London Bankers Are Lepers

The London banking gnomes think they are lepers.  Yes, they are.  And so are the politicians who take these leper’s money!  They are all diseased.  Heh.  Also, the Crown of England confiscates an old silver coin from a lady (peasant) in England who found it while digging in her little garden patch behind her home (hovel).  

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‘Lepers’ in London Defend Right to Make Money as Election Looms – Bloomberg.com

Bankers in London’s financial center, which Mayor Boris Johnson called a “leper colony,” are battling to justify their right to make money and to prove their social value after British taxpayers assumed liabilities of more than 800 billion pounds ($1.23 trillion) to bail out the country’s lenders. With elections less than four months away, a debate once confined to universities and churches has become more than academic…. . …Politically, the City is in a “very strange period,” Nick Anstee, the 682nd lord mayor of the City of London, said in an interview. Lawmakers are currying favor with the electorate by attacking the banks, he said.

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“And that is singularly unacceptable,” Anstee said. “Particularly in fact because some politicians need to look at themselves and wonder at the extent to which they were culpable and responsible for what has happened.”

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Politicians from both the Labour and Conservative parties are calling for tougher regulation after what the government once heralded as the U.K.’s “light touch” was later blamed for doing nothing to prevent rampant risk-taking.

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ΩΩHAHAHA…so the banking lepers got the politicians infected so all of them are now lepers!  Note how they try to finger point here while missing digits.  Like in the US, everyone is calling for more regulation while at the same time, both political parties will move heaven and earth to prevent any regulations because the lepers who infected them want to continue spreading diseases.  So to speak.

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ΩΩA word here: this sort of corruption isn’t a Jewish thing.  It isn’t a British or American thing. It isn’t specific to any particular humans or particular nationalities.  It isn’t even a conspiracy.  It is a fact of life: people in the banking/investment system will do certain things.  The government has to prevent these things from happening.  The banking/investors will try to prevent regulations and use bribes to do this.  And the way to prevent them is to keep an eye on them and the politicians and punish them when they do this.

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ΩΩOf course, there are people who think there is this wonderful place we can all go to where there will be no bankers, no politicians and we live like Noble Savages, clean and pure.  But this is silly.  Even Noble Savages are ruthless and greedy.  This is the Human Condition.  The game here is to devise a system that is either self-correcting or self-regulating.  That is, when everything is in balance, one doesn’t have to change the rules or laws.

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ΩΩWhat we saw in the past 60 years is the Anglo Empire of the US and UK tinkering with systems in order to keep making money while destroying the internal industrial and wage base.  Rivals assisted in this process due to it enabling them to remove industry and capital from the Anglo empire.  There was nothing basically wrong with the concept of either banking or paying interest on loans.  There is a severe problem with too much credit, usury and degrading the currency.

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ΩΩNow, on to the Brits.  In the US, in former colonies which were very prickly about property ownership, we own the land we sit on and all things on it and under it.  In newer US states, the homeowner only owns the top foot of soil.  In NY, we own all the way to the center of the earth so one square micrometer in the core belongs to me, exclusively.  HAHAHA.

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ΩΩAnyway, in England, the people own nothing at all.  They buy and sell land and houses but never really own them the same way I own my own land.  True, the government regulates how I use my land but if I dig up a gold coin on my land, it is mine, exclusively.  This is NOT true in England.  The Crown owns all.

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Woman becomes first prosecuted for failing to report treasure – Telegraph

The woman, in her twenties from Ludlow, kept hidden a rare piedfort – a 14th century coin-like object worth £2000. She took the silver artefact to Ludlow museum to be identified in January last year claiming she had found it in her garden.

. But after being informed she must register the find with the coroner under section 8 of the treasure act she continued to keep the treasure hidden. South Shropshire coroner Anthony Sibcy eventually contacted the police in April 2009….

. …She was ordered to hand over the piedfort, was given a conditional discharge and ordered to pay £25 court costs. Dr Michael Lewis, Deputy Head, Department Portable Antiquities and Treasure at the British Museum, confirmed that the case was the first known of its kind in the country to have resulted in prosecution….”It shows that the police and the coroner’s service give Treasure and archaeological heritage law a high profile and will take proactive measures against those that disregard it.

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ΩΩWell, King Richard the Lionhearted died because he was besieging the castle of one of his own barons whose people dug up a gold hoard from the fall of the Roman Empire.  The King said all gold found in any lands held in fief belonged to him. The baron refused (this is right before the Magna Carta).  So a guard shot the king with a crossbow bolt and killed him during the siege.

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ΩΩow, the Crown can use the cops to wrest away Treasures.  Note the Brits capitalize this word.  HAHAHA.  You can’t pick up a PENNY in Britain even in your own back yard garden without first sharing it with the Crown!  Hiding what you find is illegal.  The excuse is, the museums should have all of these Treasures.  Of course, all the stuff stolen from Egypt, Greece, India, China, Africa, etc, etc, etc is NOT going to be returned.  The Chinese and Greeks are incensed by all of this.

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ΩΩBut the Crown doesn’t care.  There are Treasures and then there are Possessions and all of them are OK for the Crown and everyone else can just drop dead, thank you.

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Woodstock Hippies Lead to the Financial Collapse, Says New Film – ABC News

“Generation Zero,” a film set to premiere in March, examines what producer David Bossie says is a “historic perspective on a generational change” that led to the September 2008 bank collapse.

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Bossie says generational narcissism, as represented by the 1969 Woodstock Festival, is responsible for the excessive spending, mortgage crisis, and recklessness on Wall Street.

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“The people who were at Woodstock turned into the yuppies of the ’80s and the junk bond traders of the ’90s and the Wall Street executives of the 2000s,” he says. “They went from Woodstock to driving a Jaguar.”

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ΩΩThis film is brought to you by the Taliban of Afghanistan.  Oh, and the hippies of the sixties: I was one.  We were about 1% of the population.  This is why we were tourist attractions like in the zoo.  We were rare and exotic.  And we preached commie stuff like peace, freedom, sharing and love.  The mess we are in today were caused by greedy, self-centered creeps who love war and hate hippies!  So why blame things on us???

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Bankers frequent ‘Dungeons of Pain’ to manage stress, cope with job pressure

A black eye or row of stitches may grace John Cholish’s face when he meets with wealth-management clients at Merrill Lynch & Co.

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Those injuries occur after Cholish, 26, leaves his midtown Manhattan office and heads for the gym. He spends a couple of hours most evenings at the Renzo Gracie Academy on West 30th Street, kicking, throwing punches and tackling opponents, as they train to compete in mixed martial arts.

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“We get a lot of finance guys,” said Max McGarr, the gym’s program director and a professional fighter. “It’s a good release from their job. If you lost hundreds of thousands of dollars, it’s good to come here and get it out.”

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ΩΩWhere is the pot smoking?  The navel gazing?  The meditation?  The peace and love stuff?  Ooops.  The guys who destroyed the earth’s finances want to beat each other up and be greedy, brutal, like Donald Trump, not John Lennon (who was killed!).  Not a hippie to be seen!  Reagan wasn’t a hippie.  He was all about cutting taxes.  He was a faux WWII hero who skipped out of the war and pretended, like some fellow right wing actors, to be a warrior while being a total chicken.  The tax cutting, wild overspending was done by….THE WWII GENERATION.

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ΩΩThe ‘pay off the debts’ generation were the parents of the WWII generation.  People like my Grandpa who believed in never having any debts at all.

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Liberalism, atheism, male sexual exclusivity linked to IQ – CNN.com

Evolutionary psychologist Satoshi Kanazawa at the the London School of Economics and Political Science correlated data on these behaviors with IQ from a large national U.S. sample and found that, on average, people who identified as liberal and atheist had higher IQs. This applied also to sexual exclusivity in men, but not in women. The findings will be published in the March 2010 issue of Social Psychology Quarterly.

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The IQ differences, while statistically significant, are not stunning — on the order of 6 to 11 points — and the data should not be used to stereotype or make assumptions about people, experts say. But they show how certain patterns of identifying with particular ideologies develop, and how some people’s behaviors come to be.

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The reasoning is that sexual exclusivity in men, liberalism and atheism all go against what would be expected given humans’ evolutionary past. In other words, none of these traits would have benefited our early human ancestors, but higher intelligence may be associated with them…. . ….Religion, the current theory goes, did not help people survive or reproduce necessarily, but goes along the lines of helping people to be paranoid, Kanazawa said. Assuming that, for example, a noise in the distance is a signal of a threat helped early humans to prepare in case of danger.

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“It helps life to be paranoid, and because humans are paranoid, they become more religious, and they see the hands of God everywhere,” Kanazawa said.

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Participants who said they were atheists had an average IQ of 103 in adolescence, while adults who said they were religious averaged 97, the study found. Atheism “allows someone to move forward and speculate on life without any concern for the dogmatic structure of a religion,” Bailey said.

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ΩΩThere is a very, very deep seated desire to take all natural events and forces at work and subscribe these to either gods or humans.  And then to expand on this curious belief into being PARANOID about this and seeking ways of controlling this by either controlling gods (praying or making sacrifices or doing rituals) or by murdering humans who supposedly cause diseases and earthquakes or climate changes.  Often, these things are combined in complex ways to massage the paranoid feelings via logical belief structures which ‘explain everything’ via ‘It is the fault of (fill in the blank)’.

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ΩΩThen, one can indulge in a favorite human pastime: plotting some way of killing the perpetrator.  Stoning them to death or burning them at the stake, going to war, herding them into ghettos, the list is very long.  Paranoia is a very, very dangerous part of the human brain.  It leaps to life at the slightest provocation.

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ΩΩEven if someone is very, very careful, one can still be accused of THINKING of doing some magical thing that causes diseases, earthquakes or weather changes.  God knows, I have met many Wiccans who sincerely believe they control the weather!  GAH!  Not to mention, people who claim turning on or off radar or radio or other systems causes all earthquakes, weather, diseases and bad TV reality shows.

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ΩΩSmart people tend to be more open to ideas.  But I notice that even smart people can be too open to ‘ideas’ when these ‘ideas’ appeal to the paranoid parts of the brain.  I am aware of having this, too.  I am a human!  I would dearly love to be able to magically change things or to blame all humans for all things that go wrong all the time.  That is immense fun.  Egotistical in the extreme!

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ΩΩAnyone who thinks governments or ‘rulers’ control everything is exaggerating powers that no one possesses.  The Queen of England can use force to compel a poor peasant to hand over an old coin she dug up in her garden.  But Her Majesty couldn’t control Princess Diana’s choice of boyfriend after divorce!  Oh, I forgot, there are a thousand conspiracy tales surrounding that business, too!  HAHAHA.

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ΩΩWell, attempts at controlling things via the CIA, Mossad, MI5, the KGB, etc all end in either failure or making things worse since historical forces have their own momentum.  Just like science has given us greater control over Nature but Nature can undo all of these controls in a split second as easily as we belch after a dinner.

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ΩΩWe can’t be paranoid about natural forces because it does no good.  Burn all the witches you like and earthquakes, weather changes and diseases will still happen.  Eliminate all humans and they will still happen. Over and over again.  Real liberals understand natural forces and our lack of control of them.  Liberals also understand that governments are easily corrupted and need to be regulated by voters.  Liberals also know media is weakened when any religious or ethnic group dominates it and manipulates it.  Or if a government controls the media.  Thus, the first amendment stuck onto the Constitution.

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ΩΩA real liberal understands how empires operate and how to prevent our own government from being an out of control empire.  We failed miserably.  The desires to have a powerful empire that does as it pleases overwhelmed liberal philosophy and the libertarian belief that letting the powerful do as they please isn’t the solution to this problem, either, it makes it worse.  This is the weakness of Ron Paul’s libertarianism and why liberals don’t like him all that much: there is no easy answer and no civilized people lived in happy anarchy, history is clear: either you build a good empire/society or you build a corrupt one.

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ΩΩHaving nothing at all never works.  The ancient Greek city states were constantly at war with each other and were all conquered by other empires and thus, enslaved.  So what is the answer?  We don’t know!  But seeking to build a fair, civil, decent civilization that doesn’t have illegal assassinations, secret labs, endless distant wars and religious tyranny is the goal, that is for certain.  Then, there would be a lot less garbage for paranoid theories or beliefs.  But then, we have to be somewhat paranoid!  Look at how our rulers misbehave.  Gah.

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