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Originally posted at http://capitalistexploits.at/

In 1945, after WWII ended the United Nations was formed. Its mandated purpose was to:

“promote and facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedoms, democracy, and achievement of lasting world peace.”

Now those are noble goals, to be sure, and admittedly they set the bar pretty high for themselves. However, 68 years later the UN is an abysmal failure, and it's abundantly clear to anyone that is paying attention that literally every single principle mentioned in their charter is being consistently and repeatedly broken, oft-times by the founding nations themselves!

What about that peace mandate? There are currently over 36 wars being waged globally, so you be the judge...

As a "quasi" world government, the UN is able to extract money by force (do government's have any other play book?). The result has been the Mother Ship expanding like kudzu, spawning in its wake organizations such as the WHO (World Health Organization), the ILO (International Labor Organization) and dozens of other useless, bureaucratic nightmares. Mind you they have grown exponentially whilst achieving less and less with each passing year. In the same way that Amtrak "successfully" operates solely via grotesque theft from the US taxpayer, so too the UN will keep sucking in tax dollars and engorging itself like a video game-playing fat kid downing chips and sodas 12 hours a day. The only difference being that the fat kid makes no assertions that he is bettering human kind.

Rest assured, new “problems” in need of meddling will be found, ensuring more capital is “urgently needed” mis-allocated, or outright wasted. The UN is one of the most opaque, diplomatically immune, unaccountable to its funders, (largely the US tax payer) entities in the world, and much like any other bureaucracy views the tax dollars which fund it, not as a privilege to be earned, but as an "entitlement".

I've personally seen some of the most ill-conceived UN-sponsored projects, debacles that no sane person would dream up, get implemented. They all came complete with false, UN-created reports which were cobbled together in order to enlarge the scope of said "assistance" program. These "programs", I might add, are typically just transfer of payment mechanisms from "poor people in wealthy, developed countries", to "unbelievably wealthy, corrupt politicians in poor countries".

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These NGO folks are driving around Africa, Asia and most of the poor countries of the world in their air-conditioned Land Cruisers, spending money they don't deserve on projects that most third graders would scoff at.

We saw it plain as day in Cambodia last week. They've got it good...and they know it. I met a woman on the plane from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap who worked for the WHO. What a joke. She was "living" in a $250/night resort, being chauffeured around in, you guessed it, a Land Cruiser. She was agitated when I met her because her Cambodian driver, who is likely getting paid the minimum $70'ish per month, forgot to pick her lazy butt up at 6 AM and shuffle her to the airport. She had to take a taxi... God forbid!

NO way they let the party end! Sadly, and almost unbelievably, many of these same individuals believe in what they are doing, which just accelerates the growth of these parasitic institutions. Make no mistake, they ARE parasites!

The UN's existence is absolutely destructive, period. Remember, before you send me email from Ohio telling me I'm wrong, I grew up in Africa, I have seen this crap first hand. I won't argue that many well-intentioned successful projects the UN may have had in the early days don't exist, but those days are long gone, and certainly on balance and for the enormous amount of capital squandered this institution now simply leaves in its wake a destructive, powerful, bureaucratic force. The fact that today the UN has any legitimacy left is testament to the Walmart car park ignorance of an intellectually indifferent, media-fed populace.

So what's the answer?

Undoubtedly what has had the greatest impact throughout man's troubled history on this ball of dirt, has been harmony created by trade. Centralized, top-down administration of principles, when forced on people of differing beliefs, whether they be religious (Hindu, Muslim, Christian, etc.), political or otherwise has a spectacular failure rate. Free trade and the free flow of goods and services - allowing individuals to choose how and with whom they trade - has had THE highest rate of success, bar none.

Let's take multinational corporations for example...they are everything that the UN pretends to be. They are filled with people from various cultures working in countries scattered across the globe, they are characterized by people of all religions, race, ethnic groups, and they are all trying to help each other rather than obliterate each other. Whats more is they are producing goods and services which the market desires and turning a profit doing so.

 

Why? Because the free market works. It is in essence people acting of their own free will to further their own objectives. It's not selfish, it's human!

Humans are self-interested animals. That should be apparent. Let's get over the concept that we're inherently chivalrous, philanthropic, self-less spiritual beings with our sole reason to exist being to better the lives of everyone else. Bull$%&#. For the most part we are always going to look after #1. Doubt me? Next time you're on an airplane and the stewardess (sorry, flight attendant) gives you the safety demonstration take note of who she tells you to put the oxygen mask on first (hint: it's YOURSELF!). The reason for this should be obvious, but if not I'll spell it out: We are incapable of helping others if we ourselves are not safe, secure and stable... This same "safety" principle extends to economics and personal finance.

Multinationals work on the premise that humans ARE self-interested. Thus they produce products which they believe cater to the self-interest of consumers (also humans, by the way). They are forced by the market to adjust their actions, products and business practices all over the world, almost in real time.

McDonalds in New Delhi serves curried burgers. In Asia you can buy a green tea and red bean ice cream sundae, and get seaweed seasoning for your fries. In Japan they will sell you shrimp burgers. Even in Hawaii the traditional "orange drink soda" is replaced with fruit punch!

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I would suggest that McDonald's has done more to “promote and facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, civil rights, civil liberties, political freedoms, democracy, and achievement of lasting world peace” than the UN ever has...and this from a company that sells God awful cardboard masquerading as food!

 

- Chris

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Thu, 05/16/2013 - 11:19 | 3569177 rsnoble
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EAT BUGS!!!  Let's see that fucking cunt disorderment crying about her cab eat a big bowl full!  All the while she probably throws half eaten 50lb lobsters in the trash.  Someone nuke these bastards please.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 10:00 | 3568764 Gavrikon
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Just cut off the money to the UN, EBT, etc, and let's watch the fun begin!

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 09:08 | 3568508 skippy9
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Amen! Capitaist Exploits. The U.N. has been a failure from the get go and that is why it's being embraced by our idiot, President who is also a failure and product of "affirmative action" a plan to make everyone  get down to the lowest common denominator. Looking at the polls you'll find his base is comprised of losers like himself who can't make it in a competitive world. Down with the tit sucker democrat liberals and up with the capitalists.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:57 | 3568459 rsnoble
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Don't forget..........eat more bugs!!! While these goons throw half ate 50lb lobsters in the trash.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:23 | 3568345 skistroni
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Correct observation ("the UN is a crappy institution") but overstretched forced conclusion in a failed effort to praise free market capitalism ("Mc Donalds does a better job at unifying nations"). If that's what capitalism is like, I'm going back to the hardcore Trotskists I joined as a teenager. Or, since I didn't like those either, I can just kill myself and finish off with all this crap. 

I'm wondering why some free-market proponents have to make such outrageous claims to attract attention. It seems like a rushed attempt to provide a "solution" to problems created by the corrupted world state of affairs. I tend to think that solutions will not come from existing or known examples, but will be reconstructed from scratch as they should. 

Tue, 05/28/2013 - 18:51 | 3605490 Freaking Heck
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skistroni....if you read carefully you'll see I am not praising McDonalds but rather saying that a company such as McD's which is clearly far from the best capatalism has to offer, still does a better job than the UN. It's unfortunate but when we look at the large corporations gracing this planet they all tend to be infected by cronyism, greed and malpractice.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:12 | 3568312 GoldIsMoney
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There are a few things we really do not need:

- central banks

- fiat money

- supranational organizations for states (IWF, UNO, WHO you name them)

 

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:03 | 3568288 nowhereman
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I'm sorry, I'm not buying this multinational corporations are good crap. Exporting jobs for cheap slave labor so that  CEO's can take home  billion dollar bonuses never turned my crank.

Sure the UN is a waste, But they do not subjugate whole countries and create "Banana Republics" the way that Chiquita and Dole did.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:11 | 3568307 williambanzai7
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You mean you don't want to live at Walmart?

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 12:33 | 3569583 DMac
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Welcome to costco, I  love you....

 

 

Never forget the UN site is founded on former slaughterhouses.  Like a giant leach on the world, the 'UN Authorized' bloodletting continues.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 03:31 | 3568070 AnAnonymous
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The UN is an 'american' global institution, that 'americans' use to condone their acts on a global scale.

This said, it does not have the power to extract money by force. 'American' nations take charge of that part.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:16 | 3568096 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Fantasical AnAnonymous propaganda is a Chinese citizenism global roadside defecation, that 'AnAnonymists' use to offuscate their blobbing up on a global scale.

This reminded, how does it explain the behaviour of the Chinese Citizenism Communautists towards their war crimes? Looking for worse is made easy as the Japaneses exists but still Chinese citizenism citizens could behave.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:34 | 3568101 akak
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You neglect to mention the parangongistic eternal nature of AnAnonymystical projectionism, by which all faults, shortcomings, failings and perversions of Chinese society of fabled present are reflected in his funhouse mirror of fantasyland, so-called 'citizenism' and forced onto Americans, each and every one of them, casting them without exception as Satan incarnationized.  Chinese Citizenism inability to self-indict here is key.

Indeedwise, everything bad that AnAnonymystics project onto Americans is their own worst traits and unsustainable consumptionalizing eternal nature, made unbearable by sordid reality and therefore blobbed-up and forced to the exterior, onto American strawsmen of Chinese manufacture.  But like everything else of Chinese manuflatulature, the quality is poor, oh so very poor, and it is broken even before leaving the sweatshop.

Alas, alas, alas, broken and worthless crap is AnAnonymystical Chinese Citizenism in a nutshell.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:37 | 3568106 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Always the other's fault. It is always funny how Chinese citizenism citizens exclude themselves of behaviours that are typical Chinese citizenism citizen behaviours.

How 'AnAnonymist' Chinese citizenism citizen typical.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:19 | 3568091 akak
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You are the expression of a most hilarious form of retardation.

Must have been that botched abortion your mother attempted with a pair of chopstocks covered with the residue of mercury-tainted Kitten McNuggets.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 01:27 | 3567992 q99x2
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Arrest those pricks. They are war criminals.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 00:23 | 3567927 WTFUD
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The only reason US citizens are more stupid in general than EU citizens is that the US governments spend a tad more money in the right places making sure of it.
If your going to get away with spending 1in 3 tax dollars to prop up a huge defence conglomorate then you gotta balance/offset that with some strategic investment on disinformation in education and media services. quid pro quo

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 02:58 | 3568050 Hobbleknee
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*double post*

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 02:58 | 3568049 Hobbleknee
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Hmmmm... EU citizens let their "elected" masters have 70% of their income in exchange for "free" first aid, not to mention, most Euros worship the state and the UN.  Who is more stupid?

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 23:49 | 3567825 williambanzai7
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I don't think you fully appreciate that the UN and NGOs you are ranting about are actually a critical symbiotic extension of global corporatism.

And I am not sure you will want to live in an Africa run by McDonalds either. 

And you are speaking out of complete ignorance if you think Ohio of all places is a hotbed of UN supporters.

If I had to hazard a guess, I would say most Americans consider the UN a useless and corrupt pile of garbage and constantly wonder why they are called upon to finance its continued existence, the reason of course being that their globalist overlords say they must.

Actually I am quite certain that if we were allowed a popular referendum on funding the UN the answer would be to deep six it before Friday.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 10:21 | 3568875 OneTinSoldier66
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That was awesome WB7. I couldn't have said it any better myself!

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 09:58 | 3568751 Gavrikon
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You are correct.  Africa sucks so hard that even Africans don't want to live there.  Of course, the reason it sucks so hard is because it is full of Africans.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 01:18 | 3567982 Haager
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Great answer which I absolutely second. 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 22:19 | 3567642 yellowsub
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Just like the mega charities that gets millions to billions a year and barely spend any of it like the Red Cross in any disaster.

They provide cheap items like make shift shelters, donated clothing and food and volunteers are put up in rat shack motels cramming like 8 to a room that costs less than $40/night even in the aftermath of Sandy... 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 20:26 | 3567314 Aquarius
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I am a person who has spent most of his life in and around the UN and its myriad of dysfunctional organizations. Your 'revelation' here doesn't even begin to describe the sewer and its native rats that inhabit thiese pits of filth and corruption. Drug running, smuggling, scamming, skimming, stealing, lying, muder, girl enslavement and smuggling, rape, pillage; you name it; this is the UN. They do everything except their nominated role. When forced to appear to make a show of good faith, out comes a Nobel Prize, victims, stealth and deceipt.

Unfortunately this organization cannot be cleansed with flame throwers; let them get hold of the Internet and the world will come to an end; while they drink champagne.

http://verbewarp.blogspot.com.au/2005/09/poverty-signature-of-failure.html

The skim you ask? 60% to 70% is normal.

Ho hum

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:06 | 3568294 W T F II
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Hey,

Your description sounds like the International Olympic Committee or FIFA. Are you sure you're not confused..??

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 03:33 | 3568071 AnAnonymous
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The UN is an 'american' global institution, of 'americans', for 'americans' by 'americans'.
'Americans' express their 'american' nature whereever they go, whatever they do, whenever they act.

The UN is normal to 'americanism'.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 09:56 | 3568742 Gavrikon
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Are you just retarded?

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:06 | 3568087 akak
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The open roadside is a Chinese Citizenism institution of defecation, of Chinese Citizenism citizens, for Chinese Citizenism citizens by Chinese Citizenism citizens.

Chinese Citizenism citizens express their eternal crapmongering nature wherever they decide to go, whatever they are doing, whenever they decide to squat.

Roadside squat-and-dump is normal to Chinese Citizenism citizens.

Alas, alas, world breeding ground of pandemics alas, just have to bear with the vile sight and abominable stench of it.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 20:22 | 3567308 ebworthen
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But they make such pretty speeches and lofty resolutions!

If the U.N. is disbanded anyone working there can find work as speech writers or doing press releases for Wall Street firms.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:50 | 3566902 groundedkiwi
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The UN was built on land donated by J D Rockefeller Jr
Just sayin.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 23:40 | 3567833 williambanzai7
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Mr JDR and his multinationalist Bilderberg friends have provided the UN with lots more than just land and the UN has done likewise for them.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:42 | 3566870 shovelhead
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"Good jobs at good wages."

Anyone remember Mike 'Tank' Dukakis of Willie Horton fame?

Besides all that, the UN runs a pretty good sex slave business so it's not a total failure.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:37 | 3566849 no2foreclosures
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The fucking UN is owned by the US.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 03:34 | 3568073 AnAnonymous
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The fucking UN is owned by the US.
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Absolutely. The 'american' ganglord, the US, runs the place.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:07 | 3568297 W T F II
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Their 'officials' parking anywhere they want in crowded Manhattan PROVES the U.S. 'owns it'...!!

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:02 | 3568086 akak
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AnusAnomalous, I would love to hear from you about the faults, failings and crimes of the government and society of the (so-called) People's Republic of China --- you know, the current #1 parangongs of world resource blobbing-up and dictatorial, anti-democratic autocracy.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 21:01 | 3567401 Element
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If the UN had any ethics at all it'd abandon New York on the grounds that the US Govt is the worst offender, on a long list. But as you say, that's where the tit is, so that's where they suck. Good doggy! Can I start a war now?

World Peace ... it's complicated ...

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:24 | 3566760 Hobbleknee
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I remember the tsunami in 2004.  When the giant UN transport planes landed, a month too late, out came a bunch of Land Cruisers, instead of much needed food and supplies. 

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:22 | 3566753 kchrisc
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Ah the UN; shit frosting on the shit cake of national governments.             hujel

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:20 | 3566738 Stuck on Zero
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Yeah.  But the UN supports tens of thousands of bureaucrats and thousands of junkets.  It also gives a place for people like Hugo Chavez a place to pound his chest.

 

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 08:32 | 3568362 no2foreclosures
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It also gives a place for people like . . . the Great Satan . . . to emit sulphur!

Come on and admit it, that was one of the greatest speeches at the UN!

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 18:21 | 3566734 bank guy in Brussels
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And in European McDonald's and similar fast food places, like Belgium's nice 'Quick' outlets, you can buy beer.*

Quite right about destructive multi-national organisations ... stealing from low-income taxpayers in rich countries to give fat salaries and 'adventures' to staff, and enrich various corrupt figures.

And the United Nations, and World Bank, and IMF, have all been tools of the American-led criminal cabal.

Great colossal piece on ZeroHedge last week, making use of reports from the 'Tax Justice Network' in the UK, showing how the corruption in the developing world, aided and abetted by the banksters of the developed world, is really their core problem

With literally TRILLIONS siphoned out of these poor countries and their economies, propping up Western banks. From the ZeroHedge article:

« key developing countries - are not debtors at all: they are net lenders, to the tune of $10.1 to $13.1 trillion at end-­2010  ...

While many of their public sectors were borrowing themselves into bankruptcy, enduring agonizing "structural adjustment" and low growth, and holding fire sales of public assets. ...

The problem here is that the assets of these countries are held by a small number of wealthy individuals while the debts are shouldered by the ordinary people of these countries through their governments. ...

These private unrecorded offshore assets and the public debts are intimately linked ... unrecorded capital outflows ... positively correlated with a surge in First World loans to developing countries: much of this borrowing left these countries under the table within months, and even weeks, of being disbursed. ...

Today, local elites continue to "vote with their financial feet" while their public sectors borrow heavily abroad - but it is First World countries that are doing most of the borrowing. It is these frequently heavily indebted source countries and their elites that have become their financiers. In terms of tackling poverty, it is hard to imagine a more pressing global issue to address.  »

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-05-07/real-cypriot-blueprint-how-conf...

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* In Belgium, beer is also available in vending machines ... drinking age is 16 here for beer and wine, and we essentially don't have any problems ... children grow up sipping wine with their parents here ... getting drunk is looked at here as being a dumbass, even by teenagers ... hilarious and Taliban-like to us that some backward countries have age 21 as when you can legally drink !

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 22:21 | 3567644 jwoop66
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Maybe your crowd looks at getting drunk as stupid, but I have seen more than a handfull of drunken, obnoxious europeans in my life.    Of course, they were all much smarter than I am(of course, they were european); and they let me know it as often as possible it seems, but obnoxious drunks nonetheless.

Wed, 05/15/2013 - 20:34 | 3567336 hedge your future
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+1. Great comment. Even though the EU resembles more and more to the US corrupt-like nature, I would still take the living standards and common sense of the people here over those of the US without any doubt. I've been to the US twice (as a student, mind you, so more "open-minded" than you'd think), but honestly I was shocked by how some people I met were so unbelievably stupid. 

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 03:40 | 3568077 AnAnonymous
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Even though the EU resembles more and more to the US corrupt-like nature, I would still take the living standards and common sense of the people here over those of the US without any doubt.
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For a reminder, Europe is the place 'americans' elected to be run under the train.

Servants to their masters, the 'american' middle class, have figured no other way out but to sacrifice one part of the 'american' middle class in order for the rest to endure.

Of course, a high concentration of middle class is to be found in 'american' nations first.

Calling to live in Europe and not the US is like calling to live on the target of a carpet bombing instead of taking a seat in the bomber.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 09:55 | 3568735 Gavrikon
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You need a better translation program because your gibberish means nothing.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 03:53 | 3568083 TheFourthStooge-ing
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AnAnonymous, vomiting the same old propagandic diarrhea:

For a reminder, Europe is the place 'americans' elected to be run under the train.

Nice narrative, supported by no evidence. This guy has no past, no records, only propagandists weave webs of alleged motives.

Servants to their masters, the 'american' middle class, have figured no other way out but to sacrifice one part of the 'american' middle class in order for the rest to endure.

That is not even propaganda. That is fantasy. Fantasy world.

Calling to live in Europe and not the US is like calling to live on the target of a carpet bombing instead of taking a seat in the bomber.

Sure, sure. Refering to a hypothetical event to happen in the future according to your own crystal ball to justify a current course of actions.

So in present times, why so cheap propaganda? Please explain.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:13 | 3568093 akak
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Very poor quality of AnusAnomalous' propaganda is only a reflection of the average quality of all crappy and poorly-made cheap Chinese goods (which are really bads).

When melamine is added to dog food, and lead to dolls, and armadas of river pigs effluviate on glorious frothy wates of Yangtze River of fabled Chinese communaughty present, you were perhaps expecting something more?

Alas, alas, can no longer make me laugh alas, Chinese Citizenism propaganda bits are dry and stale. 

It's a Chinese Citizenism-made world.  Get used to it breaking down.

Thu, 05/16/2013 - 04:29 | 3568103 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Very poor quality of AnusAnomalous' propaganda is only a reflection of the average quality of all crappy and poorly-made cheap Chinese goods (which are really bads).

Indeed the muchso. The quality of AnAnonymist Chinese citizenism propaganda is grown to very lacking and mouldy, with odourous stench and affront to olfactory.

When melamine is added to dog food, and lead to dolls, and armadas of river pigs effluviate on glorious frothy wates of Yangtze River of fabled Chinese communaughty present, you were perhaps expecting something more?

Expectations on Chinese Citizenism Communautist Party Ministry of Truth lackeys like AnAnonymous must be grossly small, like a juniour sized Jissbom. Somehow it is very zero.

Alas, alas, can no longer make me laugh alas, Chinese Citizenism propaganda bits are dry and stale.

Full crustiness has manifestered.

It's a Chinese Citizenism-made world.  Get used to it breaking down.

In a Chinese citizenism world odor, good luck effecting roadside repairs, you'll see.

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