An original translation by Nash Montana with much thanks!
From this German news site:
Monday evening towards 21:35 in an apartment in Senftenberg, a 31 year old man pushed his wife (27) out of the window of their 2nd floor apartment. The woman fell 8 meters to the ground.
She was still alive, but her husband went downstairs and cut her throat with a knife.
The man was apprehended by police shortly thereafter. Apparently the couple from Chechnya was loudly fighting before the murder. Allegedly the 27 year old woman was cheating on her husband with other men.
The couples five children were present in the apartment when it all happened. However, they were sleeping when the man pushed their mother out of the window.
First there was talk only of someone having fallen out of the window.
The asylum seeker from Chechnya has been arrested for manslaughter. The children have been taken in by a foster family.
Disclaimer: it was first reported that this incident took place at an asylum seeker home. But it happened in an apartment complex in which the asylum seeker family lived.
[Ed: Defenestration. Something civilized people do only when they switch from PC to Mac.]
Cultural Enrichment at its finest.
The removal, or “demonetization”, of large-denomination bills is an on-going leftist march to greater control of the population. Stealthily and with the aid of lies (fighting terrorism, crime, money laundering blah blah blah) the elimination of all cash by a War On Cash is the goal. This will allow government to control people via the electronic currencies that follow. It will allow them to continue their negative interest rate policies with ease (NIRP). It will allow them to tax nearly every transaction.
What right have they to do this, I ask? I pay my taxes. I work hard. After-tax dollars, particularly, are nobody’s business so long as one is law abiding. See India and see the west.
http://www.acting-man.com/?p=47842
I’m OT, but this seems important. Having read both parts of the article, plus an info qwiki elsewhere, I’m still in the dark. “Demonitization” – like Scandinavia, but in India? Throw 88% of your economy on the pyre? All too bizarre.
There was a very large amount of untaxed money being kept in cash by the people, this was a way to force the money out in the open. After a certain day the large bills would no longer be legal tender and the people hording them would be out of luck unless they cashed in the large bills for small bills or bought gold. Either transaction could be recorded and the people be forced to pay taxes on the money.
All of the ideas about of converting the worlds economy over to debit cards are based on shutting down the black market/underground economy. Doing the this the easy way of cutting taxes so people aren’t beggared by paying them never occurs to the left. Just as the fact that public works programs only stimulate a small portion of the economy never occurs to them.
I don’t like any part of this.
About 18 months ago my identity was stolen. I was spared much of the grief others report because my exposure was limited. I’ve never been entirely comfortable using a credit card, started only when it became absolutely necessary after college.
But when I tried to replace the stolen credit card [one card, ever and only], I saw my adult life flash before my eyes. Every purchase, every vacation, every medical expenditure itemized. It just gave me the creeps.
I’m not a drug dealer or a tax cheat. If I’m claiming a deductible expense (medical, charitable), ok. Recurrent expenses (rent, internet, utilities) are public anyway and payable by check. Everything else is private.
The vitamins I take, the books I buy, the donations I make. My age, politics, ugh – it isn’t Santa Claus checking out my wishlist.
Anything learned may be sold, stolen, used against me and/or against targets derived from information pilfered from me. Or, more likely, working back to me from surveillance of a more public person. Like Ezra Levant or The Baron.
Maybe this:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveforbes/2016/03/01/the-great-cash-grab/#6435c2f66dc4
The fact that this is true doesn’t mean what I said is false.
Destroying the underground economy has long been a dream of the big government, doing this by taking away cash gives the Bureaucrats more control over the population is a plus to them. The fact that this will destroy the worlds economy never occurs to the arrogant leftist who think they are capable of controlling the economy with its billions of factors affecting the raise and fall of the economy. The best any person or group of people can manage is to semi control a few factors that usually aren’t controlled at all.
Richard is right, Yucki, and I was a bit misleading I think. The Indian example is a brutal currency manipulation by an arrogant leadership. My western world reference is to say: just look at what they’re doing there and pay attention to what’s going on here! The removal of the $100 Bill from US circulation is being seriously considered. The idea is to gradually eliminate cash money and move us all into an electronic system. Many excuses for it but utter tyranny the way I see it. Another Keynesian trick to finance socialism.
I know it’s opaque and mind numbing. But you have to stick with it and it’ll sink in.
As I said in the other reply you are right but so am I.
I am worried about a lot of things in the future but the elimination of currency isn’t one of them, there is a big economic crash coming that has been caused by the leftist control of so many of the nations in the west. This crash will destroy most peoples confidence in the left and allow intelligent people/ adults to do the things that help, cut taxes, reduce government spending (except in defense), reduce the government payroll (this will be done slowly by encouraging retirement), and reduce government regulation.
There is a lot of speculation that Obama will try to crash the economy just before he leaves office. If he does this and succeeds this will bring down the entire worlds economy and the nations with rational people who will do the actions described above. When we are pulling out of the crisis while the nations following Keynes aren’t the ordinary people will decide that the left doesn’t know what it is talking about I hope.
I’m stuck at “underground economy”.
How about presumption of innocence? If a citizen is not under investigation for a specific crime, why is he being followed? Or followed by proxy, when it’s the money in his shoe that’s being followed? Under the ground or behind the barn, if there’s evidence of a crime sufficiently compelling to convince a judge, get a warrant.
“Speculative” surveillance is a hallmark of an unhealthy system. Not only does trolling constitute a massive invasion of privacy, it’s an expensive means of capturing irregular economic activity.
For each marginal dollar caught in the dragnet, the transaction expenses bloat government by multiples. The initiation of the “cashless-ness” or semi-demonetization is enormously costly. Then the watchers, the snitches, the penal infrastructure.
Gloss this mess with the socialist label – or Hindutva in India – and everybody’s in something like a union, collective bargaining is continuous and eternal. All the while you know you’re being watched, you get sneaky.
A productive economy – genuine value-added goods and services – with a spare, agile government can afford flexibility. There’s room for traditional barter sectors, for example, or privately financed alternative schools.
If the tax system is out of whack, tackle it directly. If it’s terrorism, ditto. Meanwhile I’m going to exchange the $100 bills in my mattress for $20s.