The Pandemic, Human Survival and Nefarious Plans of the Left.

We listen to the left as they wax ‘concerned’ about suffering, disease and other social ills that they blame mostly on the US. Mostly, we would presume that they are doubtless genuine in their views as they do have social programs across the globe to ‘help’ people in many lands. So, when we listen to government officials who tell us they are doing ‘everything the can’ or offer another hackneyed phrase  in substitute we are prone to give their statement some credence if not our full attention or, frequently,  a rounding applause for their intent.

The issue becomes a bit more somber when we look at certain diseases, their eradications or cures and certain political elements that direct policy in ostensibly keeping us in good health around the globe. From personal experience, my people founded Bakersfield in the 1870s and an earthquake changed the course of the Kern River and swamped their ranch. Mosquitoes swarmed that year and malaria broke out and the attack was so severe that they were forced to move to Oregon for a while. Malaria was and still is a major killer in the world, but in California the Mosquito Abatement people came to our place in the San Joaquin Valley in the 50s to spray with DDT.  Apparently, all malaria cases from that point forward were imported in some fashion.[1]This treatment ended malaria in California in my area but the treatment in many parts of the world using DDT was terminated because of some rants from a mental case known as Rachel Carson.[2]  The threat was that bird eggs would go soft or whatnot so DDT was banned. The 1919 flu killed nearly a million people and the government looked for ways to vaccinate the population against such a recurrence. In 1968 the Hong Kong flu hit California very hard, but I had been vaccinated in the Navy that year and lived in Salinas, California in the John Street apartments building that experienced an almost 100% infection rate. I was the only person out of 1500 who was not shivering and wearing a blanket in the 90 degree heat in the summer of 1968. If the Navy had the vaccine then why didn’t the government expand this to the general public??

In my research in pharmacology at Yale Medical School in the early 70s the question of mass vaccinations was addressed in many seminars leading to the conclusion that this was a bad idea.  In 1976 I was vaccinated in New Jersey when the swine flu broke out[3] and escaped infection. Soon after the vaccinations started three old people died of a complication from the vaccine called of Guillain-Barré syndrome.[4] The total vaccinated up to that point was 40 million with a lost of less than 1 per 10 million. The process was halted.  Apparently, the notion that we must offer medicine with no risk to the patient seems to deviate with our policy to treat AIDS patients with deadly chemicals that are known to have toxic side effects. This all leads to confusion in which we mix the fate of bird eggs and the fate of innocents during an epidemic with various concoctions, feathers and drums and thrust the level of decisions to a state of mystification.

In the current 2009 panic, the Mexican swine flu virus appears to be going into pandemic stage with no attempt to stop travel to the US from Mexico although other states monitor visitors with infrared cameras and such to detect persons with fever. We don’t have a vaccine for this flu variety, but might be able to make one by next November when it will probably hit again. We do have some rather quasi-effective anti viral drugs that must be taken early. The disease apparently has a 5-7 day incubation period, which defeats that measure.

Is there any reason to think that the US government is NOT trying everything they can to protect us? Yes, there is if you look at the history. Political movements across the planet frequently merge into vast integrated machines that take a firm stance on health policy that derives from some political vector. The amount of money spent on AIDS research during the Clinton Administration, for example, far exceeded what was spent on heart disease research although no more than 800,000 had AIDS in the US and about half of them eventually died. We were told, without basis, that AIDS was a pandemic, or would soon be and we must throw all our resources into solving the problem.[5] We hear this about Global Warming now morphed into Global Cooling or Climate Change or whatever[6] and the urgent need to change our society to avoid calamity. We lose more people to heart disease every year than all lost to AIDS. Politics is the difference here. AIDS is an elective disease and malaria is not. Neither is swine flu, but where is the money spent? AIDS was never a pandemic in the US.

Returning to the malaria follies, we can then ask the following similar political AIDS-influenced question: why are be not spraying with DDT in all of Africa when it will certainly eradicate the anopheles mosquito and end malaria? The answer may be the need for population control.[7]  Is it really necessary to reduce the UK’s population down to 30 million, a 50% cut?[8]

From this link:

“Many experts believe that, since Europeans and Americans have such a lopsided impact on the environment, the world would benefit more from reducing their populations than by making cuts in developing countries.”-- From The Sunday Times March 22, 2009

UK population must fall to 30m, says Porritt by Jonathan Leake and Brendan Montague.

If we work with people to solve this predicament by providing nets and other partial solutions to such problems then we can have a massive body count and still say we ‘did everything we could.’  I think this is now a cliché.  Here somebody wants to whack half the Brits for the sake of the carbon dioxide levels with no scientific proof that this is a problem. Many think their ‘economic survival is at stake.[9] This political thinking surpasses Dr. Goebbels in several ways.

I was unfortunate enough to have spent a week in a run-down military barracks  about 20 feet from the jungle with open windows and no doors at US Naval Subic Bay in the Philippine Islands starting in August of 1966 and the first night was spent sans net. The Navy did not supply nets, they came from a form of ‘house boy’ and shoe shine person who did business there. I had hundreds of bites by the next morning. I felt like a pin cushion. The second night I had a big net and slept in a bottom bunk with the net suspended from the wires on the bunk above but the little buggers found ways to get through the barrier. They hover around the bed like little helicopters and wait for an opening and then dart in for some juicy blood. I had a dozen bites every morning no matter what I did with the net. This leads me to think that nets to prevent death from malaria in Africa may not be practicable as spraying with DDT. They are probably a futile political gesture. The Navy could have sprayed the jungle near the base and eliminated malaria, but maybe they did as I did not catch the disease.

This fear may be followed up and analyzed in more detail by wondering if the Obama Administration is really trying to stop this Mexican swine flu pandemic with all the tools they have. We have decided not to close our borders. We don’t have enough antiviral mendicants to make a difference in any pandemic so sending a small amount to Mexico will only wind up in the bodies of the political types. The salient fact is that we do not know the future of influenza but if the virus waxes virulent and gets a kill ratio of say 30% on its infected victims then we are in for a panic as well as a pandemic.  As with the evident ho-hum attitude over the deaths in Africa and Asia from malaria and other diseases is contrasted with the frantic effort to spend all for the  gays for their political support then we must be come suspicious. Global warming, being the farce that is on a scientific basis, is a potent political vector and if a billion or so souls died in the current flu pandemic wouldn’t that be a fortunate outcome for the Greens? Would carbon emissions decrease and satisfy their demands?

Let us be very deliberate in our thinking and realize that some political force somewhere in the world may decide that certain US citizens are expendable and could die in an influenza pandemic and satisfy some urgent political problems such as population growth or other factors related to eugenics. Some politicians chose to not address the major killer of US citizens [heart disease] and focused ‘research’ on the AIDS problem. Do they have some other designs for us? Many leftists think we are Nazis or worse.

We are not yet in a mode where we can trust the Obama administration on several topics such as the bailout monies and TARP, massive national debt that we cannot sustain, wild spending exceeding all we have spent since George Washington, illegal aliens in the voter booth, crime and more and to this list we must, as a precaution, include the possibility that in a pandemic we may be sectored by leftist political metrics and left to die thus solving a few political problems even if they are imaginary. If England’s population can be truncated by 50% to help out Mother Nature then one way to help her out is let white conservatives die in a pandemic in the US.  Capitalists produce too much carbon dioxide—and that is clear.

Think about this.

rycK

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Krugman Bores us with Boring Banking Histories and Praises Islamic Banking. A New Grab for Power is in the Offering.

Friedman Bawls about Balls and Can Show Nothing. EcoNazism and Propaganda at Work.

Abstract: Freidman plays some kind of Three Card Monte game with our tax monies as he tries to suggest ways to hide the truth to the taxpayers. This attempt at pandering to the ignoranti, temporarily in the majority in the US, is shocking and infantile, but is in keeping with the style and performance of the New York Times.  This is merely a giant tax grab plan that has no basis in science. Lysenkoism is with us again. This is the biggest Ponzi scheme yet to be hatched by the Neo-Marxists and their EcoNazi allies.

The opening lament:

“I am really encouraged by President Obama’s commitment to clean energy and combating climate change. I just have three worries: whether he has the right policies, the right politics and the right official to sell his program to the country. Other than that, things look great!”[1]-- Show Us the Ball By Thomas L. Friedman Op-Ed Columnist Published: April 7, 2009 .[2] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes. Friedman is quoted in all quotes here until later. ]

This opening testimonial, based purely on politics and not related to any facts, is typical of the mental frolics of a dedicated liberal whose mind and soul is infected with politics. This essay from the Walter Duranty Papers [3] is an emblematic petition for a way to sabotage the trust of society with a phony tax dodge.  This paper is a disgrace to the news business and no wonder it and the Bean Town Glob are going broke.

Here is more pandering:

“Last week, House Democrats, with administration support, introduced a 600-page draft bill on energy and climate. At the center of it is a plan to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions through a complicated cap-and-trade system. These people have the very best of intentions, but I wish they would step back and ask again: Can cap-and-trade pass? Will it really work? And is it the best strategy, with all the bureaucracy it will require to monitor, auction emissions permits and manage the trading?”-- By Thomas L. Friedman

Conclusion: A dollar grubbed is a dollar wasted on socialism.

“Advocates of cap-and-trade argue that it is preferable to a simple carbon tax because it fixes a national cap on carbon emissions and it “hides the ball” — it doesn’t use the word “tax” — even though it amounts to one. So it can get through Congress. That was true as long as no one thought cap-and-trade could ever pass, but now that it might under Mr. Obama, opponents are not playing hide the ball anymore.”-- By Thomas L. Friedman

Here is the interior of the lie. We don’t want to call a tax a tax because the citizenry is sick of taxes and, at the moment, too uninformed to realize that EcoNazism is just another swindle as ugly and expensive as anything Hitler conjured up. The Idiot Brits, part of the Stupid Euro-Peons Group[4], have consigned their economy to the rubbish bin.  Led by their Princeling of Wails,^[5] with an accompanying astonishing government vote by Parliament, they have voted 648:5[6] to destroy their economy with phony EcoNazi taxes just like this wreckage.   Normally, we would expect California to be the very first to explore new ways to destroy their society. If California crashed it would lessen our economic burdens. Let’s expel California from the union.

Phony stage fright:

“MESSAGE Climate change is a real threat to a healthy planet Earth — the only home we have. But because the worst effects are in the future, many Americans have more immediate concerns. That is why our energy policy should be focused around “American renewal,” not mitigating climate change.”

MESSAGE: This is sleazy leftist politics and based on fear mongering, greed and lies. There is no scientific basis for this crap. Many have denounced Al Gore and his EcoNazi Goon Squads as charlatans. The phony Global Warming …. Duh!...Duh??...er…Climate Change[7] is merely another tax whoring scheme that the liberals wildly support. Al Gore is the new Lysenko.[8] 21,000 of us, all scientists, refute this crap.[9][10]

Friedman ends with this slop:

“He could make the case that the country with the most powerful clean-technology industry in the 21st century will have the most energy security, national security, economic security, healthy environment, innovative companies and global respect. That country must be America. So let’s stop hiding the ball and have a strategy, message and messenger that tell it like it is — and make it so.”-- By Thomas L. Friedman

The opposite will happen. We will give up our most precious natural resource, add costs and burdens to our manufacturing businesses, pay salaries to a pack of EcoNazi KGB types and chase impossible scientific goals such as a light-weight battery for cars that are low cost. There is a political rush toward electric cars although there are no suitable batteries available even after research dating back to 1800. [11]

Climate change, changed from Global Warming due to an embarrassing change in the shifting earth’s average temperature by Nature, is a political construction and we cannot affect the sun’s radiation output variations (the source of climate change) by taxing the sun. Changes on Mars mirror the changes on earth and Mars has no Buicks.

Friedman is the Court Jester of the phony EcoNazi Movement.

Here is O’Bozo’s new little pet schizoid-herald trumpeting the End Times:

“Holdren[12] outlined several "tipping points" involving global warming that could be fast approaching. Once such milestones are reached, such as complete loss of summer sea ice in the Arctic, it increases chances of "really intolerable consequences," he said.”[13]-- AP Newsbreak: Obama looks at climate engineering.”-- [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

“Last week, Princeton scientist Robert Socolow told the National Academy that geoengineering[14] should be an available option in case climate worsens dramatically.”

“But Holdren noted that shooting particles into the air—making an artificial volcano as one Nobel laureate has suggested—could have grave side effects and would not completely solve all the problems from soaring greenhouse gas emissions. So such actions could not be taken lightly, he said.”

“Still, "we might get desperate enough to want to use it," he added.“”-- AP Newsbreak

Do these turkeys know what they sound like?  Is the sky falling? Is the Demon crawling out of the Boston Hole we bored to the depths of Hell to eat us all? Can we throw enough tax money at this problem to save us from oblivion?

This is what liberalism has degenerated into: Lysenkoism.

rycK

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Our Choice Now: Cut Expenses or Go Down the Road to Financial Oblivion.

Abstract: Our leaders, world wide, have decided that spending and printing money will provide us with a way out of our current financial problems. Our federal government and some of our biggest states are now functionally broke and face default on loans or are dependent upon bailout monies from the federal government. They politicians have the votes form more than 50% of the people so they can comfortably proceed with this measure. The elementary economics of this adventure are well known in the literature and such spending always leads to massive debt and eventually inflation 0r hyperinflation. We cannot back away from this choice to spend our way out of a financial crisis. We let the low class vote and now we pay the consequences.  The experts do not signal a decent recovery. They talk about V, U, L and other economic shapes. But, some experts give us a slim change as they think this current ‘policy’ has not been sufficiently tried out in practice.  Why don’t we roll the dice with our futures and if we all lose the lower class will be about the same level as before. That will satisfy some in the political arena.

 Most societies face difficult choices and many choose the worst one and suffer. We can relate to Germany’s efforts to devalue the mark, Britain’s Dock strike in the 50s, two world wars, our invention against Communist aggression in the 50s, ICBM production and other items. These were all very expensive.

You can generally divide choices into two categories: those that might or probably would work out in the end and those that have little chance of success. We generally look to history or the ‘experts’ for advice on which path to take, if any. Frequently, doing nothing seems to be very viable alternative.

When the choices are offered to the voting public, politics tends to push various groups into several camps—mostly pro, con and the undecided. There are many reasons behind how and why the individual choosing a particular camp and most of the time the reasons have little to do with making such decisions. Thus, those in labor unions who tend to vote Democrat tend to ‘trust’ their leaders and these people then ‘trust’ the elected officials to decide how to vote and/or what programs to support. This is frequently a very good process as it allows some thin majority to institute some program for a while and the system tests the decisions in terms of success and feasibility and if mistakes were made then such programs can be reversed. The foray into Iraq was probably a mistake given the cost and the political polarization of most of the world. We could pull out and just leave Iraq in a heap, probably as we found it, or we could continue to service the notion that we can help Iraq help itself. We did reverse the federal control on welfare and this resulted in significant reductions in the number of those on the dole. We made very good choices in the national highway system as all seemed to have benefited from this project. Much of the work of the EPA was necessary and the results rewarding. We can reverse and ponder changes to many of our established programs if we get a consensus. Debt is not one of these decisions we can reverse.

We are at the most dangerous possible political point: the fulcrum. We are on the knife’s edge. We are balanced nearly 50:50 on every issue. We know that money drives most of the voting process in that we have those who have made their wealth and those who have not. Here is an analysis from a previous blog of mine in the summer of 2008 as we started down the dangerous path toward deflation and its horrors.

Taxation on the Knife’s Edge: The Lower Half Will Always Vote for Higher Taxes.

In political theory there is a theoretical concept whereby your vote has some intrinsic value in any given election.[1] This value depends on the relative sizes and number of political parties in the fray. As such, if you vote in a system that allows only one party, your vote is meaningless. When the number of parties increases your vote may increase in value but only when parties approach an equal size. Frequently, splinter parties may jockey for favors and position and minor concessions and join in with one of two near-equal parties and become king makers.[2]

The value of your vote is shown in the following table:

[3] On the Value[less] of Your Vote

http://rycksrationalizations.blogtownhall.com/2008/01/12/on_the_value[lessness]_of_your_vote.thtml

We are at the 50%/50% level now with little chance of a splinter party entering the scene as they did in 2000 and defeating Al Gore. The vote was very close in 2008 and the outcome was influenced by President Bush’s grievous errors in spending and the war in Iraq and the economy, owned by Bush by political convention. Congress seemed to have escaped any serious condemnation for massive spending projects that led to a 400 bln dollar deficit.

 We can lay all that aside and probe a little deeper into the difficulty of massive debt and the recovery thereof and who benefits and who loses from such debt.

 Who loses?

 This is a serious question as we have the ‘rich’ and the ‘poor’ mixed into our societies across some 3000 miles of land and 1500 miles deep.  We could submit the notion that jobs are provided by the ‘rich’ and that they must survive serious deflation[4][5] and potential inflation so as to keep creating new jobs.

 Next, we ask the ‘poor’ or marginalized the same question and the salient reply is: the rich have all the resources and benefits so we are going to lose anyway so give us some money even it puts us in massive debt and our economy crashes. What is our alternative? This is also good reasoning.

 What does the government do? The government so far just taxes and attempts to level the opportunities and ‘redistribute the wealth’ or “spread something around” as Obama tells us.  This is reasonable as many people cannot participate in our economy for various reasons, including but not limited to ignorance, sloth, crime, drug addiction and cognitive incontinence.

Our government has now chosen to fight this deflationary spiral with massive spending and hence massive debt. This is called monetizing the debt[6] and it has never been successful in curing any financial problems.  The process always leads to inflation or hyper inflation if the inflation rate exceeds 50% per month.

 If the poor depend upon social program and housing assistance and welfare paid by others then we can suggest that those who provide the jobs be given preference when constructing measures to fight deflation. The government does not share this vision.

 Advice from the experts:

 From a noted English financial analyst on the notion of a tipping point:

“Today we call this [the point where you cannot return ed]  "Gladwell's tipping point". Once it goes, you can't get back up. This is why the Federal Reserve has resorted to emergency measures that seem mad at first sight.”[7]--Federal Reserve is damned either way as it battles debt and deflation By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 6:34PM GMT 18 Dec 2008 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

 Another view from London:

 “The optimists hope for a V-shaped recovery, with economic growth plunging deep into negative territory before bouncing healthily back, and then it's full steam ahead. There's the U-shaped recovery, which involves a more gradual decline in growth, followed by a gradual improvement in the following years. The realists usually anticipate a W-shape, where the economy appears to bounce back briefly, with this followed by a further slide into recession and misery before the true recovery eventually arrives. The real pessimists are more likely to predict an L-shaped recovery - although recovery is the wrong word, since as the shape of the letter implies this means that once the economy hits rock bottom it stagnates for many years before.”[8]-- Gearing up for a V8 recovery? Posted By: Edmund Conway at Apr 7, 2009 [Emphasis is  in the original text in this  quote.]

“To summarise: the world is currently undergoing an economic shock every bit as big as the Great Depression shock of 1929-30. Looking just at the US leads one to overlook how alarming the current situation is even in comparison with 1929-30.”

“The good news, of course, is that the policy response is very different. The question now is whether that policy response will work. For the answer, stay tuned for our next column.

”[9]-- A Tale of Two Depressions Barry Eichengreen   Kevin H. O’Rourke  Apr 5, 2009 [Emphasis is mine in this quotes.]

Check out the charts below from this link:

 Figure 1. World Industrial Output, Now vs Then

http://www.voxeu.org/files/image/depression_fig1.gif

Figure 6. Government Budget Surpluses, Now vs Then

http://www.voxeu.org/files/image/depression_fig6.gif

 We can translate this as meaning nobody knows if this will work. We wonder if we have chosen the proper ‘policy’ to circumvent a depression. But, if we do get around this crevasse, the question arises: what do we do about the debt? Inflate it into space? Ignore it? Chart 6 shows us that spending to way too high and this must have come from debt.

 If this is true then we are making a big mistake. We cannot return from debt without paying it off or barrowing or some other unknown option. California, a place where many believe there are novel and progressive solutions to many problems has decided to spend[10] them into massive debt with a 40% deficit to revenue ratio and then beg alms from the federal government.[11] Should we spend our way out of a depression as Paul Krugman of the New York Times suggests?[12] What happens to solvent states if CA goes bankrupt? Does the federal government now tax those states with a fiscally responsible balance sheet and give the money to California?

The ugly facts are that California, New York, New Jersey and the federal government are all now deep into the spending and debt business and this comes after we thought that they could perform in some reasonable fashion that might protect both the rich and poor. Other countries that are suffering this malady will probably soon start up competitive currency devaluations and institute tariffs to protect their local economies.[13] Should we do this too? There are now creditor and debtor nations [China is the biggest creditor and the US is the biggest debtor]. What does China and Japan do now? Forgive us our debt?

 What happens when our debt service is say 20% of our GDP? Or 50%?? Do we default on our debts as China fears or do we let inflation roar and devalue our currency so as to liquidate the debt? Do we monetize the debt by printing just enough to make payments on the interest?

 The ugly conclusion here is that millions of people [Lo Popolo or hoi polloi] who were supposedly educated in good universities and were elected to office with grand speeches have decided to ‘solve’ our problems with massive spending both here and abroad. [14] We now have millions of legislators and bureaucrats with this interesting view.  We are committed to spending and later managing the debt and cannot back away from this decision like we did in View Nam.

 From a previous blog on the size of the debt we face:

 This means that if we add our 12.7 trillion National Debt to this 7.36 trillion and then add Obama’s 5-10 trillion dollar spending dreams over the next 4-8 years we can see the sum growing to around 25 trillion, TWICE our GDP.  If we look at the bank money multiplier[15] [16] of about 10 this could balloon our money supply M2 from 8 trillion to 258 trillion. That is 3225.00%. We are all going to be rich like Zimbabwe.  At a mere 3% interest rate, what is the debt service on 25 trillion??  Why, that is 750 bln.  At 10%, not enough to fight massive inflation, the debt service soars to 2.5 trillion! At an interest rate of 20%, which might not be enough we arrive at the nifty sum of 5 trillion dollars every year, nearly double the 2008 federal budget. What is left?[17]

 That is what they have decided to do[18] and now they have the votes.  The lower half will always vote money to themselves. What option do they have? The rich will always vote the opportunity to make more profits. The prediction that such a decision will ultimately make the poor poorer is not a consideration when politicians have the majority vote from the poor.

 We are sailing off into unknown waters with no compass, water or charts.

 rycK

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The Multiple Audacities of Hope and US Money.

Abstract: There is no hope in the audacity of hope as touted by Obama and his friends. The world in still facing an economic meltdown and Europe’s only remedy is freshly printed American dollars. Massive printing and massive deficits are now the preferred solutions to debt-driven deflation.  Lessons from the past have been ignored. We have apparently learned nothing from 7,000 years of political and social experimentation except that probably no solution exists. The notion of ‘education’ now appears to be counterproductive using California, New York and New Jersey as benchmarks. We are apparently entering the Era of Reverse Colonialism. The third world will teach us all about modern capitalism. We must be reeducated.

While spending centuries on attempts to form decent societies, our ‘leaders’ have probed the depths of every crevice, crack and rat hole in the political landscape for a ‘solution’ to societal problems. This process now begins its 7,000^th year (or so) and statistically we are not any closer to solving social problems than the Romans or Egyptians or Ancient Chinese were. In fact, our two world wars, giving us 81 million dead and millions more displaced with trillions of dollars lost in bombed out cities, may have more than matched some of the Roman escapades on a relative scale. Our world history is a concatenated ensemble of wars and political movements that tended to undermine and undo societies that were temporarily successful.  Whatever the Romans actually had, and history is muddled on this subject, was bought at the price of invariable war on their own soil by their dedicated enemies. The observation that we have so much wealth and so many people are starving and we should ‘do something about that’ is a cliché not worth mentioning any more. Our cultural mélange does not work that way. Most societies are not going to rise above ignorance and poverty.  Some of Europe may revert to this state.

One can analyze societies from various perches on the limbs of the Tree of Knowledge and we can only wonder who has seen anything of value in the many centuries since the Enlightenment. A broad analysis does reveal the salient fact that there are pockets of prosperity on our globe, however fleeting on a 7,000  year time scale, that provide what we might call a middle or upper middle class existence for most of the citizens. Some, like the Swiss, hide behind massive rock formations and squirrel away dirty money for scoundrels and tax cheats. This seems to be failing as they are now in deflation, also known as the Japanese Disease.[1]Other societies sit upon natural resources that are currently in demand and can thus peddle things from the sea or earth to pay for their lifestyles as we see in the oil-rich countries. Viewed from the limb of natural resource information assembled about 1880, the Tree told us that the US, Russia and parts of Africa would lead the world’s economies because of the vast resources that they possessed which could be sold or transformed for huge profits. This metric failed to predict the obvious outcomes for Russia and the failed USSR for 100 years as we all know. The same observations follow for Africa and most of South America.  For one reason or another, few can make their system work effectively. This is more than just a political problem.

“Education’ was supposed to enlighten the polis and stimulate their mutual cooperation and industry in creating and maintaining great societies. The USSR spent 74 years teaching its citizens phony economics and mindless propaganda and their system crashed in a blizzard of inflation and debt and their currency finally collapsed. Was it ‘education’ that induced the Icelanders to run their banks like hedge funds and zero out their currency? All their savings were reduced to nothing in a few weeks. What is the result of the educational efforts of the madrasas in the Islamic World? More hate and terrorism? The ‘educated’ led the French Revolution and what did they accomplish except stealing the wealth of others? We got a lesson in liberty from the guillotine? The educated ruled that books were the property of the state?

The solution is not related to education or natural resources. We do not know what the solution might be but it seems that our only path forward is to find ways to exploit the wealth of others to stay even in economic or political terms. The solution may be unbridled capitalism at last. Who said that socialism works until you run out of other people’s money?[2][3] Oh, was it Margaret Thatcher? [4] This ominous trend belies the assumed intrinsic value of education and the vocation ethics needed to structure a decent society. We can cite the economic and social mess in California[5] as an example of a case where numerous assets were wasted and the society began to crumble under the penalty of incoherent massive social spending. Apparently California’s elected officials cannot comprehend simple financial theories or decode criminal law.  “Education” has thus failed in California.  Their biggest crop and the basis of their best leisure times revolve around dope. The situation is not much better in New York[6] or New Jersey.  Murder[7] and prostitution are now almost acceptable careers in many inner cities controlled by leftists.

So, where are we today in this essay on social progress? Well, it appears that our new president Barrack Obama [O’Bozo in my terminology[8]] has bought into the ‘global disease’ once espoused in the incoherent rants about the League of Nations and other follies. The disgrace of the UN and its inability to focus on much more than the extinction of Israel leaves us with exactly nothing when it comes to global cooperation. We are back into the same old plan: give others our wealth and they will hate us for it.  This worked well in Europe, twice, when their nations fought in muddy trenches over differences in politics and its aftermath.

So, Gordon Brown and some desperate other socialists pander to O’Bozo for our loot while the French and Germans seem to have gleaned a few lessons from their essays in printing money and the ensuing massive inflation this folly caused. We now sit astride a world divide where the US and China [divided into two packets: one for government and another for commerce] currently command high positions in production and capitalism. This is ironic in the extreme as the last place you might think to look for conservative capitalism would be the PRC. The Chinese want a different world base or reference currency because they think the US is deliberately deflating their dollar and will produce massive loses in the value of the bonds Peking now holds. This is one of the few convincing financial views proffered up in the last few months. The Chinese discovered all they needed to know about inflation during the Yuan Dynasty. Gordon Brown has brought the UK to the brink of financial oblivion and where could he go for alms? Why, the US like they did in WW1, 2 and probably the dock strike in the 50s.

A global ‘solution’ to a global financial meltdown is apparently solved if the US prints money and spreads it around.  The Brits like this avenue. And this theory fits well into the dog-in-the-manger philosophy of the far left. Why should the US be prosperous? If it is because they are better at commerce than the mediocre citizens of other nations then the fact that they have more than the average country is proof that they attained this wealth unfairly.  For equality, at least in the Californian definition, everybody should be humble and poor except for elitist Democrats such as the Clintons, Obamas, the alcoholic and criminal Kennedy Klan and certain California senators. O’Bozo can pack his cabinet with tax cheats and who complains? Africa apparently rates a few trillions of our dollars as we note from the intense training Obama got from his racist pastor of 20 years—Jeremiah Wright.[9] We must also note that Angry Black Woman was a token and held a phony $300,000 ‘outreach’ job in some hospital in Chicago and her vacancy went unfilled. Her academic achievements, if any, are a state secret now.[10] So much for affirmative action from our side, but it plays well in Europe where the Islamo-Fascisti are trashing their host societies.  The immigrants cannot seem to participate but they can readily criticize the status quo. Perhaps Sarkozy and his counterpart in Berlin will experience fewer car burning episodes if we spread around enough pictures of O’Bozo and his token political associate.  Groveling now becomes the average European. Groveling for dollars is the new game.

The True O’Bozo speaks:

"And it's not surprising then they [read Whites...ed] get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."[11]—Barack Obama off camera in what he thought was a safe environment to express his views.[12] [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.]

This is racism. No sour grapes here.

So, having learned little from the Enlightenment and a few world wars other than to succumb to the short-term and dubious rewards of socialism, if that choice is sufficiently tainted by Marxism and when funded by other people’s monies, we come to the sorry observation that Europe is nearly destitute and their only source of financial help is to wrangle and supplicate alms from the coffers of the citizens of the United States. Kowtowing before some half-minority is more than acceptable. China is too adept to participate in this scalping. Heaping praise and honors upon some rabble from Chicago’s ugly south side is not too embarrassing for other world leaders if enough shekels are placed on the drum, but probably not the Chinese.

Let us all enjoy the follies as our money is wasted in Europe and upon Third Word.  We can learn a great big lesson from this recklessness. It is sad that Europe didn’t elect somebody of Edie Amin’s skills or perhaps some other suitable candidate who shared the visions of Nelson Mandela. They might have show us a few pointers about incorporating tribalism and psychotic racism into their societies and at least spared us some pain. France has shown us the intractability of assimilating certain minority groups into a modern society and England has yet to learn this lesson in full. Give them time in the soup lines and they might catch on. Europe is in an anti-Anglo mood now and they just might surprise us with a new and wonderful third world leader in their own midst.  We understand that Drake and his followers unwittingly disassembled tribalism in their antics in the New World, but now O’Bozo can reinstitute his Kenyan version of this societal defect.  This will be a new facet in ‘education!’ We can retrain many in the old ways of tribalism and blend in a little progressive Neo-Marxism at the same time—no extra charge. The lessons from the Moors are soon to be revisited all over Europe. There is no hope for Europe without massive infusions of US Money. So, they crawl and beg.

Amusingly, this appears to be the beginning of the Era of Reverse Colonialism.[13]  The Islamo-Fascists can teach Europe all about social unrest and spiritual hatred and O’Bozo can teach them all about financial ruin and poverty. Sharing.

 Ugly times ahead. Avoid taxes and don’t get into any government programs like buying GM cars.

rycK

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Prepare for Massive Inflation: Europe is Ready to Set up a New Currency.

 Politicians are always more hungry than thoughtful as they craft new and wonderful ways for them to acquire your wealth and ‘redistribute’ it to themselves, their friends and ‘the poor.’ Generally, the vote, when it is worth something,[1] and most times it is not, prevents them from a wholesale sacking party with the world’s money boxes. The excuse here is that the wealth is maldistributed so that some politicos need to get into the records and spread the wealth around or fix things so everybody has some ‘skin in the game.’ Equality must be attained so that justice is served. How has this worked since 1917?

It matters not a whit of a whit or a nit of the pick whether the outcome of this crass theft of loot works out according to any reasonable predictions by the looters. The designers can always point to the existing ‘poor’ as the necessary basis to continue on with their follies even though many of these people were victims of insane, stupid and vicious political schemes in the first instance. We can see the elegant results of ‘land reform’ and ‘state ownership’ and ‘collectivation’ from 74 years of Marxism in Russia. They finally collapsed in a whirlwind of inflation and criminals took over leadership and the remaining state wealth. The criminals are still in charge.

In the current pathetic world financial state, we are now hearing about Anglo-Saxon regulation.[2] The implication is clear: the some 350 year histories of world trade and economics derived from the English-speaking peoples must come t o an end. What has Mexico done since 1492? This is racism or bigotry by any standards, but Obama, while a mulatto, never emphasizes his inferior white half and always pretends to be black and so do his admirers.  He is seen in Europe and much of Asia as being of non Anglo-Saxon mentality and outlook. Thus, those who are in financial trouble reviewed the origin of the problems of the world and suddenly realized that the problems were caused by people who were not like themselves. It must be time for a ‘change.’ Jeremiah Wright certainly has some non-white thoughts to ponder and Obama was his student for 20 years.

Cognitive Skill Factors:

Much of this testy history evolves from the relative cognitive skill levels of the participants.  If we look at regions where IQs average 100 or slightly above [most of China, all of Japan, parts of India, the US except in urban areas, England and most of Europe] we find economic success and prosperity. The contrasting picture from places where IQs average in the 80s [or even lower[3]], as in certain  parts of the US in cities, most of Africa, nearly all of South America and most of Asia is not soothing. Places like Africa are not only severely limited by the lack of cognitive assets, but are confounded by tribalism or its equivalent and political indoctrination by the Marxists. There is no more sure way to ensure that a given country will fail in all social metrics than to select a place where the peoples are not too bright and then to impose both tribalism and Marxism upon the masses. The same theory applies for tribalism and Islam. Just look about anywhere in Africa or the Middle East for this proof.  For additional proof, we need only inspect the ghettos in Europe, mostly in France, Germany and England, where minorities collect to enjoy welfare and unearned handouts and cannot seem to fit into the cultural and economic structure of the local region. Such failure leads to riots and burning as many as 500 cars per night in Paris[4], a process that is directly related to cultural differences compounded by obtuse religious notions and lower cognitive skills.

This brings us to the ‘solution’ to the problem:

“A single clause in Point 19 of the communiqué issued by the G20 leaders amounts to revolution in the global financial order.

"We have agreed to support a general SDR allocation which will inject $250bn (£170bn) into the world economy and increase global liquidity," it said. SDRs are Special Drawing Rights, a synthetic paper currency issued by the International Monetary Fund that has lain dormant for half a century. ”[5]-- The G20 moves the world a step closer to a global currency by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 03 Apr 2009 [Emphasis is mine in all quotes.  This link references all quotes in this essay unless otherwise noted.]

The exciting part must be revealed when we learn who would fund these SDRs, who would authorize drawing upon these funds and who would get the loot. We all know who would fund this mess.  Think about the world voter base and how many would automatically vote against the Anglo-Saxon mentality that caused this problem. Would a billion Muslims tend to vote in a block?

“In effect, the G20 leaders have activated the IMF's power to create money and begin global "quantitative easing". In doing so, they are putting a de facto world currency into play. It is outside the control of any sovereign body. Conspiracy theorists will love it.”-- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 03 Apr 2009.

If only California and New York and New Jersey could print their own money! What prosperity we would have! What social splendor!  Well, CA did print IOUs for a while in lieu of tax returns. Let us not forget that.

Many third world countries have a massive stake in this:

“There is now a world currency in waiting. In time, SDRs are likely  to evolve into a parking place for the foreign holdings of central banks, led by the People's Bank of China. Beijing's moves this week to offer $95bn in yuan currency swaps to developing economies show how fast China aims to break dollar dependence.”-- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 03 Apr 2009.

“Hedge funds deemed "systemically important" will come under draconian restraints. How this is enforced will determine whether Mayfair's hedge-fund industry – 80pc of all European funds are there – will continue to flourish.”-- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard 03 Apr 2009.

Hiding money from oppressive taxes:

So tax havens will flourish under this scheme. Thus, Switzerland, the Caymans, Lichtenstein and other dirty money enclaves will have to make some tough decisions.  Hedge funds will migrate to other places from London. Have they forgotten that we now have a global economy? This will also create new sites for such money laundering and the drug cartels will provide the cash and protection to create new secret banks with their massive profits. Since the Islamic world does not believe in charging interest, it would only make sense that they join in with, say, Mexico’s drug cartels to set up banks around the world that can directly hide drug monies and also fund terrorism. All this may be, following the theme, conducted in a proper anti-Anglo-Saxon methodology.

Some famous non-Anglo-Saxon personalities and their histories:

Since the French and Germans and Chinese are in some kind of agreement here, we might wonder about a few notable ‘leaders’ in those Anglo-Saxon free countries from the past  like Marat of the French Revolution, Napoleon, Marshall Pétain, Hitler, Stalin, World War 1, 2 and other follies. How did these guys work out? Was there peace and prosperity?  Maybe Paris can become the center of the world’s culture as it was, briefly, in 1900.

The Future:

But, the best part will be when the US dollar is dumped as the key reserve currency in the world and the IMF starts to print money on its own subject to the whims and proclivities of the non Anglo-Saxon world. Trading in currencies might be just as exciting as equities in the future. We will witness new and electrifying versions of taxation and inflation. I wonder if we can short the IMF SDRs??

Exciting financial times are ahead.  Buy Gold.

rycK

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O’Bozo’s Tax Lies  Confirmed as We All Knew They Would Be

  The parasitic and l ynging lefitists have, as usual lied about tax hikes as we knew they would. They are a virulent social disease repleat with hollow rhteroric, respect for Marxism and terrorism and offer a plethora of lies about taxes. Here is the Obozo proof:

 “"I can make a firm pledge," he said in Dover, N.H., on Sept. 12. "Under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."

He repeatedly vowed "you will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."

Now in office, Obama, who stopped smoking but has admitted he slips now and then, signed a law raising the tobacco tax nearly 62 cents on a pack of cigarettes, to $1.01. Other tobacco products saw similarly steep increases.”[1]-- PROMISES, PROMISES: Obama tax pledge up in smoke

And Plugs [The Buffoon] responds with the same song as he hears his master’s voice:

“"Read my lips," Biden [this is the guy Plugs ed] said, using Bush's famous phrase while referring to a Barack Obama administration. "Nobody, nobody making less than $250,000 is going to see a penny of their taxes go up."[2]—Biden in an incoherent rant at some county fairgrounds near the campus of Ohio University in Athens on Oct 15, 2008.[3]

“There is now a half a world of persons who will be socially and economically mangled in this Depression and they will howl for our money. Where there is capital, as in our 401(k)s the world will root and toot and bawl for our money. Examples of Third World swarming masses that are now doing that include California, Michigan, New York and New Jersey. The illegal aliens are set to march in Washington on Jan 21, only 1 day after O’Bozo is elevated to the office of Commissar.

There will be howls to blame capitalism for this and grand speeches that sanction the confiscation of your savings and other assets”[4]

Could we expect anything else from a liberal Democrat other than sloth, sodomy, tax whoring or hate??

No, the proof is always there.

rycK

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The Leftist Parasites  Revel in Rage and Greed

Greedy and Marxist leftist parasites storm the bank in London is a fit if rage and greed. They want: "…only just, fair and sustainable policies can lead the world out of recession".[1]

We can easily translate that as: give the money to terrorists and pigs. Support dope sales, sloth, terrorism and sodomy and celebrate liberalism.

Here is a list of their groups: “The groups include the TUC, the Salvation Army, Friends of the Earth, Greenpeace, Oxfam, Tear Fund, the National Pensioners Convention, Stop Climate Chaos, Action Aid and the Muslim Council of Britain.”

I wonder where the Methodists are? Their ranks are infested with Marxists and parasites.

THE GENERAL DENUNCIATION OF THE BOOK OF RESOLUTIONS OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH [2][3]

The word ‘just’ here means the money of other people. Who said that socialism works until you run out of other people’s money?[4][5] Oh, that was Margaret Thatcher.

rycK