The Blankfein cash-in & what it means for a British Colonist

According to Bloomberg and my trusty calculator, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein has earned $114,000/day over the past two months.  This includes his salary and stock options.

What Blankfein has gotten paid in 60 days would take the median American worker 260 years to earn.  This means if one was born in the British Colony of New York in 1740, then went to work at the age of 12 and worked 40 hours/week until Nov 30, 2012 he would have earned the same amount that GS CEO piled up in just two months.

There is nothing to see here, just move on....

The Rotating Capitol City

You Will be Moving Your Racket to Another City

The primary root of interference in the lives of people is in Washington D.C.  Instead of fixing the individual problems; corporate welfare, high taxes, laws curtailing civil liberties, etc. how about we simply address the problem of physical location.  Since The White House, U.S. Congress, U.S. Treasury and The Pentagon have been located in the same spot for two centuries it has been easy for the benefactors of government to camp out in one spot, K-Street.

Lobbyists may not be thrilled with the idea of moving the U.S. Capitol to Detroit, Louisville or Oakland but why should they have all the influence?  Moving the House of Representatives and Senate to a far away land would break up the top down power structure and allow people to have a little bit of influence on lawmakers.  As it is set-up now you must be in the Beltway to lobby Congress.  This implies that a maximum of 3% of U.S. citizens have access to their representatives.  At least a change of location every 5 years would ensure that a different 3% would have some input on These United States.

The New Capitol of Florida

If we can move the U.S. Capitol then why not move the state capitols?  Instead of Albany how about Buffalo?  Move the California Governor's Mansion from Sacramento to Long Beach.  Let's move the hangers on in Tallahassee out to Tampa.  Moving expenses would be paid by those who benefit most from The State (mainly big business).

Do We Even Need an Address?

Even better would be to have a virtual capitol.  This allows all 300,000,000 people in the U.S. to have equal access to policy makers.  In fact every adult with an internet connection should be able to vote directly on proposed legislation.

There is no need to have a ruling class of 535 politicians over 300 million people.  Capitol cities are a thing of the 19th century.  It's time for the people to move forward.  If we are going to pretend to have a democracy then everyone should be able to vote on any bill they choose.  The politicians will never have the will or foresight to make this happen.  Simply outgrow them.  We will all be better off having an equal voice.      

The Real Mandate to "The President"

Dear Washington:

Our consent has been withdrawn.  

Good luck in your future endeavors.  

-The People of These United States

The results of 50 state-wide Presidential preference polls taken November 6, 2012:  

None - 47%

Obama - 27%

Romney - 25%

Gary Johnson - 0.5%

Jill Stein - 0.2%

111,300,000 adults voted to eliminate the head of the Executive Branch.  That's more people than the population of France & Spain combined.   

The Regime's Mandate is Gone

The Republicans lost some ground as 47,000 fewer people voted for Romney in 2012 than did for McCain in 2008.  This ain't good but the picture is much worse for Democrats.  Obama actually lost 5,347,862 votes this time around.  

A sitting President has been rejected by 5 million people who supported him only four years ago yet the establishment has claimed that he will still be the Commander-In-Chief.  Obviously, the economic order (including the media) does not have your interests at heart.  If they did they would simply report the real results of the preference poll to their readers.  

How much could we get for this property?

A Vacant White House

The outcast media has a bias towards centralization of power in the hands of a few.  Whose hands?  Their hands of course but since "We the People" have not elected a President it should be crystal clear to Washington that they are not needed and in fact unwanted.  

The mandate from the people to The President is "Please vacate the White House premises.  We will take over from here.  Thank you."

   

Who owns The Economist?

With a worldwide distribution of 1 million influential owners and managers The Economist sets parameters for the global political & economic discussion.  A million people may not sound like a lot unless of course they are the right people.  This stuff is read by high income earners with cushy job titles.  

Observe the full-page ads that ran in the Nov 17, 2012 issue:

• Oracle
• Rolex
• Louis Vuitton
• Charles Schwab
• CKGSB (trained 2,500 Chairman & CEOs who lead companies with $1 trillion in annual revenues)
• Volkswagen
• Bulgari
• Northern Trust
• Ford
• BlackRock

Save for the car companies, these companies make their bread by selling products and services to the global 0.2%.  Consider that Rolex and Louis Vuitton spent $154,000 each on these ads to run the week of Thanksgiving in the U.S.    

Geo Politics Meet People of Iraq

Favour: Iraq says it would favour a bid from Lukoil, CNPC for ExxonMobil's stake in West Qurna-2

How is that Iraq invasion working out for Bush, Blair & Cheney?

How is it working out for you?

Most importantly how is it working out for the people of Iraq?

In the most under reported story of October:

MOSCOW--OAO Lukoil Holdings, Russia's second largest oil producer, said Tuesday that the Iraq government has approved the geologic exploration, development and production contract for Block 10 in the south of the country.

Lukoil has a 60% stake in Block 10.  Japan's Inpex Corp. holds the other 40%.

From The Wall Street Journal