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Stalin

October 17, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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A story told of Stalin when he first took over in Russia. It states that he stood before his generals giving a speech while holding a live chicken by the neck as he spoke. During his speech, he plucked the live chicken until it was devoid of all feathers. As his speech came to an end, he dropped the chicken to the ground. As the chicken hit the floor, it hobbled to Stalin’s foot and leaned against him, when Stalin boomed: “This is how you control people”.

How much truth is in the story? Google it, but be careful there. The internet is full of false information. You could do it the old fashioned way and actually go to the library and look it up in a book! That would be unique. Why not? Get up right now, go to the library and be a person of action. Look up the information from a documented reliable source. Whoops. Wait a minute. History books, reliable? It kind of depends on the author’s intent, doesn’t it? OK. Look it up in at least three sources! You are up and running.

Librarians are trained to do research, so you go to the top for answers! That will insure you get the right answers. You find the librarian more than helpful. An hour later you have found your answer in a dozen books. All the stories differ to a certain degree but the basics of the story match. One of them states that Stalin stood in the freezing cold of Moscow speaking to the people, bluntly telling them that if you take from the people every method they have to take care of themselves, when you offer them a scrap, they welcome the scrap warmly. The chicken? It was freezing and snuggled inside of Stalin’s coat, the chicken’s ability to take care of itself, gone.

Truth bends rapidly each time a ‘truth’ is given.

Some truth stays truth, even with the story bends.

By the way, do you still have your feathers? I have a dollar coat to sell you for $350.

Filed Under: Corruption, Politics Tagged With: Chicken, History, Joseph Stalin, Moscow, Personalities, Russia, Soviet Union, Stalin

European Commission “To Raise Objections”

October 15, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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Problems related to Serbia have again arisen. This time it is considering Sandzak. The European Commission is considering and most probably will object to Serbia’s blocking of Kosovo in economic organization and its problems in Sandzak. Kacin has expressed his concern over this reports of the European commission related to the Serbian development towards the permanent membership in the European Union. It is considering to object to the obstructing of the work of the anti corruption agency. Kacin has also deeply ridiculed and criticized the Serbian government for omissions in the judicature reorganization and lack of freedom of the press.
Kacin said that blocking Kosovo in all regional, European and international economic organizations will have calamitous results of unimaginable scale for the already dead economies of both Serbia and Kosovo. The government of Belgrade must immediately improve the way it is dealing with the Sandzak situation.
History has been the proof of Serbia being its own worst enemy. It is frustrating for the citizens of Serbia. But it is advantageous for politicians who are through bold political decision able to implement the reorganization of the judiciary. Kacin argues that the only difference or similarity between the opposition parties and the ruling parties is the unreliability in the assurance for the development of democracies. This is further crushing the economies of the countries to the extent where they have no choice but to beg in front of other countries in the European Union. Thought the Belgian foreign minister is optimistic and is hoping to push the name of Serbia forward for the European Union seat at the ministerial meeting taking place in Luxembourg. But it is up to countries like United Kingdom, France and other to decide if it can come on board. Till then Serbia can just cross its fingers and pray for the best.

Filed Under: Politics Tagged With: Belgrade, European Commission, European Union, France, Government of Serbia, Kosovo, Luxembourg, Serbia

Addiction for Meaningless

October 15, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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Study everyday life of the American pioneer and life in medieval Europe. Find discussions of what they owned at the time. Log that in your memory and find information related to Native American tribes and do the same study. Then do the same again with the Aboriginal tribes of Australia. Log that in your head as well then get in your car and go to the mall.

Once there, do two things: 1. make note of human behaviors and the clusters in which humans tend to gather. 2. Look at every advertisement sign in the mall.

Take a pad and pen with you. Wander around looking at signs first and jot down the phrases and a brief description of the photos and art. Go back to the food court and get a table near the entrance of the court to the mall. It’s a great way to see almost everyone. They almost all make it to the food court. Take notes while you eat your pizza and cinnamon roll dripping with that mass of gooey white stuff. Also take note of how much you paid for that and what it’s doing to your body.

It’s a good idea to have a partner during research; one who is much different in age than you. Each of you will spot different things. It makes for better work and then one of you can keep researching while the other goes for another box of six of those gooey cinnamon things.

Research done, you will see two things: 1. The signs make you think you can’t possibly live without True Religion Jeans. 2. People tend to travel in packs and within those packs they tend to all act, dress and talk alike.

Finding: you are brainwashed by professionals at the mall, and, your social group. Both stress acquire. Once acquiring is done, repeat. Acquiring societies are not happy unless they continue acquiring. This makes them targets for parasites. The more you have the more you want.

Go back to the texts on the Aborigines. Hmmmm? No cinnamon rolls in their diet.

Filed Under: Corruption, Politics Tagged With: Aborigine, Australia, Australian Aborigines, Cinnamon roll, Ethnicity, Food court, Shopping mall, United States

Ground Level Brownies

October 12, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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“The economy is destroyed! Bankers, CEO and government official are responsible. They are invulnerable to public scrutiny! They do whatever they want and get away with it! The city put in another set of those cameras that gives you a ticket when you run a yellow. Another way to drain our pockets. People are scared. They gun their cars through the green hoping to avoid that damned camera! One guy in front of me stopped on the green yesterday. Cameras for safety? Ha. Cameras for revenue!”

The man gets up from his lunchroom table, refills his coffee cup and takes another candy bar from the “honor system” vendor box, forgetting to drop in his quarter. His rhetoric continues. “I saw the other day that the garbage disposal is terrible for the environment. People shove their waste into the sewage treatment plants and it plugs up the system costing the tax payers millions to clean up potato peels and rancid pork.” He reaches across the table for another of the brownies that Dave brought to share at lunch and stuffs it in his mouth, mumbling between bites as he pours the rest of the caffeine down his throat. “The company coffee is terrible this year. Anna told me that they cut back on the coffee too and we may not have enough. Guess we have to ration it while Wall Street cleans us out again. Ha! That’s capitalism!”

The lunch buzzer blares as the machinists pack up their sack lunches and go for round two of another 12 hour shift. They do six of these shifts a week. Dave takes the empty pan with him in silence.

This is an average scenario. Every work place has at least one of these guys who is intent on digging up and placing in your face every possible negative on the planet. He has done his research and he is correct on all levels. He knows his stuff . . . and he does nothing about it.

Can you change corporate alone? Not a chance. Can you make one person’s life more bearable tomorrow?

Filed Under: Corruption, Politics Tagged With: Arts, Beverages, Business, Camera, Coffee, Food, Lunch, Shopping

A Battery Called the Stock Market

October 9, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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Give a thousand dollar bill (If they still existed) to a 13 year old kid with no training in financial thinking and what happens to it? The mall gets it.

Give the same grand to a kid in the ghetto and where does it go? It depends on the kid and the parents who raised her. It either goes to mom to support the family or it ends up in a syringe.

When you look at these two examples, oddly enough, the stock market comes to mind. If you can’t figure out why, look at the odds of getting rich in the market even before the crash. You will likely never find out the true odds because the financial world has a monopoly on the first fifty pages of Google on that subject.

If you give a thousand dollar bill to your broker and tell him it’s the only thousand you have to invest, he will likely get you to place it in a mutual fund. Most those guys have your best interest in mind. That’s a plus for you. What are your odds of getting rich doing this with your hard earned thousand dollar bill?

There are countless get rich quick “gifting programs” on the internet today. Thousands of them tell you that you can earn four grand a month doing nothing. “Just send me the money!” Sounds vaguely like the stock market.

A battery works because there are negative ions on one side and positive ions on the other. They are naturally attracted to each other so as they cross the barrier of acid, the movement creates charge. Voila! Electricity. Batteries work on a rule of diminishing returns. The initial exchange of ions is powerful, but as the crossing continues, the battery loses its ability to create power as the ions neutralize in the middle. It’s called equilibrium.

Bankers knew this. Bank on it. The stock market is a battery. Equilibrium was a guarantee. That’s why so many bankers took the money and ran in the last few years. You were the syringe. You got burned in the battery acid.

Filed Under: Corruption, Politics Tagged With: Batteries, Business, Equities, Google, Investing, Stock market, Stocks and Bonds, Sulfuric acid

Corruption 101: On Activating the Brain Stem

October 5, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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Often parents want to teach their children certain things and find themselves unable to motivate the children into action. Impatience often pushes the parent into using tools of a questionable nature to entice the child into responding. Pay-offs are the norm. Even school districts teach this “incentive program” to their teachers. Education colleges teach behavior modification techniques. Some students shudder at the process of comparing a human student to Pavlov’s dogs, but they ingest and during their first year of teaching a monstrous third grade classroom, they buckle and do as taught: give rewards at unmeasured and varied intervals. When the student does not know when the prize might be given next, the student will most often do as told. Expectation is a primary motivator of the human mind.

Mom’s take their daughters to dinner and desert for every “A” on the report card. Kindergarten teachers give an M & M to the student who turns in the subtraction lesson complete. Companies give barbeques twice a year to their employees as an “ata-boy”. The savvy companies also proved the best coffee, donuts every Thursday morning, and high-quality office chairs to their office personnel. Why these basic payoffs while their employees are so underpaid that they can’t pay their rent? Like teachers and parents, managers discovered that a human will react more quickly and with the greatest output when the brain stem is activated. M & Ms, doughnuts, coffee and cozy chairs all represent immediate comfort and gratification.

Huge amounts of people never step out of brain stem reaction and into frontal lobe thinking. That’s why they can be contained so easily. That’s why governments so easily control the masses using fear and immediate pay offs, ignoring the more costly fundamental needs of their populace. Leaders know the weaknesses of people. Corruption 101: On Activating the Brain Stem.

The amount of energy it takes to move thought from carnal to wisdom is minuscule. The effect of not doing so is immeasurable. You had to step out of the brain stem to read this. How long will you stay there?

Filed Under: Corruption, Politics Tagged With: Brainstem, Education, Educators, Frontal lobe, K through 12, Parent, Student, Teacher

What is Corruption?

October 3, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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Anyone can look up the word corruption and understand the meaning . The question to ask: why do adults and even most children know that word so easily without giving it a second thought?

Don’t read any further. Give it a chance to sink in. Go look at the trees. Take a walk and get it totally out of your head. Play Frisbee with the dog. Forget you read the first two sentences but leave this article up on the computer and come back to it when you’re done.

Nope! Not yet. You took your walk. Before you settle down to read this, get a cup of coffee or maybe the herbal tea that relaxes you. Maybe grab a Twinkie or if you are in the mood for food instead, an apple. Then you can sit in comfort to read the rest.

OK, got it all done? Put the coffee down and read slowly:

In the interest of better judgment, always come away from any human endeavor with doubts about what you witnessed. Why? Because your mind is deluded. No insult. There is no attempt to harm you or speak less of you than you are. It’s not your fault either. You live in a world of lies, deceit, truth and love. You live and breathe fear, honesty, loathing, giving, kindness and hatred. It’s all there, side-by-side. It is so muddled and refined in its nature that many will look at hatred and think that a master of love taught that principle. You don’t see your own truth because you look outside of yourself to find it.

That was why the walk. If you had your dog with you, all the better, because he sees better than you do. He plays. That cannot be defined, given a price or judged. He is happy to be with you. That’s all he ever really needed: your love.

What is corruption? It is any step away from the simplest truths of life. It is an act based on delusion that represents itself as truth. The dog knows better. So should you.

Filed Under: Corruption, Politics Tagged With: Dog, Food, Frisbee, Hatred, Inspirational, Philosophy, Shopping, Twinkie

Owning the Ball: Losing at Home Plate

September 30, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

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Baseball seems like a meaningless sport. That’s what makes it fun. However, seeing baseball as meaningless shows a lack of human understanding. Baseball naturally evolved to test the player. That’s where the genius in the sport lies.

The path baseball takes is circular: to win you have to end up where you started. That is the first piece of genius. Accidental though that plan may have been, the circular design represents everything in the universe. Stick-ball players inherently knew this.

The second piece of genius is the fact that it is the defense that controls the ball. This is highly unusual for a sport that depends on the ball for points. If you are the offense, touch the ball and you lose. Oddly enough this is a reflection of human society and how selfish corruption creates loss. Mind twist? Not at all.

From the moment you are born, you wake up to an external world that blinds the senses to your inner workings. People tend desire control of the ball so that they can control their lives. In the process they find that if they control the ball, they control others as well. It’s a breeding ground for selfishness and eventually leads to behaviors that create a narrow path toward corruption, bribes, and human manipulation created for self-gain. Uncontrolled self-gain creates complete collapse in the end

Understanding baseball can correct this view very quickly. Play the game once to find that home plate is not only the ending place but the beginning as well. Winning begins and ends at home. Winning is developed from internal strength and not from owning the ball. In baseball, if you own the ball, it means your team created three outs: you lost your turn up to bat. Own the ball and you lose. Give it away and you win. The circle completes itself when you find yourself at home plate where you began, owning nothing yet having won that moment by purposely giving the ball to the opposing team. Something to think about next time you want to grab at the expense of another.

Filed Under: General, Politics Tagged With: Baseball, Baseball field, Sport

Corruption and Puberty

September 27, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

Corruption may be created by missing integrity or acts deemed to be immoral. However, the deeper and mostly hidden understanding is the fact that corruption is a straight-line act bent on a single outcome. Knowing this will lead to a truer definition of the word and eventually link it almost humorously to puberty!

Corruption is generally black and white without vision of a global result. So blind, in fact, is the process of often multi-layered thinking, that the outcome is inevitably bad for the one instigating the act. The problem with the devised layers created by corruption is the fact that the aim points in only one direction, eliminating the opportunity for change, growth or the ability to see possible flaws in the design. Consequently, what is supposedly for the good of the one winning with no concern for cost to others often results in the destruction of the individual who devised the linear path. Corruption is then action taken without thought or regard for any available course other than that which meets an immediate and blind need. Corruption includes all acts pointed toward a singular goal that gives license to any action that helps the individual meet that goal and without concern for damage to self or others. Does this sound reminiscent a pubescent child?

Unlike the pubescent child, wisdom generally sits quietly, watching nothing and seeing everything. Wisdom only acts once all outcomes are perceived and almost always wisdom never acts alone but as a whole and for the whole. Thus, it is impossible for wisdom to be linear, single minded or without concern for larger picture. Corruption? It is the opposite of wisdom. When does this kind of thinking take full blossom? Usually around age thirteen, once the hormones take over control of the mind. Ask any junior high teacher. What does that tell you about the corporate giants whose focus in life is in a singular and often destructive direction? Hormone therapy may be needed.

Filed Under: General, Politics Tagged With: Health, Political corruption, Puberty

Full Circle

September 25, 2010 By admin Leave a Comment

When the words bribery or manipulation come up in any conversation, the immediate response among most is the shaking of the head and the words stupid and arrogant are heard. Sit with any gathering of people and start this conversation. The result is always a negative one. If you are brave enough, go a little deeper into this conversation next time it comes up and ask why these human acts elicit a negative response. Then pop the blister with this one: “How did you get your mom and dad to do what you wanted them to do? You will see a few immediate flushed faces as it sinks in that the tool of manipulation began at a very young age. If you carry the conversation further, another fact will become apparent: not all parents fell for the ruse.

Of those who were successful in manipulating their parents, you may also find that they are the ones with the best record of having scored in life, either with the raises at work, the position they attained professionally, or the amount of successes they had in the dating scene. Of those winners there may be a few whose expertise lies in the use of debate to win. These will be the verbal few who monopolize the conversation. If your group is large enough, a couple of your debaters will have the habit of arguing using wrong information without concern for the truth as long as they win the debate. That’s when you ask them what office they are running for, how many dates ended with physical success but emotional loss and how many times they won over their parents.

When you are walking home with your best friend from the group, that is when you can admit you never got away with anything because your parents saw through the ruse. Then the two of you can celebrate the fact that you are miserable debaters but damned good parents. The good parents don’t have to debate. They already know the truth and won’t allow for the joust. Their kids also live integrity.

Filed Under: General, Politics Tagged With: Family, Human, Parent