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Meet Danielle And Jim Plus 9: The Squatters Who "Reclaimed" Their Foreclosed Home Over The Weekend
Unfortunately, surreal stories like this will very soon become daily news. As was pointed out yesterday, Simi Valley has just seen the first case of a forced reclamation of a foreclosed home, after Jim and Danielle Earl took their nine (9!) children, ages 9-23, and a locksmith and broke into the six-bedroom house that had been foreclosed upon for lack of payment, and on which the couple owed $880,000! And where would such brilliant advice originate from? Why, the couple's lawyer of course, who will one day be seen as the prophetic visionary who stole the bankers wealth from underneath them and handed it out to America's millions of starving lawyers, one billing sheet at a time: "The move was recommended by their lawyer" as the WSJ suggests. Already in process: millions of cases identical to this one, billions in legal fees, and hundreds of billions in lost market value of associated equity and credit instrument, not to mention very unpleasant days for LPs in "Recovery" funds.
More on the family:
The Earls paid $500,000 for the house in 2001 and then refinanced to pull out cash. They fell behind on their mortgage and at the time of their eviction they owed about $880,000 on a no-interest mortgage.
Investors at Conejo Capital bought the house for $697,000 at a lender’s trustee sale and put $40,000 of work into a remodel, replacing carpeting and appliances, as well as upgrading the kitchen. They flipped it to new buyers for $800,000. Those buyers were supposed to move in this week; those plans are on hold.
The Earls claim that they were working with GRP Financial Services to catch up on payments, but discovered a $25,000 difference between what they believed they owed and what the bank said they owed. They then stopped making payments.
“This is only the beginning of this,” the Earls’ attorney, Michael Pines tells KABC News. “I chose this family because we needed to get back in before the investor and the real-estate broker defrauded a new family by having them move in, which would have created a bigger mess. (The Earls) have done absolutely nothing wrong.”
So there you have it: people who owe $880,000 on their mortgage believe it is their right to reclaim homes. We will avoid any ethical commentary on this, suffice to say that it is the bankers who in the greed and stupidity have managed to dig themselves into what could be a hole so deep not even TARP 2-XXX can dig them out of.
For a clip of this surreal harbinger of things to come, click below.
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its nice to know that my federal tax dollars, through bank bailouts, are indirectly financing this couple's procreation.
...and to think I put off having a kid until my mid-30's so that I could be a financially sound and secure parent.
I took you for an Aussie based on the avatar... Way easier to be a financially sound and secure parent in Aus :)
nope, i'm a septic and me wife's a pom.
Australia is beginning to look like the last refuge. you considering a Lady Liberty in Sydney Harbor yet?
Haha, that's very doubtful. AU thinks they have an 'immigration problem' when 50 boat people show up a year. I'm in the US but am an AU citizen... Maybe if there's a severe correction in the AUD (one can hope) I might go back. They've got their own problems (housing bubble off the charts "but it's different here"), but at least the weather is nice.
ha, ha! The 'rotating casino' of fiat (fractional reserve lending) bubbles. funny.
cheers.
WTF happened to the 300,000
What's 9 times iPads, iPhones, iPods, iMacs for the family? Gotta be getting close to that figure.
What do you think it costs to feed and clothe 9 kids? 3 or 4 cars, 9 TV's, 9 computers, 9 iPods, 9 iPads..........
I like this story.
Signed: Me The Anarchist
Yeah baby!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBDzgfRffBs
Seconded. I don't like the family, I don't like the bankers, I don't like the lawyers. I do like that shit like this makes it harder to keep some of the insanity under wraps.
+ 880,000
BTW, go back and look closely at the face of the cop, i looks like he wants to shoot someone but can't figure out who is most deserving of a 9mm slug. In the jargon, "multiple targets of opportunity".
The question is
Did he need a Macmansion or
Did he want a Macmansion?
Americans must go back to the old ways of wants and needs. Living above
your means is a thing of the past now. Buying things you don't need with money you don't have simply does not cut it now , as if it ever did anyway.
LOL
Did the mortgage broker need his commission
Did the Owner of the mortgage company/bank need all the money he made?
Did the guy that bought the mortgage and then sercuritized it need his multi million dollar bonus?
Did the ratings agency really need to label said crap securitized mortgage product at AAA?
Give me a break sounds like a bunch of fucking apologists for the ruling class here today.
Ok, so what you are saying is that he "deserves" a macmansion because he wants one, even though he probably lied on his mortgage and loan applications? Even though he never really could afford to live in this home and even though he fraudulently took out a second mortgage on this home and also lied on the loan apps? Yeh that sounds about right. To excuse his awful behavior, you now point the fickled finger of blame at the banks. So two wrongs don't make a right do they? Ha ha .....
High Plains Drifter, you are throwing pearls to swine when you debate these fools.
All the things you listed in the communist manifesto are in my country now. Yet nobody sees it , not really. Many foolish Americans will tell you they are free men and women but in reality are they? Are we really free? I say not. My country is dying yet nobody cares. My country is lead by evil traitorous men, yet nobody sees it. My country is being lied to on a daily basis by evil men who steal us blind, yet nothing is done about it. The FED continues to do what it does, yet it has no constitutional basis to do such, yet many act like it is a legitimate organization, even though it is run and owned by a small number of greedy and power hungry men. The churches teach a form of "Christianity" yet it has no power because it is all based upon lies. If any President does not go along with the program he is eliminated. If any church dares to proclaim the real truth to the prisoners, they are invaded by jack booted thugs and their 501-3c IRS status is revolked. To me, I see hell coming. Hell is coming for dinner. I tell anyone that will listen and am told I am crazy and need to be committed. The days of my country are numbered. Our candlestick has been put out now. The light on the hill is dimming. Many of these young people who hang around here and write clever posts etc, do not know what is coming but they sense something. You go on the gun blogs and they say to stack it high and stack it deep. Illegal immigration continues unabated and nobody does anything to stop it. The balkanization of my country is taking place and we accept it meekly. I long for clarity. I long for liberty. I long for shades of black and white and I am tired of gray. Where is George now, when we need him? No where to be found. We soared high toward the sun , on wings of borrowed fiat money. The wings have melted now and we are falling. Yet many continue to live the lie. Just look on the boob tube on any Sunday and watch the fat boys with the fat girls , grilling up fat burgers and steaks and drinking at these parking lot parties at the places of American lunacy, called the football stadium. Yes they are still there, no matter what. Because sir, as you can see, they are free men and women. We fight wars that never end, chasing enemies that can never be found, while killing the innocents, yet we have tea party candidates who say they support the war, but nevertheless also saying, at the same time, they hate government programs infringing on our lives. What a strange dichotomy. Political parties mean nothing and never have really. I long for clarity now. I long for truth. I long for liberty. If I could give my life for it, I would unhesitantly. But I am one, and they are many. I am no coward but I also am no fool. So many bide their time and get ready for what must be done. The time is short. As many of you perhaps know, this thing will not continue on as it is. It simply can't. Whe n good men do nothing evil flourishes. Since the courts are a joke now, and we have no recourse in them. Since the congress refuses to do the will of the people, there is no redrss there now. So what is left? What? Its a beautiful day where I am now. But one day, merely saying what I say will get me arrested. The days of thinking out loud and saying what is on your mind are nearing a end , here in the land of the free and the home of the brave. Can in good conscience live with this? I think not.
perhaps inside of you.
priority #1: END the private Federal Reserve Bank, fractional reserve lending, and faith-based fiat currency.
step #1: accumulate gold and silver for all non-working capital. 'legally' accumulate firearms and ammunition. Stockpile food. Vote for all candidates who vow and act to reduce the size of Federal government. Educate anyone who will listen.
Word. Double-plus the educate part.
I count way more than 2 wrongs - most of them committed by the bankers and the "system" they set up which caused this entire mess in the first place. So someone please tell me WHY the house was priced at 880k and then we can go from there.
Indeed, the insanity must spread so people wake up.
@pan
Sir the Americans will never wake up. It is written.
It's like Survivor ... I secretly want them all to die.
"what they believed"
california standard - what do you believe you owe
That's what we teach in skewls out here...what to feel, rather than how to think, and that everybody is special. Math is strictly verboten
Yeh he feels like he deserves a big house, even though he can't pay for it. He feels like he wants more money by getting a fraudulent second mortgage, even though he can't pay for the loan. Now he feels like he can stay in the house and say it is his own, even though he cannot pay for it, not now , not ever. It is of course his home and his children said they wanted to go home, so they went home. He felt like it was still his house. Yes feelings are important to Americans.
This is Hi-Sterical.
The attorneys are employees of the banksters (court).
This is a very interesting shennanigan.
What is the Hegelian? (problem-reaction-solution).
Oh...I get it....economic oxygen deprivation and ass-plosion.
(an ass-plosion is what happens when you cork the pig, but proceed with the feed.)
Problem: Broken chain of title ownership
Reaction: Squatters backed by lawyers re-enter homes
Solution: Nationalization of residential real-estate
Who holds the title? Nobody knows--so Uncle Sam will take it all!
No! The oligarchy would never do THAT in America! This is America, dammit!
We will see...
I can has house?
LOL!
We all have the right to a house and a living wage, right? A tofurkey in every pot!
judging by the direction of the USD, we'll all have a right to be billionaires soon.
I posted this earlier in another thread but felt it appropriate to do again here:
What if tracking who owns title to any of this shit is going to be impossible and the banks and uncle sugar are never going to let the common man default, how do you "solve" this problem. What if regardless of who thinks they own title the government takes it, the government also forces the homeowner to pay their mortgage payment into a trust or lockbox. In return for the title the government will issue treasuries to the banks at an approved rate of 85% of value, so let's say a $300,000 mortgage is turned over to the government trust they would issue $255,000 worth of treasuries to the bank. This would take the place of the rotted ass securities the mortgage was the basis of, allow the treasury to keep "printing" money, suck all the investors into treasuries whether they like it or not, essentially absolve the CDS problem (until the US defaults) and allow the government to own a very substantial portion of real estate and gain even more control over the citizens. They can claim that they made the banks suffer by giving them a 15% haircut, will make profit off the eventual payment of the mortgages, and best of all steal the money from the trust.
This is just a thought with a lot of holes, but I'd be curious to see if anyone else can picture a similar scenario.
I don't understand why the debt collectors (TBTFs) aren't more willing to renegotiate with the debtors through principal reduction. It is like they want to blow up the system.
I think that if they do reduce the principal then they have to write down the asset and pay back investors in the CDO's, since we live in mark to fairy's and unicorns they can keep kicking it down the road and not write down the asset by not renegotiating the principal, if they foreclose they keep it on the books at full value.
Next time you go to the gas station, try asking them to reduce the price per gallon.
If that doesn't work, buy the gas first, and then ask them to give you back the difference between what you paid, and what you "feel" is right to pay.
Let me know how that works out.
Maybe they have already lined up Chinese buyers willing to buy at top dollar in a land they think is governed by the rule of law.
Well with the taxpayers bailing them out, the banks have had no incentive to work with the borrowers. If the bailouts didn't happen, the banks would have had more incentive to work things out.
That's very true and just disgusting to realize because it was orchestrated to let the banks profit from a bad business decision....pure shit from our elected leaders.
God bless them
Fuck the banks
Fuck them both or they can go fuck each other.
They already have 9 kids and you want more copulation???
In honor of this comment, you are hereby awarded One Internet.
How many of these "both parties were stupid" stories would be required to take down the markets? 100,000?....1,000,000?....10,000,000?
I saw this on the local So Cal NBC-4 channel last night and all she said about the other owner that was suppose to move in was was "sorry" and that they shouldn't have purchased this property.
That's the real problem here...there's a new owner of the property, who's already paid (or mortgaged themselves) for the right to that home. They'll get thrown on their ass lickety split.
Plus, CA is a non-recourse state. What are they doing risking litigation when they're probably out scott free after heisting $300k?
Yes, the first question any competent attorney would ask is "what are your damages"?
Minus $300,000? Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.
Mmmm, maybe they'll be thrown out, now that there is media coverage. Normally, from what I'm hearing in parts of Southern California that just isn't the case. The police don't want to get involved. Even when it's the new owner complaining. For that, you apparently need to go to Court.
These people have an almost sharp lawyer. If he were really sharp though, he wouldn't go bragging to the media.
If the esq. in question specializes in real estate, the TV camera is his ticket to new clients ( there will be many prospects in Ventura County, where foreclosures are just heating up on the massive shadow inventory there ). He will want to keep new clients funneling through while this fire lasts. The whole show for this lawyer is not about the deadbeats......he already has the retainer and they are out soon anyway.
The free TV ad is a Gloria Allred specialty. As repulsive at it is, it beats chasing ambulances. Cheaper too.
Damn straight, Tortfeasor. Hardly any mention in this thread of the poor bastards who bought the place and are getting keelhauled into this nightmare.
If I had to bet money, given the dead-in-the-water status of jumbo sales in the U.S. lately, I would bet they are immigrants from East Asia (probably mainland China) and quite possibly paid CASH. Mark this post because the Saxxon feels right about this one.
You would not believe the $$ sloshing around among nouveau-riche mainland Chinese. And lest I be accused of slander, let it be known I am married to one . . .
THAT is the beauty of this whole spectacle - anyone that sees this will think " fuck that I am not going to buy a house unless I am 100% sure the title is clear" which will collapse real estate so this broken system can finally fucking die and the reset button gets hit with a sledgehammer
+1
My view: these sort of deadbeats will be the ones that will get media attention, while the issues of fraudulent documents, fraudulent MBSes, REMIC rules, banks ripping off sovereign wealth funds, etc. will be ignored.
good take.
Nothing wrong??? LOL.. They just haven't paid on their mortgage. The attorney is as big a criminal as the banks.
Anarchy, bitchezzzzzz.
Bigger and bolder,
ANARCHY BITCHEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
prolific breeders make me queasy. :P
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRBOgtp0Hac
We'll need large families... to work the fields.
yeah, sharecropping JPM's fields.
The might make you queasy, but it's not really about you, since most of them outnumber you and will probably outlive you. Simple math.
idiocracy is coming true:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0yQunhOaU0
Well, there's only one way to counteract it: have more kids yourself and raise them competently.
Okay. When can we "get started"?
Idiocracy is a wonderful forward looking documentary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSROlfR7WTo
It was forward looking when it came out a few years ago. Now it is current events. Mike Judge was off in his projection by a few hundred years.
That's illegal possession, they we all have to be rounded up and sent to a FEMA camps.
Forget everything else except the above highlighted words.
It's all for the kids. Considering how many times this country has been defrauded by some politician or corporation under the guise of "doing it for the kids" I suspect we need about 2 million more of these "reclaimed in the name of the kids" episodes just to get even.
Just sayin'
Indeed. This in essence means, the path to getting everything you want on the backs of others is to have as many replicants as possible. I wonder how long before the rest of the proles catch onto this, and we have a new baby boom
Rugratz Bitchez!!!
Hasn't that long been the welfare mentality? Every child is a notch up the entitlement ladder?
Where I came from it was known as "have a baby, get a check".
Why is the 23 year old moving back in???
Get a job you lazy kids!
Get a job, why? To pay for someone else's SS check? But I'm sure you're right, and fully half of that age group is unemployed just because they're lazy. No other reason.
People should should be on their knees thanking their lucky fucking stars that the 20 year olds are not keeping busy by slaughtering the older generations.
Soon there will be an app for that. That's when I clear out the root cellar........again. Gosh, I hope that 60's freeze dried food is still edible. :>)
They will slaughter thier elders when they get hungry enough. Stew Pot Bitchez!! (Sorry couldn't resist)
Because he's following the stellar example set by his parents.
Why are any of them moving back in?
F the Earls for refinancing and F the bank for enabling them. Why the hell is the US government, taxpayers, and savers at all involved in bailing out the parties. Let them all sue and bankrupt each other, that is the best answer.
Leave the rest of us out, no more bailouts !!!!
More Bailouts = Social Unrest ( Lira's Fuckit Moments going parabolic )
+1!
+ Infinity
PLUS the squatters get the free remodeling of the kitchen and new carpet and appliances to boot. I'd gladly pay negative $880k for that in my home!
It's a good thing the new buyers have title insurance...
What if a deflationary collapse is baked in? That is, what happens if nothing more is done other than to allow the system to work its way through traditional legal channels? Think a lame duck Congress will shove something through? Or that the new 212th Congress will engage in a national program after the blow-back from TARP and everything since were the very issues that propelled them into office?
Cui bono - who benefits? Think it through fellow space monkeys. We already had our (hyper) inflation during the Naughties. The power-elite were made whole starting two years ago and continuing through to the present day to the tune of $25T+.
Why would they want this capital to depreciate via QE2? Why not wait until re-valued assets can be acquired for micro-pennies on the dollar? CogDis made a good point on a previous thread: what are true asset values - cash - given the absence of false support via credit leverage?
Sure you wanna find out? Be careful selling the $USD short.
FUCKING AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Need millions of more Americans with BALLS!
he has balls alright. shoulda had 'em snipped six kids ago.
Ha! Excellent!
you win
Not exactly who I'd want as the poster family of the movement.
They couldn't find some people who'd bought an affordable home with a good down payment who've now fallen on hard times? Who are underwater due to the huge amount of foreclosures surrounding them, dragging down prices?
$880k no-interest loan? You're fricking kidding me.
It's the kids... can reality TV be far behind?
I don't know if I should laugh or cry. You're so right, and they're already doing this on the community level for schools.
We just need to scale it down for individuals.
http://www.nbc.com/school-pride/
The TV show "Flip this House" just became "Squat that house". Heh He, The first episode shows you how you need at least a 10ga extension cord to run over to your neighbors outside electrical outlet and how to mooch his wireless broadband.
awesome. I'd watch that.
They are crooks/thieves - who feel "entitled" to a home. The police allowed them to break in? Trust me, anarchy might have its time and place - but this family is the poster child for looters and leeches - along with their attorney. This won't end well for them and it'll even be worse, the psychological trauma, for the children.
LOL yeah the BANKERS aren't the poster children for looters and leeches - fucking moron
Wait a minute.
Buy a 500K house, then take out an 880K loan.
Is this Fed math or Banker math? So can I buy a 1mm house and take out a 1.7mm loan....? never mind about the idiot in the bank that signed it (probably with crayons) and ....eh....hmmm......... please pass the whiskey.
Any yes what the hell did you spend the extra 300K on hookers and blow?
Is that tax deductable- anyone? Closing costs maybe?
I'm gonna stop paying because the bank says I owe 880k and I know it's only 855. I used Chisenbop to arrive at that figure.
Granted 25k seems like it should be worth arguing over, but in the context of over 800k it's barely earnest money.
Speaking of earnest money, how much are the new "owners" out?
Tax-free. It's a loan, not income. Supposed to be paid back.
Tax-free. It's a loan, not income. Supposed to be paid back.
Don't try doing the math in these cases, you'll blow a loose gasket
and the rest he just squandered.
now this is what it's like when worlds collide!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsV500W4BHU
Go Figure! An Attorney! Well....Imagination @ Work, eh?
Greedy fucks (I'm referring to all parties involved).
Instead of giving away tax breaks the gov't should give away birth control. These squatters are multiplying like rabbits.
yep; 9 more kids believe in free lunch. I am confident the lawyer will screw them so at least they will be leary of lawyers when they get all growed up.
+1
".... These squatters are multiplying like rabbits."
Er, that's sort of the idea. What makes you think they'd use the birth control?
Six of those kids are adopted.
...which means they get big bucks from the state for monthly support, no doubt.
This charade of the hapless victim is starting to come more into focus.
Only Judge Dredd can save us now...
I fear we need Rico now. Judge Dred showed compassion in the end.
I knew you'd say that.
If this madness keeps up, the populus will embrace Spector! My path to world domination will not require the use of destabilizing events to first push the world into chaos.
My name is Bond, Mortgage Backed Bond...
You must get all the pussy you want with a name like that right?
Do you also have a license to be to big to fail?
You must get all the pussy you want with a name like that right?
Wish. SPECTRE leaders have all the pussies. But au is the big dog.
Mr. Bond, you are way over valued!! Many people trust you but mark my words, you will betray their capital!
My name is Buck, Double Ought Buck.
I believe you are referring to Judge Debts
This is a made for TV event if I ever saw one. It is also breaking and entering. They and their attorney must be so charged. The alternative is anarchy. The Germans have a predictable response to this crap. "We do not make laws in the street."
Banana republic!
I remember years ago, an old banker and his wife lived in my neighborhood. My husband and I befriended them and the old banker used to tell us all kinds of stories about customers that he would have. He used to pull the deadbeats into his office, work with them on budgeting, blah, blah, blah blah. Anything within reason to get the loan paid, or to broker a deal to get out from under the bad loan. Sometimes, people were just unsavable, and he would foreclose. This man never lost much money during his lending career, he always made it his business to know his clients and their character.
The whole problem with the freaking mess, is that American's are not accountable to their local banker. And they are all saying F*ck you to the international call centers and automated phone banks.
This will not return to normal, until it returns to the local community bank. Until then, whoever the homeowner stiffs is a faceless non-entity.
The more I read, then more I think, Why am I making my house payment?
ReallySparky is totally correct.
Bankers stopped being real bankers, "financial machinery" took over what was previously done by bankers.
Result, the current socio-economic disaster.
I've known more than a few former bank workers who did loans who told me the same thing. That's also why they don't work in banks anymore.
Thumbs UP! You're absolutely right! Ultimately the attempt to de-personalize finance and economics is going to fail. Human relations ultimately rest on peer-to-peer direct relationships... TRUST! It has to be based on really knowing who you're dealing with.
Systems that promote ego-maniac politicians with their image-makers and rapacious corporations with their ads featuring 'oh-so-caring' voices and tinkly piano music...
face disaster once the falsity of it all starts to shine through.
They've scammed the social contract! It's called Control Fraud.
We've got to re-build real communities from the ground up.
How Would Hunter-gatherers Run the World? (Psst... They DO!)
http://culturalengineer.blogspot.com/2009/11/how-would-hunter-gatherers-...
I'm sorry for those 9 kids, but 800K ?!!!!!
GODDAMN! HOW DO THESE PEOPLE GET AWAY WITH THAT?!
I have a fucking great job, I make a very good living and so does my wife, BUT MY HOUSE ISN'T WORTH 800K!
RTFA please. The loan is worth 850k, not the house.
The new owners paid 800k.
New owners bought from a flipper who is probably royally pissed this one might come back to him. The 800k deal smells pricey, even for Ventura County. Then all this bullshit. New owners would be wise to backtrack this deal.....fast.
The banksters will have to pay the Judges in their personal Gold and silver - its painfully expensive but it may be a necessary long term investment.
Well they couldn't eat it, anyway!
I want a house & $300K tax free too god dammit!
What do you want to bet they've been taking the tax write-off on the interest they haven't been paying?
It's a squatter's paradise!
Hopium in action.
Oh, plus the $40k in renovations, but why split hairs!
And if I were the new buyer I would also drop a 1099 on their asses for this.
If I was the bank I would drop a 1099 on their asses.
If this is going to turn into a fight.... I'll put my money on the fat kid...
It's becoming harder and harder to distinguish the difference between right and wrong. The CRONY banks, Wall St., The FED and our government has set the stage for this kind of reaction. Compared to what the Banks have been allowed to get away with, these people are entitled to move back in and get a modified mortgage to their specification...The revoultion has begun...no pitchfork needed, only a U-Haul.
But it's not getting that much harder to figure what is and is not in your own best interest. People won't stop doing things... it'll just get more and more bizarre.
If you pretend to collect on loans long enough, the borrower eventually pretends to pay as well.
Back in the US
Back in the US
Back in the USSR
go earls go!!
and i will comment on the ethics - it was good.
Slightly off topic, but Conejo sold the house for 800K, less 697K buy price, minus 40K remodel, minus commissions etc. etc. where's the profit?? Hardly seems worth the bother.
Tax breaks generate the profit in deals like this.
Hell...meet handbasket.
I'm sure the lawyer told them possession is 9/10 of the law
Better to be a squatter with pride in your foreclosure than to be a new age wanderer and have to squat on somebody elses house
But who is going to get stuck with the bill? The Chinese aren't going to like the robo-dollars coming thheir way.
Tyler I dont know where to put this.. but for those of you
who know about CLIFF HIGH at http://www.halfpasthuman.com
he's the guy that runs WEB BOT program, anyhow
his ISP took his site down with no explanation seems the TPTB
donot like what he has to say, actually its kinda spooky stuff,
I just know I'm gonna get junked ( I posted this with tin foil hat on)
kwvrad... go to urbansurvival.com, that dude follows Cliff and has updates on the situation. Not sure about the your tin foil hat scenario, time will tell. At least his commentary is entertaining.
<sarcasm> nice one, tyler... </sarcasm>
read the comments... so many are completely missing the game here...
everywhere you look, we're being compelled to pick our 'winners' in a game between thieves.
what a mess. "when you pick the lesser of evils, you still get evil..."
oh, *completely* off-topic: please don't forget to vote next week, okay? just pick the D or the R, even if you have no idea what they believe in, or if they had a seance when they were 6. and just forget those other silly spoiler parties, they're a wasted vote. got it?... good.
disengage.
Divide and conquer has an honorable and successful history in defeating many popular uprisings. When repressed for a long period of time, one of the ways the plebs work off steam is to batter those within reach rather than admit their impotence against their real tormentors, the masters of the universe.
So once the population is sufficiently stressed and demoralized, a few barn fires here and there is all it takes for the population to break out the band and then break some neighbor's heads and legs. I couldn't help but laugh when I listened to CNBC this morning. Some fool was expressing surprised that the Democrats were grabbing hold of a delicious pressure point such as China and stuffing it down the Republicans throats.
Silly rabbit. The political parties understand that the other side isn't the enemy, it's the population at large who they must defeat. Divide and conquer, demoralize and defraud. This can all end tomorrow folks. We just need to stop playing their game and dance to our own tune.