Stop trying to save the world

Businessmen20preparing20manifesto20for20a20prosperous20Latvia203A3A20The20Baltic20Course207C20Baltic20States20news202620analyticswell, this is pretty good… the document “For Prosperous Latvia” will be presented on March 29 and it sounds just great…
The document, presented by a group of business people generally associated with a respectable degree of prosperity, proposes more rationally organized state administration, and want the things we say about one another to be positive and to start working together.
Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but if people have been saying bad things, one should answer the question, why?
Actually, people all over the world are basically involved with bad mouthing one another as part of a power struggle. But in the Gold Rush climate of post-Soviet business environment, many of the bad things said about these people are justified. Greed is our enemy, and in the Gold Rush, greed is paramount for wildly successful business.
So, is it unreasonable to think that greed might be involved in this move as well? Rational organization is a euphemism for increased profits. What about transparency? What about social justice? I’m not convinced these businessmen are excessively concerned with anything but increased profit.

In her recent broadcast, Rachel Maddow told us that Bart Stupak would enjoy his 15 minutes of fame as a result of his opportunity to block health care reform legislation on the grounds of personal antiabortion views. I disagree. Bart Stupak will be immortalized by the famous expression “a Stupak dozen”, which means anything but actually 12, and most likely far fewer.

Sometimes I’m glad Rachel is wrong. Mostly because she rarely is.

Why is the word “truth” now a now term of derision? Apparently, by adding “er” to the end, we can lump these people together in a bag, label it “fringe extremists”, and treat it accordingly.

Bill Maher seems to think that the truth is particularly unimportant as far as 9/11 goes. Does Bill believe we have been told the entire truth? If so, why would this case be so special? Just because Bill can’t imagine how we could have been lied to on such an evil scale?

As the maker of the movie Religulous, Bill examined kooky beliefs from various points of view, and I’m sure he’s familiar with the works of Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris and the like. In other words, Bill knows that the argument from personal incredulity is a fallacy, however incredible the situation. Bill says that it is beyond belief that our own government would bomb a major city in a move to grab more power. But is it really, completely beyond belief that a government could have information about others planning such a move, and, instead of acting decisively to prevent it, surreptitiously wait in the sidelines to see how it plays out and how it could be spun?
Considering the number of lives that have been sacrificed for profit in the various wars perpetrated by profiteers masquerading behind the United States of America, it seems unlikely that those in the highest positions of power would possess anything resembling a conscience, and would thus not be moved by a few thousand more lives lost, whether they be civilian or military, friend or enemy.

Well, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but I don’t know of a single intelligent person who trusts the government. Indeed, anyone with a rudimentary knowledge of American history knows well that our founding fathers were extremely suspicious of government, and spent significant effort in curtailing the potential for oppression. And the government has in turn spent significant effort on eroding these barriers to increased power, as one would expect from people who have power.

So how can Bill Maher dismiss completely those who seek the truth when even the authors of the 9/11 commission report have admitted that the report is inadequate, that they were not privy to relevant information, and that the data given them was censored and manipulated by government agencies for reasons unknown?

Since when is being a seeker of the truth a bad thing? Shame on you, Bill!

Janis Abens, 15/3 2010

AKACIS

: a review

“Akacis” - vecākā un profesionālākā šobrīd pastāvošā Amerikas latviešu rokgrupa - radies 1977. gadā Ņujorkā. Pirmā uzstāšanās 1978. gada vasarā Vispasaules Latviešu jaunatnes 4. kongresā Viljamstounā. (ASV), kur “Akaci” uzņem ar negaidīti vētrainu sajūsmu. Rudenī kādā Ņujorkas ierakstu studijā sākas darbs pie pirmās plates. Ierakstos piedalās arī vēlākie “Akača” pamatsastāva mūziķi Vidvuds Mednis (toreiz - bandžo, vēlāk - ritma ģitāra), kurš agrāk spēlējis country grupā “Frikadeļu zupa” un Dainis Romāns (saksofons un klarnete). Platē jūtama mūziķu aizraušanās ar tālaika progresīvo Rietumu roku, džezroku un fusion - “Kansas”, Al Di Meola u.c. Mūzika ir smaga, blīva un sarežģīta, ar izteikti intensīvu ģitāras skaņu. Tās ieskaņošana ar pārtraukumiem turpinās ga

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Arturs Vaitaks has been the object of investigation for multiple cases of alleged misconduct, including drinking on the job and using police resources for private purposes….

According to the March 3, 2010 article in the Latvian daily newspaper “Diena”, the international monetary fund is allegedly pressuring the Latvian government to increase property taxes as a part of the bailout.
Now, I don’t want to get off on a rant here, but this kind of looks like exactly what IMF opponents and alarmists have been saying for a long time.
One does not have to be paranoid or delusional to see that the crisis we are in is a manufactured one. It is unthinkable that billionaire bankers and corporations initiate “irresponsible” lending policies without giving serious thought to the consequences. it is equally unthinkable that they are ignorant of the history of banking and dirty tricks.

Under ordinary capitalistic circumstances, dire consequences should be self-correcting by eliminating the bad players from the field.
Instead, those responsible, who are easy to find as they are the richest ones in the game, choose to let the system continue basically as is while using the media to placate the masses.
The cyclic crime of first inflating, then bankrupting an economy, whereafter the spoils are divided and the survivors are taxed yet more is dead easy now.
Today, the “too big to fail” concept has ended the need to hide the dirty tricks. Thanks, JP Morgan, Goldmann Sachs, GEMoney, etc. from the top down.

Congratulations Latvia, for joining the club of enslaved states. Watch now as the populace is reduced to post- industrial consumerism while the ownership of the country is taken over by the waiting vultures.

IMHO, I could be wrong….. janis_at_abens.org