The Liberals and Conservatives who had the courage to stand against the monstrosity of the Bush/Frank Plutocratic bill that almost passed the House are the last vestiges of Congressional power and bravery left standing between American liberty and the Autocratic Plutocracy that appears to be the goal of the "moderates."
Despite catcalls from the financial media it is and has been THEY, the Bush/Frank allies, who have been idiotic, blind and negligent regarding the economy for EIGHT years!!! For that long we have heard the "fundamentals are sound", "housing will always rise", "stocks will always rise" etc etc.... Now, in the last 72 hours or so, these financial wizards have the utter gall and audacity to proclaim that the coming Depression (and it is just beginning) is the fault of the last vestiges of Legislative bravery left who voted down the bill, the last defenders of the Republic. These courageous Men and Women should be held UP, NOT torn down....they will be remembered as the last of those who truly deserve to be called United States Congressman.
Make no mistake about it....the long knives are now out. The Fed, the Banks, Bush/Cheney, The Republican Party, the Democratic Party and the fat and fetid wealthy cow that has been sucking the tit of the government for 100 years is now coalescing in a dirty alliance to destroy the Democratic Republic by blaming the Congress for the coming Depression, the Depression that was created by their own wallowing in the fetid slop of government deals, perks, kickbacks, contracts, tax breaks, and truly historically MASSIVE scandalous and criminal accumulation of debt.
You ask....what is my "solution"?? Here is my solution....good governance. Rally for the Republic. Get back to doing what government was created for.....DEFEND us against the gathering storm of our foreign enemies rapidly combining, conspiring and salivating over our supposed demise, PROTECT the Poor:the truly poor from the massive Depression about to descend upon us. The government must GET OUT of the business of subsidizing the Rich and Middle Class, that is unsustainable and leaves the poor and weak to fend for themselves. We need massive help for the rapidly increasing destitute citizens of this nation, but the government must make huge cuts in subsidies for Middle class and wealthy people and corporations.
Our government didn't get into the massive debt that is destroying us by helping poor people. It got into debt by wedding itself to already powerful people in an unholy alliance of the gold ringed hand of government washing the pink, scrubbed, fat hand of unearned wealth.
God Bless the Honorable Mike Pence, God Bless the Honorable Denis Kucinich, God Bless the Honorable Sheila Jackson Lee, God Bless the Honorable Ron Paul, God Bless Senator Jim Bunning, God Bless Mike Huckabee(the rightful vice-presidential nominee), and God Bless the American People who, at least for today, truly deserve to be called a Free People exercising their sovereign authority over the government. In this country THE PEOPLE ARE THE STATE!! NOT THE GOVERNMENT!! and the State is always supreme over the government.
At least for today I have some faith again that the country I used to believe in might still exist, that free institutions guided by a free constitution in the service of a Free Republic might still be possible. IF and only IF, the courage that the leaders mentioned above and others and of the People persists. The Democratic Republic is kept alive as long as the People DEMAND accountability from government. It is not cynicism that is demanded now but activism.
Now the battle is joined to defend the Republic and the long knives are out to destroy it. Those who guided us into this mess will use the disastrous economy created by them as a weapon to try to destroy Liberty and the Republic. Courage is all that is left to defend it. Get up, stand up, rise up......
John.
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
The Debate
Obama won the debate for the most part. McCain was not wiped out and had some moments, but was far too focused on Iraq.
Obama seems to really understand that the focus on Iraq, while tactically a minor victory for the US over the last year, has been a disaster strategically for the US for 5 years. Obama demonstrated this understanding with this line regarding increasing Chinese presence in Latin America,
"China's ubiquitousness in Latin America is overshadowed only by our absence."
Brilliant, straight to the point, and demonstrates an understanding of the current geostrategic situation that I was not aware he had in him. McCain did not comment on China at all, so focused was he on his talking points on the "surge."
Mrs. Palin, care to provide any thoughts regarding China?? "Thenks, buut........noe thenks."
Hope all is well, John.
Obama seems to really understand that the focus on Iraq, while tactically a minor victory for the US over the last year, has been a disaster strategically for the US for 5 years. Obama demonstrated this understanding with this line regarding increasing Chinese presence in Latin America,
"China's ubiquitousness in Latin America is overshadowed only by our absence."
Brilliant, straight to the point, and demonstrates an understanding of the current geostrategic situation that I was not aware he had in him. McCain did not comment on China at all, so focused was he on his talking points on the "surge."
Mrs. Palin, care to provide any thoughts regarding China?? "Thenks, buut........noe thenks."
Hope all is well, John.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
"We Are All Socialists Now"
Today on the Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC Rachel and Paul Krugman were somewhat gleefully proclaiming that "we are all Socialists now!!" The Left is definitely on the march and feeling its oats. My admonishment is, "be careful what you wish for."
Capitalism and Communism are not opposites. As Marxian philosophical constructs, they are necessities of one another. The initial error of the Communists in 1917 is that they tried to move Russia into Communism before it had ever experienced Capitalism. Therefore, Communism was imposed over an inherently weak semi-feudal system. Commuinism in China in 1949 suffered under similar circumstances.
Communism is not an economic system. It is a system that is anti-economical that can be imposed upon an economy. It is anti-economical in that it attempts to defy all the laws of economics. Embedded within the ideas of Communism are ideas regarding desirable economic outcomes, but it is not systemical in how those outcomes might be reached. Communism allows for many strategies and tactics to achieve itself over the long term. Communism is about the manipulation of human behavior, human culture, and human politics in order to reach economic ends that cannot possibly be reached by a faithfulness to basic economic laws. Capitalism is one such manipulation, or the USE of Capitalism. We cannot understand the age we are living in until we understand this paradox of Communism. Communism is strongest in its pre-economic manifestation, either before it has been implemented or when it is declared "dead". It begins to weaken as soon as it is attempted to be imposed upon an economy.
When understanding the above ideas, it puts what is happening in China, Russia and the US into a clarified perspective. Americans think that the Beijing regime simply pays lip service to Communism but is actually Capitalist. This is incorrect. Capitalism and Communism are not opposites. Capitalism is a specifiic type of economic system. Communism is a much broader idea than an economical one. Capitalism can be used to achieve Communist ends. Through the hard currency generated by controlled Capitalism, the Beijing regime has launched a massive military build-up started in 1987 that dwarfs that seen in Europe pre-World War I.
Understanding events in Russia today is also made more clear when understanding the interconnectedness of Communism and Capitalism. The introduction of "Capitalism" in Russia did not only occur in 1989. Lenin understood the concept with his New Economic Policy or NEP that unleashed controlled Capitalism. This generated much wealth allowing Lenin to consolidate his power over a hostile Russia.
Just as in Russia and China, in the US Capitalism and Communism are not opposites either. A hyper-Capitalist system designed to maximize consumer demand and stimulate consumption above all else can easily lead to Communism or as we like to call it "socialism". This is the way I understand the present idea to socialize the banking sector in the US. In order to stimulate maximum consumption of housing a hybrid quasi governmental system was rigged up called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to send home ownership and demand for homes to unprecedented heights. It was thought that ownership(Capitalism) could be turned to maximal public good by greasing the wheels with a small amount of government involvement. Capitalism is now metastisizing into socialism/Communism.
None of these domestic issues in China, Russia or the US are isolated from the geopolitical situation that is growing more tense by the hour. Today a "Capitalist Russia" has exported its organized criminals to the United States, and the West in general. Most, if not all, of these criminal structures are controlled by "former" KGB men. When considering that these Russian mafiyas are involved in drug-running, gun running, immigrant smuggling, bank fraud and theft and computer hacking it becomes reminiscent of pre-Revolutionary Russia, in which Lenin's party, the Bolshevik's, used terrorism, bank robbery, and extortion to destabilize the Czarist regime and gain access to enormous amounts of cash.
Today's events resemble a revolution on a global scale, a World Revolution. Terrorism and organized crime were the same tactics used to promote national revolution in the 20th century and today in the 21st they are being used to promote global revolution.
Marx's belief was that only when Capitalism had become global would a global revolution become possible through economic collapse. Lenin devised an accelerated strategy to by-pass the Capitalist stage of Marxian evolution and go right to the Communist stage. He used terrorism and organized crime to push the Revolution forward. Today we see a blending of this Marxist/Leninist strategy across the entire globe. We see a world where global Capitalism is collapsing of its own weight and destabilizing terrorism and geopolitical tensions are expanding at an exponential rate. The collapse has begun. What will rise from the rubble is unknown.
Somehow I think Marx and Lenin would feel right at home in the world today.
John.
Capitalism and Communism are not opposites. As Marxian philosophical constructs, they are necessities of one another. The initial error of the Communists in 1917 is that they tried to move Russia into Communism before it had ever experienced Capitalism. Therefore, Communism was imposed over an inherently weak semi-feudal system. Commuinism in China in 1949 suffered under similar circumstances.
Communism is not an economic system. It is a system that is anti-economical that can be imposed upon an economy. It is anti-economical in that it attempts to defy all the laws of economics. Embedded within the ideas of Communism are ideas regarding desirable economic outcomes, but it is not systemical in how those outcomes might be reached. Communism allows for many strategies and tactics to achieve itself over the long term. Communism is about the manipulation of human behavior, human culture, and human politics in order to reach economic ends that cannot possibly be reached by a faithfulness to basic economic laws. Capitalism is one such manipulation, or the USE of Capitalism. We cannot understand the age we are living in until we understand this paradox of Communism. Communism is strongest in its pre-economic manifestation, either before it has been implemented or when it is declared "dead". It begins to weaken as soon as it is attempted to be imposed upon an economy.
When understanding the above ideas, it puts what is happening in China, Russia and the US into a clarified perspective. Americans think that the Beijing regime simply pays lip service to Communism but is actually Capitalist. This is incorrect. Capitalism and Communism are not opposites. Capitalism is a specifiic type of economic system. Communism is a much broader idea than an economical one. Capitalism can be used to achieve Communist ends. Through the hard currency generated by controlled Capitalism, the Beijing regime has launched a massive military build-up started in 1987 that dwarfs that seen in Europe pre-World War I.
Understanding events in Russia today is also made more clear when understanding the interconnectedness of Communism and Capitalism. The introduction of "Capitalism" in Russia did not only occur in 1989. Lenin understood the concept with his New Economic Policy or NEP that unleashed controlled Capitalism. This generated much wealth allowing Lenin to consolidate his power over a hostile Russia.
Just as in Russia and China, in the US Capitalism and Communism are not opposites either. A hyper-Capitalist system designed to maximize consumer demand and stimulate consumption above all else can easily lead to Communism or as we like to call it "socialism". This is the way I understand the present idea to socialize the banking sector in the US. In order to stimulate maximum consumption of housing a hybrid quasi governmental system was rigged up called Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to send home ownership and demand for homes to unprecedented heights. It was thought that ownership(Capitalism) could be turned to maximal public good by greasing the wheels with a small amount of government involvement. Capitalism is now metastisizing into socialism/Communism.
None of these domestic issues in China, Russia or the US are isolated from the geopolitical situation that is growing more tense by the hour. Today a "Capitalist Russia" has exported its organized criminals to the United States, and the West in general. Most, if not all, of these criminal structures are controlled by "former" KGB men. When considering that these Russian mafiyas are involved in drug-running, gun running, immigrant smuggling, bank fraud and theft and computer hacking it becomes reminiscent of pre-Revolutionary Russia, in which Lenin's party, the Bolshevik's, used terrorism, bank robbery, and extortion to destabilize the Czarist regime and gain access to enormous amounts of cash.
Today's events resemble a revolution on a global scale, a World Revolution. Terrorism and organized crime were the same tactics used to promote national revolution in the 20th century and today in the 21st they are being used to promote global revolution.
Marx's belief was that only when Capitalism had become global would a global revolution become possible through economic collapse. Lenin devised an accelerated strategy to by-pass the Capitalist stage of Marxian evolution and go right to the Communist stage. He used terrorism and organized crime to push the Revolution forward. Today we see a blending of this Marxist/Leninist strategy across the entire globe. We see a world where global Capitalism is collapsing of its own weight and destabilizing terrorism and geopolitical tensions are expanding at an exponential rate. The collapse has begun. What will rise from the rubble is unknown.
Somehow I think Marx and Lenin would feel right at home in the world today.
John.
Friday, September 19, 2008
A Self Evident Truth
The current "plan" to "fix" the financial disaster unfolding before our eyes will end itself in disaster which will compound the disaster it was designed to remedy. The emergency plan might halt the collapse of the banking system temporarily (six weeks at most), but the collapse will simply spill over into another area, probably the US dollar. Therefore, a banking crisis and dollar crisis will manifest themselves.
One cannot solve a problem by avoiding the responsibility of those who are responsible from paying the price and shifting that burden onto the entire economy in the form of endless billions shelled out to cover bad loans. The utter lunacy of the plan is that the US government itself even before any bailout was on the way to needing to be bailed out itself, trillions in debt.
When the government itself needs to be bailed out, who will do the bailing??
John.
One cannot solve a problem by avoiding the responsibility of those who are responsible from paying the price and shifting that burden onto the entire economy in the form of endless billions shelled out to cover bad loans. The utter lunacy of the plan is that the US government itself even before any bailout was on the way to needing to be bailed out itself, trillions in debt.
When the government itself needs to be bailed out, who will do the bailing??
John.
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Emerson
"Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it."
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
McCain's High Point
The current few days is the high point of the campaign for McCain. The poll that had him up by 10 among likely voters simply shows how much polsters are unsure of who will come to vote. The idea that that poll has any reality to it is purely a McCain fantasy.
In the gallup poll, (McCain 50%, Obama 46%) that is about where it was in February and this is right after McCain's convention. The preponderance of events over the next two months will inviteably move the numbers in Obama's favor. This will be Obama 51 McCain 45 or 46. Historically that is a close American election in the modern era since 1896. BTW before 2000 and 2004 there had never been two elections in a row that were less than 5% wins for the winning candidate (that is since 1896, the first election in which both parties morphed into some semblance of their policy positions today) What are the chances that we will have a third in a row?? Not very good because trends in states tend to break in one direction or another after two election cycles. Trends today are breaking left, not right. So....the possibility of McCain winning by more than 5% cannot be dismissed but is highly unlikely.
It is true that since 1992 we are in an era of close elections. However, the stategic circumstances driving this election all favor Obama. The historical trends in the country that exist today causing rifts in cultural outlooks will keep the election relatively close, but in the end the strategic circumstances will not be able to be overcome by McCain. So....Obama by 5 or 6%, a close election by historical standards but a "landslide" compared to recent elections.
Most are giving Palin way too much credit. She is a paper mache candidate. Once she makes one mistake on a major point or issue she will rapidly become a caricature of herself. To be kind, her personality is an acquired taste and she is full of "irrational exhuberance", so to speak, quite literally in judging by her religious views. In the last 3 weeks of any campaign, after the VP debate the VP picks are virtual ghosts and ALL attention is focused back on the top of the ticket. That is when Obama will pull away a little bit, to an 8 or 9 point lead. It will be closer on election day, lets be honest for "cultural" ie racial reasons.
In my opinion the reason McCain has risen is not Palin, Palin is a divisive figure and would not be responsible for such a rise. The reason is McCain. His speech was good. It moved me, a person not inclined to support him (and not to support Barack either). My Dad was crying. The man is an impressive person even if you don't like him. Palin is a silly joke. Obama should laugh her off and simply call her out of her cloistered coccoon of irrationality and imbecility and sappy, snotty retorts and chanllenge her to answer questions and then question McCain's judgement for choosing such a non-entity.
My two cents.
Hope all is well.
John.
In the gallup poll, (McCain 50%, Obama 46%) that is about where it was in February and this is right after McCain's convention. The preponderance of events over the next two months will inviteably move the numbers in Obama's favor. This will be Obama 51 McCain 45 or 46. Historically that is a close American election in the modern era since 1896. BTW before 2000 and 2004 there had never been two elections in a row that were less than 5% wins for the winning candidate (that is since 1896, the first election in which both parties morphed into some semblance of their policy positions today) What are the chances that we will have a third in a row?? Not very good because trends in states tend to break in one direction or another after two election cycles. Trends today are breaking left, not right. So....the possibility of McCain winning by more than 5% cannot be dismissed but is highly unlikely.
It is true that since 1992 we are in an era of close elections. However, the stategic circumstances driving this election all favor Obama. The historical trends in the country that exist today causing rifts in cultural outlooks will keep the election relatively close, but in the end the strategic circumstances will not be able to be overcome by McCain. So....Obama by 5 or 6%, a close election by historical standards but a "landslide" compared to recent elections.
Most are giving Palin way too much credit. She is a paper mache candidate. Once she makes one mistake on a major point or issue she will rapidly become a caricature of herself. To be kind, her personality is an acquired taste and she is full of "irrational exhuberance", so to speak, quite literally in judging by her religious views. In the last 3 weeks of any campaign, after the VP debate the VP picks are virtual ghosts and ALL attention is focused back on the top of the ticket. That is when Obama will pull away a little bit, to an 8 or 9 point lead. It will be closer on election day, lets be honest for "cultural" ie racial reasons.
In my opinion the reason McCain has risen is not Palin, Palin is a divisive figure and would not be responsible for such a rise. The reason is McCain. His speech was good. It moved me, a person not inclined to support him (and not to support Barack either). My Dad was crying. The man is an impressive person even if you don't like him. Palin is a silly joke. Obama should laugh her off and simply call her out of her cloistered coccoon of irrationality and imbecility and sappy, snotty retorts and chanllenge her to answer questions and then question McCain's judgement for choosing such a non-entity.
My two cents.
Hope all is well.
John.
Thursday, September 4, 2008
Crisis for Stocks
The US stock market is approaching a crisis point. Commodity prices are collapsing. The 10-year bond yield is indicating problems coming for stocks. It is now only about 3.74%.
In the next 6 to 8 weeks a serious downward spiral will begin of at least 12to 15% by the end of the year. perhaps more. It will be below 9,000 by January. This will have tumultuous political and geopolitical consequences, and obviously economic consequences.
John.
In the next 6 to 8 weeks a serious downward spiral will begin of at least 12to 15% by the end of the year. perhaps more. It will be below 9,000 by January. This will have tumultuous political and geopolitical consequences, and obviously economic consequences.
John.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Phony Outrage Convention
Both political parties use manufactured "outrage" ginned up by their leadership in order to increase turnout in elections.
The Republicans have now made an entire convention based upon this most childish, ignorant and unfortunately usually effective political tactic.
To be "outraged" over questioning a questionably qualified person for the Vice-Presidency is the height of fake, plastic phony outrage. You have to be a complete ignoramus to be moved by this.
I not only question Palin's ability to be President, I question her ability to be Vice-President, which especially with Cheney has become a critical job. Cheney is now on a critical mission in the Caucasus. Could Palin credibly even think about such a mission??
To be outraged over that question is to question the very reason for a free press in this Republic.
John.
The Republicans have now made an entire convention based upon this most childish, ignorant and unfortunately usually effective political tactic.
To be "outraged" over questioning a questionably qualified person for the Vice-Presidency is the height of fake, plastic phony outrage. You have to be a complete ignoramus to be moved by this.
I not only question Palin's ability to be President, I question her ability to be Vice-President, which especially with Cheney has become a critical job. Cheney is now on a critical mission in the Caucasus. Could Palin credibly even think about such a mission??
To be outraged over that question is to question the very reason for a free press in this Republic.
John.
The Approaching Chaos in Ukraine
The Caucasus chaos will soon spread to Ukraine. The political coalition of President Yushchenko has just broken apart. The Prime Minister, a former Yushchenko ally has broken from him. Yushchenko is the supposedly "pro-Western" President that the Russians tried to poison to death a few years back and succeeded in giving him a horrible acne problem.
The chaos in Ukraine is just beginning, just in time for Cheney's arrival, and at a most convenient time for Russia.
John.
The chaos in Ukraine is just beginning, just in time for Cheney's arrival, and at a most convenient time for Russia.
John.
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