A friend of mine wrote a great post regarding the US’ impending meltdown, a far better literary piece than this tirade will turn out I am confident, but this needs to be said.

The thing that always strikes me, is that every US citizen you meet outside of the US (and I have never been there, as there would now have to be an exceedingly good reason for that to happen, they can take my biometric lifesigns and data and add me to their database, ooh, sometime between my cold dead body hitting the pavement and hell freezing over) are usually pretty decent people, and mostly not all all how Americans generally appear, and are to the man (or woman) apologetic, often outright ashamed about the behaviours of their country & peoples these last years.

You know its a sad thing to say really, but the impending financial hardship & pain etc cannot possibly even compare to the human tragedies America have caused since 2001, the hundreds of thousands of innocent civilians butchered at the mercy of US Military might under the control of clinically deluded, if not outright evil people.

Their military toys defy belief at the distance and ease with which you can take lives, as though on a playstation, and then laugh about it all the way back to your full size McDonalds installed inside the airbase in Iraq or Afganistan, to the sounds of “The roof is on Fire” in your Abrams.

And what now? You did this, to Iraq, the Middle East, to yourselves, to us. What now you have problems at home once more? and they’ve gotten so big that even your faithful right wing war-mothers have finally caught on? it’s senseless, pointless, and youre fucking LOSING.

You lost from the moment you defied the UN and became a State Sponsored Terrorist organisation, illegally killing hundreds of thousands of people, answerable to no-one except Lockheed’s fucking shareholders, and “The Bush” in your lame-arse “”War on Terror” You may have well have had a war against the waves coming up the beach, although I believe someone once tried that far back in history, but as you yanks havent even learnt the lessons from 20 years ago no-one would expect you to know (or care) anything about another countries history or culture, and, well, that would be about right wouldnt it?

This will likely be the worst recession the US have ever faced, and I dont mean financially, (who knows, it may just be a blip) but after god knows how many billions of dollars squandered on your ridiculous global bully boy tactics, there’s a lot of people hoping that it gets really bad you for you now, I’ll wager.

And that’s wrong, because the people don’t deserve that, theyre just people, doing their thing.. exactly the same as the hundreds of thousands of “just people doing their things” whose countries were torn asunder and friends and family blown to mincemeat by the Bush meatgrinder.

But it will be the worst ever, because this time you’ll know that virtually the rest of the world is at best apathetic about your situation, and at worst, absolutely rejoicing in it, and in anything that turns you introspective, and stops you throwing your weight and bombs around illegally in the rest of the world, because your problems all stem from home.

I am as anti-religious and as “confirmed skeptic” as they come, and even I feel like praising Mohammed for his victory over the Great Satan. May your troubles be severe enough to keep the majority of you firmly in your own country for the forseeable future, and stop bothering the rest of us.

And what now with the Middle East then? You and that spineless clueless twat Blair have turned Iraq into another Lebanon, and now you’ve run out of money you’ll want to be getting off home I suppose? ..leave all the “ragheads” to it?

4000 men have died for this so far, and now what? you’re going to whine off home tail between legs and leave them to it, not because you see the futility of your actions, but because you ran out of money? FFS.

Go Team America!! Fuck yeah.

If it was up to me I would try The Bush & Bliar for warcrimes and hang them both in public.

Do you get those times where somebody already did something to your project where they messed it up through changes without communication, and it damaged you a little, but was rescueable and ultimately not as serious as it could have been.

so you explain fully what you need from them next time they are working on this, categorically what they must not do and at what stage they need to consult with you again to manage the process.

..then six weeks later, you look and they’ve just gone and done exactly the same thing again..

I mean really, wtf? these are intelligent successful people, at the tops of their careers.

what gives? beats me.

I read a great piece in the Times Online regarding the impending (arrived) financial woes about to befall the UK along with the rest of the world this week and the knock-on effects that’s bound to have on the country’s economy.

This was the paragraph that really got my attention, from HERE

The economy is false. The economy is a lie. The economy is a fictional set of numbers cooked up during a boom period that is almost over, and six months from now nothing will add up.

Now I’m no master economist or anything but I have been telling anybody who would listen this exact same thing for the past 5 years. It should have been blatently obvious to anybody what was going on. From the Independent Online

UK borrowers account for one third of unsecured debt in western Europe. On average, a Briton has twice the debt of a European
Total consumer debt in the UK is at a record £1.3 trillion
New debt last year came to an unprecedented £215bn
Citizens Advice faced 1.25 million new debt cases last year - the figure is rising

I sold up my last property, my 3rd one, in 2006 because for the past 3 years I had forseen this coming, and frankly never thought it could take as long as it has.

It had just gotten into profit again and would let me out with about what I put into it 2 years before. It probably made the next buyer another £30k inbetween then and now..

..but did it?

Its very likely that property will soon be right back where I sold it at, and with rising mortage and ever decreasing chance of getting out without a heavy losses.

The only surprising thing about the financial scythe that is about to slash through British life once more, is how long we managed to prolong it’s arrival for.

The economy it would seem has been funded by credit, and by an illusion of property ownership equating to never ending profits. People looked at the alleged values of their houses, and wondered why if they are so well off, they can’t afford to go out for a meal, or put petrol into their financed BMWs to go out for the day..

“After all the house has gone up £100k since we bought it, we have loads of money, we just need to liberate a little of it from the bricks around us and we’ll pay it back later…”

The skyrocketing rising property prices have in most part been due to:

a) the banks willingness to up the mortgage ceiling over a few years from 3x single salary (or 3.5x joint) up to a whopping 6x single and the return of 100% mortgages again. (try and find one now)

b) super easy availability of credit, as always in the times that cause the trouble to come.

Just before I bought my first house in 1989 my friend and I got one of the very last 100% mortgages available and got locked into negative equity for about 5 years that time round.

The insane cost of living in the UK these days is a combination of everyone living on credit, based on (theoretical until you sell) house price rises and thinking they are richer than they actually are because of it, and hence can afford that stuff I want, I’ll just stick it on the old plastic.

But what comes now is the realisation for many that if the job goes, the next one may not be so easy to find, “the mortgage is huge, and I couldnt even sell the house for what I bought it for a year ago…”

“How am I going to pay for all this shit I don’t even need?”

Well I hate to say I told you so, but I fucking did, for years and years.

Have you ever been in a situation whereby say, you have worked something out in a high tech field, that not many others in your business area seem to have? What you have in common with a few others who also do not discuss it openly, is basically a competitive advantage, for the moment, all the while it lasts, whilst it’s not yet common knowledge.

If it were to become common knowledge, it would cheapen it’s value, and ultimately lessen its effectiveness. And yet in the community you see “experts” all the time not grasping the fundamental truths.

For me this is a big dilemma, for the urge to just explain the simplicity of something they are often over-complicating to extremes at times, and the internet exposure such relevations would surely bring, set against the fact that once everybody has the information things would definitely get harder for me.

I find myself engaged in conversations whereby I cannot tell what I would like to, and only skim over the basic facts to put one side of a debate about the theory. The fact that I cannot divulge everything I know makes people think that I don’t know very much, when in fact they could not be more mistaken about my understanding of the topic, but I cannot show that, without giving away the information.

what’s a guy to do?

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