The Volunteer Collector
www.agkaiser.org
04/23/2004


Original text and editing by:
A G Kaiser
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Morality, ethics and the emotional engagement of populations are in a constant state of change. Only the greed, corruption and treachery of the powerful and rich elite remains the same.
"A good slave works for food alone."

Q of the week:
Q: What are the value and usefulness of opinion polls and surveys?
A: Polls and surveys test the efficiency of the propaganda machine for those who can afford to create public opinion. Political and economic advertising provide the ability to create fear of threats from which we may be saved or demand for products we’re otherwise reluctant to consume. The testing also provides feedback needed to adjust the thought control mechanism so that the desired majority opinion will be observed in the polls. This is not, strictly speaking, necessary where a large silent majority can be depended on to follow with the herd in any case. But the illusions of freedom, democracy and self-determination are more easily maintained if the tried and true forms are followed.

Volume IV Issue 04:
Economy, with Some Illusions, Lies and Distractions That Support It:
   The collective effect of corporations [paper people] who demand ever increasing dedication, loyalty and productivity from employees, while giving only downsizing, off-shoring and lower pay (due in part to the deterioration of buying power of money caused by the "earnings" of the parasitic financial industry) is a dysfunctional economy for everyone but their greedy selves. The economic paradigm of the [multinational] corporations is dissipative to life’s sustenance in America and around the Earth. Even the elite rich beneficiaries will find nothing to steal when their puerile games play out.
   Bush’s boasting of increased productivity displays his lack of respect for the intelligence of Americans and/or his own ignorance. He doesn’t understand the significance of the paper games the paper people play . . . that Wall Street prosperity doesn’t translate to food, clothing, housing or any real or desirable thing. It is a pyramid scam of hot air inflated paper profits that cannot be sustained. The real wealth, the ability to produce material goods, is being exported to China. When will the Chinese decide they have enough factories, built at our expense, to provide the goods their own people need or want? You can be assured when they do have enough of our real wealth or we have no more to export to them that they will tell us to take our worthless paper and get the hell out. It’s irrelevant to US whether our leaders of all sorts are unconscious or just plain stupid as American manufacturers beg the Chinese for cheap labor so they can sell cheap baubles to the impoverished (by the same scam) consumers in the USA. I don’t know if Kerry will act to dismantle the fraud that enriches a few at the expense of many while destroying the economy for all. But I can’t imagine anything worse than to endure four more years of the apparent stupidity of accelerated dissipation due to the destructive con games, frauds(1) and kites of George and his masters.
   But are George and his masters really stupid? If they are, what are we who believe them when they tell US their raiding and looting of America is a good, just and a proper thing to do? They dissimulate their destructive hoarding and greed as natural order and we believe them! If they are malevolently intelligent enough to see that their fraud is the treacherous cannibalization of the American economy, what is it they think they are doing to themselves? They may think they are setting themselves up for the rest of their lives and to hell with their children and the rest of US. When their financial abstractions prove to be as worthless as they are we all go down. If they know this, they’re gambling the financial disaster they’ve created for short term gain is operating in an economy with sufficient momentum to last another ten or twenty years. That’s fine for the greediest few but can we survive that long when our usefulness to their selfish plan is already minimized? In the past we produced the material goods that they hoarded. They needed US to create their wealth, while we needed them like a tapeworm! With off-shoring, downsizing and automation, they need US only for police and soldiers(2) to keep ourselves and the rest of the world under their dominion. We need to beg them to employ US at ever decreasing wages, in their service, if we wish to live at all. Why did we let them make over our world for the benefit of their tiny fraction of the population?
   No, that’s not the way it’s always been! The myth that it’s strong individuals, not cowardly cliques stealing from people with weaker organizations is, like capitalism, a very recent invention. It is delusional to believe that it’s individual strength that directs the will of the population rather than collusion by small gangs of unscrupulous parasites. It is self destructive of the human race to tolerate these useless creatures, our fraudulent masters, among US. Our natural social instinct provides the imperative to individuals to join groups (social units and basic societies) to advance our interest in mutual survival. The societies of today, dominated as they are by the puerile greed and selfishness of a few, are become abominations of human nature. Greed is evil because of the pain and suffering it causes. Upscale avarice is therefore much more evil than most of US can imagine. Few of US have the power to do so much evil. I say without facetiousness: their greed is more evil than ours, because it causes more pain and suffering. Further, few have believed that greed dominates human nature before this generation. The new dogma is merely a rationalization for the hoarding by an elite few of the wealth that we produce. Even the purveyors of that delusion abandon it when they need our cooperation to create or assure their wealth and security. They reclaim it immediately when we ask for just compensation for our efforts on their behalf. Much of the cultural evolution of the human race has been misdirected to their own selfish ends by the rich workless classes, since the beginnings of civilizations three or four thousand years ago. Until the coming of corporate mass media to the people alive today, only a few fools or sycophants believed the evident world order to be just, fair or good.
   I can imagine, a million or more years ago, small bands or clans of upright walking, tool using hominid people. The survival of these early human societies demanded mutual support and cooperation. One individual who hoarded food that had been hunted and gathered by all would threaten the survival of the group. The rich and their MBA and politician sycophants would not be tolerated by a group that was determined to live. A warrior that grew oppressive to the community he was supposed to defend would likewise pose a threat to the survival of all. Neither George nor Saddam would last very long in a society that relied on common sense and well being to continue its existence. Such groups were successful for at least two hundred times the number of years that our civilizations have been dissipating the planetary wealth and the energy of the people for the aggrandizement of a few fools. I’m not suggesting we abandon civilization to become hunter gatherers. But we’d better acknowledge that unbridled greed does not serve US as well as the older, much longer lasting economic paradigm did.
   One of the worst features of the new world order is the ease with which its citizen’s minds are conditioned to respond automatically to anything that threatens the integrity of the program. The conditioned thought response to the suggestion that an older economic paradigm may contribute more to our survival than the one inflicted upon US today is: There was no progress in all that time. That’s of course not true. It’s also not true that the financial industry is, as they claim to be, the force which accelerates progress. Progress in mining, tool making and agriculture during the older ages laid the foundation for larger scaled communities and the need for laws, civilization, to govern them. If progress proceeds, like population, at a positive exponential rate, the greatest amount would occur at the end. But that’s not the evil part of the lie.
   The evil part of the lie about progress is that the economic paradigm of dissipative looting dissimulated by naming it free market capitalism encourages improvement. In reality, economic power is exerted to stifle any progress or individual whose creations can not be enslaved to the profit of those who are already rich. They allow only that to go forward which contributes to their wealth. That’s what comes of unmaking the natural law and social instinct to cooperate for mutual benefit by loosing the abomination of self serving, community corrupting greed and allowing it to dominate our lives. The CEOs and politicians are happy with the rewards of the masters, which they’ve received for having placed the human race at risk. They may even have programmed your mind to support their short sighted looting of the economy we depend upon for life.

(1) The well-publicized trials of a few CEOs expose little of the corruption that has been eating America, with little relief, since the Grant administration. The existence of paper entities like Enron, who produce nothing, who muscle their way into middle positions in industries using financial [paper] weapons, is itself destructive to real economy.

(2) Rummy’s high tech low manpower army may downsize the last stable job market in America.

Political Education:
   Democracy depends on a populace informed with the truth. The truth is the truth. If the most vile liar on Earth should happen to speak an unqualified truth, though I doubt George will ever do so, that statement would still be true. The character of the speaker affects only what we may expect to hear. Character, like other lies acted out or spoken, does not affect the truth. The truth is reality.
   But can we come to know the truth through corporate media reporting. I don’t believe they report many facts that are deliberately false. Strategically placed lies are sufficient to mislead US and are more difficult to uncover. But the dissembling of the truth is another matter. Publishers deliberately withhold truths that don’t support their agenda. Their agenda is that of all large corporations and the politicians they collectively own. They wish to maximize profit and preserve the existing distribution of wealth. If a reporter is hired who insists on telling truths that threaten the status quo, she/he will soon be unemployed, just as whistle-blowers and trouble makers are dealt with in any other industry.
   An example of how our minds are diverted by the occlusion of truth by reported facts is the transference of the infrastructure owned by the people of Iraq to Haliburton and others. After we payed good tax money and enriched munitions makers in order to bomb it into rubble we fatten Haliburton with more tax money to rebuild it. They’ll need those funds to buy it from the Iraqi government for pennies on the dollar. Once said corporate giant has created, with our money, an infrastructure worth buying, they’ll reinvest a little of it to economically enslave the Iraqis by buying their property cheap. While this fraud is taking place we have our attention diverted to the fairness of the contracting process that set the energy and construction giant into place to commit the larceny. We are further distracted by the complicating argument that no German, French or Russian companies, who built the Iraqi infrastructure in the first place, should be allowed to take part in the looting. By the time all is said and done the Iraqi people who’ve been looted are completely forgotten.
   This hoodwinking of the American people in the interest of domination and profit by the paper people has been going on since at least William Randolf Hearst’s war of 1898. Hearst apparently boasted he was more powerful through his newspapers than the president and to prove it Hearst would start a war with Spain within six months. Backlash to the contrived war inspired McKinley to the further abuse of, "My country right or wrong!"(3) Almost twenty years later, it took the Anglophile Wilson three years of media manipulation after the U.S. complicit sinking of the Lusitania to make up the American peoples’ mind to go to war against Germany instead of England, as spontaneous popular opinion had previously demanded.
   Politicians and media have grown increasingly adept at pushing our buttons with the aid of modern psychology and in the support of corporate tyranny. How do they differentiate between a good dictator, worthy of support, and an elected or dictatorial regime that we must eliminate in the name of freedom and democracy? If it aids the oppression by finance or industry they convince US it’s a good dictatorship. If on the other hand, an elected government takes property from a bloated feudal aristocracy and gives it to poor farmers as did Allende in Chile, then it’s the right thing to do to place a fascist military dictator like Pinochet in power to begin an eighteen year reign of terror in order to set things straight. "Why should we let another country go communist just because its stupid people voted for it." - Henry Kissinger, September 11, 1973. Allende was murdered on 9/11/73. I wonder what the Haitian people and Aristide did to deserve the para military gangsters bearing U.S. arms? Did Saddam have weapons of mass destruction or did he just refuse to play ball, or are the real reasons hidden? The problem is: we can’t know the truth because we can’t trust our sources. Should I believe Saddam’s a bad guy because everybody says so when it’s obvious everyone gets their information from the same untrustworthy sources? If you don’t know what to believe you’d better believe nothing than to believe greedy corporate media or politicians. The only thing sure to prove out is their profits. Our freedom depends on the good will of our politicians and their corporate bosses. Democracy in America is sabotaged by the want of sincerity and truth.

(3)3)from: My Country, Right or Wrong by Barbara Quint, Editor, Searcher Magazine [Quint cited the quotes section of Microsoft Bookshelf] "’Our country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong." Naval commander Stephen Decatur originated the phrase in a toast given at an April 1816 banquet in Norfolk, Virginia, to celebrate his victory over the Barbary pirates. (The action in Algeria also gave the U.S. Marine Corps anthem its "to the shores of Tripoli" phrase, saluting their first renowned military action.) Fifty-five years later, Carl Schurz, German-born U.S. general and U.S. senator, clarified the concept, "Our country right or wrong. When right, to be kept right; when wrong, to be put right." British author, G. K. Chesterton would probably have agreed with Schurz, since he wrote in 1901, "'My country, right or wrong' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying 'My mother, drunk or sober.'"'"

Energy:
   Fossil fuels come from organic matter accumulated and processed by the planet over millions of years. Organic matter comes from water, minerals and compost interacting with sunlight. The growth of organic matter stores energy from the sun. This accumulated energy is reaped by burning coal, oil, and natural gas, fossil fuels. We’re using fossil fuels faster than they can be produced by the Earth. Ultimately they must be depleted. No sane person would deny this. Our energy input to the Planet Earth, including the energy stored in fossil fuels, comes from sunlight. Uneven heating of the atmosphere by the Sun is the source of wind. [Geothermal energy will not increase. Even if a practical source, it is, like fossil fuel, finite.] The fossil fuel bank account is getting short. Sunlight is our only income. If we can’t live with the energy we get from the Sun, including the wind, we are going to die. Borrow and spend politicians and abstract economists especially take note. We must all face the truth. We must recognize physical reality. We can only do what’s physically possible. No amount of words can change reality. Only Wall Street and politicians can run forever on hot air. Or so they seem to think.

Editorial:
   "When in Rome, do as the Roman’s do"! That implies: if you don’t like what the Romans do you should leave. That would please the Romans but it wouldn’t please me. Even if it was possible to escape the influence of the malevolent culture, I would choose to stay. But the Romans are so pervasive in their world that there is no retreat from them. You must either be their slave or be one of them. If I wish to destroy or merely moderate their evil, first I must learn what I can of how it’s supported. The best teacher is experience. I will do as the Romans that I might survive long enough to learn to contrive a means that contributes to the elimination of their destructive ways from the culture. There is some probability they will be replaced with a sustainable economic paradigm. It’s worth the chance. We have little to lose. More good is squeezed out by their evil every day. Whether my goal is achievable or not it amuses me to work toward it. It is my freely chosen purpose to attempt to dispel the clouds of illusion from the heads of the people, which are conquered by the fraud and fear of the Romans.

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