First a disclaimer for those people who read English in Chinese. This is not in any way, shape or form a commentary on anything but reality and logic. No inference to religion, superstition, race, ethnicity or creed is made, intended, meant or implied.

Now to the meat.

Does anyone really believe that the attack on the twin towers on 9/11 was not as a direct result of American support for Israel? Does anyone really believe that the unrest in the Middle East is not a result of Israel occupying Palestinian lands? Does anyone really believe that this turmoil is going to go away anytime soon?

When a sixty year old state is enforced on a people, and land that they have lived on and farmed for millennia is taken by force, do you really expect them to say thanks.

The sad reality is that as long as Israel is occupying Palestinian land there will be unrest. For as long as Israel sees only force as a suitable means of achieving a settlement there will be no agreement.

For as long as the US government sees fit to place the rights of Israel above the rights of the Palestinian people and back this support to the tune of billons every year Israel will have no motivation to work with its neighbors.

Israel is the de facto 51st state of the Union and when you are at war with one state you are at war with every state in that country. This is why the Arab people see the ordinary average American citizen as the enemy.

The solution is simple; recognize the right of the Palestinian people to exist. Return their lands or make adequate financial settlements to those who wish to settle. Make all people who live within the borders of Israel citizens with full voting rights. Accept the result of the ballot. After all if apartheid was wrong in South Africa why is it right in Israel?

The fact that the native people eventually won out in South Africa was and is a victory for the moral courage of governments and peoples who rejected the tyranny of apartheid in South Africa but stands as an indictment of those same states and peoples who stand idly by in the face of apartheid in Israel.

Who’s Your Daddy?

So I’m driving in the car with my grandpa and the navigation device is telling us where we are and I’m wondering if this is gonna be like the cell phone addiction that turned us into friendless fiends without its address book..

Do you remember a time when you knew everyone’s phone number by memory, now if you don’t have the cell you can’t even call home cause you actually don’t know your own home phone number. We have become dependant on the cell for contact with our friends and business associated. Without the cell phone address book we are lost.

So I’m wondering how long it will be before we don’t know the way to all the places we constantly visit without the satellite navigation devise telling us how to get there. It’s a scary thought but we are fast becoming a people tied to a grid that will control our total existence. An even scarier thought is that we have no control whatsoever over the grid.

Then an even scarier thought started peeping its head above the parapet that separates reality from everyday fog. There was a time when people didn’t depend on a job. Now people are terrified of losing something that only 200 years ago was as abnormal as not having a cell phone is today and not knowing your way to the grocery store will be tomorrow. Most people who lose their job are lost and terrified and the terrible truth is that that is how it was designed to be.

We where designed by the great one to be masters of the universe and if not the universe then definitely this planet. Top of the food chain second to none lost in the oblivion of high tech and fear.

Did you know that the hardest thing for the early factory owners to do was keep the workers at their station? Two to three hundred years ago people where so accustomed to personal freedom that they came and went as they pleased. Now we clock in and clock out and dare not discommode our “owner” sorry boss for fear we lose our job and thereby our means of existence.

It’s fear and only fear that scares us. The actual truth is that other than fear we are a fearless breed. The absolute truth is that humans are afraid of nothing, not polar bears, not dragons, nothing.

The only thing that scares us is fear. Here we are huddled around the camp fire scared out of our wits by the old guy telling ghost stories. Now none of us has ever seen a ghost ghoul or monster but we are still half scared to death.

Tomorrow come sun up we will go out and stalk saber toothed tigers and maybe a few tyrannosaurus rex but tonight we are terrified of the unknown and it never dawns on us that the very reason that it is called the unknown is because it doesn’t exist.

We are afraid of nothing so to control us our masters conjure up fears to keep us in line. Our masters you see are afraid of something, they are afraid of us. The only thing that keeps them dining at the top table and living in the big house is their ability to tell ghost stories and keep us in line. They know that there is nothing as scary as an angry human on the hunt and if the word ever got out that they have been tricking us into submission for all these years then perhaps there would be hell if not a guillotine to pay.

But they almost have us where they want us, tied to dependence on technology to which they hold sway over the switch. There will be no need for ghost stories just the threat of cutting power to our grid and leaving us lost in our own backyard without access to our own home phone number to call home will be enough to ensure cooperation. Kind of like induced alzheimer’s.

The road to the future looks bleak.

Don’t you think that it’s a little funny that both the Federal Reserve System and income tax as we now know it came into being in the same year 1913?

Prior to the landmark year of 1913 the Supreme Court had found income tax to be unconstitutional and numerous attempts to control the US currency by a non government bodies had been defeated.

However the circumventing of the ruling of the Supreme Court that income tax is/was unconstitutional was as easy as the 16th amendment to the continuation. Now the fact that the founding fathers designed the constitution to ensure that the problems that had plagued Europe did not take root in America was overlooked by politicians who knew that money always wins out over notions like free men and the aspiration like of equality.

The same government that voted to amend the constitution to legalize income tax also ratified the legislation that gave birth to the Federal Reserve System.

The Federal Reserve System is not, repeat is not a federal institution. It is not a part of the US government. It is a private for profit body.

So in 1913 both the Federal Reserve System and income taxes come into being and the American people will forever pay.

The Federal Reserve has no reserves. It creates money based on the promise of the US treasury (which is a government body) to repay. The dollar bill in your wallet is a promissory note signed by the US people and backed by their income taxes.

The system operates thus:

The United States Government creates a bond for say 10 billion dollars at an interest rate of 6%.
The Federal Reserve creates 10 billion dollars out of thin air and gives it to the US government.
The Us Government pays interest at 6% to the Federal Reserve System for money that it created out of nothing.
The Internal Revenue Service (a US Government body) collects income taxes and the Treasury (another US Government Body)pays it to the Federal Reserve System as interest on the money it created out of thin air and gave to the government.

Now if the Federal Reserve System as the Founding Fathers and the original constitution decrees where not in the picture the system would operate thus:

The Us Government would issue 10 billion dollars and lend it to itself at zero% interest.
Note: There would probably be no need for the US government to have actually created the 10 billion in the first place because the economy would be booming. Why! Because the ordinary citizens would be on a spending spree spending the money that they now pay in income taxes to fund the interest being paid to the Federal Reserve System for the money that they didn’t have but never the less lent to the US Government. The Federal Reserve System is a truly magical organization which creates money from nothing by the stroke of a pen and the gullibility of the average man.

The only problem with this scenario is that the Rothschild’s and their protégé would be as mad as a bear without honey. Do I care?

Politics is the art of keeping people with money happy by doing exactly what the want while at the same time deluding everyone else into believing that you are doing the very best you can for them.

Just like juggling politics becomes very easy once you train yourself to look at people as objects to be manipulated and managed in any fashion that suits your act. In the political juggling world the proletariat are juggled while the bourgeoisie who are the audience watch the show.

The fact that the average person dearly wants to believe that they matter is also very helpful. This produces the very useful syndrome of compliance sometimes referred to as patriotism. This allows the politician to err so much on the side of wealth and keep the rest of us in line with rhetoric like freedom, American dream, democracy and constitution.

Democracy is always one that cracks me up, did someone say government of the people by the people. It takes like $200 million to be elected president and the masses swallow this one. Democracy 2000 style is government of the people by the wealthy or the candidate bought and paid for by the wealthy. You as a citizen get to vote for whoever your betters decide to put on the ballot.

Then there is the all time winner freedom. The only freedom in philosophical terms is death. This translates into if you are prepared to die then you can do what you want.
In our society freedom translates into you are free to do as you are let. For those who take freedom literally we have a place called jail.

The constitution is the foundation of the state. It is like a blueprint on which the future state would be built. Foundations are not meant to be changed, if you try altering the foundation of a high rise building chances are that it will collapse and at the moment America certainly is wobbling. True our foundation is not changed all that often. But when it is changed it is always to the detriment of the masses and for the benefit of capital.

So if the American dream is wealth based, is it not fair to say that the average American is experiencing a nightmare.

The reality of capital is that for it to be any good you need a lot of it. Therefore a capitalistic system must be designed to allow individuals to gather vast amounts of capital. The result of this imbalance is naturally that vast amounts of US citizens must have very little capital. In typical pyramid fashion the vast masses of poor support the very few wealthy.

This is allowed to happen because people are stupid and would believe any cock and bull story fed to them by people who they dearly want to believe have their best interests at heart. Most people are still looking for a mummy and daddy to take care of them.

Wake up dude the coffee is ready. The American dream is for the few but we do have a perfectly good nightmare for you.

What is it to be human? What is this quality that raises us above our animal nature to be bold enough to consider ourselves other than mere mortal beings?

To think, to plan, to construct, to use tools, merely sets us apart on an intelligence level. Most animals could just as easily evolve to a level where they could also use tools and plan, in fact at the moment some already do. Think killer whales and ants.

The quality that is humanness is not linked to intelligence or even spirituality which is merely a form of superstition. The quality that defines humanness is the ability to be aware of the existence of feelings in other living creatures. Compassion is an expression of the human quality as is pity and that higher form of love. Love at the consciousness level of the average human is actually a threat. I will love you if you please me. Wasn’t it Jesus who said love your enemy. Our remedy for enemies is nuclear bombs.

Just because you stand upright on two legs and appear to be a member of the animal species that is alluded to as human doesn’t in any shape or form necessitate that you possess a shred of humanity in your being. The sad reality of life in 2009 is that most humans are merely animals, very intelligent animals, but animals no less. In fact some other species might object to being grouped with humans.

And perhaps that is how it is supposed to be. After all who am I to argue with the perfectness of creation? But don’t you have to believe that the world that we all must share would be a far better place if everyone who had the audacity to refer to themselves as human beings actually acted like they where in fact something other than a very intelligent animal intent only on achieving their selfish goals regardless of the effects of their behavior on others.

The perquisite quality of an animal, the quality has that ensured its survival over the ages is a singular focus on the needs of its personal existence. Doesn’t that include you.

The supposed demarcation line that separates human beings from the rest of the animal kingdom is merely delusion.

The old adage is that if it looks like #$%^ and smells like #$%^ then for all intents and purposes it is #$%^. In the human equation this translates into if you act like an animal and have the soul of an animal then for all intents and purposes you are in fact an animal.

So if the cap fits wear it.

Tags: human quality, humanity, humanness

If some genius had not invented crack cocaine (for his/her own financial gain) then how many peoples lives do you think would be messed up by this particularly nasty drug. The short answer is none.

Continuing on this line of reasoning if the financial geniuses who rule the economy hadn’t dreamt up and made available the mortgage schemes that led to the “Sub Prime Bust” there would quite simply be no sub prime bust.

So Joe Wall street for his/her own financial gain invented the monster that is “MERS” or Mortgage Electronic Registration System which allowed the packaging of financial instruments for sale as mortgage backed securities.

This is the technical part which you can skip if it is threatening a migraine.

A home loan comprises of two distinct documents.

1. A note which is basically an IOU which states that the borrower owes the lender the loan amount to be repaid over a certain period of time at a certain interest rate.
2. A mortgage which lays out the remedies available to the note holder in the event of the terms of the note being defaulted on by the borrower. It is the mortgage which makes foreclosure possible.

The financial crack cocaine is to separate the mortgage from the note. The note is then packaged with many other similar notes and sold to investors as mortgage backed security instruments.

The mortgages are warehoused by MERS and assigned to it’s member banks as service contracts. The bank masquerades as the lender, sends out mortgage statements and collects a percentage of every mortgage payment for its troubles. The fact that some town in Iceland holds the note as part of a mortgage backed security instrument and is therefore in fact the lender is/was never disclosed.

This great plan like all great plans before it however had its own particular Achilles heel. The free flowing funds afforded by the sale of mortgage backed instruments securities reentering an already overheated housing market caused that price of houses to escalate out of control guaranteeing the implosion that we are now experiencing.

But as with crack cocaine, society perceived the guilty as the addicted and the homeowner who were sucked in. The perpetrators with their well lined bank accounts remain free and respected due to our fascination with monetary success and our willingness to raise capital onto a podium to be adored. Truly if there is a god in the realms of capitalism he is green and shaped like a dollar bill.

So the poor suffer at the hands of their fellow poor and the greedy are rewarded by a fawning poor who have elevated them to role model in the pursuit of the American Nightmare.

But will this story have a sting in its tail. If the bankers through bribery, sorry lobbying cannot control your elected official and the judges appointed by your elected officials then there just might be a sting of cataclysmic proportions to follow.

The sting.

In almost every foreclosure prosecuted in the last 10 years the defendant was stated as the homeowner and the plaintiff as the assigned mortgage holder. Remember that the lender or note holder is the Town in Iceland or the Plumbers Union Retirement Fund. The mortgage holder is merely acting as their servicing agent, collection monthly payments and administering tax and insurance escrow funds for a percentage fee.

This would appear to be the correct procedural method until we remove our heads from the dark place where they have resided for such a long time.

But and this is a very large but indeed, the mortgage holder is not, was not, and never will be the note holder. It’s like proclaiming the electrician owner of your house just because he fixed your lights.

Correct procedure is that the injured party, the lender, the note holder, the plumbers union should be named as plaintiff. If justice is to be observed then every foreclosure that was carried out without the note holder being names as plaintiff should be declared fraudulent and the foreclosed homeowner compensated for the injustices committed against him/her.

However as already stated this most probably won’t occur as the folks who administer the laws of the land are totally and completely subservient to capital. Put another way we are all slaves to master dollar, and seeing as the dollar itself hold no prejudice it turns out that we are owned by the few who control the dollar.

Hey Mr. Obama it’s come down to this:

Are you going to stand and fight with the $10 dollar face book donation folk that got you elected or are you going to cave in to corporate america (purposely lower case).

It is becoming obvious that capitalism is dating extinction and without your involvement so is this once great country.

An Immigrant.

So a totally right wing government in a totally right capitalistic country destroys the economy of the western world and the reaction of the voters in recent European elections is to vote right wing candidates into office. This is probably reason enough to limit voting rights to people who can display basic intelligence and a minimal understanding of economics and politics.

However I guess that for the time being that we are stuck with the present system.

Just a thought but if the NFL was run by the same rules as the economy then the team that wins the super bowl would get the first 20 picks in the draft. The team that finished second would get the next 10 picks. The third team would get 1 pick and the final pick would be raffled off by the national lottery to the other 29 teams.

It appears that man as a dominant species has been around for 5 to 10 thousand years; capitalism on the other hand has been the chosen game for around 300 years. My guess is that it won’t be around in another 100 years. It doesn’t work, and for a system that doesn’t work to be allowed to continue requires the consent of the ordinary people. The very people who are suffering more at the hands of capitalism than they ever did under a monarchy are the ones who are supporting it. And just like Marie Antoinette and the guillotine when the base of the pyramid gets tired of supporting the pin point at the top heads will once again roll.

Why would anyone want to support a system that virtually enslaves them and their children to a life of service bound by the chains of debt and credit? The reason is that like the voters in Europe most people are naïve to the point of stupidity when it comes to understanding anything that strays from a 2 minute fox news report or who should win the biggest loser. Perhaps the main reason America is so uninformed is the excuse for a news media that reports on a cat being rescued from a tree on the same day that the deaths of 4 soldiers go unreported. Now if there is one thing I know it is cats and believe me no cat needs to be rescues from a tree. However the failure to report matters that affect the consciousness of a nation is bordering on conspiracy.

So how many people actually believe that Barrack Obama runs America or for that matter that the prime minister of Great Britain runs Great Britain. America and Great Britain being capitalistic countries are actually run by capital. Now I don’t pretend to mean that a fifty dollar bill is sitting in the oval office calling the shots but that is not far off the mark. The people who control the capital control the government which in turn controls the citizenry for them.

When I talk of capital I am not talking of some guy with 100 million in the bank. That kind of money makes you comfortable but won’t get you an invite to the room where the players meet to decide what the government should do next.

As previously mentioned society works on the pyramid principle. The people, who call the shots, sit on the pin point at the top, and the rest of us support them. The guy with 100 million is located comfortably above the middle. The vast masses fill the bottom portion.

If one was to look back at the typical American “middle class family” of the fifties you would find that one bread winner with a decent job supported a family, paid the mortgage and put the kids through school.

Today the same “middle class family” needs 2 bread winners and in most cases the male works 2 jobs to support a dwindling standard of living.

The great men who run our lives by controlling the purse strings decided that they could effect maximum control over the plebs by burying them in debt and the servitude required to service this debt. How did they accomplish this?

By inflation silly. They decided to increase the price of everything by lavishing credit on the proletariat and encouraging them to abandon all reason in search of the American dream. But as any fish swimming in hot oil in a frying pan will tell you the bait was not intended to be a free meal. If you care to look carefully before you dine the hook has other plans for you.

So the Average Joe ventured out in search of the American dream with funds borrowed from the fisherman capitalist, who incidentally created these funds from nothing. Yes you guessed right again, the people at the top of the capitalism food chain are magicians and they have discovered the secrets of alchemy or how to turn scrap paper into gold merely by having the Government of the day back it with the taxpayers tax receipts.

It really is amazing that someone would have the gall to create something out of nothing. Then lend this nothing something to Joe the Plumber to overpay for a house or car, and justify the madness by calling it the market and as we all know the market never lies.

So the Joe the Plumbers of the world succeed in driving the price of homes from affordable by one bread winner 1950 prices to implode the worlds economy 2008 prices and hey presto we have an economic tsunami of massive proportions. But fear not for this was all part of the plan. As written in a previous article a recession is when capital harvests the fruits of the middle classes. So the downturn for most of us is actually the harvest for the magicians who created Camelot with the stroke of Merlin’s pen and the complicity of presidents, the senate and congress.

As a great man once said and I quote: “He who controls the money supply of a nation controls the nation.”

Also it should be noted that in today’s globalization that he who controls capital controls the globe. So forget about presidents and kings who ruled a piece of land. The magicians rule the world with the complicity of politicians elected to serve the people.

Does anyone really think that anyone could be elected to office if capital decided against it? Capital owns the media both electronic and print. Oh and by the way do you really believe that Obama got elected by $10 donations collected from you tube and face book.

It really is simple you are a cog in a system. The fruits of your labor are not intended to be enjoyed by you; they are earmarked for the magicians who discovered the secrets of creating gold out of the illusion of stability.

Society is the largest zoo ever built. For the illusion of safety the vast majority of people surrender their basic freedoms to their keepers. That’s why outside of the family dog the only place you will ever find a depressed animal is in the city zoo. They are safe but at what a price.

As a closing point for the average Joe/Jane who believes that he/she lives in the bastion of freedom. Try exercising freedom sometime and you will quickly find that they have a place where they put people who took the freedom notion too far. They are called prisons.

You are free to do what you are let. Everything else is a crime.

Is Atheism a Religion?

The basic argument behind atheism is that there is not a single shred of evidence that a God exists, and that religion and God acceptance is nothing more than personal perspective, opinion or belief. It is worth noting that perspective, opinion and belief are merely different way of saying the same thing.

It is also worth noting that there is not a single shred of evidence that a God does not exist which puts atheism into the same category as religion, which is belief, perspective and opinion.

The only exact science when it comes to God or no God is that we haven’t got a clue. Which although appearing very inexact, is actually so to the point, that it is almost enlightening.

I don’t know do you is the mantra, which explodes the myths of perspective, opinion and belief, which incidentally when perused to their limits almost always turn out to be false.

And while we are on the “it is worth noting” trail: It is worth noting that another word for falsehood is lie.

So does the opinion that a God exists and a willingness to believe in a particular brand of God or religion actually translate to believing in a lie.

Likewise are the atheists who lay their bet on a no God bet also staking their truth on a lie?

Me personally I fall into the “I don’t know do you slot”.

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