Financial Control – An American Citizen Initiative
FACT: The United States Government bailed out failing financial institutions with American Tax Dollars. The Prime rate was lowered to boost the economy. Financial Institutions were allowed to buy out other financial institutions such as Washington Mutual, Capital One, and Chase by J.P. Morgan. The government lowered the required collateral to these financial institutions to boost the American economy.
FACT: J.P. Morgan promised profit to the elite wealthy shareholders of their company. J.P. Morgan is following this promise by doubling and nearly tripling previous Chase and Capital One cardholders APR interest rates. Previous daily periodic rates have jumped from .032% to as high as .0981%.
FACT: USUARY LAWS put .10 daily periodic rate as loan sharking and punishable as a crime. J.P. Morgan and other financiers are under .10 but only by .02.
FACT: The American working citizen is paying for the buyout and paying exorbitant finance fees to the greedy financiers.
REALITY: The American Working Citizen is losing house, car, job, medical care, dental care, and savings in this bailout. The American Working Citizen is walking away from financial debt with nothing leaving the fewer and fewer American Working Citizen to foot the higher financial debt at higher and higher finance rates. The GREED of the elite financial groups continues to be fed without respite.
REALITY: Unless Americans take initiative, the elite financial groups will reinstate work houses, poor houses, and financial slavery through legislation.
REALITY: The American Working Citizen must take back control of our economy now before it is too late. If we do nothing, our economy will collapse.
HOPE: Send email, mail, copy this poster, blog, and contact in any way our legislators and representatives legal, financial, and governmental. Demand that a cap of .06% daily periodic rates be legislated on any and all financial debt by financial lenders of any sort including foreign lenders.
DEMAND: A cap of .06% on daily periodic rates with excess punishable by imprisonment. This must be a USUARY LAW across every State in the United States and Federally Monitored.
We the working people are honorable American Citizens willing to pay our debt. We must have reasonable parameters in order to do this, and the GREED of the Financiers must be controlled.
Wednesday, October 29, 2008
Sunday, October 12, 2008
My Political Platform
I have chosen my candidate for President of the United States. This is the first time I truly feel I am selecting the least of two evils. The final selection to me is based on only one issue, the economic plan. Both of the plans are ridiculous and ill advised, but my selected candidate is the least of the two evils in this election. America will fall. It will fall faster with one candidate over the other.
As for the rest of the candidates and their frustrating rhetoric and buzz words, along with the gullibility of the American public to be swayed by Public Relations Firms and Marketing Firms continually drive me to complete frustration. I do not know what dimension I live in, because the American Presidential Candidates and Vice Presidential Candidates do not live in my world. The American public doesn’t even seem to want straight talk. I will give straight talk; this is my real dimensional world.
A. Babbling about punishing the bad greedy guys in Wall Street is useless rhetoric. Those CEO and CFO billion dollar bonus guys have left the building. Those crooks were long gone with their golden parachutes, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, gold, silver, and bonds. The focus should be on STG. (Stop the Greed). Here is another fact – Greed is the food of Greed.
B. The health insurance plans are not the issue. Health plans are not the problem. Greed is the problem. Insurance groups are raking in billions of dollars annually. The groups increase premiums, cut payments, and increase out of pocket. The facts are the insurance groups force doctors to raise costs to make a profit to buy into their consumer greed. The insurance groups rake in billions, give less to doctors (forcing cheap HMO’s. Remember physicians and medical personnel have to pay insurance also.), make participants pay more out of pocket, make participants pay higher premiums, and only pay out millions.
C. The economy of the United States is based on construction and consumerism. It is not a republic or democracy. The United States is an over developed consumer state run by the corporation for the corporation.
D. Education, Environment, Retirement, Job security, Job exploitation, and worker’s compensation are not even considered in the reality dimension of the United States Presidency and Congress.
E. The taxation programs of both candidates will burden the working poor to the breaking point. The working poor will no longer be able to give any more and the entire economy will fall.
This is what needs to be done to save America. This is the change our republic must achieve to survive:
A. The tax structure must be changed to a fair tax. All financial loopholes banished. The tax rate must be a sliding scale. The no income to low income a small percent, the middle income a larger percent, the wealthy a higher percent, the elite wealthy a very large percent.
B. Education and the Environment must become the second priority issue. Nuclear power is not the only answer. There are river turbines, solar panel advancements, wind turbines, as well as nuclear power replacements for fossil fuel power already in the wings. The greedy are trying to figure out how to keep the profit when all the technology does not require fluctuating and financial playing prices like fossil fuel. River Turbines, Solar Energy, and wind turbines are relatively free with only upkeep costs. The educational system of public schools, grading, testing, and schooling must be completely revamped. All education especially to the highest levels must be free and available to all Americans regardless of race, religious creed, or age. (I can explain the new system quickly; children can enter schools and any grade at any age. Basic subjects are taught at a young age, but forced curriculum will be eliminated at higher levels. Children, parents, and educators could direct higher learning for subjects students show excellence. Education must be elective and pursued through interest by the student.)
C. STG “Stop the Greed”. The first greed can be easily handled. The first greed is corporate greed. The answer of control is quite simple. Any corporation, conglomerate, large, medium, or small cannot exceed a 50% net profit. If any company exceeds a 50% net profit the corporation will be taxed in the following manner. 50 to 75% net profit would be taxed at 25% of the gross profit. 75 to 100% profit would be taxed at 50% of the gross profit. Any net profit margin over 100% would immediately be under investigation by the government with sanctions including the possible take over of the company by the American people. All corporations must register in the United States and subject to all American taxation programs regardless of any foreign base. Corporations, companies, or conglomerates can keep profits at 25% by any means beneficial to the economy of the Unites States including return of manufacturing in America, increased pay and benefits for employees, environmental production and planning, and security of job income with both worker compensation and retirement packages for the employee. Another suggestion to keep 25 to 50% net profit would be the return to an eight hour work day on a 5 day work week, excluding public and health services. In turn, with more spendable income, Americans could once again save and invest for the future. Americans would also need to STG. Understanding a teen does not need a new car, a family does not need a 36” plasma TV in every room, a family does not need six cell phones, five computers, name brand clothes, a 4,000 square foot million dollar house for a family of four, expensive electronic toys, etc. Focus should be on the family needs, not wants.
D. Health care including health, vision, dental, and life insurance would again return to a family doctor, dentists, ophthalmologists, and planning agents with realistic costs. All health care be provided by amounts determined by number of individuals (controlling population the more in your family, the more you pay, but if you can afford the family, you can have more.) in family paid directly from employee wages to a government health care agency that is controlled by elected officials with new elections every six years.
E. All elections for all federal, state, county, and city officials to be held once every six years. The Judges of the Supreme Court, President of the United States, and United States Senators would be allowed to serve only one six year term.
F. Retirement packages for all government officials would be identical to retirement packages of all American Workers, no exceptions. To serve the people should be the goal of the elected officials. There should be no other incentive other than to govern for the benefit of the people they represent.
G. The economy must change from Development and Consumerism to stewardship toward the environment and each other. Controlled manufacturing, self sufficiency in green environment jobs and living, as well as American security.
These are the foundations of my platform requirements for a leader.
As for the rest of the candidates and their frustrating rhetoric and buzz words, along with the gullibility of the American public to be swayed by Public Relations Firms and Marketing Firms continually drive me to complete frustration. I do not know what dimension I live in, because the American Presidential Candidates and Vice Presidential Candidates do not live in my world. The American public doesn’t even seem to want straight talk. I will give straight talk; this is my real dimensional world.
A. Babbling about punishing the bad greedy guys in Wall Street is useless rhetoric. Those CEO and CFO billion dollar bonus guys have left the building. Those crooks were long gone with their golden parachutes, diamonds, emeralds, rubies, gold, silver, and bonds. The focus should be on STG. (Stop the Greed). Here is another fact – Greed is the food of Greed.
B. The health insurance plans are not the issue. Health plans are not the problem. Greed is the problem. Insurance groups are raking in billions of dollars annually. The groups increase premiums, cut payments, and increase out of pocket. The facts are the insurance groups force doctors to raise costs to make a profit to buy into their consumer greed. The insurance groups rake in billions, give less to doctors (forcing cheap HMO’s. Remember physicians and medical personnel have to pay insurance also.), make participants pay more out of pocket, make participants pay higher premiums, and only pay out millions.
C. The economy of the United States is based on construction and consumerism. It is not a republic or democracy. The United States is an over developed consumer state run by the corporation for the corporation.
D. Education, Environment, Retirement, Job security, Job exploitation, and worker’s compensation are not even considered in the reality dimension of the United States Presidency and Congress.
E. The taxation programs of both candidates will burden the working poor to the breaking point. The working poor will no longer be able to give any more and the entire economy will fall.
This is what needs to be done to save America. This is the change our republic must achieve to survive:
A. The tax structure must be changed to a fair tax. All financial loopholes banished. The tax rate must be a sliding scale. The no income to low income a small percent, the middle income a larger percent, the wealthy a higher percent, the elite wealthy a very large percent.
B. Education and the Environment must become the second priority issue. Nuclear power is not the only answer. There are river turbines, solar panel advancements, wind turbines, as well as nuclear power replacements for fossil fuel power already in the wings. The greedy are trying to figure out how to keep the profit when all the technology does not require fluctuating and financial playing prices like fossil fuel. River Turbines, Solar Energy, and wind turbines are relatively free with only upkeep costs. The educational system of public schools, grading, testing, and schooling must be completely revamped. All education especially to the highest levels must be free and available to all Americans regardless of race, religious creed, or age. (I can explain the new system quickly; children can enter schools and any grade at any age. Basic subjects are taught at a young age, but forced curriculum will be eliminated at higher levels. Children, parents, and educators could direct higher learning for subjects students show excellence. Education must be elective and pursued through interest by the student.)
C. STG “Stop the Greed”. The first greed can be easily handled. The first greed is corporate greed. The answer of control is quite simple. Any corporation, conglomerate, large, medium, or small cannot exceed a 50% net profit. If any company exceeds a 50% net profit the corporation will be taxed in the following manner. 50 to 75% net profit would be taxed at 25% of the gross profit. 75 to 100% profit would be taxed at 50% of the gross profit. Any net profit margin over 100% would immediately be under investigation by the government with sanctions including the possible take over of the company by the American people. All corporations must register in the United States and subject to all American taxation programs regardless of any foreign base. Corporations, companies, or conglomerates can keep profits at 25% by any means beneficial to the economy of the Unites States including return of manufacturing in America, increased pay and benefits for employees, environmental production and planning, and security of job income with both worker compensation and retirement packages for the employee. Another suggestion to keep 25 to 50% net profit would be the return to an eight hour work day on a 5 day work week, excluding public and health services. In turn, with more spendable income, Americans could once again save and invest for the future. Americans would also need to STG. Understanding a teen does not need a new car, a family does not need a 36” plasma TV in every room, a family does not need six cell phones, five computers, name brand clothes, a 4,000 square foot million dollar house for a family of four, expensive electronic toys, etc. Focus should be on the family needs, not wants.
D. Health care including health, vision, dental, and life insurance would again return to a family doctor, dentists, ophthalmologists, and planning agents with realistic costs. All health care be provided by amounts determined by number of individuals (controlling population the more in your family, the more you pay, but if you can afford the family, you can have more.) in family paid directly from employee wages to a government health care agency that is controlled by elected officials with new elections every six years.
E. All elections for all federal, state, county, and city officials to be held once every six years. The Judges of the Supreme Court, President of the United States, and United States Senators would be allowed to serve only one six year term.
F. Retirement packages for all government officials would be identical to retirement packages of all American Workers, no exceptions. To serve the people should be the goal of the elected officials. There should be no other incentive other than to govern for the benefit of the people they represent.
G. The economy must change from Development and Consumerism to stewardship toward the environment and each other. Controlled manufacturing, self sufficiency in green environment jobs and living, as well as American security.
These are the foundations of my platform requirements for a leader.
Nature is sending us warnings.
The strangest senses have been occurring to me. Today at my weekend job during my break I felt a powerful change in pressure. The weather had not changed, but I felt a breeze from north. I thought perhaps a pressure system had passed through even though the weather did not change. When I left my car, I always take my break in the solitude of my car; I felt the breezes again come from the south. These were hot and humid breezes. When the pressure changed the one breeze had been dry and cool.
I felt this change was significant. I determined that for the past two weeks I have felt that something is going to happen. It is going to be a catastrophe. The impact is going to significantly change thought not only in the United States, but the world. I am not a prophet or seer. I only claim to be sensitive to my environment. My friend Pat came to me after death and told me there is not Old Man God, but there are powerful forces. These forces are both benevolent and malevolent. I believe all of us can sense this and are aware of these forces. Spirituality and Religion give them different names, but the forces can be powerful and felt.
I sensed this shift. Within the month and before or near our American elections, there is going to be a catastrophe. Whether this force will be malevolent or actually benevolent, I do not know. I do not know when, where, what, or how, but it will happen. I do not know if this catastrophe is man made using malevolence or a natural malevolence. It could be a natural benevolence to balance an imbalance, but it will happen. We as the human race will be affected.
I felt this change was significant. I determined that for the past two weeks I have felt that something is going to happen. It is going to be a catastrophe. The impact is going to significantly change thought not only in the United States, but the world. I am not a prophet or seer. I only claim to be sensitive to my environment. My friend Pat came to me after death and told me there is not Old Man God, but there are powerful forces. These forces are both benevolent and malevolent. I believe all of us can sense this and are aware of these forces. Spirituality and Religion give them different names, but the forces can be powerful and felt.
I sensed this shift. Within the month and before or near our American elections, there is going to be a catastrophe. Whether this force will be malevolent or actually benevolent, I do not know. I do not know when, where, what, or how, but it will happen. I do not know if this catastrophe is man made using malevolence or a natural malevolence. It could be a natural benevolence to balance an imbalance, but it will happen. We as the human race will be affected.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Time for a Real Change in America
I listened to analysis. I listened to experts rate the candidates. I did hear from these supposed political experts something I did agree with, neither of these men have an understanding of the working poor. These two candidates are completely removed from working poor reality, I want neither to represent me and my country. Both candidates are of the head and not the heart. People loved or hated Princess Diana. She was imperfect and did un-royal things, but she did generate emotions and the common man identified with her.
So here is the subject I present. The economy is in a turmoil. The fat cats will get free money and the working poor will pay. Here is my twist. Is it the fault of the greedy fat cats? Where does responsibility really fall? No one twisted or broke a consumer's arm to purchase a home they knew they could not afford. No one forces people to spend beyond their means. No one forces people to have the biggest and best, house, furniture, car, vacation, TV, electronics, and clothes. Do they make them feel better? Better than what or whom? It is about time the American people realize the responsibility of this economic crisis falls on our individual shoulders. We are the most wasteful and greedy people in the world regarding material goods and wealth. We the people must change ourselves, before we can correct the failing American economy.
Who is really at fault in the economic crisis? Maybe it is time the people face the mirror of reality. It is time for a change. It is time for us, the American people, to change. We the people set our life style, our goals, our standards. We need to change and move into a true stewardship toward the earth and our fellow inhabitants.
So here is the subject I present. The economy is in a turmoil. The fat cats will get free money and the working poor will pay. Here is my twist. Is it the fault of the greedy fat cats? Where does responsibility really fall? No one twisted or broke a consumer's arm to purchase a home they knew they could not afford. No one forces people to spend beyond their means. No one forces people to have the biggest and best, house, furniture, car, vacation, TV, electronics, and clothes. Do they make them feel better? Better than what or whom? It is about time the American people realize the responsibility of this economic crisis falls on our individual shoulders. We are the most wasteful and greedy people in the world regarding material goods and wealth. We the people must change ourselves, before we can correct the failing American economy.
Who is really at fault in the economic crisis? Maybe it is time the people face the mirror of reality. It is time for a change. It is time for us, the American people, to change. We the people set our life style, our goals, our standards. We need to change and move into a true stewardship toward the earth and our fellow inhabitants.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Responsibility and Understanding the true wealth.
My thoughts are racing in comprehension and I need to put down into words what enlightenment has come to me. I finished listening to “Audacity of Hope” by Barrack Obama. I finished with an intent feeling of confusion. This man thinks and feels as I do with one great difference. I do not dwell in the past or in my fantasy. Obama clearly sees the issues facing America in economics, health, education, and lack of Unity in America. Although he clearly sees the issues, he has no clear understanding of the issues and no plan of action.
I also left the book with two clear thoughts. Perhaps I should reconsider my plan about voting for Sarah Palin? (No, I am not voting for McCain although I respect him for his service in Vietnam – but I feel he too, is lost as to understanding what is really going on in our global economy much less the issues facing America.) The second thought was a feeling that I definitely needed to listen to Obama’s other book, “Dreams of My Father”. I also started to read the Biography of Sarah Palin and read a collection of her speeches. I wanted to give both candidates equal opportunity.
It is important to understand that I do not care about sex or race regarding any position that I am in charge of. I try to place the most qualified candidate in a specific position and could not care the least what PR and Marketing people create or give illusion. Race and gender are both equally influenced by the marketing propaganda of the corporations.
As an author, I also know that if you really want to know the values, emotions, and ideals of an author, read their books.
I continued on my investigations of both people through their books. “Dreams of my Father” is very revealing and set a solid foundation to the subtle feelings I perceived in the book, “Audacity of Hope.” What I am sensing from these books is Obama’s belief he is a combination of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Gandhi. He sees himself as uniting the Black Race as a heroic leader and bring pride to Black Americans that only the White People in America seem to possess. He sees that his election will bring a black unification and pride to his people, his heritage of a Black Kenyan. He wants to be Abraham Lincoln. These are his personal, selfish, and unrealistic dreams. I do not believe even Obama is conscious of his true and ultimate goal. Like many of us, we fool our conscious into believing higher and lofty goals for the good of the order. In reality it is the selfish egotism of the self – Power and Glory. Oh yes, he can be the American President, but these are different times. He cannot be Lincoln, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi. I sense Obama dwells in the time of Civil Rights. I see his goal as creating the past Civil Rights issues to justify an imbalance of his personal inner conflict of being both races, although he definitely has chosen the Black Race because he sees it as cool and the potential for martyrdom-glory-reverence-black pride? Obama is not an evil man, but absolute power breeds absolute corruption. We should keep this adage in our thoughts. I do believe Obama sees his goals as lofty, but another adage comes to mind. Of all the people we lie to; we lie to ourselves the most.
Yes, this is true of all people, not just Obama, but review without rose colored glasses his qualification for the office. There is in my reading and judgment that projects a potential re-creation of a conflict based on past history. Again, it is the use of a common enemy for gains of power, glory, and or wealth. It keeps the soul from growing and understanding the true place of one in the earth, solar system, and universe. The common enemy continually provides energy to the darker forces of the universe. The common enemy is the black hole that sucks out happiness and contentment.
I’m surprised Obama still hasn’t seen the truth after his experiences as an organizer in Chicago. Obama already sees clearly the immediate issues that need to be addressed, acted upon, but not solved. He only knew the black mayor of Chicago gave black people a sense of pride. I was just as proud when JFK a Catholic Irish heritage man was president. It made me feel good and a pride in my heritage, but even as a young child I knew that pride would not change me or my circumstance in any way or form. I lived through the Civil Rights. I watched what was marketed on TV. I cried for the pain of the protesters. I applauded them for the courage I did not have. I was proud that they took a stand for what they believed in. Yet, I was too embroiled in my own miserable life. I was still a child trying to make sense of my existence and sad state. I accept my responsibility for my childhood choices. I am what I am today because of these choices. I like who and what I am today. Right or wrong choice is not relevant. I made my choice and those formed me into what I am. We should learn to be proud of our success and failure and not dwell on them. The past is history to learn from, not dwell in.
Barrack Obama wished he could have felt and understood his friend’s experience. He wanted to live in a ghetto housing unit in Chicago. He wanted that black experience.
I say, why is that only a black experience? I was raised in a white ghetto housing unit in Milwaukee. I was raised in poverty and the horrors of a cruel welfare system. I was raised in the sadness and despair of my parents. Why does Obama believe this is only his black pride and sorrow issue? Black or White trash is treated with scorn and disdain regardless. It is the inherent emotional need of humanity to find or make a reason to feel better about themselves over the bodies of other humans. It is no different in the animal world when other animals dominate a pride or herd. Perhaps we need to address that animal part of us and not focus on a specific race, gender, or spiritual idea.
Below are points we should understand before we continue to embrace the idea that some animals are better than other animals: (Animal Farm)
1. Humans must start to take responsibility. This responsibility is for their happiness, choices, and stewardship in compatibility with the earth. Issues of Race, gender, and individual spiritual ideas must be completely discarded.
2. Humans must learn to separate needs from wants.
3. Humans must learn to understand happiness and/ or wealth is completely separate from material goods, power, and/or greed.
4. Humans need to understand their role and true balance within the environment of all creatures sharing the earth.
5. Humans need to practice inner analysis.
6. Acceptance of different talents should be recognized, pursued, and appreciated.
How can these points be addressed?
1. Our earth needs a cleansing. Overpopulation must be addressed immediately.
2. A new educational curriculum and system of education. The system adapted to talents of individuals and progression in education along the talent path. Education should and must be voluntary, not mandatory, or forced. Education should not begin until the individual’s talents are recognized. Ages must and should not be assigned to levels.
3. A new culture must be created. The society new society would focus on the oneness and unity. Marketing, greed, and concept of wealth must be obliterated. Higher values on knowledge, understanding, and stewardship must replace the old material concepts.
4. The society fixation on Race, Gender, and Spiritual dogma must be erased.
5. Individual responsibility must be assigned to only the individual including the understanding and approval of the community.
6. Appreciation for the natural cycles of birth, life, and death must finally be accepted as the natural order. Respect for the cycle of birth, life, and death as natural should be instilled within the society. Respect for all stages of the life circle must be a part of society.
Be careful of your choices, but never regret them. Good or Bad choices are a part of our life. Take responsibility for your choices. Accept them as who and what you are and learn the good and the bad from your choices. It is not for us to dominate or control a world, a mate, a child, and/or an animal. We are charged with being in harmony with our world, mate, child, animal, society, and peer.
In conclusion I will give Obama his due. His speeches are stirring. His speeches are what Americans want to hear and generate patriotic stirrings. Unfortunately I am too old to be swayed by such patriotic platitudes. A person’s true soul is revealed in the writings. Even in the speeches between the lines I hear the racism, the picking of sides. I do not feel our community, our country, or our souls will benefit from the fixation of one race over another, or one gender over another, or one spiritual idea over another. I am too old to lose my individualism to a mass mind. I am too old to fall into the past and live there when hope is really found in everyday in the present with every new idea and piece of knowledge. Hope is found in the understanding of the self in relationship to the future. Hope can never be found dwelling in the past and seeing hurt. Hope is found in living after the pain and growing with new knowledge and understanding. Hope does not need Audacity. Hope is or is not.
To the world I give my Haiku. In understanding I give it you for thought.
A child in the womb,
A gift growing to life.
In pain love is born.
PS This writing is not an endorsement of McCain or an attack against Obama. This is not democratic or republican. This is my senses on overdrive with caution to warn all on the responsibility of choice. It is my purpose to share the disconcertion I felt after listening to the “Audacity of Hope” and the terrible comprehension I felt after listening to “Dreams of my Father.” There is never a right or wrong choice, there is only the choice and the responsibility it brings. These are my interpretations. I strongly urge you to listen or read both books and make your own interpretation. Obama did end “Dreams of my Father” with a speech. He did say in the speech that Knowledge is power. He is right. He is also right when referring to knowledge with the strength of community is the greatest strength. I cannot agree when the power is biased to one side. I also noted that where Obama saw sorrow, poverty, and unhappiness I saw joy, love, wealth, and identity. Yes, both of us lived and visited other countries. I always thought I was a pessimist. I see compared to others, I am an optimist. To me, the greatest wealth is within and not without.
I also left the book with two clear thoughts. Perhaps I should reconsider my plan about voting for Sarah Palin? (No, I am not voting for McCain although I respect him for his service in Vietnam – but I feel he too, is lost as to understanding what is really going on in our global economy much less the issues facing America.) The second thought was a feeling that I definitely needed to listen to Obama’s other book, “Dreams of My Father”. I also started to read the Biography of Sarah Palin and read a collection of her speeches. I wanted to give both candidates equal opportunity.
It is important to understand that I do not care about sex or race regarding any position that I am in charge of. I try to place the most qualified candidate in a specific position and could not care the least what PR and Marketing people create or give illusion. Race and gender are both equally influenced by the marketing propaganda of the corporations.
As an author, I also know that if you really want to know the values, emotions, and ideals of an author, read their books.
I continued on my investigations of both people through their books. “Dreams of my Father” is very revealing and set a solid foundation to the subtle feelings I perceived in the book, “Audacity of Hope.” What I am sensing from these books is Obama’s belief he is a combination of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr., and Gandhi. He sees himself as uniting the Black Race as a heroic leader and bring pride to Black Americans that only the White People in America seem to possess. He sees that his election will bring a black unification and pride to his people, his heritage of a Black Kenyan. He wants to be Abraham Lincoln. These are his personal, selfish, and unrealistic dreams. I do not believe even Obama is conscious of his true and ultimate goal. Like many of us, we fool our conscious into believing higher and lofty goals for the good of the order. In reality it is the selfish egotism of the self – Power and Glory. Oh yes, he can be the American President, but these are different times. He cannot be Lincoln, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., or Gandhi. I sense Obama dwells in the time of Civil Rights. I see his goal as creating the past Civil Rights issues to justify an imbalance of his personal inner conflict of being both races, although he definitely has chosen the Black Race because he sees it as cool and the potential for martyrdom-glory-reverence-black pride? Obama is not an evil man, but absolute power breeds absolute corruption. We should keep this adage in our thoughts. I do believe Obama sees his goals as lofty, but another adage comes to mind. Of all the people we lie to; we lie to ourselves the most.
Yes, this is true of all people, not just Obama, but review without rose colored glasses his qualification for the office. There is in my reading and judgment that projects a potential re-creation of a conflict based on past history. Again, it is the use of a common enemy for gains of power, glory, and or wealth. It keeps the soul from growing and understanding the true place of one in the earth, solar system, and universe. The common enemy continually provides energy to the darker forces of the universe. The common enemy is the black hole that sucks out happiness and contentment.
I’m surprised Obama still hasn’t seen the truth after his experiences as an organizer in Chicago. Obama already sees clearly the immediate issues that need to be addressed, acted upon, but not solved. He only knew the black mayor of Chicago gave black people a sense of pride. I was just as proud when JFK a Catholic Irish heritage man was president. It made me feel good and a pride in my heritage, but even as a young child I knew that pride would not change me or my circumstance in any way or form. I lived through the Civil Rights. I watched what was marketed on TV. I cried for the pain of the protesters. I applauded them for the courage I did not have. I was proud that they took a stand for what they believed in. Yet, I was too embroiled in my own miserable life. I was still a child trying to make sense of my existence and sad state. I accept my responsibility for my childhood choices. I am what I am today because of these choices. I like who and what I am today. Right or wrong choice is not relevant. I made my choice and those formed me into what I am. We should learn to be proud of our success and failure and not dwell on them. The past is history to learn from, not dwell in.
Barrack Obama wished he could have felt and understood his friend’s experience. He wanted to live in a ghetto housing unit in Chicago. He wanted that black experience.
I say, why is that only a black experience? I was raised in a white ghetto housing unit in Milwaukee. I was raised in poverty and the horrors of a cruel welfare system. I was raised in the sadness and despair of my parents. Why does Obama believe this is only his black pride and sorrow issue? Black or White trash is treated with scorn and disdain regardless. It is the inherent emotional need of humanity to find or make a reason to feel better about themselves over the bodies of other humans. It is no different in the animal world when other animals dominate a pride or herd. Perhaps we need to address that animal part of us and not focus on a specific race, gender, or spiritual idea.
Below are points we should understand before we continue to embrace the idea that some animals are better than other animals: (Animal Farm)
1. Humans must start to take responsibility. This responsibility is for their happiness, choices, and stewardship in compatibility with the earth. Issues of Race, gender, and individual spiritual ideas must be completely discarded.
2. Humans must learn to separate needs from wants.
3. Humans must learn to understand happiness and/ or wealth is completely separate from material goods, power, and/or greed.
4. Humans need to understand their role and true balance within the environment of all creatures sharing the earth.
5. Humans need to practice inner analysis.
6. Acceptance of different talents should be recognized, pursued, and appreciated.
How can these points be addressed?
1. Our earth needs a cleansing. Overpopulation must be addressed immediately.
2. A new educational curriculum and system of education. The system adapted to talents of individuals and progression in education along the talent path. Education should and must be voluntary, not mandatory, or forced. Education should not begin until the individual’s talents are recognized. Ages must and should not be assigned to levels.
3. A new culture must be created. The society new society would focus on the oneness and unity. Marketing, greed, and concept of wealth must be obliterated. Higher values on knowledge, understanding, and stewardship must replace the old material concepts.
4. The society fixation on Race, Gender, and Spiritual dogma must be erased.
5. Individual responsibility must be assigned to only the individual including the understanding and approval of the community.
6. Appreciation for the natural cycles of birth, life, and death must finally be accepted as the natural order. Respect for the cycle of birth, life, and death as natural should be instilled within the society. Respect for all stages of the life circle must be a part of society.
Be careful of your choices, but never regret them. Good or Bad choices are a part of our life. Take responsibility for your choices. Accept them as who and what you are and learn the good and the bad from your choices. It is not for us to dominate or control a world, a mate, a child, and/or an animal. We are charged with being in harmony with our world, mate, child, animal, society, and peer.
In conclusion I will give Obama his due. His speeches are stirring. His speeches are what Americans want to hear and generate patriotic stirrings. Unfortunately I am too old to be swayed by such patriotic platitudes. A person’s true soul is revealed in the writings. Even in the speeches between the lines I hear the racism, the picking of sides. I do not feel our community, our country, or our souls will benefit from the fixation of one race over another, or one gender over another, or one spiritual idea over another. I am too old to lose my individualism to a mass mind. I am too old to fall into the past and live there when hope is really found in everyday in the present with every new idea and piece of knowledge. Hope is found in the understanding of the self in relationship to the future. Hope can never be found dwelling in the past and seeing hurt. Hope is found in living after the pain and growing with new knowledge and understanding. Hope does not need Audacity. Hope is or is not.
To the world I give my Haiku. In understanding I give it you for thought.
A child in the womb,
A gift growing to life.
In pain love is born.
PS This writing is not an endorsement of McCain or an attack against Obama. This is not democratic or republican. This is my senses on overdrive with caution to warn all on the responsibility of choice. It is my purpose to share the disconcertion I felt after listening to the “Audacity of Hope” and the terrible comprehension I felt after listening to “Dreams of my Father.” There is never a right or wrong choice, there is only the choice and the responsibility it brings. These are my interpretations. I strongly urge you to listen or read both books and make your own interpretation. Obama did end “Dreams of my Father” with a speech. He did say in the speech that Knowledge is power. He is right. He is also right when referring to knowledge with the strength of community is the greatest strength. I cannot agree when the power is biased to one side. I also noted that where Obama saw sorrow, poverty, and unhappiness I saw joy, love, wealth, and identity. Yes, both of us lived and visited other countries. I always thought I was a pessimist. I see compared to others, I am an optimist. To me, the greatest wealth is within and not without.
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Contact - Meet yourself in the Dimensions of the Universe
I am quite hesitant when family or friends ask me to read books they have found inspirational. I do not believe in the word, inspirational. My father always said you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. There we go, how easily it is understood. Someone else’s experience, meditation, prayer, religion, or ideas have never moved me to action. What works for one usually does not work for another no matter what type of zealot in focus one becomes. I usually view these inspirational books as New Age Clap Trap that have no purpose other than make money for the author and publisher.
I did force myself to listen to the book Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. No! Emphatically No! It did not inspire me. I did not find it inspirational. I did not want to give everything up and move to Italy to Eat, India to pray, or Indonesia to love. I am aware I would never find what she found.
I do admit that listening to the book while she was in India produced RECOGNITION. Note: I felt recognition, not inspiration. It all began when I heard her quote Swami G. “Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening to God.” That was recognition of us. Yes, you, the world, and me. The author continued on to her seeking meditation to listen to God and God is within us. BOOM! The Recognition.
The author went on that while standing in an auditorium she went into deep meditation, or the Hand of God. Suddenly she described she understood everything and wanted to stay there, but was quickly pulled away. The author described it as a wonderful euphoric feeling as if she belonged to the universe. There was the answer. We are the universe.
Many times these wonderful feelings of euphoria have been entering my life on a daily basis. It is such a good feeling I treasure them more and more. I thought to try entering this euphoria with my will and when I felt like it. How easily it is done. I just think it and I am there.
A friend of mine constantly reminds me that we make our world from our choices. This is so true, but it is so much more than that. We can truly live in different dimensions of the universe with a thought. There is no need for arduous meditation. We merely need to accept our part in the universe as a part of the universe.
When my departed from this three dimensional world came to visit me in my dream dimension she showed me the choices of dimension both in and out of this dimension. It is easy to understand that we have made a choice to currently reside in a three dimensional material world and pull ourselves back into more than enjoying the capability of dwelling in other dimensions of our choice. Some of our other dimensional choices may include power, lust, greed, anger, or rage. We can also visit choices of peace, harmony, light, or joy. These are individual choices and we draw the energy of these dimensions into our physical three-dimensional material world.
The good news is that the more people that realize the simplicity of pulling positive energy will result in a positive physical three-dimensional world. Yes, a better world is that simple. This is the choice we can make for our future.
The bad news is that this energy pulling is so simple that we do more negative energy pulling and all those that have power over us and we allow having power over us have been pulling this energy without the knowledge of how they are doing it.
I cannot help but remember the wisdom of Yoda from Star Wars when talking to Luke Skywalker. “You must unlearn what you have learned.” “Do or do not. There is no try.” “Judge me by my size, do you?” Our size, shape, caste, or color has no relevance to the energy we draw in the experience of this life.
It is so simple. It is so easy. “Let yourself go!” The only thing that truly is required to step into these different dimensions is quiet and solitude. You cannot try on for size these different dimensions if you are being bombarded by stimulus from work, school, peers, teachers, parents, children, family, or friends.
When you are alone, close your eyes and draw what energy you truly desire. If it is true that we all want happiness or contentment, you can find it in those quiet moments when you release yourself from this physical world and step into the dimension of your choice.
Have you ever wondered why anyone looks so angelic in sleep? They have released their consciousness into other dimensions of choice. In sleep we release the physical. It can be done in silence and solitude without sleep. It explains why some can see the spirits of departed, the future, precognition, or other supposedly paranormal talents. I have always said, ‘The paranormal is merely unexplained science.’ The explanation is this simple, we are part of the universe and our universe is a part of us. (Recognition from the book only described differently.) None of us are unique but each of us is unique like a snowflake. Our energy vacillates from one dimension to another. Currently I am in this physical dimension. I chose it. I live in it. I respond to it. It is an experience, but I no longer limit myself to it. I finally have reached the point in my life that I finally accept my other dimensions. I’m probably choosing my next, as the Hindus put it, incarnation. But, I am also finding a serenity and joy upon discovering my capability to realize I can do this, you can do this, and we all can do this. I do not have to meditate and raise this physical body five feet off the ground to prove my ability to meditate. I merely think in quiet and sample the meditation. It’s great!
We must also realize we cannot always live in other dimensions. These are visits. We chose this incarnation and are obligated to experience it in full. We can create a bubble in it for reprieve, but we live here to experience its energies and powers. We can surround powers and energies around us. We can step out when we must escape the power and energies of others that are wielding their power without knowledge and control of it. It is just a part of this experience.
Read the book Eat Pray Love if you are looking for someone else to give you an answer. (Hint: You won’t find it from her but it is an enjoyable read). Read the book if you want a hint on your own self-discovery. (Hint: In this case I recommend the book. Something may jolt you into recognition). The answer can only be found in your individual snowflake in the wonder of the universe.
I did force myself to listen to the book Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert. No! Emphatically No! It did not inspire me. I did not find it inspirational. I did not want to give everything up and move to Italy to Eat, India to pray, or Indonesia to love. I am aware I would never find what she found.
I do admit that listening to the book while she was in India produced RECOGNITION. Note: I felt recognition, not inspiration. It all began when I heard her quote Swami G. “Prayer is talking to God. Meditation is listening to God.” That was recognition of us. Yes, you, the world, and me. The author continued on to her seeking meditation to listen to God and God is within us. BOOM! The Recognition.
The author went on that while standing in an auditorium she went into deep meditation, or the Hand of God. Suddenly she described she understood everything and wanted to stay there, but was quickly pulled away. The author described it as a wonderful euphoric feeling as if she belonged to the universe. There was the answer. We are the universe.
Many times these wonderful feelings of euphoria have been entering my life on a daily basis. It is such a good feeling I treasure them more and more. I thought to try entering this euphoria with my will and when I felt like it. How easily it is done. I just think it and I am there.
A friend of mine constantly reminds me that we make our world from our choices. This is so true, but it is so much more than that. We can truly live in different dimensions of the universe with a thought. There is no need for arduous meditation. We merely need to accept our part in the universe as a part of the universe.
When my departed from this three dimensional world came to visit me in my dream dimension she showed me the choices of dimension both in and out of this dimension. It is easy to understand that we have made a choice to currently reside in a three dimensional material world and pull ourselves back into more than enjoying the capability of dwelling in other dimensions of our choice. Some of our other dimensional choices may include power, lust, greed, anger, or rage. We can also visit choices of peace, harmony, light, or joy. These are individual choices and we draw the energy of these dimensions into our physical three-dimensional material world.
The good news is that the more people that realize the simplicity of pulling positive energy will result in a positive physical three-dimensional world. Yes, a better world is that simple. This is the choice we can make for our future.
The bad news is that this energy pulling is so simple that we do more negative energy pulling and all those that have power over us and we allow having power over us have been pulling this energy without the knowledge of how they are doing it.
I cannot help but remember the wisdom of Yoda from Star Wars when talking to Luke Skywalker. “You must unlearn what you have learned.” “Do or do not. There is no try.” “Judge me by my size, do you?” Our size, shape, caste, or color has no relevance to the energy we draw in the experience of this life.
It is so simple. It is so easy. “Let yourself go!” The only thing that truly is required to step into these different dimensions is quiet and solitude. You cannot try on for size these different dimensions if you are being bombarded by stimulus from work, school, peers, teachers, parents, children, family, or friends.
When you are alone, close your eyes and draw what energy you truly desire. If it is true that we all want happiness or contentment, you can find it in those quiet moments when you release yourself from this physical world and step into the dimension of your choice.
Have you ever wondered why anyone looks so angelic in sleep? They have released their consciousness into other dimensions of choice. In sleep we release the physical. It can be done in silence and solitude without sleep. It explains why some can see the spirits of departed, the future, precognition, or other supposedly paranormal talents. I have always said, ‘The paranormal is merely unexplained science.’ The explanation is this simple, we are part of the universe and our universe is a part of us. (Recognition from the book only described differently.) None of us are unique but each of us is unique like a snowflake. Our energy vacillates from one dimension to another. Currently I am in this physical dimension. I chose it. I live in it. I respond to it. It is an experience, but I no longer limit myself to it. I finally have reached the point in my life that I finally accept my other dimensions. I’m probably choosing my next, as the Hindus put it, incarnation. But, I am also finding a serenity and joy upon discovering my capability to realize I can do this, you can do this, and we all can do this. I do not have to meditate and raise this physical body five feet off the ground to prove my ability to meditate. I merely think in quiet and sample the meditation. It’s great!
We must also realize we cannot always live in other dimensions. These are visits. We chose this incarnation and are obligated to experience it in full. We can create a bubble in it for reprieve, but we live here to experience its energies and powers. We can surround powers and energies around us. We can step out when we must escape the power and energies of others that are wielding their power without knowledge and control of it. It is just a part of this experience.
Read the book Eat Pray Love if you are looking for someone else to give you an answer. (Hint: You won’t find it from her but it is an enjoyable read). Read the book if you want a hint on your own self-discovery. (Hint: In this case I recommend the book. Something may jolt you into recognition). The answer can only be found in your individual snowflake in the wonder of the universe.
Saturday, July 12, 2008
The force!
It is believed that good and evil is in balance. The universe is not so simple. There are many forces in the universe and are not in balance. There is a constant shifting of forces. This balance is unstable and can sway in waves to one force or another. The simplest breakdown of the forces is not dual. The simplest breakdown is triune.
There is the seeker, the controller, and the existing. The seeker is a positive balance. The seeker uses forces of knowledge, understanding, serenity, peace, security, and contentment. The controller is negative. The controller uses forces of fear, greed, lust, self-indulgence, possession, and pain. The existing is neutral. The existing does not use a force of any kind. The existing float on the waves of other forces. The existing can be pulled in either direction and makes no effort to change a course. These forces are universal within our earth, solar systems, and galaxies.
Sadly this world is overpopulated with energy that is existing. The existing have the energy to choose either the seeker or the controller. The existing are not. Instead the existing is weighing down the forces. The controllers are in minority, but their power force is the greatest. The existing weight is shifting to the controllers. The seekers are in a smaller minority. With the existing in the greatest numbers and pulling to the controllers, the seekers are blending into the existing to survive. The balance of seekers and controllers has been lost. The written history of man has only recorded the masses of existing floating with the controllers.
The weight of the existing has reached critical mass. The earth can no longer sustain the imbalance. A new world is coming.
This is the reality of the new earth after cleansing. The masses of the existing will perish. The controllers will become the minority. Only the seekers will survive the cleansing.
You ask why the greater force will be the seekers? The answer is simple. The existing weight is too great and since they do not use their life force for any reason, they will perish. The controllers use their life force for possessions, power, greed, lust, and control. All this material will be lost in the cleansing and the controllers will not survive. The seekers survive because they do not require all but the simplest of needs and are more tuned to the environment. Knowledge will aid in survival.
This is the reason there is the biblical reference to the new world of heaven. The controllers are needed but will not be swaying the existing to negative energy use. The existing will have been culled and will no longer be weighing down all energy. The result is a positive new world with a closer natural balance.
It is a new hope. Fear is a part of the swaying toward the controllers. Be light my children. The existing good have chosen the seekers, but did not. It really does not matter for the cleansing will come either way. The sorrow is that all would have had a happier existence if they had chosen the seekers.
Celebrate the cleansing. The balance will return with the sway being on the positive existence. Accept the natural order of the universe. Make a wise choice.
There is the seeker, the controller, and the existing. The seeker is a positive balance. The seeker uses forces of knowledge, understanding, serenity, peace, security, and contentment. The controller is negative. The controller uses forces of fear, greed, lust, self-indulgence, possession, and pain. The existing is neutral. The existing does not use a force of any kind. The existing float on the waves of other forces. The existing can be pulled in either direction and makes no effort to change a course. These forces are universal within our earth, solar systems, and galaxies.
Sadly this world is overpopulated with energy that is existing. The existing have the energy to choose either the seeker or the controller. The existing are not. Instead the existing is weighing down the forces. The controllers are in minority, but their power force is the greatest. The existing weight is shifting to the controllers. The seekers are in a smaller minority. With the existing in the greatest numbers and pulling to the controllers, the seekers are blending into the existing to survive. The balance of seekers and controllers has been lost. The written history of man has only recorded the masses of existing floating with the controllers.
The weight of the existing has reached critical mass. The earth can no longer sustain the imbalance. A new world is coming.
This is the reality of the new earth after cleansing. The masses of the existing will perish. The controllers will become the minority. Only the seekers will survive the cleansing.
You ask why the greater force will be the seekers? The answer is simple. The existing weight is too great and since they do not use their life force for any reason, they will perish. The controllers use their life force for possessions, power, greed, lust, and control. All this material will be lost in the cleansing and the controllers will not survive. The seekers survive because they do not require all but the simplest of needs and are more tuned to the environment. Knowledge will aid in survival.
This is the reason there is the biblical reference to the new world of heaven. The controllers are needed but will not be swaying the existing to negative energy use. The existing will have been culled and will no longer be weighing down all energy. The result is a positive new world with a closer natural balance.
It is a new hope. Fear is a part of the swaying toward the controllers. Be light my children. The existing good have chosen the seekers, but did not. It really does not matter for the cleansing will come either way. The sorrow is that all would have had a happier existence if they had chosen the seekers.
Celebrate the cleansing. The balance will return with the sway being on the positive existence. Accept the natural order of the universe. Make a wise choice.
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