This article proves the point I have stressed many times, that you cannot put the national security issue of seed health in the hands of purely profit seeking companies

http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/270101

Just as the banking industry, in pursuit of profits, has landed us in a mess, the various seed companies will land us all in a state of hunger one day in their “safe” attempts — with no risks because their stance is “scientifically proven” — to control the world food seed supply. Some unforeseen disaster will happen that the old system would have prevented or dampened, but., well, just read and think …

Just ask yourself one question: is it SAFE to put so much power in the hands of a few purely profit seeking companies, who will do everything possible to lock in monopoly profits at the expense of public and national security (while deluding themselves all the while, as did the banks), versus distributed agriculture wherein we have some protection because farmers here and there plant their own varieties of seeds not owned by the Monsantos of the world, etc.

One of the problems with helping people naturopathically is that they take the wrong brand of supplement, or wrong dosage, or wrong quality/quantity of main ingredient, or not long enough for it to take effect, or on haphazard schedule … or one of several different reasons that prompt people to prematurely/unfairly say “it didn’t work.”

Sometimes people make the opposite mistake and think something worked from the alternative field when it didn’t. What are some of these possible errors?

1. the disease ran its natural course
2. the disease is cyclical, with ups and downs, and the “cure” coincided with a cyclical downturn
3. the placebo effect may have been responsible
4. the original prognosis/diagnosis may have been wrong (for which they took the supplement)
5. a temporary mood improvement may be confused with cure
6. people who hedge their bets by doing multiple things may credit the wrong thing
7. psychological needs can distort what people perceive

next time someone said a supplement didn’t work, or worked, better step through these possibilities in your mind.

Ever since Aaron Russo passed away, I have always urged people to understand the difference between a Republic and a Democracry. This short video, which brings Roman history into account, explains nicely. I like it a lot:

http://www.flixxy.com/political-systems.htm

Most people don’t realize that the majority of “democracies” in the world are actually oligarchies, which means rule by a leader and a group of a powerful few behind him/her. It has always been this way. In ancient China, the Emperor had several strong families to contend with that controlled many matters. In Persia (go read about the foundations of the Persian dynasties) it was the same. Same for Rome and so forth.

Go to the Philippines, Indonesia, and South America in our modern times and in country after country (as Confessions of an Economic Hit Man pointed out) you’ll find a few rich, strong, powerful families who have their hand in most of the wealth creation and money flows of that state. Nothing significant happens without their involvement, ie.  ”take.”

It’s always been that way. Hence the talk of the CFR, Bilderbergers, Council of 300 and so on. Ex-President Clinton knew of this (CFR) and used it as part of his ascension. Obama needs their support so his advisors and officials are all part of this group of “keep the status quo for the most part”, a group which does not want any of its members to lose money/fail even at the expense of the public (and so they may topple the whole house of cards as they blindly try to stick to that, paradoxically having urged Japan during its lost decade to do exactly what they now refuse  to do).

Only the ignorant refuse to believe that powerful people do not get together and try to promote their interests. The problem is, do they have wisdom and compassion for the well being of the common folk? Russo, in his talks with Rockefeller, argues no. In my book on Kuan Tzu, I show how one can become leader of this group and how one should act to become such a leader or single most important person in the country, but emphasize the principle of virtue and compassion as opposed to Machiavellian and Sun Tzu type principles. Then one can become a political savior of a nation.  Other principles inevitably lead to destruction – note the present as a perfect illustration of the the typical way things play out, and the video points out this is typical as well.

A few parties jostling for power – note the oligarchs of Russia – it has always been this way. The Morgans, Rockefellers, Rothschilds and so forth at the turn of the century are just another example. In fact, it probably SHOULD be this way IF that set of individuals has culture, learning and wants what’s best for the people. They also need good advisors, otherwise without moral remonstration they tend to grab too much.

The written history of China  shows this and the fact that we all need good advisors that offer a moral conscience, otherwise in pursuit of power and money we tend to trespass. The Nestle debacle on mother’s milk is one such example. The extremes of several Roman Emperors in raping the wives of nobles or of Michael Jackson (if you are super rich and thus free of most backlash, who will you respect and listen to to make sure you don’t go too far in self-destruction?) When the mentality of asuras abounds, destruction results in the economic, political and most of all cultural field. Today the leaders, for the most part, are all interested in more power, money and control. TV shows the decline in the cultural arena due to asura-type reasoning. The economy – you see what happens when one does not store money among the people but tries to suck it out.

In Chinese history, as an example again, perhaps only five or six Prime Ministers (Chuko Liang, Kuan Tzu and a few others) really cared about the people. That’s all – in the long history of thousands of years, only a handful fit the bill. So Cheney and Rumsfeld –  sorry, don’t kid yourself … they are perfect examples of individuals who do NOT truly understand how to help the masses and make a nation strong, though they think they do. The ear of ministers today is lent to corporate and banking interests, thinking those are the interests of the people because it makes more money for the country.

Too much to say. No ears to listen. Or ears that have no power, or ears with power that will not or cannot act.

One weeps for the  country because in restoring Republican principles it can aright itself, but the restoration will not be done because vested interests - people with money and  power – will not voluntarily give up the little bit extra they have to set the whole system aright. When they sacrifice it, it’s a even playing field (hence no loss) and the money machine is also then preserved for their own best interests, but asuras don’t think that way. They want to cut down the forest of ALL trees to get the cash immediately, and then walk away and try to find some other place to take control of. That is why there are three targets that are preoccupying their attention as untapped: China, India and Russia.

My prediction? Within a few decades the US will split into several nations — two or three with the West coast splitting off as one of them. Not because of anything I do or say, but because of the federal government and its over-extensions and wrong policies. This is a horrific,  terrible fate for a country with no natural enemeies due to its wonderful geographical location, but who creates them all the time because of its actions that profits these interests.

Terrorists? nonsense. Replace the word with “criminals” and then you see we spend too much time and money blowing things out of proportion. Think of them as “criminals” and then sanity will return to the country, but keep using the word “terrorists” to scae people and you can justify all sorts of excesses, infringements and extremes as Bush did. Idiotic policy, and the destruction of the national fabric, fiber and culture.

Already the excessive intrusion of the Federal government is provoking responses by states , and in Britian ex-Ministers are warning that things have gone too far. History shows that they will continue to go too far and then break, and then the powers that be will wonder what happened even though, like the reckonging of the banking crisis we all warned about, it is perfectly obvious.  

A man weeps for his country. I have no voice, there is nothing I can do.

Several points I warned about:

1. Control of water by non-government entities. They do NOT care about the public good, but profits. Profit seeking in this case is at odds with the public good. The current economic crisis is exactly because Washington stopped considering “national interests” and started listening to corporate and banking interests instead. The two are EXTREMELY different.

Profit seeking ventures will do almost anything to make more money, and it’s government’s job to regulate them to keep this in check and in line with the national good. Otherwise, see what happened … if instead of keeping the loans I make I sell them instead, then I will eventually have an incentive to make lots of bad loans I can sell because collection and default will be someone else’s problem. Exactly what happened – Common Sense 101.

The problem proliferates from this point onwards. Rating agenices will eventually continue to say “all is well,” and if you are in charge of investments and warn your firm not to buy these loans while everyone else is, you will likely lose your job. So the problem proliferates due to lack of ethics and common sense.

http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/02/25

2. You cannot “stimulate” jobs where there are none – you need to recreate the manufacturing sector and it will take 30 years of policies to do so, especially since we are a high cost environment that cannot compete due to labor costs and health care costs. Rejuvenating the industrial sector is the only thing that will restore national prosperity to our peak of supremacy because the jobs that have left US shores are not going to come back – we’re too expensive. Two things can help. Tax incentives for manufacturing at home, and also a revamping of liability laws to encourage production of products that otherwise would not be made here. Too manyproducts are not made because of liability laws. Sorry, but liability has to be rethought.

http://www.marketoracle.co.uk/Article9109.html

3. The long term cycles do show the stock market rebounding late this year into late 2010, and the dropping from then on into late 2014/early 2015. Here’s a video I made of the current short term seasonality of the stock market calling for a low right about now or in mid-April. Options traders use to your advantage. I’ll release this software sometime soon so you can analyze any market by western and lunar seasonals, by political conditions, by economic conditions, by trend following, by cycles and that’s about it.

http://www.screencast.com/users/wbodri/folders/Jing/media/14d55f26-9769-4a99-99de-349f42a649f3

( http://www.screencast.com/t/Fueshusm )

Just watch:

http://vimeo.com/2769845

This ad recently appeared on Craig’s list, and has been requoted everywhere.  It’s about why a man with wealth shouldn’t marry a girl just for her looks. I’ll save my comments for the end because I alwasy wanted to write about this. The Craigslist ad starts off with a girl looking for a guy.

Girl Asks – What am I doing wrong?

Okay, I’m tired of beating around the bush. I’m a beautiful (spectacularly beautiful) 25 year old girl. I’m articulate and classy. I’m not from New York . I’m looking to get married to a guy who makes at least half a million a year. I know how that sounds, but keep in mind that a million a year is middle class in New York City, so I don’t think I’m overreaching at all.

Are there any guys who make 500K or more on this board? Any wives? Could you send me some tips? I dated a business man who makes average around 200 – 250. But that’s where I seem to hit a roadblock. 250,000 won’t get me to central park west. I know a woman in my yoga class who was married to an investment banker and lives in Tribeca, and she’s not as pretty as I am, nor is she a great genius. So what is she doing right? How do I get to her level?

Here are my questions specifically:

- Where do you single rich men hang out? Give me specifics- bars, restaurants, gyms

-What are you looking for in a mate? Be honest guys, you won’t hurt my feelings

-Is there an age range I should be targeting (I’m 25)?

- Why are some of the women living lavish lifestyles on the upper east side so plain? I’ve seen really ‘plain jane’ boring types who have nothing to offer married to incredibly wealthy guys. I’ve seen drop dead gorgeous girls in singles bars in the east village. What’s the story there?

- Jobs I should look out for? Everyone knows – lawyer, investment banker, doctor. How much do those guys really make? And where do they hang out? Where do the hedge fund guys hang out?

- How you decide marriage vs. just a girlfriend? I am looking for MARRIAGE ONLY

Please hold your insults – I’m putting myself out there in an honest way. Most beautiful women are superficial; at least I’m being up front about it. I wouldn’t be searching for these kind of guys if I wasn’t able to match them – in looks, culture, sophistication, and keeping a nice home and hearth.

The Guy Replies – We would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold

I read your posting with great interest and have thought meaningfully about your dilemma. I offer the following analysis of your predicament.

Firstly, I’m not wasting your time, I qualify as a guy who fits your bill; that is I make more than $500K per year. That said here’s how I see it.

Your offer, from the prospective of a guy like me, is plain and simple a crappy business deal. Here’s why. Cutting through all the B.S., what you suggest is a simple trade: you bring your looks to the party and I bring my money. Fine, simple. But here’s the rub, your looks will fade and my money will likely continue into perpetuity…in fact, it is very likely that my income increases but it is an absolute certainty that you won’t be getting any more beautiful!

So, in economic terms you are a depreciating asset and I am an earning asset. Not only are you a depreciating asset, your depreciation accelerates! Let me explain, you’re 25 now and will likely stay pretty hot for the next 5 years, but less so each year. Then the fade begins in earnest. By 35 stick a fork in you!

So in Wall Street terms, we would call you a trading position, not a buy and hold…hence the rub…marriage. It doesn’t make good business sense to “buy you” (which is what you’re asking) so I’d rather lease. In case you think I’m being cruel, I would say the following. If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It’s as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage.

Separately, I was taught early in my career about efficient markets. So, I wonder why a girl as “articulate, classy and spectacularly beautiful” as you has been unable to find your sugar daddy. I find it hard to believe that if you are as gorgeous as you say you are that the $500K hasn’t found you, if not only for a tryout.

By the way, you could always find a way to make your own money and then we wouldn’t need to have this difficult conversation.

With all that said, I must say you’re going about it the right way. Classic “pump and dump.”

I hope this is helpful, and if you want to enter into some sort of lease, let me know.

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Okay, now for my comments I’ve always wanted to write. To read them, please see

http://www.meditationexpert.com/life-wisdom/l_honest_craigs_list.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/27/renewableenergy-energy

http://carolynbaker.net/site/content/view/877/1/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jivb7lupDNU

I learned from my teacher there are several situations where you shy away from giving advice

First, whether two individuals should get married or not. The divorce rate today is over 50%, nearly 60+% and beyond, and of course every couple will have marital problems from time to time. When things go wrong, many people look for someone else to blame rather than take personal responsibility. I’ve seen this happen let’s say about a million times or so (exaggeration).

Marriage is a person’s own personal decision, and yet when things go wrong they will blame YOU for their difficulties (as if it’s your fault) if you had given even the slightest encouragement as a teacher. “YOU told us we should get married” – how many times have I heard that tossed at bystanders? Who said all marriages are necessarily good? Such big decisions are 100% your responsibility, not even your parents’. Why are you listening to anyone other than your own commonsense and avoiding full responsibility for what is supposed to be an important life decision you make on your own?

Whether a person should become a monk or not. This is another personal decision that has nothing to do with you once again, and yet people will somehow try to twist this one into your responsibility as well. It’s usually someone who just wants to drop out from the world and is also looking for someone to pin the blame on. It’s their decision 100% once again. Anything goes wrong, they don’t like the lifestyle, etc. etc. and you’re the first one to blame if you said anything. What’s their karma is their karma, what they choose to do is what they choose to do, and yet they WILL find some way to blame you. I’ve seen it happen….not just once, so my teacher is wise. A good rule my teacher established is to refrain from commenting at all. Why are you seeking approval anyway if that’s your fervent desire in your deepest mind? That’s what it should be if you want to do this. Don’t pull other people into your decision, especially people who aren’t nuns or monks in the first place.

When you see that someone will be reborn an animal because of bad deeds, never tell them this either. They won’t change their behavior that has produced such a fate.

I’d also add answering questions about health supplements. If you have a question, call the manufacturer, read the label, read other websites on the product, or go to a doctor or naturopath or nutritionist who will personally see you and your condition. They are paid to do that – they’ll give you a questionnaire that helps determine contraindications. Yeah, you PAY them to give you advice that after careful consideration of all the factors in your case, are right for you.

Your health, what you consume, and what you do is your responsibility, especially if you want to experiment. Do your own due diligence, just like when you want to get married. Like anyone else, I never diagnose or advise anyone. I simply tell people what’s available that they should research as a kindness. Do your own research as to dosages and whether it’s right for you or go and pay someone to SEE you to determine if something matches. How can you expect anyone to help you who doesn’t physically see you and your physical condition or get your history? And most of all, don’t write asking where you can buy something when there’s something called the “internet” right in front of you. As if I’m supposed to do a google search for you and then send you the results. Sure enough, people ask … and then they don’t buy anyway. So our job in life, I suppose, is to waste our time for such people? As for myself, I try to be very respectful of other people’s time and the efforts they make on my behalf, including monies they spend.

Never give an interview. The reporter is sure to misrepresent you and get things wrong. You have nothing to sell, so why be interviewed? They’re the ones looking for an angle, and look at the movies — too often it’s something called “sabotage” or misrepresentation. No, you cannot control the press. If they want to make a monster a saint, they will, and if they want to make a saint the devil, they will again. People think the press is trustworthy. Sorry, people have agendas. Honest, they do.

Never debate. You’re just here to offer. Who’s qualified to debate you anyway? It’s usually some individual who has their own little book or tiny viewpoint and wants to become famous through opposition. They know one school, if at all. They neither have cultivation gong-fu nor vast learning in many spheres of cultivation (the two things that would make them qualified for a conversation) nor prajna wisdom — they simply hold on to their one book claiming, “But my Book says this” and “The Book says that.” It’s all self-reflexive — they’re not debating, they’re insisting that what they read, in the way they read it, is right over everything else in the world. No gong-fu, no wisdom, no wide learning but they think they are right as to the tradition/viewpoint they’ve been born into or become attracted/attached to, and that they’re even qualified to debate in their own self-reflexive way. They proceed from the viewpoint that their tiny one book is right in the first place. That being the case, what debate? It’s a sham from the start, and those who “want a debate” are just looking for argumentative entertainment. If they were seekers they’d read, ponder, cultivate, attain and then compare. So ignore such nonsense seekers. You’re just here to offer.

Rating another teacher. People always ask for an opinion on this or that cultivation teacher and their method(s). Who you study with is your business, not mine, and is of no interest to me. My teacher doesn’t care either. Why would my opinion change anything anyway and why would I be interested ? I’m a publisher, not a teacher, nor a competitor. If another teacher is “okay” it changes nothing, and if “not kosher” then all you end up doing with my words, which are supposed to be private anyway, is point trouble my way because you’d blab out, “Bill said this.” Why would you want to give me trouble if you respect the work I’m doing?

Because of my teacher’s example, I’ve never commented on another teacher and won’t. It’s none of my business what they do, just as it’s none of my business what anyone does. What do I care what you’re doing inside your house … it has nothing to do with me. So I’ve avoided the fate I’ve seen happen to others where a private comment was leaked to a whole community of ardent followers who now made it a campaign to go after that speaker. Such folks, rather than ignore comments, want to justify themselves to themselves, as if some third party’s opinion mattered, had to be defeated, and by doing so they were vindicated in the whole wide world. They wouldn’t dare enter a crowded Jewish synagogue and say “you fellows are all wrong,” or announce themselves in a crowded Church that way, or go inside a mosque and say “you’re all mistaken” but sure enough they’ll start pestering some poor guy who innocently offered just their own personal opinion privately, opinions which are a dime a dozen.

Go ahead and laugh because this happens. Yes it does. Six billion people in the world and people believe one certain individual’s opinion has to be changed, but not opinions of the other six billion minus one folks, and like you’re going to be able to change that guy’s opinion anyway? So my teacher never comments on other teachers, and neither do I. It does not lead to edification.

“Everyone needs to make money to live. I don’t want to destroy someone’s livelihood,” is what he jokingly says when we talk about cheaters. (As if it was HIS responsibility to do something, and as if he could do something about it.) You should just laugh. It’s true, it’s true….try it and you’ll see you cannot change anything anyway except get yourself embroiled in an argument and then impede all the other good work you’re trying to do in the world. You cannot save people from their own bad karma; they have to save themselves. Cheaters are much smarter than you, have more energy than you do and more time on their hands, and protect their livelihood fiercely because that’s all they can do. So don’t ask for my opinion and get me embroiled with cheaters. Do your own thinking according to the non-denominational principles of the path. I’ve done enough typing for you already.

So who your teacher is and what you believe as to a proper meditation method and what you practice or do is your own karma and has nothing to do with me. If you cannot read the site articles, understand the non-denominational principles of cultivation and then form your own educated opinion – which is what the site is supposed to do for you — then no one’s opinion can help you understand, so why are you asking? At best you’re just trying to give me trouble.

The culture of my country is so low that people always want to give trouble to people who have tried to help them. They want others to get into a fight so that they can sit back and watch and get entertained, like on Jerry Springer. Form your own opinions and seek your own counsel if you’re that way. You have to take 100% responsibility for your own cultivation in the world, including the mistakes you make, and you have to discover them for yourself because you WANT to know and search out the right answers. If you don’t work hard enough or read enough or study enough or mantra enough or meditate enough or hang out with the wrong crowd or lose money or one of a million other things it has nothing to do with me. Lucky for me I don’t look at all these teachers and gurus and masters to know what they’re doing, so I can say “I don’t know.” I have plenty of other things to keep me busy.

These are just a few of the circumstances where you learn to say nothing. I’m sure you can think of more situations in life where wisdom has taught you to remain silent. That being the case, why wouldn’t the field of cultivation have such moments of silence as well.

Look about you — there are several billion people you cannot save, lost you cannot wake up, whom you cannot do this or that for. All you can do is offer. If they come, let them come. If they don’t come, that’s their business. If you offer the pure dharma, be kind and friendly and generous and welcome everyone. If you offer them a quick tantric means that can shave off aeons, scare them away, put up barriers, create obstacles, look mean, be hard to find, remind them they’re not qualified (because they aren’t), make them not like you so they run … but offer it nonetheless out of mercy. That’s skillful means, and the non-smart ones won’t know it but will leave, proving they don’t have the merit for it. They’ll just turn away because they don’t know you’re using skillful means. You must create some way that they turn away of their own accord because you cannot offer the gems so freely — they have to prove they want it. Choose your own way to so offer. Create your own way to establish the tension. It’s all up to you in the end. You can keep silent, which is what 100% of the teachers do, and teach nothing, or you can show compassion but then must adopt a means where there is a barrier. Speaking honestly, it’s better not to teach anything at all, which is why you won’t find anything in Taoism, the Esoteric school, Vajrayana, and tantric yoga, etc. I’m too kind like an old grandmother, so I better make myself look like witch! ha ha ha. You choose your own route. It all depends on your wisdom and mercy.

Which reminds me. Don’t try to please people. The more you try to please people, the less you can say or do that’s useful, and then you end up saying and doing nothing useful at all. Witness the politicians. Their income depends on pleasing people so nothing substantial is said, promises are made but not kept, issues are not handled in a statesmenlike way, and everyone suffers. Salesmen please to get the sale, and then they walk away leaving you with the problems and no service. No, your job is not to please people. Be pleasing and palatable and attractive – YES – but your job is not to please people who are looking for cultivation guidance and the true cultivation path. It’s hard, not easy. Offer honesty and expect respect. If respect is not granted, it is usually not a place to teach. People reveal themselves by their own acts of merit, and their own actions and behavior.

When I look at the data, I firmly believe stocks will look better in mid 2009 than they do now, even though we may not  have a full bottom in yet. We could have a tsunami or earthquake hit California or some other unexpected catastrophe, even something economic like GM declaring bankruptcy (which might actually be the way for it to turn around) and then see stocks much lower. (What would be more hurt piled on top during an emergency like Katrina again would be the absence of the National Guard and Reserve since they are deployed overseas fighting whereas their job is to serve at home). Today it drops because people are TOLD they’re in a recession? You mean, people didn’t know it?

The problem is there are no jobs, and no way to stimulate them. Traditional remedies are unlikely to succeed regardless as to what Obama tried. Frankly, he needs some luck. Consumer debt expansion fueled the US market and consumers are overburdened with debt, in what they now realize are shaky jobs, and in what they now realize is a bad economic environment. They will now be saving, no spending. We are at our debt capacity limit.

Which is not to mention the fact that traditional Keynesian stimulus — building roads, bridges, etc. — will only create make-work. (Who will pay for that as well?) There are no new jobs being created. What we outsourced WILL NOT come back because it’s still cheaper over there than here. The Reichs and other economists and “top thinkers” were wrong to believe you can have a strong economy based on services. So they listened to big multinationals and outsourced jobs. They are gone, not coming back. Every time Congress signed a free trade agreement to help some big boy sell more in a foreign country, in return it flooded our markets with products that shut our little guys out of jobs. So we lost employment, the big boys made more money, and then they shielded it from US taxes because they know how! And Congress keeps saying yes to them because ….. “it’s good for the consumer”? Go check my past blog posts — a low price doesn’t matter if everyone’s out of work, because no one can afford it. 

The problem is not a liquidity problem. It is a structural problem now. We need to rebuild the economy from the ground up. Small farming, which employs people, needs to be encouraged. The alternative medicine field, which is powered by disposal income and employs millions, should no longer be persecuted — it HAS to be performed in country, provides a vital alternative to the orthodox way when it doesn’t work, leads to real breakthroughs, and cannot be outsourced. Small manufacturing will not come back because of lower costs, but it may come back if liability laws are dramatically changed. You have a choice — let people sue for anything and have less jobs in the nation, or  sue less and have more jobs and manufacturing. It will come down to that.

Another possibility is incentives (taxwise) for corporations to be taxed according to valued added performed in the United States. 

I still predict the government within the next one or two decades will start to tax the large tax exempt foundations (Ford, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Harvard Trust Funds,…) because historically I’ve seen it in China, France, ….

The bottom line is, a nation cannot survive as a service economy. It needs manufacturing, it needs small shop keepers, it needs small farming dotted everywhere. The best bank is to sotre the money amongst the people. But those at the top thought that a nation based on finance could win the day. No. Just as history has shown over and over that a small country that is the center of a trading route quickly declines when another route is discovered that circumvents it, we’ll find out that you need to innovate, create and manufacture to stay strong and healthy. They goofed, and they goofed big time in their thinking that unguided capitalism would provided perennial profits.

R&D tax incentives by the government are what we also need now, or an Apollo-like initiative for a different source of energy or transportation or something that will totally rewire the economy and will require replacement of the old base in order for people to reap the economies, and that will mobilize the nation’s economy. In the study of Kondratieff waves and Schumpeter economics, that’s the only thing that does.

What really worries me over the next two decades is agriculture.

We have far too few seed banks.

We let our seeds and ag policy be controlled by just a few large interests that only have profit motives in mind. Witness what happened to the banking community when that happened — solely acting as profit maximizers, they did not concern themselves with the risk to the whole system.

We pushed for an agricultural system of a few large farmers based on “economy of scale” concerns. Well, if there is global warming, large producers cannot react fast. They are also at the mercy of large buyers, such as McDonalds. They do not offer a diversified product, so if blight comes, all the same dominos tend to topple together. Small farmers are more responsive to the local community and if a blight or worse came, ONE off them, motivated beyond measure to protect his livelihood (like no corporate executive would), would figure out what to do, other small independent operators would also innovate and quickly follow (not the big boys, who always lag!) and communities would be saved. There are strategic, community and survival benefits to samll rather than large economies of scale.

“Terminator” seeds should be outlawed because of the risks they represent and entail; it’s just so plain stupid to allow this that I won’t go into it. “Patenting life” should be declared void.

GMO, from the research, has not produced the yield gains promised … but HAS produced a greater need for fertilizers and pesticides than before and help fund PR firms who are told to push it. Yes, continue the research, but remember that for now this is just a way to try to create a monopoly product, that’s all. THAT is the concern hidden beneath everything. Not the only one, but a major one.

Pesticide usage from foreign ag products is not policed; we allow a banned pesticide here to be used over there and then import it. Why?

Water will become scare EVERYWHERE. Only the small farmer will then survive because they can adapt. That will save communities paritally. So why are we placing our bets in just a few big boys? Yes there are economies of scale there and you need them, but there must also be a balance of many smaller players in the mix due to strategic security risks. It helps with local employment and community cohesion as well, and many other unmeasurable intangibles that make for just plain good old sound living. Local communities need to develop tax laws to promote, protect tthe local farmer (and not underlying real estate deals that the laws would be jury rigged to set up).

And more and more and more.

Statesmen should THINK about these things and then create policies that will protect us. God forbid should a drought or disease (ex. irish potato blight) run rampant after which time all the people will be arguing “How come you didn’t think of this, it was so obvious?” Do you really think other countires will sell their food, exporting it, if emergencies will happen.

Just witness what happened when wheat prices and rice priices rose…many countires enacted IMMEDIATE laws to prohibit export. Now think ahead … in this new world of global warming and droughts (Australia lost 90% of its wheat crop last year) and increasing third world population … and ponder what’s a SECURE, STABLE solution. It’s not what the profit maximizers designed, which is a solution designed to create powerful monopolies.

And as to many smaller nations who sign on to globalization and then immediately see huge amounts of low cost foods dumped into their markets, ruining the local famrers, who then go bankrupt overnight (and have to emigrate to the cities, putting an ever bigger strain and burden on them) and sell their land to larger players, who then come under the control of the big players in order to sell in bulk … and who tell them to only produce for export rather than the local market … this is not the best way to keep up employment, communities and guarantee a nation’s food supply sufficiency. You have to rethink “say yes” if you are truly concerned about your country. Frankly, from what I see were the ag laws passed in India recently, which has resulted in the bankruptcy and suicides of hundreds if not thousands of small farmers, I think some people in high positions were on the take and accepted bribes because the policies are so bad and favor non-national interests so much. It gives you cause to wonder the power of the multinationals when they want profits. The government is supposed to protect the people, not pander to those with the biggest wallets. As I always say, the profit motive has no concern for community or humanity or social outcome or even good policy. It’s just ruthless about doing what’s necessary for ever more, secure profits for itself. And then it shields those profits from taxes in ways the littel guys who were eliminated never could, and there is no trickle down effect to the nation or employees. Just the rich owenrs. Think about that.

How many more agricultural issues should I bring up that worry the heck out of me, besides the bees, of course? Weather instability is now here, seed risk is now here, water risk is now here, and population demand is climbing and we recently SAW what happened when wheat, milk, ice and corn prices doubled …. NOW is the time this is perfectly clear. The risks are no longer theoretical that we should do nothing until it’s too late, and then complain. The regulation, as with the banking crisis, must begin NOW and restore the food care to the people in a distributed system that ensures its safety. That IS a national security concern and imperative. Otherwise, one new agricultural anthrax type bug out of nowhere and the whole system can collapse. Only DIVERSITY protects you from that, just as a DIVERSITY of medical approaches (homeopathic, chinese medicine, nutritional, altenrative medicine, bodywork, etc.) protects the population even though the medical establishment may desipise it.

Don’t let agricultural giants put us at risk in the same way the financial community did. To lose money is one thing, but to be without food as the result of unwise policy means death. Why would we let our leaders be so calous at the behest of the corporate globalmeisters once again, who can promise agricultural security with beautiful words but when the sh*t actually does hit the fan, will be able to deliver nothing. The whole system needs to be reworked and rethought out NOW … a balance of the bigger, and resurgence of many smaller players for diveristy and safety’s sake and for too many reasons for me to write. Do you part — contact your Senators and Congressman and public officials. They never act unless there is pressure. If you see the results of what the financial sector did, and just consider a FEW of the things I noted and think them through, you have more than enough wisdom to understand the risks right now, especially with the weather changing, water becoming more scare, seed diversity disappearing, …

This is what concerns me!

Okay, so Obama wins. The cabinet picks always reveal what is to come.

Hillary Clinton as the Secretary of State is not a wise choice because there is the large danger she will always have her own agenda and not follow the President’s wishes. Who knows what  secret things she will be up to? Especially due to the past connections of her husband and his administration…who knows what objectives she will working on without anyone’s knowing, including the President.

During the Watergate trial, she was on the prosecution team and the head of the team refused to give her a letter of recommendation — something he refused only 3 times in his life. Why? He said she didn’t follow orders at times and followed her own agenda, sometimes performing acts that were on the cusp of illegality and would certainly get her disbarred as he recalls it. This is on the record, go check. Remember, this is ALL before she became famous… and remember that personalities rarely change.

Next under the Clinton regime she created her OWN health care plan without consulting anyone, always thinking that she’s smarter and following her own plan. Her OWN plan. Then she becomes a Presidential candidate — she wants the top job, she wants to be the boss. Can such a person listen to someone else? It remains to be seen. With such past cases, how can you expect anyone to follow your orders? The risks are too high.  We shall see, we shall see.

It’s take about 2 years before the truth of what I say becomes apparent….someone with their own agenda because of the makeup of their personalityand because of past connections presenting opportunities that they have a hard time saying “no” to. I’m not saying it will definitely happen and I have nothing against Hillary, but am saying it is a risk. I would not put myself in such a position. A very unwise decision from these standpoints.

As to the White House Chief of Staff, once again we have a dual citizen. Now THINK. We have a rule that the President MUST be nation born, for very good reasons – no divided loyalties. We also have a rule that he must be 35 years old to help insure maturity. Makes sense, doesn’t it?

Anyone who understands potential conflicts of interests, which happen more often than not, understands what’s inherently possible when a Dual Citizen reaches a position of power in the government. Sorry, but it should just be outlawed for similar principles. Plain and simple, no matter who it is. That’s why we establish these rules in the first place, because they embody wisdom and prevent the veering into error.

Error that never happens and is never seen is wisdom accomplished. Perhaps Obama was afraid for his life, and through this appointment tried to prove to others that he was not going to be overly helpful to Islamic causes. In any case, it’s not a man of gumption who does this or a man with clear thinking again. And if you say the Chief of Staff “was the best man for the job,” I refer to the wisdom principle once again. I don’t care if the person is a dual citizen of Canada or Britain or anywhere else. The principles I’ve outlined should guide government policy.

As to some of the other picks, some good, some “nothing special.” The problem with Obama is that he has no political capital. He has no one who owes him favors, and that makes it difficult to get things done, so he needs old insiders otherwise the threat is he’d accomplish nothing. The question is what baggae they bring, and what are the real level of their skills as to the RIGHT POLICY. Now the time in the nation should focus on the right policy, not how to administrate well.

You will always know what will happen in an administration by the selection of the cabinet members, and also by the nickname of the president before office. McCain was known as “McNasty” all his life, and that would clearly have shown through in the end. Now we have a presentable great speaker whose polish reminds me of Will Smith. But whether that turns into the wise policies we need and hope for, that remains to be seen.

Oh and by the way….do you remember when oil prices dropped from $140 to $80 almost overnight BEFORE there was any drop in demand? Do you know why? Because most of the fluff was speculation — hedge funds, investment banks, etc. bought massive amounts of oil contracts and had to liquidate because of the declining stock market and bad CMOs (mortgage investmeents). So the demand dried up from these non-users, and the price went down. Just as some wise people said, the extra fluff was all due to speculation, not real industrial demand.  In fact, the MAJORITY of the price is now CLEARLY seen to have been due to speculation sine nearly every hedge fund and brokerage was in on this. The fact that oil is now $50 should give you pause to think –  some of that low price IS due to lower demand but nearly $100 worth? The big boys had to sell anything and everything liquid because they needed cash, and thus that speculative froth went away.

This should give you cause to ponder what to do next time. I discuss some things in my book on Kuan Tzu, which is the  sage MOST appropriate for our times – the first master of Keynesian and Monetary stimulas in history.  Not Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Sun Tzu and so forth. A strong economy is not built on financial services or export trade flows, for they put it at risk over time. It’s strong because it builds up its own internal market that cannot be exported away. This is something to think about.

The collapse in the financial markets, and recession we’re now in and probably will be in until 2014 (despite ups and downs along the way), should have occurred back in 1987, but Greenspan inflated our way out of it … creating a more serious problem because we tacked on 20 more years of debt!

A recession is here for sure. How do we get out of it? A usual way was by lowering interest rates. But who wants to loan? And who will have a job that they can borrow? And what industry will have demand that requires investment?

Another choice is Keynesian fiscal stimulus — projects to employ people nationwide. But guess what? How can regular jobs be restored? We destroyed the foundational jobs that could have protected us by outsourcing and free trade agreements that shut them down. Manufacturing has been outsourced. Services have been outsourced. So what jobs will be stimulated? Bartending, coffeeshops, hairdressing and the like? If the travel industry goes, so does the hotel, restaurant and entertainment industries. This is just an example that should give you pause to think. Who are you going to stimulate now that the backbone has been gutted?

The economy that has been built up over the last 20 years has been debt based — meaning that demand for goods was geared towards niceties rather than necessary consumptives. You don’t NEED a jacuzzi but with a home equity loan you can install one. We didn’t NEED most of what we bought, but because debt was cheap and we were encouraged to buy, we bought and built up entire industries geared towards luxury rather than necessity. This will not return to the extent it once was. In fact, we now need to build up an entirely new economy from scratch.

Not to mention we have a burgeoning illegal immigrant problem — people looking for work who also require a tremendous amount of social services spending (that we will have to pay for out of taxes). This will turn ugly because of the many times I’ve seen this previously, it has never failed to turn ugly (witness Germany in the eighties) when the economy turned bad.

Our manufacturing sector is gone, and jobs have been outsourced. There are no jobs to stimulate along these lines. The decision to make the financial services industry a key backbone (20+%) of the economy … and other “service” industries, is now seen not to have been wise.

Those in power listened to those with money who told them to “let us make more”, and the result is now disaster. As I discussed with the quotes from Mencius and the Grand Historian, those in power erred. Every time we create a new free trade agreement, with a country like Columbia for instance, is because large multinationals want to get into that market to sell more goods and make a few more million dollars. Let me tell you, the large multinational have wonderful ways of shielding taxes on their extra profits with offshore corporations and so forth. This is not the key to prosperity for the nation. The financial return to the US economy is not what politicians are led to believe it will be unless they reform THESE tax laws. If I told you the offshore tricks that oil companies used to keep profits out of the US you’d have a heart attack. But the people in power listen to these big boys (because they are granted access since they are big) and kid themselves thinking “this is good for our consumers because imported goods will be cheaper.” But as I’ve been saying, cheap goods are fine as long as the people are employed. They never take that into account. I’ve said over and over again, the economic models don’t take into account (1) the TYPE or MAKEUP of products within GNP and (2) the fact that lower prices for consumers should take a secondary concern to employment below certain levels. We are now in defaltion so we shall see who is right.

For every large multinational who therefore sells more, we also put hundreds of little businesses out of work in our home country because of the flow in of cheaper goods. Politicians never consider this because the little guys rarely raise their voices in unison, and PACs hold the purse strings. The PACs should be outlawed, period, and then everyone has a level playing field otherwise the encroachment into Washington of money destroys the government of the people. The little people are the guys paying the taxes! But unfortunately, because they are scattered everywhere and don’t have one big voice that can knock on the doors of Washington, these are the guys who get ignored whereas the doors are open to a Boeing, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Conagra, etc.

Here’s the only thing that will work AFTER this all works itself out, which   will by the end of 2014. Yes, there will be lots of ups and downs between then — we’re do for a stock rally and reprieve right soon for instance, and 2009 after April should be mostly up and the same for 2010 until the end of the year. But the big thing is that this cycle has happened multiple times in the past and is always caused by too much debt and too little regulation on debt. So it should have been no surprise to anyone at the time because it certainly wasn’t to an ordinary fellow like me and others who read history. They were all just seduced by the financial services industry which wanted to keep raking in the money.

So what will work? After all the destruction, you need ENTIRELY NEW INDUSTRIES, not the old ones, to come up. You need new technologies, such as things the government has held back in black work projects. You need Schumpter creative destruction. You need the Kondratieff new paradigm. Whether it’s nanotech, or magnetic power, or whatever, you need something so transformative that investment comes out of hiding and people invest  and the world is rebuilt anew. That’s the ONLY thing that will work. So R&D, government release of black ops projects, university research, Bell Labs types initiatives, national Apollo mission type objectives that give birth to entirely new industries — that’s what we must put our energies into. Grand missions! To believe that debt relief will bring things back after we’ve outsourced entire industries and their jobs overseas is ludicrous. How will those jobs come back if they are still cheaper over there? They won’t! You only have one choice. To create something entirely NEW that is an industry built at home with employment at home, and it’s not outsourced. That’s it, that’s all that ever works. If you study the Kondratieff waves, this becomes clear.

I’ll say it again so that it sinks in. You can do all the monetary policy and financial stimulus you want, but much of the service industry economy that has built up over the last 20 years is doomed because it was an unnecessary luxury that only thrived in good times, and much of the consumption (demand for the industry producets and services) was based on debt. You only have one choice — to build up hard core, basic industry once again through new policies that make it cost competitive. Sorry GM but you had 20 years to get it right again and still could not, and your unions get paid 95% of their salaries when laid off — do you think you can compete or stay afloat like that?

A strong basic economy usually takes the form of agriculture and manufacturing. Agricultural policy should favor the small farmer rather than the large behemoths, who are making large strategic errors as well that threaten national security.  In this way jobs are spread around, the food supply is not at risk, communities stay together, and small businessmen make a living. This is much more important than concentrating millions in the hands of a few big players who can avoid taxes, manipulate politicians, and make big decisions that imperil the nation.

Manufacturing policy should encourage small firms with legal exemptions from restrictions or oppresions that send manufacturing elsewhere. Most of all, we should release any R&D that has been in the labs. If the government wanted to do anything, it should spend its monies on these new initiatives that can power the next wave up. Who knows what that technology, or market breakthrough will be?

This FDA article disturbed me greatly:

http://www.naturalnews.com/024569.html

This is not what the FDA was charged to do and is exactly why more and more people feel government intruding upon them.

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Now that a preventable crisis has the gripping attention of the world’s leaders, what other catastrophic crisis on the horizon is also something that we can identify NOW and act to alter if we become statesmen rather than politicians?

First, AGRICULTURE — our seeds are controlled by one or two companies that have installed terminator genes, don’t allow farmers to reuse the seeds in subsequent years, and we have a mono-culture crop for most food items … this is a recipe waiting for disaster. One world drought or insect boom or climate change or new disease and the mono-crop is all gone. We must encourage small agriculture once again for security’s sake, as a national strategic concern (just as Saudi Arabia once grew wheat for security concerns as well). The government should encourage public seed swap / seed sharing internet groups as a backup to the often failing government and corporate efforts. There should be NO LAWS preventing farmers from using saved seed — this profit maximizing law threatens your life because it threatens your food supply. The government makes laws and says “No” to many things, and this is one of them because of the risks that the corporations will all so deny … just as they did for the current banking crisis. That’s how profit maximization works. It doesn’t care about social, environmental or other costs like this.

The stakes are way too high here foks to let our food supply policies be determined by corporations rather than public officials thinking things through for the public good (instead of saying let’s just let the profit-seeking corporations do it … witness this month’s stock results). Frankly “terminator genes/seeds” should be outlawed, plain and simple, because of the catastrophic risk. So the firms make less money, big deal. I would not let their actions threaten the food supply of my country, would you?

For the rest of the article on Future Catastrophic Risks, click on the link.