really are there, and that need a simple answer for everything and an easy target to hate. The last time a Jew hating egomaniac misfit gained the power and wealth these cowards crave, Europe lay in ruins and over 50 million were killed. Now there are nuclear weapons of mass destruction and other weapons of mass destruction. There will be no coming back if cowards have their way and mindless conformity and hate prevails again.

The Seeds For The Next Avoidable Real Estate Crisis

How many people are out there selling houses, condos, properties, when they know little to nothing about what it is they are selling? Athletic shoes sales people are perhaps far more knowledgeable about the far less expensive shoes they are selling. Buy the wrong pair of shoes, and you will not lose your pants. There are steps that allegedly protect the buyer. First, the home inspector. I believe a good handyman, general contractor or carpenter can do a better job, and that if the home inspector is too diligent, and ends up killing real estate deals by over diligence, the home inspector will not receive future referrals from the real estate agent. The next level of alleged protection is from the home appraiser, usually an added expense for those trying to secure a loan. But all a home appraiser does, I believe, is reflect the recent and current trends in the real estate market, which almost anyone can do that merely looking at recent sales, pending sales, and what is presently on the market. And even if the house appraises out, if we go into a recession, whatever it is valued at now will surely be lowered, and untold numbers of people will be underwater again. Then there are the "rehabbed" properties. I believe there should be an inquiry into the "rehab" work of Fannie Mae regarding their rehabbed properties, and if permits were properly drawn and if the work was properly inspected. If rehab work is shoddy or not adequate, untold numbers of people may face a financial disaster up the road. At least loans are more regulated and only qualified people get loans nowadays, is the common refrain. Even this does not mean much, because if we go into a recession and those qualified people lose their jobs, we will be in the same ugly place we were in before in which people owned houses they could not afford. For the individual consumer, find a knowledgeable real estate agent, not a slick sales person. The real estate industry would be far better off for consumers if it moved more towards salaries with commissions, and not straight commissions. If you hire a home inspector, I advise you to find your own and not rely on a realtor. Or find a reputable carpenter, handyman or contractor, and pay them to give you an informal assessment. Regarding appraisals, I think they are at best a reflection of the immediate present, and are not an indicator as to whether an investment is truly sound. If you choose to buy a Fannie Mae property that they advertise has been rehabbed, or for any rehabbed work, be sure the work was properly permitted and inspected.

Wednesday, May 4, 2016

College Is For Indoctrination, Not Education

If you want an education, go travel the world and read and study as much as you can. If you want an indoctrination, go to a college or to a university. If the career path you have chosen requires a degree, you have no choice.

Why There Are No Jews In Algeria, Why Israel Is A Homeland For Middle East And North African Jews

In a conversation with an educated Algerian Muslim man in his late thirties, he related his deep animosity towards Israel. I stated that Israel is the only safe place for the Jews and their descendants that originated from the middle east and North Africa, (who are now the majority population of Israel) and that without Israel, those Jews and their descendants would be getting murdered, raped and persecuted, which is the unfortunate fate of middle east Christians, Yazidis, Bahais and other religious minorities of the middle east and North Africa. I said a two state solution is the answer. He stated there can be no Israel, and that only Muslims can rule what is now Israel. When Algeria won its independence from France, Jews were denied citizenship, and were forced out from Algeria. Most went to Israel or France. His answer for why the Jews were driven out- 'They were Zionist spies". "And you know this how?", I asked this man who was not even alive at the time. "You do not want Jews in Algeria; they are not safe living in Arab Muslim countries in the middle east and North Africa, you do not want them living in Israel, and you wonder why the Israelis fight tooth and nail for their small country".

Monday, May 2, 2016

Fannie Mae, How Many "Rehabbed" Properties Have You Sold In Which There Were No Permits And Proper Inspections?

Fannie Mae, how many so called rehab properties have you sold in which no permits were pulled? Were no permits pulled so that corners could be cut? Was it done so that work could be done on the cheap, and you could obtain maximum profit? How many homeowners will be financially burdened by having to redo work they can ill afford and that was not properly done in the first place? And if the work was done properly, as you may allege, then why were permits not pulled which would have allowed for proper inspections? There needs to be a public disclosure for Fannie Mae properties and their practices. Now there is news that some municipalities are monitoring Fannie Mae projects, making them obtain proper permits and undergo proper inspections, well aware of this track record. After the whole housing crisis, how can any of this be allowed?

Philippines, United States, Use Economic leverage To Stop China From Destroying The Scarborough Shoal

If China develops the Scarborough Shoal, a still healthy coral reef system in the South China sea, it will not only be Filipinos that will suffer. China will also suffer. No amount of military bases, airstrips, radar stations, ruining coral reef shoals by developing them, will provide one single fish or shellfish for anyone to eat. China has already been ruining the coral islands and shoals of the south china sea, and now their eyes are focused on the Scarborough shoal, which is near the Philippine island of Luzon, far from China, and which the Philippines considers its territory. Every coral reef that China develops and destroys in the South China Sea means less food and fish for all. It is delusional to put a military above the practical needs to conserve and have a sustainable food source. Humans cannot eat tanks, planes, radar stations, airstrips. We need coral reefs, especially because the coral reefs of the world are dying and being destroyed at an unprecedented rate, and fish populations are crashing. The Philippines want an independent international ruling on the status of the Scarborough shoal, which China states it will disregard. There is only one thing to do, which I do not think the political and business leadership of the Philippines, too mired in greed and corruption, will do. Stop all Chinese commercial activity in the Philippines until this issue is resolved. China has considerable mining interests in the Philippines, considerable trade, a number of huge development projects, all of which should be immediately stopped. Philippines, the United States, must use economic leverage. We all know the United states and the Philippines will not go to war over the Scarborough Shoal, so stop wasting time, money and energy pretending a military escalation will accomplish anything at all. It will not. Developing the Scarborough shoal is an environmental crime that will destroy an invaluable fishery and cause untold harm to untold numbers of people. People need fish, sea food, healthy coral reefs, healthy shoals, healthy coral islands. Philippines, United States, use your substantial economic leverage, not useless military bravado.

Sunday, May 1, 2016

No To BDS On Behalf Of The Jewish Refugees From Arab And Muslim Majority Lands, No To BDS Capitulation To Islamists

When the Turks lost the Ottoman empire after WWI, the middle east was divided up by European powers, namely Great Britain and France, in ways that benefited their interests and not the interests of a number of the indigenous people of the middle east. When the era of colonialism ended, over 99 per cent of the middle east, and almost all of North Africa, were in the hands of Arab Muslims. Kurds, (who are mostly Muslim) the Jews of the middle east and North Africa, middle east Christians, and other religious minorities and ethnic groups were given little or nothing. The majority of Palestine, which included the west bank and what is now Jordan, was made into a kingdom. Because the king is an Arab Muslim, even though most of the population of Jordan are Palestinian Muslim Arabs, there is no demand that Jordan become a Palestinian state. When Jordan controlled the west bank, no one called this occupied territory or demanded that Palestinian Arabs have a state. Not once in fact was there a demand that the west bank and Gaza(Egypt controlled Gaza at the time) become a Palestinian Arab state. When Israel took control over the west bank and Gaza strip after winning the 1967 war, the Arab Muslim nations issued their famous no's- no acceptance, recognition, or negotiation with Israel. The Israeli borders prior to 1967, called the green line, are indefensible. Israel was willing to return the lands it just won in war in 1967 in exchange for peace, but without peace, returning the west bank and Gaza would be suicidal. When Israel became a state in 1948, it was attacked by Arab armies that sought its destruction. Israel won the 1948 war. Arabs that fled from the new found state of Israel were later transformed into a new classification of Arab in order to win the hearts and minds of the west. They became Palestinians, a newly minted unique indigenous population that were not just Arabs, and by defining them as an indigenous population separate from other Arabs, they would better win the hearts and minds of the west. The Arabs that stayed behind in the new found state of Israel now form 20 per cent of the population of the state of Israel, and are citizens with full voting rights. What the world has chosen to ignore is the plight of the Jewish refugees from Arab Muslim majority middle east and North African countries. The Muslim world ethnically cleansed their Jewish populations. Many went fleeing for their lives to the state of Israel, leaving behind all of their possessions. Despite the fiction that is propagated that the population of Israel are all European Jews that invaded the land of Palestinian, the fact is that the majority population of Israelis are the descendants of Jews from the middle east and north Africa. These Jews were ethnically cleansed. Now they live in Israel. Furthermore, Jews have had a continuous presence in what is now Israel and the west bank ( Jews were forced out from the west bank by a series of Arab massacres in the decades prior to the establishment of the state of Israel, and did not return until after 1967). BDS conveniently ignores the fact that the majority population of Israel have nowhere to go but Israel. They will not return to places like Iraq, Yemen,Libya, Afghanistan, Syria, Iran,Egypt, Lebanon,and so many other Muslim majority countries where they will face certain persecution or war. Arab Muslims, by ethnically cleansing their Jews, gave Israel its majority population. Europe, which exterminated most of its Jews, now has admitted millions of Muslim refugees fleeing the wars in Iraq and Syria. Many of the Muslims already living in Europe hate Jews intensely. There are few places anymore for Jews where they can be safe. Rather than keep the conflict between Israelis and Palestinian Arabs alive, fight to resolve it once and for all. This can only be done by a two state solution. If BDS were sincere, they would demand a two state solution, and put the same kind of pressure on Hamas and the Palestinian authority as they do on Israel. They would demand an end to the violence on both sides and insist that both the Israelis and Palestinians live in peace in their own separate countries. There can be Palestinian Arab statehood, but not if it means the destruction of Israel. Regarding the contentious issue of Palestinian refugees and their millions of descendants from 1948, it is impossible that this population flood the small state of Israel, over night turning Israel from a Jewish state into another Arab Islamist state. Israelis know that if they lose their small country, they will suffer the same fate as Yazidis, middle east Christians and other religious minorities of the middle east that suffer persecution. Right now Yazidi girls and young women are being held as sex slaves by Islamists, young Muslim men, that overran the Yazidi's villages and towns, killing the Yazidi men, and taking the young women and female children as sex slave captives. For BDS to ignore or excuse the incredible violence and intolerance emanating from the Islamic world, in which entire peoples are being exterminated and raped, and seek only the economic destruction of the one non Islamic country in all of the middle east and North Africa, is the height of hypocrisy and bigotry. BDS is all about further capitulation to Islamists. On behalf of the millions of Israelis and their descendants that were already ethnically cleansed by Arab Muslims when they were forced to flee their lands where many lived from time immemorial, and that now live free in the one small non Islamic country of the middle east called Israel, just say no.