‘Screwing the Little Guys’

LIBOR and Penn State Scandals — More than just
Coincidental Negative Thought Structure™

There are a few conclusions society can draw about how both these very ‘different in theory’ scandals have more than a few similar puzzle pieces that make up their ‘big pictures’.

• ‘Cartel’ Mentality. Like all outed conspiracies, there has been a concerted effort to minimize the damage by “sacrificing the damaged ‘player’ to protect the ‘game’” so to speak. But here are some very poignant similarities in both cases that show these scandals come from the same frames of mind, or ‘Negative Thought Structure™’, that perpetuates this very abusive behavior.

In both cases the powers that be circled the wagons, and everything to protect the ‘Programs’ themselves was done. This abuse was an exception and not the rule, supposedly.

In the LIBOR case, base borrowing permeates every aspect of our lives, and affects all of us in one way or another. Supposedly, these financial companies, if not directly involved, knew the true nature of this abuse, but would never let on that they know about it and would plea ‘Plausible Deniability’ if asked.

It is very sad to say – and it’s evident by the Evidence and Judgement handed down by the NCAA Monday July 23rd, that same Negative Thought Structure™ is what infected the entire Penn State Program – and permeates many “Holier Than Thou” institutions, organized religions, corporate cultures – the Abuse of Power at its core.  And this ‘molestation pattern’ exposed at Penn State, it is very sad to say again, is just the tip of a much bigger iceberg underlying many of these aforementioned examples.

A better analogy than ‘Tip of the Iceberg’ is ‘Just One Tentacle of a much Bigger Seamonster’ – a Vampire Squid, if you will. But like a hit song that gets played to death, Matt Taibbi uses in his analogy of the banking system that even he is now sick of hearing about.

• Oblivious to Wrongdoing.  If you listen to Sandusky’s uncensored interview with Bob Costas, Sandusky projects a trivialization of his actions by famously calling it ‘Horseplay’.  He also projects an air of invincibility regarding his place as a “sacred cow’ of Penn State Football.   When you listen to Dennis Kelleher, who has a track record of working with the perpetrators of the LIBOR scandal, he sums up the same “air of ‘Untouchability’” that these 16 bank reps have regarding their ‘Horseplay’ with their lending rates.

cartoons found by __ & ___, graphs courtesy of Bloomberg and Media Matters

• Isolation from the ‘Real World’. It has only recently come to my attention that Happy Valley is incredibly isolated in the state of Pennsylvania – hard to get to and out from. It is easy to see how the the PSU hierarchy, literally being ‘The Only Game in Town’, would think that normal rules really don’t apply to them.

It doesn’t have to be pointed out how this mindset applies to the ‘Too Big to Fail’  banking establishment, their self-perception and how they exist in this world and within their similar bubble.

• Bizarre Love Notes. Sandusky wrote to his victims, the LIBOR perpetrators wrote to each other, but both expressed very odd affections toward each other, further evidence of the insulated, delusional behavior they were involved in perpetrating.

• Second Mile+Adjustable Rate Bait=Complete Disregard for their Victims. The initial connection might be a bit of a stretch, but Sandusky is a founding member of Second Mile, a place where many troubled kids found ‘mentorship’ and guidance. In retrospect we now know Sandusky used this admirable charity as his own personal “feeding ground” for his victims. This is much like Florida Congressional Representative Foley being on the committee of missing and exploited children… putting the foxes in charge of the hen-house happens more often than not in our society.

The LIBOR correlation is offering ‘too good to be true’ adjustable rates to those people who could least afford it. This does put a measure of responsibility on those who accept these conditions, but now we are learning that the small kabal in charge of these rates were and are manipulating them and making the adjustments at their own whims for the most selfish of reasons ( as the LIBOR “love note” emails reveal ) show that this whole thing could be just a ploy to suck victims into the system for harvest, like Sandusky did with his select choices of his “Charity”.

The Banksters are much less victim selective, of course – but again, the victims in both cases turn out to be part of modern society’s most vulnerable people.

I’m sure there’s more – in both cases, we only have what mostly mainstream media has reported. But the conclusion drawn is that molestation exists on many levels in our society. Of course, sexual molestation is the most shocking.

But the same mindset sits behind what is being done to all of us with this LIBOR scandal.

We should be just as outraged as we would be if it were our own child, approached by any adult with Sandusky’s ‘Horseplay’ in mind.

Let’s hope that a similar punishment and judgement will be handed down to the perpetrators of the LIBOR scandal, as the NCAA has done with its judgement handed down on Penn State.

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News of Bin Laden’s Death: a Lesson in Trust but Verify

That’s a Ronald Reagan quote he used in reference to I believe was the SALT II treaty with the Soviet Union in the early 1980’s. I will use that same phrase to reflect my true feelings about what has happened with this ‘Death of Osama’ over the past 24 hours.

Check out the date and time signature on the screenshot - 10:28am, September 11, 2001.

See the above graphic? The ‘Death of Osama Bin Laden’ made me dig deep into my pack-ratted information that I keep in my archives to find this old screen shot of how my mind reacts to ‘big’ events like this, good and bad.

But I hope this above graphic I hastily threw together on September 11, 2001, validates for you how I believe all of us, especially we Americans, should react when we are told that Osama Bin Laden has been killed, his body ‘bio-vaced’ out of Pakistan and buried at sea.

Agreeing to Disagree

There’s a Blog I enjoy very much called ‘Ethics Alarms’ that I have been following over the past 3-6 months… and I enjoy it because I don’t always agree with what he says. As a matter of fact he’s very right of center. The big difference in what he writes is that he calls people to the carpet on either side of the aisle. I stumbled upon his blog after a google search of ‘Ethics’ – and I have been a subscriber ever since.

This Blogger, named Jack Marshall, pumps out maybe 5-10 posts a week… a volume that I find hard to fathom. It takes me forever to get rolling on an entry, but since I contacted him to ask permission to talk about this particular exchange he’s written 4+ postings. But there is a particular post in which I am completely at odds with his opinion, to the point of where we both think each other is completely wacky for each’s respective perspective. 

World Cup Predictions – A Homage to Landon Donovan

Okay, I am a giant football / soccer geek, not the most knowledgeable, but I try my hardest to hold conversations with those who know WAY more than me on any topic… and I know just enough about Futbol to be slightly dangerous. So before Friday’s matches are even played, I’ve got my final 16 bracket filled out, homer-ized, & Filled with upsets.

For reference, I have used my ESPN iPhone app to help me draw the brackets for the final 16. And I’m still not sure how these brackets shake out – but as you can tell by the whiteboard I enlisted at work, it was very confusing seeing how these play out.

I was under the impression that the groups cross-pollinate in the “elite 8” – meaning, winners getting into the final 8 “bracket jump” into the playing those from the “other side” of the draw – those from group A-B all of a sudden playing those from G-H or whatever. That being said, I guess this is how it is supposed to be – if not, I’ll amend next week. Plus I should also apologize for my “USA Centric” bracketing – having them in the top right corner. So you see what a homer I am.

So keeping this short, it’s my impression that the South American teams have caught up and zoomed past European players… France and today Italy’s shocking exit as example. If Italy would have played all three games like last 20 Minutes of the Slovakia, they probably would have won their group. But it doesn’t fall far from reality that we could see a final 4 of all-South American teams… Uruguay, Argentina, Chile/Paraguay, and of course Brasil. That is what my Head tells me – but as any good Homeresque philosopher type as I fancy myself, I filled out the bracket with my heart, not my head! (of course).

Three Dimensional Thought Structure™ applied to Linear Politics

PART I

The purpose of this particular post is to try to wrap my brain around a theory I have had in my head for quite awhile, and to try to explain it to you. The events over the past couple of weeks/months that we’ve all witnessed regarding to where things fall in the “Linear” political spectrum, ( mainly Glenn Beck and his Magic Chalkboard )  using the labels the ‘Left’ or the ‘Right’ in regards to politics, have started to touch on this theory.  This helped me pull down a semblance of this Idea Grouping, this Structure of Thought™ , that I have been trying to manifest for at least the past 5+ years.

And I’m not kidding when I say I’ve been thinking about this ‘Thought Structure’ for a few years… the proof is in the viewing of either of my 2 earliest digital collages here and here. This is where all these “types” of thoughts I have come from, and how they look to me. The Structure of Thought™ is what I call it… and it is really hard for me to put something so… etherical?  into words that even myself can understand.

In The Daily Show's brilliant parody of Glenn Beck, Jon Stewart mocks Glenn's pattern of drawing on the chalkboard similar graphics to what I've been working on in my own little brain.

 

So let me set the table by saying that it’s hard to articulate these Thought Structures™, for lack of a better term, or “theory of forms,” as I think Plato called them, at least for me, coming at it from the artistic viewpoint.

My goal for this fairly extensive post is to convey the idea of how the political parties and factions thereof can be labeled and analyzed within the Structure of Thought™.

First and formost,  look at the Banner ‘The Structure of Thought™’ above. You can see the graphics I put together for the title of this particular Blog. These are not just for decoration… they actually mean something to me, and hopefully try to explain my perception to you, fair reader.

When I look at them I know they convey a method that, if used with interchanging variables that is measured with absolutes, can help us Humans more refine, label and direct anything, from economics, policy, acts, thoughts, deeds… into a “more perfect” way to help measure decision and choice.

This procedure, in turn,  helps “sharpen our pencil” so to speak to more closely mimic nature, find solutions to problems, refine arguments, make better decisions, decipher right from wrong, etc. etc.

And as in Nature, there is Beautiful Structure of Thought™, and there is terrifying, paradoxical, repulsive Structure of Thought™… the thesis statement of this exercise could be said that the more beautiful, natural ways we shape our Thought Structure™, the more functional, effective, moral, ethical way it will effect all of us.

Mess Media Manipulation 301

I was in the grocery store last week just picking up some this and that, when I noticed this cover of Newsweak, and it just confirmed what I had been thinking since the beginning of the year.

"IF" they were in charge... they WERE in charge! And 9-11 was the carte blanche for the saturation of their toxic policies we are paying for today STILL.

I try to sample all points on the media spectrum… and on both the left and right at first all you heard about was Sarah Palin this, Sarah Palin that. Any other person would have fallen WAY off the radar months ago… but she keeps being  drug in front of any and every perceivable media outlet at any opportunity. This isn’t an accident – this is planned manipulation.  And I fault both “sides” – the 6 or even less big media companies who own 95% of all the tv and radio stations — if the “left” knew what was good for them they would completely ignore this completely vacant empty vessel. But I suppose that in and of itself is what makes her so appealing to those who wish to rule from behind the curtain.

Palin should be ignored… she is a non-story.

Which brings me back to the Newsweek cover. Since the new year, and feel free to agree or disagree, but I hear the steady drumbeat of “republican takeover” “republican victory” and “republican landslide” in November. “How many seats will the republicans take?” “which democrats are going to lose their seats?”

Constant hammering, relentless, over and over, repackaged, re-messaged, on just about every channel… Television, Radio, websites. And… This is the trick that is being spoon-fed to us… and this projection is the powers that be’s biggest nightmare.  The Table is Being Set for the election of 2010 as a shoe-in for republican “victory”. This is classic divide the masses and keep them conquered. If the republicans take back the Congress or Senate, that is the best case scenario for the Status Quo… even if Health Care passes.

And this is what the corporatocracy wants… no change coming from the power of the masses, we the people. “Stay home and have no hope, because the republicans have already won!”

Like David Icke reiterates over and over, the power of the very few controls the many, the sheeple. But their power is extremely fragile, because it is based on the perception that we the people are powerless to stop this avalanche of chaos all around us, and this gridlock of our government, paralyzed by the bought and paid for congress and senate.

But Remember what Modern day Prophet and Philosopher George Carlin said, paraphrased here – what the real rulers Don’t want is an informed, enraged and motivated public who takes control of their own destiny and comes our en masse on election day and votes out those who are on the corporate dole… THAT is what they fear most, regardless of political affiliation.

The Daily Show with truthteller Jon Stewart skewers this completely bogus attempt to justify the ruling elites hideous record.

ANOTHER example, brought to my attention just this Friday. These are calculated, subtle moves that truly do manipulate the subconscious… and if you watched the Daily Show with Jon Stewart -you know that it is just wishful thinking at best, and a complete bogus propaganda mind-f**k at worst… which is what I truly believe it is, personally.

If we vote out all the remaining last holdouts of those who were responsible for the deregulation and pillaging of the bush administration and and replace them with progressive, responsible, fair minded and fiscal conservative “democrats” – this is the worse case scenario for the puppet masters in Washington, and they FEAR this. People who are free to control their own destiny, and put people in power who want to put these policies into effect – this is what they fear the most. All the Diebold machines in the US couldn’t stop this tide turning, if everyone shows up.

The bad news is is if it looks like that will happen, then be on the lookout for another false flag operation to move the cheese on the American public and patriot act them into submission.

So if the Teabaggers were smart, which unfortunately I think the vast majority of them are just prejudiced, narrow minded people, they would get on board with the progressive movement. That seems like a stretch when you think of it in Linear terms, BUT if instead you think of the variable Laid out on the surface of a sphere instead of a line, you see that as you travel farther away from your opponent, you eventually come around to the other side and you start getting closer together eventually. That’s why I believe there are many similar issues that are agreeable in both the Progressive and Teabag movement, the biggest one of all is in dealing with the “federal” reserve… we the masses have much more in common than we are lead to believe.

So don’t be fooled by all the reports of  the corporations winning it all in November. As of Friday, March 12, I have heard many in the more ‘progressive’ parts of the media (The Bill Press show in particular, and because a caller brought it up) that the Media is hyping this future republican landslide in the future… when public opinion states nothing of the sort.  If anything, if we the people show up, we can at least derail their agenda from coming together for a bit longer.

I’m putting some finishing touches in on my next post… pretty excited about it, so check back often!

Wake Up Call

First let me say I am so thankful that I remain busy and have tons to do… hence the sporadic nature of my Posts. I wish I were more consistent—I strive for at least one a week. But I gotta make hay while the sun shines.

That being said, one of the reasons I started this blog is to critique and ferret out video documentaries on the net for my friends and other intellectually curious that maybe “normal” people wouldn’t necessarily see. So I comb Video Google ( instead of YouTube, because they have full length videos ) and watch / listen to them while I work.

Earthlings: Thought Provoking on Many Levels.

First, visualize the Thought Structure™ behind this: I am tying together 3 separate tangents that touch as bubbles in like some sort of 120° degree arrangement.

With that being said, as someone who 1) can watch anything about history and conspiracies for hours on end and who 2) wants to bring about the most positive change possible through my writings and work, I have to say I am at a loss to tell you about a video I ran across last week.

It’s called Earthlings, and I could only watch the first fifth of the movie, it disturbed me so much. Basically, the Movie points out the fact that all creatures on this planet, from the lowliest worms, bacteria and viruses to the great all powerful human beings, and all things in between, are Earthings, Earthings first. The film then goes into a shameful demonstration of “Man’s Inhumanity to Earthlings” and shows example after example of humans just being horrible in every way possible to our fellow travelers in this particular existence.

I still ate meat and even had Steak and Eggs for breakfast Sunday, but… I am seriously rethinking my diet after watching this movie. I recommend it highly—but I can’t watch it. Very disturbing. Needless to say I was pretty depressed and downtrodden after I saw this.

By Coincidence ( of Course! ) Oprah had a show on last Friday titled “Amazing Animals”, which I happened to catch because I was taking the day off. Some of the video examples on the show were so remarkable, so uplifting. I was going to post a sample video from the show, but I went to Oprah’s site to see if I could get something to show you, and… too complicated. So here is a lame-ass promo from the show, sorry about that…

Different animals taking care of each other, unbelievable friendships between man and beast—it again renewed my faith in us humans pulling our heads out of our butts, righting our ship as a species and joining the rest of the Real Civilized universe, that is watching, waiting for us to figure it out.

I have to think that overcoming this hurdle of understanding is a part of all of our development as members of our earthling community, and where we place ourselves in the Omniverse™ in general.  Hindsight is 20/20, but I have to think that the consensus is who had the more “advanced civilization” back when Europe was “Re”—discovering the New World is debatable.

And I have to remember to keep top of mind this fact, how long have we been truly self-aware, and what real knowledge has been suppressed from our larger history, that has shaped this reality we now inhabit. It’s only been the blink of an eye, in the grand scheme of things.

I often think that if there is some sort of “un-earthling” type presence observing us from hidden bases either on other the other planets in our solar system, on our own satellite the moon, or even among us here on earth, I’d like to think that a group of these benevolent beings are observing and noting, with all our faults, that we are all for the most part good “creations”. I’d like to think that we are moving towards Positive Thought Structure™.

AND – not to be too long, but in Obama’s commencement speech at Notre Dame, he touches upon this tangent in the last third of his speech, which I will reference here…

As much as I am suspicious of how political an animal Obama is, It is my hope that his convictions match this speech. It reinforces what I was discussing in the previous paragraphs. If this is the direction we are now going, I am glad for this change of direction of temperment. Because it is a direction, towards the ultimate good as opposed towards ultimate evil. Hopefully it will spread into not only how we treat each other as Human Beings, but also how we treat our fellow Earthings as well.

Cheney Wants it All Ways

It was very interesting watching snippets of Dick on Face the Nation with Bob Schieffer yesterday. Check out how the right wing blog leader Drudge frames the argument with this front-page headline and pic:

sinister cheney, getting ready to "suck the blood" of obama... nice picture choice, Drudge! Loser.

I mean, could the picture be anything more sinister? What point of displaying a picture like this supposed to imply? Plus he looks and is dressed like Jack Abramoff, the money launderer for the NeoCons. Nice… it’s like they are relishing in their sameness, and evil.

It it very interesting, pardon the pun, that our daily national dialogue is “sprinkled” with references to all the “glories” of the Bush administration and their culture of fear, hate, torture and “waterboarding…” Case in point Wanda Sykes at Obama’s first White House Correspondence dinner. I love Wanda and think she is a great comedian, and yes, I believe in Freedom of Speech.

But Dick Cheney has ushered in this era of acceptance of these types of issues and behavior into our mainstream discussions, conversations and Jokes for the Press. I thought Obama’s joke about Cheney was way more hilarious… handled with much better flair. A more natural delivery. And yes, it is good to have someone with a brain and a semblance of a Conscience in the White House… what a world of difference from the ingenius Ambush Steven Colbert laid for W in 2006. Such a different tone, then as to the one held this weekend. Which, I do not necessarily agree with…

Which brings me back to Cheney again after that tangent-laden paragraph. These men are responsible for changing our culture to make all these issues now a part of our daily lives. They have lowered the bar of America, the Bar by which the World used to look to the United States to set. By “Breaking America” and the strongest middle class in the world, it makes it that much easier to impose their will of totalitarianism because “our lives have become so miserable, please come and save us” mentality.

We are slowly becoming a bigger, meaner Mexico—an oligarchy ruled by a small, 3-5 thousand member “ruling class” that owns 80% of everything and the rest of us scrambling for the rest of the “peso-ized” dollars that fall like scraps from their table, ruled in a despot-ized police state with anyone tossed in a gulag for not having the “proper papers please” from the “Homeland”.

And Cheney was instrumental in the lowering of this bar. His “Obama is making us less safe” message is a no-lose situation for him. As a Conspiracy Theorist deluxe, I believe that Cheney helped orchestrate this whole world direction ever since he was dubbed a part of the “crazies” that came to power with Nixon thru the Ford administration. You have to remember, they’ve been working at this for years. With the whole CFR Cheney connection and his involvement in the Project for the New American Century, They’ve been pushing this well-thought-out agenda for 40+ years, the inheritors of the Bilderberg / Tri-lateral commission etc.

So since it is MY belief that when he’s out pounding the pavement trumpeting the “opinion” that we are less safe and ready to be attacked by an emboldened enemy, take him seriously. There is a new Administration, but in the Military Industrial Complex and the Intelligence aparatus – all the players are generally the same.

So who is this “Enemy?” To quote Pogo—”I have met the enemy, and he is us.” Well, all indicators indicate that I have met the enemy, and it is PNAC. Which is the US.

Cheney’s fallback position is “Faced with the Aftermath of 9-11… and the Anthrax attack in the weeks following 9-11” — well, there’s plenty of evidence I don’t need to rehash here that there are many unanswered questions, especially about the weaponized nature of the anthrax attack, that could have only come from our own military labratories… again the government has tried to finger a “Lone Gunman” type “Nut” who “Commits Suicide” when cornered, “Solving” the case.  Do a little digging on your own and you’ll find way too much info questioning any of these scenarios.

Case in point – Bush “fired” Rumsfeld in early 2006 I believe – but he still had his office in the Pentagon until after the election of 2006. Heck he still might have the office in there, even though he doesn’t hold an elected office.

So be wary—If Cheney says we’re going to be attacted, he should know—he’s probably the Rollo Tomasi, in his giant hidden underground bunker, who is coordinating it. Just like last time, I am sorry to say.

Prove me wrong on this one, please! Swine flu, Aspartame & of course Conspiracy

In this blog, I try to focus on the positive Thought Structre™ for the most part. I do believe within the Structure of Thought™ that we as humans create our own reality… and we all as participants in existence affect all, with our intentions and our mindset. I also believe that in our crazy, unbelievable reality we share, we are all here on planet Earth to learn, to grow spiritually, endlessly evolving, existing towards the betterment of our spiritual selves. Hopefully this process to advance and learn our way into the more higher, better, benevolent ways of being.

So I hope there is some logical reason for the why of this so-called “pandemic” that is happening right now. This “never-before seen” swine flu (complete bullshit) that seems to be happening so conveniently right after 2 solid weeks of the rest of the world rallying against the Bushco neocon agenda that had been blanketing the news—as a conspiracy theorist whose world view is more and more clear, I cannot help but think that this is a man-made “distraction”. Now before you scoff and bust a move to surf somewhere else, look and listen to the way the mainstream media is describing this convenient “epidemic”.

And, when did this start popping up… a week ago, tops? I mean, I hadn’t heard squat about this until Friday at the earliest. And what everyone is saying is – “Oh, this is a new kind of virus—a hybrid of bird, pig, and human viruses… well, who concocted that fun brew and help put this out? This has man made written all over it! There’s just too many horror stories I’ve seen and heard about our fabulous Military Industrial Complex and all their fun stockpiles of Bioweapons… that do exist. And all their manufactured propaganda BS, which is not speculation, it did exist as well.

All I know is this—I have absolute faith in the infinite, benevolent, rational beings of which we are all a part. I am connected to this by choice and I know that I will always be after I pass on to the next phase of existence. Now if believing that makes me crazy, but working for derelict, completely irresponsible company like Monsanto or some other government weapons supplier that manufactures or takes part in something as horrible as white phosphorus weapondry—who is crazier? These weapons and compounds exist—and they can come from no other place than from a laboratory. With just these 2 examples, with all these horrible inventions with the worst of intentions… how can I, Mr. Conspiracy, be the one that is crazy?

Don’t be fooled. And don’t forget to ask the question “who is benefiting?” from this latest “terror scare”… the details shouldn’t surprise anyone if you’ve done any research into this pretty hideous subject… and I won’t even mention his name, he’s so tired. But, it totally figures. But this is all about doing anything possible to move the spotlight away from how vile and evil these bastards were and still are, and they’re scared. So now it’s time for them to pull out any stops possible to distract the public and media to hype anything that takes away that spotlight.

AND—as I live and breathe—I’m sitting here watching the Today Show Monday 04.27.09 and what do they have in the product demonstration part of their show this very morning, for all of us to see? A comparison of different kinds of sweeteners, with Aspartame as the star of the show…! It’s like Rumsfeld ( they guy I wouldn’t mention in the previous paragraph ) is rolling out a Marketing push for both his interests together in one week! Who are these fricking people, seriously?

This story on Aspartame was just on this morning... the second of the one-two marketing punch of the Rumsfeld "Swine flu—Aspartame" evil self interest...!

I will conclude with this thought: Again, I will do my best not to judge, but I do and will have an opinion. I will not submit to any vaccination, I will not fear any of these “tactics” , I will keep looking forward, I will follow in the mindset and Thought Structure™ of Gandhi. And I will expect no less than the best from this county and its leaders… what true leaders are left. King Abdullah from Jordan touches on this very eloquently here: we have to be the ones who set the bar for the rest of the world to respect us..!

Dissent is healthy, as are regulations, laws, and a healthy conscience. Just because you can get away with something doesn’t mean you should do it. All these leaders that implement these programs—they’re going to have a LOT of Karma to pay back in their next time around.