Archive for November 22nd, 2008
Confronting a most difficult decision
In those two years of wandering within his Empire, The Imperial Monarch had to reorganize his army and civil administration before attempting a hazardous decision that might take him far away and for many years from his base. The first impulse of Artax was to pursue Iskandar and then lead personally the Macedonian trained divisions. The problem was that Iskandar had already crossed the Khyber Pass and was ascending toward Kashmir, a very high altitude region covered with snow most of the year. Arlax reflected that his army was too spoiled for these kinds of exertions and physical hardship; his only hope was for the Macedonian trained divisions to rebuff Iskandar insanity and backtrack toward Afghanistan. Once again God satisfied the wishes of his Son and the officers of Iskandar refused to climb any higher and preferred a descending maneuver.
This timing of the refusal to continue was wrong: snow was melting and it was advisable to linger a month or two more for better terrain conditions. Iskandar resumed his climbing with a few hundreds of his tribe warriors; he reasoned that his army would follow him by taking this bold decision but it didn’t work. Actually, Iskandar preferred a modest but independent life in harsh weather than facing military court martial.
Artax started his journey north, sort of within his borders as he was told. The idea was to initiate his troops to a climate comparable to Kashmir. Suddenly they were amid the steppe. Soldiers who were familiar to the desert south of Persia claimed that it was a desert with a twist; the weather was much colder and there animals lived there. One particular mammal looked like an oversized goat with a donkey-like face and functioning like donkeys but with heavy, thick and long hair. It was fun for a while capturing and mating these lovely and hard working specimen.
A scholar advised the Son-God Incarnate that if they advance a little forward then they might reach what is currently known as the North Pole. The idea of planting the Imperial standards at the farthest point up north was excellent but needed further reflection.
Artax to cross over the Old World
Artax decision was firm; His army is to be smaller and lighter of any superfluous encumbrances. Wives and concubines are not to follow the officers, much less the soldiers and cavalry. The number of Imperial palanquins was to be reduced to the bare minimum and so many other traditional requirements that the personnel in management were so nerve wracked that their energy stopped flowing to their brains. How to begin the re-design of the organization of this peculiar army? What are the specifications? There were too many unsolvable questions and nobody to refer to for even general resolution. It was out of question to bother the Son-God Incarnate for details and the right hands of the Monarch, oh how numerous and redundant, never dared to approach the Monarch for further clarifications.
It was a huge mistake not to have retained one of those mixed Macedonian trained divisions, Artax kept lamenting in his mind. An ingenuous idea leapt to Artas; it was necessary to intercept the arrivals of the fresh Greek recruits whose purpose was to share the glory of their beloved Alexander, not the “Afghani” Iskandar. The Monarch had dispatched a messenger to Cyrus, his loyal “servant”, summoning him to detach one of his divisions to join His army. The Imperial messenger never returned but a messenger of Cyrus reported events confirming that the Imperial messenger had not delivered the scroll. Consequently, the Imperial caravan was not moving forward even at a snail pace.
At every stop, circumstances and urgent intelligence carried Artax into different directions. Strong suspicions of deliberate obstructions, the idea of sabotage was not in the Imperial lexicon, retained Artax’ reflection. Nevertheless, the zest and excitements of youth should never allow Artax to backtrack to his Capital and to indulge in the lures of magnificent comfort.
After two years of permanent wandering within the confines of his vast Empire, the Monarch reached the decision to cross the borders of his Empire. He doesn’t really care of conquering new lands. He just wants the right of passage to explore the vast Universe. Preliminary negotiations taught him the reality of life beyond his borders. Bribing worked fine most of the time but there were exceptions to the rule. He had to show force, determination and harden his heart while wasting valued soldiers. It was the price for the luxury of discovering new lands, people and civilizations.
Are embezzlement schemes an engineering field? Rule China! (November 22, 2008)
So far, Bush and the talking heads are just explaining the mechanisms that lead to the financial crisis. As if the FED and the Treasury and all these multinational financial institutions didn’t comprehend the mechanisms, or if they did, the common people had the right and needed to be cleared on the mechanism side of the crash. They are trying to tell us that embezzlement schemes are no more than engineering and that the most important issue is to know how, not why or who engineered the crisis!
They knew the Circulation Credit Cycle Theory that businesses follow a scientific pattern of upswings and downturns, that if the government refrains through its police power of the FED from meddling with the normal interest rates of doing business then the market economy based on real value-added economy will adjust to the changes. The problem was that the USA was no longer producing any real value-added economy for decades because the US politicians had no guts to tell the American people the hard facts and that getting back to work harder on producing stuff that people need to buy is a must.
They purposely engineered the crisis and they triggered the timing. They overextended credits through traditional fiduciary media and then through new financial gimmicks that could not lead but to crisis. The FED knowingly, through political pressures, kept lowering the interest rates below the healthy level of a normal market economy which generated inflation rates that could no longer be controlled or stabilized.
They decided to invade Iraq on the basis that the military expense will generate many fold in profit through the control of oil distribution and blackmailing the neighboring Arab rich sovereign funds of the potential threat of Iran. The Arab rich States were no fouls of that strategy but they went along. They are mere small States of oligarchies and monarchies with no national identity. If these States were nations then the citizens would have taken stands; any stand would have cost much less than the trillions of dollars injected for the US citizens to resume their lavish spending on consumerism, new gas guzzling cars, stocks, and overvalued Real Estates.
The FED, the Treasury and the cartel of multinational financial institutions knew that the normal scheme of siphoning in the sovereign funds of the oil rich States and the small stock investors had reached a plateau. It reached a plateau because the investors realized that a crisis is in the offing and the scheme could not function normally unless the same level of increase in junk paper investment is maintained.
Since the scheme reached a plateau then it was time to decide on the appropriate timing to activate the financial crisis: it was much better for the crash to take place at the very end of an administration and then pressure the politicians to agree on a financial rescue package. The timing was perfect: since no more foreign financial rescue is coming in then the financial rescue will happen under duress from all rich States. The motto was: either you caught up under duress or you will all have to suffer a global economic recession. Well, financial rescue came from everywhere but this didn’t stop recession anyway. How can you stop recession when the USA is not producing any value that people are ready to purchase? The worst part is that President Obama is not willing to challenge the US citizens with the hash facts, at least not for a long time to come.
Only one giant Nation is winning: China. China got the USA by the throat. The US is totally dependent on China in cheap import products and the purchase of US treasury bonds for many decades to come. China can direct the US financial policies and foreign policies. It had done it already. The US had been doing it with the Latin American States and everywhere else for decades. Rule China, rule!
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