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| Greenspan: "Decide from Square One That You're Going to Do It Ethically" ... |
| 11.29.04 (12:31 am) [edit] |
Greenspan Told Student During Q&A Session That the Best Chance of Making Big Success Is to Decide from Square One That You're Going to Do It Ethically
NEW YORK, Jan. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan accepted the Enron Award for Distinguished Public Service last fall. During the question-and-answer session at the ceremony, Greenspan told a student who had asked how to succeed in this difficult job market, "The best chance you have of making a big success in this world is to decide from square one that you're going to do it ethically,"Newsweek reports in the current issue. The ceremony was held on Nov. 13, a few days after the energy company admitted that it had filed five years' worth of misleading financial reports. And it was three weeks after Greenspan had turned down a plea from Enron chairman Ken Lay to intervene with credit-rating agencies to help the stricken company survive, report Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff and Wall Street Editor Allan Sloan in the January 28 issue of Newsweek. Greenspan, through his spokesman, told Newsweek that he hadn't had Lay in mind when he gave that answer. Greenspan's press aide says he was at the ceremony because he had committed a year earlier to former Secretary of State Jim Baker to accept the honor. The James A. Baker Institute of Public Affairs awards the prize, which is funded by Enron.
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| Human Rights in the New World Order By Noam Chomsky |
| 11.28.04 (7:55 am) [edit] |
Once again an article which shows why people should care about Money and Investment if they want improvment in Human Rights.
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Human Rights in the New World Order
Speech delivered at Liberty's Human Rights Convention, Central Hall, Westminster, 16th June 1995
By Noam Chomsky
Exerpt from
yetilab.de/journal/wut/Chomsky-Ne wWorldOrder-06-95.html
http://www.yetilab.de/journal/wut/Chomsky-Ne wWorldOrder-06-95.html" title="http://www.yetilab.de/journal/wut/Chomsky-Ne wWorldOrder-06-95.html" target="_blank"http://www.yetilab.de/journal...
"To take the favourite example, instead of my picking an example, let's let the Clinton administration pick its example. Their example is Haiti. They now put that forth right now, as the prime example, I am quoting, of the "immense opportunities of the new world opening before us, as we consolidate the victory of democracy and markets". That is the National Security Advisor Anthony Lake, who is kind of the intellectual of the administration. speaking to the Council on Foreign Relations right after the American troops landed in the restored democracy.
I'll spare you the shameful history, including one of the prime examples of what is known technically as "Wilsonian idealism" - Wilson's murderous invasion of Haiti, which killed several thousand people, re-established slavery, established the rule of the National Guard to control the people, while turning the whole country into an American plantation, later into an export platform for assembly plants where workers, mostly women, try to survive on 5-10 cents an hour, working 12 hour days under impossibly miserable conditions. That is also what is called an economic miracle. In fact, during the 1980s, when this was going on, USAID described Haiti as becoming "the Taiwan of the Caribbean". Meanwhile real wages were dropping 50%. What was let of the agricultural system was being destroyed by the usual development policies, as they are called.
In fact everything was going just fine until 1990, when Washington committed a tactical error. They allowed a free election. The reason was that they were confident, as was everyone, that their own candidate, with enormous resources and so on - their candidate was Mark Bazin, a World Bank official - everybody assumed he would just walk away, win easily and continue with the economic miracle. Well, the problem is nobody was paying attention to what was going on in the hills where the peasants live and the slums of Port-au-Prince and so on. What was going on there was something pretty remarkable. The peasants in the hills and the slum dwellers had created a very vigorous and lively civil society, with grassroots movements and unions and all sorts of other things, and in fact it was powerful enough to sweep into office their own candidate, with an overwhelming majority, just shocking everybody. The standard line these days is that we have to go back to Haiti and teach them democracy, because these backward people don't understand it. Outside of a real commissar culture,9 anyone would just crack up with laughter watching this. We could go to Haiti and go up to the hills and learn something about democracy.
The US turned at once to undermining the elected Aristide government in every possible way to correct the error. Seven months later it was overthrown in a military coup. That set off three years of brutal terror. The Organisation of American States called an embargo. Washington at once undermined the embargo, namely by exempting US firms, saying they were doing this for the benefit of the people in Haiti. The only way to benefit the people of Haiti is to exempt the US firms from the embargo. The New York Times had an article where they described how they were "fine-tuning" the embargo, because of our human rights interests. So they exempted US firms. Trade in the first year of the military regime was not much below the norm. It increased 50% under Clinton, when he took over. The Bush and the Clinton administrations both informed the Texaco Oil Corporation that the US government would allow their illegal shipments of oil. They informed them that the shipments were illegal, but they said they could do it with impunity, because nobody would do anything about it. Oil is of course the major factor in an embargo. So the oil kept flowing happily to the junta and the rich coup supporters.
You could sort of see it but it was not known that it was authorised by the Bush and the Clinton administrations until Sunday, the day before the troops landed. There was a Justice Department leak of an inquiry into the authorisation. It was no secret. I was monitoring the AP wires that day, because it was obvious that something was going to happen in Haiti. That was when Jimmy Carter was there, meeting General Cedras and his "slim attractive wife" - I don't know if you have read all that stuff. But while this was going on, the Justice Department leaked the story. It was all over the AP wires. It was the main story of the day. It was impossible to miss. They kept repeating it, big story, never been any embargo, never been any sanctions. Both administrations had told the oil companies: you keep shipping oil illegally, we're not going to do anything about it.
I wrote an article the next day about Haiti, but my article was going to come out in six weeks or so. I wrote it in the past tense, as if everybody knew all this, because it was obviously the big story of the week. I was wrong. It was totally suppressed. On Monday, the day of the invasion, there was nothing. I got interested, so I did a databank search on it. On Tuesday, the second day, it hit a newspaper: Pratt's Oilgram, a professional journal of the oil industry, which reported it. On Wednesday, the next day, there were about ten lines somewhere in the Wall Street Journal totally obscure and meaningless, and it started to get into the small newspapers, like Dayton Ohio and things like that where the editors really aren't all that sophisticated and they don't quite understand what has to be suppressed. It has yet to make it to the New York Times and the Washington Post after months. Now, that was obviously the biggest story of the week, when the troops were landing. Biggest story of the week, big headline, any free press would have had a story saying: there never was an embargo, there never were sanctions, we're landing troops for some other reason. We'll wait a long time for that one.
By then the popular organisations had been pretty well decimated. The threat of democracy was removed. The US forces landed with a great fanfare.10 The killers and torturers were sent off to lives of luxury, courtesy of the American taxpayer - I guess their "slim, attractive wives" are fine. But Jimmy Carter doesn't seem to be getting his Nobel Prize11 - probably pretty upset about that. There was great self-adulation all over the place about how we were bringing democracy and freedom back to Haiti. However, there was much less attention - as far as I can determine flat zero attention - to the only important fact, namely that the United States had provided President Aristide with a very specific economic plan, which is public, you can read it if you can find it. The economic plan - here is the crucial passage of it, it says: "the renovated state must focus on an economic strategy centered on the energy and initiative of Civil Society, especially the private sector, both national and foreign". That means the core of Haitian civil society is US investors and the super rich coup supporters. That is Haitian civil society. They have to get the benefits of any foreign aid that is coming in, not the peasants in the hills and the people living in the miserable slums, who made the mistake of trying to enter the public arena.
Well, Haiti is back on track,10 following the principles of Washington and its defeated candidate, Mark Bazin, and it is well on its way to becoming an economic miracle in the usual sense once again."
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| What's really behind the "Free" Software Movement |
| 11.27.04 (6:17 am) [edit] |
In 1997 I read an interview of Giant Hardware SUN's CEO in a professional resellers magazine where he unveiled the company's goal: transforming the internet industry into a monopoly like in the telecom industry and for that he said that they would create a software deflation and he predicted that big software IT like Sema Group would disappear at term because they (SUN) would furnish directly online software through their communication pipelines.
What does it mean that they would create deflation ? It means that they would dump the value of software, it will decrease more and more in the future whereas the value of hardware and communication will increase. Of course at the beginning people will profit from that. They will even believe naively in a new world of freedom where people would be free from commercial monopoly. In truth the monopoly is just switching from one hand to another: from the software to the hardware industry.
The two big companies to support this movement are Sun and IBM. Do you frankly believe that IBM also do this for your eyes only :).
At term this means that it is no good to be a software engineer above all with the offshore trend. In fact it is predicted that 10 millions jobs would be lost in IT field in US in the coming 20 years due to this: this is just logical if software decrease value it's not worth anymore to pay people to do that kind job in US because it would be too costfull.
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| "I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is," Hubbard [1948] |
| 11.23.04 (11:11 pm) [edit] |
Type Drug Hubbard on Yahoo:
http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Drug" title="http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=Drug" target="_blank"http://search.yahoo.com/searc...+Hubbard&ei=UTF-8&fr=FP-t ab-web-t&fl=0&x=wrt
"Scientology Services: Solutions to the Drug Problem Describes Scientology drug handling programs offered by churches of Scientology and secular drug prevention and rehabilitation activities that use Scientology technology. ... Scientologists are drug-free and they know it is vital to handle the drug problem ... long-term effects of drug are truly effective. L. Ron Hubbard discovered that residues from"
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"Humanitarian - L. Ron Hubbard, A Profile
... Under the triple onslaught of drug abuse, criminality and declining morals much of this world has truly become ... early as 1950, L. Ron Hubbard began to search out a means"
How can such claims be authorised whereas Court has legally proved that Hubbard was a great Drug dealer and a satanic sexual ritual abuser (see below). And People are so gullible, with marketing and a great dose of humanitarian/religious facade it can bring a lot of money. I'm not baffling those who are really humanitarian or religious because I'm sure there are really but most people are incapable of distinguishing between the genuine and the false, the false will in fact simulate better than the genuine one. And that's also true of course in politics, in business, in stock market ... and in everyday's life.
From rickross.com/reference/scientology /Scien32.html
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Judge found Hubbard lied about achievements
Boston Herald/March 1, 1998
By Joseph Mallia
The Church of Scientology's late founder, Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, left behind a $ 640 million fortune, and an estimated 25 million words in books and lectures that form the spiritual core of his controversial religion.
But some of those words are a legacy of exaggerations, half-truths and outright lies, according to Hubbard's son, court records and critics.
"The organization clearly is schizophrenic and paranoid, and this bizarre combination seems to be reflective of its founder LRH," wrote California Superior Court Judge Paul Breckenridge during a top Scientology defector's court suit against the church.
"The evidence portrays a man who has been virtually a pathological liar when it comes to his history, background and achievements," said Breckenridge, who ruled for defector Gerry Armstrong in the 1984 case.
Some claims by L. Ron Hubbard are hard to refute, like his ideas about past lives. He said he was the reincarnation of Buddha, and of British adventurer Cecil Rhodes, the founder of the former Rhodesia.
Other assertions are transparent.
Hubbard - who died in 1986 - claimed to be a nuclear physicist who traveled into outer space without his body to explore the Earth's Van Allen radiation belt. But his two-year stay at George Washington University in 1931-32 shows that he flunked his only course in nuclear physics.
One of Hubbard's key declarations - that by mental powers alone he healed combat wounds he received as a World War II Navy hero - formed the basis of Scientology in the 1950s.
While recovering from war injuries, he "developed techniques which made possible not only his own recovery from injury, but helped other servicemen to regain their health," the Church of Scientology claims in a 1992 edition of Hubbard's book "Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health."
As a Navy lieutenant, Hubbard commanded at least three ships during the war, including one in the Atlantic - a converted fishing boat, the YP-422, refitted during several months in 1942-43 at the Boston Navy Yard, Navy records show.
In early Scientology biographies it was claimed that Hubbard fought German submarines in the Atlantic. And as recently as January, the Church of Scientology's official Internet site said Hubbard "saw action" in the North Atlantic during the war.
But, in an interview with the Herald, a sailor who served on Hubbard's ship contradicted that claim.
"The YP-422 never saw combat," said former Navy fireman Eugene LaMere, 78, an upstate New York native who now lives in Maryland.
The YP-422 was refitted as a freighter armed with only a 3-inch gun and two .30-caliber machine guns, said LaMere, the first former crewman with direct knowledge of the ship's activities to publicly dispute Hubbard's claim to have seen combat as commander of the YP-422.
And Hubbard's claim of combat, or war wounds, is definitively ruled out by Navy records, according to published reports in Time and Forbes magazines, the Los Angeles Times, the St. Petersburg (Fla.) Times, and books by critics and defectors Jon Atack, Russell Miller and Bent Corydon.
Hubbard was relieved of his command of the YP-422 soon after it set out from the Neponset River on a 27-hour shakedown voyage in September 1942, the reports say.
"Lt. L.R. Hubbard . . . is not temperamentally fitted for independent command. It is therefore urgently requested that he be detached," the commandant of the Boston Navy Yard wrote in October 1942 to the vice chief of naval operations, the reports said.
According to a court affidavit written by his son, L. Ron Hubbard Jr., the elder Hubbard was "relieved of (military) duty on several occasions," including once in the Pacific in 1944 when he "apparently concealed a gasoline bomb on board the USS Algol in order to avoid combat."
The affidavit - obtained by the Herald - is on file in U.S. District Court in Boston in connection with a 1991 suit filed by Scientology against the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI's Boston office. The church had sued under the Freedom of Information Act to gain access to government documents.
And there were other incidents that marred Hubbard's Navy career. He once ordered a depth-charge "battle" against nonexistent Japanese submarines off the Oregon coast, and he illegally fired on Mexican territory, according to published reports.
An admiral wrote in 1943 that Hubbard was "lacking in the essential qualities of judgment, leadership and cooperation," and the U.S. naval attache to Australia wrote in 1942, "He is garrulous and tries to give impressions of his importance," the reports said.
The court affidavit by Hubbard's son also describes some of his father's postwar activities.
Hubbard practiced Satanic sexual rituals in the late 1940s in southern California, and suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, the son said.
"Drug addiction, venereal disease and impotency, wife beating, bizarre 'black magic' occult practices, forgery, writing bad checks, and miscellaneous fraudulent activities including bigamy" preoccupied Hubbard after his Navy discharge, said Hubbard's oldest child - by the first of Hubbard's three wives - who was trying to gain control of his father's estate.
During the late 1940s, while Hubbard struggled to make a living as a writer, he told a group of science fiction writers of his plans to get rich, Pennsylvania writer Lloyd Eshbach wrote in his book "Over My Shoulder."
"I'd like to start a religion. That's where the money is," Hubbard said in 1948, according to Eshbach.
Born in Nebraska in 1911 to a career Navy officer, Hubbard was described by friends as quick-witted, with great personal charisma and a gift for writing pulp science fiction.
He had a lifelong affinity for the nautical life and within Scientology he created his own paramilitary version of the Navy, wearing a white uniform with ribbons and gold braid, and appointing himself commodore over thousands of devotees.
By the summer of 1962, Hubbard felt confident enough to urgently request a meeting with President Kennedy, to discuss "his study known as 'Scientology' which he feels vital in space race," according to a White House memo on file at the John F. Kennedy Library in Dorchester.
"Such an office as yours receives a flood of letters from fakes, crackpots and would-be wonderworkers. This is not such a letter," Hubbard wrote to Kennedy. He offered to counsel U.S. astronauts for $ 25 an hour, saying he could increase their IQs and stamina.
Hubbard did not get the warm welcome he hoped for from Kennedy.
Apparently believing that Hubbard might pose a security threat to the president, a White House aide wrote a January 1963 memo saying, "Final disposition: respectfully referred to the protective research section" of the U.S. Secret Service, said Maura Porter a Kennedy Library staff member.
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| Did Adnan Khashoggi Throw the Election to Dubya? |
| 11.23.04 (10:34 pm) [edit] |
In an old article reproduced partly below from slate.msn.com/id/1006609 it was mentioned the suspicion that Saudi Arabia influenced the US Presidential Election of Bush/Al Gore. What about the last ? Of course nobody will know but you can doubt that they did nothing.
http://slate.msn.com/id/1006609" title="http://slate.msn.com/id/1006609" target="_blank"http://slate.msn.com/id/10066...
Did Adnan Khashoggi [famous Saudi billionaire oil and arms trader] Throw the Election to Dubya?
Timothy Noah
Posted Monday, Dec. 4, 2000, at 2:56 PM PT
On Dec. 1, the "Washington Wire" column in the Wall Street Journal published this gratifyingly noir item about the postelection drama in Florida:
"Madame Butterfly" Theresa LePore wasn't always an embattled Palm Beach ballots chief. In the 1980s, she moonlighted as a flight attendant on private planes owned by Saudi weapons dealer Adnan Khashoggi, a middleman in Reagan administration arms sales to Iran.
Connoisseurs of Khashoggi-centric conspiracy theories should have little difficulty using this information to finger Khashoggi as the mastermind of the plot to deny Al Gore the presidency. Khashoggi has close ties, from Iran-Contra and elsewhere, to the Republicans, and vaguely defined ties to Dubya's father. (In a 1990 court case, Khashoggi's phone records revealed that Khashoggi had spoken at least twice with George Bush's vice-presidential office during 1985 and 1986.) LePore worked for Khashoggi during the 1980s, when, according to her official biography, she was chief deputy supervisor of elections in Palm Beach County, a job she held until 1996, when she was elected supervisor of elections. Ergo, LePore has been working as a Khashoggi asset to elect the son of Khashoggi's old comrade-in-arms, George Bush!
Chatterbox doesn't actually believe this, of course. But the Journal's tidbit does provide an occasion to play one of Chatterbox's favorite games, "Six Degrees of Adnan Khashoggi," in which the shadowy international arms merchant is connected to every scandal of the past 40 years and some that occurred even earlier. (It helps that Khashoggi is a "connector," to borrow a term from Malcolm Gladwell's book, The Tipping Point. Click here for Gladwell's explanation of how connectors rule the universe, and click here to read Chatterbox's favorable review of The Tipping Point in the Washington Monthly. See also Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball's classic 1987 New Republic article, "The Swami of Iranamok," which describes the connector role played by Khashoggi's spiritual adviser, Shri Chandra Swamiji Maharaj.) "Six Degrees of Adnan Khashoggi" is a slightly misleading name for this parlor game because in Khashoggi's case, it's rarely more than one or two degrees.
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Adnan Khashoggi is far from being unknown:
from jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/US-Israel/Ira n_Contra_Affair.html
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The Iran-Contra Affair
According to the Report of the Congressional Committees Investigating the Iran-Contra Affair issued in November 1987, the sale of U.S. arms to Iran through Israel began in the summer of 1985, after receiving the approval of President Reagan. The report shows that Israel's involvement was stimulated by separate overtures in 1985 from Iranian arms merchant Manucher Ghorbanifar and National Security Council (NSC) consultant Michael Ledeen, the latter working for National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane. When Ledeen asked Prime Minister Shimon Peres for assistance, the Israeli leader agreed to sell weapons to Iran at America's behest, providing the sale had high-level U.S. approval.
Before the Israelis would participate, says the report, they demanded "a clear, express and binding consent by the U.S. Government." McFarlane told the Congressional committee he first received President Reagan's approval in July 1985. In August, Reagan again orally authorized the first sale of weapons to Iran, over the objections of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Secretary of State George Shultz. Because of that deal, Rev. Benjamin Weir, held captive in Lebanon for 16 months, was released.
When a shipment of HAWK missiles was proposed in November of that year, Israeli Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin again demanded specific U.S. approval. According to McFarlane, the President agreed.
By December 1985, the President had decided future sales to the Iranians would come directly from U.S. supplies.
According to the committees' report, NSC aide Lt. Col. Oliver North first used money from the Iran operation to fund the Nicaraguan resistance in November 1985. He later testified, however, that the diversion of funds to the Contras was proposed to him by Ghorbanifar during a meeting in January 1986.
Saudi billionaire oil and arms trader Adnan Khashoggi said in an interview on ABCTV on December 11, 1986, that he advanced $1 million to help finance the first arms shipment in the Iran-Contra arms scandal and put up $4 million for the second shipment. According to the President's special review board chaired by former Sen. John Tower, a foreign official (reportedly Saudi King Fahd) donated $1 million to $2 million monthly from July 1984 to April 1985 for covert financing for the Contras. Saudi Arabia denied aiding the Nicaraguan rebels, but the New York Times reported the contribution may have been part of a 1981 secret agreement between Riyadh and Washington "to aid anticommunist resistance groups around the sophisticated American AWACS radar planes, according to United States officials and others familiar with the deal."
The Joint House-Senate Committee praised the Israeli government for providing detailed chronologies of events based on relevant documents and interviews with key participants in the operation. Its report also corroborated the conclusion of the Tower Commission: "U.S. decision makers made their own decisions and must bear responsibility for the consequences."
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| Is Your Kid's Greatest Fear About Money The Possibility of Having to Support You? |
| 11.22.04 (10:31 am) [edit] |
This was an interesting yahoo's article which shows that something is going wrong and that children know:
http://biz.yahoo.com/pfg/e05kids/art011.html" title="http://biz.yahoo.com/pfg/e05kids/art011.html" target="_blank"http://biz.yahoo.com/pfg/e05k...
Is Your Kid's Greatest Fear About Money The Possibility of Having to Support You?
A Suze Orman exclusive
Even your eight-year-old might say yes! About a year ago, I was in a suburb of Chicago visiting a lab school there and speaking about money to a classroom of eight-year-olds. This school was expensive to attend, about $5,000 or more a year. So you would think that parents paying that kind of tuition for an eight-year-old would not have money worries. Which is why I was so shocked by what happened.
There were about 20 kids in front of me, and I asked them a simple question: What is your greatest fear when it comes to money? The parents in the room rolled their eyes when I asked this question; I could tell they were most likely thinking, "Suze, have you lost it? Second-graders don't worry about money." But one sweet little girl raised her hand and said the following: "My greatest fear is that one day I will have to support my parents." The room came to a total stop. What did she just say? I asked her why she felt that way and she said that almost every night she hears Mommy saying to Daddy that if he doesn't stop spending all their money on electronic gadgets they were going to end up in the poorhouse with no one to support them.
And that wasn't the end of it. I looked around at the rest of the children, assuming the little girl who spoke up was a rare case, and I asked the other kids if they could relate. One by one, they started raising their little hands to say something similar. Sad as it is, this is a very true story.
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| Dow Jones and Presidential Election (Model's Update) |
| 11.22.04 (9:14 am) [edit] |
One month ago I said that the Dow was holding the critical level in green
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and Bush's election winning is not surprisingly coïncidental with the bounce on this green line.
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| about electronic voting and cheating |
| 11.21.04 (6:10 am) [edit] |
Statistically there are huge chances that cheating has taken place I will just remind berkeley's article. It was rather expected since there has been problem already in previous presidential election. My brother has seen a tv report a few months ago - unhappily I missed it - where it was said that password was only on 2 characters so that nearly any hacker can access the system easily. They made a test election and as nobody reacted they just concluded that cheating was ok: people have been completely complacent since nobody focused on that fact.
I quoted PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON in previous post
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as he pointed out the difference between "government of free opinion" vs "government by the opinion" this is the kind of distinction that is subtle and that's why it's so easy to abuse people. I understand that "government by the opinion" means opinions by medias who falsely pretend to represent people's free opinion whereas it represents lobbies opinions in the name of people and this kind of vote is just an extension: virtual votes now pretend to represent people's opinions.
So where is democracy ? How can people even stand that ? Simple: Corporate America has managed to make them passive. Oh yes they let people talk but it's useless since their voice can be deformed by medias and by electronic systems when needed. In fact in France Investigative Journalists have shown that to make people accept corruption as "Normality" Specialists of Communication have advised Politicians and Multinationals that Corruption must be exposed ad nauseum so that people now say "Well it has always been like that" that's how abnormality becomes the norm. With successive derivations people won't even see dictature coming : they expect a "coup d'état" there is no need to do that: little by little is the surest way with the help of government coercitive laws.
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| A top banker said "the American people are too stupid ..." |
| 11.21.04 (12:39 am) [edit] |
From bankhonesty.com/jfk.shtml
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A top banker said "If the American people ever copy a brochure exposing this secret and the masses of Americans learn the truth, they would hang the bankers for what we did to them - and they would vote to follow the US Constitution. "
Then he laughed and said, the American people are too stupid to figure out what we have done to them.
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Indeed people don't understand - be reassured not only the americans but most people from all nations - that the root of corruption is not Human Rights, it's just a consequence, it's the control of Money (mostly Credits today):
PELATIAH WEBSTER
"Paper money polluted the equity of our laws, turned them into engines of oppression, corrupted the justice of our public administration, destroyed the fortunes of thousands who had confidence in it, enervated the trade, husbandry, and manufactures of our country, and went far to destroy the morality of our people."
PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON
"A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated. The growth of the Nation and all our activities are in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world--no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government of conviction, and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress, of small groups of dominant men." Just before President Woodrow Wilson died, he is reported to have stated to friends that he had been "deceived" and that "I have betrayed my Country". referring to the Federal Reserve Act, passed during his Presidency.
POPE PIUS XI
"In the first place, then, it is patent that in our days, not wealth alone is accumulated, but immense power and despotic economic domination are concentrated in the hands of the few, who for the most part are not the owners but only the trustees and directors of invested funds, which they administer at their own good pleasure. This domination is most powerfully exercised by those who, because they hold and control money, also govern credit and determine its allotment, for that reason supplying so to speak, the life blood of the entire economic body, and grasping in their hands, as it were, the very soul of production, so that no one can breathe against their will."
ROTHSCHILDS BROS. OF LONDON
"Those few who can understand the system (check book money and credit) will either be so interested in its profits, or so dependent on it favors, that there will be little opposition from that class, while on the other hand, the great body of people mentally incapable of comprehending the tremendous advantage that capital derives from the system, will bear it burdens without complaint, and perhaps without even suspecting that the system is inimical to their interests."
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| The Declaration of Human Rights (1789) |
| 11.20.04 (6:34 am) [edit] |
I'm not very fond of law text but I'm making an effort to read some essential texts like the
"The Declaration of Human Rights (1789)" one can find here:
http://www.hss.bond.edu.au/core11-120/workshops.htm" title="http://www.hss.bond.edu.au/core11-120/workshops.htm" target="_blank"http://www.hss.bond.edu.au/co...
When I read this text law, I have a strange sensation: all the text is just a declaration of good intentions in a first part of a sentence but that has always a counterpart that annihilates the first part.
In the introduction it is said that "contempt of the rights of man are the sole cause of public calamities and of the corruption of governments" that is to say the root of evil is corruption of governments and at the same time all the law is about legitimising the power of government which can turn against citizens.
The text law is about giving power to government and not really about garantee that the government will conform to human rights. Indeed history has shown that this text has never protected civilisation since we have known Nazism, Communism and Atrocities commited in the name of "Democracy" whereas it is for the interest of the Corrupted Governments like in the former time.
This text law should be rewritten to put the guarantee Goal of Human Rights in first place instead of the guarantee of Government Power that is supposedly aimed at defending Human Rights whereas its corruption will aim to act against Human Rights. For me it's a flaw at the origin like a software bug in the Operating Software: everything that is based upon will be bugged.
The way a SYSTEM has been conceived impacts the most how it will work and people can't really circumvent that only in a few proportion. That's what I also learnt with Deming's approach in Quality Management.
But like me, people don't like to read text laws. I think one must make some effort: it is there that the real defense of democracy is, not in political parties that are just aimed to control and herd people against one another so that they can't unite together against the corruption of both left, right or whatever center.
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| 11.20.04 (5:59 am) [edit] |
Had a problem with my internet connection when changing provider. The phone wasn't even working any more now it works but Internet is still not solved and I'm connected through telephone instead of a DSL connection so it's so slow I don't feel like posting much at the moment.
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Newcomers, forgive my loose english - it's not my native language !
Book(s) I referred or will refer to in my posts:
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