Why we NEED H1B Guestworkers!

Some people say we need guestworkers to do jobs that Americans just refuse to do, like get paid high wages in a cushy job programming computers, so we need to bring in H1Bs and L1s to do it for half the price.

Nope, here is why we really need em:

Defendants Shenkman and Exigen appeared to be abusing the immigration visa system in order to procure a steady stream of young, eastern European women to satisfy Defendant Shenkman’s sexual desires…. these young women would find themselves tied to Exigen … trapped thousands of miles from home without families or friends, and at the mercy of a wealthy and influential sexual predator who does not know how to take “no” for an answer.

Crooks Bailing Out Crooks

Great scam! The banker crooks get their gambling debts covered, and the organized crime (no, not the corporations and the government–the *other* organized crime) lords get their money laundered:

U.N. crime chief says drug money flowed into banks

VIENNA: The United Nations’ crime and drug watchdog has indications that money made in illicit drug trade has been used to keep banks afloat in the global financial crisis, its head was quoted as saying on Sunday.

Vienna-based UNODC Executive Director Antonio Maria Costa said in an interview released by Austrian weekly Profil that drug money often became the only available capital when the crisis spiralled out of control last year.

“In many instances, drug money is currently the only liquid investment capital,” Costa was quoted as saying by Profil. “In the second half of 2008, liquidity was the banking system’s main problem and hence liquid capital became an important factor.”

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime had found evidence that “interbank loans were funded by money that originated from drug trade and other illegal activities,” Costa was quoted as saying. There were “signs that some banks were rescued in that way.”

Profil said Costa declined to identify countries or banks which may have received drug money and gave no indication how much cash might be involved. He only said Austria was not on top of his list, Profil said.

Porn Bailout

Larry Flynt wants us to give the porn industry a five billion bailout. Why not? At least then a few of the bucks would benefit someone other than billionaires. But I’m not quite sure exactly what they are asking for.

A stimulus package?

An injection of cash?

Or do they distrust our currency and want to be showered with gold?

Crucify him!

Feeding the hungry is now a crime. Just think what they would have done to a guy using a few loaves and fishes to feed thousands…

MIAMI (Reuters) – Police in Florida have arrested an activist for feeding the homeless in downtown Orlando.

Eric Montanez, 21, of the charity group Food Not Bombs, was charged with violating a controversial law against feeding large groups of destitute people in the city center, police said on Thursday.

Montanez was filmed by undercover officers on Wednesday as he served “30 unidentified persons food from a large pot utilizing a ladle,” according to an arrest affidavit. The Orlando area is home to Disney World and Universal Studios Florida.

Guess ladles will soon be classified as terrorist weapons, kind of like baking soda…

WalMart pushes gay sex?

Some people think the reason WalMart spends so much money paying ex-CIA operatives to spy on its own employees on business trips is because WalMart wants to stop them from criticising the company.

But look a bit more closely and notice that WalMart is merely spying on heterosexuals who might be having sex with each other.

And notice that, at the very same time, WalMart is trying to push its same sex employees into sleeping in the same room with each other in cheap motels.

Isn’t it clear that WalMart is simply trying to use its spy network to promote the gay rights agenda, and push as many of its employees as possible into situations where they will be tempted into having gay sex?

Next time you see one of your right-wing Christian friends buying something at WalMart, let them know that they are supporting WalMart and its pro-homosexual agenda. They’ll be glad you did.

Olduvai Gorge Theory Update

The Olduvai Gorge theori is that we all came from the Olduvai Gorge in Africa, and our civilization will (as we deplete our natural resources) decline until we again (at least those few of us who remain) live as our ancestors did…hunter-gatherers with no civilization.

A foremost proponent of the theory is Richard Duncan and here is his latest update:
http://www.warsocialism.com/duncan_tscq_07.pdf

The end of industrial civilization will commence between 2008 and 2012. Blackouts and brownouts will the the signal of the impending end. As petroleum declines, so will world population, until it reaches the earth’s carrying capacity (without oil) of about one billion people. We have six and a half billion people in the wiorkd now, and it will rise to nine billion…then everything caves in.

And there is nothing we can do to stop billions of people dying.

Illegal immigration – some people don’t like it

Some people don’t like Geogre Bush’s and the Neo-Liberals’ support for child abandonment:

From the women and children of Mexico….
…..to the people of the U.S.A.

Enforce Your Laws.

Please
Close the United States Border to Illegal Migration.
Help us to Keep Our Husbands Home with our Families

Nothing to hide?

I hear Bush&Co claims they aren’t gonna read our mail without a warrant. Does anybody still believe them?

Every time Bush wants to spy on us some more, his minions tell us that if we were honest and law-abiding then we should have nothing to hide. Wonder what Bush has to hide:

Even Bush’s crap is classified top secret. According to our Austrian sources, Austrian newspapers are currently abuzz with special security details of George W. Bush’s recent trip to Vienna. Although the heavy-handed Gestapo-like security measures meted out to Viennese home owners, business proprietors, and pedestrians by US Secret Service agents and local police before and during Bush’s visit received widespread Austrian media attention, it was White House “toilet security” (“TOILSEC”), which has Austrians talking the most.

The White House flew in a special portable toilet to Vienna for Bush’s personal use during his visit. The Bush White House is so concerned about Bush’s security, the veil of secrecy extends over the president’s bodily excretions. The special port-a-john captured Bush’s feces and urine and flew the waste material back to the United States in the event some enterprising foreign intelligence agency conducted a sewage pipe operation designed to trap and examine Bush’s waste material. One can only wonder why the White House is taking such extraordinary security measures for the presidential poop.
(From the Wayne Madsen Report)

Maybe, just maybe, honest, law-abiding people have good reasons not to want to be spied upon.

Truth spoken in jest

Never forget this one. He had to make a joke to finally tell the truth:

This is an impressive crowd – the haves and the have-mores. Some people call you the elites; I call you my base.

Inflation of their wallets

…by deflating yours…

The higher inflation is, the less your money can buy. To ease the pain, many government and business rates (like Social Security) are indexed to the inflation index. So when the folks who own the government want to screw you, how can they do it best? Of course, by lying about how high inflation is. And here is where you can find out how they lie to you:

Financial Sense:

The Boskin Commission recommended several changes to the CPI index which included:

* develop and publish two indexes
* abandon the fixed-weight formula for CPI goods
* change the weight of items in the index from arithmetic weighting to geometric weighting
* introduce substitutions in the index
* seasonal adjustments to account for price increases that occur on a seasonal basis, which would smooth out the fluctuations
* Reduce prices by quality improvements

The result of their implemented suggestions is the mish mash we have today, which bears no resemblance to reality.

Lying by one percent on the inflation rate can screw by middle and working classes by a huge amount over the decades, and that skimming will make the wealthiest one tenth of one percent incredibly wealthier. And you’re putting up with it. Suckers…

Big Brother is listening

ABC News:

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

This is why our government is amassing the world’s “largest database“, a listing of every single call made in the United States. Not to fight terrorists, but to fight political enemies. And just as in Saddam’s Iraq, to a government screwing up, an enemy can be anyone. That means you.

Anon quote for today

Q: What’s the difference between Iraq and Vietnam?

A: Bush knew how to get out of Vietnam.

Only time he ever told the truth

Just so’s ya remember where to find it…

GOV. GEORGE W. BUSH (R-TX), PRESIDENT-ELECT:

If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.

Maneuver Warfare

Ya don’t know yet that every time you spend a buck, you are at war? Well the corporation on the other side of the transaction does…and if you don’t get it real soon, you’re gonna lose…

CEO Notes Newsletter

SUN TZU, MANEUVER WARFARE, BOYD CYCLES, BLITZKRIEG

Colonel John R. Boyd, USAF was the first modern military strategist to conduct a systematic study of recorded military history to identify strategies that were associated with either success or failure. He has been referred to as “the most influential military thinker since Sun Tzu wrote ‘The Art of War’ 2400 years ago”. His most significant work involved the application of fast cycle times to deliver massive competitive advantage to small forces facing larger adversaries.

What his research uncovered contradicted modern conventional wisdom, which assumed that the larger and stronger force should generally prevail against the smaller and weaker force. A careful analysis of military history showed that this just wasn’t quite what was happening. Instead he found that it was the quick and the agile who generally prevailed over the slow and unfocused. It turned out that focus, aggressive agility and speed were far more important than size!
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The basic formula for success has been, and remains “dislocate and exploit.” Not “confront and overpower.” Or even “outsmart.”
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We’ve used Boyd cycles for almost 20 years to generate competitive advantage as measured by revenue increases of 50% and the reduction of sales and marketing budgets by 20%, typically in less than 18 months.
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The bad part is that, according to Big Business, you are the prey, even if you didn’t realize it. The good part is that being small doesn’t mean you have to be the victim. You just have to be faster and smarter than they are.

Fightin’ words

It’s damn hard to win a fight if you don’t know the rules. Here are the rules the other side is using. Ya might want to figure out now what rules you will be using:

1. If you find yourself in a fair fight, you’ve probably done something wrong.

If you are in a fair fight, your first priority is to turn it unfair. Even after a fight is engaged, the ways of turning the fight unfair are limited only by your imagination. …

2. If it is worth a fight, it is worth winning. Don’t skimp and don’t lose.

If there was a valid reason to begin the fight, it is unlikely that there exists a cost effective way to lose it. …

3. Once a fight starts, be ruthless, be relentless. Bring it to closure quickly. The longer it drags on, the more costly it becomes.

4. The likely outcome of any dispute or fight can be assessed by balancing the following factors:

The relative strength and force each adversary can bring to bear.

The relative positional advantage or disadvantage of each adversary.

Their relative strengths of will. The relative importance to each adversary of winning or losing; what each has to win, what each has to lose.

This simple equation has proven itself true and complete for hundreds of millions of years. It shows no sign of growing outdated soon.

5. Few conflicts are fought to the destruction of the losing participant. Even between mismatched adversaries, most fights resolve into contests of wills. Usually, the participants will fight until one of them finds the pain and cost of battle to be greater than the value it places on what is being fought over. That adversary will then disengage or concede to the other. …

6. Create opportunities to do the unexpected and the unconventional. Follow the line of least expectation. There is nothing more demoralizing or intimidating than facing an unpredictable opponent.

The impact of this on your adversary is multiplied when you couple it with speed and agility in reacting to countermeasures.

7. Avoid backing anyone into a corner. No one is more dangerous than someone who cannot retreat. Cornered, even a meek person can turn into a tiger. Leave them an escape route.

8. Never rely on an opponent to make a mistake. Once they make a mistake; move quickly. Exploit it and don’t let up….

9. The bigger the stakes for your opponents, the easier they are to bluff.

10. Don’t bluff anyone until they have first seen you win a few. The ideal is to let them see you win three row.

11. Its easier to bluff someone coming off a string of losses than someone who is on a winning streak. A string of three consecutive losses is best.

12. Avoid bluffing the same person twice.

13. Bluff sparingly. Few things hurt your credibility more than bluffing, getting called on it, and then backing down. It will limit your freedom of maneuver in the future, even when you aren’t bluffing. …

14. Select your adversaries with care. Never underestimate the ability of an adversary to cause you grief in the future. People will revenge themselves for small offenses as much as for large ones.

15. Choose your fights carefully; even with existing adversaries.

16. Don’t get into a fight unless it is worth it. Don’t get into a fight unless you can win it.

There is no fight that you cannot lose, no matter how disadvantaged your opponent.

If you can get a similar result without a fight, do it. You cannot benefit from a needless fight. Fights are costly propositions even when won.

17. Taking Sides.

In taking sides, if you can make little difference, stay neutral. Don’t help a powerful person cause harm to a weaker party. Your help is not needed and therefore earns you no gratitude; and you pick up an unnecessary enemy.

Before helping someone cause harm to another party, first make sure you have little to fear from the harmed party, regardless of the outcome.

Sometimes you must or should take sides. Deciding whether to take sides or sit on the fence can be difficult. Don’t ignore your own sense of right and wrong; but avoid making foolish alliances not in your best interest.

18. If it becomes clear you will lose a battle, retreat. There is no valor in absorbing needless injury.

If you retreat too quickly or carelessly, your retreat can turn into a rout. You will suffer more damage in a rout than you will by accepting battle in retreat.

When you retreat, retreat like a wounded lion; give your opponent reason to advance with caution.

Good evening, class.

Hail Eris!