Buenas noticias

Good news. That was what I was really attempting to address in yesterdays post. Of course, being the flutterhead I have tendency towards, the message was waylaid and dropped in a back alley somewhere in my cranium.

Well, that message woke up and decided to make a comeback. There are many many good aspects to this world. If there weren’t, we’d have exterminated our species a long time past. But if you rely on media alone, you’d swear the world was this evil nasty place and we all need to retreat to living in safe space bubbles, sanitized and insulated from all the ills of the world.

But its not true. This is a damned wonderful world and people, generally speaking, aren’t evil or nasty. Oh, we do have ’em, but they tend to occupy spaces in front of television cameras either as spokespersons or politicians. You do have the miscreants that thieve, fraud, and grift their way through life. It isn’t all roses and honey, but it certainly is NOT the cesspool those talking heads want us to believe in.

Recall I brought up Napoleon Hills “Think and Grow Rich”, and I said that I was living proof of its formula and even showed where? Well apply that to the daily bombardment of craptastic news we are all privy to with 24/7 news feeds. Do you think it is without some impact across the board of us as a species? I am quite certain it derails us often enough that we stumble more than we proceed.

And yet somehow the species continues to push past it and continue to make improvements. Maybe I should say ‘in light’ of it, the species pushes forward. Maybe wanting to correct wrongs is hardwired into some of us. The problem then arises that those so disposed can be manipulated into alternate actions that dont fix the problem but do empower others, and not necessarily for the better.

The problems I see are, in no particular order

• Government
• Welfare through coercion
• Manipulated News

Notice I didnt say ‘Fake news’. It has just enough truth to make it palatable, but twisted for mass effect on those of a kinder gentler heart.

Welfare through coercion (IE Taxation) is a slap in the damned face of those on the recieving end, and should be seen as such. Its essentially some stooge saying “you can’t make it without our help, you are to stoopid to make it on your own. Vote for me and I’ll take care of you.” And if those on the receiving end would see it for the lie it covers, they would not be so quick to accept it. And the blatantness of it eventually (sooner than later) attracts the nefarious that figure out how to milk the system to their benefit, making it that much harder for those that actually do need the help.

Remember playing Monopoly? Recall that square “community chest”? Yeah, before 1913 and a certain amendment and creation of a Cartel, that was called Charity. Communities built a chest of funds to assist those that did have a run of bad luck (but not self-inflicted. They still believed in and understood consequences back then.)

Government is the perpetrator, IMO, of most of the ills our society is afflicted with. Innovation gets killed by regulation, taxation, and lobbied interests. Innovation is ALWAYS a bottom up process where someone sees a niche from their view from the cave/shadetree/garage/porch and strive to fill that niche. Government gets in the way of that. See our current status on the downward slope of innovation vs that of China on its upperward slope. Regulation and bureaucracy are steadily increasing here and in China, the government stepped out of the way, willing to accept a cut of the proceeds, but not interfere. People can complain that its due to downsizing or corporate interests shipping production overseas, but even those points lead straight back to Government and taxations. Our problem is not what the talking heads tell us, but the talking heads themselves.

About the only thing our government did right in the last 100 years was the internet: it was a DARPA project to ease communication among Universities and government institutions. The Gov said ‘make this’ then got the hell out of the way. “That which governs least, governs best.” and the internet is a great example of that. Keep Govs paws out of it and it will fix a lot of trouble in the world. It may introduce some turbulence along the way, but most revolutionary things do.

Manipulated news. Other than weather, most of what is aired nationally is propaganda: I make no bones about it, I feel Maddow and Beck are equally at fault along with the rest of the “professionals”. I read other countries news about here and the two are so rarely alike. I read independent bloggers views and see that mainstream is NOT in touch with ‘the man on the street’. Why? Because of that “think it be it” formula I wrote about above. If they “program” you enough, you’ll go along without a fuss. They don’t want the natives fussing, ever. ‘Keep the program rolling even when its a sitcom, or whatever, the proles will play when their brains are mushed into compliance. ‘ may be something that is passed word of mouth in the board rooms of the MSMs.

Is there ‘Fake news’? Most assuredly. The technology we have to manipulate image and sound in real time is incredible. Give a geek a decent computer, the right programs and a couple of hours and he/she could turn a video of a street festival into something out of Dante’s Inferno. That could be posted up on any of several server farms to be uploaded onto a cloud service and go viral in a matter of minutes with social media feeding a growing list of lies to support it as factual. Does it happen like that? Maybe not on that scale, but I have seen a few that made me dig around for a basis in reality. I recall a mass shooting within the last year that was shown to be staged and digitally modified, and it just “disappeared” from the webs within days.

Then we have the most recent mass shootings that seemed to have been timed perfectly as distraction from some elites being arrested for playing with little girls and trafficking same. Fake? Manipulated? Does it matter if it achieves the ends desired by those in control (or think they are in control, more on that in the next paragraph) ? Honesty is a rare bird in the air these days.

As for those ‘in control’, they aren’t. My proof is in the wild antics they are pulling with growing intensity and increasing regularity. They know that there is a serious shift approching and they are reaching for that leg of hope in defense against what they do not understand. I mentioned in a previous post to pay close attention to block chains and cryptocurrency. Did you know that Facebook issued its own CC this past month? Its just one of several now, past the commonly heard household name of Bitcoin. Even China is preparing to release one.

What does that mean to you? Maybe nothing, maybe everything. It depends on how they become tied to current known currencies. What if, on August 15th, Prez Trump signs a bill into law tying the dollar to one of them? First off, the current owners of such are going to find themselves ‘stoopid rich’ overnight, and second, the dollar will quickly stabilize: meaning inflation will slow or cease altogether. Those penstrokes mentioned would mean that the dollar would no longer be fiat toilet paper. The fact China is looking at it probably means they have a similar strategy in store. First one out of the gate is going to have hold of a lot of clout, worldwide.

Now, I have to say, the above is just speculation from some rumors floating around, but if it turns into reality, be prepared because things will feel much scarier than they are and people WILL panic. It may end up being one hell of an opportunity to grow on a personal financial level, if you’re quick to spot it out.

Right now though, what Trump did with signing the China Import rules is going to kick off that trade war being warned about, and it may accelerate China’s strategy as shown above. If it does, this country is so 4%&@3%!!!! Getting left at the starting gate with the debts we have and holding toiletpaper currency, I wouldnt be surprised to see Zimbabwe type numbers on our bills within months. If that happens, well, we wont be worried about illegals crossing the border; they’ll jet like roaches when the lights turn on. We may worry about becoming those illegals though as we head out for greener pastures,,,,

Good news though, I am probably so far off the mark as to be over on the next range.