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Same subject, different story. Same subject, different view. Same subject, different coverage. Same subject, different idea. Same subject, different message. Same subject, different conclusion. Same subject, same target, us! Reality vs. Propaganda.

Reality:

Propaganda:

I will write now about how much I appreciate the job the people working for the government manage to successfully accomplish. Those people are doing an amazing job in keeping this country <insert the name of your country here> united, many light years away from disintegrating. I’m referring here to all the government paid jobs, from the garbage collectors or bus drivers to the policemen, firemen or all the other unionized jobs and eventually to the politicians, ministers and, of course, presidents.

Why do all this people sustain such a fantasy? Maybe because, just like priests, working for a living kind of thing, or competing with others in the free market by improving their knowledge, skills, or by hard working, is interfering with their level of laziness.

Making fun of government is one of the most honorable things men can do, as the government is the biggest force initiator ever invented by humankind.

Now, the problem I have is that I saw on TV this commercial from the government of Canada, for three times in 20 minutes… the add called “Infrastructure”, available at http://www.actionplan.gc.ca/eng/feature.asp?pageId=104 (it can also be downloaded from here).
The transcript is like this:

Canada’s economic action plan is working to create jobs all across the country. Together we’re improving bridges, roads and public transit. We are repairing arenas, buildings and making water cleaner. The signs are all around us. Together we are creating jobs and helping Canada’s economy emerge stronger. To learn how you can benefit visit actionplan.gc.ca. A message from the government of Canada.

So, besides that the content is a low level one, the add says the government creates jobs. I can talk a lot about how job creation works, but to be short I would just say that the government destroys jobs from the private sector in order to “create” what it advertises as “jobs”. Anyway, why would they create commercials about the jobs they “create”? Who’s the competition here? Are they thinking that during an economic recession the private companies would put together a commercial advertising the number of jobs they created? Why would they do something like this? Why are they spending money on broadcasting commercials like this on TV every 5 minutes or so? Well, we all know the answer deep inside (don’t we?), but what’s amazing is that when someone spits this into your face so many times a day, many of us don’t even ask the obvious question (e.g. “Why are they doing this?”).

So, to help with searching for the answer, my question is: can the government create jobs as long as the government is not a business, but it only survive through taxation?

If your own thinking leads you to a “Yes” answer, then probably you can unblock yourself by asking the following: If the government can create jobs, why is it not creating jobs for everybody?

I read a very honest comment on Garth Turner’s blog, which I will take the liberty to copy here:

I’m a gov’t worker and can tell you that the people I work with actually believe that their jobs are important and that they work hard. They’re nice folks, but they are none-the-less delusional.

Yeah, it’s tough working for the gov’t: flex days, jumbo pay, jumbo benefits, pension — and to think — most of us didn’t have to even finish high school to get this free ride!!

When I got my job with the gov’t years back after slogging it out in the private sector, I felt like I had won the 6/49. I knew I never had to worry about working a real job again. And to this day, I pinch myself … it’s a dream come true.

To all of you folks in the private sector — thank you so much and please continue to pay your tax dollars so that I can continue to enjoy my dream-job. If you start to feel sorry for yourself or start to resent us gov’t workers — stop. Instead send out your resume to the gov’t and you might just luck out and win the lottery like I did. Last month 46,000 new lottery winners/gov’t workers joined the workforce. Ain’t it great to be Canadian?

Sincerely,
Useless feeder/gov’t worker

PS Gimme, gimme, gimme

Refreshing, right? Actually the government is a lottery, a huge one. We all buy tickets when we get our salaries, do our grocery shopping or file our tax returns. What’s different with this lottery is that the winners are already decided. The government workers are paid by the lottery winners to be lazy and to use violence when the lottery winners are questioned or when one doesn’t acquire his/her tickets. Government workers are not the lottery winners, they just believe they are.

Going back to useless commercials from the government, here is a remix (after some other add) that helps us getting the real message:

The 2010 Academy Awards (Oscars) ceremony just finished. I knew it is political, but not as much. I understood why the movies about the WWII are making it to the Oscars, but this time it wasn’t about WWII, but about looking at us in the mirror. We sure don’t like what we see in the mirror, don’t we?

My opinion is that The Hurt Locker got the Oscar statuette for the best picture because of the message it sends across: ‘our war needs you, you are not as useful to your family as you can be to your country… take the blue pill‘… a twenty million dollars message from what the box office says.

On the other hand, Avatar has a totally different message, a powerful message of what should be our connectedness with the nature, the nature we are no longer part of, but its parasites, it shows how poisonous the blue pill is… a three billion dollars message, as the same box office says.

For each person that watched The Hurt Locker, 150 people watched Avatar. And you know what? They paid more for a ticket, as Avatar is 3D.

Last month I went to see a different movie with the same sick message, Dear John. For some reason going to fight a war should be more important for you than you achieving happiness… just like in the “Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what you can do for your country” message.

I surely can see a value in the way a movie has been made, but I too find the messages the movies send along as very important for the mood I have after watching them.

I remember now about those moralistic movies like “The Day the Earth Stood Still” (2008) or “Law Abiding Citizen” (2009). Good movies, but they left me a bad taste because after setting some high expectations… they left them unfinished. Just like talking a girl into how a ‘big horse pleasure guarantee‘ you are, and when the moment of proof arrives, you fall asleep… and imagine the girl paid you money for your promised potential.

On the other hand I know I shouldn’t care about it, as this same scenario, with unforgettable Sci-Fi movies not getting the award, happened in the past, when “Star Wars” ‘lost’ the best picture award to “Annie Hall” in ‘77, “E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial” to “Gandhi” in ‘82 and “The Matrix” to “American Beauty” in ‘99. I can’t easily imagine to have blockbusters in 10-20 years from now that will not intercross with the Sci-Fi world. How are the people from the Academy (most of them actors) going to look then if they don’t adapt? Will they award prizes to movies that make losses?

Steve Martin ended the Oscars ceremony by making a joke out of place. He said that because the show lasted for so long, “Avatar is now in the past“. Of course, because of their horse blinders some can’t see the present and analyze the causes from the past, but they can only look to the future and… hope. Unfortunately for them, the future will be delivered by the past and present, this is why movies like Avatar are never going to be in the past, not now, not ever. And you know why? Because they speak the truth.

I grew up in a country where child abuse can be encountered almost everywhere. I’ve been abused by my parents, by some of my teachers and coaches, there’s no question about it. I grew up in a country where this winter, 10 days after the televisions broadcast images with the president hitting a child, the president got reelected (see video bellow).

I think I pretty much felt the abuse and I realize now that I took all the actions I could to limit the effects and I tried to isolate myself as much as I could from people with violent behavior from both points of view, physical and psychological/emotional. Starting with 13 years old I got lucky because I grew up 24 cm in one year, which got me to 194 cm (6′ 4″). Suddenly things changed, the physical abuse vanished and the psychological one diminished and changed up to a point that it became hilarious and easy for me to defeat.

Spanking can easily escalate into a 3 hours beating. Spanked children are usually too confused to learn any lesson, other than they should obey the spanker, as the spanker is more powerful and dangerous. This is terror, not education. Hate, not love. Stupidity, not wisdom. And when the spankers are the ones that should provide you with care, food and education, it becomes tragic.

Now, here is a test the parents may want to have in mind when raising children. When the child will leave home (at 20… 25 years old?), the parents can ask their child to take the following test: ACE Score Calculator. If the child scores 1 or more, they failed as parents. The bigger the score, the bigger failure they are.
This doesn’t mean that we don’t have to have children. No kids means a higher personal success and probably a more enjoyable life, however, it means a failure of our genes, which may be very important, for reasons that I will not discuss here (hint - the movie Idiocracy (2006)).

Think to your childhood for a second. Were you spanked? Did you like it? Do you think violence taught you anything else but violence? Do you think you were such a fool that you couldn’t “learn” in any other way?

Now, moving to my adoptive country… I was surprised to read the comments from the To spank or not to spank? article. The comments can be rated and to my surprise, pro children spanking/beating comments have a 5:1 ratio of positive votes to negative votes, while the rating of the anti spanking comments is the other way around. This says a lot about the state-sponsored propaganda and the brainwashing levels our society reached. I will post at the end of the article some of the comments and their current ratings.

If you don’t have kids yet, or you have and so far you didn’t choose the easy way for yourself, here is a good website one can learn from: Project NoSpank

I hate to sound moralistic, but I can’t help myself after I read those comments and since I understood that child abuse is a very important issue for each of us to fight against.

Now, let me finish in a more optimistic and enjoyable light, by posting a video on what Russell Peters (an amazing Canadian stand-up comic) thinks about beating the kids:

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Karl Denninger wrote today an amazing article, “Open Letter To The Chinese Premier“. I like his positive attitude on where the globalworld economy is going to and the entire satirical tone on how the Western part of the world got into and will go out of this mess.

He is talking about how the US government hijacked the rights from their people and gave them privileges instead, about how puppets like Clinton, Bush, Obama, Greenspan, Paulson, Bernanke or Geithner acted as ‘we the people’ never existed, about how the Chinese leaders used their slaves and pegged currency to take over the supply chains in the rest of the world, about how most of the world is going bankrupt because they can’t fight a Chinese $2/day slave labor and about how the only way out is for the ones in debt to default and start rebuilding.
All of this may very well result in one of the two: third world war or a big Chinese revolution. As I wrote earlier this year on the blog, I think that the Chinese revolution is the most probable, as the Chinese propaganda machine already showed its limitations, thus they can’t motivate their slavespeople for a war… although last year they created the most spectacular Olympic opening ceremony, not that it has anything to do with what I said so far

First thing I thought of when I read Karl’s article is:

Okay, enough, here is the awesome article of Karl Denninger (I wish I could write like he does…), please note that the original one has some hyperlinks to news articles, which I didn’t port:
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I was not happy enough for the last two days after I found out that the Romanian-born poet and novelist Herta Muller had won the 2009 Nobel Prize for Literature, so I had to go back to Earth and find out today that the 2009 Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to backbone free Obama.
First I thought I probably didn’t catch much news this year, but c’mon! After that I thought it’s a joke or that because of the current economic crisis the Nobel Foundation ran out of money. I went and checked the announcement of the Nobel Foundation, it was all true, the reaction people have had to the announcement confirmed me “the news”.

I thought I was somehow familiar with what Alfred Nobel intended the Prizes to be awarded for and because I didn’t see the connection for a politician, the President of the biggest empire today, to get this prize, I tried to find the excuse.

From Alfred Nobel’s will:

shall be annually distributed in the form of prizes to those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit on mankind. The said interest shall be divided into five equal parts, which shall be apportioned as follows… and one part to the person who shall have done the most or the best work for fraternity among nations, for the abolition or reduction of standing armies and for the holding and promotion of peace congresses.

If it would be for us to judge after what Obama did in the precedent year, 2008… well, he was in campaign for the entire year :-). Is this year’s Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Obama’s presidential campaign?

Some context. Because of the economic mess we are in and because many economists are saying that the only way out (especially for US) is to start the World War III, we may actually see it happen. Two weeks ago, the leaders of US, UK and France have held a joint press conference to warn Iran to ‘come clean’ on something they already did/didn’t do/hadn’t to, which is a sign for big trouble. China is the number one oil and gas importer from Iran, go figure.

What struck my mind was that in this context, the best thing the Nobel Foundation could do would be to work proactively and to award the peace prize to the (leader of the) most aggressive country in the last 65 years. How can Obama now declare war to anyone when he was awarded with the Nobel Peace Prize for his vision? It’s just like stipulating in a contract some of the clauses he engaged to during his campaign. After all, he may very well lead his empire for 7 more years. What would be the world with no new wars for 7 years?

The Nobel Foundation’s press release quotes (I highlighted the key words) :

The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009 is to be awarded to President Barack Obama for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples. The Committee has attached special importance to Obama’s vision of and work for a world without nuclear weapons…

I think the contract I was talking about is present in the last part of the press release:

For 108 years, the Norwegian Nobel Committee has sought to stimulate precisely that international policy and those attitudes for which Obama is now the world’s leading spokesman. The Committee endorses Obama’s appeal that “Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges.”

By accepting the prize, Obama signs the contract in the name of the most powerful nation. Unfortunately, life taught me that people without backbone are extremely dangerous, as they don’t care much about contracts. I guess we’ll have to see. Anyway, with this prize, they killed just another myth… and created a new one.

When playing Starcraft (I used to do it when in university, what a time we had…), typing “show me the money” in the chat room is considered a cheat, as it gives you a bonus of 10.000 minerals and gas
In real life, especially during this financial crisis, you can scream “Show me the money!” as hard as you can… you can beg, try to have sex for them… no one will give you anything. Working hard might be a solution, but before even considering that, lets see how we got here and where we are going from here.

First of all, after I spent some time trying to understand why is the economy melting down and why people’s savings are going down the toilet, I came to the following conclusion: is all because human nature is naturally too greedy. Brilliant, right?

Okay, now lets talk “facts”. This is a case against the fiat monetary system as it is today, and not necessarily against the lack of regulations the government was supposed to impose on the banks, as if there would be no fiat monetary system, there would be no huge government, central banks or financial institutions too big to fail. (I will illustrate the story with three quotes from the movie Watchmen (2009) that I’ve seen last night and that I’m considering one of the best movies ever)

Lets say there are some guys controlling the financial system, let’s call them “bankers“, there are some guys that wants us to think they are are controlling the financial system, let’s call them “politicians“, and there are some guys using the financial system, let’s call them us “slaves“.
Politicians are the representatives of slaves while the bankers are taking care of slaves’s savings (if they keep them in banks as cash or under some other financial forms). Since they are all humans, they are all greedy (TBD). So they all together tried to come up with a plan, to have some more money without working for them. The main problem was that any plan they were to produce, wouldn’t work if they were all aware of it, so politicians and bankers started a plan without letting slaves know about it.

The plan went as follows:

1. How politicians made money without working for them
By using what’s called lobby (in some countries they are calling it corruption), bankers did convince the politicians to remove or not to implement some “stupid” rules that were preventing them from lending the slaves with more money they actually had in their treasuries (mainly from deposits) and to play in a reckless way with the investments they were in charge of.

2. How bankers made money without working for them
By being able to lend more money than they had in their treasuries and to give loans to everyone who asked for one, the bankers were able to create money out of fin air (also known as electronic money), so they gained more income from the interests they were receiving for the increased number of loans they started to offer.

3. How slaves were screwed made money without working for them
Slaves were able to buy bigger houses, powerful cars, afford longer trips, eat fancy food, retire earlier, etc., just by getting lower interest rates, on longer terms and unsecured loans from the bankers.

And they lived happily… until last autumn (2008). Why did the happiness stop?… Simple, because the slaves got so much in debt that they couldn’t even afford to spend money on the water they were flushing the toilet with.

Nite Owl II: What the hell happened to us? What happened to the American dream?
The Comedian: It came true. You’re looking at it.

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I’m maintaining a list with what I consider as open mind videos that are sustaining and explaining different theories about controlling one of “God’s creation”, human beings. As I will watch more interesting videos, I will add them to this post. For now, please check bellow. (more…)

“Wall Street Lays Another Egg” is the best article that I read, so far, about all the financial/real-estate/banking crisis that just started. It’s a long article, written by a smart guy, Niall Ferguson, in easy words to understand. (more…)