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Month: February 2009
Real Progress
All this focus on the economy may mean we take our attention off the real issue. All the focus on sectional interests and pressure groups that drive the climate change agenda, instead of actual planning to change things that must change is distracting humanity from its mission, its meaning and its life.Real progress follows talking …
The Great Swindling
It just shows that trust in the power of the inheritance as a way to provide tribal continuity is a mirage. The way to provide for all people is to enable everyone to be able to pick themselves up regardless from what station they started...Latest article on the inside Disturbing Trends - Predicting Future politics
A solution to the banking crisis
The capital crisis may not bleed out. Governments are going down the track of printing money after flattening out interest rates.Wrong solution. It will stimulate escalating inflation - like what happened in Germany between the world wars. Like Zimbabwe. A better solution is to reduce the levels of private debt as well as fix the …
Faith vs Confidence
...it is not so much an economic crisis but a crisis of confidence in the frightening mathematics. Financial instruments and currency are a form of instant contract - they assume faith - but the gambler, the criminal, the banker - they lose the concept of money as value as they are no longer participating in …
Plane Crash on House in NY
NEW YORK Buffalo A plane has crashed upon a residential area in New York State.Almost immediately videos appeared on YouTube.com, update on our Disturbing Trends Predicting Future Politics blog.
What you going to call this “War on Terror”, then?
In a Newsweek article the question is raised, what should this “War on Terror” be called. Since “War on Terror” is meaningless (you can fight terror all you like, but you can’t kill it), perhaps a more accurate statement of the goal of this “war” if it is one, is defined.More
Stimulus Irony
...the very quickly bailed out financial institutions see hope in the fact that people may stay in their jobs through the progress of the crisis their inventions created. That they have confidence in the bailout - that the fruits of capital investment are given a little kick by putting money in the hands of their …
Is Obama being too gracious?
The cliché “gracious in defeat” does not apply. The man took the US elections by storm, has entered office on a cloud of public approval and reached out over the divide. The sharp discord struck by Republican refusal to back the Obama stimulus plan has seen a return to campaigning for public endorsement. President Obama …
Bailout is just the start
President Obama’s effort to raise funds to inject into the system will have a number of effects. One of them is not “problem solved”. Pretending that providing more capital to the people will somehow reactivate the flattened markets may have been generated by media expectations but it simply is not real.It is aimed at saving …