Economy and Society

a Website Focused on Building Wealth and Financial Freedom (mainly Discussion Forums)

In the left column of the Mainpage, click on the question: Where does money really comes from? Question posted on Friday, 22 June 2007!

• (2007! I think, meanwhile we should had taken the time to understand this mess, instead of running in 2008 into a crash !!! – Therefore again my eternal same question: How long will it take until (not all the dumbest, but maybe 10% of the more clever) humans are able to meet to force our governments to stop this nonsense – the nonsense paying back THIN AIR to the banks?
• The whole DEPT QUESTION, STATE FAILURES, INSOLVENCY PROBLEMS would radically change!
• WHY our governments and their experts (inclusively mainstream medias) do not inform peoples about this mess? Are they blackmailed, are they not clever enough? Are they too much afraid? Or are they part of it?
  
• ARE WE TOO MUCH AFRAID – OR/and ARE WE JUST TOO SILLY TO CHANGE ALL THAT? And: yes, we are all part of it. So what, now we have to change it!).

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This picture was made by one of our Thai Divemasters during the many safaris.

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Find every day a new NGO here and see us again when back. Meanwhile have a good time. Heidi.

Published on YouTube: this video, 0.58 min.

My comment: what is the hidden question behind such a behavior – HOW THESE PEOPLE ARE TREATING THEIR FELLOWS? All the ones NOT sharing their political-cultural opinion, identity or social status …

… or, how they treat their wife at home?

How big is the difference between animals and humans when suffering means nothing to them … and how much suffering can these guys stand themselves? (Their explanation: a suffering animal produces much more adrenalin which changes the meat’s smell = this means: they produce this suffering for their gustatory pleasure).

From today on, I’ll slow down my work and give more time to my privat life. Therefore, the blog Humanitarian Texts and this blog Economy and Society will still receive some random entries, not daily, but belonging to what is presenting itself. From now on I want them with more positive news, showing less critics but mainly progress, reflections and development.

The World People’s Blog is definitively closed, but NGOs – we and others will go on even more.

Till next, Heidi.

Published on Al Jazeera, by Source Agencies, Feb 8, 2009.

(First my comment: the following text down – in italic – shows that thinkers and commentators in political affairs are only able to think TACTICs, not HUMAN CONCERNs. And as long as THIS mentality prevails, their influence will remain noxious … and they would better shut-up … as, even IF Karzai thinks in tactics, the HUMAN CONCERN remains more important. But could it be that human concerns are not as sexy as war, crime and tactics and make flow less testosterone in men’s body?)

Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president, has called for a process of reconciliation with Taliban fighters who are not linked with al-Qaeda.

“We will invite all those Taliban who are not part of al-Qaeda, who are not part of terrorist networks, who want to return to their country … to come back to their country,” he said at a security conference in the German city of Munich on Sunday.

“I would request the international community to back us in this, fully, and be of one view on this, not of divided views,” he said.

“There is no way that we can succeed in the way we want to, in the right time, without some form of reconciliation” …

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says Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz

Published on Telegraph.co.uk, by Ambrose Evans-Pritchard in Davos, 02 Feb 2009.

First my comment: this is not only a question of courage, but also a question of HOW MUCH the normal elite is linked into this mess of curruption and betrayal. By wanting safe the banks, they show that they do not care about the people, but only want safe their belongings from the effects of their own curruption.

The Government should allow every distressed bank to go bankrupt and set up a fresh banking system under temporary state control rather than cripple the country by propping up a corrupt edifice, according to Joseph Stiglitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist.

Professor Stiglitz, the former chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers, told The Daily Telegraph that Britain should let the banks default on their vast foreign operations and start afresh with new set of healthy banks.

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we have a new blog telling our maraton for ECOSOC status … since 2002

The blog will be updated continuously, today you find a new post with 6 new UN’s questions, to be answered to satisfy the ECOSOC Committe. If you are interested, you may find all under the link below.

ECOSOC for AEHRF and the NGO world

Why homes owners have to leave their home when inable to pay, when big banks let pay their depts by the taxpayers?

What if the homeowners would remain in their home, guessing the juridical system is unable to put them out all together?

Why the brave people is not able to deconnect from this criminal system?

What if all homeowners together would refuse obedience to this criminal banking system?

Who could organize such a revolte?

Linked with Announcing the Orion Project on our Economy blog, with The Orion Project and with The Disclosure Project on our NGO blog, and with Steven M. Greer – USA, on our World People’s blog.

I put some interest in this project, as a possible hope for a real economic change for this humanity. Personally I believe that free energy is inherent part of this universe – we also call it creation – and that our humanity may use it for any activity we choose. For me, THIS answer is sure.

The only question remains: when this energy is accessible, will there be still some gangsters wanting take it for themselves and sell it to us for a price too high to permit any reasonable development for all? Today the international High Finance gnomes have this role … and HERE the answer is not sure at all. We have still NOT been able yet to control democratically our world economy.

Belonging to this logic: If we find an endless source of free energy, then it may be like the (water) source installed on our own field in South of France: the water is free for use, but the state company managing all water resources has the monopole for the installations leading it to our house, so we have to pay them every gallon we use. Endlessly, as they claim having also the monopole for all services. Here we have to think about a later democratic use.

Frankly spoken: what ever we may find in new technologies to improve human life conditions, our real development may start only if we share its benefits with the poorest. I mean share it really, not only give some crumbs.

Anyway, let us observe what happens with this Orion Project:

• the Orion Project’s Videos – three for the moment – to be continued;
• The Breakthrough Campaign.

A special link for Advanced Energy Research Organization on wikipedia. Maybe one is willing to correct there what is failing.

… or seems to do so …

Published on Detainees, by Debora MacKenzie in New Scientist, April 2008.

… From the moment our ancestors started to settle down and build cities, we have had to find solutions to the problems that success brings. “For the past 10,000 years, problem solving has produced increasing complexity in human societies,” says Joseph Tainter, an archaeologist at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City, and author of the 1988 book The Collapse of Complex Societies …

… To keep growing, societies must keep solving problems as they arise. Yet each problem solved means more complexity. Success generates a larger population, more kinds of specialists, more resources to manage, more information to juggle – and, ultimately, less bang for your buck …

… A networked society behaves like a multicellular organism,” says Bar-Yam, “random damage is like lopping a chunk off a sheep.” Whether or not the sheep survives depends on which chunk is lost. And while we are pretty sure which chunks a sheep needs, it isn’t clear – it may not even be predictable – which chunks of our densely networked civilisation are critical, until it’s too late … and so on …

My comment: very interesting article, but going not further than the mainstream allows. My opposition comes with a reflection I made for myself since decades: what is described here is correct as long as you are in a hierarchically managed society. What if you would look at a huge complexity, working perfectly like our own physical body does … just look how it is managed: there are countless section that have been subdivided and thus they are making their work without any hierarchical superior order, just adapting to situations (unfortunately also to wrong situations … then in holistic medicine this is named illness).

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Published on Daily Record, Feb 11 2008.

3 excerpts: A NEW Islamic row broke out last night after a minister accused British Muslims of inbreeding.

Environment Minister Phil Woolas said there was a problem with Muslims having children with cousins through arranged marriages …

… But Woolas was backed by medics and Labour MPs who said it was a real issue.

Woolas, who has a large number of Muslims in his Oldham constituency, said: “If you talk to any primary care worker, they will tell you that levels of disability among the Pakistani population are higher than the general population.

“And everybody knows it’s caused by first cousin marriage” …

… But the Muslim Public Affairs Council called for him to be sacked, adding: “These comments are racist and typical of the Islamophobia we have witnessed recently”.

Research shows British Pakistanis are 13 times more likely to have genetic disorders than the general population … (full text).

My comment: Really, Muslims, you HAVE TO LEARN to face the reality of facts … and to stand them. You can not make the whole humanity be blackmailed for the bubble of your dreams.

To understand what I mean please listen first the Confessions of an Economic Hit Man.

I write you this text in the morning of Super-Tuesday, meditating about a difference between the two democrat champions. As a Swiss citizen I look at this question with a view for the whole humanity, with in mind what John Perkins tells us.

For me it is obvious that not only third world presidents are blackmailed, as John Perkins tells us, for me ALL US Presidents have always lived the same threat. So, one of the question is:

Who, Obama or Clinton, has more chance to resist the threats of the worldwide financial hawks, having a secure basis in the US (as in many other countries).

Clinton must already know what is coming, Bill Clinton must have resisted halfway their requests (Monika Lewinsky, you hear the bells?). In this question I see Obama still more innocent, but we don’t know both reactions when blackmailing really happens.

The only good reaction would be, tell all, openly.

Till now I know of no president worldwide having been able to do this. Best would be, ALL presidents, together, tell openly about what is happening. This needs a change in super-male behavior-paradigms.

And for the peoples to recognize that a president is only a human, not a half-god who ‘helps them resolve their mess’. People must be enough mature to become responsible themselves, not wait for a next president able to be their super-daddy.

Yes, to stop these blackmailing will cost a hard battle. Not only for presidents, but also for the people of the concerned nation. Maybe for the humanity.

Yes, if this practice would be openly recognized, worldwide, we would have a chance to solve it. We all together.

What will be chosen? What do WE choose?
Heidi.

Links:

Global Empire without Emperor?

John Perkins, USA;

Video-debates about Economy and Society;

My comments on this blog.

Linked with G. Edward Griffin – USA.

The Creature from Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, by G. Edward Griffin, 624 pages.

Where does money come from? Where does it go? Who makes it? All of these questions and more are revealed in this mesmerizing book as the money magicians’ secrets are unveiled. We are invited to take a close look at their mirrors and smoke machines, and their pulleys, cogs, and wheels that create the grand illusion called money.

Banking and the Federal Reserve … a dry and boring subject? Don’t believe it! Once you pick up this book you’ll be hooked in five minutes. This book reads like a detective story – which it really is; but it’s all true. “The Creature from Jekyll Island” is about the most blatant scam of all history. You’ll find it all here: the cause of wars, boom-bust cycles, inflation, depression, prosperity and more.

“A superb analysis deserving serious attention by all Americans. Be prepared for one heck of a journey through time and mind.” – U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, member, House Banking Committee.

Go to your bookshop, or to this link.

If the story writer La Fontaine would still be alive, he could have created a small text about a ghost named bird flu and the poor peasant.

In many poor countries the avian populations are the only guaranty for poors for a happy meal form time to time. They pick up the dirty rests on the ground, make practically no food expenses, give eggs … and when a fiesta comes they give a good meal.

And exactly this last cheap resource giving some independence to the lowest ones should be out?

I just cannot accept it.

It makes me so angry that every black conjuration theory about the handling of the poors and this matter is accepted.

Heidi.

This is my personal Blog for economic, social and cultural questions, touching everybody of us. I want this blog be a place for writers going deeper into these subjects. I will publish their writings in english. Presentations in french and german you may find on their respective sites.

Articles of various writers reproduced here may also be presented on the WOLRD PEOPLES WEBSITE, a page of our NGO ‘Asian-Eurasian Human Rights Forum’ in Delhi, the blog to make us conscient that we are one humanity, and that we have to work together for a better world.