Of The UFO Economy 2.0

                 During World War 2 the Nazis developed UFO technology that had a saucer using engines to spin the saucer.  The Nazis lacked anti gravity technology.  After World War 2 Nazi scientist were taken to the United States.  This became known as Operation Paperclip.  Nazi scientist influenced the American space program and research on mind control in the post war era.  Simultaneously, The Soviet Union carried out its space program with the help of some former Nazi scientist.  On October 4, 1957 the Soviet Union launched the first articial satellite.  The elites in America used this event to justify dramatically expanding the space program as the space race took off.  This lead to a secret space program funded by a black budget.  A black budget is off the books the spending that cannot be accounted for.
              On July 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong became the first of mankind to step on the moon.  He was accompanied by two other astronauts named Buzz Aldrin and Micheal Collins.  Meanwhile, various secret projects were being carried out at area 51 to expand America's military capibilities as the Cold War raged on.  One of these projects was the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) also known as "Star Wars".   The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries.  The weapons required included space- and ground-based nuclear X-ray lasers, subatomic particle beams, and computer-guided projectiles fired by electromagnetic rail guns—all under the central control of a supercomputer system.  A rail gun typically relies on the high speed of the projectile in order to inflict damge.  The project started in 1983 under President Ronald Reagan.  The project was eventually abondoned as it was unsuccessful.             There is not enoungh manufacturing capacity in the world to produce the frequency of UFOs being sighted.  This does not neccessarily mean that the UFOs are alien.  Rather, it means that if the production of these UFOs were taking place on Earth then much of it would be off the books.               

References

           "The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): Star Wars"

http://www.coldwar.org/articles/80s/SDI-StarWars.asp

Of The Financial Cou D'etat

                 When the computer and internet was being widely used by companies in the 1990's financial firms including commercial banks began to engage in high frequency trading.  As I mentioned in previous blogs thanks to Clinton era deregulation commercial banks were allowed to engage in activities previously reserved for investment banks.  At the time the tech bubble was underway.  This meant that the economy was being reorganized around high frequency trading rather than productive activity such as innovation.  Also, technology companies would eventually spend more money on patent lawsuits than developing new products.  Jobs were going overseas during this time and automation was displacing workers.  When the tech bubble crash in the year 2000 most investor did not learn their lesson.
             A similar pattern took place in the housing market from the early 2000's to the 2008 financial crises.  In the wake of the 2008 crash the financial service company Lehman Brothers was allowed to go bankrupt and go out of business.  However, insurance company AIG, Wells Fargo, JP Morgan Chase, Morgan Stanely, and Goldman Sachs were all bailed out with tax payer dollars.  These firms issued along with other banks issued mortgage back bonds that defaulted when the housing market collapsed in 2008.  This was the result of commercial banks giving mortgages that did not require any the borrower to have any assets or income.  These loans became known as NINJA loans.  In the aftermath of the 2008 crash many of the financial firms that would have gone under had it not been for the bailouts became more powerful and profitable than ever.  Their political clout has increased dramatically in recent years because of lobbying and donations to political campaigns.  Many small banks were allowed to fail.  As I mentioned in previous blogs the financial industry is growing as a percentage of the economy.  The bailouts allowed the elites to get the black budget that I mentioned in a previous blog even more off the books.  Also, it enabled the banking industry to solidify its control over America.  None of the bankers responsible for the 2008 crash were punished by law enforcement.  Several financial firms were fined, but the fines were not large enough to sway them to change their behavior.  Indeed, the financial industry still issues mortgage back securities.
             In the aftermath of the 2008 recession the Federal Reserve immediately took action to improve the economy by lowering interest in the largest every bond buying spree.  This lowered the cost of capital for business and eased the flow of money.  Also, mortgages and car loans were cheaper.  However, this action by The Federal Reserve caused a bubble in the stock market.  As a result of the recent innovation such as virtual reality, there is a second tech bubble.  It is unknown when the tech bubble will collapse.  On the other hand, the economy has not reached prosperity so it is unlikely to collapse any time soon.
            One effective way to take back control of our nation from the banking industry is to utilize a community bank or a credit union for banking needs.  Also, buy food from a farmers market and save more money.  If the middle class is financially secure the economy is less likely to implode.  I will explain how to save money further in depth in later blogs.        

                                                                        

                                                                           References 

 "The Black Budget" Catherine Austin Fitts

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0mimIp8mr8&t=4s

An Essay Concerning Placed Based Finance and Industry

            As I've pointed out in previous blogs the financial industry is growing as a percentage of the economy and the real economy that involves physical production is suffering.  Also, the cost of health care and high education have risen dramatically in recent years.  Good jobs are being lost to automation and outsourcing.  However, re-shoring of industry is bringing back some of those positions and jobs are being created in the technology industry.  GMOs (Genetically Modified Organism) and pesticides are diminishing the quality of our food.  This trend could harm the health of the population and lead to a decrease in life expectancy.  Russia banned GMOs because of President Putin's decision.  The situation in the Ukraine was engineered so that Monsanto could export GMO seeds and pesticides to the country through its sea ports.  As you may know,  the government in the Ukraine was toppled so that the new regime would align itself with NATO and allow Monsanto to export GMO seeds and pesticides to the country.
           The banking industry takes unnecessary risk through high frequency trading of securities and derivative trading.  This could lead to billions of dollars in loses.  Furthermore, the banking industry is controlled by only a handful of large corporations.  These issues illustrate the needs to use local credit unions and community banks.  On April 20, 2010 when  a  Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico about 41 miles (66 km) off the coast of Louisiana—and its subsequent sinking on April 22.  The oil well was located about  4,993 feet (1,522 meters) under the sea on the sea floor and extended approximately 18,000 feet (5,486 meters) into the rock.  The explosion of the oil well resulted in billions of dollars of loses for fishermen and local communities around the coast of The Gulf of Mexico.  Also, a great deal of damage was done to the environment and the sea creatures were harmed.  It was the biggest marine oil spill in history.  This event demonstrates the need for energy to be produced locally.  Perhaps, by having an array of solar panels in a field and using windmills.  Using windmills or a field of solar panels is much cheaper than having individual households put solar panels on their roof.    
              The issues I illustrated in the last few paragraphs paint a bleak picture of the world we live in.  All of these issues can be solved by simple lifestyle and financial decisions that all make on a daily basis.  A Placed Based system of finance and industry could be created if every household redirected a small portion of their spending to small businesses and utilized community banks or credit unions for their banking needs.  Also, we have to eat healthier.  This means going to a fast food restaurants a lot less often and when we do eat out on those special occasions such as a birthday we go to a locally owned restaurant.  Also, more food would be purchased from farmer markets and when food is purchased from grocery stores most of it is organic,  Organic food is much healthier because it does not contain harmful pesticides or GMOs that non organic food contains.  I would encourage readers to engage in entrepreneurial activity or find ways to help create an environment that support entrepreneurship in your local community.  
                  Currently, there are harmful regulations in place that make it very difficult to open up a small business.  Many of these regulations are written by large corporations that have lobbyists in Washington and every state capital in the country.  Small businesses are the back bone of our economy.  They take enormous risk to develop products and services that could potentially improve the quality of life for people.  Large corporations do not try not innovate nearly as much because its too costly for them and there is simply too much bureaucracy to work through.  Small business, community banks, and credit unions have close ties to the communities they serve.  These means that it is in their best interest to serve their customers to the best of their ability.  Many small business lack the talent to be successful.  I would encourage small business to hire interns from universities and community colleges.  This would be much cheaper than hiring a college graduate and it would add much needed expertise to the business.  Also, I would encourage local chambers of commerce and local economic development groups to step up their efforts to create an environment that supports entrepreneurial activity.  Even if it means spending less time attracting companies to locate to the area.    
              Placed Based Industry would mean that the production of products and services that people use would take place in their local community.  People would be able to talk to everyone involved in the process of producing, promoting, and selling the products and services they use.  This includes healthcare.  Currently, there are local hospitals and doctors that work tirelessly to serve patients in their local community.  Many of these doctors have their own practice.  However, big pharma is in the hands of a few large corporations that have raised the prices of their products dramatically over the past few decades.
           As I mentioned earlier, the need to produce energy locally is great.  The need could be fulfilled by small companies working together to make solar panel arrays in field and windmills.  In some counties people are pushing back against companies that are trying to build windmills.  Windmills do not make that much noise.  There is concern that windmills could kill bird.  This problem can be avoided by studying the migration routes of birds so that birds are not harmed.  By taking these steps the cost of energy would be reduced dramatically and we would break are dependence on oil imported from South America, the Middle East, and North Africa.  Electric cars that do not have a gas tank would be much cheaper than the latest version of cars that can run on electricity.  Indeed, charging stations would be needed to ensure that drivers could charge their vehicles and the technology would have to be improved upon so that the cars charge much faster.
         Earlier in the blog, I pointed out that industry is re-shoring.   This trend started on the east and west coast and is working its way to the heartland.  This also means that capital is being re-shored.  Not just financial capital but also human capital.  Talented workers are being brought in from other countries especially China.  Companies will eventually have to invest in training American workers.
          The need to provide education locally is becoming more important than ever.  Currently, there are local public schools that do a wonderful job serving the youth in their local community.  However, many of these schools are losing control to state and federal governments in the wake of common core legislation.  This means that parents are losing control as well.  Also, tuition even at public universities has been steadily increasing over the last few decades.  Perhaps, university education could be provided more locally to solve this problem.  There are community colleges that serve local communities.  However, these institutions provide two year degrees or some classes to transfer to a four year college.  It would also help the local economy if more students could earn their bachelor degree without having to move to another city.        
          Former Assistant Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the George W.H Bush administration, Catherine Austin Fitts has been beating the drum on the need to implement a system of Placed Based Finance and Industry.  I have attached a link to the articles on her website that discusses this issue further in depth and practical solutions to problems local communities face. On the page that I put a link to there are a number of articles from other websites that are not written by Catherine Austin Fitts.

"Take Action" – 4th Quarter 2018
https://home.solari.com/go-local-4th-quarter-2018/

Of Various Methods For Overcoming A Learning Disability

                   When I was three years old I was diagnosed with a learning disability.  The people who did the dignoses said that I may never learn how to read or write or do basic math.  Both of my maternal grandparents spent their lives working in special education at a vocational high school.  After the diagnoses my grandparents talked to my mom.  They told her what she needed to hear not what she wanted to hear.  They discussed how to make sure that by the time I'm an adult I can get a job and be independent. 
                      According to my mom, I was sensitive to light, sound, touch, and I was non- verbal.  I do not recall displaying any of these traits.  I am thankfull that my mom began the process soon enough for me to only remember a non dissociative version of myself that did not display the symptoms of the learning disability I was diagnosed with.  My mother took me to garage sales, the bank, the grocery store, and resterants to try and teach me the neccessary social skills to be successful as an adult.  She never let me settle down on a routine.  For example, she would change the blinds and she would make me change my routine.  She wanted me to go to the same school as kids that do not have learning disabilities and I did.  I went to a regular school for preschool all the way up through high school.  She insisted on pushing me to improve my communication skills and to learn to read and write.  My mother did not lower her expectations for me.  Too often people set the expectations lower for kids with learning disabilities.   
              Before my second grade year we moved from a suburb to a small farm town.  The elementary school that I went had a total of 150 students and one class for each grade.  The school was wonderful and I progressed greatly.  In second grade I could not count to twenty and my reading and writing skills were behind most of my peers.  I memorized the multiplication table and could read and write proficiently in third grade.  My teacher that year agreed with my mom that I needed to pushed harder than I have ever been pushed.  Also, I took all of my spelling test using cursive handwriting and I did very well on most of them.  The entire class was expected to use cursive handwriting and even though I was originally not expected to learn cursive handwriting I insisted on doing it.  I read ancient history books meant for college students that year and my social skills improved dramatically.  I made new friends and began to understand more abstract concepts such as money.  In elementary school I received speech therapy and occupational therapy.  My parents could not afford expensive therapy and they did not pay a tutor to help me.  My mother would not even consider medicating me.  I starting taking fish oil when I was little and that helped me calm down.  Shortly after I started taking fish oil we visisted my maternal grandparents and my grandmother asked what she had me on.  My mother explained that taking fish oil helped me calm down.  In third grade I did all of the same homework and tests as the other students and I was held to the same set of expectations.  In fourth grade I learned long division and I did very well academically.   
              By middle school I was on the regular curriculum and I was off the modified grading scale.  In middle school I went from being an introvert to being an extrovert.  I performed wonderfully academically in seventh and eighth grade.  In middle school I did marching and concert band.  I played the clarinet, the base clarinet, and the cymbols.  In eighth grade I wrestled and ran track.  My mother pointed out that its impressive that I did wrestling because I used to be sensitive to touch.  I won five wrestling matches that year. 
               In high school I took the college prep track.  I wrestled, played football, and ran track.  My social life was vibrant and I did very well in sports.  My junior and senior year of high school I took college classes online through a university.  These classes were mostly business classes along with a couple of math courses and a writing class.  I did well in all of these classes.  My senior year I qualified for DECA Nationals for an event that involved a case study and interview situation.  I had to place fourth at State DECA competition in Columbus, Ohio to qualify for Nationals.  Nationals was in Nashville, Tennessee that year.  I did not place at Nationals, but I enjoyed various activities while I was there.  These activities included attending a Naishville Sounds game, going on cruise, and walking around the campus at Vanderbilt.  I graduated in the top fifth of my class and with a years worth of college credit.  I graduated high school about three years ago.  Currently, I am attending a mid sized university to study economics.  I plan on working as an economist for a local government after I graduate. 
            My mother wrote a book using what she learn from her experiences with raising me about how to raise a child with a disability to be as independent as possible.  The book is available for free on kindle and the title of the book is "Striving for Independence: Ways to Help Children with Disabilities Learn to Function More Indepedently".  I put a link to the book on kindle below.

"Striving for Independence: Ways to Help Children with Disabilities Learn to Function More Indepedently"
https://www.amazon.com/Striving-Independence-Children-Disabilities-Indepedently-ebook/dp/B016V7I124
 

Of The Problems With Biblical Literalism

                    As I mentioned in previous blogs, the bible utilizes an ancient style of writing that involves allegories, metaphors, symbolism, and things happening on multiple levels.  This means that the bible is not meant to be taking literally.  In fact, by missing the deeper meaning the author had we do a disservice to the author.  It is important to note that the bible was written in ancient Greek and it is very difficult to translate into English accurately.  In the King James version of the bible the translators used two or three possible meanings for each of the phrases they translated.  The King James version is much sounder version of the bible to read. 
                 Some people do not believe in evolution because of the creation story in the book of Genesis.  The story was meant to explain that God created the universe in a way that people in biblical times would understand.  People in biblical times would not easily understand the process of evolution or The Big Bang Theory.  There is scientific evidence that the theory of evolution has truth to it.  This is evident as many of the extint species that came before modern humans closely resemble mankind.  A similiar story took place with many other species.     
                  Other people believe that word is only 10,000 or 6,000 years old based on the detailed genealogy given in the Old Testament.  There is emperical evidence that the world is much older than this.  Scientist have used radiometric dating to determine that many fossils are millions of years old,  Also, geology have done alot of work that proves that the world is at least four and a half billion years old. 
                 The stories in the bible are not to be taken as historical fact.  There is little evidence that Egypt had a million Jewish slaves.  This is not to say that Jesus did not live.  The purpose of the stories in the bible are to provide lessons.  Below I put a link to an article that is the basis for this blog.           

The Simple Truth About Biblical Literalism and the Fundamentalists Who Promote It

https://www.alternet.org/simple-truth-about-biblical-literalism-and-fundamentalists-who-promote-it

Of The UFO Economy

             Since the Roswell incident in 1947 there have been a number of UFO sighitings.  The U.S military has used this as justification for various secret projects at area 51 many of them off the books.  As a I mentioned in a previous blog a black budget is being utilized to fund these off the books projects.  This means there are hundreds of billions if not quadrillions missing.  This is evident as these secret projects, many of which are space programs, have been going on for decades.  Corporations that supply the needed materials for this project have profited nicely. 
             Sometimes the government will release documents related to UFOs.  However, the documents could have been released just to munipulate the narrative of the subject.  The information in the document may not necessarily be true.  Also, the lamestream media focuses on topics that are unimportant to distract the population from reality.  Since 9/11 some people have been lead to believe that they can no longer trust their own senses.  Sometimes these people do not believe evidence that is right there in front of them. 
               There is a portion of the constitution that addresses the appropriation of federal funds.  These laws need to be enforced.  The constitution needs to be enforced.  The government of the United States does not need to change the constitution, but rather it needs to enforce existing laws.    These means that congress would have access to accurate financial information regarding the military's and NASA's activities. 
              It is unknown whether the UFO's are aliens, humans from Earth, timetravelers, or even a breakaway group from Earth.  I find theory that the UFOs are time travelers to be unlikely.  The theory that they are humans is more plausible as is the theory that they are aliens. 
               There are many people claiming that they were abducted by aliens.  We do not know whether these claims are true, or whether some of these claims are being made to manipulate the information on UFOs.  Its possible that there are humans from Earth are using UFOs to abduct other humans.  Then brainwash them into thinking that it was aliens.  If these claims are true then we do not know what the motives are behind these kidnappings. 
                 It is important to note that in John F Kennedy's (JFK) memoir he claim that when he was president he was briefed that the United States has the capacity to take three hundred people into space in one space ship.  If this claim is true it is hard to imagine what are real space capabilities are by now.  Also, JFK threatened to invade area 51 unless he was given more information about what was going on there.  He never invaded area 51.
                 Richard Dolan, Joseph p Farrell, Catherine Austin Fitts, and The Dark Journalist have done alot of interviews on this topic. Dr. Farrell and Richard Dolan have written a number of books on the topic.  Catherine Austin Fitts did a series of interviews with The Dark Journalist on The UFO Economy.  In these interviews she focuses on the implications that the secret space program has for ordinary people.  I put links to these interviews below. 

Dark Journalist: Catherine Austin Fitts - "The UFO Economy"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VM-NEcWhj4c

"CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: THE UFO ECONOMY 2.0" - AMERICA 2020 - DARK JOURNALIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gKSY5ooqY8Y

CATHERINE AUSTIN FITTS: "UFO ECONOMY 3.0 THE BLACK BUDGET ROCKETS INTO SPACE" - DARK JOURNALIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VULxb8K9aWU

Of The Problems With Common Core

                   In Ohio Common Core sets extremely high standards for the level of reading that third graders are supposed to have.  Under current state law if a third grader does not perfrom well enough on a standerdized test that tests reading skills then that third grader is held back.  Holding a student back costs a great deal of time and money.  Also, holding a student back may harm the student's self- esteem and decrease the student's chances of graduating high school.  Since Common Core's implementation math and reading skills amongst our nations youth have deteriorated.  This hurts their chances of becoming college and career ready. 
                   The introduction of technology in the classrooms of elementary schools is hindering the social skills of our nation's youth and their handwriting skills are getting worse.  The Gates are the one pushing for technology to be implemented into our nation's classrooms and they profit handsomely from it.  The technology leader of Silicon Valley send their kids to private schools where no technology is utilized. 
                    When I talk to people some of them do not ask hard questions and they do not consider the possibility of uninteded consequences.  Also, they often do not question whether or not a mistake is being made.  It is arrogance to assume that there is no chance of a mistake.  Ignorance is not asking difficult questions.  The standerdized testing industry rakes in billions of dollars every year.  Standerdized testing forces teachers to teach to the test and takes control away from the local school district and the teacher.  Furthermore, standerdized testing diminishes creativity and critical thinking.  It is possible that the elites are using standerdized testing as a means to conduct an intelligence census.  In other words, the elites want an overview of how smart the population is. 
                 Common Core forces elementary school teachers to give students so much work that they have less time to play, reflect, socialize, and engage in creative activity.  This means that kids are getting less exercise which is not conducive to excellent health.  Kids that have more fun in their childhood tend to be more intelligent as adults. 
                   We have a culture that perpetuates ugliness.  Traditional western culture is under attack by the political class especially in the United States.  We need an education system that teaches students to enrich the culture with beauty.  Currently, art schools do not teach students to paint like Michelangelo.  Music schools do not teach students to perfrom or compose music like J.S Bach. 
                   Dr. Joseph p Farrell critized the American education system in his book "Rotten To The Common Core".  In his book he focuses on the origins of standerdized testing and the modern American education system.  Also, he did an interview with Forum Borealis in which he spelled out these issues along with current trends in the education system.  I put a link to that interview below. 

                     "Miseducation by Design - A Compilation" with Joseph Farrell
                      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7q_19gOucc     

Of The Breakaway Civilization

          The Breakaway Civilization is a group of elites that have a secret space program in the United States and perhaps other countries.  Their space program is funded by trillions of tax payer dollars that are unaccounted for and they have embedden themselves in the corporate and academic world.  Also, they have factions within the deep state representing them.  It is unknown how old The Breakaway Civlizations is.  Its possible it is hundreds of thousands of years old.  UFO researcher coined the term Breakaway Civilization.  According to Oxford scholar Joseph p Farrell, much of The modern Breakaway Civilization formed during the events after World War 2.  Especially since the Cold War was taking place.  Its possible the war on drugs during the 1970s up to today and the war on terrorism has shifted the power structure of The Breakaway Civiliztion.
         Catherine Austin Fitz has done research on the finance aspect of The Breakaway Civilization and Secret Space Program.  Indeed, The Breakaway Civilization and The Secret Space Program have major economic and financial implications.  Over the last five years The Dark Journalist has interviewed Catherine Austin Fitts, Joseph p Farrell, Richard Dolan, and several other people on The Breakaway Civilization.  It is estimated that by now The Breakaway Civilization has stolen hundreds of trillions if not quadrillions of dollars from the governments of other countries in the form of black budgets.
          The Black Budget is being used to fund the Secret Space Program by The Breakaway Civilization.  On top of this they have used securities fraud, mortgage fraud, high frequency trading of secreties, government bailouts, and derivative trading to raise money for their operations.  A derivative is a financial contract whose value is based on, or "derived" from, a traditional security (such as a stock or bond), an asset (such as a commodity), or a market index.  Currently, the derivatives market has a total worldwide value of 1.2 quadrillion dollars.  This dwarfs the world GDP of 80.6 trillion dollars.  This is a major risk to the global ecnomy.  The issue of derivatives could cause a massive financial crises.
      The Glass Steagall Act was passed into law in 1933 during The Great Depression.  This legislation seperated commercial banking from investment banking.  Investment banks perform Initial Public Offerings (IPOs) for companies that are going public.  This means the investment bank would market the stock of the company going public.  Investment banks often engage in risk high speed trading especially of derivatives.  This has resulted in massive losses for many banks.  During The Clinton admninistration this act was repealed and commercial banks were allowed to engage in investment banking.  This led directly to the 2008 financial crises.  The Dod- Frank legislation was passed into law in 2010.   The act established a number of new government agencies tasked with overseeing various components of the act and by extension various aspects of the banking system.  This legislation does not go far enough to prevent mortgage fraud or prevent commercial banks from munipulating the economy by engaging in high frequency trading.  The Glass Steagall Act needs to be reinacted and commercial should not be allowed to engage in risky trading of securities.  Also, the government needs to do more to prevent no interest, no income mortgages.  These steps are neccesary to ensure the stability of the economy.  The financial system needs to serve the economy, rather than be its master.  The financial industry is becoming a larger percentage of the economy and there is less physical production taking place.  The real economy that involves physical production is suffering.  I've mentioned in my earlier blogs the need to implement a system of Placed Based Finance and Industry.

References

"Analysis of the Breakaway Civilization" Joseph p Farrell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1svGIBKaE_0&t=3s

Roseau's Philosophy Part 2

                 Rousseau wrote in his works "Discourse On Inequality" and "The Social Contract" that mankind was good in a prehistoric when people lived in the wilderness and they were in a state of nature where they were hunters and gatherers. Then they were corrupted by society once they started to live together in cities. I suspect that this is because society makes people more materialistic and they start to envy each other.  I also suspect that this is why he said in the "Social Contract", "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains. One man thinks himself the master of others, but remains more of a slave than they are." I think that this may be because some people are trapped by their materialistic desires for money and power.
               The assumption is prehistoric times mankind had an egaleterian society is flawed.  We do not know enough about prehistoric society to know this.  Based on what we know about sociology we can assume that there would have been leadership amongst these groups and various role that would have determined that status of the members of such a society.  Also, we do not know whether or not prehistoric humans were materialistic.  The notion of the noble savage is false because it has been shown in Native Austrialian societies that they are not always morally sound.  For example, some of the Native Austrialian practiced infanticide.  I added a link below to an article on the history of infanticide and I credit this source for last sentence.

Here is the link to an article on the history of infanticide.
http://www.deathreference.com/Ho-Ka/Infanticide.html

Of Ancient Sumerian And Persian Magic And The Cosmic War

               
                In approximately 8,000 B.C the Neolithic Revolution led to the develoment of pottery, advanced agriculural methods, and mud brick villages.  This led to an increase in the population and trade.  Eventually, textile production, metallurgy, and the production of weapons became coveted skills.  These early villigers settled along the fertile plains of the Tigris- Euphrates, the Nile, the Yellow River, and the Indus.  Also, political and religious life developed in these communities as they grew.  Use of pottery expanded to Greece, modern day Turkey, and western Iran.
               By about 3,000 B.C Summerian civlization was developing on the Tigris and the Euphrates.  Many of these cities had a population of 10,000 or more.  They constructed greatly adorned temples that became academic communities with teachers, mathmaticians, priests, and astronomers.  Also, these temples were utilized for food distribution.  The Summerians made use of clay tablets for recording commerce and literature including the Epic of Gilgamesh.  For the facts used to describe the Neolithic Revolution and the rise of Summer I will cite Dr. Ian Barnes's book "Mapping History: Classical World".
                    The Summerians often beleived that the world was threatened by demons and human sorcers.  In Sumer they had incantations. Speaking directly to the demons, the magician, in an effort to protect himself from the demons, announced his associations with the good white magic gods Enki, Damkina, and Asarluhi was a typical refrain. ( Don’t try this at home.) The next was an incantation of protection for all the innocent bystanders. This was followed by… a very detailed description of each demon and the result of their evilness.  The final incantation was directed at the objects used in the white magic ritual, thereby enchanting them with white magic. Onions, dates, branches, salt, cedar, wool, flour, incense, sea water, matting, wool, are all examples of objects that would have been imbued with sacred healing power.  The information on this incantation can be credited to an article titled "Sumerian Magic & Sorcery".
               The Persian Empire started in about the sixth century BC as a group of semi-nomadic tribes who raised sheep, goats and cattle on the plateau of modern day Iran.  The Persians engaged in art in many different ways including metalwork, rock carvings, weaving and architecture.  I'm going to quote from the artice "Persian Empire".
     
                  "Early Persian art included large, carved rock reliefs cut into cliffs, such as those found at Naqsh-e Rustam, an ancient cemetery filled with the tombs of Achaemenid kings. The elaborate rock murals depict equestrian scenes and battle victories."

                     Ancient Persia metalwork included small golden chariot, coins, and bracelets decorated in a griffon motif. (The griffon is a creature from mythology with the wings and head of an eagle and the body of a lion, and a symbolized the Persian capital of Persepolis).  The ancient Persian nomadic tribes engaged in carpet weaving.  Persian hand woven carpets were admired by the ancient Greeks well known for their complicated design and flashy colors.  Persepolis was the capital city of the Persian empire and it is a famous archeological site.  In Persepolis, the palaces were constructed on enormous terraces.  The temples were adorned with decorative facades that involved a lengthy rock carving that the ancient Persians are famous for.
                     In 550 BC Cypres The Great rose to power over the Persian Empire.  Under his reign the empire expanded greatly.  At its height the Persian Empire spaned from Balkan Peninsulain in Eastern Europe in parts of modern day Bulgaria, Romania, and Ukraine to the Indus River Valley in northwest India and south to Egypt.  They became the first civilization to connect Africa, Europe, and Asia by a stream of communication and commerce.  They establish much infrastructure building many roads and establishing the first postal service.  Persia became a worldwide center for culture, religion, science, art and technology.  Cyprus The Great allowed the conquered people to practice their own religion and use their own language.  He even freed the Jews and let them go back to Isreal.  Alexander The Great took over the Persian empire apporoximately 200 years after Cyprus's reign causing the fall of the empire.  The source for ancient Persian history is an article titled  "Persian Empire".
                In ancient North Asia the Aryan tribes began to seperate with some of them going to invade India.  Others went to Sumer and Persia.  It is thought that a doctrinal disagreement caused them to split. It was between Zoroastrian and Vedic religions they were of the same religion.
           The Persians practiced Zoroastrianism in which  the god Mazda became the only deity worshiped, the only representative of goodness, light, wisdom. The cult of Mithra, Anahita and most other deities were then condemned, and major reforms on the nature of religion and its symbols were made (fire that previously had a divine connotation in Persian became no more than the symbol of light, as emanating from Mazda).  Zoroastrian purity means a participation in the maintenance of the cosmic order, in collaboration with intermediate powers, which are as many degrees of increasingly high intelligence, from the human to the divine level.
          I suspect that part of the reason that the tribes split up is because they supported different factions of the surviving elite of the cosmic war.  Also, they may have wanted to reunite factions of the cosmic war elites to prepare for when they want to breach the cosmic Versailles or it ends.  They may have had a template for how the middle east should be set up, so they laid the groundwork for modern day Middle East.
           The Cosmic War is a theory that mankind was in a great war at the very begining of civilization.  This theory is based on texts in the bible and a number of other ancient texts such as The Vedas.  These texts describe a conflict early in the history of mankind, and much of the fighting takes place in the sky.  Some scholars think some of the fighting may have even taken place in space.  It is thought the war had to do with one side being supported a devine being while the other side rebelled against this devine being.  Dr Joseph p Farrell discusses this theory in his book "The Cosmic War".  Also, he gave a lecture on this topic at a conference on July 11th, 2016.  In this lecture he explained the possibility that mankind is living in a "Cosmic Versaille" as a result of the "Cosmic War".  This "Cosmic Versailles" in theory would have meant that certain weapons had to destroyed and the weapons that could not be destroyed had to be hidden.  Such a treaty would also put limits on the weapons that mankind is aloud to build and quite possilby limit where humans are aloud to travel in space.  In his lecture Dr. Farrell used ancient texts such as the bible and Sumerian texts to back up his claims.  I watched both parts of his lecture and it is very interesting.  I put links to both of those lectures below.

                     References

                  Ian Barnes 

              "Mapping History: Classical World"

    

        Subhash Kak 

     "Vedic Elements in the Ancient

Iranian Religion of Zarathushtra

Subhash Kak"

            "Sumerian Magic & Sorcery"

         http://lzmarieauthor.com/sumerian-magic-sorcery/

               "Persian Empire" 

          https://www.history.com/topics/ancient-middle-east/persian-empire

     

              Cosmic War Pt.1 by Joseph p Farrell

         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Se7i0gWDLp0

       This is a link to Cosmic War Pt 2 by Joseph p Farrell

        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvUuRUeRYs8

This Is A Community Driven Blog

                        I want this to be a community driven publication.  Feel free to email any articles, questions, or insights to me at theinquiringhumanist@gmail.com. This email is not my personal email.  I will take into account any emails sent by readers when I make my blogs and You Tube videos.  Check out my You Tube channel called The Inquiring Humanist.  

Of Classical Music

                  I'd like to talk about something we can all relate to, classical music.  As I've mentioned in previous blogs traditional western culture is under attack by the elites.  This undermines our roots as a people.  We have a heritage worth perserving.  Classical music is being ignored as pop and hip hop take the center stage.  I played the clarinet and the bass clarinet in middle school.  I have made my New Years resolution to learn how to play the piano among other instruments that are part of traditional western culture.
               I suggest that we have an annual classical music concert to honor traditional western culture. This could be done at a high school or a college.  This would encourage traditional western culture to be practiced amongst our nations youth.  We could have universtities and high schools work together to understand the deeper meaning of the classical music.  Oxford scholar Joseph p. Farrell has pointed out that the octaves in music have a deeper meaning.  In ancient Greece they refeered to octaves as being masculine or femine depending on the octave. 

Of Machiavelli's Philosophy and Brexit

                       This is from Niccolo Machiavelli's the Prince Chapter 9 The Constitutional Principality published in 1532, "A man who becomes prince with the help of the nobles finds it more difficult to maintain his position than one who does so with the help of the people.  As prince, he finds himself surrounded by people who believe they are his equals, and because of that he cannot command or manage them the way he wants. A man who becomes Prince by favour of the people finds himself standing alone, and he is near him either no one or very not prepared to take orders.  In addition, it is impossible to satisfy the nobles honorably, without doing acts of violence to the interests of others; but this can be done as far as the people are concerned.  The people are more honest in their intentions than the nobles are, because the latter want to oppress the people, whereas they want only to not be oppressed." 
           This quote relates to modern times because technocrats such as Macron and Merkel were put into power by favour of the elites they are surrounded by people that they find hard to manage.  In France the Yellow Jacket movement is leading to massive protests.  People are stockpiling on necessisities such as food.  Macron's and his prodecessor Francis Hollande's socialist policies have increase the debt as a percentage of GDP and caused a spike in youth unemployment.  Growth has slowed and the people have had enough.   
          German prime minister Angela Merkel has stepped down as the party leader.  The economy is doing well, and the industrial sector is rebust.  No thanks to Angela Merkel's technocratic policies.  She has firm control of the European Union and she may well be the Empress of Europe.  I find it distrubing that Germany rushed to bail out Greece during the Greek debt crises in 2012 as this was an attempt to gain control over Greece.  Greece would be Germany's colony.  At the time I strongly suspected that Germany was looking to manipulate economic policy by means of bailing out indebted countries to feul their socialist policies.  I am not a socialist. 
        In the Summer of 2016 U.K voters voted to leave the European Union (EU).  I posted a video on this issue on my You Tube Channel called The Inquiring Humanist.  Since that vote took place Theresa May has failled to negotiate a fair deal for the U.K.  I strongly suspect that this is the result of technocrats and central banksters holding onto power.  This would be the European Central Bank (ECB).  Currently, European Union regulations make up 50% of U.K's laws.  Also, she has not yet come up with the solution for the Northern Irish border as it has always been open to being crossed freely.  She has not offered solace to Scotland which is opposed to leaving the customs union.  Theresa May wants to leave the customs union.  This would free up the U.K to negotiate trade deals with other countries around the world.  Especially, developing countries in Africa, South Americs, and Asia.  The U.K could retain London's position as a financial powerhouse by making loans to developing countries, and this could happen in concert with China's One Belt One Road Policy.  

Of The 2008 Recession and Rebuilding The Real Economy

                 This is a quote from Plato's A Republic chapter 6 Democracy Part 9 Imperfect Societies Book Eight, "Our next subject, I suppose is democracy.  When we know how it originates, and it is like, we can again identify and pass judgement on the corresponding individual", Plato said.  "That would be consistent with the procedures we've been following", Socrates said. "Then doesn't an oligarchy change into democracy in the following way, as a result of lack of restraint in the pursuit of its objective of getting as rich as possible",  Plato said.  "Tell me how", Socrates said.  '"Because the ruler, owing their power to wealth as they do, are unwilling to curtail the extravagance of the young, and prevent them from squandering their money and running themselves; for it is by loans such spend thrifts or by buying up their property that they hope to increase their own wealth and influence", Plato said.  "That's just what they want", Socrates said.  "It should be clear that the love of money and adequate self discipline of its citizens are two things that can't coexist in any society; one or the other must be neglected.', Plato said.  "That's pretty clear".  "This neglect and the encouragement of extravagance in an oligarchy is often reduces to poverty men born for better things", Plato said.  "Yes, often" Socrates said.  "Some of them are in debt, some disenfranchised, some both, and they settle down, armed with their stings, and with hatred in their hearts, to plot against those who have deprived them of their property and against the rest of society, and to long for revolution." Plato said.  "Yes, they do", Socrates said.  Meanwhile the money-makers, bent on their business, don't appear to notice them, but continue to inject their poisoned loans wherever they can find a victim, and to demand high rates of interest on the sum lent,with the result that the drone and beggars multiply.", Plato said.  Yes, a result that's bound to follow.", Socrates said. 
            It is evident that in the 2008 financial crises hundreds of billions of dollars worth of property was destroyed or even stolen.  The bailouts to the banks and auto industry was a solidifying of the elites control over the United States.  This is socialism.  This is not free market capitalism.  This is removed from anything Adam Smith or Fredick Heyek would have advocated for.  This is clearly the result of monopolistic capitalism.  I highly suspect that these actions are being taken intentionally in order to strike outrage in the people, so that eventually when this economy fails to mend they can replace monopolistic capitalism with facism.  This would be similiar to Italy under Mussolini.  Also, the financialization of the economy is ruining our culture and our society. This means that as the financial industry (commercial banking, investment banking etc) grows as the percentage of the overall economy productive activity (manufacturing, physical output) will decrease.  The real economy that includes physical production and middle class workers needs to thrive in order for our society to flourish.  Unfortunately, the economy has been organized around high frequency trading, and lending money to corporations to buy back shares of the company.  Meaning, less money is utilized productively and the elites have no incentive to invest in human capital. 
                 Now your probably thinking that this a bleak picture.  The middle class is dispearing, the culture is under attack, and we do not have a working education system.  The solution is Placed- Based Finance and Industry.  I may have mentioned this in other blog and I may be a broken record by the time I post several blogs.  Placed - Based Finance and Industry is putting the means of production for the goods and services on consumes in their local community.  This means that the utility one would receive by purchasing goods and services is increased by the betterment of the local community.  If one were to save money that person would invest it locally or regionally.

Of The Afterlife

              Buddhist and Hindus believe that mankind reincarnates until the soul obtains enlightenment then the soul goes to Nirvana.  In Christianity they believe the soul goes to heaven or hell depending on how that person lived in their physical life. The Orthodox Church believes that if we go to heaven our soul merges with God.  The Catholic Church believes the soul must first go to purgatory then proceed to heaven.  Others, believes that it is like a drop falling in the ocean the ocean.  The drop retains its "dropness" for as long as possible before merging with the vast ocean.  The drop is the soul and the ocean is just a vast gathering of souls not a divine being.  This would mean that we would lose our personality in the afterlife.  It would be like meditating.
             Personally, I believe that you retain your personhood. This means that you keep your personality, memory, knowledge, and spirit in the afterlife.  I have not researched this topic in depth.  I will post more on this topic later.  Perhaps, after I've addressed various cultural, political, and economic issues in depth.

Of A Military Back Currency

            The U.S dollar has had a connection to geopolitics unlike any other currency in history.  Seventy percent of new money is created by banks in the form of loans.  The U.S. has a petro dollar recycling system with Saudi Arabia.  The U.S dollar combined with the global financial system is a ponzi scheme.  The US dollar is essentially an oil backed currency. This gives Washington a powerfull financial weapon.  After Saddam Hussein switched from using the US dollar to the euro in oil trading he was overthrown by the U.S.  Dick Cheney then released a document calling for more military spending and involvement in the middle east.  Bush used 9/11 to invade Iraq and Afghanistan.  He also falsely accused Iraq of making a nuclear weapon.  Once Iraqi oil fields were under U.S control the U.S dollar was used to trade oil.  Sanctions were imposed on Iran as they challenged the U.S dollars dominance.  The U.S dollar is a military backed currency.
            In 2009 Mummer Qaddafi was named chairman of the African Union.  He immediately proposed the formation of a unified state with a single currency.  In March 2009 the African Union released a document about running a central bank under an African gold standard for a single currency for the whole continent of Africa.  Libya, Syria, and Iran committed the crime of challenging the US dollar.  The armories of the Libyan government were looted and shipped via Turkey to Syrian rebels.  In 2013 Al Queeda tried to frame the Syrian government for 2 saran chemical attacks.  In 2000 Qatar put forward a proposal run a natural gas pipeline through Syria and Turkey to Europe.  Assad rejected the proposal.  In 2011 Assad made a pact with Iran and Iraq to have a pipeline built through those countries eastward cutting out Saudi Arabia and Qatar.  Saudi Arabia and Qatar want to topple Syria.  The pipeline would strengthen Iran's position.  Ukraine tried to join Russia and the US tried to topple their government.  Germany was also part of that operation, and they were succesfull.  The current regime in the Ukriane has close ties to neo-Nazis.  The U.S bombing of Syria is leading us into World War 3.   The public is sleepwalking into a tragedy.
            President Trump recently singed a one page memo authorizing the reorganization our current space force.  This means we already have a space force.  He has also said that we need another "space force".  This is mostly because the U.S has to protect assets in space such as its financial clearing system and communication satelites.  In later blogs I will address the issue of the space program and its economic implications.  The U.S is not alone in this effort.  China, Portugal, and the U.K have a consider space program, and its possible that those countries could establish their own military in space.  These countries also have considerable assets in space that they need to protect.  Soon the reserve currency will not be based on the country that is the greatest sea power, but rather the country with the most powerfull space navy. 

Roseau's Philosophy and The French Revolution

             This is from Of The Social Contract by Roseau Chapter 7 Of The Sovereign, "His absolute and naturally independent existence can make him see what he owes to the common cause a gratuitous contribution, the loss of which will be less harmful to others of it is burdensome to himself.  And viewing the corperate person which constitutes the State as a fictive being, since it is not a man, he would enjoy the duties of a subject: an injustice that if it persisted would cause the ruin of the body politic.
       Thus, in order that the social pact should not be a vain formula, it tacitly incorporates a commitment that alone can give force to rest: namely, that whosoever refuses to obey the general will shall be constrained by the entire body.  This means nothing more than he shall be forced to be free.  For such is the condition that, by giving each Citizen to the Fatherland, guarantees him against all personal dependence."
              What Roseau is saying here is that in order to be free you must submit yourself to the general will.  This is collectivist philosophy that does not work because in order for a society to prosper individual freedom must be valued.  It is important to note that Roseau had an impact an Carl Marx and Friedrick Engels.  The idea that social inequality justify's a collectivist system does not hold water when one analyses the benefits that small business ownership brings to society.  Roseau is clever at changing the meaning of words.  Roseau had a major influence on the French Revolution which resulted in the deaths of thousands of people.  However, the monarch was unable to hold on to power, and a republic was temporarily installed.  The church's land was taken away.  Fifteen percent of the land in France was owned by the church.  King Louis the sixteenth was executed.  In the following years The Committee of Public Safety under the leadership of Robespierre had a number of people executed.  This became known as The Reign of Terror.  Soon after he was executed as members of The Committee of Public Safety feared for their lives.
            Then Napoleon Bonaparte took over France as emperor.  He invaded many European countries, and their colonies in the New World seized the opportunity to declare their independence.  He spread the ideas of the enlightenment.  For example, he used a system of meritocracy and created thousands of noblemen on the basis of merit.  Also, he applied meritocracy to all of his appointment decision.  His ideas appealed greatly to the peasants in the countries he invaded.  Napoleon sold Louisiana to America in 1804.  This is commonly known as The Louisiana Purchase.  After he unsuccessfully invaded Russia, Prussia took advantage of the opportunity to topple his regime.  He was exiled to an island east of Italy.  He soon reclaimed power in Paris, and moved his army to Waterloo, Netherlands where his army was promptly defeated.  He was exiled to an island of the west coast of Africa.  The old monarchy in France was put back in place.
            After this war was over a conference was held by the European oligarch to discuss ways to keep the monarch in power.  A period of religious, cultural, and political conservatism ensued from 1815 to 1860.  This meant that the conservatives at the time believed that organized religion was necessary to maintain the social order.  Also, the conservatives that a monarchy was needed to keep citizens in line.            

Of Corporate Personhood

              This is a quote from Two Treatises of Government, The Second Treatise, Chapter 7 Of Politcal of Civil Society, "Man being born, as has been proved, with a Title to perfect Freedom, and an uncountroled enjoyment of all the Rights and Privillages of Law and Nature, equally with any other Man, or Number of Men in the World, hath by Nature a Power, not only to perserve his Property, that is, his Life, Liberty and Estate, against the Injuries and Attempts of other Men; but to judge of, and punish the breaches of that Law in others, as he is perswaded the Offense deserves, even with Death it self, in Crimes where the heinousness of the Fact, in his opinion requires it."
            The propisiton of corporate personhood violates these principles.  Corporate personhood came about in the late middle ages and the early renaissance when corporations first came into being and the elites needed to set up the legal infrastructure for these corporations to operate in.  Originally, corporations were simply a group of people granted a charter to perform a specific function.  These groups would seek out favors from religious or secular authority. 
           The problem is how do you put a corporation to death?  A corporation only gets fined for any criminal activity while the individuals who commited those crimes can sleep in their own beds.  A corporation that gains a monopoly can be broken up.  Indeed, trust busting would put an end to Silicon Valley's stranglehold over the information technology, and not to mention the banks monopoly of the financial system.  In the business environment a diversity of companies and small business is needed.  This is lacking in the finance and technology industries. 
           In the early 1900s trust busting put an end to The Standard Oil Company's monopoly over the oil and railroad industries.  As I mention in a previous blog, even conservative economist at the time wanted this to happen because monopolies infered with the working of the free market.  Indeed, monopolistic capitalism is not free market capitalism, nor is finance capitalism.  Both systems are bound to bring about an economy controlled by a small number of people with very little if any competition.  Also, the political system would be under the control of small group of oligarchs.
            In order for democracy to thrive the marketplace needs to be free and open for everybody.  This means that people would engage in entrepreneurial activity, and that consumers would have plenty of choices.  Also, corporations would not be above the law, and any monopolies would be broken up.  I've mentioned in earlier blogs the need to have a placed based system of finance and industry in which the goods and services people consume are produced in the communties they live in.  People would be able to talk to the people the are involved in the process of producing the goods and service they buy. 

Of Free Trade

           This is a quote from Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations book four Of Systems of Political Economy Chapter One Of The Principal Of The Commercial Or Mercantilist System, "Consumable commodities, it is said, are soon destroyed; whereareas gold and silver are of a more durable nature, and, where it not for this continual exporation, might be accumulated for ages together, to the incredible augmentation of the real wealth of a country.  Nothing, therefore, it is pretended, can be more disadvantageous to any country, than the trade which consists in the exchange of such lasting for such perishable commodities.  We do not, however, reckon that trade disadvantages which consists in the exchange of the hard-ware of England for all the wines of France; and yet hard-ware is a very durable commodity this continual exporation, might too be accumulated for for ages together, to the incredible augmentation of pots and pans of the country. " 
           For the last five decades the United States and other western countries have been importing oil from Middle Eastern and Latin American countries using the U.S dollar as the global reserve currency.  America has been running massive trade deficits in which the U.S imports goods from China and oil while sending the commodity of the U.S dollar to the exporting countries.  Trade deficits can result from an influx of capital from forieng countries.  America's trade deficit is the result of importing massive amounts of oil and consumer products.  China has manipulated its currency by brining down the value of the yen against the U.S dollar in order to make Chinese goods cheaper than U.S goods.  In response Trump has implemented tarrifs against almost all Chinese exports to the United States. 
           Also,  developing countries such as Mexico have seen automobile and steel production move to those countries as a result of lower production costs.  These lower costs arise from a lack of environmental and labor regulations.  Wages tend to be substantialy lower in those countries.  Trump has implemented tarrifs on the imports of automobiles and steel.  These tariffs will likely reduce the trade deficit, and decrease the incentive for factories to outsource production to other countries.  National security is also playing a role in the implementation of these tarriffs.  Production of steel and other essential parts and materials for military equipment is safe to make in the country utilizes that equipment. This means that there is reshoring of capital from foreign countries to the United States beyond just defense contractors.  It started on the east and west coast and it will eventually move to the heartland.  This will also involve bringning in human capital especially from Asia.  Also, there will have to more investment in human capital at home. 

An Essay Concerning Cursive Handwriting

          The Ohio State legislator recently passed a bill requiring that cursive handwriting by taught in elementary school.  This bill would help to preserve our culture.  We have to own the culture.  By this I mean traditional western culture.  Cursive handwriting is become a lost art as people are typing on computer or texting on cell phones.  Using cursive handwriting allows thoughts to flow freely especially when one is engaging in creative writing.  Think back to the work of Mark Twain.  His wrote is known for the imagination it took to produce.  The elites seem to want us to think like computers and reduce us to biological robot.  We must retain our humanity.  I would encourage you to engage in creative whether it be poetry, song writing, or a short story.  Our modern culture lacks the great literature of 20th century when Ed Scott Fitzgerald and John Steinbeck's work was published.  Cursive handwriting allows the individual to have a connection with their ancestors.  It may even allow certain parts of the brain to be further development.  Although, I have not seen any empirical studies done on this matter.
              Unfortunately, many teachers think it is a waste of time to teach cursive handwriting.  This not to vilify teachers.  Of course, not all educators think this way.  In fact, many think quite the opposite.  When I was in elementary my teacher worked hard to ensure that every student could read and the write cursive handwriting proficiently.  I mastered this skill despite having a learning disability.  Many educators are reporting that the illiteracy rate amongst their pupils are rising.  A few decades ago students used to learn Greek and Latin in school.  Now it is a struggle to college students to even write coherent sentences in their own language let alone communicate a coherent set of principles.  Writing is a vital skill for everyone, and if we hope to maintain our culture young people must to taught to write at the highest level possible.  I remember when I was in high school a paper that  got me a B in Junior English class got me a C- in college English class.  The latter course was taught as a College Credit Plus class at my high school, and I took it my Senior year of high school.  While this may seem relatively normal, consider that 40% of students that took the writing portion of the ACT are unprepared for a college level writing course.  I took multiple college level writing courses in high school.  While I was prepared for them I still had to make major adjustments to my writing style.  For instance, my junior year of high school I took a college level writing online, and when we wrote an essay describing an event through the lense of the five sense I lacked the creativity and the abstract reasoning necessary to compose an impressing essay.  As a result, my essay failed to paint an accurate picture of the event I was describing in the essay.
              If your a student reading this I would encourage to practice cursive handwriting.  Teach yourself if you must.  There are plenty of tutorials on cursive handwriting available on You Tube.  I used cursive handwriting though out elementary school, and recently I started utilizing it again.

The History of The Federal Reserve

                The Federal Reserve was founded in 1913 to control inflation and the interest rate.  In 1913 a group of top bankers including JP Morgan and several congressmen went to an island to discuss the details of the creation of The Federal Reserve.  Then right before Christmas the bill to create the Federal Reserve was brought before congress and was voted on with little debate.  The president subsequently signed it into law.  Before the creation of the Federal Reserve we had a National Bank that was created by George Washington and Alexander Hamilton in 1791 to serve as a central repository for federal funds and congress voted to abandon the bank's charter in 1811.  The second National Bank was created in 1816 and it was dismantled by president Andrew Jackson in 1833.  The National Bank proved to be only helpful for the nation's wealthy. 
               The Federal Reserve has several instruments for controlling inflation and the interest rate.  Lowering the interest rate during a recession increases the flow of money and spending.  Raising the interest rate during prosperity is meant to reign in high inflation, tighten the flow of money, and decrease spending as to encourage saving.  The Federal Reserve can change the interest by changing the discount rate or the interest rate at which the Federal Reserve loans money to banks.  The Federal Reserve can also print money to buy United States Treasuries to lower the interest rate and sell them to raise the interest rate.  Lowering the interest rate tends to cause a bubble in the stock market.  Financial people tend to get concerned about an asset bubble when the Federal Reserve lowers interest rates while economist tend to want the Federal Reserve to keep interest rates low until the economy fully recovers.
               In the 2008 recession the Federal Reserve brought bonds to lower interest rates this program became know as quantitative easing (QE).  A few years ago the Federal Reserve began to gradually decrease the rate at which it was buying treasury bonds until it was not buying any.  Recently, the Federal Reserve has been slowly raising interest rates.  The Federal Reserve is meant to keep inflation and interest rates stable not help the overall economy.  Some economist say the Federal Reserve has a dual mandate of inflation and unemployment.  Those economists are technocrats and unfortunately the ideology of the technocrats are being used to formulate monetary and economic policy.  For example, in Europe when there was a recession caused by a debt crises in Greece the European Central Bank lowered the interest rate in an attempt to help the economy.  Debt was also severely high in other countries such as Italy, Spain, France, and Ireland.  Only productive activity in the real economy will lead to long term sustainable economic growth.

Types of Capitalism

                       The word capitalism gets tossed around a lot and it losses its meaning.  The different types of capitalism get confused in people's minds.  Dr. Joseph p. Farrell contributed much of the information in this blog by answering a members vid chat question in November 6, 2017.  I described Dr. Farrell's work and the members vid chats in my blog "Introducing Myself".
         
          1. Crony Capitalism. 
          This developed in the late middle ages and early renaissance.  A charter to perform spepecific functions to a group of people calling themselves a corporation.  This goes back to theology and the ideas of person hood, natural functions, and rights.  The udergirding of the corporation is metaphysical in nature.  The corporation receives special privileges and favors from government or perhaps in the renaissance religious authority.  These corporations developed into cartels. The policies of these groups have always been mercantilist in nature.  They seek out special privileges from secular and religious authority.  Also, they get bigger and bigger then drive out competition using economies of scale.  Economies of scale is when a business producing a large volume of a good it brings down the cost per unit because overhead costs such as electricity stay the same. 
     
         2. Trust/Monopoly Capitalism. 
              The corporation tries to control the entire process of the industry not necessarily the industry itself.  In the late 1800s John D. Rockefeller's company Standard Oil accomplished by controlling the oil drilling, oil refining, the railroads, and the distribution. Globalism is a euphemism for these types of corporations.  Their not legitimate and they survive by privileges not the free market. 
               
        3. Finance Capitalism.
             In a trust at least they make a physical product.  In financial capitalism they make money off of money and by speculating on financial instruments.  Their not producing anything.  George Soros got his start as a currency trader.  This is not a types of capitalism Austrian economic thought or Adam Smith would support.  Recently, finance has become a larger portion of economy and high frequency trading is conducted by all major financial firms.  Artificial intelligence (AI) and algorithms are being utilized for high frequency trading.
     
       4.  Mercantalist Capitalism.
              In this form of capitalism governments have protective tariffs, subsidies to domestic producers of goods, and quotas on imports or a limit on the amount of a good that can be imported.  This originated in the 1700s when the European colonial powers believed that a nation's wealth depended on having a large amount of gold bullion.  They acquired gold bullion by having a trade surplus.  To accomplish this the British made a law that it's colonies can only trade with Britain.
     
     5.  Dismantling Crony Capitalism.
               We need trust busting on a massive scale.  A century ago even conservatives wanted trust busting because it preserved the free markets.  YouTube and police do not care about protecting the work of small authors under copyright laws.  If you make a minor violation of a copyright law on a big corporation they will come down on you with everything they have.  The corporations are in it for themselves.  Austrian economic thought says that all of the first four types of capitalism I described will fail because someone will come up with a better idea.  Also, large corporation do not keep up with innovation as well because they have enormous bureaucracy and they do not try things that take many tries before they work.  The corporations suppress technology and development because they do not want to have to spend the time and money developing it. 

      6.  Local Placed- Based Finance and Industry.
                   In this form of capitalism you can see and talk to all of the people that you buy all of your goods and services from.  All of the businesses, factories, and banks that you receive goods, services, and loans from would be in your local community.  This would mean local industries and local entrepreneurs.  It would lead to a boom in the local economy and wages would go up.  Also, poverty would decline.  Catherine Austin Fitz emphasizes the importance of implementing this form of capitalism on The Solari Report.  Austrian economic thought supports this system.   

             

The Militarization of Space

            In light of the sanction the United States imposed on Iran and Russia, Europe is building out its own payment system independent of SWIFT.  SWIFT is America's payment and Europe was dependent on it for decades.  These payment systems are in space.  Japan and Russia have their own payment systems and they have been letting other countries us it.  Europe is going to use their payment system to import oil and export to Iran and Russia.  In the near future there will be more multilateral deals between countries with advanced space programs such as Spain and Italy to use a payment system independent of the U.S's SWIFT system.
            AI is being used for high frequency trading, modeling geopolitical and sociology situations.  This models the AI develop are being used in policy formation.  AI could be used in wars.  I suspect that a great deal of the next war will take place in space.  Also, AI could be used in this war as to avoid human causalities.  The weaponization of space means that instead of the greatest sea power having the reserve currency, the dominant space power will have the reserve currency.  Historically, the country that is a sea power is the reserve currency.  For example, Spain, Portugal, The Netherlands, The British, and eventually America had the reserve currency.
             
   

Why The Business Cycle Happens

           As an economics major I would like to comment on something that has been troubling my discipline.  When there is a bubble in the financial market and the economy is doing well even the most successful business people and smartest economist will say that it is different this time.  They think would think that we are in a state of permanent prosperity.  Yet time and time again they are proven dead wrong as the stock market crashes then the economy as we saw in the 2008 recession.  Its a cycle between euphoria, depression then euphoria again.  No one learns a thing.  Even our president at the time said we there was no chance of crash during the housing bubble of the early 2000s.
        This cycle between steady growth, prosperity, recession, and recovery is known as the business cycle.  The business cycle generally happens because while the economy is growing prices go up at at a faster pace or inflation is rising.  Simultaneously, the wages of the middle class and low wage workers do not keep up with the increases in prices as a result they spend less.  This leads to a slow down in the economy.  Although, the Federal Reserve would typically raise the interest rate to tighten the supply of money in order to reign in inflation.  This does not stop the problem and it leads to the interest rate of rate adjustable rate mortgages rising.  It increases foreclosures as some families cannot afford it anymore while others simply spend less.
       A recovery happens because the economy hits rock bottom, business start hiring again, and people start spending more.  At this point the Federal Reserve may have stepped in by lowering interest rates by printing money to buy treasury bonds or by lowering the discount rate.  The discount rate is the minimum interest rate set by the Federal Reserve for lending to other banks.  The Federal Reserve is an institution that was created in 1913 to print money with the dual mandate of controlling inflation by printing money and/or lowering interest rates to raise it or raising interest rates to lower it.  The federal reserve is owned by the large banks in this country.  The bill to authorize the creation of the Federal Reserve was pushed through right before Christmas.  If the Federal Reserve lowers the interest rate this causes a bubble in the stock market as bonds are less attractive.  This causes a dilemma in policy decision making. Bonds have a return that is based on the interest rate.  When an investor buys a bond they receive interest up until the bond matures then they receive the face value or the amount the investor paid for the bond.
           There is a misconception that the Federal Reserve is supposed to help the economy.  While the purpose of a stable currency and interest rate is to facilitate sound economic activity.  These factors do not directly affect economic growth intrinsically as productive activity in the real economy does. This means that the Federal Reserve lowering interest rates does not lower the obligation of the government to act in the case of a recession. I am not a socialist or a liberal.  I am a libertarian.  If there is a recession the government could improve the economy by investing in infrastructure.   
             Prosperity is when there is record consumer spending and business investment.  This happens when inflation is high and interest rates are typically high.  People spend their money rather than save it when this happens.
              Currently, people in the workforce view their income as being relatively permanent until they retire.  People need to save during years in which they have plenty and know that there will be another recession in which they could get laid off.  This would be like Joseph interpreting the Pharaoh of Egypt dream in the Christian Bible.  The dream was that seven cows, fat and sleek came out of the Nile river and began to feed on the grass then seven thin and bony cows came out of the river.  They came and stood by the other cows on the riverbank, and the thin cows eat up the fat cows.  The king woke up.  He fell asleep again and had another dream.  Seven heads of grain, full and ripe, were growing on one stalk.  Then seven other heads of grain sprouted, thin and scorched by desert wind, and the thin heads of grain eat up the full ones.  The king woke up and realized that he had been dreaming.  In the morning, he was worried, so he sent for all the wise men and magicians of Egypt.  He told them his dreams, but no one could explain them to him.  The wine steward told him that Joseph could interpret dreams, and Joseph was in prison at the time.  The king sent for Joseph, and he told Joseph his dream.  Joseph told him that both dreams mean the same thing, and God told him what he is going to do.  The seven fat cows represent seven years of plenty and the thin cows represent seven years of famine.  He recommended that the Pharaoh chose someone with wisdom and insight and put him in charge of the country.  Also, he said to appoint other officials and take a fifth of the crops during the seven years of plenty.  The food would be stored under guard in the cities, so that Egypt does not starve during the famine.  The king made Joseph governor of Egypt.  To summarize,  Joseph successfully carried out his plan and Egypt did not starve during the famine. 
             This passage illustrates the importance of planning and saving for times of little.  Also, it shows that wisdom and insight can go a long ways.                                          

Culture

        I've been thinking about something we can all relate to, culture.  Culture is an essential part of our lives as it is the customs, arts, social institutions, and achievements of a particular nation, people, or other social group.  Also, culture is the arts and other manifestations of human intellectual achievement regarded collectively.  Traditional western culture is under attack and most people are keeping quiet about it.  Common courtesy is being lost and care for others has been lost.  Loneliness and depression is becoming the norm amongst our youth. Femininity and masculinity is under attack. We have to own the culture in our daily lives as Dr. Farrell reiterates.  This means listening to classical music such as Bach, reading old literature such as Mark Twain, reading philosophy such as Jean Jacques Roseau, waving to neighbors, being courteous to others, and practicing the arts and humanities.  When the culture breaks down people communicate in the simplest form and everyone is communicating in sound bites.
          Typically when the culture breaks down its because the economy is collapsing and the middle class is disappearing.  Which seems to be the trend right now.  In order to restore traditional western culture we must revive the middle class.  How to do this is a topic for another blog.
            According to Dr. Farrell, there has not been a great book written in the twenty-first century yet.  My mother told me that such a book would have to utilize an ancient style of writing that incorporates symbolism, metaphors, allusions, and events happening on multiple levels.  Our musics needs to incorporate these elements.  I intend to write the first great book of the twenty-first century.  Currently, I am working on a science fiction book that involves alchemy, Jedi from star wars, and Earth.  I also write poetry about romance and nature.   
          In his book Microcosm and Medium Dr. Farrell discusses how mind control is done through the arts.  For example, he fiercely criticized cubism because it does not communicate a cosmology.  Art, music, and humanities is meant to communicate a cosmology.  The symbolism within these medium can communicate such things that most people are not aware of.
        Lately, people do not like to deal with nuances.  This is evident in the way people have been interpreting the bible.  Many people take the bible literally and refer to them as the word of God.  Dr. Farrell empathizes that the bible is not to be taken literally as most ancient writing utilized metaphors and symbolism. Also, he does not believe the bible is the word of God as it was written by people that may have had a close relationship with God, but we don't know if they actually received the word of God.  This is a topic for another blog. My mom has spent years doing research into theology and she wrote a book on problems with Mormonism.  She also does not take the bible literally.   
       Gnosticism is a technique in which people change the meaning of words.  This happened when Christianity was formed in the Roman Empire in the 2nd Century AD. Its happening right now.  Before the term gay was used to refer to a homosexual it was used to refer to someone that is happy. Secular Gnosticism is being used on the homosexual, transgender, and racism topics.  It could be as subtle as changing what topics the words are commonly used for without changing the meaning.  For example, the phrase, "Coming out of the closet" is commonly used to refer to someone revealing that they are gay or transgender.  This changes how the word "closet" is commonly associated.  Changing how words are used is playing with cultural fire.   
     

Introducing Myself

       I've posted a couple of blogs and recently I started blogging again after a long break.  Before I post anymore blogs I'd like to share more information about myself.  I am a 20 year old university student training to be an economist.  In high school I played football, wrestled, and ran track.  My profile picture is of me at Senior prom with my date.  My Senior year of high school I qualified for Nationals in DECA for an event that required a case study and interview situation.  A role play was involved in the event and Nationals was in Nashville, Tennessee that year.  I spent several days there.  During my time there I went on a cruise on a river.  Also, I attended a minor league baseball game and walked around the campus of Vanderbilt University.  DECA prepares emerging leaders and entrepreneurs in marketing, finance, hospitality and management in high schools and colleges around the globe.I earned a years worth of college credit my junior and senior year of high school mostly in business courses.
        In college I made many new friends.  I have spent time learning how to use a Bloomberg terminal.  I currently live in a house with several roommates.  I have good relations with the business faculty.  I am involved in the American Marketing Association.  This year I'm in the Community Bank Case Competition.  I double as both a finance person and an economist in training.  In my free time I workout, hang out with friends, listen to music, write, and play Xbox games such as Call of Duty Black ops or NCAA football.  Also, I play PC games such as Civilization 3 or Ages of Empires 2.  To follow the news I read the Wall Street Journal, RT, and BBC News.  I watch college and NFL football as well as MMA fighting.
            About 17 months ago I started following Dr. Joseph p. Farrell, Catherine Austin Fittz, The Dark Journalist, and The Solari Report.  Joseph p. Farrell earned his doctorate in patristics which is the branch of Christian theology that deals with the lives, writings, and doctrines of the early Christian theologians.  He believes strongly in preserving traditional western culture in our daily lives.  He has written 37 books on topics ranging from alchemy to UFOs.  He mostly focuses on the cultural aspects of these issues.  He has a website called The Giza Death Star where he posts blogs.  He also posts members content on there such as webinars, dialogues, and podcasts.  Also, he has member vidchats on the website where people email him questions ahead of time then he answers them during the chat.  In a vidchat there is a prechat and a much shorter post chat where there is a chat window members can make comments in.  We usually have good conversations.  Every week he does a YouTube video called, "News and Views From The Neferium" on the YouTube channel called "The Giza Death Star".  In these videos he reads an article usually on geopolitics then he gives his high octane speculation on it.
           Catherine Austin Fitz was the assistant secretary of Housing and Urban Development during the George W.H Bush administration.  She tried to balance the books, but she could not do it.  She blew the whistle and she was ignored.  After that she start a publication could The Solari Report which is intended to inform investors on how the news of UFOs and off the books space programs affect their investments.  She does quarterly wrap ups with Dr. Farrell, and they talk for several hours about geopolitics and culture. These wrap ups are also posted in the members area on The Giza Death Star website.  Her philosophy is to invest time and money locally.  That means banking with a local credit union and using small business when possible.  This would be known as a placed based system of finance and industry in production of the goods we use is based locally.  Also, our financing would be sourced locally.  When we borrow money from people in other places those people tend to get control over us, but if we borrow locally from someone we know and trust they will surely have good intentions.  She also believes in taking personal and living a healthy lifestyle.
           The Dark Journalist interviews people such as Catherine Austin Fitz and Joseph p. Farrell.  He live streams these interviews on his YouTube channel called "The Dark Journalist".  He has had his YouTube channel for several years now.
           I will dedicate my life to implementing and spreading Dr. Joseph p. Farrell's and Catherine Austin Fitz's ideas.  In 2018 I will start an ad hoc publication called "The Inquiring Humanist" that will accomplish just that. For a world with their ideas implemented is like heaven, and we'll all be rich and free.  The publication will discuss traditional western culture, geopolitics, and alternative research.  Together, Dr. Farrell, The Dark Journalist, and Catherine Austin Fitz make up the alternative research community.  Dr. Farrell is the field marshal of the community.  Jim Mars was a field marshal in the alternative research community before he died a couple of years ago.  He wrote several books about NAZI and governmental control.  I have been reading one of his books. I intend to engage in alternative research and write books.