There and Back Again

2004-11-26T11:20:00.000-08:00

Ukraine, the Crisis Made in the West

As many of you know, there is presently a crisis brewing between the “West” and Russia over the “stolen” elections in Ukraine. Well that is at least what our so-called “free” press tells us. But lets look at this a bit more realistically.

First a little background history: the Ukraine (which means the “edge of” or more accurately “the southern edge [of the Russian empire] has a major cultural divide that once ran directly up the Dniepr river but now swings east around the Kiev Oblast (Oblasts are like states). What is that divide? It is a divide of “Ukrainians” between western Polish influenced Catholic Ukrainians and eastern Russian influenced Orthodox Ukrainians. The center of that Nationalist Catholic Western Ukraine is Lvov, a Polish province until post WW2 when the Soviets shifted the borders west of both the Soviet Union and Poland.

So, what’s the break down? We hear in the news that Yanukovich, the winner cheated the election is out to deny Ukrainians their rights. What is not mentioned is that some 49% of those Ukrainians (vs. 46% for Yushchenko) voted for Yanukovich who represents their views. So who is being disenfranchised? The loser of course, and taking a page out of the George Soros play book (why not he’s a major sponsor, later on that) they have started a “popular people’s” revolution. Of course the fact that over fifty percent of those people aren’t part of that “popular” part never bothers the Western joke called a “free” press. Black and white sells wars not gray.

But Stas, you’ll now say, we are all told that the exit polls showed that Yushchenko is the winner. And on this you are right, by an 11% margin. But like with everything, let us look a bit closer at these “polls” and when we do we discover that they were taken primarily in Kiev and the western oblasts. That would be like using the exit polls of DC, the NE and the West Coast to qualify John Kerry as the winner, the rest of the population be damned. But that is exactly what we are doing here.

And Bush supports this? Yes, but then again, Bush supported the Taliban in early 2001 when Russia threatened to bomb them. Bush even gave them $42 million for destroying some poppy fields, on top of the 8 years of Clinton largeness they’d already received. Boy, didn’t look like such a good investment 5 months later, did it?

So what is at stake here? Frankly a lot. And the side we in the US have taken is not the side that is going to help America in the least. We are told Yushchenko is Western leaning. He is, in a sense. The better question to ask, though, is which West?

There are two Wests? Why yes there is, something most Americans have not noticed but something that is constantly trumpeted in the Old European capitals. Yes, there is the Old Europe West made up of the main players of France-Germany-Spain and then there is the Anglo-Saxon West (America, Britain, Australia, though Canada now belongs firmly to the Old Europe West). So when one says Yushchenko is for the West, he is definitely not for the American West. His strongest backers are the Socialist EU (who has an appointed not elected government), the Ukrainian Greens, the Ukrainian Nationalists, the Ukrainian Socialists and now the Ukrainian Communists oh and least we forget, that international man of mystery, charity, socialism and power abuse: the one and only, your king and mine, GEORGE SOROS.

This is not to say that Yanukovich is clean either. His backers are the oligarchs of Ukraine, the various smaller businesses, the Orthodox Church, Putin and the Jews. Why the Jews? Because the Jews know that Yushchenko is a die-hard Catholic Ukrainian Nationalist and that has always spelled pogroms for minorities, especially the Jews. Just like in Croatia and Bosnia, we are allying ourselves with the Nazis, just in a different name and better suits.

What this will mean in the future, is if Yushchenko wins, his number one move, as he’s promised and tried already to do in the Rada (Parliament) is to remove the 1,700 Ukrainian soldiers supporting America in Iraq. Something of note, after pressure by France, Poland and Hungary are also removing their troops beginning of next year. Next he will seek a quick entry into the EU. But the EU is our friend, right? Hardly, the EU is our main economic competition and they’ve moved several times to destroy us as a nation, just minus the manly military route. An example of this is the massive pressure the EU is putting down on Russia and the Saudis to switch from the dollar to the Euro in oil transactions. This will cause the dollar to collapse in value as demand disappears and we all get to get really poor.

After all if our currency is next to worthless (and it is already leveraged to an extreme) then oil is hard to buy, which means our economy grounds to a halt and all those pretty tanks and planes deployed all over disappear. The power vacuum will of course be filled by our “friends” the Ukraine.

Already their pressure has resulted in Russia signing Kyoto, which means more trouble for our companies, something Russia refused to do for 5 years. But as usual, we didn’t back those “evil” Russians and we will all soon get to pay through the nose for it.

Now, if the EU doesn’t get Ukraine, what will happen? The most likely is: nothing. The less probable, Ukraine joins the Russian Federation, something that almost half the population wants anyways. Does this hurt America? No, how? A strong, economically and militarily, Russia will not only help us fight the Islamics better, but will be a good counter balance to the Fifth Reich (EU) and the Chinese fascists in Beijing.

So, decide for yourself what is better for our West as opposed to the EU West and whom we should support.

Cheers,

Stas

The UN, what a bunch of Shister and Frauds

2004-11-19T20:03:00.000-08:00

Ok, what a shock, the UN is a money making endeavor for people who would otherwise be nobodies. How can I say this? Well I've had the pleasure of serving on two UN missions.

My second mission, to the Republic of Georgia, as a US military advisor, was a real eye opener. Yeah, I wasn't the biggest fan of the UN as it was, but hay, I wanted a deployment, particularly a combat deployment to Afghanistan, but anything that got me out of Ft. Bragg would have been a ok. So when they told me they had a captain's slot for a native Russian speaker I said sure, I'll go. Now I won't bitch about the extra pay there, that's how they keep the military from rebelling in UN service, particularly the militaries of less professional armies.

Still, the level of corruption is amazing. Ok, here is how it goes: there are four layers to the UN, at the very top is Kofi Amman and his bunch, below that is the diplomatic corp, followed by the bureaucrats and then the military at the bottom. The schisters at the top and those on layer three are permanent crooks, the diplos and the mil are on loan from the their respective countries. Being on loan, they are responsible for accomplishing something to show that they didn't just waste their time. Ok, fair enough, some one trying to make a difference in the dozens of UN missions all over the world. But wait, why, with the exception of Makedonia (that was blocked by China to piss on America) has not a single UN mission ever ended?

Well ladies and grunts, here is where we come to the reality of where Uncle Sam's (read your money ole Uncle takes from you) gets spent. These bureaucrats have the fix. They do almost no work, the political advisors slept most of the day every day, and have salaries in the six figure ranges. Yup, that's just the salary, then there's the perks. What they are great at, is ass kissing. You've never seen a bunch of brown nosers like these guys. Ass kissing is a fine art that UN bureaucrats have attained mastery at. Listening to their speeches and back slapping was like being at a bad Saturday Night Live skit, except this was reality.

That, folks, is why no UN mission will ever end. The bureaucrats, that make up the vast majority, won't let their gravy train (that you and I are financing to the tune of several BILLION dollars a year) end. Why should they? As long as the level of violence continues to a certain level, the mission will always be needed. So what if a couple dozen or hundred or two peasants have to die each and every year, it's a small price.

Besides, none of the local thugs who rule the countries the UN gravy train visits, want the UN gone either. The UN first of all, takes away their responsibility to their people and their opponents to settle things out. If hostilities break out, if violence and corruption never ends, why just blame it on the UN, those damn foreign devils. But be sure not to do it to much, so they don' feel threatened to leave, just enough to shift blame. Further, the UN pumps lots of money into the local economy. They build bases and pave roads (how else would they patrol but on paved roads?) and hire the local people. And boy do they pay too. The cleaning ladies in our office, in Tbilisi Georgia, were getting paid around $300 a month. Doesn't sound like much? Well it does when you consider that the average income in Georgia is around $50 per month. Yup, six times what a factory worker makes, and that's just the cleaning ladies, the lower end of the ladder.

The military, the grunts do all the real work. And let me tell you, there is a world of difference between the Western (Russia west to Australia) and Japanese military and the third world jokes that make up the majority of the UN scam. Oh and while we are on it, yes American soldiers on these missions do take their orders directly from foreign, none-American officers and yes most of those giving those orders are incompetent at best and down right dangerous most of the time. Now the Pentagon will deny this, and nominally they are right. They have a SINC commander who is responsible for all these mission personnel and there are case officers who "manage" a group of missions. Yup, once every two or three months they fly in to check things out and they get an emailed report once a week. But between these times a lot can happen and usually does and those orders come from some two bit general from Pakistan or Bangladesh and people do die under these assine commands. Just try to get them or the UN to take responsibility after wards.

Anyways, I degrees (you'll get used to that reading my posts). These guys, these bureaucrats have amazing perks too. One guy sent his daughter to a prestigious university in England and the UN covered not only the costs but also the living expenses. This, while people are starving and dieing all over the world.

Yes, it's good to know first hand how your hard earned and easily taxed monies are being given away to an organization that is manned and operated as a profit center of the worst corporate criminal case. No US company would be allowed to operate this way without the district attorney opening a giant can of woop-ass, but these schister actually profess to wanting to run the universe? Pray and pray hard that this never happens or you will get to know first hand what living in a third world kleptocracy is really like.

Cheers,

Stas

American Business has much to learn from the Military, God and their own MBA courses (Part 1)

2004-11-19T18:42:00.000-08:00

I think I can consider myself a veteran, not simply a military veteran, of that there is no doubt, but one of the IT/Corporate employment wars. Besides spending two stints on Active Duty in the Army, totaling 5 years, and another 6.5 in the National Guard, I've had the "pleasure" of working for three different corporation and a major university. My opinion? Management as a whole sucks. Most are incompetent, money oriented only and truly care about no one but their own careers and stock options. Is there any question why worker loyalty is so low and public opinion of the corporate elite is lower then worm turds?

My first experience was as a co-op at a major telecom company. I was really excited to get there, yeah even at 26 I was a naive about the modern corporate reality, after serving in the military. When I first got there, the employees were very very positive and enjoyed there work. Boy that was about to change. Out in mid November, the company, who had just gotten new management, got there workers together, in all of their N.American and English locations, and informed that: everyone's job description would be up for review and that from now on, 10% of the work force would be fired every year. Of course they were still hiring new college kids like crazy, just replacing those fools who had put in 10 or 20 years into this giant. Oh and the best part was, they would announce the firings two weeks before Christmas. There's the Christian spirit for you, oops I forget myself, we are in a post Christian era, where morality is an abstract idea. Enjoy.
The mood in the company, predictably tanked within twenty minutes of this reality sinking in. Productivity plummeted as everyone ran to post resumes and the over all mood was on the brink or suicidal depression or out right rebellion. Several people started "joking" about shooting the management. These are white collar professional, by the way. But what the hell, the company's stock went up $2 per share and that after all is all that really matters in modern American business.
Having taken more then a few project management courses myself, it appalled me to be told over and over again, that workers are only resources. God forbid you think of a worker as a human being. Well here's a reality, I came from the military, where I sweated, froze and starved with my guys when ever it was needed. I came to appreciate my guys quite a bit, respect that common worker. I also knew that anyone of them might have to die from the commands I would give. There is a reality check. People First, an Army value that Corporate America has no idea about.

So on to my next mis-experience. My second experience was with a small, about 40 employees, IT & Networking company in Fayetteville. I was hired originally to work from home and commute down once a week from Raleigh. Pay sucked, $25k but hay, it was 20 hrs a week and I was a full time student. Of course this changed pretty quickly after I got started. This company was so screwed up I don't even know where to start. To call their employee practices shady would be to call Pol Pot slightly over zealous.
The management specialized in hiring students. Why? Because they would then overtly pressure them to quit school and demanded, yes DEMANDED, that they move down to Fayetteville. Why? Because once you're in a lease and thus in debt and have no degree on top of that, where are you going to go? There are something like 3 IT companies in that cesspool called Fayetteville. Then they demanded that I commute twice a week. Ok, did that. That quickly became three times and then an overt demand that I come down daily. Oh, was there a raise to this sudden increase from 20 to 40 hours? Hell no. Plus, it was early 2001 by then and the pink slips in the rest of the industry were raining down like a tropic downpour.
Sexual harassment was another biggy. For such a small company, there were more affairs then at a Harlokin Romance convention. Half the management was screwing around with the receptionists or secretaries or whom ever else would drop their pants for them. At one company luncheon, where the CEO and his vice were present, the conversation quickly devolved to the difference between felching and tossing your salad. Yeah, talk about a lawyer's dream corp.
The final straw came when they demanded that I sign a 7 year none geographically specific non-compete (illegal in NC anyways) that not only barred me from software development but from anything the company or its partners did. Guess I wouldn't be able to sell cars either, since one them owned a car lot. I flat out bulked at this, that was a Friday. They said, sure we'll negotiate. I came in on Monday and found out I was fired. I had betrayed the company by not signing to this career suicide wanna be. Oh and the bastards lied through their teeth to the Unemployment office. I could contest it, but I'd need a lawyer. Yeah, there's another blog right there, a lawyer to get the unemployment I paid into and was screwed out of. Who came up with that assine idea?

Well, the rest and my critique will come in the second half. I've got to run now and send out more resumes.

Cheers.

Stas