The Good, the Bad and the Stupid

Are you a good person? Do you know a lot of good people? What makes them good?

Who's the best person that you know? What does it mean to be good?

Being ‘good’ is relative, and I will prove it in the next sentence. The question is: 

Good for what? 

Yes, it’s relative. If you were Adolf Hitler, you would need plenty of people who were good at obeying orders without question. The army needs soldiers who are good at the same thing. Nevertheless, if you were a person who were good at caring for people, you would not be good at being a soldier. So, with that principle settled, I want to arrive at the next question. 

If most people you would meet in the street are good citizens, meaning people who obey the law, and who do not cause conflict and problems to others, how good is that for society?

People often talk about change, but things don’t change. Ask twenty people if they think the world would be a better place in twenty years. The consistent answer I get is that people believe that things will get worse – more pollution, more wars, more poverty.

What are the ‘good’ people doing about these? What have they been doing about global warming for the last twenty years? If global warming has been killing more people than all the wars combined – what are the good people of the world doing about that?

Do you think a good person refers to someone with a good heart, who cares about others more than he/she cares about themselves?

That’s another common perception. But how authentic is that? Do you really think there’s someone out there who doesn’t care about themselves? And how much can you really care about anyone if you can’t even care about yourself. You are another person in this world, just like any other person. There’s no logical reason why another person’s needs should be more important than your own. 

Sometimes people care a lot about an ideal, and that you should put the ideal before yourself and even other’s needs. If you believe in this, you are just about good to be recruited for Adolf Hitler’s society. World leaders and cult leaders have been using people like you over and over again. Leaders have been replacing one ideal with another to their own ends for centuries. This is very easy too, especially since many people see protecting the status quo as being good. Keeping things the way it is, not rocking the boat – that is what a good person would do, right?

Some people can’t understand how Hitler dragged the whole Germany into the

2^nd world war. Some even think that there was something wrong with the German people. But psychological research have proven over and over again that people in general don’t question authority. Most people can be pushed very far into doing unreasonable things against others simply because a person in a uniform told them to do so. It felt right.

 Why?

“Because someone in a white coat told me so”

In the end, history repeats itself. The Iraq war is a fine example of just that. Who paid for that war? Who funded it? The American Public did.

People can comply with very ridiculous things – people who are otherwise intelligent.  

Did you see the movie ‘Compliance’? 

 

Maybe you don’t want to be a good person. Maybe you want to be BAD!

You are a rebel. Now, no one can control you, right?

Wrong.

Pop culture is a great tool modern leaders and corporations use to control us – believe it or not. It’s ironic, because the basis of pop culture is, ‘Do what you want!’ – And people love this.  It’s cool!

“I am my own person. I won’t let anyone tell me what to do!”

Then, corporations and governments come along, and through the media tell people what they want them to believe ‘cool’ is. 

How does this work? Well, it’s simple:

1. Proclaim a belief over and over again (brainwashing)
2. Make people think It’s their own

In western society pretty much everything works along those lines –from democracy to Coca Cola to music.
 

“You are cool, if you consume our product”

 “…being cool means I am my own person, and no-body tells me what I should do”

And the vicious circle continues…

Six media giants control more than 90% of what you listen to on radio and TV - GE, NEWS CORP, DISNEY, VIACOM, TIME WARNER and CBS. Only a handful of artists like Miley Sirus, Rihanna, Drake and their like are rotated over and over again, proclaiming the message of Cool.

Is there anyone authentic out there?!

I hate politicians!

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War is in the news.

Every time there's a new Republican in office, they wait a few months to calm down the orgy of war, tax and a pinch of abortion - that was their election. Then - there's a new war. The democrats don't talk much about war once in office, but they maintain the status quo just as well.

When it comes to elections, it seems that the amount of money or funds a candidate can attract plays a major part in how far they can go in whatever race. Yes, like Pink Floyd said, 'money, it’s a gas'. And, money talks too. Often the views and opinions of a candidate is a direct reflection of their sponsor's interests.

If you already know this, my apologies, but so many people still don't get it. Most politician’s jobs are to make the interests of their sponsors or potential sponsors, palatable and acceptable and good to the good ol’ public. How would it sound if Marco Rubio’s argument for a war with Iran went like this “Lockheed Martin and Goldman Sachs have asked me to promote a new war today". You can see it’s not an easy job! Some politicians beat the drums of war, others take the peaceful approach and say they appose war, but once in the white house, they don't - either because they can't, or because it was part of their strategy to get past the public's anti-war sentiment. 

Towards the final elections, the military industrial complex is a major funding for every candidate.  This is an interdependent network of corporations that came into existence simply because war is just too profitable for too many people.

First of all, if the army isn’t active for too long, the government is forced to shrink its funding. If you don't use it, you lose it! So, the army has to be used as regularly as possible in order to justify its huge slice out of the national budget, which goes into the pockets of fat cat defense contractors. Then there are the oil companies, who need to find new oil to keep on making profits. Unfortunately, everyone needs oil, because there isn’t any other substantial source of energy up for grabs. (Since alternative energy companies go under or don’t grow much for some strange reason). So, who better to go and fetch the oil than the army? Finally, the international banks vulture in to fund the war – on both sides. Governments have to pay the banks back later in interest – No problem!  Just collect it by taxing the middle class.  That’s the military industrial complex in short. 

Many other little parasites leech onto this monster like companies who ‘reconstruct’ the war-torn country, by setting up their corporations and paving the way for their ilk on new soil. Other scroungers include catering companies who feed the solders, dress the boys. The list goes on and on.

The politicians want to be in the white house, but the sponsor’s don’t care that much about a specific candidate, because they have all their bases covered. So, it is up to Mr. or Mrs. Candidate to prove to the sponsors that he/she is the one who carries their best interests at heart – the best! They do this by addressing the public – implicitly the sponsors. Now, how do you convince the public that they need to pay for another war, that they need to sacrifice their children in the battle field once again, that they should care about Saudi Arabia and Israel’s interests? Well, you have to make them believe that they do!  It’s very important to Mr. Candidate, because the people are going to vote for him, and they (us, the people) are going to pay for the wars, in interest (tax). 

That’s why tax is such a huge subject during election time. They never address the reasons for the tax. It’s simply a question of how the little people are going to pay back the loan sharks.

Let’s come back to the issue of Iran and the Middle East. When it comes to Iran and Israel, you will always hear certain slogans and associations, doing their rounds again and again. ‘Israel, our alley – Israel our alley’, 'Iran – bomb, Iran – terror'. So, even if you talk about baking a cake, and you make these associations over and over, you are bringing a message across, without even saying anything that makes sense.

The people soak it up. But what they don’t get is that Iran hasn’t invaded or attacked any country in over 300 years. The United States on the other hand has bombed and invaded 33 countries since the end of the Second World War.

Here’s the list of recent sieges *

China 1945-46

Korea 1950-53

China 1950-53

Guatemala 1954

Indonesia 1958

Cuba 1959-60

Guatemala 1960

Belgian Congo 1964

Guatemala 1964

Dominican Republic 1965-66

Peru 1965

Laos 1964-73

Vietnam 1961-73

Cambodia 1969-70

Guatemala 1967-69

Lebanon 1982-84

Grenada 1983-84

Libya 1986

El Salvador 1981-92

Nicaragua 1981-90

Iran 1987-88

Libya 1989

Panamá 1989-90

Iraq 1991

Kuwait 1991

Somalia 1992-94

Bosnia 1995

Iran 1998

Sudan 1998

Afganistán 1998

Yugoslavia – Serbia 1999

Afghanistan 2001

Iraq 2003

Libya 2011

* This list doesn’t even include foreign war’s that were funded by US interests. For example when the US supplied Afghanistan with weapons and support when they fought Russia, or when they funded Iraq, in the first Gulf war against Iran.

The story has always been the same. There’s a crisis in a foreign country - The US military to the rescue.  The war isn’t going as planned. There seems to be a new crisis every year. Even though the US has more solders and better weapons, they still can’t finish the job. The national pride gets hurt. Even thought that is bad sentiment for the average Yankee, it’s a good thing for the War industry. What better way to restore the pride? Go to war, to kick the savage’s asses!

After 10 years, the Iraq war has killed over 6 thousand US soldiers.  I’m not even going to touch on the Traumatic brain injuries, Amputees, Mental illness and suicide statistics. WikiLeaks disclosures of the Iraq War Logs has estimated that these documents show the total number of Iraqi deaths since the 2003 invasion to be over 150,000, with about 80% being civilian. That means children too. The estimated number of orphans across Iraq as a result of the war is more than 400,000. These are conservative statistics. It's probably more.

Nevertheless, they’ve got their eyes on Iran, and the bait is the nuclear weapon issue. Why change the strategy if it worked so well to get into the Iraq war? The idea that Iran will drop a nuclear bomb on Los Angeles is something that many people in the USA believe could happen. These McDonalds eating, football watching, Wal-Mart shopping, gun loving people are very isolated from the world. They are mostly ‘good’ Christians, with no knowledge whatsoever of the outside world. The only information they get from abroad is through Fox news and CNN and Hollywood movies.  Do they know that there are between 700,000 to 800,000 Iranians who live in Los Angeles? How ridiculous to think Iran would drop (their only atom bomb) on LA, and kill its own people. 

So, Mr. and Mrs. Candidate have to convince the public that Iranian people are mad enough to do just that. People like Michelle Bachman know that this skewed sentiment will find a soft landing among the warmongering population . So they keep on throwing out the fear porn, and the people keep swallowing it. By the time their campaign hits the primaries, they up the hard talk in an effort to impress the highest sponsors. 

When I say 'I hate politicians', I don’t mean Ron Paul. I love him! But sadly, he was the only candidate who made sense in US politics thus far. He was authentic, intelligent and real.  In fact, he wasn’t actually a politician.

I often wondered what would’ve happened if he became the president of the US.  Would he even have been able to make the changes he wanted to? What power does one man have against the military industrial complex? Did Ron Paul fail in the end?

Of course the corporations wouldn’t have allowed him to win the elections. One man can’t defeat the monster, but the people who stood behind Ron Paul can. He knew this, and expressed many times that his purpose was to get ideas across. They can't start another war, if we appose it fiercely.

The world is what it is. The irony is that the military industrial complex is dependent on us. We have a need for a government. We have a need to feel protected. We have a need to worship the elite. We ignore what’s going on in the world. In the end, what’s going on on the other side of the world affects us, and depends on us too.  When it comes down to brass tacks, fact is fact – We are funding the wars!

STOP THE WARS!

American sniper is just another Dirty Harry movie - Jesse Ventura

“American sniper is just another Dirty Harry movie” says Jesse Ventura, former Navy SEAL, and pro wrestler. Pun intended towards Clint Eastwood who is the director of the record breaking blockbuster.

His recent victory of the lawsuit he filed against Chris Kyle and HarperCollins has attracted a lot of hate speech from American Sniper fans. Ventura claims that Kyle fabricated a bar fight between them, in which he said he punched out the former Governor. 

“A hero must be honorable, must have honor. And you can't have honor if you're a liar.” Ventura said about the acclaimed sniper, and his Autobiography. No one who worked at the bar can back up the alleged incident.

American sniper is still climbing the box office ratings, having earned more than $200 million so far.

 

The Illuminate and the nature of Money

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There are the rich and the poor, and the in-between. There is the elite. The question is how localized or general it is. In other words the owner of Marks & Spencer makes the main decisions for Marks & Spencer. Bill Gates and the Microsoft shareholders control Microsoft. In the government, the president and the senate makes the decisions regarding the government… and so on. So, they are the elite in their respective spheres you could say. But does Marks & Spencer team up with Microsoft to control the government decisions? (Marks & Spencer & Microsoft are simply unfortunate random examples)

We know that big banks and corporations have big say in government. Oil companies and weapon contractors influence government decisions too. Especially when they offer huge ‘bonuses’ to congressmen and presidents for legislating in their favor. There is always speculation as to how far it goes.  How big is BIG? That is the only question.  It seems fair to say that the people with the money control lots of things, but the Illuminate theory goes beyond that. They say that it even goes beyond money.

If it goes beyond money, then what would be the motivation at all? In today’s world we accept that people do things for money or ideals. What would those ideals be?

Here’s a pyramid representing a basic theory of the Illuminate:

This is fair. I think most people can accept that the Rich are in a stronger position than the poor. Out of this point of view many conspiracy theories would make sense too. It’s possible and probable that the rich class do many despicable things to maintain the power and the status quo. 

Beyond that, you start treading in the zone of speculation. It’s entertaining, but it’s probably fiction. And besides, there are so many alternatives to this pyramid. Let’s look at a few:

OK, so we know who’s at the bottom. That’s us!.. But who’s at the top?

1. Introducing the first speculation: The Devil (Satan). This is mainly a Christian concept. The Devil controls the Illuminate. He is the ‘Illumined one’, the ‘Light bringer’. But you really have to believe in the Devil to believe this one.
2.  The free masons control the world. There is a 33^rd level in this organization that controls all facets of society. This sometimes links up with the first one. The devil controls the free masons! (otherwise, what would be their motivation?)
3.    A specific family or ethnic group. The Rothschild’s,  the Jews,  the white people, or the Kennedys or the Bush family. Their motivation?  To get richer and richer and…well, how rich can you really get?
4.  The reptilians: David Icke gets the credit for this amazing idea. Alien reptiles disguised as human beings control all facets of society. What do they want? They eat human beings of course! (What else does a crocodile want to do with a pretty girl?)
5.    The Anunaki control the world. Their motivation is simply to control the world to get people to mine and supply gold for them. They transport this gold to their planet, because they need gold (unlike us, we don’t actually USE gold). Their agenda is simple. Gold.
6. A financial conglomerate mafia, which is a collection of international banks and corporations extending into the oil industry, the military industrial complex etc.   

And that is about it. If there’s global elite, it would be one of these six.

Money controls the world, and there is a control of money supply. But does that mean that there is a global elite that controls the money? I won’t out rule such a possibility, but I’m going to explain what I think is the best option to believe. This option makes sense. It’s not a victim mindset, but one of understanding.

So, why take the route of understanding, when you can just blame it all on someone else?

Let’s start with the idea of the Devil.  The concept of the Devil is an important one, not because it’s true, but because this is a basic belief that flows into many other conspiracies, which may not have the devil as its object,  but something or someone else who gets the same special focus.

Many people believe that this one person is responsible for all the ills in the world. The Devil whispers in your ear to do all the wrong things. We are all victims of his secret cunnings. This is a Christian concept. Yet, forgiveness, and the power of Love, the power that love has to change people – that’s also a Christian concept. What about if people used all that Christian love to change the Devil. 

Haven’t you heard these stories of the reborn Christian’s love that changed the heart of the most satanic Satanist friend around?  Imagine, if the devil could have a change of heart, then all the problems of the world would end, right?

But People won’t consider that option, because it’s convenient for them to have a scapegoat to blame. There’s a peculiar morbid fascination that drives the belief in the Devil. It’s a myth that makes sense on some psychological level. 

Kahlil Gibran wrote a story about a religious leader who discovered an insured man dying next to the road one day. At first the pastor wanted to ignore the man, thinking it could be dangerous to get involved, but then the man whispered “You and I have been friends for a long time…Don’t you recognize me?” The pastor then started getting involved in a conversation with the man, who explained to the pastor who he was.  In a deep voice he confessed   “I am Satan”.

The pastor started cursing the Devil for all the evils he had done to the world. The devil quietly listened, and when the pastor finished his rambling, he was reminded of how the church has built their existence around him, the devil, and if he would die the church and the pastor’s occupation and purpose would disappear.

“Satan, you must live, for if you die and the people know it, their fear of hell will vanish, and they will cease worshipping, for nothing would be sin.”

The story ends with the pastor lifting Satan upon his back and walking toward his home...his lips moving in fervent prayer for the life of the dying Satan.

If the illuminate exists in the same way the Devil myth does, then it would mean that the illuminate gives the victims(the conspiracy theorists) a purpose for their suffering, and an ‘explanation’ for an irrational world.

If you consider many of the conspiracy theories surrounding the Illuminate, it inspires a feeling of helplessness and anger, often towards one particular family, for instance the Rothchilds. Alex Jones and his network  for instance have the belief that the people on the top of the pyramid have evil intentions for humanity.

I have no doubt that decisions made by major corporations do have unfortunate consequences on the public. And I have no doubt that there certainly are conspiracies intending to protect the interests of big business.  Oil companies are polluting the world, and probably suppressing superior (unprofitable) technology to ensure their survival.  Weapons companies are in business to support war. Banks enslave people and governments with debt. Governments are serving the interests of the Banks and corporations, before us the people.

All true. 

But that is not the whole truth. To understand the situation better, you would have to want to understand the nature of money. Once you have this understanding, you can reframe the Illuminate concept again as you want, and choose your pyramid again - if you will.

The nature of money:

Most people work for money. But for some people, money works for them. These people are called investors. The more investments you have, the less involved you become with the object of your investment. Let me give an example: 

A friend advises you to invest in the stock market. He suggests a stock, with a ticker symbol XYZ. You buy some stocks, and after a year of investment, you made some money, as the stocks went up. As an investor you are mainly concerned about what the outcome is going to be for you. It’s not that you don’t care about what XYZ does. Your position as an investor is objective. You look at the stock values, the financial statements etc. 

Are you responsible for how XYZ treats its employees? That is a moral question that would be difficult to answer for an expert on ethics, let alone a simple investor.

You own a little piece of a company (stocks). You are supporting their employment, but you are also supporting the management who (possibly) treats their employees badly.

The main shareholders of McDonald's are aware of the fact that their business’ annual revenue is about $27.5 billion, and that they have 1.5 million employees. That’s a huge responsibility.  Do you think they are going to put the public’s health in front of the wellbeing of their business? It’s not that they don’t care about the average McDonalds customer.  Even more so, it’s definitely not that they are trying to poison the public. It’s a matter of priorities and convenience. Changing their priorities could have a drastic effect on the annual revenue. How about 10 000 employees losing their jobs, because of loss of sales? Welcome to the mind of the investor.

I can imagine that many investors know that their investments have bad consequences on some people. They choose to keep supporting it in spite of its offences, not because of it. Why do they choose to keep supporting a venture that could be polluting the environment, or making life difficult for some people? Because it’s profitable for them to do so. They are probably not noble people, but I don’t think they invest out of sadistic pleasure.

I see many large corporations invest back in the community by giving money to charities, building schools and hospitals. Are they trying to soothe their own conscience, or are they trying to deceive the public? The answer depends on how you frame their position in society. If you take the understanding from this article, you would at least consider the possibility of the first option. Alex Jones would say it is the second option (and that is profitable for him).

I know my article isn’t going to change the world. But at least you could be fortunate to see mr Alex Jones running home, with the devil on his back, praying for the life of Dying Satan.