Mahathir blasts Israeli terror
Ghazanfar Ali Khan | Arab News
http://arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=118664&d=29&m=1&y=2009&pix=kingdom.jpg&category=Kingdom
It is sad that we don not find the same moral courage in Muslim leaders when these same crimes are committed by Muslim leaders against their own people, Sudan would be an example, Egypt would be another. And how about trying Islamic terrorists who commit crimes against Muslims and non-Muslims, in Islamic lands and other places. How many Muslim countries have denounced the killing of the Dutch film maker's killer? How many did speak out when Iran released a fatwa against Suleman Rushdi? How many are speaking out against the Taliban and Al Qaeda attacks in Pakistan, where are the Muslim leaders who condemn the honor killings of MUslim girls, and their stonings, If Mr Mahatir were an honest man , may be the West would listen.
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Wednesday, January 28, 2009
STIMULUS PLAN IV
01/28/2009
STIMULUS PLAN IV
Where are we? What happened to the "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN"? With the confirmation of Timothy Geithner to the Treasury Mr. Obama has shown that he himself does not believe in change.
And what is with this spending, may I spell it out again for the umpteenth time?
We are here because of the spending, and no matter how many jobs are to be created, they will by design all be temporary, infra -structure spending, education spending tax cuts, all increasing the budget deficit will also increase the trade deficits, if as planned the Americans go on a shopping spree, the real jobs will all be created overseas , in manufacturing. What we need is to revive our manufacturing base, not hiring more people to change diapers of the elderly, or for making coffee. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE WHAT WE CONSUME!
But lest we forget, our problems of pollution, of obesity, of disease are directly related to our consumption. The bigger houses, cars, longevity are all contributors to the pollution of the air and water and the seas. Our crime rates, drug abuse, murder, suicide, child abuse, teen pregnancy, aids, are all related to the exponential growth in population over the past fifty years or so. The increase in population itself is the main if not the sole cause of global warming.
STIMULUS PLAN IV
Where are we? What happened to the "CHANGE YOU CAN BELIEVE IN"? With the confirmation of Timothy Geithner to the Treasury Mr. Obama has shown that he himself does not believe in change.
And what is with this spending, may I spell it out again for the umpteenth time?
We are here because of the spending, and no matter how many jobs are to be created, they will by design all be temporary, infra -structure spending, education spending tax cuts, all increasing the budget deficit will also increase the trade deficits, if as planned the Americans go on a shopping spree, the real jobs will all be created overseas , in manufacturing. What we need is to revive our manufacturing base, not hiring more people to change diapers of the elderly, or for making coffee. WE NEED TO BE ABLE TO PRODUCE WHAT WE CONSUME!
But lest we forget, our problems of pollution, of obesity, of disease are directly related to our consumption. The bigger houses, cars, longevity are all contributors to the pollution of the air and water and the seas. Our crime rates, drug abuse, murder, suicide, child abuse, teen pregnancy, aids, are all related to the exponential growth in population over the past fifty years or so. The increase in population itself is the main if not the sole cause of global warming.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
STIMULUS PLAN III
01/27/2009
STIMULUS PLAN III
President Obama says that he will spend eight hundred twenty five billion dollars to create four million new jobs. I have an idea that will actually work, and may be even increase the income of the government. Before everyone goes crazy and jumps in my "stuff" please think this thru. Congress should immediately pass the law and the president should sign the law rescinding the last increase on the minimum wage to seven dollars and twenty five cents.
It sounds crazy, since I had propsed a rise in minimum wage to eight fifty back in two thousand and six, but the times have changed, the economy is changed and the world has changed. This small increase will save many jobs with the businesses that are already on the brink.
STIMULUS PLAN III
President Obama says that he will spend eight hundred twenty five billion dollars to create four million new jobs. I have an idea that will actually work, and may be even increase the income of the government. Before everyone goes crazy and jumps in my "stuff" please think this thru. Congress should immediately pass the law and the president should sign the law rescinding the last increase on the minimum wage to seven dollars and twenty five cents.
It sounds crazy, since I had propsed a rise in minimum wage to eight fifty back in two thousand and six, but the times have changed, the economy is changed and the world has changed. This small increase will save many jobs with the businesses that are already on the brink.
HONOR AMONG THIEVES
01/27/2009
HONOR AMONG THIEVES
Here is one for the history books! Unless you believe that the senators of the United States are all so pure and innocent that they just could not believe Timothy Geithner is a crook and a liar, you must believe that they are just as crooked. Timothy Geithner has been caught cheating on his taxes people, are you stupid?
Well you can say only a scammer will know how the scam is working ala "Catch Me If You Can", then Timothy Geithner is the only one for the job of the treasurer of the United States cause the SOB has been in on the scam from the get go, then just say it . Why else he is the only one among the three hundred million plus Americans who is qualified? Or is it that Mr. Obama already finds himself over his head in the den of thieves called "Washington".
HONOR AMONG THIEVES
Here is one for the history books! Unless you believe that the senators of the United States are all so pure and innocent that they just could not believe Timothy Geithner is a crook and a liar, you must believe that they are just as crooked. Timothy Geithner has been caught cheating on his taxes people, are you stupid?
Well you can say only a scammer will know how the scam is working ala "Catch Me If You Can", then Timothy Geithner is the only one for the job of the treasurer of the United States cause the SOB has been in on the scam from the get go, then just say it . Why else he is the only one among the three hundred million plus Americans who is qualified? Or is it that Mr. Obama already finds himself over his head in the den of thieves called "Washington".
Monday, January 26, 2009
STIMULUS PLAN
STIMULUS PLAN
01/26/2009
Can not say one again, as the debate is continuous. No one cares where the eight hundred billion is coming from, and how it will be spent. The Democrats want to give the money away, in needless jobs being created, and the Republicans want to give tax breaks both are lying.
I f we spend money on health care, or education or on roads to no where , what will happen when the money is spent? Will be richer for it? Will the economy take off? The answer is NO! We need to have a new model of the economy, not based on consumerism. We need to recognize the FACT that spending money does not make you rich, especially if the money is created by the government (deficit spending). Do we not recognize the fact that our dream of being the richest nation on earth, ever, was a hallucination based on the money government was spending, money that was created from thin air.
When do we ever learn, how will this spending plan take us out of the economic quagmire.
I have always argued that we have too many toys, we reward people for stupidity, and not just on reality shows. We rewarded, handsomely the fools on the Wall Street, for years! We rewarded incompetence by bankers and politicians and lobbyists. And we rewarded our goofy screw up kids by showering them with gizmos that made them even stupider. We rewarded nincompoops writing sitcoms, and rewarded Howard Stern and Madonna Snoop Dog etc. for destroying the culture and the society. And the list could go on.
May be it is time to reinstitute the "Fear of Flying".
We are at the verge of the depression that I have been warning about for many years, how do you bail out auto industry when people have no many to buy cars, or work in health care when everyone is losing their job and insurance?
01/26/2009
Can not say one again, as the debate is continuous. No one cares where the eight hundred billion is coming from, and how it will be spent. The Democrats want to give the money away, in needless jobs being created, and the Republicans want to give tax breaks both are lying.
I f we spend money on health care, or education or on roads to no where , what will happen when the money is spent? Will be richer for it? Will the economy take off? The answer is NO! We need to have a new model of the economy, not based on consumerism. We need to recognize the FACT that spending money does not make you rich, especially if the money is created by the government (deficit spending). Do we not recognize the fact that our dream of being the richest nation on earth, ever, was a hallucination based on the money government was spending, money that was created from thin air.
When do we ever learn, how will this spending plan take us out of the economic quagmire.
I have always argued that we have too many toys, we reward people for stupidity, and not just on reality shows. We rewarded, handsomely the fools on the Wall Street, for years! We rewarded incompetence by bankers and politicians and lobbyists. And we rewarded our goofy screw up kids by showering them with gizmos that made them even stupider. We rewarded nincompoops writing sitcoms, and rewarded Howard Stern and Madonna Snoop Dog etc. for destroying the culture and the society. And the list could go on.
May be it is time to reinstitute the "Fear of Flying".
We are at the verge of the depression that I have been warning about for many years, how do you bail out auto industry when people have no many to buy cars, or work in health care when everyone is losing their job and insurance?
Thursday, January 22, 2009
ABOUT GAZA
01/23-2009
ABOUT GAZA
Tragedy is not that this has happened, or that this could happen, the tragedy is that this will happen again, and again and again. And that the Islamic countries, the US, the Europeans and the UN will all be shedding crocodile tears once more. No one can control Hammas ( the Palestinians) and its "uncivilized" terrorists, and no one wants to control the "civilized" Israeli response. I don't claim to know that if the conditions in Gaza were any better there won't be any " terrorists, but I do know that so long as Israel continues to run her concentration camps for the Islamists there will not be any peace.
ABOUT GAZA
Tragedy is not that this has happened, or that this could happen, the tragedy is that this will happen again, and again and again. And that the Islamic countries, the US, the Europeans and the UN will all be shedding crocodile tears once more. No one can control Hammas ( the Palestinians) and its "uncivilized" terrorists, and no one wants to control the "civilized" Israeli response. I don't claim to know that if the conditions in Gaza were any better there won't be any " terrorists, but I do know that so long as Israel continues to run her concentration camps for the Islamists there will not be any peace.
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
WE ARE ALL VICTIMS NOW
01/21/2009
WE ARE ALL VICTIMS NOW
One thing we are not short of, in this society, is off those who are a victim. Victims of bad education, of bad parents, of bad parenting, of bad children, of bad government. We are victims bad loans, bad credit card debts, bad student loans, and bad politicians. We are victims of lousy jobs and sorry bosses and bad relationships.
I have listended to the talk radio, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk railing about how the left is pandering to this "victim hood" mentality, while the right, or more specifically the Republicans such a mind set.
But wait, listen and read between the lines, if you happen to be a Republican and please don't feel left out now. What Neal and Rush don't want you to notice is that they are telling you how YOU in your own pittyful little sleves are being victimized by the "great wild left".
You my friends of the right ward persuations, are victims of the biased media, of the Holywood lefties who come around force you to turn on your TV sets, teach your daughters bad things. You are victims of unions and the ACLU and NPR, and the liberal news papers.
You my friends, the listeners of the talk radio, and making less than seventy thousand dollars a year are paying high taxes, while the rich liberals making less than seventy thousand a year pay no taxes atall. And if Obama passes a tax cut for the middle class, making less than two hundred grand a year, you will be left out of the largesse, since it will all go to the people on welfare.
And if you bought a house within last couple of years that you are unable to pay for, the Republican party will disown you since you are a welfare scum and most likely live in a ghetto, and should not have been able to get a loan in the first place. And did you know that if you make less than fifty thousand a year and by definition don't pay any federal income taxes in the first place Republican party wants you to send back your membership card too.
WE ARE ALL VICTIMS NOW
One thing we are not short of, in this society, is off those who are a victim. Victims of bad education, of bad parents, of bad parenting, of bad children, of bad government. We are victims bad loans, bad credit card debts, bad student loans, and bad politicians. We are victims of lousy jobs and sorry bosses and bad relationships.
I have listended to the talk radio, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh and their ilk railing about how the left is pandering to this "victim hood" mentality, while the right, or more specifically the Republicans such a mind set.
But wait, listen and read between the lines, if you happen to be a Republican and please don't feel left out now. What Neal and Rush don't want you to notice is that they are telling you how YOU in your own pittyful little sleves are being victimized by the "great wild left".
You my friends of the right ward persuations, are victims of the biased media, of the Holywood lefties who come around force you to turn on your TV sets, teach your daughters bad things. You are victims of unions and the ACLU and NPR, and the liberal news papers.
You my friends, the listeners of the talk radio, and making less than seventy thousand dollars a year are paying high taxes, while the rich liberals making less than seventy thousand a year pay no taxes atall. And if Obama passes a tax cut for the middle class, making less than two hundred grand a year, you will be left out of the largesse, since it will all go to the people on welfare.
And if you bought a house within last couple of years that you are unable to pay for, the Republican party will disown you since you are a welfare scum and most likely live in a ghetto, and should not have been able to get a loan in the first place. And did you know that if you make less than fifty thousand a year and by definition don't pay any federal income taxes in the first place Republican party wants you to send back your membership card too.
BACK TO POLITICS
01/22/2009
BACK TO POLITICS
No I did not give up writing, but you have been busy too, watching too much BS. Did you not know that Obama is black? Or was it the news lately that he had won the presidency? Or that Martin Luther King was one of the great leader of his community and of this country, and that Dr King had paved the way for Obama to become president. So what was this over doing of the same old hash and rehash.
Oh yes, you are brain dead, and the media knows this.
Nothing else was going on in the world, but that since the first of the year we were going to have a black president, and the world stood still, even poor ole Martin did not matter any more.
Did we not already congratulate ourselves enough? Can we just move on along please?
BACK TO POLITICS
No I did not give up writing, but you have been busy too, watching too much BS. Did you not know that Obama is black? Or was it the news lately that he had won the presidency? Or that Martin Luther King was one of the great leader of his community and of this country, and that Dr King had paved the way for Obama to become president. So what was this over doing of the same old hash and rehash.
Oh yes, you are brain dead, and the media knows this.
Nothing else was going on in the world, but that since the first of the year we were going to have a black president, and the world stood still, even poor ole Martin did not matter any more.
Did we not already congratulate ourselves enough? Can we just move on along please?
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
AN APOCALYPSE, LATER! II
01/14/2009
AN APOCALYPSE, LATER! II
When will it happen, the Apocalypse, the people would ask the prophets. But the prophets would not say, (so the stories go).
And I have warned, for years, of the coming economic collapse, the ruin of society and culture, and how one and the others are intertwined. The destruction of morals, the destruction of education, the enslaving of females in the name of freedom, and the destruction of the planet and the life there on by science and technology.
The economic collapse that will be followed by the collapse of society, the collapse of the rule of law, as greedy and or hungry masses roam out of control of a government too broke to function. The money that is to be spent on the infra structure is bound to be looted by the corrupt system of government and the so called contractors, who have been feeding at the trough of the government for years, at all levels, leaving little for the masses. And soon enough the government will be out of money, unable to repay her loans and then unable to borrow, printing new money will not be an option as the new money will be as worthless as the old one it will be trying to replace or to add to.
So when will be this day of judgement? The day that civilization collapses. Have you ever heard of a date called, 21 Dercmeber 2012? Could this date have a real meaning?
AN APOCALYPSE, LATER! II
When will it happen, the Apocalypse, the people would ask the prophets. But the prophets would not say, (so the stories go).
And I have warned, for years, of the coming economic collapse, the ruin of society and culture, and how one and the others are intertwined. The destruction of morals, the destruction of education, the enslaving of females in the name of freedom, and the destruction of the planet and the life there on by science and technology.
The economic collapse that will be followed by the collapse of society, the collapse of the rule of law, as greedy and or hungry masses roam out of control of a government too broke to function. The money that is to be spent on the infra structure is bound to be looted by the corrupt system of government and the so called contractors, who have been feeding at the trough of the government for years, at all levels, leaving little for the masses. And soon enough the government will be out of money, unable to repay her loans and then unable to borrow, printing new money will not be an option as the new money will be as worthless as the old one it will be trying to replace or to add to.
So when will be this day of judgement? The day that civilization collapses. Have you ever heard of a date called, 21 Dercmeber 2012? Could this date have a real meaning?
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
AN APOCALYPSE, LATER!
01/12/2009
AN APOCALYPSE , LATER!
I am not person that has given up on hope. And that is the reason that I still keep writing here. Over years , you would have thought someone would have come along and really paid attention, and would have read through some of this material , available here, free of charge or even an expectation of recognition, yet I keep writing , hoping someone will come across this and read it and may be even counter what I say.
When Mr. Bush proposed his first bail out package, I had mentioned that the effort would be futile and we should not borrow any more money to pay for the so called stimulus as the money would just be transferred to the The Chinese and the gulf states. I was proven correct.
I had left the post below, "why am I the prophet", up for a few days, hoping to get some one's attention, but for naught. The idea is that the government is fooling us as they are fooling their selves in believing that there is a possible solution to the mess we have created. If throwing money at the problem was any solution then why the seven trillion dollars ( off the books mind you!) have made not a difference? Here is one more, http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/13/news/economy/treasury_budget_deficit_Dec08/index.htm?postversion=2009011314
are we there yet?
We want to believe in lies, watching the so called "Reality Shows" has made us believe that lies are the truths and we will countenance the consequences of our own inaction, our own failures, soon.
In 2003, in the article titles "The New World Order" I had brought up the point that we can not afford to give everyone a home, a job, provide electricity and food without destroying the planet, it is true even today, only now it includes YOU in the EVERYONE. get it?
In my post here, on 09/04/2008, "What McCain Needs To Say", I predicted that Obama could not implement his universal health care plan , because there is no money, now you have seen Obama backing off on his promise, even before he has taken the office.
It is not that the current crisis could not have been foreseen, it is that you were not told that this is where you were being led, by design!
The budget deficit for fiscal 2009 is now projected to be 1.2 trillion dollars, it will, as I told you long time ago, actually be two trillion dollars when you add in the proposed 700 billion dollar fiscal stimulus. And as we are told it will be like this for the foreseeable future.
How will it be paid back? Is there a plan? When will the economy recover? Does anyone know?
Actually there is none, and we know that, and the consequence will be as Obama told you that everyone will have to make sacrifices, Do you know what that means? It means, and as i said to you before that you will have a much lower standard of living from now on. Like I told you that the computer you are sitting in front of may be the last computer you will ever own, (Death of a Civilization , posted 11/16/2008)
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
that the car you are driving may be the last car you ever bought. That is what Obama said.
AN APOCALYPSE , LATER!
I am not person that has given up on hope. And that is the reason that I still keep writing here. Over years , you would have thought someone would have come along and really paid attention, and would have read through some of this material , available here, free of charge or even an expectation of recognition, yet I keep writing , hoping someone will come across this and read it and may be even counter what I say.
When Mr. Bush proposed his first bail out package, I had mentioned that the effort would be futile and we should not borrow any more money to pay for the so called stimulus as the money would just be transferred to the The Chinese and the gulf states. I was proven correct.
I had left the post below, "why am I the prophet", up for a few days, hoping to get some one's attention, but for naught. The idea is that the government is fooling us as they are fooling their selves in believing that there is a possible solution to the mess we have created. If throwing money at the problem was any solution then why the seven trillion dollars ( off the books mind you!) have made not a difference? Here is one more, http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/13/news/economy/treasury_budget_deficit_Dec08/index.htm?postversion=2009011314
are we there yet?
We want to believe in lies, watching the so called "Reality Shows" has made us believe that lies are the truths and we will countenance the consequences of our own inaction, our own failures, soon.
In 2003, in the article titles "The New World Order" I had brought up the point that we can not afford to give everyone a home, a job, provide electricity and food without destroying the planet, it is true even today, only now it includes YOU in the EVERYONE. get it?
In my post here, on 09/04/2008, "What McCain Needs To Say", I predicted that Obama could not implement his universal health care plan , because there is no money, now you have seen Obama backing off on his promise, even before he has taken the office.
It is not that the current crisis could not have been foreseen, it is that you were not told that this is where you were being led, by design!
The budget deficit for fiscal 2009 is now projected to be 1.2 trillion dollars, it will, as I told you long time ago, actually be two trillion dollars when you add in the proposed 700 billion dollar fiscal stimulus. And as we are told it will be like this for the foreseeable future.
How will it be paid back? Is there a plan? When will the economy recover? Does anyone know?
Actually there is none, and we know that, and the consequence will be as Obama told you that everyone will have to make sacrifices, Do you know what that means? It means, and as i said to you before that you will have a much lower standard of living from now on. Like I told you that the computer you are sitting in front of may be the last computer you will ever own, (Death of a Civilization , posted 11/16/2008)
http://tombstone001.blogspot.com/2008_11_01_archive.html
that the car you are driving may be the last car you ever bought. That is what Obama said.
Friday, January 09, 2009
why am I the prophet
http://money.cnn.com/2007/08/08/news/economy/bush/index.htm
Bush: U.S. economy is thriving
The president credits tax cuts with helping the U.S. economy grow.
August 8 2007: 2:35 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. economy is thriving and he is doing what it takes to keep it strong.
The president spoke with economic advisors at the Department of Treasury and discussed how the United States' economy has flourished and played an important role globally.
"My administration follows a simple philosophy: Our economy prospers when we trust the American people with their own paychecks," Bush said.
In his remarks, Bush said tax cuts let Americans keep their own money and he would veto Congress' choice to raise taxes because it has helped the economy grow.
Bush quoted Paulson as saying, "This is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime."
Bush: U.S. economy is thriving
The president credits tax cuts with helping the U.S. economy grow.
August 8 2007: 2:35 PM EDT
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Bush said Wednesday the U.S. economy is thriving and he is doing what it takes to keep it strong.
The president spoke with economic advisors at the Department of Treasury and discussed how the United States' economy has flourished and played an important role globally.
"My administration follows a simple philosophy: Our economy prospers when we trust the American people with their own paychecks," Bush said.
In his remarks, Bush said tax cuts let Americans keep their own money and he would veto Congress' choice to raise taxes because it has helped the economy grow.
Bush quoted Paulson as saying, "This is far and away the strongest global economy I've seen in my business lifetime."
WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE III
01/09/2009
WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE III
In the ancient texts, the people of nations were punished for their vile acts by "gods". They were visited upon by plagues, and calamities, and natural disasters.
Even today, nature has a way to exact revenge upon people for their transgressions. If African, or Asian countries become immoral, they are ruled upon by dictators, they are visited upon by disease and civil wars. Are we far from reaching the same ending?
WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE III
In the ancient texts, the people of nations were punished for their vile acts by "gods". They were visited upon by plagues, and calamities, and natural disasters.
Even today, nature has a way to exact revenge upon people for their transgressions. If African, or Asian countries become immoral, they are ruled upon by dictators, they are visited upon by disease and civil wars. Are we far from reaching the same ending?
WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE II
01/09/2009
WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE II
"We will make some more", the phrase actually comes from an old "Doritos" commercial that said, " eat all you want, we will make some more". Today the phrase seems to apply to our fiscal policies, the fiscal stimulus plans, last but not in the least to the humanity's urges to make more babies.
What are the consequences of such, we keep increasing the deficit, of course it will be all paid back, right? I think not, we already know that people are losing jobs, not paying taxes, thus not paying into social security, and living longer. What will happen in the real world, as opposed to wishful thinking is the debt will keep increasing till no one will loan us any money, and the countries and people who are "loaning" us money will no longer want us to live high on the hog.
Money, as we are spending in the way we want to eat "Doritos" has consequences, as eating too many "Doritos" may well give you a stomach ache, or even diarreah, the consequences of this spending will be much more severe.
WE WILL MAKE SOME MORE II
"We will make some more", the phrase actually comes from an old "Doritos" commercial that said, " eat all you want, we will make some more". Today the phrase seems to apply to our fiscal policies, the fiscal stimulus plans, last but not in the least to the humanity's urges to make more babies.
What are the consequences of such, we keep increasing the deficit, of course it will be all paid back, right? I think not, we already know that people are losing jobs, not paying taxes, thus not paying into social security, and living longer. What will happen in the real world, as opposed to wishful thinking is the debt will keep increasing till no one will loan us any money, and the countries and people who are "loaning" us money will no longer want us to live high on the hog.
Money, as we are spending in the way we want to eat "Doritos" has consequences, as eating too many "Doritos" may well give you a stomach ache, or even diarreah, the consequences of this spending will be much more severe.
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
WE WILL MAKE MORE
01/06/2009
WE WILL MAKE MORE!
I know, I know, I should write more, tell you more, ask you to think some more, listen to you some more and write to the politicians some more.
Here we are, in a brand new year, two weeks from the new president taking the office, economy in a mess, Middle East on fire, again!, Iraqis killing each other, as well the Pakistanis and the Afghans. The Africans committing genocide, of their own, and the Jews and the Arabs. Stuff is getting so boring! A new year, the year for "change" and nothing HAS changed! It is ever harder to find the motivation, to write something new that is not a repetition of what I have already written about and therefore predicted. The cancer spreads.
If you have been waiting for, searching for or looking for a miracle, it is not coming, Obama or not, we are doomed as a civilization.
Here is a thought, just to show you how stupid humanity has become.We talk of the modern society, everyone communicating with everyone else, we are closer than ever before, right? Then why does a family need four TVs? Why we have three hundred channels on TV? and why would three people sitting down to a dinner in a restaurant be talking to people that are not there on their cell phones. The point here is that we fail to see our own reality and have started to believe the crap we are being fed.
WE WILL MAKE MORE!
I know, I know, I should write more, tell you more, ask you to think some more, listen to you some more and write to the politicians some more.
Here we are, in a brand new year, two weeks from the new president taking the office, economy in a mess, Middle East on fire, again!, Iraqis killing each other, as well the Pakistanis and the Afghans. The Africans committing genocide, of their own, and the Jews and the Arabs. Stuff is getting so boring! A new year, the year for "change" and nothing HAS changed! It is ever harder to find the motivation, to write something new that is not a repetition of what I have already written about and therefore predicted. The cancer spreads.
If you have been waiting for, searching for or looking for a miracle, it is not coming, Obama or not, we are doomed as a civilization.
Here is a thought, just to show you how stupid humanity has become.We talk of the modern society, everyone communicating with everyone else, we are closer than ever before, right? Then why does a family need four TVs? Why we have three hundred channels on TV? and why would three people sitting down to a dinner in a restaurant be talking to people that are not there on their cell phones. The point here is that we fail to see our own reality and have started to believe the crap we are being fed.
Thursday, January 01, 2009
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION X
12/16/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION X
"THE CASE OF A PARADIGM SHIT"
So then in what else is new, "news". The name of a Bernie Madoff is grabbing the headlines. But look deeper and you find that the whole Wall Street, wealth creation, get rich at all cost, get richer than everybody else, screw the worker culture of greed is the same., and has been on going since Mr. Reagan corrupted the investment system, OK, he allowed it to be corrupted because he did not understand what his handlers sold him on.
If we are now naming names of the crooks, then why not list the boards of directors of the NYSE, the top twenty employees of the treasury department, the Board of AIG, Lehman Brothers, and a hundred top corporations, all the day traders, the options traders, and the international bankers, who created wealth.
If you are old enough and remember it started out with hostile takeovers of companies and laying off workers, you could borrow money on the cheap and buy a company , fire the workers and call it increasing productivity, and then sell the company back to the public.
Then came the globalization, the NAFTA, and the workers lost their jobs and in manufacturing. But we had a new class of the "rich" that could could hire the laid off workers to cut grass, and make five dollar cups of coffee. And of course you could go to build houses for the people who had no money.
The whole system is, and has been nothing but a fraud, from an average worker who believes that after eight hours of showing up at a job, any job, he deserves the ultimate in rest, big screen TV, cable, airconditioning and a twelve pack of beer and kids who feed and clothe and educate themsleves, to the B school graduate who thinks that he is the GOD's gift to mankind in more ways than he can count, to a whole society that believes that they deserve more than they have because they are born in AMERICA and hardships ar for the other people who happen to be not so lucky.
I have argued for years that we are on the wrong path, our expectations are way out of touch with reality. We consume more than our fair share.
As millions more lose their jobs, and join the ranks of the home less, the poor and hungry we need to name names, name the process by which we got here, I have a suggestion. Since we are so anamored of calling old things by new names like "barristas", and "human resouces", and "facilities engineers", I ahve a new name for the situation we are in , it should be called a
"Paradigm Shit", yeah that s right.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION X
"THE CASE OF A PARADIGM SHIT"
So then in what else is new, "news". The name of a Bernie Madoff is grabbing the headlines. But look deeper and you find that the whole Wall Street, wealth creation, get rich at all cost, get richer than everybody else, screw the worker culture of greed is the same., and has been on going since Mr. Reagan corrupted the investment system, OK, he allowed it to be corrupted because he did not understand what his handlers sold him on.
If we are now naming names of the crooks, then why not list the boards of directors of the NYSE, the top twenty employees of the treasury department, the Board of AIG, Lehman Brothers, and a hundred top corporations, all the day traders, the options traders, and the international bankers, who created wealth.
If you are old enough and remember it started out with hostile takeovers of companies and laying off workers, you could borrow money on the cheap and buy a company , fire the workers and call it increasing productivity, and then sell the company back to the public.
Then came the globalization, the NAFTA, and the workers lost their jobs and in manufacturing. But we had a new class of the "rich" that could could hire the laid off workers to cut grass, and make five dollar cups of coffee. And of course you could go to build houses for the people who had no money.
The whole system is, and has been nothing but a fraud, from an average worker who believes that after eight hours of showing up at a job, any job, he deserves the ultimate in rest, big screen TV, cable, airconditioning and a twelve pack of beer and kids who feed and clothe and educate themsleves, to the B school graduate who thinks that he is the GOD's gift to mankind in more ways than he can count, to a whole society that believes that they deserve more than they have because they are born in AMERICA and hardships ar for the other people who happen to be not so lucky.
I have argued for years that we are on the wrong path, our expectations are way out of touch with reality. We consume more than our fair share.
As millions more lose their jobs, and join the ranks of the home less, the poor and hungry we need to name names, name the process by which we got here, I have a suggestion. Since we are so anamored of calling old things by new names like "barristas", and "human resouces", and "facilities engineers", I ahve a new name for the situation we are in , it should be called a
"Paradigm Shit", yeah that s right.
Sunday, December 14, 2008
BAILING OUT THE HOUSING
12/14/2008
POSTED ON CNN/FORTUNE
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/12/news/newsmakers/morris_bair.fortune/index.htm
No. First of all it is a punishment to those who remained sensible and stayed within their budget. People who bought over priced homes also caused the price inflation and kept reasonable people out of better homes. Now we will reward these at the expense of the ones who stayed within their budgets and means, and are still making payments and have been making payments.
Two, in the markets where the foreclosures are the highest, the jobs are also disappearing fast, there is no guarantee that the people who are refinanced will be able to keep up the new payments.
Three, if and when the prices may go up, these people will be rewarded with price appreciation, while the tax payers are shouldering the burden of bailing them out, they should not be allowed to gain ANY benefits from price appreciation, it should all be payed to the treasury.
It will be best to bring the jobs back permanently, that is in manufacturing, free trade and globalization have failed, and damage the country immensely, The foolishness must be stopped.
POSTED ON CNN/FORTUNE
http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/12/news/newsmakers/morris_bair.fortune/index.htm
No. First of all it is a punishment to those who remained sensible and stayed within their budget. People who bought over priced homes also caused the price inflation and kept reasonable people out of better homes. Now we will reward these at the expense of the ones who stayed within their budgets and means, and are still making payments and have been making payments.
Two, in the markets where the foreclosures are the highest, the jobs are also disappearing fast, there is no guarantee that the people who are refinanced will be able to keep up the new payments.
Three, if and when the prices may go up, these people will be rewarded with price appreciation, while the tax payers are shouldering the burden of bailing them out, they should not be allowed to gain ANY benefits from price appreciation, it should all be payed to the treasury.
It will be best to bring the jobs back permanently, that is in manufacturing, free trade and globalization have failed, and damage the country immensely, The foolishness must be stopped.
Friday, December 12, 2008
Comments on food
12/11/2008
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-comes-down-to-food-on-the-table/
Global warming, lack of food, polution of land and waters are all being caused by over population and the need for “some” to use way too much of the limited resuorces of the earth at the expense of the others.
It is time that we decided who gets to continue populating the earth and who must be taken out of the gene pool. Humanity can not advance and become more evolved if we allow people of the lower intelligence levels to out breed the smart ones.
Far as eating animals, who will we eat when we run out of those, may be we will be hunting each other down for a meal.We have already fished the seas dry. We must make smart and logical choices NOW.
Paying females for not having kids willbe a good start.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2008/12/11/the-battle-comes-down-to-food-on-the-table/
Global warming, lack of food, polution of land and waters are all being caused by over population and the need for “some” to use way too much of the limited resuorces of the earth at the expense of the others.
It is time that we decided who gets to continue populating the earth and who must be taken out of the gene pool. Humanity can not advance and become more evolved if we allow people of the lower intelligence levels to out breed the smart ones.
Far as eating animals, who will we eat when we run out of those, may be we will be hunting each other down for a meal.We have already fished the seas dry. We must make smart and logical choices NOW.
Paying females for not having kids willbe a good start.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX
12/12/2008
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX
It is not a surprise, not to me, for years I have foretold of the collapse of this economy of ours, of the world economy. I have told you step by step, what was wrong with the picture, where the money was coming from, where it was going and how the system was doomed.
I also told you how the lack of morals, values and ethics was contributing to eventual failure. Our economy has been based on the idea that everyone is buying, always buying and always spending money. Money was created by the Federal Reserve, we could have as much as we wanted.
That system failed, as you have seen. So where to next?
Looking back, the buying to run the economy, buying to bring prosperity, buying with money you don't have system failed. What is the next shoe to drop.
Remember when I told you , at the start of this series, that the computer you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own. The next shoe to drop will be this web based economy, the Internet age is about to go under. "Face book", "YouTube", "Google", "Yahoo", whatever, these websites are based on the income from advertising, on selling you stuff. As the economy is tanking and no one has money to buy anything these sites generate no revenue. They can no longer be free, they have to become subscription services. Meaning you have to pay to be on face book or have a g-mail address., or you poor schmuck, you have to get a real life in the "rt".
Oh you don't know how to live in the "rt".
So here it is how it goes, as you become poorer, the access to the web becomes more costly, as you need more access to the web the web becomes more inaccessible. No more free lunches. Once again , the whole model of living on the web becomes out of reach of the average person, web that was supposed to create equality and openness will kill the equality and openness.
At the same time, businesses that are providing free information content, TV channels, news papers and the news organizations, are losing money in advertising, they will also find it difficult to make money on the web and start to charge for access to their websites.
The other business model of late, volume merchendising, big box stores, where little profit on each sale make up for a larger profit on fewer sales will also fail as the sales go down and people have less money to spend. this will cause the Wal-Marts, Sam's club like businesses to increase prices, just when people have less money. It will take a while, like the slow death, people will sell assests, take money from their retirement funds, sell their insurance polices, second homes, rental properties, etc to pay for day to day expenses till there is nothing more left to sell.
DEATH OF A CIVILIZATION IX
It is not a surprise, not to me, for years I have foretold of the collapse of this economy of ours, of the world economy. I have told you step by step, what was wrong with the picture, where the money was coming from, where it was going and how the system was doomed.
I also told you how the lack of morals, values and ethics was contributing to eventual failure. Our economy has been based on the idea that everyone is buying, always buying and always spending money. Money was created by the Federal Reserve, we could have as much as we wanted.
That system failed, as you have seen. So where to next?
Looking back, the buying to run the economy, buying to bring prosperity, buying with money you don't have system failed. What is the next shoe to drop.
Remember when I told you , at the start of this series, that the computer you are reading this on may be the last computer you will ever own. The next shoe to drop will be this web based economy, the Internet age is about to go under. "Face book", "YouTube", "Google", "Yahoo", whatever, these websites are based on the income from advertising, on selling you stuff. As the economy is tanking and no one has money to buy anything these sites generate no revenue. They can no longer be free, they have to become subscription services. Meaning you have to pay to be on face book or have a g-mail address., or you poor schmuck, you have to get a real life in the "rt".
Oh you don't know how to live in the "rt".
So here it is how it goes, as you become poorer, the access to the web becomes more costly, as you need more access to the web the web becomes more inaccessible. No more free lunches. Once again , the whole model of living on the web becomes out of reach of the average person, web that was supposed to create equality and openness will kill the equality and openness.
At the same time, businesses that are providing free information content, TV channels, news papers and the news organizations, are losing money in advertising, they will also find it difficult to make money on the web and start to charge for access to their websites.
The other business model of late, volume merchendising, big box stores, where little profit on each sale make up for a larger profit on fewer sales will also fail as the sales go down and people have less money to spend. this will cause the Wal-Marts, Sam's club like businesses to increase prices, just when people have less money. It will take a while, like the slow death, people will sell assests, take money from their retirement funds, sell their insurance polices, second homes, rental properties, etc to pay for day to day expenses till there is nothing more left to sell.
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM
12/10/2008
AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM
http://arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=117115&d=10&m=12&y=2008
ALSO PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW
"""""""“Today, we need a dialogue of the Ummah within itself. It is because sedition, ignorance and fanaticism are threatening the hopes of Muslims. The terrorism that threatens the entire world is attributed to Muslims alone because of the acts of a few extremists who represent none but themselves. Though they put on the guise of Islam, the religion has nothing to do with them. This is what makes the dialogue of the Ummah with itself imperative for achieving a unified stand, elimination of the causes of their disputes, strengthening their moderate middle path, and to stamp out extremism,” King Abdullah told his guests.
The guests included Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Chechen President Ramadan Kadirov and Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Abdullah Al-Turki.
“During the last Haj season, I spoke to you about the significance of interfaith dialogue. The Kingdom organized the Makkah conference for Muslim scholars and thinkers to discuss the idea of dialogue, and was welcomed by them... It was followed by the Madrid conference in which representatives of various religions and cultures endorsed the outcome of the Makkah conference. The high level meeting of the United Nations’ General Assembly on the interfaith dialogue, in which prominent international personalities participated, upheld the concept of dialogue,” King Abdullah said.
“The Kingdom with this program aims to uphold the glory of Islam and service to humanity,” the king added. King Abdullah left Mina yesterday evening and later arrived in Jeddah."""""""
MY COMMENTARY
How are we talking about an open dialogue here? Where in an Islamic country is there a freedom of thought and the freedom of press. Whose ideas are we willing to accept? Look at Iraq, look at Palestine it self, and can we say Egypt? Pakistan, and how about Saudi Arabia her self.
An open dialogue implies that anyone can have an opinion without the fear of oppression. As things stand, I can say something here from the safety of my home in the United States, but with the knowledge that my opinion in matters Islamic or political can subject me to sanctions by an Islamic government, or even a fatwa of death by some mullah or imam in an Islamic country or even a local mosque locally.
Ironically this call for an open dialogue comes from the leader of the most conservative country, not only in Islam, but in the world.
AN OPEN DIALOGUE IN ISLAM
http://arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=117115&d=10&m=12&y=2008
ALSO PLEASE READ MY COMMENTS THAT FOLLOW
"""""""“Today, we need a dialogue of the Ummah within itself. It is because sedition, ignorance and fanaticism are threatening the hopes of Muslims. The terrorism that threatens the entire world is attributed to Muslims alone because of the acts of a few extremists who represent none but themselves. Though they put on the guise of Islam, the religion has nothing to do with them. This is what makes the dialogue of the Ummah with itself imperative for achieving a unified stand, elimination of the causes of their disputes, strengthening their moderate middle path, and to stamp out extremism,” King Abdullah told his guests.
The guests included Sudanese President Omar Bashir, Palestinian President Mahmood Abbas, Chechen President Ramadan Kadirov and Secretary-General of the Muslim World League Abdullah Al-Turki.
“During the last Haj season, I spoke to you about the significance of interfaith dialogue. The Kingdom organized the Makkah conference for Muslim scholars and thinkers to discuss the idea of dialogue, and was welcomed by them... It was followed by the Madrid conference in which representatives of various religions and cultures endorsed the outcome of the Makkah conference. The high level meeting of the United Nations’ General Assembly on the interfaith dialogue, in which prominent international personalities participated, upheld the concept of dialogue,” King Abdullah said.
“The Kingdom with this program aims to uphold the glory of Islam and service to humanity,” the king added. King Abdullah left Mina yesterday evening and later arrived in Jeddah."""""""
MY COMMENTARY
How are we talking about an open dialogue here? Where in an Islamic country is there a freedom of thought and the freedom of press. Whose ideas are we willing to accept? Look at Iraq, look at Palestine it self, and can we say Egypt? Pakistan, and how about Saudi Arabia her self.
An open dialogue implies that anyone can have an opinion without the fear of oppression. As things stand, I can say something here from the safety of my home in the United States, but with the knowledge that my opinion in matters Islamic or political can subject me to sanctions by an Islamic government, or even a fatwa of death by some mullah or imam in an Islamic country or even a local mosque locally.
Ironically this call for an open dialogue comes from the leader of the most conservative country, not only in Islam, but in the world.
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