Saturday, January 19, 2019

Of Immigration and Possible Solutions

           Immigration is an issue that affects almost every country of moderate to great wealth.  In this blog I will focus on immigration in America and Europe.  As I've pointed out in previous blogs, Europe is being flooded with migrants from North Africa and Arabia.  Most of these migrants are males 18 to 25.  Many of these men claim to be under 18 so that they can recieve welfare from the state.  Some people claim that migrants entering Europe represent a small portion of the migrants coming from the Middle East.  However, most of the countries outside of Europe especially in the Middle East that are taking in migrants only allow these migrants to stay in refugee camps.  Migrants tend to stay at refugee camps for ten or more years as they wait for their claims for asylum to be processed.  The children in the refugee camps are not going to school and the adults are not working.  This results in billions of dollars of lost human capital.  These refugee camps are run by the United Nations.  This shows that the United Nations is untrustworthy.  Others have argued that the migrants in both Europe and America are simply a source of cheap labor.  This argument holds water when one considers the long history of factories using immigrants as cheap labor in America.  Also, the meat packing industry is notorious for using illegal immigrats and providing poor working conditions.  These workers are often paid less then minumum wage and do not get overtime pay for working more than forty hours a week.  The agriculture industry is another example of such use of immigrants.  However, these farms tend to have more legal immigrants that have work visas that allow them to come to the U.S and work.
                 America and Europe have an aging population as people live longer.  Also, people are having less kids.  This could lead to a labor shortage and a large population of elderly people that lack a labor force large enough to support them.  In some parts of America unemployment is still high while in others there is a labor shortage.  One solution would be to have immigrants and poor people move to parts of the country where there is a labor shortage such as North Dakota.  This would reduce poverty in rural and urban areas.  Also, it would allow developing countries to have more resources to develop their labor force.  For if these countries have a way to send their unskilled workers to other places to work then it would free up resources that could be used for education and healthcare.  Eventually, the infant mortality rate and birth rate would go down in these countries.  Thus, allowing them to focus on education and modernization.  I am not suggesting that unskilled workers is always a bad thing for a country to have.  A society needs people to peform dirty work. 
              It is important to note that when Europe was industrializing in the 1800s the unskilled workers were able to go to the colonies in the Americas and Africa.  This is by means justification for colonialism.  The birth rate and mortality rate declined in Europe.  Also, a well educated middle class of doctors, lawyers, and professors began to emerge.  A wealthy elite of industrialist also emerged.  By the late 1800s workers enjoyed some leisure time and better pay thanks to labor unions.  There are other ways to improve wages and working conditions besides labor unions such as teaching the workers better negotiating skills.  This is a better solution than labor unions.  Labor unions tend to donate to political compaigns and often to support public policies that would not benefit the employees.  Indeed, if immigrants and poor people are sent to work in areas where labor is high in demand then these workers will need to be taught how to negotiate with their employer. 

Friday, January 18, 2019

Of The Political Economy of a Multi-Planet Civilization

                  As I mentioned in previous blogs the secret space program is working on technology greater than anything in the public eye.  Eventually, this secret program will have the capability to explore planets that can support life.  There are planets that scientist think may be able to support life close to our solar system.  Also, there are stories coming out about astroid mining.  I suspect that the astroid mining is a cover story for off world commerce.  There is enough money missing that it is reasonable to suspect that some of this money is going to another planet.  Perhaps, its being used for interplanetary commerce or even a tribute.  Either way there is so much that we are not being told.  Currently, the economy is behaving like an open system.  This means that the economy is not a zero sum game with winners and losers.  Rather, everyone is benefiting from economic growth.  This is evident as wages have consistantly gone up for the last several months and numerous jobs are being created every month. 
                In order for a civilization to become a multi-planet civilization it would need payment and communication systems in space.  As I've mentioned in a previous blog, the E.U is building out its own payment system independent of America's financial clearing system.  Also, Japan has its own financial clearing system and is allowing Russia to use it.  This is to allow Russia to get around American imposed sanctions.  As I've mentioned in an earlier blog, China is building communication systems in space as part of its One Belt, One Road Project.  I suspect that eventually China will build out its own clearing system in space.  In summery, the building out of infrastructure in space is evidence that the elites are preparing to become a multi-planet civilization.
             Trump announced that America needs another space force.  This implies that America already has a space force as I mentioned in a previous blog, the Strategic Defense Initiative was designed to intercept missles via a laser from space.  This is only a few generations away from the technology neccesary to wage cosmic war.  I am by no means suggesting that we are heading in that direction.  However, world leaders will have to be careful in the coming decades to prevent such a war from taking place.  Given that China and Japan are building out infrastructure in space its likely that they are close to working on their own space force. 
            NASA is working on developing a warp drive that would allow space ships to travel faster than light speed.  Astroid mining cannot be accomplished using chemical rockets.  I suspect that in the near future we will the rolling out of more advanced space travel.  Indeed, enormous space ships that can carry hundreds of tons of physical goods would be needed in order to conduct interplanetary commerce.  Interplanetary commerce would be an vital part of a multi-planet civilization.  In order to support such commerce, many space ports would be needed on both Earth and the colonies Earth would build.  The U.K, Portugal, and Austrial already have their own space ports.  Also, interplantery banking would be necessary.  Workers would need to be able to move to where labor is in demand between planets.  This means that loans, human capital, and capital for business would flow seemlessly between multiple planets.  This would drive down the cost of capital considerable and wages would have to rise in order to attract workers.  Workers would need to be trained in the skills neccesary for working in the new economy.  Its possible that these newly discovered planets would have resources on them that could be mined and exported to Earth.  Its plausible to assume that a planet that can support life could have land suitable for agriculture.  Furthermore, real estate would have to be developed for these minning and farming communities.  There would be a wealth of knowledge provided to scientist by the new elements and species of plants and animals that would be discovered.  Factories would have more demand than they have capacity to produce because of all the space ships and equipment needed for colonization.  This issue occured in the early 2000s when the demand for cars was so high that manufacturers could not keep pace with demand.  Perhaps, more advanced technology could solve this problem.  This boom in scientific discovery, commerce, and investment would spur decades of uninterupted growth. 
             There is one problem the colonizers and investors may encounter while developing a multi-planet civilization.  That is the possibility of intelligent life already occupying the newly discovered planets.  By intelligent life I mean life as intelligent as humans and with the same capacity for language and culture.  However, the human colonizers and the aliens could peacefully co-exist.  The aliens would speak a different language than the Earthlings.  This could be overcome by pointing to objects then using words to refer to them.  Eventually, many new languages and culture would be learned.  If the aleins are more advanced  then Earth would have to be cautious towards them.  We would need to quickly emulate their technology especially their military technology.  Earthlings may have to limit their colonies on planets occupied by such groups to trading cities.  Also, planets that sustain life that are not occupied by such groups would be suitable for settlement.  Aleins and Earthlings could even learn from each other and trade. It is important to note that if banking were take place between humans and aleins that we would have to be very carefully not to become too indebted to the aleins or give them too much equity.  For by giving someone else too much equity or becoming too far indebted to them, we would essentially be relinquishing our freedom that group or individual.  Equity is ownership by an investor in a business.  A classic example of this is a share of stock in a corporation.  When a company becomes a corporations by going public an investment banks issues shares of the company.  These shares are stock that represent partial ownership in the corporation.  The United States federal government is losing sovereignty to other countries such China, the U.K, and Argintina because the federal government is in enormous debt to these countries.  This could result in financial and business decisions being made in Beijing or London.
                 In order for everyone to enjoy the benefits of this civilization becoming a multi-planet civilization governments and compaies around the world will have to be more transparent.  Secrecy is the source inequality.  This is because secrecy hides opportunities and destroys financial liquidity.  In other words, secrecy prevents most investors from making informed decisions.  Indeed, companies have information they are entitled to keep confidential.  However, it is evident that some companies do not disclose information that is not sensitive as we saw in the wake of the 2008 financial crises.  Also, compaign finance would have to reformed in order to ensure that the voice of people has a greater influence on state and federal governments than corporate campaign donations.  Government agencies would have to be throughly audited to ensure that there is little waste in the federal government.               

Thursday, January 17, 2019

An Important Announcement

                  I am pleased to announce that this publication will have its first partnership with a brand new publication that I am starting with my mom.  The publication is called "Timeless Lore".  A couple weeks ago my mother started copying and editing early sources on problems with Mormonism.  I will explain this topic further in depth in subsequent blogs.  These books are short and are about twenty- five pages.  I will help her edit these by reading the orignial text then reading my mother's work. The goal of this publication is perserve old literature for future generations and bring back old wisedom.  Also, we want people everywhere to be connected with their traditional culture.  As I've mentioned in previous blogs, the political class has been attacking traditional western culture.  I plan to focus my efforts on copying and editing Northern European  and ancient Byzantine philosophy.  These books will be released through "Timeless Lore" and I have not started yet.  I still have much to do before I take on this endeavor.  We are still working on a mission statement, vision statement, and logo.  Feel free to email any suggestions to me at theinquiringhumanist@gmail.com.  My mother has been making short work of editing and copying the short books on the problems with Mormonism.  The texts that we are copying and editing come from Archive.com which has thousands of old texts. 

Of The Breakaway Civilization Part 2

                     The Breakaway as coined by Richard Dolan can be broadly defined as covert groups operating above the law to run the secret space program and other scientific research.  I suspect its been around for hundreds of thousands of years. I suspect that the Breakaway civilization is trying to break away from the collective conscious if it exists.  The question remains, what else are they trying to breakaway from? They could breakaway entirely. 
                          The Breakaway Civilization has been around for a long time.  The Illuminati formed many breakaway groups.  Adam Weishaupt who lived from 1748 to 1830 founded the Order of the Illuminati which is a secret society.  He recruited people for this secret society from Free Masonry lodges in major European cities.  Weishaupt was a communist and he was also a philosopher that gave the first real expression of Marxism.  He infiltrated the Free Masonry with his communist ideology.  Also, before Weishaupt's time there were commune experiments in medival Europe.
                         It is important to note that while it is clear that the Breakaway Civilization has been around for quite a long time, the more difficult question is whether were dealing with a continuity of groups through time.  There is evidence that culture and language has been passed down for hundreds of thousands of years. Indeed, the language and culture did evolve over time.  Therefore, I suspect that we are dealing with the continuity of pre-historic breakaway groups.
                           Breakaway groups claim the same sovereignty as a nation state.  Corporations are not far off from this description.  In other words, they too have claimed national sovereignty.  As I mentioned in previous blogs, many corporations have taken a larger role in making laws than the lawmakers themselves.  Also, the voices of individual people are being ignored. 

References

"An Analyses of The Breakaway Civilization" by Dr. Joseph p Farrell

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



Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Of GMOs, Corporate Personhood, and Calvinism Part 2

                  Rene Decartes believed that humans are capible of both inductive and deductive reasoning.  Inductive reasoning is moving from general facts to an observation about a particular aspect of something.  Deductive reasoning is making a conclusion about the whole based on particular facts.  Also, Decartes believed that everything a human percieved with the five senses was real.  Hence, the phrase, "I think, therefore I exist", Rene Decartes.  However, a human could still hear a lie or read a fiction novel that is not about reality.  This epistimology went against the Aristotelian views held at the time.  In those days most people relied on sensation for knowledge.  This is vastly different from the modern idea of sensationalism.  The problem with this method was that it resulted in webs of arguments and counter- arguments.  While Decartes followed a logical argument for each idea he presented.  In his works he commented on the inner workings of the mind.  Also, he commented on many other topics including cosmology, ethics, spirituality, and the philosophy of existence.
                  . This is a quote from Rene Decartes' Discourse on Methods and Meditation on First Philosophy Fourth Edition first published in 1637 Meditation Three: Concerning God That He Exists, "But if I got my being from myself, I would not doubt, nor would I desire, nor would I lack anything at all.  For I would have given myself all of the perfections of which I have some idea; in doing, I myself would be God!" 
                        I suspect that GMOs make companies like Monstersanto feel like Gods. I suspect that the connection is that some companies feel that humans are unworthy of food that does not contain GMOs and pesticides.  Also, I noticed a connection between secular Calvinism and automation because it assumes that machines will do the work better than humans to the disrespect of human reasoning.
                  In law a corporation is a "persona ficta" which means a ficticious person.  Corporate personhood gives corporations a devine status in law.  In law a ficticious person cannot die.  Therefore, a court cannot sentence a corporation to death.  The proposition of corporate personhood stems from a theological error made in the west.  In the middle ages the Knights Templar was created to carry out the crusades.  However, this group was given personhood.  Laws had to be changed in order to create the legal infrastructure neccessary for such a group to exist.  These ideas tend to effect the way management of a company thinks.  Many multi- national corporations think that they are God's gift to the world.  Its evident in David Rockefeller's memoir.  Furthermore, corporations have claimed the same sovereign that nation states posses.  This is evident as lobbying by corporations in America has a far greater impact on the laws passed in state governments and congress than that of the ordinary citizen.  I explained Corporate Personhood further in depth in a past blog.  Heres the link to it.  https://gap3516.blogspot.com/2018/12/of-corporate-personhood.html
                Automation can make people feel like a robot.  Human capital needs to be invested in to ensure the stability of the economy. Also, robots can never replace human creativity and reasoning.  Food that has GMOs and pesticides in it may be unhealthy. Healthy food free of GMOs, pesticides, and chemicals need to be invested in to ensure our long term health.  Russia never allowed GMOs and it has enough GMO free seeds to conor the market.  The situation in the Ukraine in 2015 in which a pro Russian government was toppled and replaced by a pro European Union government was about GMOs.  This is evident as Monsanto immediately shipped seeds containing GMOs to the Ukriane's ports as soon as the pro European Union government was in power. 
                Part of the reason the idea of Calvinism is popular in America is because of the idea of "American Exceptionalism".  This belief was formed in the early 1800s in New England.  They beleived that they were a shinning city upon a hill and that it was their duty to construct God's kingdom on Earth.  Also, they beleived it was the end of human evolution.  I do not by any means believe in "American Exceptionalism".   In other words, American Calvinism is "Yankeeism". Calvinism claims that God pre selected a group of people to be saved and that everyone else won't be saved.  This claim is not supported by biblical evidence.    It is wrong to believe that a certain group was given special status by a higher power.  Also, its impossible for human evolution to stop because genetic change is always happening.  I described Calvinism further in depth in a previous that I posted a link to.  "Of The Problems With Calvinism and Secular Calvanism" is the blog and here's the link to it.  https://gap3516.blogspot.com/2019/01/of-problems-with-calvinism-and-secular.html   

References 

"RenĂ© Descartes (1596—1650)"
by Justin Skirry
https://www.iep.utm.edu/descarte/

Monday, January 14, 2019

Of NATO

                   The following is a quote from Sir Francis Bacon's "Essays and New Atlantis" first published in 1627 from chapter 19 Of Empire, "During that triumvirate of kings, King Henry the Eighth of England, Francis the First, King of France, and Charles the Fifth, Emperor, there was such a watch kept that none of the three could win a palm of ground, but the other two would straight-ways balance it, either by confederation, or, if need were, by a war; and would not in any wise take up peace at interest; and the like was done by that league (which Guicciardini saith was the security of Italy) made between Ferdinando, King of Naples, Lorenzius Medicis, and Ludovicus Sforza, potentates, the one of Florence, the other of Milan. Neither is the opinion of some of the schoolmen to be received, that a war cannot justly be made, but upon precedent injury or provocation; for there is no question but but a just fear of intimate danger, though there be no blows given, is a lawful cause of war."
            I suspect that because the superpowers China, Russia, and the U.S are competing for land that NATO and the EU was formed to prevent this conflict from getting out of hand.  Also, I suspect that this is also the reason they are building a Common European Military.  Germany has already incorporated units from other European countries into their military.  In other words, they already have a Common European Military.
          There is a school of thought called the Zbigniew  Brezezinsk school that NATO was founded to counter the threat of Germany once it became a super power again.  This prediction seems to have been accurate.  When Prime Minister of the U.K, Theresa May, went to negotiate Brexit she went to Berlin to meet with Angela Merkel the Prime Minister of Germany.  Also, when Greece was on the brink of bankruptcy it was Germany not the European Central that bailed out Greece.  Germany has also been at the forefront of the European Union's migration policy.  Angela Merkel has supported allowing Europe to flooded with migrants from North Africa and the Middle East.  Most of these migrants are young males claiming to be under the age of 18 and they receive welfare from the government with no plans of looking for work.  This would be a cheap labor source for the elites in Europe.  In summary, Germany is clearly in charge of the E.U and I support the hypothesis that NATO was created to reign in Germany.  
         China and the U.S are the two major AI superpowers.  China claims to have recently used CRISPR to successfully genetically modify the embryo of several new born babies.  Also, China has been building its one belt, one road project across Eurasia and Africa.  In order for the one belt, one road project to be successful, China has to build out financial clearing systems and communication systems in space.  China has lent an exorbitant amount of money to African countries in order to fund the one belt, one road project in Africa.  This could lead to China having more influence over the governments of countries in Africa.  Russia has been selling missile defense systems to countries such as India and Turkey.  The Democrats in the U.S accused Russia of meddling in the 2016 U.S election.  Russia has denied these allegations and there has been no evidence found of Russian interference after a lengthy investigation by the federal government.  This means Russia did not interfere in the 2016 U.S election.