Delusional greed in the financial sector

At a previous position, I worked with a major financial company. Insurance, investing, retirement and what not. And while attending a meeting with the business ‘customers’ of the ID department. I was nearly physically sickened by their use of the terminology ‘manufacturing a new product’. This is a financial institute, not a manufacture of real products. So when they created a product they meant a paper house contract. The sickening part was how they declare how much money the company would make from the future ‘customers’ of the product. Not that the ‘customer’ wouldn’t have earned some modest income from the ‘product’, it was just that the vast majority of any profits would go to the company, with the customer taking all of the risks. More over, the ‘creator’ of this new product would be richly rewarded in advance of any company profits from the product hence creating a motivation to ‘create’ more of these types of ‘products’. Greed, promoting Delusions that reward more greed. This is true nature of the financial issues we face and any congressman claiming market forces will fix the problems is blind AND stupid and otherwise, just a fool, and should be removed from office.


If men were angels, no government would be necessary.
James Madison

So a Free market we cannot afford. We must have government to control the Raw Greed on Wallstreet!

Ireland in Isolation

This article highlights a danger for Ireland Shipping Costs Start to Crimp Globalization. Ireland is an Island! Almost everyone I’ve met in Ireland never think of Ireland as an Island (the center of the universe maybe, just not an Island). We have become so complacent about the availability of foreign goods and produce, we have forgotten that without cheap oil, we will have to live within our own agricultural means. Something the Lisbon “Yes” folks don’t seem to get yet. They believe that the mobile economy will balance the trade products and that putting fishermen and farmers out of business will not harm Ireland as a whole. Cheap oil has made this possible, and is no more. No more cheap fruit, and beef, no more massive highways and individual car ownership.

John Lennon sang Imagine, just Imagine no Oil.

The Civil war of Europe

One effect of the Lisbon treaty is to bring into stark relieve the different perceptions of politicians and citizens. More than a century ago in the United States there was a Civil war. And while the popular belief was that this war was over slavery, it was not. It is an issue which Europe faces now and in the future. What faced the U.S. was not an issue, but a right to deal with an issue locally, within the individual states representing the members of the United States. A confederacy of independent but unified States joined in common defense. The E.U. is currently just such a confederacy, but the Lisbon treaty seeks to move that into a Federalist, Centralist Nation. In the U.S.A. the Federalists sought to force the freeing of slaves on all the states, a centralist decision, which the State governments of the South had previously supported Slavery and while the topic was abhorrent, the subject could just as well have been health food or something. The central Federal government forcing decisions on State governments.

This is the fundamental goal of the Lisbon treaty, to allow the creation of laws created in the Federated European Parliament to be issued to member State/Countries superseding local control. Just as in the U.S., this was the trigger for the Civil War. The Confederacy lost the argument, and a more ridged Federal, Central government was established. As in the U.S. a decision will have to be made, will Europe be a Federal Government, or will it retain it’s individual Nations in a loose Confederacy of United Nations. War is an alternative to this decision making process.

The only government that has allowed it’s citizens to vote, to allow them to choose what they wanted, were the Irish. But the politicians of the member states want a federal government and have decided that their citizens shouldn’t be allowed to choose. They now seek to ignore the ‘No” and force another vote again until they get their ‘Yes’ because a for them, a ‘No’ will restrict their power. There is no up side for the peoples of Europe, very government seeks to restrict and control it’s citizens the question is who will do the controlling. Will the Irish control the Irish, or will Brussels.

The choice is ours!

A vote of ‘No Confidence’ for Brian Cowan

One other outcome from the Lisbon ‘No’ vote is a general presumption of a vote of ‘No Confidence’ of Brian Cowan and his government. Having set as a principal goal of his administration, a ‘Yes’ Vote for the Lisbon Treaty. The utter failure to attain this goal constitutes a complete failure of Mr. Cowan’s leadership. Couple this with his inability to present this before the EU Commission as the definitive response of the Irish People, he now seeks to nullify the voice of his own people.

It’s time now to vote directly for a ‘No Confidence’ of Brian Cowan in the Dáil.

Time for a new government in Ireland

It looks to be time to form a new government in Ireland that respects Freedom of Speech and maybe elect some new (less corrupt) politicians that respect the law, don’t take bribes of English Money, and don’t perjure themselves before a judicial tribunal. Politicians that don’t try and censor Blogs that have an opinion contrary to theirs.

Hillary has become a Democratic Albatross

Hillary has placed herself outside the Democratic Party and into the Ream of Carl Rove better described as the Eighth Circle of Hell where the sins of conscious fraud or treachery are sent. She is not the instrument of change in Washington, only the purveyor of status quo where insiders rule the government. The Democratic party had best get their act together, and require Hillary to drop out before the Presidential Election is decided in favor of the Republicans prior to the National conventions even begin.

Obama to be assassinated

Or at least that is the desire of some. I’m afraid there is a massive movement of miss information underway to undermine the Obama presidential campaign. Emails and messages are being passed throughout the American South and the Bible Belt that such things as Obama being a Closet Muslin and that he intends to swear into the Presidential Office on the Koran (Quran) rather than the bible. I personally thought this was silly until I saw this video God and Politics in Lynchburg Tennessee It’s amazing the ignorance being spoken here. But the more interesting is the indications that the source of the information is an ‘information artifact’ where there is no defined source for the ‘fact’ being quoted. But the the ‘fact’ carried such emotional weigh that it is believed because it falls into one’s own belief structure. This is dangerous, as Anti Obama information carrying such emotional power, evokes powerful reactions, like assassination.

Traitors to the U.S. Constitution

For voting to violate their oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States I present you with Traitors;

Sen. Lamar Alexander [R, TN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Wayne Allard [R, CO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Barrasso [R, WY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Max Baucus [D, MT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. B. Evan Bayh [D, IN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Robert Bennett [R, UT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Christopher Bond [R, MO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Samuel Brownback [R, KS] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jim Bunning [R, KY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Richard Burr [R, NC] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Thomas Carper [D, DE] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Robert Casey [D, PA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. C. Saxby Chambliss [R, GA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Hillary Clinton [D, NY] Coward in defence of the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Thomas Coburn [R, OK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Thad Cochran [R, MS] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Norm Coleman [R, MN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Susan Collins [R, ME] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Kent Conrad [D, ND] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Bob Corker [R, TN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Cornyn [R, TX] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Larry Craig [R, ID] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Michael Crapo [R, ID] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jim DeMint [R, SC] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Elizabeth Dole [R, NC] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Pete Domenici [R, NM] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Ensign [R, NV] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Michael Enzi [R, WY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Lindsey Graham [R, SC] Coward in defence of the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Charles Grassley [R, IA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Judd Gregg [R, NH] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Charles Hagel [R, NE] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Orrin Hatch [R, UT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Kay Hutchison [R, TX] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. James Inhofe [R, OK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Daniel Inouye [D, HI] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Isakson [R, GA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Tim Johnson [D, SD] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Herbert Kohl [D, WI] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jon Kyl [R, AZ] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mary Landrieu [D, LA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Joseph Lieberman [I, CT] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Blanche Lincoln [D, AR] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Richard Lugar [R, IN] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mel Martinez [R, FL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John McCain [R, AZ] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Claire McCaskill [D, MO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mitch McConnell [R, KY] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Barbara Mikulski [D, MD] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Lisa Murkowski [R, AK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Ben Nelson [D, NE] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Bill Nelson [D, FL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Barack Obama [D, IL] Coward in defence of the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Mark Pryor [D, AR] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Pat Roberts [R, KS] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Rockefeller [D, WV] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Ken Salazar [D, CO] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jefferson Sessions [R, AL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Richard Shelby [R, AL] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Gordon Smith [R, OR] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Olympia Snowe [R, ME] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Arlen Specter [R, PA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Ted Stevens [R, AK] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Thune [R, SD] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. David Vitter [R, LA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. George Voinovich [R, OH] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. John Warner [R, VA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Jim Webb [D, VA] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse [D, RI] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution
Rep. Roger Wicker [R, MS-1] Traitor to the U.S. Constitution

Please remember these names when you next vote for a representative that will honor their oaths.

Whatever became of the truth?

Bush’s friendly co-conspirator in the White House Lies and deception club has come up with something he can really sink his teeth into, The U.S. Propaganda Agency to quote;

…the United States is losing the war of ideas in the Muslim world, and the answer to that, in part, is through the creation of this new government agency

Whatever happened to the truth? If the truth isn’t there, someone will discover that it’s not the truth, and no amount of lying is going to make anyone listen to it. Mind you if you can control all sources of information (MSN, radio, TV, Internet), and either censor or block the truth, what does it matter what you say?

Radio Free Europe has been identified as one of the most useful tool to bring down the Iron curtain, on a simple principal, that even under political pressure, it would ONLY broadcast the truth.

But this administration doesn’t know the truth, to them, the truth is the enemy, and so we have what we have. A world of spin and deception.

Something else we didn’t know, the truth.

It looks like the truth does come out, in the end, but why are we surprised when someone does a Study: False statements preceded war about something we already knew. That the President of the United States wasn’t telling the truth. Can we impeach this administration now? Does anyone doubt the need to demonstrate to the world that America CAN be trusted again, by eliminating the liars, and restoring the trust?