Wealth reform

 

It isn’t laziness that has caused worldwide poverty, it is the disenfranchisement of millions through the perpetuation of corporate greed.  Even the mega-corporation of Ben & Jerry’s, makers of the popular ice cream, once had a 5 to 1 board member ruling that the CEO would be limited to a 5 to 1 ratio of earnings over his lowest paid worker, but the company ditched this practice when they couldn’t find anyone to replace Ben Cohen, the CEO that worked for just $81,000 a year. -- source

 

Idiots!  Any excellent idea, poorly executed, will fail.  That doesn't mean the idea is a failure.

The flaw in this idea is the 5 to 1 ratio.  What ratios will make this idea succeed, and what ratio is optimal for all involved?

If Ben worked for $81K per year, then the lowest paid worker was getting $16.2K per year, or about minimum wage ($8.10/hour).

What if the ratio had been set to 50 to 1?  Then Ben would make $405/hour, or $810K per year.  Can't find a CEO that will work for that?  BS, you can find lots of them.  Even I would do it.  I've run my own company for 27 years, every one of them in the black.

Maybe the CEO you want requires a million dollars a year.  Set the starting salary for the lowest paid employees at $10/hour, and you've got your million dollar CEO, along with some happier employees.

50 to 1 is probably not the optimal ratio, but it clearly works better than 5 to 1.  A much higher ratio is probably as poor a choice as the 5 to 1 ratio.  Google's CEO takes home an obscene $101 million every year.  That's a ratio of 6234 to 1.

So what is the optimal ratio that will satisfy all employees and still allow a business to thrive?  And if humans are so smart, why haven't we solved this very simple economics problem?  And don't give me any of that "free market" BS.  There are no free markets wherever sociopaths are running the show, and that's exactly what we've got.  At the very least, we need to place limits on the people at the top of the hierarchy.  A 100 to 1 ratio seems like a good place to start.  And if those at the top want more money?  They will have to create the rising tide that lifts all boats.  Isn't that really what they are paid to do anyway?

What if the whole world were modeled in the same way, and the richest among us could not be more than 100 times richer than the poorest among us?  Can you imagine the improvements that would bring?

 

Why can't we learn?

 

Why can't we learn?

A species that can't learn faces either stagnation or extinction.  Is humanity such a species?

A house divided cannot stand.  The human house is divided.  On one side we have the majority for whom empathy is an integral part of their being.  They relate to other living things and recognize the diversity and equality common to all.  They live and let live.  They freely share the gift of life.

On the other side we have the minority for whom empathy is a missing part of their being.  They only relate to other living things that also lack empathy.  They do not recognize the diversity and equality common to all.  They live and let die.  They do not share the gift of life.  Instead, they trade it like a commodity and horde it for themselves.

The empathetic humans I call People, and the non-empathetic humans I call Sociopaths.  People pursue liberty and freedom for all, while Sociopaths pursue power and control over People.

Slavery and genocide are wrong.  To those with empathy, these are self-evident truths.  A spokesman for the People even said as much in a famous declaration:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Declaration of Independence, 1776

To those without empathy, slavery and genocide are their life's goal, the ultimate expression of power and control.  A spokesman for the Sociopaths even said as much in a little-known document:

It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide.

This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war.

-- Unknown, Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, 1979

If a house divided cannot stand, then stagnation is not the fate of humanity.  Extinction is.  Survival lies in a United People.  Sociopaths must be exposed and dis-empowered.  If the People fail to do this, all of humanity, both the People and the Sociopaths, will join countless other extinct species in the pages of history.

We know where we end if we do not unite.  Who, what, when, where, and how do we begin?

 

Treason

 

The deliberations of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 were held behind closed doors.  Consequently, anxious citizens gathered outside Independence Hall when the proceedings ended in order to learn what had transpired.  As Benjamin Franklin was leaving for the day, a Mrs. Powel of Philadelphia asked, "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?"  With no hesitation whatsoever, Franklin responded, "A republic, if you can keep it."

The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution specifically prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of Americans and their property except upon specific and warranted probable cause.  It reads:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

When the United States government spies on all Americans indiscriminately by secretly collecting all of their general communications, it knowingly violates the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land.

As an alleged Constitutional scholar, the president of the United States is well aware of the treasonous nature of his and prior administrations, though he will deny it.  The Supreme Court is also well versed in Constitutional law, and it too is complicit in high crimes against the American people by ignoring the law it is charged to uphold.  And finally Congress, by its consistent inaction and feigned ignorance, has deliberately given its tacit approval to this abomination against the American people.

By violating the Constitution in such a clear, egregious, and undeniable manner, the government of the United States is guilty of high treason against the American people.  It is not only the right of the American people to alter or abolish such a criminal government, it is their sacred duty.  If the American people fail to act, the great experiment in freedom and justice that so many Americans fought and died for since 1776 will be an abject failure, a complete waste of time and effort, and one of the most monumental defeats in the battle of good versus evil to ever visit the face of the Earth.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters." -- Benjamin Franklin

Is that what we need, more masters?

 

Gut feelings

 

Despite my comprehensive and detailed arguments, a friend of mine overruled me with the following two sentences:

"I hear all your good arguments but must go along with my gut feeling and do what I feel is best.  Of course, your arguments are good but...."

How often do we do this?  How often do we ignore reason and logic and go with whatever makes us feel good?  How often do we let emotion dictate our choices?  How often does comfort trump truth?

Often.  Maybe even most of the time.

This is, in fact, how the ruling sociopaths herd us like sheep.  They use the Hegelian Dialectic, often expressed as "problem, reaction, solution".  They create the problem (for example 9/11) that they know will make us react quite emotionally (shock, grief, fear, outrage).  Then, when we are in the thick of those emotions, unable to reason lucidly, they give us their prepared solution (attack the "terrorists" by invading Afghanistan), which again plays on our emotions, this time by making us feel good.  The so-called solution is exactly what the ruling sociopaths wanted to do all along (but for different reasons and purposes), only they knew they couldn't get away with it if the public was thinking rationally.

Must we go along with our gut "feelings" and do what we "feel" is best?  Does anyone realize how much trouble that gets us into?  Trouble that we could avoid if we didn't listen to our "gut"?

"Hi, I'm human.  Despite having a capable brain, my gut will be making all the decisions, based on how it makes me feel.  Enjoy the ride!"

 

What inflation?

 

Not too long ago, I did some computer repair work for a friend.  It was fairly extensive, and when he asked what he should pay, I gave him a low-end figure of $120.  He came over to my house to pay up and presented me with $5.  I was delighted and called our business settled.

What just happened there?

Inflation.

Wait a minute!  Isn't inflation when prices go up?  Not really.  Rising prices are just a symptom of the root cause.  Inflation isn't even the right terminology to use.  Yes, it is in the common vernacular now, but that is by deliberate design.  The term "inflation" is just word play, a trick to help pull the wool over the public's eyes and keep them ignorant.

A better term than inflation is devaluation.  That's really what's happening -- our money is being devalued.  In other words, we are being robbed.  But it's being done relatively gently and quite clandestinely.

The $5 was paid using pre-1965 U.S. coins.  They are 90% silver and currently worth about 20 times their face value.  So I was paid the equivalent of $100 in paper money using $5 in coins.  Only I was paid in real American money, true Constitutional money, lawful money, or in a word, silver.  By not paying me in junk Federal Reserve Notes, I was more than happy to discount my friend's fee by $20.  He was happy, and I was happy.  Only the Federal Reserve was not happy, but they should be in prison anyway, instead of living in luxury at our expense.

It is the Federal Reserve, in league with the U.S. government, that has devalued our currency over the last 50 years such that a $5 cart of groceries now costs $100 for the exact same food.  Well, not really, as it can easily be argued that the food is less nutritious and more toxic now than it was 50 years ago.  You can ultimately thank the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government for that as well.  Or to be more accurate, because this is a very complex con-game, you can thank the ruling sociopaths that quietly control the Federal Reserve and the U.S. government.  And watch out, as both con-games (devaluing money and de-nutrifying food) are accelerating.

Oh, you think we have a government of the people, by the people, and for the people?  That's another subject, though it is closely related, as it too is a con-game.  Please see my blogs on propaganda, brainwashing, and mind control.

By the way, the cumulative effect of all these con-games (devaluing money, de-nutrifying food, and destroying truth) is to devalue life.  Your life, my life, and the lives of everyone living on this planet.  That's why rule by sociopaths is the worst of all possible worlds.

And we've got it.

 

Fool me twice...

 

About seventy-five years ago (October 30, 1938), Orson Welles created a national panic with his radio show depicting the invasion of Earth by Martians.  The simulated "live" broadcasts convinced many that the end of the world was unfolding in real time right before their eyes.

People packed the roads, hid in cellars, loaded guns, even wrapped their heads in wet towels as protection from Martian poison gas, in an attempt to defend themselves against aliens, oblivious to the fact that they were acting out the role of the panic-stricken public that actually belonged in a radio play. -- source

 

The lesson was not lost on the ruling sociopaths of the United States or the world.

In a prescient column, in the New York Tribune, Dorothy Thompson foresaw that the broadcast revealed the way politicians could use the power of mass communications to create theatrical illusions, to manipulate the public.

"All unwittingly, Mr. Orson Welles and the Mercury Theater of the Air have made one of the most fascinating and important demonstrations of all time," she wrote. "They have proved that a few effective voices, accompanied by sound effects, can convince masses of people of a totally unreasonable, completely fantastic proposition as to create a nation-wide panic."

"They have demonstrated more potently than any argument, demonstrated beyond a question of a doubt, the appalling dangers and enormous effectiveness of popular and theatrical demagoguery...."

"Hitler managed to scare all of Europe to its knees a month ago, but he at least had an army and an air force to back up his shrieking words."

"But Mr. Welles scared thousands into demoralization with nothing at all." -- source

 

It is no coincidence that in the last 75 ears, the media outlets of the nation and the world have been bought up and consolidated into a few hands.  It is no coincidence that false-flag events like 9/11 (1 2 3) and the 7/7 London Tube bombings steer entire nations.  It is no coincidence that in the last week, the information about the Boston Marathon bombings presented to the public via the mainstream media differs markedly from the information available from citizens reporting via the Internet.

 

"You think that's air you're breathing?" -- Morpheus, in the movie "The Matrix".

 

Killing ourselves and others

Human trash kills
(Originally published November 2, 2006 on MySpace)

"I'm ready.... to begin chemotherapy."  I'm enraged every time I see that particular TV commercial.  What are they selling?  Medical drugs.  Why am I enraged?  Because it implies that viewers are fatalistic idiots, perfectly willing to accept the cancers that result from the polluted environment that they live in and, paradoxically, create.  Drug companies are delighted to see a diseased public.  They make money when we are ill, lots of money.  No commercials try to sell us solutions to reduce vehicle emissions or power plant pollution or anything else that would make the air we breathe or the water we drink or the food we eat less harmful.  No ads prod us to change our behavior to pollute less.  Instead we are encouraged to buy, buy, buy, and be insatiable consumers purchasing products that allow us to sit on our butts in sublime comfort while we breathe the poisons these products create.

1200 miles northwest of Honolulu, in the middle of the Pacific, is the oldest island in the Hawaiian island chain.  It is uninhabited and has been set aside as a preserve, meant to be a pristine example of the islands before man discovered them.  It is a natural bird sanctuary, and birds there have almost no fear of people, since they have hardly ever dealt with humans.  A group of photographers was sent there to document the island environment.  One large sea bird in particular became quite friendly with them.  One day it appeared abnormally listless, and the next day it died.  Because this seemed so strange, one of the photographers, who was also a biologist, dissected the bird to determine the cause of death.  The bird's stomach and intestinal tract were completely full of an incredible assortment of indigestible refuse, like bottle caps, Styrofoam bits, rubber tubing, and broken bits of plastic.  It had essentially died due to a blocked digestive tract.  In the middle of the vast Pacific ocean, human trash is so common in the water that birds die from eating it.

My mother once described me as "an angry young man" because I was always pointing out the problems with the status quo, the standard human way of doing things.  She would have preferred that I adopt an "ignorance is bliss" attitude, like most other people.  Unfortunately, once your eyes are open and really observant, there's no going back.  And you will be angry.  Our own activities are causing other living things all over the world to die, and we ourselves are among the victims.  Unless we are all angry, there will be little motivation for us to change our destructive lifestyles.  It's time to be angry with eyes wide open.



Update (June 24, 2014):  Another video quietly censored.  You're supposed to watch bogus reality shows on TV rather than watch the true reality of our world.  True reality is censored.  True reality leads to the truth, and the people controlling you and the world don't want you to know the truth.  The truth would make you very angry, angry enough to fight back.  They don't want that.

Here is another video showing the deadly effects of plastic pollution on other living things.  It's called Bird Island - Plastic versus Nature.  We will see how long it takes for this video to be censored.