Showing posts with label n-Financial Wars. Show all posts
Showing posts with label n-Financial Wars. Show all posts

Wednesday, 7 March 2012

From War to Peace and Love Through the Morphism of a Good Massage

The Morphism of Peace and Love => A Good Massage

Alexander, Machiavelli, Sun Tzu, Ghenghis Khan, Tsunetomo and lots of other male dominators from oh so many cultures and periods of history are scary because they USED other human beings as tools for their own ends and because they simply assumed War was inevitable, so they "reasoned," why not just win at whatever the cost which usually meant PRE-EMPTIVE strike.  Whatever little bit of DNA-code that "naturally" allows or forces the human species to undertake vast wars against ITSELF should in my opinion be snipped, modified and reconstructed towards that other type of gene which seems to underlie the social-sexual behaviours of Bonobo's.  Of course, those religions that support in-group versus out-group mentality through separatist rituals and mystical justification of repression, and thus, are MERELY another manifestation of the SPECIES-KILLER gene, would object violently to this proposal because it would be against their religion.  Some enlightened masters figured  this "they versus us" mentality is the source of all evil and tried with whatever they had to show others that peace is possible.  But this attitude is extremely rare.  For example, the founder of Aikido was a master of three martial arts and I studied this art for about 7 years in Honolulu with Yoshioka Sensei. In Aikido, the ethical ideal of no harm to others and yourself is embedded throughout the practice.  So, I asked Sensei, "Sensei, you preach 'peace, peace, and love, love' but all we learn in our techniques is only how to kill the other.  How can we achieve peace and love when this is all we learn?" His answer is remarkable, "You must learn  to stop thinking 'kill, kill' and give your partner a good massage." 

Friday, 19 August 2011

n-Euro German Swiss Risk Bets--Can we save ourselves from our children's riots?


Source: http://www.zerohedge.com/news/europes-last-resort-very-much-doomed-maginot-line-part-deux

2. You don't need to know a whole lot about European history to understand how vain European projects are. As the financial markets continue their "risk off" trend with rumours of illiquidity now billowing not from the Tragic Greek Chorus but from Switzerland which has taken $200million from the US Fed Swap Line, which may seem infinitely tiny in the scheme of things, but which can be infinitely levered, we have one of four trap doors to enter: (1) the SNP (central bank of Switzerland) genuinely needs US Dollars because even though it can print CHF, it doesn't want any more EURO exposure, and would rather take USD appreciation risk, which maybe means, THEY KNOW THE FED is going to do a QE3; (2) as Tyler Durden believes, the liquidity lines in Europe are in big trouble, and the SNP is just acting as front cover for some European bank(s) which is/are now in acta mortis; or as my wife (no expert in finance, but what a brain) thinks (3) this is a HEAD-FAKE by the SNP to scare off the already terrified Euro-holders from buying any more Swissies. Of course, if the $200mill purchase by the SNP is not a head-fake and they are not try to butress a European bank or banks, then the last possible alternative is (4) one of the two big Swiss banks is in trouble. At this point, if you decide to take a bet, you have a 1 in 8 chance of getting it right. That is, take the 4 choices as equi-probable and (4) again being equi-probable. What's clear is that all choices in the above bad for market sentiment.

3. As our children grow up and realise what we with our banking and political systems have done--basically lie, cover-up, and lie again--they are going to get pissed off. IF WE START TELLING THEM THE HONEST TRUTH NOW, THEY might (pretty please) SPARE US.