THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE "CREDIT CRISIS"

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THE ROOT CAUSE OF THE CREDIT CRISIS
"Overconsumption fueled with hyperleverage is akin to walking the tightrope (while inebriated) without a net below." -- Douglas Castle


Dear Friends:

The entire world can use a good object lesson from the United States about what actually creates a credit crisis. It is not simply the excesses of financial institutions, a lack of regulatory oversight, the government's propensity to tax or to print paper currency.

A credit crisis occurs because consumers, businesses and governments have become addicted to credit in the same manner as motorists have become addicted to fossil fuels. The United States economy has been systematically running on credit (the use of a third party's money for some length of time, with an obligation to repay on the part of the borrower) for so long that all parties involved have completely forgotten some of the fundamentals of a sound economy:

1.     Save some of your money for contingencies;
2.     Keep some equity on your balance sheet;
3.     Invest money at a rate which is dependably higher than the cost of borrowing;
4.     Do not speculate with borrowed funds;
5.     Always maintain a budget, and constantly monitor your performance against it;
6.     You must produce (i.e., add value) in order to become wealthier;
7.     Re-invest some of your profits in future growth -- don't bleed your organization dry so that you strip it of all protection in the event of a temporary economic downturn.

Every economic phenomenon has its roots in behavioral psychology. It is our thinking and the actions we take which are attributable to it that get us into economic problems. The popular cultural trappings of material wealth are illusory.

When a family has two leased high-line cars, a palatial home which is worth less than the mortgage against it, and is using one line of credit to refinance another (i.e., spending more time and effort refinancing than eliminating debt), to all appearances they may look wealthy. But beneath this veneer of "Hollywood wealth" lies the worrisome knowledge that the family's total income is $1.00 per month in excess of its fixed debt obligations, and that there aren't any savings...overconsumption fueled with hyperleverage is akin to walking the tightrope (while inebriated) without a net below.

You can read more about this phenomenon by clicking on:
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BRIEF COMMENTARY:

U.S. SOCIETY'S REAL CREDIT PROBLEMS DO NOT CONCERN GROWING CONSUMER OBSESSIONS IN THE ZERO SUM GAME OF KEEPING A "GOOD" CREDIT SCORE -- THIS PREOCCUPATION IS MERELY SYMPTOMATIC OF A SOCIETY THAT HAS GOTTEN LOST IN A PATTERN OF: 1) USING CREDIT TO FACILITATE NON-INCOME-PRODUCING PURCHASES AND PAYMENTS WITHOUT A PLAN FOR REPAYMENT; 2) USING CREDIT TO "BUY" AN INDEFINITE EXTENSION OF TIME [THE "BRIDGE TO NOWHERE" THEORY]; 3) CHRONIC CURRENT CONSUMPTION USING "OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY"; AND 4) ACTUALLY DIS-SAVING IN LIEU OF SAVING OR INVESTING FOR THE FUTURE. -- Douglas Castle

Faithfully,
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The Gravity and Magnetism of INTERNATIONALISM

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The Gravity and Magnetism of INTERNATIONALISM

Note: This article was written by Douglas Castle for THE INTERNATIONALIST PAGE (http://TheInternationalistPage.blogspot.com), where it was first published. This article may not be reproduced or re-published except in its entirety, with full attribution and all hyperlinks left intact and alive. The author is a Featured Columnist for THE NATIONAL NETWORKER Newsletter. Please join the TNNWC Community (free) by going to http://twitlik.com/IN

 Dear Friends:

Internationalism is an idea which clashes with the encultured status and belief systems deeply ingrained in much of the World's leadership. Any change is frightening to the Human psyche, and the acceptance of the idea of "A World Without Walls," while poetically appealing, meets the natural resistance elements of inertia, indolence, ignorance and greed. Protectionism and xenophobia certainly play their own special roles.

It is difficult to go from a lifetime of perceiving others as enemies to recognizing them as prospective allies. A quantum change in broad perception takes time. Internationalism moves forward in small steps, despite major advances in information and communications technology, which are pushing Internationalism forward. Sadly, too many persons, industries and organizations have become invested in building fortresses instead of bridges.

Even in the European Union, there is an awkwardness and a wariness about their tenuously-bound microcosm of Internationalism. But it represents an honest, albeit cautious start.

The following article was excerpted from THE NEW YORK TIMES:

November 20, 2009

Low Profile Leaders Chosen for Top European Posts

By STEPHEN CASTLE and STEVEN ERLANGER

BRUSSELS — Leaders of the 27 countries of the European Union on Thursday night chose Herman Van Rompuy, the Belgian prime minister, as the European Union’s first president, and Catherine Ashton of Britain, currently the bloc’s trade commissioner, as its high representative for foreign policy. The vote was unanimous.

Both officials are highly respected but little known outside their own countries. After the European Union’s eight-year battle to rewrite its internal rules and to pass the Lisbon Treaty that created these two new jobs, the selection of such low-profile figures seemed to highlight Europe’s problems instead of its readiness to take a more united and forceful place in world affairs.

In a sense, Europe seemed to be living down to expectations. Earlier, the foreign minister of Sweden, Carl Bildt, warned against a “minimalist solution” that would reduce the union’s “opportunity to have a clear voice in the world.”

“It is quite astounding,” said Olivier Ferrand, president of Terra Nova, a center-left research institute in France. “It is jaw-dropping. It is the end of ambition for the E.U. — really disappointing.”

The deal that produced the two choices emerged as a result of backroom negotiations among leaders jockeying for future and more important economic portfolios that could be more powerful in the enlarged European Union, which is still more of an economic union than a political one and looks to remain so.

Mr. Van Rompuy (pronounced ROM-pow), 62, an economist, has been Belgium’s prime minister for less than a year. Ms. Ashton, 53, has next to no foreign policy experience and has never been elected to anything.

They are expected to take up their jobs on Jan. 1. Ms. Ashton still needs the endorsement of the European Parliament.

Both emerged when Britain’s choice for president, Tony Blair, met with overwhelming opposition, stemming from his past pro-American policies, support for the Iraq war and star qualities.

The British prime minister, Gordon Brown, finally bowed to the inevitable late Thursday afternoon and dropped his backing for his predecessor. By supporting Mr. Van Rompuy — a Roman Catholic and a Christian Democrat from the center-right, who supported the positioning of American nuclear weapons in Belgium — Mr. Brown opened up the foreign policy job to the center-left. With support from fellow center-left leaders, he pitched Ms. Ashton for the job.

A fresh opportunity for European leadership appeared to be the great promise of the Lisbon Treaty, which created the jobs of president and foreign policy chief and was approved earlier this month after years of political struggle. The idea had been to simplify the management of an enlarged European Union and to appoint senior European figures who could speak for the group.
But the leaders of Europe’s most powerful countries, France and Germany, did not want to be overshadowed. Nor apparently did their foreign ministers.

Thursday night, Mr. Van Rompuy told reporters, mixing English, French and Dutch, that “I did not seek this job.”

“But from tonight,” he added, “I will do it with conviction and enthusiasm.”

He said that he was reluctant to abandon the stewardship of Belgium, but that “Europe is a union of values and has the responsibility of playing an important role in the world.”

The selection of Ms. Ashton — formally Baroness Ashton of Upholland — was particularly striking given the deep foreign policy experience of both officials whom she will succeed in the European Union: Javier Solana, who had been Spain’s foreign minister and then secretary general of NATO, and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, who had been Austria’s foreign minister.

By contrast, Ms. Ashton has had jobs in domestic policy and was appointed to the House of Lords in 1999. She was named leader of the House of Lords, in charge of steering government legislation through the chamber, in 2007. She was then appointed to the European Commission in October 2008. As European commissioner for trade, she has negotiated with foreigners and impressed her colleagues.

Ms. Ashton told reporters that “it is a measure of my surprise that I have not prepared a speech.” She said that she was Britain’s first female European Union commissioner and the first woman to be trade commissioner, and was proud to be the first high representative. “Am I an ego on legs? I am not,” she said. “Judge me on what I do, and I think you will be proud of me.”

If the point of the Lisbon Treaty was to create a more prominent face for Europe, the result on Thursday was the opposite. It appeared to be a political deal that would do little to reduce the power, stature and influence of big nations or their foreign ministers.

“It’s going to be difficult to explain to the public why there was so much fuss about the Lisbon Treaty if all we get is someone no one has heard of,” said one European Union official, speaking on the condition of anonymity.

Mr. Van Rompuy, who likes bowling duckpins and writing haiku, has earned respect for calming ethnic tensions in Belgium in his 11 months as prime minister. Someone who met him recently described him as intelligent and humorous, but “timid.” He only reluctantly took on the job of prime minister, and did not push himself forward for this one.

One recent Van Rompuy haiku went this way: “A fly zooms, buzzes; Spins and is lost in the room; He does no one harm.”

In a sign of how little respect the foreign policy job appeared to attract, the most prominent person mentioned previously to fill it, David Miliband, the British foreign secretary, chose instead to work domestically to revive the fortunes of the Labour Party, widely expected to lose the next election to the Conservatives. His decision not to pursue a lucrative job in Brussels has only helped him in Britain.

Stephen Castle reported from Brussels, and Steven Erlanger from Paris.
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The good news is that progress is being made. It is my hope, and the hope of many other Internationalists, that this progress picks up speed and momentum.

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

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POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND THE PRICE OF FREEDOM

Dear Friends:

I am not a conservative, nor a liberal, nor a democrat, nor a republican, nor a categorical "joiner," nor a flag-waver, nor an anarcist, nor a terrorist, nor a reformer. I am a student of all aspects of life, and a writer who works at inducing thought and decisiveness in my readers, all of whom I am privileged to have. I am a Global Futurist and an Internationalist. Principally, and in principle I am an advocate for the respect and evolution of Humanity and Human Thought.

I believe that debate, questions, occasional acts of inappropriate conduct, provocative speech, teamwork, trust and bursts of breakthrough brilliance are all healthy, wonderful stimuli. While we all belong to the same species (even my neighbor, Ralphie), we are each individuals, and the sanctity of the individual and freedom of thought are precious to me.

Arch-Conservative Bob Livingston is someone with whom I am frequently in disagreement. But he makes some very good points from time to time, albeit in a heavy-handed manner. In reading the following from Bob's PERSONAL LIBERTY DIGEST, I would ask that you ignore his style and get to his substance -- and its implications.

If you choose, put his quotations from biblical scripture aside. Regardless of your religious convictions (or driving infractions), his substance is the key. It's not about God, or the bible, or anything else. It's about People v. Government.

Let's never give up our right to think, to speak and to share. Work with me to protect them. In fact, let us work together to protect them. Open Human interaction in interworked cooperation fosters amazing synergy. [reference the Interworked Cooperative Business Community, or "ICBC" as promulgated and currently under construction at THE NATIONAL NETWORKER COMPANIES. Join them at http://twitlik.com/IN.

And now, to Bob Livingston...

Faithfully,

Douglas Castle

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Who Among Us Doesn’t Want Law and Order?

November 19, 2009 by Bob Livingston

How have we evolved into a faceless people? How did we become politically correct?
Sometimes, when I get galled and tired from the tasks of the day, I watch the national news. What do the newscasters really say? What news do they really tell us in America?
I am duly impressed by how articulate they are and how they never say anything. They are trained icons at having NO OPINION.
It’s my conclusion that to be politically correct and socially acceptable in America is to be a faceless people. Just have no opinion.
Oh yes, we can master the King’s English as long as we don’t say anything. Does this remind us of the three monkeys who “See no evil, hear no evil and speak no evil?”
This is modern America, faceless and soulless. Scripture suggests that we are neither hot nor cold and that God spews us out. (Rev. 3:15-19) So how do we learn? How do we approach reality?
I have my own rules. My rule—and I have taught this to my children—is to believe just the opposite of government and political pronouncements. This is the most direct route to sobriety and a peek at the real world.
The system can thrive with no opinion. With this syndrome, “they” can milk us and shear us and keep us on the animal farm. We are as docile and obedient as cattle.  We can be intellectual giants and, as far as practical reality, be complete idiots.
But what if our inner soul begins to suspect disharmony of and disgust with the monotony of the system and the sickening conformity of the masses? The people can have literally the firepower of armies and still be under disciplined control, just so long as they believe the lies of the system.
How else can countries field multi-million-man armies that really don’t know who their enemies are, but are willing to fight to the death for some nebulous propaganda? Ignorance is not bliss. It is sorrow and death.
If we do not know reality we cannot know right from wrong. We have no moral ethic or restraints.
There is a system. Outwardly and ideally it is the rule of law and a moral order. Inwardly and secretly it has an unannounced agenda of human and population control, regardless of the name of the system or the form of government. The same secret elite rules. They have the power of life and death through and with thought control.
There can be no secret elite without thought control. Man must not be allowed to think his own thoughts, but must think the thoughts of the system. And he must not know the difference.
Mind control is used to extract wealth and human freedom without consent. The most perfect crime is when the people who carry out the will and purpose of the system do not suspect the complete shroud of thought control. They suspect nothing.
There are those who see and there are the many that are blinded. What gives us perception and vision? Knowledge is the mechanical attribute of the brain.
The world is floating in knowledge. There are thousands of universities and colleges. This is the black and white world, the rote and the mundane.
But wisdom only filters through to a very few. They are the ones who see with their souls and with their spirits. Their vision is as the colors of the rainbow. Spiritual vision cannot be known or communicated to the vain.
Words carry knowledge but words cannot carry wisdom. Wisdom is perception and spiritual discernment. It is to know God and reality.
It is the evolution of consciousness. It is the fullness of life on earth that God intended. Blessed are those who have it!
It is beautifully described in Madame Ghis’ book “Madame Ghis: Escape In Prison.” In it she wrote:

“My soul showed me that the world in which I live is made up of lies and illusions. Reality can only be perceived with the soul’s eyes. With her (my soul) help, I learned that behind the tax system and all other systems, we find slaves without chains, human beings who are ignorant and unconscious of being the property of the State.
They trust their government enough to entrust it with their children, their health, their property and their entire lives. Citizens cannot guess that the State is a mere legislator and tax collector working for the bank of Canada, and a cartel of private bankers.
When I became aware of this situation, I decided to put an end to my life as the subject of a ‘higher’ authority. How could I do this?
By doing the exact opposite of what I had been doing before. How does a slave behave? Like a domestic dog. He submits to the will of his master who uses it as he wishes. In return, the master feeds it and brings it security. The more docile is the dog, the better he gets treated.”

Madame Ghis is a prison name given by inmates to Dr. Marie Eva Sophie Ghislain Lanctot, a medical doctor who speent a few months in prison for refusing to conform to the income tax system in Canada. She has written several revealing books, “The Medical Mafia,” “The Trial of the Medical Mafia,” “What the Hell am I Doing Here Anyway,” and “Madame Ghis: Escape in Prison.” They can be bought at  www.personocratia.com.
How do we become aware of the illusory world in which we live? How do we come to understand that law, finance, politics and religion are all interconnected?
Everything turns on the individual imperative to inquire. Do you know that most people do not inquire? They ask no questions. They seek no information.
We who inquire are few. We speak of the battle for our minds. We seek freedom from lies and deception which saturates our lives. Self change and release from deception is not easy, nor is it comfortable.
It is very difficult for the ego to let go of old habits of thought and lifelong, cherished attachments. The inquiring person reaches reality according to his own level of consciousness.
What then does the fascist state not tell us? What does the state not want us to know?
They do not want us to know that we do not think our own thoughts, but those of the system. They do not want us to know that we do not have human freedom, that democracy is a myth.
They do not want us to know that we have imaginary money that transfers wealth and savings to the state.
They do not want us to know that public schools and universities are government schools. They indoctrinate us with the system so that we cannot evaluate reality.
They do not want us to know that the medical system is a front for pharmaceuticals and a marketing vehicle for their drugs.
They promote a sickness system to sell drugs. The American people are fast discovering that sea salt and water are more medicinal than all the drugs.
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Public Service Announcement: HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS

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Public Service Announcement: HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS ["HAI"]

 

Dear Friends:

 

I recently received the email which follows from Ms. Barbara Dunn, of HAI Watch News, an affiliate of Kimberly-Clark Health Care. It deals with some of the real-life infection hazards, some of which can be debilitating or fatal, which are all-too-often caused during the course of a routine healthcare visit, medical procedure or treatment. Simply stated...you can check into the hospital for a minor procedure and wind up with a life-threatening infection. The better-informed you are about the nature of this danger, the more proactive that you can be in minimizing your own risks, and those of the ones whom you love.

 

Some years back, school teachers would quote Poor Richard's and chant, "An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."

 

While I heartily agree with that sentiment, I would also suggest that you remember the old Internal Energy Plus/ TNNW equation: KNOWLEDGE + APPLICATION = POWER. Educate yourself and stay healthy!

 

I found the hyperlink in Barbara's letter to be of great interest. Please read on, and click on the link in the letter.

 

Faithfully, and wishing you the best of health,

 

Douglas Castle

 

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Douglas:

 

One thing everyone can agree on, no matter where they come down on the current health care debates, is that no one should get sick as a result of visiting the doctor.

Hospitals are rightfully expected to get you better but that's not always the case.  Sometimes people are picking up infections, from pneumonia to antibiotic-resistant staph (MRSA), while under treatment for other health problems, or even while just in the hospital having a baby.  That's a situation that could, and should, be completely avoidable.

Kimberly-Clark Health Care is on the forefront of protecting patients from Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) and has put together a site dedicated to that prevention called HAI Watch: Not on My Watch.  The site has information for both healthcare professionals and healthcare consumers.

I would like to ask for your help getting the word out on The National Networker.   Here's a microsite which explains everything.  Please use any of the images, logos, videos, etc, on your site:

http://www.haiwatchnews.com/

Please let me know if you have any questions and if you are able to post, I'd really appreciated it if you'd send me the link.

Thank you,


Barbara
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