Where the hell did the Kings and Emperors come from?

I can't believe after thousands of years people still believe in Kings and Queens. Fairy tales of king, queen, prince and princess are nice to read but at the same time a brain wash. Why would anyone sit above everyone else? They don't work but they only take!

Is their blood blue and ours red? Did God really send them to us?

Ryan W. McMaken wrote ................The only reason the royals have all that property and money at all is because their ancestors stole it from the taxpayers of yesteryear. Long-dead Brits and subjects of the empire of long ago, who ran factories or worked in coal mines, paid for all that, and they were taxed all their lives to make sure the monarchs of old could live in luxury and send the sons of Scottish farmers off to kill and be killed in far-flung corners of the globe.

Virtually every member of any royal family today owes his title and wealth (assuming any is left from the old days) to the mere fact that his ancestors were better at murder and thievery than the local rivals. Generally speaking, kings were kings because they excelled at the business of coercion, taxation, and murder.

Why we afford the descendants of those people some kind of special attention or dignity is beyond me.........

You can read the article here: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/86600.html

The Rich Got Richer

As the society cried for help such as in 2008, governments injected newly created money into the economy. But the newly created money did not go into everyone's hand evenly.

First the new money goes into large corporations that needed the money as ordinary small businesses and people are ignored. Government's make-work programs benefit directly the large and politically correct corporations. Then the money simmered down to smaller contractors and their employees. This explains the banks are saved; some insurance companies are saved; and some other too-big-to-fail corporations are saved.

Eventually the new money got deposited into the banks. Since the economy is in the midst of a crisis, banks tightened their loan qualifications therefore locking out ordinary folks and corporations less than 'big'. But the larger corporations and the riches who had good relationships with their banks can obtain a share of the newly created money. Don't forget Fractional Reserve Banking Act, which allows the bank created even more new money for loans to their favorite customers. This explains the speculative activities that followed the 2008 crisis.

Throughout the process of the newly created money movement in the economy, ordinary people are shut out because they are the last to benefit or no direct benefit to them at all. But the riches got to use their loans to get even richer in the stock  and real estate markets.

From year 2000 up until 2008, everyone includes the poor were cheering for their economy which was an inflationary period. Besides inflation was speeding ahead, 2008 recession put majority of the people (back) into misery. So that 2000 to 2008 was just a dream which they had to wake up.

But the rich and the politically connected just dive themselves into the newly created money and swam to more riches.

Money creation is a monopoly. A monopoly held only by the governments. The easiest way to get rich is to collaborate with the governments. After the 2008 crisis, you should wake up to this fact that governments work for the riches. To help the poor is just a political moral propaganda. These politically connected people love their government. Together they think they are doing good things to their country.

But the simple truth of government creating money out of thin air is a criminal act. Creating new money is counterfeiting. The new money dilutes existing money's buying power. Our government is actually stealing our money by creating more money.

The only way to stop the poor becoming poorer is to outlaw the government to create new money.

Poverty isn’t caused by a lack of money… it’s caused by the lack of ability or opportunity to create value. Showering poor people with money does not address this problem.

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Why the poor is getting poorer.

After graduating middle school in summer of 1965, I landed in California for my college study. During 1966 summer, I worked as a busboy at a restaurant in Redondo Beach. I was making US$600 a month. My monthly expense was about US$90. At that time, a Volkswagen Beetle costs US$1,400. Imagine I could buy a brand new car with cash in 3 months!!

At the town of my college, you can knock on someone’s door asking to mow their lawn. When finished, you’ll get a dollar. You can lunch at McDonalds and still have money left over for a matinee movie. In the afternoon, you can mow another lawn. Get your dollar and dine out at McDonalds with you girlfriend. Not bad for a homeless guy, eh!

In those days, money worth something—a lot, compared to now. People could make an honest living. There was much less incentive or pressure to steal, cheat or gamble.  People were much more honest, and kind in those days. And those were the good money days.

Looking back, 1965 to 1970 was the peak of the United States. Started in early 70s, things started to go bad. Money started to worth less every day, every year up until now.

Government’s money printing is bad business for everyone. Worst of all is the Fractional Reserve Banking Act. When the government prints one dollar, the banks inflate it many folds depending on the reserve requirement.

From Wikipedia, Fractional-reserve banking is the banking practice in which only a fraction of a bank's deposits are kept as reserves (cash and other highly liquid assets) available for withdrawal. (Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional-reserve_banking)

For example, at the last Winter Olympic, Canadian government put in C$40 million to build the Oval speeding skating rink in Richmond, BC. As this $40 million entered the banking system, the banks would lend it out. At 10% reserve requirement, the banks could loan out enough money for consumers to buy six high rise buildings. (One building with 15 floors, 8 units on each floor worth half a million each.)

The amount of new money flushed into the economy creating demands the suppliers can hardly catch up with. It creates immediate shortages of materials and labor, meaning inflation. This inflation eats in everyone’s money buying power day and night.

At first, everyone seems to be happy: their home prices going up, their wages going up. At certain stage, many people would feel wealthy. But as inflation catches up as new money kept being created, general public starts to feel the pinch.

The rich always knows how to get richer in such environment. Those who collaborate with the government get make-work projects thought political means. Those who understand the economics can rip handsome profits from the markets.

Workers always get left behind in such inflationary environment. As everyone finally notices, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.

The damaging effect of money printing is huge. Since the effect cannot be quantified, the general public and even the politicians can blame it on someone or something else.

It is like the ocean. You see the waves but you don’t see the current let alone understand it. But if you truly want to understand it, this video explains it well. 

Fear 101

Fear 101

There are some things it's good to have a healthy fear of--drinking poisons, leaping off tall buildings, sex with gorillas--situations in which our physical body is in imminent danger of annihilation, dismemberment, mutilation, or extinction.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.BERTRAND RUSSELL

All other fears--the ones we face most often every day--are illusions. They should be given no more credence or authority over our actions than television commercials, election-year promises, or people who try to sell us flowers in airports.


Most people approach a fearful situation as though fear were some sort of wall. Let's say the situation is walking up to someone we do not know and saying, "Hello."


As we think about approaching the stranger, the wall begins to form. As we imagine what the person may say in response, the wall grows denser. (The other person's response is almost always imagined in the negative: "Would you leave me alone!" Seldom do we imagine the other person looking up at us and singing "Some Enchanted Evening.") If we begin to move in the general direction of the person, the wall becomes almost solid. It seems an impenetrable barrier. We turn away, humming a chorus of "If I Loved You."
But the wall of fear is not real.


Fear as a barrier is an illusion. We have, however, been trained to treat this illusion as though it were real. This belief served us well in our childhood years. Our parents taught us to be afraid of everything new. This was--at that time--good advice. We were too young to know the difference between the legitimately dangerous and the merely exciting.


When we grew old enough to know the difference, however, no one ever taught us to take risks, explore new territories, and treat fear as energy for doing and learning new things. Fear as a reason not to do should be tucked away with all those other cozy childhood myths--Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy. (The Tooth Fairy was particularly hard to let go of.)

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune.Woody Allen

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

If fear is not a wall, what is it? It's a feeling, that's all. It will not (cannot) keep you from physically moving toward something unless you let it. It may act up and it may kick and scream. It may make your stomach feel like the butterfly cage at the zoo. But it cannot stop you. You stop you.

The fear of meeting people, for example, is a particularly silly fear. Given that it's in a place where they're not going to slug you (Hell's Angels bars are not recommended), the worst that can happen is that someone will reject you. You are left with rejection. If you don't try, however, you have rejected yourself, and are left with exactly the same thing as if you had tried and failed--nothing.

If you do try, however, you may get what you want.

Even if you get rejected, you'll learn more from the experience than if you had never tried. You may learn, for example, that certain ways of approaching certain people in certain situations work better than others. We can learn as much (sometimes more) by what doesn't work as by what does. If we don't explore all the ways that really do and don't work, we are left with only the untested techniques from our imagination and what seems to work in the movies.

As Dr. Melba Colgrove once said: "Anything that's worth having is worth asking for. Some say yes and some say no."

To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. Move--physically--in the direction of what you want. Expect the fear to get worse. It will. After you do several times the thing you fear, the fear will be less. Eventually, it goes away.

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." You must do the thing you think you cannot do.ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

People living deeply have no fear of death.ANAIS NIN

Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from. In fact, if you feel carefully, you'll discover that the only difference between fear (a supposedly negative emotion) and excitement (a reputedly positive emotion) is what we choose to call it. The sensation is exactly the same. We just add a little "Oh, no!" to fear and a little "Oh, boy!" to excitement, that's all.

Fear, then, can be seen for what it truly is--the energy to do your best in a new situation.

So, with that in mind, let's return to death.
("Oh, no!" "Oh, boy!")

Excerpt from "YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE LUXURY OF A NEGATIVE THOUGHT"

By Peter McWilliam

http://www.mcwilliams.com/books/lux/lx2tca.htm

Tradition: Good or Bad?

The Discovery Of Freedom

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Confession of a sales rep in the pharmaceutical industry

Gwen Olsen – the Rx Reformer
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a sales rep in the pharmaceutical industry working for health care giants including Johnson & Johnson, Syntex Labs, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and Forest Laboratories.


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