Monday, March 11, 2013

Updates on the World in March of 2013


 

The European Union is really opposed by numerous British human beings for its threats against their national sovereignty of course along with other reasons. One of the ways where UK sovereignty has been violated has been with the EU treaties. Since 1972, Queen Elizabeth has illegally signed five of the six EU Treaties. Critics of the EU Treaties believe that they turn the EU into a power state after they were passed by Westminster. There are whistleblowers like Marta Andreason who exposed the corruption of the EU. She said in 2005 that she found the EU couldn't account for 95% of its £66 billion budget. She was later fired for telling the truth. The EU Parliament is located in Brussels, Belgium. Even the EU's corpus juris now overrides the national UK legal system. Critics feel that the corpus juris EU law allows government officials to be above the law and escape prosecution. That is why the Local Government Act of 2000 gave more power to the head of the EU government in England. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister or the ODPM wanted to appoint a monitoring office to spy on every council. The EU arrest warrant was signed by the Queen on November 18, 2003. This warrant will allow UK citizens to be arrested without charge and held indefinitely with no right to see a solicitor, make a phone call, or even a right to a trial. This makes habeas corpus extinct in Britain. Ironically enough, habeas corpus has been harmed in America on October 17, 2006 with the passage of the USA Military Commissions Act that was passed by ex-President George W. Bush. Under the EU's anti-terrorist legislation, the police held an innocent 82 year old man named Walter Woolfgang. This occurred at the Labour Party conference. The authorities denied him access to the conference under that law. The reason is that Walter just shouted the word "nonsense" at Jack Straw, who was speaking about Iraq. Then, the Labour Party stopped the police and begged the man to return to the conference. The right to protest has been heavily suppressed in the UK and in the States. Likewise, we have our rights harmed with such laws like the Patriot Act (as of 2001, which is nothing patriotic about it at all). In fact, the EU so called antiterrorism laws has targeted law abiding human beings in the United Kingdom. The European Parliament meets in Strasbourg, France. Strasbourg is found in the Alsace region of France on the German border. The monopolists and globalists readily want to harm not only national sovereignty, but true national development. They also advance radical population control and eugenic like policies. I disagree with some of the EU's actions, but the British Empire is not off the hook either. They allied with U.S. elites in advancing the Iraq War, the war crimes in Libya, and other aspects of the evil war on terror. We are talking about an Empire not sincere Americans or sincere British human beings that are sincerely fighting for justice in the past, present, and future. There is the issue of diversity and multiculturalism in Europe too. I have made my views known on this issue plenty of times. Human diversity is the spice of life, so I have no issue with diversity or many different cultures living in Europe. Many Europeans are very hypocritical when they lecture us on being too reactionary and some of them can't stand even minor immigration to European lands from those from the around the world. It takes some nerve for imperialists coming into other folks’ lands lecturing anyone on immigration or diversity at all. Therefore, I have no issue with legal immigration or multiculturalism at all since the human race is diverse and unified too in our basic, true humanity indeed. I believe in nation states, but we can have cultural diversity in nation states at the same time.

 

We have seen economic growth, but the austerity agenda is still strong in America. The picture of austerity is harsh. Washington is filled with those with a perverted attitude that austerity is holy when it is not. We went from the fiscal cliff, sequester, and now we have the debt ceiling issue. The irony is that austerity cuts have never reduce the deficits massively. They tend to destroy the economic, political, and social infrastructures of nation-states basically. Austerity kills literally. Both of the major U.S. political parties advance it in different ways. We know that sequester has caused the U.S & federal budget for fiscal year 2013 was cut by ca. $83 billion. It will effect defense and in domestic discretionary spending. This is the fruit of the austerity measures approved by both parties including President Barack Obama in August 2011 (or according to Obama, "Satan Sandwich"). This bipartisan effort was done to blunt the anger from the Republican Tea Party faction. The Tea Party was even willing for the nation to default and national bankruptcy as a means to stop more federal borrowing. Today, we have Medicaid, Social Security, and food stamps being targeted more for cuts if nothing is done. Still, Medicare faces $10 billion in new cuts over the next seven months, on top of the $700 billion already imposed by Obama. We will see cuts by 9.4% for anyone who has been unemployed long term for more than six months (they depend on federally funded extended unemployment benefits that will see their check cut). The cuts will include the elderly poor having 4 million fewer meals from federally assisted charities. School lunches for poor children will be cuts. About 125,000 families will lose rental assistance and 100,000 may revert into homelessness. The ruling class media agree with the reactionaries on this economically destructive agenda for the most part. This cuts hurt real human beings. People will theoretically starve or die from these cuts for real. You cannot forget about the Budget Control Act of 2011. That law will have spending caps or limits by 2013. It will cut defense, medical research, education, assistance for low income families, food and water safety, law enforcement and related categories by 8% below the 2010 levels. Even by 2021, spending will be down 19% due to caps and sequester according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. The sequester cuts will harm great programs like the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children called WIC. WIC gives high protein nutritious meals for expectant and nursing mothers including their infants. WIC has prevented cognitive impairment in babies when mothers have suffered from malnutrition or vitamin deficiencies during pregnancies. WIC in its participation reached its peak with 9.2 million mothers and children. It decline to 8.9 million in 2012 because of caps. The reactionaries are wrong when child caring programs are being cut to cause birth defects and death to children. Some of the ruling class and the controlled media either minimize the impact of these cuts or don't care. Right now, Georgia is stopping reconstruction from a tornado in the Atlanta area because of sequestration cuts. Unemployment benefits are reduced by 11 percent because of the cuts according to the Georgia Department of Labor. In Washington state, cleanup at the Hanford nuclear reservation toxic waste site is being slowed because of $171 million lost through the sequester. Border protection officers in Arizona will face unpaid leave for as many as 24,000 employees for up to 14 days each.  In San Antonio, Texas $140 million in budget cuts will impact Head Start, a program which offers breakfast and pre-school for disadvantaged children, as well as impacting WIC and transportation programs for the elderly. There will be similar strains in Detroit, San Francisco, Florida, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, and across the nation. These cuts will harm our biomedical research. If nothing happens, a generation of scientific development can be harmed as admitted by Dr. Elias Zerhouni or a Bush Republican. Sequester has the estimate of wiping out about 750,000 government jobs at all levels. It could be more because of the multiplier tie between federal spending and private sector jobs.

 


Wall Street is a heavy reason for much our economic woes. We need more revenue to help society. It can be received by eliminating fraud, cutting loopholes, and saving money in unique ways. Also, some want to retrieve wealth from Wall Street since Wall Street has been involved in corruption for years and decades. Many of their banks pay little to nothing on federal corporate income taxes, which are 35 percent of their profits. They pay almost nothing on sales tax. Many of their quadrillions of dollars are a product of yearly trades and transactions. The French aristocracy of 1789 and Wall Street today want to claim immunity from any taxation if they can. We need real manufacturing and production. That is why populists want a tax on speculation as a means to level the playing field towards the production of commodities that human existence needs. That is why even some Congressmen including want a Wall Street sales tax or a financial transaction tax. This has been proposed on February 28 by the Senators Tom Hakin and Sheldon Whitehouse (along with Congressman Peter DeFazio). This is a Wall Street sales tax not a tax on anybody's savings account. This new bill will tax sales of stocks, bonds, options, futures, swaps, derivatives, and other financial instruments. Even if all of the instruments were taxes at 3 basis points or three on hundreds of 1 percent, then it will generate an estimated $352 billion in revenue over the coming decade, or $35.2 billion per year, according to the Joint Tax Committee.    It will take federal revenue to end austerity. You can have over a trillion dollars in revenue if you have a Wall Street sales tax on 1 percent on all transactions of financial instruments Senator Harken admitted that a Wall Street sales tax has a higher chance of being passed because of the conflicts of the fiscal cliff, sequester, the budget resolution, and the debt ceiling.  Such a tax offers considerable revenue but would have “a negligible impact on middle-class Americans and Main Street businesses,” Harkin pointed out. The bill of Harkin, Whitehouse, and DeFazio is cosponsored by Vermont independent Senator Bernie Sanders. There are 19 other cosponsors of the bill in the House. Previous cosponsors of the bill include human beings like Donna Edwards D-MD, etc. The House Progressive Caucus also advances similar goals of a Wall Street tax. The tools of Wall Street Larry Summers and Secretary of the Treasury Tim Geithner oppose such a tax (even Peter Orszag or Obama's first budget director wanted such a tax). The European Union is planning to have a Tobin tax as well. Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Sheila Bair, and Paul Krugman want such a tax as well. There is nothing wrong with Wall Street tax at all. We need job investments and investments in our domestic situation in general. The President in a recent press conference flaunted his eagerness to cut Social Security and Medicare if necessary. He wants the Chained Consumer Price Index as a means to handle cuts to Social Security benefits. Obama had made phone calls to Senators. He even invited Congressman Paul Ryan or a top GOP budget leader to have lunch in the White House. The Simpson Bowles agenda didn't die. It is still alive. The grand bargain has always been a grand charade. The Democratic Leadership Council's reactionary economic positions are in unison with the Tea Party nearly on their financial ideologies. Many of the same group of finance capitalists that Bill Clinton aided is involved in heading our financial system today. The White House can't say that the Republicans made them do it when they advanced such austerity policies since they were elected into office. We have grown about 236,000 jobs in February. More jobs are being made that are part time. Compared to late 2007, 5.8 million fewer people in the US are now working full time, but 2.8 million more are working part time. The share of people working part-time has grown from 16.9 percent at the start of the recession to 19.2 percent today. The US public sector once again shed jobs in February, losing 10,000 positions. Since June 2009, 742,000 state, local, and federal jobs have been eliminated, half of those in public education. Corporate profits are in record highs. They have received an estimated $1.79 trillion in the fourth quarter of last year, up from $1.77 trillion in the previous quarter. Instead of investing the money, however, companies are using it to buy back their own stock and pay out record dividends.

 

 

In colleges across the countries, there are many establishment conservatives and establishment liberals. Some of the establishment conservatives try to act like James O'Keefe. Some of the reactionaries even oppose efforts to have educational locations to advance racial equity or representation. This is done by using efforts at recruiting and retaining students of color. You have to have equal opportunity to all students, so students can thrive. There are still racial disparities in health, education, and other parameters of society. That is why racism and discrimination ought to be fought against at every turn. The disparities in income, wealth, education, etc. are inheritably racist period. White supremacy thrives on racism. So, we should eliminate biases, prejudices, and stereotypes completely from our thinking. For the truth is that no human is biologically or culturally inferior to another human being based on color or any background. Human beings have been disadvantaged by the evils in the current system in society. This doesn't mean that we have license to act as fools, but we have the license to protest, use activism, and fight in constructive means to end discrimination and bigotry in the world society though. America is not an equal opportunity society at this present moment, because we have social inequalities and injustices plaguing the landscape of world society not only inside of Western society. Human beings are people, but society is never in a vacuum. When you have human beings suffering in the world, we have the right to stop it even if it means that we utilize public or collective actions to do it not just individual actions. In other words, we can't treat human beings as abstractions removed from their social context and call that justice. We have to confront racism and any form of bigotry if we are to make an authentic freedom enriched world. Life is a complex experience. We can't be sheltered from reality. Now, in the early 1970's something happened. We now that the social programs under the Great Society bring down the poverty rates down by a third. Many of the Great Society programs were beginning to work before budgets was cut and the economy began to shift from manufacturing. The poverty rate plummeted especially in urban areas by about 38 percent from 1965 to 1973. By the mid 1970's, most of the innovative programs of the Great Society have been cut or eliminated. There was only cash assistance, which declined relative to inflation and never sufficient to pull human beings from poverty. Food stamps and limited housing support were main programs that allowed human beings in America to survive literally. Radical economic solutions now are restricted by the powers that be since they want the masses to survive excluding true prosperity or an end to poverty completely. In America during the 1950's and the 1960's, our tax rate was much higher than it is now both on individuals and companies. That time had far higher rates of investment than many nations in the world.  Companies have been busting unions for years. Urban renewal programs of the 1960's were executed by reactionaries as a means to knocking down homes and businesses for interstates including office parks without massively helping poor human beings. In that time (in the early 1970’s), there was a decline in production of labor among the manufacturing sector. There was a decline in the value of the real dollar. There was a decline of the real dollar value of social insurance programs like the AFDC, Food Stamps, housing assistance, etc. These programs didn't keep pace with inflation after 1973. So, the total progress of America slowed down decades ago. Now, we have stagnant economic growth. We can see that the War on Drugs, urban renewal, and unfair home loans contributed greatly to the oppression in our world indeed in the USA. We want solutions. So, we can intensify affirmative action efforts to benefit humanity. We should fund money to train teachers in better using fair treatment among students and ban companies found guilty of discrimination from receiving public contracts of any kind. Also, it is just for a domestic Marshall Plan to build up poorer communities of every background. A change in public policy is great and we need to individually fight against evils via activism and education.

 
 

Secret Societies have a long history. Since man existed in the world, secret organizations have transpired. The ancient Secret Societies embraced the Mystery schools indeed. The ancients in ancient Egypt, Nubia, Sumer, the Americas, India, and China had priests that knew about science, astronomy, medicine, technology, engineering, government, mathematics, politics, and other subjects in the Earth. Some of these civilizations embraced magic, alchemy, and the occult. In ancient Greece, there were the Dionysian Mysteries. This group
included a ritual where intoxicants were used as a means to find mystical power. Those in the group were a select number of initiated human beings. This secret order existed in mainland Greece and the Roman Empire. The member used wine. There were the Eleusinian mystery cults and followers of Pythagoras advancing teachings on numbers, polytheism, birth, death, and rebirth, and other mystical concepts. Mystical Islam came about in the form of Sufism too. Sufis believe that it is possible to draw closer to God and to more fully to the Divine Presence in this life. They want the restore to the primordial state of fitra. That means that no one defies God and they have single motivation of the love God. Modern Rosicrucians came about in the 1500's and the 1600's too. Today, modern Rosicrucians want to find esoteric knowledge. They are even Rosicrucians that claim to be Christians and others that are more Masonic like the Societas Rosiruciana, the Golden Dawn, and the AMORC or the Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis. The Rosicrucians wanted to find ancient knowledge as a means to connect better with Nature and delve into the physical Universe including the spiritual realm. Hermeticism is tied to Rosicrucianism as many hermetic scholars like Heinrich Khunrath of Hamburg influenced John Dr. Dee. Dr. John Dee was a Rosicurcian.  As the Middle Ages came in the world, groups like the Order of the Devoted of Assassins came by Hasan-i-Sabbah and the Order of St. John came about. By 1118, the Knights Templar was formed in Europe. The Knights Templar was the warrior monks that guarded pilgrims who traveled into the Holy Land. During the Crusades, they (including the Papal-sanctioned Crusaders) fought against the Muslims and temporarily ruled Jerusalem. Later, the Muslims came back to defeat them. The Knights Templar were like international bankers of Europe via their wealth acquisitions. They were accused of many crimes and were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church. Jacques de Molay was even burned at the stake in 1314. Some say that the Knights Templar were guilty of various crimes and others deny it since some confessed under the act of torture by the Catholic authorities. Jacques de Molay was the last official Grand Master of the Templars. Edward III formed the Order of the Garter by 1348. Modern Freemasonry in the Masonic Grand Lodge of England was created in 1717. Freemasonry is the most well-known Secret Society in history. It is the most controversial secret society of human history since such much debate, intrigue, and controversy revolved around Freemasonry. Today, we know a lot of about Freemasonry. Freemasonry is a group that claims to just believe in God and try to do good work. The truth is a little more complex than that. Freemasonry is an organization that mixes theism and mysticism as a means to advance the tenets of esoteric information. Death oaths, occult rituals, drinking wine out of a human skull, and deception in the lower Blue Degrees are all realities in the Masonic Lodge. Freemasonry includes members of some of the most famous men in history from Presidents, Kings, bankers, inventors, actors, athletes, political figures, theologians, and other human individuals in general. In our age of nearly 2020, secret orders are very diverse. There are groups like the Skulls and Bones, the Bohemian Grove, the P2 Lodge, Le Cercle, the Bilderberg Group, the Association of Former Intelligence Officers or the AFIO, the Pilgrim Society, and other entities. Many of these groups are not massively known until the past 10-15 years.

 

By Timothy


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