[News With Views] Did you ever stop to realize that wanting to achieve the American Dream — a chicken in every pot and two cars in your garage — is "the problem"? Yep! You and your selfish dream are destroying this country. I kid you not.
The article "The problem with America’s high homeownership rate" by Felix Salmon [i] spells it out loud and clear. It begins by telling us that our decades-long love affair with homeownership is not only holding back the economy, but also "hobbling the Federal Reserve (as if their problem isn’t self-inflicted) and exacerbating a national housing crisis." Nope, sorry. The housing crisis is greatly driven by the big non-governmental organizations (NOGs) gobbling up houses to turn into rentals, for now (a story for another time). And, as in Hawaii, taking people’s property via the insurance companies (other NGOs) denying coverage for the fire damages.
Further down it says there is "a deeply inefficient distribution of where people live". As if people should not choose where they want to live, but maybe, be directed into 15-Minute Smart Cities? Oh, and also another reason to not own a home — "mortgages have become the primary means of American middle-class wealth creation". What’s wrong with that? According to Salmon, "The principal amount outstanding on a mortgage slowly declines over time, even as the value of the home (generally) goes up. The result, if everything goes according to plan, is ever-greater home equity, and therefore wealth."
Uh, isn’t this still America, where freedom, property rights, and free-market capitalism are guiding principles?
So what does Salmon see as wrong with us owning homes? First, "the 36% of households in the middle quintile who don’t own their home at all, and for whom home equity is therefore 0% of their net worth." Good grief, some people don’t want to own a home and have the responsibility of keeping it up. Yes, there are those (not in the middle quintile {unless they live in the very expensive cities}) who can’t afford to buy a home.
You'll own nothing and be happy is a phrase originated by Danish Politician Ida Auken in a 2016 essay for the World Economic Forum. After appearing in a WEF video in 2016, the phrase began to be used by critics who accuse the WEF of desiring restrictions on ownership of private property. Wikipedia
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"Property is theft!" (French: La propriété, c'est le vol!)--French anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon(1840)...
...But if you can't own things how can you claim to own yourself?
[Epoch TV] "Carl Jung the psychologist talks about how there is no virus more dangerous than the mind virus."
In this episode, we sit down with Gabrielle Bauer, a longtime health and medical writer and author of "Blindsight Is 2020: Reflections on Covid Policies from Dissident Scientists, Philosophers, Artists, and More."
We reflect on what went wrong these last three years and how fundamental values of Western civilization were flipped upside down.
"You were called the vilest names like sociopath, eugenicist ... if you dared to question in even the most polite ways what was going on. And those are thought-stopping words that are designed to put people in their place," Ms. Bauer says.
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Just FYI, here is a Court of Appeals report on one way the fascist FBI made a 'Mockery of Freedom' and attacking Democrat opponents operating on the internet.
"Per their operations, the FBI monitored the platforms’ moderation policies, and asked for detailed assessments during their regular meetings. The platforms apparently changed their moderation policies in response to the FBI’s debriefs. For example, some platforms changed their “terms of service” to be able to tackle content that was tied to hacking operations. But, the FBI’s activities were not limited to purely foreign threats. In the build up to federal elections, the FBI set up “command” posts that would flag concerning content & relay developments to the platforms. In those operations, the officials also targeted domestically sourced “disinformation” like posts that stated incorrect poll hours or mail-in voting procedures. Apparently, the FBI’s flagging operations across-the-board led to posts being taken down 50% of the time.
[Townhall] The following quote is a bit lengthy, but please read it through. It is a brilliant and tragic analysis:
"The History of Japan is an unfinished drama in which three acts have been played. The first, barring the primitive and legendary centuries, is classical Buddhist Japan (522-1603 A.D.), suddenly civilized by China and Korea, refined and softened by religion, and creating the historical masterpieces of Japanese literature and art. The second is the feudal and peaceful Japan of the Tokugawa shogunate (1603-1868), isolated and self-contained, seeking no alien territory and no external trade, content with agriculture, and wedded to art and philosophy. The third act is modern Japan, opened up in 1853 by an American fleet, forced by conditions within and without to trade and industry, seeking foreign materials and markets, fighting wars of irrepressible expansion, imitating the imperialistic ardor and methods of the West, and threatening both the ascendancy of the white race and the peace of the world. By every historical precedent, the next act will be war. The Japanese have studied our civilization carefully in order to absorb its values and surpass it. Perhaps we should be wise to study their civilization as patiently as they have studied ours, so that when a crisis comes that must issue either in war or understanding, we may be capable of understanding." (Will Durant, "Our Oriental Heritage," Chapter 28)
"By every historical precedent, the next act will be war..." The words above were written in 1935, six years before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor and the beginning of World War II in the Pacific.
...As I have reiterated so many times in my columns on Townhall and elsewhere, an ignorance of history is an inexcusable tragedy for a nation. It is also what totalitarian, Leftist regimes, like the Democratic Party, want. Karl Marx: "Keep people from their history, and they are easily controlled."
"Historical precedent" can often give us meaningful clues to the future; not absolute predictions, but pretty good hints. Wars are often clashes between two great world (or regional) powers or involve upstarts who want to be up there with the big guys. Babylon and Egypt, Babylon and Assyria, Greece and Persia, Rome and Carthage, England and France, England and Germany (twice), Japan and America. The world is simply not big enough for both King Kong and Godzilla. Somebody has to win; somebody has to lose. When there are two great powers, they will almost inevitably, eventually, go to war for dominance. America and the Soviet Union never directly confronted each other—except in a frightful, world-menacing "Cold War." But the peripheries existed—Korea, Vietnam, and a hundred places where the USSR fought to the last Cuban and America couldn’t stay neutral. I’ve often said there are no absolutes in history, but war is about as close as one gets to it, especially when two muscle-men stand eye-to-eye and toe-to-toe. Somebody inevitably throws the first punch. Neither side backs down.
China. Is war between America and China inevitable? "By every historical precedent..." America, the great world power. China, the upstart, is seeking grander glory and self-aggrandizement. Who stands in the way of China? Only one nation. The United States. Are we going to give up our place in the world to somebody else? No nation in history has ever voluntarily done so. That IS a historical absolute. Unfortunately, IMO, USA became great power through undustrial production - and then, it bent over and spread 'em for enviromentals and MBAs (it's short term cheaper to produce offshore)
...China is our threat. No, let me restate that. Joe Biden and the Uniparty is America’s greatest threat. They are wasting America’s resources and energy on Ukraine's absolutely unimportant (to America’s interests) conflict. "Yea, but the hoi polloi were unhappy with the retreat from Afghanistan, so we gave them another war - who could've guessed that sanctions won't collapse Russia?!?" (well anyone who studied Russian history, but ...
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Just go back 110 years and look at the World Picture and the USA.
1910's ----> 2000+
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WWI ends ----> Afghan
Pandemic ----> Pandemic
Roaring 20's ----> Roaring 20's
Gov bans various items ----> Gov. Bans various Items
Economic Issues ----> Economic Issues
Large Bank Failures ----> Large Bank Failures
Stock market issues ----> Stock market issues
Recession ----> Recession
Depression ----> Depression
Massive Homeless ----> Massive Homeless
Socialism stared ----> Socialism increased
President with health issues ----> President health issues
Major Crime syndicates ----> Major Crime syndicates.
Nation Police Force ----> Use of _ _ _ agencies
Racial Group attacked ----> Racial Group attacked
Asia nation expands ----> Asia nation (CCP) expands
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China is only great because they have the US as a market for their goods. If they were to start a war that ends and they'd drop back to they third world pretty quick. In fact some news reports suggest they are already on the way.
[Daily Caller] Fox News legal analyst Sol Wisenberg slammed the Georgia grand jury on Friday amid revelations they wanted to levy more charges against allies of former President Donald Trump.
Wisenberg told Fox News anchor Laura Ingraham that the allies were "named and smeared" by the grand jury. (RELATED: ’Criminalization Of Political Speech’: Jonathan Turley Weighs In On ’Tainted’ Georgia Grand Jury’s Recommendations)
"Why do I think that they decided that they wanted to indict these three people who were sitting senators? Because they didn’t understand the law, because, clearly, these three senators were engaged in core protected constitutional speech. There’s no question about that. And that’s why I imagine Ms. Willis did not end up adding them to the indictment," Wisenberg said.
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[Epoch TV] "Carl Jung the psychologist talks about how there is no virus more dangerous than the mind virus."
[RG] Chronicle of the liberation operations of the Red Army - through Donbass and Zaporozhye to Kherson and Crimea
