Sunday, February 15, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
Lucky Munbers 808
Every industrial revolution throughout history has required the “bridging” of the disruptive science and/or technology that brought about the “revolution”.
Why?
Simple answer: Labor costs.
Industrial revolutions have always introduced a new set of management-labor challenges.
Cooking management’s books and then covering the book-cooking up with war and destroying the paper trail, then censoring speech by suspending the Writ of Habeas Corpus and then revising history is a tried-and-true, sure-fire way to out-negotiate.. labor.
Here is how it has always worked:
A closed-door task-force, then “reform” the securities exchange (that would be Belnick and Rudman,) upgrade the foreign nation(s) chosen for outsourcing, upgrade (remember Rolls-Royce?) a few good potential enemy nations while you’re at it, cook the books, allow the government to be defrauded – inflate the true value of your company’s shares during a morality play (that would be Monika) – prepare to confess and repent (Monohan’s Legatus calls this “making the tough calls”,) fly back to corporate from Rome – sell your personal shares – start an “unfounded” rumor about accounting methods, put on a big bi-partisan dog-and-pony show to make it seem like the upgraded foreign nations were ever expected to pay for their new infrastructure, freeze the accounts of labor – confess and repent, send out a few envelopes laced with a powdery white substance and place the financial blame on a single greedy dislikeable individual.
bada bing..
..you just created a fresh load of new millionaires – during the “Greatest Accounting Fraud Ever”.
go figure..
It is that easy.. it is that boring – but it is that easy.. and it is often called “Renewing America”. This is why Richard M. Scrushy was certain there were 8,000 companies with s--- on their balance sheets.
This is called “enterprise corruption” and the cover-up is the reason Judge Michael Obus on September 30th 2004 refused to submit the enterprise corruption counts to the Tyco’s jurors saying “he thought they would find it too confusing.”
If the radical Islamic fundamentalists thought they hated our way of life in 2001 – just imagine how much they would have hated our way of counting money if they had known the entire nation and all 5 global accountancies were cooking the balance sheets in the eight years leading up to 2001. Financial justice might have prevailed if only the terrorist attack hadn’t destroyed the CFTC (that would be Enron Board member, Wendy Gramm) and the SEC Enforcement Office in Bldg #7 on that fateful day.
If mentioning how the game works – be treason – so be it.
Live from the past... It's... WALESKA!
When Ernst & Young, UBS, and Arthur Anderson were founded around 1903:
.. America was facing its 6th and 3rd worst market crashes of the 20th century
.. the Trans-Siberian railroad was under construction
.. Herman Hollerith’s global monopoly (later called NCR, and then IBM) had just finished its first major overseas census organized for the brutal regime of Czar Nicholas which was the first ever census of 120 million potential Trans-Siberian Railroad workers
.. Winston Churchill wasn’t yet aware that nobody in the House of Windsor spoke English
.. Winston Churchill wasn’t aware that the House of Windsor went by the name of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
.. Herbert Hoover was trying to “democratize China” as an engineer for the Chinese Bureau Of Mines (and you thought globalization was a “new reality”?)
.. corporate management negotiated labor problems by killing the workers (and then the Wall Street Journal would ask: “Where is the labor movement?)
.. GE dropped the name Edison and was preparing America for outsourcing by constructing a hydroelectric plant.. in India
.. the Wright brothers made the first engine-powered flight
.. Henry Ford introduced the Model T
.. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis pretended to fine Standard Oil of Indiana for accepting illegal rebates of oil from the Chicago and Alton Railroad
.. Theodore Roosevelt made one of the earliest political calls for universal health care
.. America was facing its 6th and 3rd worst market crashes of the 20th century
.. the Trans-Siberian railroad was under construction
.. Herman Hollerith’s global monopoly (later called NCR, and then IBM) had just finished its first major overseas census organized for the brutal regime of Czar Nicholas which was the first ever census of 120 million potential Trans-Siberian Railroad workers
.. Winston Churchill wasn’t yet aware that nobody in the House of Windsor spoke English
.. Winston Churchill wasn’t aware that the House of Windsor went by the name of House of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
.. Herbert Hoover was trying to “democratize China” as an engineer for the Chinese Bureau Of Mines (and you thought globalization was a “new reality”?)
.. corporate management negotiated labor problems by killing the workers (and then the Wall Street Journal would ask: “Where is the labor movement?)
.. GE dropped the name Edison and was preparing America for outsourcing by constructing a hydroelectric plant.. in India
.. the Wright brothers made the first engine-powered flight
.. Henry Ford introduced the Model T
.. Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis pretended to fine Standard Oil of Indiana for accepting illegal rebates of oil from the Chicago and Alton Railroad
.. Theodore Roosevelt made one of the earliest political calls for universal health care
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
1+3+4+5
Orange County Register refused to publish this, so . . .
Dear Editor:
So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land is
made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear
down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't
being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and
other ports of entry.
Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people like
Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new kind
of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from all
areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off a
ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented . Some
would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They
made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good
and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new
American households and some even changed their names to blend in with
their new home.
They had waved good bye to their birth place to give their children a
new life and did everything in their power to help their children
assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free
lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were
the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a
future of prosperity.
Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My
father fought along side men whose parents had come straight over from
Germany , Italy , France , and Japan . None of these 1st generation
Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had
come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the
Emperor of Japan . They were defending the United States of America as
one people.
When we liberated France , no one in those villages were looking for
the French-American or the German- American or the Irish-American. The
people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that
represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have
thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to
represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their
parents who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly
knew what it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot
into one red, white and blue bowl.
And here we are in 2008 with a new kind of immigrant who wants the
same rights and privileges, only they want to achieve it by playing
with a different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card
and a guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry,
that's not what being an American is all about. I believe that the
immigrants who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve
better than that for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising
future generations to create a land that has become a beacon for those
legally searching for a better life I think they would be appalled
that they are being used as an example by those waving foreign country
flags.
And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty , it
happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the
immigration bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the
United States just yet.
(signed) Rosemary LaBonte
Orange County, California
7 + 2 +2 +2
A stream of consciousness while showering . . .
- If increasing the size and scope of government while reducing the size of the private sector improved an economy, please explain North Korea.
- Please explain why Hong Kong is prosperous while France is not.
- Please explain why the Great Depression lasted the whole of the 1930s.
- Please explain why a man taking buckets of water from the deep end of a pool, then pouring the buckets of water back at the shallow end to make it deeper isn't stupid.*
- Please give me your top-ten-favorite-economic-success socialist/fascist countries of all time.
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