Australian Housing Market Facing ‘Bloodbath’ Collapse?

(Heath Aston’s article from the SYDNEY MORNING HERALD on 22 June 2015.)

The Australian real estate market is in the grip of the biggest housing bubble in the nation's history and Melbourne will be at the epicentre of an historic "bloodbath" when it bursts, according to two housing economists

A bloodbath in the housing market, however, appears a near certainty due to the magnitude of falls required for housing prices to again reflect economic fundamentals. Lindsay David and Philip Soos, who have written books on the overheated housing market, have berated the housing industry and politicians who refuse to acknowledge the existence of a bubble due to a perceived shortage of housing in the major capitals.

Two housing economists say Australia is experiencing a housing bubble. In a blunt submission to the upcoming parliamentary inquiry into home ownership, the pair claim there is actually an oversupply of housing, just as there was in the US before the market collapse that precipitated the global financial crisis.

Why iPhones Are Made In China, Not In US of A?

(“How the US Lost Out on iPhone Work” from NEW YORK TIMES on 21June 2012.)

When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California last February, each guest was asked to come with a question for the president. But as Steven P. Jobs of Apple spoke, President Obama interrupted with an inquiry of his own: what would it take to make iPhones in the United States?

Not long ago, Apple boasted that its products were made in America. Today, few are. Almost all of the 70 million iPhones, 30 million iPads and 59 million other products Apple sold last year were manufactured overseas. Why can’t that work come home? Mr. Obama asked.

Mr. Jobs’s reply was unambiguous. “Those jobs aren’t coming back,” he said, according to another dinner guest. The president’s question touched upon a central conviction at Apple. It isn’t just that workers are cheaper abroad. Rather, Apple’s executives believe the vast scale of overseas factories as well as the flexibility, diligence and industrial skills of foreign workers have so outpaced their American counterparts that “Made in the U.S.A.” is no longer a viable option for most Apple products.

UK Home Office Unveils New Anti-Islamist Policy

(News article direct from the RT on 11 March 2015.)

No travel, no Sharia, no citizenship: UK Home Office unveils tough anti-Islamist strategy. A new government anti-extremist strategy will ban thousands of Britons from travelling to conflict zones, target Sharia courts, and make it harder to obtain citizenship. The reforms come alongside news that 320 ISIS fighters have returned to the UK.

“In the past, there has been a risk that the Government sends an ambivalent and dangerous message – that it doesn’t really matter if you don’t believe in democracy,” says the text of the leaked Home Office-authored draft document, quoted in the Telegraph. “We need to stand up and be more assertive in promoting our values and challenging the extremists who fundamentally oppose them.”

The strategy is expected to be made public in the coming weeks, and will become effective as soon as it is rubberstamped by the government. It represents a fundamental retrenchment against Islamists – both, those at home, and potential recruits for international terrorist conflicts abroad.

Repeatedly mentioning “British values,” it contains a foreword by Conservative Home Secretary Theresa May, and is a culmination of her campaign to “undermine and eliminate extremism in all its forms,” which resulted in tough new legislation being passed in Parliament last November.

Muslim Refugee Plowed SUV Into Austrian Crowd

(Daniel Greenfield’s article from the FRONTPAGE on 21 June 2015.)

Bosnian  Muslim terrorist Alen Rizvanovi and his wife?

BOSNIAN MUSLIM refugee, Alen Rizvanovi, who ran down and killed several people in Austria’s second largest city GRAZ yesterday, allegedly was a fan of violent jihad and terrorism supporters.

A four-year-old boy is reported to be one of three people killed after an SUV ploughed into a crowd of people in Graz, Austria. Another 34 people were injured in the attack, with six - including two children - said to be in a serious condition.

Eyewitnesses say the driver rammed into crowds at up to 90mph before he got out and began randomly stabbing bystanders, which included the elderly and policemen. The three victims killed in the attack have been described as a 28-year-old Austrian man, a 25-year-old woman and a four-year-old boy. The woman and boy were both killed as the driver ploughed through crowds on the main Herrengasse shopping street before reaching the city's main square.

Muslim Fathers Killing Their Young American Daughters

(News article direct from the YAHOO7NEWS published on 19 June 2015.)

Sarah and Amina Said: Honor Killing victims.

Sarah Said, 17, and her sister Amina Said, 18, were found shot 11 times in the back of their father’s taxi, abandoned in a hotel car park in the US. The last words from Sarah were “Oh my God, I’m dying". Then the 911 emergency operator heard a barrage of gunshots. Two girls murdered in taxi were 'honour killings'.

The chilling emergency call opens the documentary The Price of Honor, which recounts the lives of two vivacious American teenagers growing up in the Dallas suburb of Irving, Texas, and their attempts to escape the grip of an Egyptian Muslim father who planned Muslim marriages. Their father Yaser Said has not been found since that New Year’s Day seven years ago when he told his daughters to climb into his cab, he was taking them out to dinner.

Their deaths were honor killings, said Ruth Trotter - a phrase little heard in the United States for a hidden horror of murder by a close relative to protect the family name, but rarely recognised by public safety officials. Amina was secretly dating Trotter's son, Joseph, and Sarah had a boyfriend too, facts they tried to hide from their father.

Dr. Wafa Sultan: The Brave Muslim & Anti-Islam Warrior

(A Syrian Muslim now educating the world about the truly barbaric nature of Islam.)

Dr. Wafa Sultan was born in Syria in 1957, in the small city of Banias on the Mediterranean coast. She graduated from Aleppo University medical school in 1981, and practiced medicine in Syria until emigrating to the U.S. in 1989 with her husband and three children.

Since 9/11, Syrian-American thinker and writer Dr. Wafa Sultan has become known for her participation in Middle East political debate. Her essays, have been widely circulated, and she has made a number of notable television appearances on Al-Jazeera, CNN, and FOX News. Her name appears often in Arabic-language newspapers and websites.

She strongly believes that Islam was created to serve that paedophile-rapist and genocidal mass-murderer Mohammad and legitimize his unnatural carnal desires. 

Dr. Sultan's public criticism of militant Islam sparked much debate, but it was Dr. Sultan's February 21, 2006 appearance on Al-Jazeera, which was recorded, translated, and distributed by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), that brought her name to the West. According to MEMRI, to date that single clip has been viewed - on the MEMRI website alone - over eight million times.

Breaking Up Burma: US Plan To Carve Out Asian Kosovo

(Andrew Korybko’s excellent article from The GLOBAL RESEARCH on 10 June 2015.)

Future Asian Kosovo according to US.

Russian security and intelligence expert Andrew Korybko has explained in following article how destabilization in Myanmar could be exploited by the global bogeyman United States to tempt China into a conventional intervention, which is certainly probable, but it could also be used to destabilize it by other means as well.

A return to full-scale warfare could lead to a humanitarian crisis in Yunnan with hundreds of thousands of refugees flooding into the province. Limited fighting between the Myanmar government and Kokang rebels earlier this year created a minor international sensation when anunexpected number of people fled to China, some of whom were supposedly turned back.

The People’s Republic of China has reportedly had difficulty accommodating the refugees, demonstrating that it was relatively unprepared for the situation. One should understand that the fighting which prompted the humanitarian exodus was relatively small scale and of minor intensity, and that any real resumption of ethnic warfare along the entire Myanmar-China border would dwarf the earlier refugee crisis and create severe challenges for Beijing.

His article described in details the United States’s grand plan to carve out a South Asian Kosovo from Burma’s Arakan for so-called Rohingya or illegal Bengali-Muslims from Bangladesh and eventually initiate the United Nations-sponsored mass relocation of millions and millions of starving Bangladeshi-Muslims from the population-exploding and rapidly-sinking Bangladesh into Buddhist Burma.

Fake Buddhist Monks Terrorising New Yorkers

(News article direct from the New York Post on 14 June 2015.)

Fake Buddhist monks begging in New York City.

Fake Buddhist monks are the new squeegee men of New York? They’re holy terrors. Bands of beggars dressed like Buddhist monks have invaded the High Line and other city parks, demanding upwards of $40 from tourists — and officials are fed up.

One High Line visitor handed over $5 last week, but it wasn’t good enough. “He tried to get $20,” she told The Post. Another monk’s zen demeanor dissolved after he got just a buck in exchange for the cheap plastic bracelet he proffered. “Five dollar, five dollar,” he demanded. He would not explain what the money was used for.

The behavior of the phony ­Himalayan holy men has been anything but heavenly in Bryant Park. One was spotted last week swiping a plastic water bottle from a clueless sidewalk vendor. Other faux friars were spotted on smoking breaks, trying to hide the unchaste behavior near a subway entrance. Two napped on library ledges.

Latin Americanization Of Racial Stratification in USA

(Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s research paper from the SPRINGER on 13 January 2014.)

(Abstract) Aside from what exists in the U.S. there is another layer of complexity in Latin American racial stratification systems. They include three racial strata, which are internally designated by “color.” In addition to skin tone, phenotype, hair texture, eye color, culture, education, and class matter is the phenomenon known as pigmentocracy, or colorism.

Pigmentocracy has been central to the maintenance of White power in Latin America because it has fostered:

(a) divisions among all those in secondary racial strata;

(b) divisions within racial strata limiting the likelihood of within-strata unity;

(c) mobility viewed as individual and conditional upon “whitening;” and

(d) white elites being regarded as legitimate representatives of the “nation” even though they do not look like the average member of the “nation.”

A related dynamic in Latin American stratification is the social practice of “Blanqueamiento,” or whitening, not a neutral mixture but a hierarchical movement wherein valuable movement is upward. Racial mixing oriented by the goal of whitening shows the effectiveness of the logic of White supremacy.