Banks will never aggregate all their money to a Big Data Money cloud.
Impossible!
Because, by design, bank money is all Debt Money and Debt Money is not an conceptual data object that can exist in the cloud. Debt Money is an accounting object relationship between a debit and a credit. Debits and credits are two elements in an Accounting System.
In the current system structure the bank Accounting System is not the product of a Monetary System.
The Monetary System is a product of the bank Accounting system.
The prior entry in this blog described a proposed Monetary System based on the most fundamental structural relationship form of both the natural and conceptual world. The best example is our language that both describes and creates the structure of our physical and conceptual world. The structural form is a Trinity: Logic, Language, Structure or applied to the natural language we use to encapsulate this trinity: Subject noun, verb, Object noun.
The proposed Monetary System presented in the blog entry prior to this one is what I want to build. A system to replace the current one.
The current system cannot transition to my proposed one until Money is a Subject noun conceptual object entity possessing a logic employed through an implementing Language to produce a Monetary System structure to serve us.
The banking system of Debt Money obviates this transition because it denies Subject noun Logic to Money as an object entity. So, what is the Holy Trinity structure of the banking system? What specific things fill in the conceptual spaces of the Logic, Language, Structure? Subject noun, verb, Object noun?
This is the banking system Trinity: Finance, Money, Debt. In this relationship Money is the Language that implements the relationship between Finance Logic and Debt Structure.
The banking system treats Money as a verb in the system structure. The entire banking system is premised on what money does, not what money is as the foundation rock upon which the system is built. Go figure! It is Finance that makes money for the banksters and in that role (state of being) money becomes the Object Noun in their narrow view of what the system they created does for them.
Objects come first in Information System Design. It is the rock upon which the system is built. Verbs follow to do something with the basic object to create structure. Elevating what a trinity relationship does for us above the nature of its driving logic gives what it does the dominant structural role.
Structures built on shifting sands do not stand.
The banking structure is built on the shifting sands of money as a verb foundation that makes money a verb because it a debt based creation by the bank to be created and destroyed over and over again through the dominant logic of Finance.
Finance, Money, Debt.
The endless circle because Banksters have created a system founded on chasing our own tails to their great benefit and probable amusement as well.
It will fall to a restructuring of money as a Logic/Subject foundation.
It has got to stop. There is no easy transition to the Monetary System I propose. There was no easy transition to establishment of this country that changed the fundamental political implementation of Logic, Language, Structure.
The difference between then and now is that Information Systems can be changed much more easily and quickly because the Information Age has extracted the tight binding of conceptual Information to its physical entity association and therefore has the ability to treat information as a conceptual object not constrained by the dictates of its previous binding physical nature.
It used to be that physical force was used to separate conceptual structure ideas from those those that held them. Still works today. However the more elegant way to do it now is not by force but simply changing the macro conceptual system structure that supported those ideas. Those that continue to cling to them are simply obviated by a better system. That pretty much is the idea behind our electoral system change of government. The American way. Many however remain old school and would prefer the old way of change using a lamp post to separate the tight binding of information ideas from their physical relationship.
When we wake up to see the writing on the wall of what the bankster system of debt finance built on money as an implementing verb rather than a controlling Subject noun is doing to us the logical thing to do is to restructure the Debt money system by making Money the positive Logic controlling object on which the system is built to serve us.
It is simple. The Trinity structure is a beautiful things when each element operates in their natural structural order relationship. Our current banking system (and many others) are based on an un-natural order where the culprit is dominance of the Verb (Language used to express the Logic) not the facilitating role that the verb should have in implementing the relationship between the Logic and the Structure. From the system design standpoint, Language can introduce "noise" to the system by ambiguity or poor choice. It can also be used to dictate what the system does rather than the Logic that should drive it.
Friday, December 26, 2014
Big Data Analytics Moves to the Cloud--
The subject line of this blog entry is the title of an article describing the commercial services of Joyent Manta Storage Service.
What is this. A revolutionary surprise service introducing a new paradigm? Cloud is nothing new and I would guess that doing computing on what is in the cloud is nothing new. Why download what is stored in the cloud to compute on your own hardware? The greatest thing since spreadsheet or just near the end of the spreadsheet development evolution where all data, now called big data is on one big store called the cloud and applications in the cloud process it to slice and dice in unlimited ways to structure it for unlimited information purposes.
Nothing new here? In Australia they would call it mutton dressed as lamb. More charitably called marketing hype built on the word "new". What is new as I see it is reaching and recognizing an end point of data aggregation and consolidation in the cloud. All data in one place. The NSA wet dream nirvana. Any and all apps in the cloud run against it to produce information. Information analyzed to produce knowledge.
The subject line focuses on the verb "Analytics" and in the article calls the new relationships "the holy trinity of compute, network and data unified into a single offering." That got my attention. Certainly it is. It is presented from the primary standpoint of the verb "Analytics" what it does or provides the capability to do on a grand scale but what is the most important in the Trinity relationship is the Subject the Analytics works on and what follows is the resulting Object which is data structure in some fashion that is useful information.
The big idea that strikes me here is that all data is in one place. Big Data. It does not move except to the extent it just sits there and grows. It never goes anywhere. Never needs to or by design wants to. It is locked in the cloud. Never really changes over time, merely is structured by relationship to its data element time which determines history.
This Big Data in the cloud is examined to do something with it external to the cloud. At some point what is processed within the cloud and comes to earth as rain, a structured wet thing resource output. Raw stuff data that produced it remains forever in the cloud. That is the Trinity.
That Trinity model is exactly the Trinity that I propose as the Monetary System Trinity.
All money is in the cloud. It never leaves the cloud. Money in the digital object form has granular element attributes of unit value of one each and a uniquely serialized identification. Money in either an aggregate of all money or a unique instance of the aggregate as a raw data cloud object never moves. It is networked in the cloud to who owns it. Owners are granular level data objects with attributes of unique account identifiers that always know how many unique units of money they directly relate to in aggregates of money as well as all unique instances in that aggregate.
Money never leaves the cloud. Information about money as a product of cloud processing that associates Money to Owner does leave the cloud to do something as it falls to earth as Transaction.
The Trinity Structure relationship of the Monetary System in the cloud is therefore: Money/Transaction Process/Structured Information. (Subject noun, Verb, Object noun) or expressed as the fundamental ruling relational concept of all things (where the implementing verb between the two nouns while being an action is really at the most fundamental level also a thing) = (Logic, Language, Structure)
Structure is where stuff in the cloud comes down to earth to do something.
What it does is Economics or the product of decision making to decide what to do with money as the universal tool of resource allocation decisions.
Money is a Big Data thing.
What is this. A revolutionary surprise service introducing a new paradigm? Cloud is nothing new and I would guess that doing computing on what is in the cloud is nothing new. Why download what is stored in the cloud to compute on your own hardware? The greatest thing since spreadsheet or just near the end of the spreadsheet development evolution where all data, now called big data is on one big store called the cloud and applications in the cloud process it to slice and dice in unlimited ways to structure it for unlimited information purposes.
Nothing new here? In Australia they would call it mutton dressed as lamb. More charitably called marketing hype built on the word "new". What is new as I see it is reaching and recognizing an end point of data aggregation and consolidation in the cloud. All data in one place. The NSA wet dream nirvana. Any and all apps in the cloud run against it to produce information. Information analyzed to produce knowledge.
The subject line focuses on the verb "Analytics" and in the article calls the new relationships "the holy trinity of compute, network and data unified into a single offering." That got my attention. Certainly it is. It is presented from the primary standpoint of the verb "Analytics" what it does or provides the capability to do on a grand scale but what is the most important in the Trinity relationship is the Subject the Analytics works on and what follows is the resulting Object which is data structure in some fashion that is useful information.
The big idea that strikes me here is that all data is in one place. Big Data. It does not move except to the extent it just sits there and grows. It never goes anywhere. Never needs to or by design wants to. It is locked in the cloud. Never really changes over time, merely is structured by relationship to its data element time which determines history.
This Big Data in the cloud is examined to do something with it external to the cloud. At some point what is processed within the cloud and comes to earth as rain, a structured wet thing resource output. Raw stuff data that produced it remains forever in the cloud. That is the Trinity.
That Trinity model is exactly the Trinity that I propose as the Monetary System Trinity.
All money is in the cloud. It never leaves the cloud. Money in the digital object form has granular element attributes of unit value of one each and a uniquely serialized identification. Money in either an aggregate of all money or a unique instance of the aggregate as a raw data cloud object never moves. It is networked in the cloud to who owns it. Owners are granular level data objects with attributes of unique account identifiers that always know how many unique units of money they directly relate to in aggregates of money as well as all unique instances in that aggregate.
Money never leaves the cloud. Information about money as a product of cloud processing that associates Money to Owner does leave the cloud to do something as it falls to earth as Transaction.
The Trinity Structure relationship of the Monetary System in the cloud is therefore: Money/Transaction Process/Structured Information. (Subject noun, Verb, Object noun) or expressed as the fundamental ruling relational concept of all things (where the implementing verb between the two nouns while being an action is really at the most fundamental level also a thing) = (Logic, Language, Structure)
Structure is where stuff in the cloud comes down to earth to do something.
What it does is Economics or the product of decision making to decide what to do with money as the universal tool of resource allocation decisions.
Money is a Big Data thing.
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Christmas Truce - 1914
Many moving stories of the Christmas Truce of 1914. 100 years ago.
Just one of the stories here.
Men stopped killing each other, came out of their trenches and shook hands in peace.
It was not what their superiors condoned.
It was the Christmas Miracle of 1914. This is the Time story of what really happened 100 years ago.
Wikipedia description here.
Peace on earth to men of good will. My father always emphasized that it was the correct way to say what the angels proclaimed, not the alternate proclamation: "Peace on earth good will toward man".
I firmly believe that if all that have died in war could come back to life there would be no more war.
Just one of the stories here.
Men stopped killing each other, came out of their trenches and shook hands in peace.
It was not what their superiors condoned.
It was the Christmas Miracle of 1914. This is the Time story of what really happened 100 years ago.
Wikipedia description here.
Peace on earth to men of good will. My father always emphasized that it was the correct way to say what the angels proclaimed, not the alternate proclamation: "Peace on earth good will toward man".
I firmly believe that if all that have died in war could come back to life there would be no more war.
Wave - Particle Duality --- A Christmas Present
Subject line of this blog is a gift from the universe to me on this Christmas Day. When I open it up I have to figure out what it is. The joy of difficult challenge! If I understand it then how do I re-gift it??
This is the link to the gift: Two quantum mysteries merged into one.
The full article published in the Nature of Communications.
Fascinating that such a fundamental concept takes on the essence of the nature of information communications. An appropriate journal in which to publish!
The Holy Trinity of Computation that I have blogged so often about: also explained here
Logic----Language---Structure (Subject noun --- Verb---Object Noun)
Structure is merely the implementation of Logic accomplished through the implementing agent of Language
When Subject and Object are the same thing then there is no duality.
Simple or simply complex?
Are the two things: Simple and Complex a Duality or a non-Duality state of being that is a single thing unto itself and not two things at the opposite ends of a spectrum? A Min/Max entropy situation? Resolved to a unification. They call it a superimposition in their research? Maybe Ultimately Simple and Ultimately Complex are a Mobius strip. A thing with only one continuous edge?
What a wonderful gift I have been given!
Wrapping my mind around it requires some very special wrapping paper!
Mind boggles Mind. Is that a non-duality?
This is the link to the gift: Two quantum mysteries merged into one.
The full article published in the Nature of Communications.
Fascinating that such a fundamental concept takes on the essence of the nature of information communications. An appropriate journal in which to publish!
The Holy Trinity of Computation that I have blogged so often about: also explained here
Logic----Language---Structure (Subject noun --- Verb---Object Noun)
Structure is merely the implementation of Logic accomplished through the implementing agent of Language
When Subject and Object are the same thing then there is no duality.
Simple or simply complex?
Are the two things: Simple and Complex a Duality or a non-Duality state of being that is a single thing unto itself and not two things at the opposite ends of a spectrum? A Min/Max entropy situation? Resolved to a unification. They call it a superimposition in their research? Maybe Ultimately Simple and Ultimately Complex are a Mobius strip. A thing with only one continuous edge?
What a wonderful gift I have been given!
Wrapping my mind around it requires some very special wrapping paper!
Mind boggles Mind. Is that a non-duality?
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Financial Engineering
This blog is about Monetary Engineering. Discovering what "Money" is as an object design problem, determining if what Money is in the current system design is the best system design structuring what the object "Money" is to support what Money does. What Money is facilitates the efficiency of what it does. Much of what it does is finance with debt because the object "Money" is Debt. Money is created as a function of Debt.
Debt creates Money. Parsing the structure of this sentence: Debt is the subject noun, creates is the verb, Money is the object noun, otherwise described as the receiver of the subject noun action that is implemented by the nature of the verb that relates the subject to the object.
Stuff we learned in 3rd grade. However that fundamental structure is the Trinity Site of our natural language. The E=M(C squared) of language.
Monetary Engineering establishes the attributes of the object Money in the same way that the object Nature was designed to establish the attributes of the physical world. Put another way; The physical world is a function of the attributes of Nature. Laws of Nature define its attributes. They are fundamentally rigid rules.
In the conceptual world, the one we whip up out of nothing with our imagination, rigid rules do not necessarily have to be a function of natural rules. It is a good thing if they are modeled on natural rules since they make an excellent environmental model. On the other hand they are not bound in any way by natural rules. What can the product of imagination be? Why, my dear, it can be anything we want it to be to do anything we want it to do. It all depends on how we want to structure the relationships of the conceptual objects we play with that are products of our unbound imagination.
Play is the verb form action that relates Subject and Object things. Which thing will be the Subject and which thing will be the Object is arbitrary but that arbitrary choice is the genesis of two very different implementations of a total system structure when they are put into "Play"
Debt chosen as Subject and Money as Object produces one structure to play with.
Money chosen as Subject and Debt as Object produces a different structure to play with.
The nature of the verb that joins them puts Debt/Money or Money/Debt into Play.
The king of the trinity structure of Subject/Verb/Object is Subject. The Verb? Without it we might presume some kind of a relationship to the object but that relationship is an action joining the relationship of Subject to Object. The action itself can be any of a vast number of Verbs while the Subject and Object remain constant. Like the number of plays on a football field where one team is offense and the other is defense.
What happens if Verb says to Subject, I am the most important thing (an action is a really sub-type of a thing if Think is a universal term that can be applied to any and all things in existence including actions and things like time).
Is time a noun or a verb? I digress. Call it a verb. God made world. In this sentence She made it by implementing the relationship of herself to the world through the verb of time. Time is what we see as her knowledge of eternity. She had to make it easier for us to understand eternity by knowing time, which is not easy but doable as a work in progress.
When the Verb is king of the Subject/Verb/Object relationship it drives the nature of the trinity. When we choose to create conceptual systems where the verb drives the system structure design there is greater, almost unlimited, latitude in the nature of the system that can be created. It is a system where the nature of the verb Play dictates the rules. Or put another way: Who controls the nature of Play controls the after the fact establishment of rules to serve nature of whatever the Subject of Play may be and consequently the thing that jumped over the fence last......the Object of Play.
It is an Alice in Wonderland world when Play is King (or the Crazy Queen) that makes the King a Jester Fool that is a puppet Object on the strings of Play.
Finance is a verb. Finance has been made by Crazy Queen Banksters to be the Jester Fool Object dancing on a string to the tune of Finance to extract resources from the Object of the relationship trinity.
Like all monarchy that "Rules" the structure of a society, Rules is the implementing Verb that subjugates the natural domination of the Object to the power of the Verb to dictate the structure by fooling like a Court Jester the Object of the Ruling Monarchy: That is everyone that is not Monarchy (by default). Call them peasants, sheeple, any object of this Alice in Wonderland perversion of the natural order of things that will tolerate the supremacy of the Verb.
Financial Engineering is Engineering based on the supremacy of the Verb in the Trinity Structure: Subject/Verb/Object to dictate the economic system. It is the verb that dictates that Money must be a Court Jester called Debt and we the Objects of this debt money system are the Fools (as long as we continue to tolerate the perversion and what it does to us believing that There Is No Alternative.
The alternative is written on the wall: What money is designed to be as the dictating subject creator of the monetary/finance system must be established as the true king of the economic trinity of........
Money/Decisions/Common Good.
Finance is only one of a multitude of variable verb words that maybe be substituted in this sentence for what money does to result in the receiver of its Object action: Common Good.
Money cannot be a subservient product of the verb Finance we call Debt Money.
Money is properly the king subject of the state we call "We the People". We endow it by choice of a free people to be the controller chosen law of the land chosen to order our social relationship decisions. It is not a child of Debt and those that rule by Debt creation. It is a positive Debt Free thing that we create because Freedom to do this is the the antithesis of domination by a Special Interest to create it for us to their greater good of a few.
The term "Financial Engineering" was used in this excellent analysis of why Elizabeth Warren is really fighting so hard against the nomination of Antonio Weiss. It is the bigger picture of "Financial Engineering" to which we are subservient to the decision making power of money to serve those that designed the Financial system to have the verb Finance dictate its structure for their perverted private benefit as the expense of decision making power of money to serve the common good.
"Owned by the richest man in Brazil, billionaire Jorge Lemann, 3G specializes in picking up companies through debt-financed buyouts, and mercilessly cutting costs. Private equity managers get paid hefty fees out of the cash flows, increasing debt as the value of the company slowly gets siphoned off into executives’ pockets. They take the profits, while someone else gets stuck with the losses."...............................
"Through brokering these deals, Weiss facilitated this transformation of American capitalism, as a cog in the wheel of a corporate strategy that has led to a stunning gap between productivity and wages and historic levels of inequality. The deindustrialization of the country has turned us into a nation of financial managers and the service workers who attend to them, virtually eliminating the middle class. Weiss became a very wealthy man from this process, which every Democrat from the president on down likes to decry."
The con game of the flim flam artist is to divert the attention of the mark to the action of the game while the con man controls the objects of the game (by hiding them or their true nature from the mark). Marks are easy to deceive with directing their attention to the action of the game, Those that keep their eye on the ball rather than the play are harder to bamboozle.
Controlling the form of the ball is controlling the game. Dictate the ball and it determines the action of the game to be played. Football, baseball, basketball, etc. The ball is a constant.
The con artist trick of Finance is to control the ball in play but to make the ball (money) so hard to grasp and our total attention devoted to the the action of grasping it. Always just enough out of reach and amorphous enough to benefit them greatly as they "help" us to grasp the object they control with great benefit to themselves because it is their ball. The con artists win. Set, Game and Match.
When the ball is determined by a third party the two teams (two parties to an exchange) agree on and the ball is known by its persistent object attributes. Debt money really has no object attributes, its only attribute is a numerical property and that property foundation is negative.
Positive money is an entirely different ball with which to play the game. A game where we can keep our eye on the ball. An honest game of fair competition on a level playing field involving what we do with the ball that becomes a decision making object tool in play for both public and private spending decisions. The decisions on what money does are reflected in changes of ownership of discrete money amounts represented in accounts. What money is.....is the ball. It does not change is does not come in and out of existence at the command of a bankster. It is persistent and we own the ball we play with.
The paradigm shift of Financial Engineering must be from a system structured on the Playing the game to the Object we Play with. A neutral object that is the basic subject of the game in accordance with the computational trinity and Object Oriented System Design and Implementation methodology of our Information Age. That is how modern Information Systems are designed an built.
The current Financial system and its dominance of the monetary system is old school from a past that will continue to not just constrain us but fail us in operation until it is restructured on a fundamental object instead of a fundamental action.
Debt creates Money. Parsing the structure of this sentence: Debt is the subject noun, creates is the verb, Money is the object noun, otherwise described as the receiver of the subject noun action that is implemented by the nature of the verb that relates the subject to the object.
Stuff we learned in 3rd grade. However that fundamental structure is the Trinity Site of our natural language. The E=M(C squared) of language.
Monetary Engineering establishes the attributes of the object Money in the same way that the object Nature was designed to establish the attributes of the physical world. Put another way; The physical world is a function of the attributes of Nature. Laws of Nature define its attributes. They are fundamentally rigid rules.
In the conceptual world, the one we whip up out of nothing with our imagination, rigid rules do not necessarily have to be a function of natural rules. It is a good thing if they are modeled on natural rules since they make an excellent environmental model. On the other hand they are not bound in any way by natural rules. What can the product of imagination be? Why, my dear, it can be anything we want it to be to do anything we want it to do. It all depends on how we want to structure the relationships of the conceptual objects we play with that are products of our unbound imagination.
Play is the verb form action that relates Subject and Object things. Which thing will be the Subject and which thing will be the Object is arbitrary but that arbitrary choice is the genesis of two very different implementations of a total system structure when they are put into "Play"
Debt chosen as Subject and Money as Object produces one structure to play with.
Money chosen as Subject and Debt as Object produces a different structure to play with.
The nature of the verb that joins them puts Debt/Money or Money/Debt into Play.
The king of the trinity structure of Subject/Verb/Object is Subject. The Verb? Without it we might presume some kind of a relationship to the object but that relationship is an action joining the relationship of Subject to Object. The action itself can be any of a vast number of Verbs while the Subject and Object remain constant. Like the number of plays on a football field where one team is offense and the other is defense.
What happens if Verb says to Subject, I am the most important thing (an action is a really sub-type of a thing if Think is a universal term that can be applied to any and all things in existence including actions and things like time).
Is time a noun or a verb? I digress. Call it a verb. God made world. In this sentence She made it by implementing the relationship of herself to the world through the verb of time. Time is what we see as her knowledge of eternity. She had to make it easier for us to understand eternity by knowing time, which is not easy but doable as a work in progress.
When the Verb is king of the Subject/Verb/Object relationship it drives the nature of the trinity. When we choose to create conceptual systems where the verb drives the system structure design there is greater, almost unlimited, latitude in the nature of the system that can be created. It is a system where the nature of the verb Play dictates the rules. Or put another way: Who controls the nature of Play controls the after the fact establishment of rules to serve nature of whatever the Subject of Play may be and consequently the thing that jumped over the fence last......the Object of Play.
It is an Alice in Wonderland world when Play is King (or the Crazy Queen) that makes the King a Jester Fool that is a puppet Object on the strings of Play.
Finance is a verb. Finance has been made by Crazy Queen Banksters to be the Jester Fool Object dancing on a string to the tune of Finance to extract resources from the Object of the relationship trinity.
Like all monarchy that "Rules" the structure of a society, Rules is the implementing Verb that subjugates the natural domination of the Object to the power of the Verb to dictate the structure by fooling like a Court Jester the Object of the Ruling Monarchy: That is everyone that is not Monarchy (by default). Call them peasants, sheeple, any object of this Alice in Wonderland perversion of the natural order of things that will tolerate the supremacy of the Verb.
Financial Engineering is Engineering based on the supremacy of the Verb in the Trinity Structure: Subject/Verb/Object to dictate the economic system. It is the verb that dictates that Money must be a Court Jester called Debt and we the Objects of this debt money system are the Fools (as long as we continue to tolerate the perversion and what it does to us believing that There Is No Alternative.
The alternative is written on the wall: What money is designed to be as the dictating subject creator of the monetary/finance system must be established as the true king of the economic trinity of........
Money/Decisions/Common Good.
Finance is only one of a multitude of variable verb words that maybe be substituted in this sentence for what money does to result in the receiver of its Object action: Common Good.
Money cannot be a subservient product of the verb Finance we call Debt Money.
Money is properly the king subject of the state we call "We the People". We endow it by choice of a free people to be the controller chosen law of the land chosen to order our social relationship decisions. It is not a child of Debt and those that rule by Debt creation. It is a positive Debt Free thing that we create because Freedom to do this is the the antithesis of domination by a Special Interest to create it for us to their greater good of a few.
The term "Financial Engineering" was used in this excellent analysis of why Elizabeth Warren is really fighting so hard against the nomination of Antonio Weiss. It is the bigger picture of "Financial Engineering" to which we are subservient to the decision making power of money to serve those that designed the Financial system to have the verb Finance dictate its structure for their perverted private benefit as the expense of decision making power of money to serve the common good.
"Owned by the richest man in Brazil, billionaire Jorge Lemann, 3G specializes in picking up companies through debt-financed buyouts, and mercilessly cutting costs. Private equity managers get paid hefty fees out of the cash flows, increasing debt as the value of the company slowly gets siphoned off into executives’ pockets. They take the profits, while someone else gets stuck with the losses."...............................
"Through brokering these deals, Weiss facilitated this transformation of American capitalism, as a cog in the wheel of a corporate strategy that has led to a stunning gap between productivity and wages and historic levels of inequality. The deindustrialization of the country has turned us into a nation of financial managers and the service workers who attend to them, virtually eliminating the middle class. Weiss became a very wealthy man from this process, which every Democrat from the president on down likes to decry."
The con game of the flim flam artist is to divert the attention of the mark to the action of the game while the con man controls the objects of the game (by hiding them or their true nature from the mark). Marks are easy to deceive with directing their attention to the action of the game, Those that keep their eye on the ball rather than the play are harder to bamboozle.
Controlling the form of the ball is controlling the game. Dictate the ball and it determines the action of the game to be played. Football, baseball, basketball, etc. The ball is a constant.
The con artist trick of Finance is to control the ball in play but to make the ball (money) so hard to grasp and our total attention devoted to the the action of grasping it. Always just enough out of reach and amorphous enough to benefit them greatly as they "help" us to grasp the object they control with great benefit to themselves because it is their ball. The con artists win. Set, Game and Match.
When the ball is determined by a third party the two teams (two parties to an exchange) agree on and the ball is known by its persistent object attributes. Debt money really has no object attributes, its only attribute is a numerical property and that property foundation is negative.
Positive money is an entirely different ball with which to play the game. A game where we can keep our eye on the ball. An honest game of fair competition on a level playing field involving what we do with the ball that becomes a decision making object tool in play for both public and private spending decisions. The decisions on what money does are reflected in changes of ownership of discrete money amounts represented in accounts. What money is.....is the ball. It does not change is does not come in and out of existence at the command of a bankster. It is persistent and we own the ball we play with.
The paradigm shift of Financial Engineering must be from a system structured on the Playing the game to the Object we Play with. A neutral object that is the basic subject of the game in accordance with the computational trinity and Object Oriented System Design and Implementation methodology of our Information Age. That is how modern Information Systems are designed an built.
The current Financial system and its dominance of the monetary system is old school from a past that will continue to not just constrain us but fail us in operation until it is restructured on a fundamental object instead of a fundamental action.
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
TARP Wasn't Repaid With a Profit
From this link:
"TARP wasn’t “repaid” with a profit. It was simply perpetuated and morphed into a new form of destructive state subvention and malinvestment. By David Stockman, David Stockman’s Contra Corner."
It answers the question: Where did the banks get the money to repay TARP. It socialized the cost of their crime. They committed it. We paid for it. Is that the justice system?
Washington Post stupid meme repetition:
"Warren criticized TARP in 2009 and 2010, arguing (incorrectly, as it turned out) that it would be a taxpayer giveaway to the banks. She hectored Geithner in 2010 to redo his “stress tests” of U.S. banks after a first round indicated that TARP had been effective. “How could you be confident of these financial institutions without rerunning the stress tests?” she asked. As it turned out, TARP made a $15 billion profit, Treasury announced last Friday."
"Has Warren apologized for getting this wrong or conceded that the financial recovery program engineered by Geithner, Summers and then-Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was a success? Not to my knowledge. But in the process, she disowns a Democratic president’s historic achievement."
Stockman is right. Who is WaPo shilling for?
"TARP wasn’t “repaid” with a profit. It was simply perpetuated and morphed into a new form of destructive state subvention and malinvestment. By David Stockman, David Stockman’s Contra Corner."
It answers the question: Where did the banks get the money to repay TARP. It socialized the cost of their crime. They committed it. We paid for it. Is that the justice system?
Washington Post stupid meme repetition:
"Warren criticized TARP in 2009 and 2010, arguing (incorrectly, as it turned out) that it would be a taxpayer giveaway to the banks. She hectored Geithner in 2010 to redo his “stress tests” of U.S. banks after a first round indicated that TARP had been effective. “How could you be confident of these financial institutions without rerunning the stress tests?” she asked. As it turned out, TARP made a $15 billion profit, Treasury announced last Friday."
"Has Warren apologized for getting this wrong or conceded that the financial recovery program engineered by Geithner, Summers and then-Federal Reserve Chair Ben Bernanke was a success? Not to my knowledge. But in the process, she disowns a Democratic president’s historic achievement."
Stockman is right. Who is WaPo shilling for?
Website of the Year: Naked Capitalism!
Naked Capitalism is my supreme go to site. Yves is my hero. She kicks the ball into play and commenters run with it with a more than usual input of ideas and discussion of them among themselves. It is a joy to follow the thread of comments. Intelligent, thought provoking.
This might be one of the best balls of the year that Yves has kicked into play:
Why is None Fighting the New Robber Barons?
A great number of the Naked Capitalism regulars have contributed to the discussion of the Bill Moyers interview of historian Steve Fraser that she prefaced with an introduction. Yves followed the discussion and contributed to it as well. Excellent stuff.
Bill's full interview of Steve Fraser is here.
Absolutely the best stuff!
I only wish that there had been more focus on Ben Johannsen's comment:
"Free-market religion cannot be shaped to serve the interests of the people without effectively enshrining it. This religion must be torn out by the roots, not by tinkering with tax rates. The good news: the insights needed for doing so already exist, and they begin with the State Theory of Money."
"Where does produced wealth come from? It is created socially and then appropriated for private use. Government and its sovereign currency must exist before private entities can coordinate to produce abundance. The collective political entity is the maker and individuals are always and everywhere the takers."
This might be one of the best balls of the year that Yves has kicked into play:
Why is None Fighting the New Robber Barons?
A great number of the Naked Capitalism regulars have contributed to the discussion of the Bill Moyers interview of historian Steve Fraser that she prefaced with an introduction. Yves followed the discussion and contributed to it as well. Excellent stuff.
Bill's full interview of Steve Fraser is here.
Absolutely the best stuff!
I only wish that there had been more focus on Ben Johannsen's comment:
"Free-market religion cannot be shaped to serve the interests of the people without effectively enshrining it. This religion must be torn out by the roots, not by tinkering with tax rates. The good news: the insights needed for doing so already exist, and they begin with the State Theory of Money."
"Where does produced wealth come from? It is created socially and then appropriated for private use. Government and its sovereign currency must exist before private entities can coordinate to produce abundance. The collective political entity is the maker and individuals are always and everywhere the takers."
Monday, December 22, 2014
The Other Torture Report; The Panetta Review
An amazing display of journalism reported by Ali Watkins at Huffington Post.
I had a strong suspicion that there was much more behind the senate staffers investigation of the CIA documents. That they had somehow gotten something that they should not have gotten. (Or was it intended by someone?). Something big was going on behind the scenes of a shift from the Senate Intelligence Committee being an (unwittingly duped?) friend (tool) of the CIA to being its foe but attempting to keep the conflict behind closed doors.
As far as I can see I think that Ali Watkins lays out the full story clearly for everyone to see. Unfortunate that it took second fiddle to the headliner of the day: COURT GIVES ORANGUTAN 'NON-HUMAN PERSON' RIGHTS.
Ali had the bigger story but its precedence (lack of) is a sad comment on journalism in general.
Her report is a blockbuster. Who exactly in government has the supreme power to dictate orders other branches of government? When it comes down to who has it f... them all including the Supremes and the check and balance of power among the branches. It is us, we the people, that have the power to rule and dictate. We give that power to our representatives. The system power among of the three branches works as long as it continues to work at our pleasure. When it does not then the whole thing works at our collective will and dictates.
When one branch demands and the other refuses they all bow to the will of the people or they lose their position power and conceptual Heads of their respective branches of government. All of them. Among the equal branches of government the Legislative as representatives of the people is the most equal. If it does not exercise its prerogative power to demand in a "stand and deliver" showdown then it is far beyond the mechanism of electing representatives of the people to eventually, over years, resolve the power conflict in favor of "we the people".
There is great merit in dissolving a government and immediately calling for an election of the ddissolving issue. "Going Atomic" is a power of the people. "Going Atomic" in the squabbles within the Legislative Branch or among branches of government is a firecracker in comparison. We the people are the power. To hell with all those security rating and black compartmentalized secrecy and rules for declassification because things are just to secret for anyone in the public to know. When the overwhelming majority of the public demands to know, by force if necessary, what are all those public servants going to do? Start burning secret documents before we can storm the walls to capture them by right, WHEN WE DEMAND IT?
What kind of a demand is that and what is its nature? It is exactly the right of free people to exercise in the manner that is necessary to protect their freedom that would be denied by the government that is held accountable to the people.
Our president has failed us. Does he have the power to direct the CIA to release the Panetta report? Exactly what is he Commander in Chief of?
What if the president summoned John Brennan to the Whitehouse and ordered him to bring the Panetta report with him. What would be Brennans response?
Famous line from the movie "A Few Good Men":
Maybe Brennan would summon the President to Langley and tell him who runs this country.
It is a strange situation where so much attention is focused on the Financial Power to control the government. Financial Power is said to use our governmental enforcement power to serve its interests, when necessary. However, enforcement power, when not held in check by our elected government is the supreme power to dominate every other power entity.
Wow! What a movie scene: President Obama summons Brennan to the Whitehouse and ordered to bring the Panetta report. Brennan enters the Oval Room. It is broadcast live to the nation and the world. The President demands the report. Brennan says..........
Naw....that would just be a humorous intro to Saturday Night Live????
Prosecute the Torturers Are they a power beyond the law? Beyond control? Do they have the power to exercise control beyond any overiding control? Who is in charge?
Stats after posting this blog entry: What is an "Untrusted Browser"????????
I had a strong suspicion that there was much more behind the senate staffers investigation of the CIA documents. That they had somehow gotten something that they should not have gotten. (Or was it intended by someone?). Something big was going on behind the scenes of a shift from the Senate Intelligence Committee being an (unwittingly duped?) friend (tool) of the CIA to being its foe but attempting to keep the conflict behind closed doors.
As far as I can see I think that Ali Watkins lays out the full story clearly for everyone to see. Unfortunate that it took second fiddle to the headliner of the day: COURT GIVES ORANGUTAN 'NON-HUMAN PERSON' RIGHTS.
Ali had the bigger story but its precedence (lack of) is a sad comment on journalism in general.
Her report is a blockbuster. Who exactly in government has the supreme power to dictate orders other branches of government? When it comes down to who has it f... them all including the Supremes and the check and balance of power among the branches. It is us, we the people, that have the power to rule and dictate. We give that power to our representatives. The system power among of the three branches works as long as it continues to work at our pleasure. When it does not then the whole thing works at our collective will and dictates.
When one branch demands and the other refuses they all bow to the will of the people or they lose their position power and conceptual Heads of their respective branches of government. All of them. Among the equal branches of government the Legislative as representatives of the people is the most equal. If it does not exercise its prerogative power to demand in a "stand and deliver" showdown then it is far beyond the mechanism of electing representatives of the people to eventually, over years, resolve the power conflict in favor of "we the people".
There is great merit in dissolving a government and immediately calling for an election of the ddissolving issue. "Going Atomic" is a power of the people. "Going Atomic" in the squabbles within the Legislative Branch or among branches of government is a firecracker in comparison. We the people are the power. To hell with all those security rating and black compartmentalized secrecy and rules for declassification because things are just to secret for anyone in the public to know. When the overwhelming majority of the public demands to know, by force if necessary, what are all those public servants going to do? Start burning secret documents before we can storm the walls to capture them by right, WHEN WE DEMAND IT?
What kind of a demand is that and what is its nature? It is exactly the right of free people to exercise in the manner that is necessary to protect their freedom that would be denied by the government that is held accountable to the people.
Our president has failed us. Does he have the power to direct the CIA to release the Panetta report? Exactly what is he Commander in Chief of?
What if the president summoned John Brennan to the Whitehouse and ordered him to bring the Panetta report with him. What would be Brennans response?
Famous line from the movie "A Few Good Men":
It is a strange situation where so much attention is focused on the Financial Power to control the government. Financial Power is said to use our governmental enforcement power to serve its interests, when necessary. However, enforcement power, when not held in check by our elected government is the supreme power to dominate every other power entity.
Wow! What a movie scene: President Obama summons Brennan to the Whitehouse and ordered to bring the Panetta report. Brennan enters the Oval Room. It is broadcast live to the nation and the world. The President demands the report. Brennan says..........
Naw....that would just be a humorous intro to Saturday Night Live????
Prosecute the Torturers Are they a power beyond the law? Beyond control? Do they have the power to exercise control beyond any overiding control? Who is in charge?
Stats after posting this blog entry: What is an "Untrusted Browser"????????
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Saturday, December 20, 2014
Gigapixel Cameras and Surveillance
I have made prior blog entries about gigapixel cameras. A fascinating technology being developed at Duke University. The basketball game gigapixel detail of individual faces are amazing but on the other hand it could be a picture of a crown of people assembled for any purpose. Just add facial recognition........
A gigapixel picture is different than a gigapixel camera. A gigapixel picture can be produces by a camera that has much less than a gigapixel image chip. It just takes a large number of high pixel pictures with a telephoto lense and stitches the all together like this from IPVM. It takes refresh time. A gigapixel camera has a gigapixel image chip (aggregate of many smaller pixel capacity chips and captures the image with all of them at one time over a large area. Fast enough not to just do a snap shot but record to gigapixel video in real time? I'm not sure about that. Post processing may later provide time delayed "real time" video imagery. Real time in real time is something else but it may do that.
This Darpa Youtube published 17 Dec. 2014 explains Argus capabilities. Argus is not new. There is probably even greater current ability that is not being revealed and may have relationship to the blimp recently launched.
A gigapixel picture is different than a gigapixel camera. A gigapixel picture can be produces by a camera that has much less than a gigapixel image chip. It just takes a large number of high pixel pictures with a telephoto lense and stitches the all together like this from IPVM. It takes refresh time. A gigapixel camera has a gigapixel image chip (aggregate of many smaller pixel capacity chips and captures the image with all of them at one time over a large area. Fast enough not to just do a snap shot but record to gigapixel video in real time? I'm not sure about that. Post processing may later provide time delayed "real time" video imagery. Real time in real time is something else but it may do that.
This Darpa Youtube published 17 Dec. 2014 explains Argus capabilities. Argus is not new. There is probably even greater current ability that is not being revealed and may have relationship to the blimp recently launched.
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Nuclear Weapons
Tom Englehardt is my hero and publishes at TomDispatch.com. He features selected writing of others related to thoughts and perspectives on current events that contribute substantially to the formation of my own thoughts on world affairs.
This is his preface comment introducing
Posted by James Carroll at 8:00am, December 11, 2014.
It is an examination of nuclear weapon stockpiles and Obama's statements regarding their reduction.
Statement about something that is never going to happen to any reasonable degree.
It involves intent of many stakeholders. Our elected representatives are our stakeholding agents.
They are supposed by popular misconception of the functioning of our democracy to be our voice in
governing ourselves for our common good. They pay lip service to that idea but do otherwise.
Congress votes on many things. I want them to vote individually on how many nuclear weapons each
of them consider necessary for the defense (or offense) of this country and then state why they have chosen
that number as well as a projected "budgeted" number in a 10 year defense plan explaining contingencies of
national defense in relationship to the nuclear stockpiles of all other nuclear nations.
The ultimate question that they must answer is this:
If all other nations reduce their nuclear weapon stockpiles to zero and there is an inspection program to
assure that they do then would they agree that the United States would also eliminate all of its
nuclear weapons?
This is his preface comment introducing
Posted by James Carroll at 8:00am, December 11, 2014.
It is an examination of nuclear weapon stockpiles and Obama's statements regarding their reduction.
Statement about something that is never going to happen to any reasonable degree.
It involves intent of many stakeholders. Our elected representatives are our stakeholding agents.
They are supposed by popular misconception of the functioning of our democracy to be our voice in
governing ourselves for our common good. They pay lip service to that idea but do otherwise.
Congress votes on many things. I want them to vote individually on how many nuclear weapons each
of them consider necessary for the defense (or offense) of this country and then state why they have chosen
that number as well as a projected "budgeted" number in a 10 year defense plan explaining contingencies of
national defense in relationship to the nuclear stockpiles of all other nuclear nations.
The ultimate question that they must answer is this:
If all other nations reduce their nuclear weapon stockpiles to zero and there is an inspection program to
assure that they do then would they agree that the United States would also eliminate all of its
nuclear weapons?
Weaponizing Fiscal Policy To Sell Off The Public Domain
The title of this blog entry was extracted from
Jeffrey Sommers and Michael Hudson: The Koch Brothers’ Governors
Posted on bySaturday, December 6, 2014
Neocrap Is The Same Old Shit Warmed Over
Neo. It means new. That is an adjective. In use it attaches to a chosen word to create a new single word. Not a new way of changing language as it culturally evolves. For example; neophyte is a new to something person. Literally it is a plant that grows or does something else in a new way. Somehow neophyte entered the cultural language to become a new single word. The origin does not really matter except academically.
Neo has become a popular attachment modifier to create new words. Neoliberal, neoconservative, or as a stepping stone to a new single word like this; neo-economics.
Neoshit is the same old shit. Perhaps for the sake of accuracy it is warmed over shit.
New words and phrases may creap into the cultural lexicon via popular use among the public as it likes to use a single word in place of what may have been two words or a phrase. That is cultural language evolution initiated by social preference. Media is the origin of many such words. We like them, adopt them, use them. They become established in independent meaning detatching from their original use and meaning but we know what they mean in current use.
When media imposes the use of a neoword for the purpose of propaganda that is a dangerous thing because it literally intends to hide the fact (in plain sight!) that the neoword is just the same old warmed over ship dressed up as something really new. How gullible we are.
Neoanything is the same old shit warmed over. I will never use any modern neo word again. I will look at it but say an write: New (old word). I will seek an app that will automatically convert any written or spoken neoword to to this form and also automatically adding this in parenthesis just to remind me that someone is trying to pull the wool over my eyes by using neosomething as one word: They really mean the same old shit warmed over. Whatever else they say or write is suspect as propaganda.
Media is being manipulated to sell neoshit propaganda. It is the same old shit under a new name but the public eats it up thinking it is something new and better. Excellent marketing. The public has lost control over the public language by voting for what it wants introduced to the lexicon by popular acclaim. We are using new words created by those that seek to manipulate the language with new words and phrases for the same old shit "quantitative easing".
Here is a neoword that looks like it was created by the people, not the press.
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=neoshit
Friday, December 5, 2014
Blockstream
Blockstream is an enterprise that seeks to create infrastructure to apply the block chain concept to a global system of value exchange. That concept applied to Bitcoin is now being called side chain because Bitcoin introduced the concept and is therefore the "Parent". Unfortunate because Bitcoin simply gave us a application of the true parent of the concept and that parent is Blockchain. Bitcoin is a child object of Blockchain with its own unique sector application.
It's unfortunate that the public persona of Bitcoin is the owner of the the Blockchain concept. The relationship is actually reversed. Block chain is the big object. Bitcoin just an application. Blockchain is more like a universal operating system. Application to the problem domain of money is simply one of its many applications.
Those that recognize that Blockchain is an open source operating system are the fist comers to the gold strike to mine it, apply it to a whole new conceptual world of object value identification, organization, documentation over time line, accountability, exchange, security, ownership. Ownership in the broadest sense of validating stake holding as well as exact ownership of objects like money.
I have written about broad application of the block chain concept in prior blog entries at this site. I'm surprised that creative minds have not grasped the broad application quicker. Maybe because of its initial association with a money application that has some degree of disrepute. The clear fact is that those that profit from the complexities that cast shadows on the wall to their advantage at to disadvantage of those that are confused by the shadows will fight to the death of their flawed conceptual structures that must, and will be replaced by better conceptual structures serving the rules of logic, the language to express it and the conceptual structures that the language is used to create.
The Logic nature of abstract conceptual objects is expressed in terms of a specialized Blockchain Language to produce a social structure Time and Physical/Conceptual object creation and control.
Wow, I really am getting somewhere in understanding the Big Picture!
Blockchain will soon become the most profound conceptual application of the World Wide Web.
Blockchain will challenge and rise above Finance as the dominating conceptual operating system controlling our social structure applications.
It's unfortunate that the public persona of Bitcoin is the owner of the the Blockchain concept. The relationship is actually reversed. Block chain is the big object. Bitcoin just an application. Blockchain is more like a universal operating system. Application to the problem domain of money is simply one of its many applications.
Those that recognize that Blockchain is an open source operating system are the fist comers to the gold strike to mine it, apply it to a whole new conceptual world of object value identification, organization, documentation over time line, accountability, exchange, security, ownership. Ownership in the broadest sense of validating stake holding as well as exact ownership of objects like money.
I have written about broad application of the block chain concept in prior blog entries at this site. I'm surprised that creative minds have not grasped the broad application quicker. Maybe because of its initial association with a money application that has some degree of disrepute. The clear fact is that those that profit from the complexities that cast shadows on the wall to their advantage at to disadvantage of those that are confused by the shadows will fight to the death of their flawed conceptual structures that must, and will be replaced by better conceptual structures serving the rules of logic, the language to express it and the conceptual structures that the language is used to create.
The Logic nature of abstract conceptual objects is expressed in terms of a specialized Blockchain Language to produce a social structure Time and Physical/Conceptual object creation and control.
Wow, I really am getting somewhere in understanding the Big Picture!
Blockchain will soon become the most profound conceptual application of the World Wide Web.
Blockchain will challenge and rise above Finance as the dominating conceptual operating system controlling our social structure applications.
Saturday, November 29, 2014
Killing Odds
What probability standard justifies the killing of a human being who is judged to have some degree of possibility of inflicting grievous physical harm to another human being, their possessions or collectively their institutions?
In the case of killing with drones 41 men were targeted, 1,147 were killed.
That has some implied ambiguity but that is the headline. The ambiguity is that not all 1,147 killed were men which would seem to be more honorable than the killing of women and children. That leads to examination of the matter of honorable or at least ethical killing.
Killology is an interesting website with an academic approach to the matter of killing. It is framed in the military and law enforcement problem domain as well as general civilian authority to kill. Biased? Not to the military mindset of LtCol Grossman. His past military title lends some credence to his knowledge but also frames his approach. If his name was preceded by the title Rev. he may have a different frame of reference.
Institutions need measurable criteria for critical functions. There certainly must be some established measure of collateral damage (killing those that are not targeted, not judged culpable) for drone strikes. Whatever the collateral damage actually is becomes the defacto criteria ratio?
In other words, whoever dies and in what number they die in relation to whoever is intended to be killed (or failure to kill) is the acceptable odds justifying the attempt and the actual after the fact results?
Can anyone say: Yes, but we did not mean to kill them?
But we did and we did mean to kill them.
A little reminder: 20 years after being ordered to tally cop shootings, the DOJ still isn't doing it
Killing is a matter of accountability. If unintended killing of innocent persons is statistically acceptable, perhaps within established judgment parameters making the actual killing of innocent persons a rubber number then exceeding that number demands some accountability. However, if that number of the judgment criteria is not established before the fact then there is no accountability after the fact.
What is the acceptable number if innocent people killed in the attempt to kill those that are specifically targeted for killing?
Why, my dear friend, it is any number you wish it to be.
What America's police Departments Do Not Want You To Know
presents analysis of statistical killing by police. Greater than reported by official sources? Official sources are not even reporting in compliance with requirements. Not that they are refusing, required by law systems for reporting have not been established so how can the police agencies be held accountable for concise reporting. The exact situation they seek might be the answer. In this information age independent actors can aggregate killing statistics from media reports.
Killing is an important social event. Especially when it is done in the USA. From the standpoint of our domestic media, killing in other countries, who does it and exactly who gets killed is a subjective matter depending on media management. It seems that the media is a biased scorekeeper regarding either foreign or domestic killing. Reporting specific incidents at the granular level of killing single people but no total score keeping statistics.
Killing should be important enough to know the statistics, the circumstances for each and every killing in the USA.. The killing (death by violent means whatever they may be by definition meaning perhaps by other than natural means of death as the default criteria) should be an exact national statistic. Who caused it may be another matter but that is one of sub class categorization.
In the case of killing with drones 41 men were targeted, 1,147 were killed.
That has some implied ambiguity but that is the headline. The ambiguity is that not all 1,147 killed were men which would seem to be more honorable than the killing of women and children. That leads to examination of the matter of honorable or at least ethical killing.
Killology is an interesting website with an academic approach to the matter of killing. It is framed in the military and law enforcement problem domain as well as general civilian authority to kill. Biased? Not to the military mindset of LtCol Grossman. His past military title lends some credence to his knowledge but also frames his approach. If his name was preceded by the title Rev. he may have a different frame of reference.
Institutions need measurable criteria for critical functions. There certainly must be some established measure of collateral damage (killing those that are not targeted, not judged culpable) for drone strikes. Whatever the collateral damage actually is becomes the defacto criteria ratio?
In other words, whoever dies and in what number they die in relation to whoever is intended to be killed (or failure to kill) is the acceptable odds justifying the attempt and the actual after the fact results?
Can anyone say: Yes, but we did not mean to kill them?
But we did and we did mean to kill them.
A little reminder: 20 years after being ordered to tally cop shootings, the DOJ still isn't doing it
Killing is a matter of accountability. If unintended killing of innocent persons is statistically acceptable, perhaps within established judgment parameters making the actual killing of innocent persons a rubber number then exceeding that number demands some accountability. However, if that number of the judgment criteria is not established before the fact then there is no accountability after the fact.
What is the acceptable number if innocent people killed in the attempt to kill those that are specifically targeted for killing?
Why, my dear friend, it is any number you wish it to be.
What America's police Departments Do Not Want You To Know
presents analysis of statistical killing by police. Greater than reported by official sources? Official sources are not even reporting in compliance with requirements. Not that they are refusing, required by law systems for reporting have not been established so how can the police agencies be held accountable for concise reporting. The exact situation they seek might be the answer. In this information age independent actors can aggregate killing statistics from media reports.
Killing is an important social event. Especially when it is done in the USA. From the standpoint of our domestic media, killing in other countries, who does it and exactly who gets killed is a subjective matter depending on media management. It seems that the media is a biased scorekeeper regarding either foreign or domestic killing. Reporting specific incidents at the granular level of killing single people but no total score keeping statistics.
Killing should be important enough to know the statistics, the circumstances for each and every killing in the USA.. The killing (death by violent means whatever they may be by definition meaning perhaps by other than natural means of death as the default criteria) should be an exact national statistic. Who caused it may be another matter but that is one of sub class categorization.
Daniel Defoe Tried to Figure Out What Money Is
Thanks to this link containing reference to Daniel Defoe attempting to grasp what money is. Yes, that Daniel Defoe that wrote Robinson Crusoe. He was a pioneer in Economic Journalism. Read his name link to Wikipedia. The story of his life could be a novel itself, Maybe the basis for a mini-series. Quite fascinating.
Defoe wrote this about what money (credit) is:
Defoe wrote this about what money (credit) is:
"Like the Soul in the Body, it acts all Substance, yet is it self Immaterial; it
gives Motion, yet it self cannot be said to Exist; it creates Forms, yet has
it self no Form; it is neither Quantity or Quality; it has no Whereness, or
Whenness, Scite, or Habit. If I should say it is the essential Shadow of
something that is Not; should I not Puzzle the thing rather than Explain it,
and leave you and my self more the Dark than we were before? (1710, p.
6)"
Note on Scite definition: The ground upon which it stood. Apparently an older spelling and original meaning of the word "cite" as used in citation of of a reference.
Understanding what credit money is.....is like trying to catch the wind. He tried to grasp it, I am trying to do the same. Maybe this is the explanation: Money is something that slips through the fingers! Think about that.
Money is some thing that slips through the fingers. It cannot be grasped. That is exactly the nature that the creators of money and owner masters and designers of the concept sought to establish and succeeded in the attempt so very well. It slips through our fingers but not their fingers! On the other hand, to continue the metaphor, the interest on the credit called money does not slip through their fingers even when the credit money slips back to the nothingness from which they created it.
Money is a figment of the imagination of banksters. Interest on the credit money figment is something in the hand!
Note on Scite definition: The ground upon which it stood. Apparently an older spelling and original meaning of the word "cite" as used in citation of of a reference.
Understanding what credit money is.....is like trying to catch the wind. He tried to grasp it, I am trying to do the same. Maybe this is the explanation: Money is something that slips through the fingers! Think about that.
Money is some thing that slips through the fingers. It cannot be grasped. That is exactly the nature that the creators of money and owner masters and designers of the concept sought to establish and succeeded in the attempt so very well. It slips through our fingers but not their fingers! On the other hand, to continue the metaphor, the interest on the credit called money does not slip through their fingers even when the credit money slips back to the nothingness from which they created it.
Money is a figment of the imagination of banksters. Interest on the credit money figment is something in the hand!
Tuesday, November 25, 2014
Everybody Must Get Banked
A fundamental rule in the monetary system that I propose described throughout in this blog is that that every entity that transacts with digital money must have a bank account. Those that do not currently have a bank account are called "unbanked". In this information age of digital money in bank accounts everybody must get banked. It is a world wide objective.
The government is promoting being banked and for those that are unbanked it sends out debit cards. The preferred situation is to be banked. The time is probably also coming when everyone must have a cell phone and carry it at all times for bio identification and location tracking. Not soon, I hope.
I fully support the rule that every entity that spends or receives money must do so through a bank account. The bank then makes adjustments among accounts as well as passing transactions to the government to implement changes in ownership relationship of money in the government debt free monetary system. A system where all digitized, serialized dollars in the unit denomination of one is maintained in a cyber vault, (at Fort Knox) much like gold, and never moves. Only the accounting association relating to who owns what is in the vault changes.
The government is promoting being banked and for those that are unbanked it sends out debit cards. The preferred situation is to be banked. The time is probably also coming when everyone must have a cell phone and carry it at all times for bio identification and location tracking. Not soon, I hope.
I fully support the rule that every entity that spends or receives money must do so through a bank account. The bank then makes adjustments among accounts as well as passing transactions to the government to implement changes in ownership relationship of money in the government debt free monetary system. A system where all digitized, serialized dollars in the unit denomination of one is maintained in a cyber vault, (at Fort Knox) much like gold, and never moves. Only the accounting association relating to who owns what is in the vault changes.
Postal Service. The Government Monetary System and the Banking Accounting System
This link sparked my thoughts this morning: Why Congress Should Not Get Out Of The Way Of The Postal Service
The role of the Postal Service as a Federal Government agency is worthy of analysis from the broad perspective of government provided public services vs services provided by free private enterprise. Worthy of analysis because it is a back burner issue that should be brought to the front burner. The issue is a fundamental battleground where the public and private interests conflict. An issue as fundamental as the one that divides us politically into two parties and two philosophies: The domains of Public and Private structures and their operation to provide services to our citizens.
At the national level what centrally manged institutions in order of ranking have the greatest degree of dispersed geographical presence throughout the country?
McDonalds? 14,000 outlets in the USA.
Post Office retail outlets: 31,000. More stats at this link.
That is a range dispersion question. What about depth of organizational penetration?
I contend that there is no single national level institutional management entity comparable to the Postal System in both geographical range and and physical system structural depth in our country.
Is that an accurate contention?
If not then what other singe centrally managed institution (besides the government in general or any other single government institution) has a comparable geographic range and physical structure depth down to grass roots services to the public that "touches" the public every day?
Fox News? Fox news only delivers, they do not own the physical delivery system.
A religious institution? They only deliver on Sunday and no single one is under command and control to deliver to all. Only to those that will enter but open to everyone (with certain qualifications for entry).
Enough of the speculation.
Institutional Banking in the Federal Reserve System is the only entity that I can immediately think of that has the range and depth reach of the Postal System. Institutional Banking under the domain of the Federal Reserve Bank is perhaps the standard bearer of the free private enterprise profit oriented system. There are 3,000 member banks in the Federal Reserve Bank System with the top 3 banks have 16,000 branches. It is however a system of federated banks under a single system that calls itself "Federal" but is not a government agency.
Obviously it apparently evident that the private sector competitor of the Postal System is collectively the national level package delivery system corporations.
Less obvious but perhaps of greater importance is that the private banking system is also a competitor of the Postal System.
It looks to me like the Postal System is the federal government's "foot in the door" entry to a national level public services monetary system at a brick and mortar level that is a strategic well established geographic and information management system providing core public and public managed services.
I contend that what money "is" must be disconnected from what money "does". What money "is" belongs to government, what money "does" belongs to private banking. The Postal System is a geographically dispersed information networked computer based system that potentially offers the best combination of resources necessary to manage a government debt free monetary system.
Emasculation or removal of that potential of the Postal System is strategic to the maintenance of private enterprise control of what money "is" as well as what it "does".
As long as the banking system controls what money "is" it will fail to serve the greater public good in applying what money does, which is the domain of free private enterprise.
What money is and the monetary system that establishes and maintains it existence independent of but in relation to its private application use as a medium of exchange is the sovereign right of government. The Postal System currently has the best structure to re-purpose as the means to establish government control of a debt free monetary system.
In the monetary system structure that I have proposed in numerous prior blog entries the logical and physical interface between what money is (government system uniquely serialized digital dollar ) and what money does (banking system account) would exist at the local level between the Federal Reserve banking system branches and the government Postal System branches. Local level encompassing everything in scale from the smallest to the largest city/area.
An accounting transaction between unique accounts involving money used as a medium of exchange transaction (what money does) made at a "local" level banking institution interfaces with an equally local government agency (Postal Agency) to block chain register a change of ownership of related digitized, uniquely serialized dollars in denomination units of one each maintained by the government that collectively represents what money "is".
The "Postal Agency" term takes on new meaning. It becomes the Posting Agency that validates transactions in the Banking Accounting System against the related serialized money units existing in the Government Monetary System.
That is a check and balance system between public control of a monetary system and private enterprise application of a debt free monetary system as a medium of exchange in trade which may, in one application of trade, be in the domain of a credit system under the banking system double entry debit/credit control accounting system.
Money itself, as it exists as a debt free object in the government monetary system is subject to double entry control but not directly related to the debit/credit domain subsystem of bank lending. The double entry is between money in the government system and the banking system always being in balance and equal at the total as well as the granular serialized unit dollar level.
The role of the Postal Service as a Federal Government agency is worthy of analysis from the broad perspective of government provided public services vs services provided by free private enterprise. Worthy of analysis because it is a back burner issue that should be brought to the front burner. The issue is a fundamental battleground where the public and private interests conflict. An issue as fundamental as the one that divides us politically into two parties and two philosophies: The domains of Public and Private structures and their operation to provide services to our citizens.
At the national level what centrally manged institutions in order of ranking have the greatest degree of dispersed geographical presence throughout the country?
McDonalds? 14,000 outlets in the USA.
Post Office retail outlets: 31,000. More stats at this link.
That is a range dispersion question. What about depth of organizational penetration?
I contend that there is no single national level institutional management entity comparable to the Postal System in both geographical range and and physical system structural depth in our country.
Is that an accurate contention?
If not then what other singe centrally managed institution (besides the government in general or any other single government institution) has a comparable geographic range and physical structure depth down to grass roots services to the public that "touches" the public every day?
Fox News? Fox news only delivers, they do not own the physical delivery system.
A religious institution? They only deliver on Sunday and no single one is under command and control to deliver to all. Only to those that will enter but open to everyone (with certain qualifications for entry).
Enough of the speculation.
Institutional Banking in the Federal Reserve System is the only entity that I can immediately think of that has the range and depth reach of the Postal System. Institutional Banking under the domain of the Federal Reserve Bank is perhaps the standard bearer of the free private enterprise profit oriented system. There are 3,000 member banks in the Federal Reserve Bank System with the top 3 banks have 16,000 branches. It is however a system of federated banks under a single system that calls itself "Federal" but is not a government agency.
Obviously it apparently evident that the private sector competitor of the Postal System is collectively the national level package delivery system corporations.
Less obvious but perhaps of greater importance is that the private banking system is also a competitor of the Postal System.
It looks to me like the Postal System is the federal government's "foot in the door" entry to a national level public services monetary system at a brick and mortar level that is a strategic well established geographic and information management system providing core public and public managed services.
I contend that what money "is" must be disconnected from what money "does". What money "is" belongs to government, what money "does" belongs to private banking. The Postal System is a geographically dispersed information networked computer based system that potentially offers the best combination of resources necessary to manage a government debt free monetary system.
Emasculation or removal of that potential of the Postal System is strategic to the maintenance of private enterprise control of what money "is" as well as what it "does".
As long as the banking system controls what money "is" it will fail to serve the greater public good in applying what money does, which is the domain of free private enterprise.
What money is and the monetary system that establishes and maintains it existence independent of but in relation to its private application use as a medium of exchange is the sovereign right of government. The Postal System currently has the best structure to re-purpose as the means to establish government control of a debt free monetary system.
In the monetary system structure that I have proposed in numerous prior blog entries the logical and physical interface between what money is (government system uniquely serialized digital dollar ) and what money does (banking system account) would exist at the local level between the Federal Reserve banking system branches and the government Postal System branches. Local level encompassing everything in scale from the smallest to the largest city/area.
An accounting transaction between unique accounts involving money used as a medium of exchange transaction (what money does) made at a "local" level banking institution interfaces with an equally local government agency (Postal Agency) to block chain register a change of ownership of related digitized, uniquely serialized dollars in denomination units of one each maintained by the government that collectively represents what money "is".
The "Postal Agency" term takes on new meaning. It becomes the Posting Agency that validates transactions in the Banking Accounting System against the related serialized money units existing in the Government Monetary System.
That is a check and balance system between public control of a monetary system and private enterprise application of a debt free monetary system as a medium of exchange in trade which may, in one application of trade, be in the domain of a credit system under the banking system double entry debit/credit control accounting system.
Money itself, as it exists as a debt free object in the government monetary system is subject to double entry control but not directly related to the debit/credit domain subsystem of bank lending. The double entry is between money in the government system and the banking system always being in balance and equal at the total as well as the granular serialized unit dollar level.
Monday, November 24, 2014
Space and Time and Money
This is a thought provoking video presenting the nature of Space and Time into a Single Continuum.
In a manner that I will not explain there are different hypothesis that look at and explain things in different ways. My view of a monetary system is one and it relates past, present and future from the standpoint of monetary transactions. Without transaction points there is no meaning to money.
At one point the narrator says what if the flowing river was frozen in place. That is how I view the money object in simple terms. Frozen in a cyber vault. It (money as an entity object like a coin) does not change hands. Exclusive ownership claim on the cyber coin object in the vault changes in a thing external to the vault called an Account that keeps track of (establishes) the connection of each and every (in sum total) unique owner's account to each and every (in sum total) unique coin (uniquely serialized digital dollar) in the locked cyber vault.
The monetary unit is absolutely static. The account is totally dynamic. The two entities, money and account are always equal when expressed in terms of dollars.
Dollars are the constant. Past, present and future. "New"(as required) dollars in the future exist now, they have simply not been called into being yet. The next "future" dollar already has an identity. It is the next unique serial number on the continuum list of serialized dollars to be "born" as necessary/needed to meet monetary system requirements to support/accomplish the social application of what money does for us.
My burning question is to discover/define what money is.
Money is the collection of uniquely identified units in the cyber vault that never "move".
What money does is accomplished by the Accounts to which the units in the vault are associated by "ownership" in the account of unique account owners.
Ownership of static money in the cyber vault through account relationship moves like time. There is conceptual past, present and future ownership conditions. The conditions are expressed by a secure block chain accounting validation control applied to past and present and to be applied to future transactions as they become "now" transactions
What is the hypothetical rule behind all this?
Is the rule this: There must be a single fixed eternal point against which everything else moves. A single fixed point that enables the movement. Call it a god point with a unitary value of One. Call it a digital dollar with a unitary value of One that is infinitely divisible to unique decimal slices of fixed denominations of choice to enable its application as a social tool to serve us in each of our account identities as users.
Thanksgiving has always been the high water mark of my conceptual thinking power. A moving thing that crests at this time.
Time is Money/
Gotta theorize about that.
In a manner that I will not explain there are different hypothesis that look at and explain things in different ways. My view of a monetary system is one and it relates past, present and future from the standpoint of monetary transactions. Without transaction points there is no meaning to money.
At one point the narrator says what if the flowing river was frozen in place. That is how I view the money object in simple terms. Frozen in a cyber vault. It (money as an entity object like a coin) does not change hands. Exclusive ownership claim on the cyber coin object in the vault changes in a thing external to the vault called an Account that keeps track of (establishes) the connection of each and every (in sum total) unique owner's account to each and every (in sum total) unique coin (uniquely serialized digital dollar) in the locked cyber vault.
The monetary unit is absolutely static. The account is totally dynamic. The two entities, money and account are always equal when expressed in terms of dollars.
Dollars are the constant. Past, present and future. "New"(as required) dollars in the future exist now, they have simply not been called into being yet. The next "future" dollar already has an identity. It is the next unique serial number on the continuum list of serialized dollars to be "born" as necessary/needed to meet monetary system requirements to support/accomplish the social application of what money does for us.
My burning question is to discover/define what money is.
Money is the collection of uniquely identified units in the cyber vault that never "move".
What money does is accomplished by the Accounts to which the units in the vault are associated by "ownership" in the account of unique account owners.
Ownership of static money in the cyber vault through account relationship moves like time. There is conceptual past, present and future ownership conditions. The conditions are expressed by a secure block chain accounting validation control applied to past and present and to be applied to future transactions as they become "now" transactions
What is the hypothetical rule behind all this?
Is the rule this: There must be a single fixed eternal point against which everything else moves. A single fixed point that enables the movement. Call it a god point with a unitary value of One. Call it a digital dollar with a unitary value of One that is infinitely divisible to unique decimal slices of fixed denominations of choice to enable its application as a social tool to serve us in each of our account identities as users.
Thanksgiving has always been the high water mark of my conceptual thinking power. A moving thing that crests at this time.
Time is Money/
Gotta theorize about that.
Monday, November 17, 2014
Finance, Money and Control
Finance controls money in the current system. Finance creates money. It is called into existence as a function of finance and takes on the nature and attributes of Debt.
The system must be changed.
Money must control finance. Money must be extracted from the creation of finance and subject to creation by an independent Monetary Authority as an object with identity in a Monetary Operating System to be used in/by finance applications as well as the more general medium of exchange.
Otherwise the current dysfunctional system collapses under the fallacious fundamental design of it own weight.
The system must be changed.
Money must control finance. Money must be extracted from the creation of finance and subject to creation by an independent Monetary Authority as an object with identity in a Monetary Operating System to be used in/by finance applications as well as the more general medium of exchange.
Otherwise the current dysfunctional system collapses under the fallacious fundamental design of it own weight.
Me and the Director of the NSA and Warfare
I understand Keith Alexander. I feel the same compulsion that drove him as director of the NSA.
Total information all the time is total and absolute control. Absolute control means absolute power to enforce control.
Alexander wanted total information on everyone. Foreign or domestic. Control at the unique individual person level. Every last bit of information about them in real time and in history. In his world of control the granular level was the uniquely identified individual to which information can be associated or attributed. No individual evades the given number of hops from the relationship of one individual to another. All individuals are uniquely identified and associated on some level. Nobody is not identified. The total population is identified. Like a super census. No Exceptions.
What I want is total information on money like Alexander (and NSA as a continuing institution) wants on all people. Control down to the basic granular level. That level is one unique person for the NSA to which all info is attached. That level for money is one uniquely identified digital serialized dollar in the denomination of one. Each and every unique dollar in the total population is uniquely identified and subject to absolute information in real time and history.
The end game level of control is "All present and accounted for". Maybe it helps to have a military mindset to understand that phrase.
One day at sea the Executive Officer (XO) was viewing the daily muster on the ship at sea. It did not match yesterday's muster count. Muster on a ship is important. It can change at sea due to helo/fixed wing traffic, high line transfer, man overboard, rescue of a non-ship member at sea or death. Maybe a birth nowadays? I was old navy. Total personnel count all the time. Man overboard meant all hands to muster stations for a count. That is what the XO did that day and was furious when the count did not match what was reported to him that morning. Every division kept counting until counts matched.
Every permanently attached sailor on board had a personnel record. It could be viewed at any time by their division officer. All officer's records could be viewed by the XO. The XO's by the CO. Every on board member also had a pay record and a medical record. My disbursing officer could view all pay records. I could also but never looked at an individual one but did count and verify all cash on hand which also had its own record. Just like all controlled items like weapons, security codes, medical substances including gold leaf for the dentist and medicinal brandy were on record by individual unit measurement and inventoried periodically. My food stores and repair parts as well but not as strict as money or controlled drugs. Enumeration of things was important from every component of the ship and things on board it all the way up to the hull number on port and starboard side of the bow.
I never thought about shipboard control like that while on board but in distant hindsight I see it now. I was stock control officer on my first ship. I had an IBM card for each of the 30,000 items I controlled. Looking in hindsight at my entire career the degree of control (and responsibility) that I either had or was responsible for designing systems to control was story of my service. One assignment extended to nuclear weapons and reactors.
Control was not just important. It was the ultimate military mission objective applied to our own personnel and material forces. Enemy forces as well: Kill and destroy in defense of freedom. Total information is how that is done.
The military mindset is an excellent attribute for the head of the NSA.
Admiral Michael S. Roberts is the current Director, NSA. The link is analogous to looking at his personnel record. He has one. A pay record too. Also a medical/dental record. A Background Investigation (BI) record. A security clearance record. A chain of fitness reports going back to his first one. The CNO, Chairman of the JCS, SecDef and President could look at all of them, I suppose. I wonder if he could look at theirs? Interesting question as to who watches the watchers. There is always counter-intelligence.
A senior military member has responsibility for the safety and security of the nation through control of an enormous Information System with relatively unlimited available resources including R&d as the head of the NSA.
How is the person going to run his Command?
All present and accounted for as well as all info about every unique individual.
I would run the Monetary System the same way. I would be the Disbursing Officer of the NSA but I would go beyond having every person's pay record. I would have a record for every individual uniquely serialized unit of one dollar in the safe. That is the way it is done on a ship. I would extend the system however to keep every individual's dollar (and if added up then he dollar owned total) in the safe and a personnel pay record to which it must balance substantiating ownership of the dollar in the safe. The dollar in the safe would never leave. Only the ownership of that dollar related to a shipboard member would change on the shipboard pay record. The dollar in the safe would know the accounting chain history of every on board member that ever had ownership of the dollar in the safe.
Every citizen is a personnel member on board the USS United States, Hull number 1.
If I had stayed in I would have never been a contender for selection as Director, NSA but I like to think I could have been his Disbursing Officer. I did not care how the sailors on the ship spent their money but I certainly kept good records on the money they did spent like sailors do.
Looking at the big picture, military members give up rights to privacy as defenders of freedom. They can however vote with their feet which became and remains a great matter of concern for force retention.
We are all headed in that direction but how can we vote with our feet?
We can't. That is how everything is controlled. Total war, all the time.
Total information all the time is total and absolute control. Absolute control means absolute power to enforce control.
Alexander wanted total information on everyone. Foreign or domestic. Control at the unique individual person level. Every last bit of information about them in real time and in history. In his world of control the granular level was the uniquely identified individual to which information can be associated or attributed. No individual evades the given number of hops from the relationship of one individual to another. All individuals are uniquely identified and associated on some level. Nobody is not identified. The total population is identified. Like a super census. No Exceptions.
What I want is total information on money like Alexander (and NSA as a continuing institution) wants on all people. Control down to the basic granular level. That level is one unique person for the NSA to which all info is attached. That level for money is one uniquely identified digital serialized dollar in the denomination of one. Each and every unique dollar in the total population is uniquely identified and subject to absolute information in real time and history.
The end game level of control is "All present and accounted for". Maybe it helps to have a military mindset to understand that phrase.
One day at sea the Executive Officer (XO) was viewing the daily muster on the ship at sea. It did not match yesterday's muster count. Muster on a ship is important. It can change at sea due to helo/fixed wing traffic, high line transfer, man overboard, rescue of a non-ship member at sea or death. Maybe a birth nowadays? I was old navy. Total personnel count all the time. Man overboard meant all hands to muster stations for a count. That is what the XO did that day and was furious when the count did not match what was reported to him that morning. Every division kept counting until counts matched.
Every permanently attached sailor on board had a personnel record. It could be viewed at any time by their division officer. All officer's records could be viewed by the XO. The XO's by the CO. Every on board member also had a pay record and a medical record. My disbursing officer could view all pay records. I could also but never looked at an individual one but did count and verify all cash on hand which also had its own record. Just like all controlled items like weapons, security codes, medical substances including gold leaf for the dentist and medicinal brandy were on record by individual unit measurement and inventoried periodically. My food stores and repair parts as well but not as strict as money or controlled drugs. Enumeration of things was important from every component of the ship and things on board it all the way up to the hull number on port and starboard side of the bow.
I never thought about shipboard control like that while on board but in distant hindsight I see it now. I was stock control officer on my first ship. I had an IBM card for each of the 30,000 items I controlled. Looking in hindsight at my entire career the degree of control (and responsibility) that I either had or was responsible for designing systems to control was story of my service. One assignment extended to nuclear weapons and reactors.
Control was not just important. It was the ultimate military mission objective applied to our own personnel and material forces. Enemy forces as well: Kill and destroy in defense of freedom. Total information is how that is done.
The military mindset is an excellent attribute for the head of the NSA.
Admiral Michael S. Roberts is the current Director, NSA. The link is analogous to looking at his personnel record. He has one. A pay record too. Also a medical/dental record. A Background Investigation (BI) record. A security clearance record. A chain of fitness reports going back to his first one. The CNO, Chairman of the JCS, SecDef and President could look at all of them, I suppose. I wonder if he could look at theirs? Interesting question as to who watches the watchers. There is always counter-intelligence.
A senior military member has responsibility for the safety and security of the nation through control of an enormous Information System with relatively unlimited available resources including R&d as the head of the NSA.
How is the person going to run his Command?
All present and accounted for as well as all info about every unique individual.
I would run the Monetary System the same way. I would be the Disbursing Officer of the NSA but I would go beyond having every person's pay record. I would have a record for every individual uniquely serialized unit of one dollar in the safe. That is the way it is done on a ship. I would extend the system however to keep every individual's dollar (and if added up then he dollar owned total) in the safe and a personnel pay record to which it must balance substantiating ownership of the dollar in the safe. The dollar in the safe would never leave. Only the ownership of that dollar related to a shipboard member would change on the shipboard pay record. The dollar in the safe would know the accounting chain history of every on board member that ever had ownership of the dollar in the safe.
Every citizen is a personnel member on board the USS United States, Hull number 1.
If I had stayed in I would have never been a contender for selection as Director, NSA but I like to think I could have been his Disbursing Officer. I did not care how the sailors on the ship spent their money but I certainly kept good records on the money they did spent like sailors do.
Looking at the big picture, military members give up rights to privacy as defenders of freedom. They can however vote with their feet which became and remains a great matter of concern for force retention.
We are all headed in that direction but how can we vote with our feet?
We can't. That is how everything is controlled. Total war, all the time.
“Compared to war, all other forms of human endeavor shrink to insignificance. God help me, I do love it so.”
― George S. Patton Jr.
― George S. Patton Jr.
"War is a Racket"
Major General Smedley Butler, 1935
Money is a child of finance in the world order.
The new warfare is one of economic dominance, regardless of the nature of other orders of philosophy. Maybe it always was the root of warfare. A warfare in which some die and some make a killing.
Financial warfare is something we all do every day. This warfare must be controlled for the common good, meaning those that "suffer (by definition)" as casualties of this financial warfare (many truly die) are protected as a security obligation of government and the ambition of those that make a killing from it are also controlled. To do this "Money" must be extracted as an object and made independent of Finance and managed by the government as its Sovereign right. That extraction is done by designing a monetary system that converts money from a debt based object created by the banking system to a debt free asset object created by the government for the common good as well as the defense of the nation on a level economic world wide competitive playing field that uses Money in a Finance application. A competitive playing field on which is played out a race to the top of our collective aspirations, not a race to the bottom.
The Olympics is a good model.
The Olympics is warfare played out in sport.
Maybe military method is not really a form of diplomacy.
Conceptual military methods of strict command and control in the support of the common good and freedom principals of our nation can make a contribution to our social structure if applied to a Monetary System independent of use of money in a Financial System.
We certainly need Regulators and regulation control over the use of money in the financial system. I think that Bill Black would agree with that. Conceptually, military structures do that kind of thing very well.
The NSA is conceptually and extraction of Information Warfare from (but tightly linked to) hardware warfare. A product of our information age. Economic warfare is the big scale war in the information age. All the little shooting wars just make sound an fury in the background but get all the attention.
Military coup to take over governments and/or governing control of social structures is a fact of history and a common theme of fiction.
What really runs the world structure of governance is money. Dollar as the Reserve Currency rules as it is applied to finance. Military forces protect that domination as it is used in finance and thereby protect our financial control of the world and the financial system that enables it.
What makes war a racket is protecting the financial application of money.
The military mission (appropriately assigned to the NSA) should be to internally protect a Monetary System totally open to transparency with privacy protection established by government independent of its Financial Application that is a matter of public and private rules and regulations.
That's my best shot!
The Pentagon Preps for Economic Warfare - April 2009
Such war-games are consistent with a raft of Pentagon planning documents which suggest that National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance is partially motivated to prepare for the destabilising impact of coming environmental, energy and economic shocks.
It is not about economic warfare. Economics is Finance. Economics is about what is done with money. Money is at the root. It is about Monetary System Warfare. Control Money and economics is controlled.
Monetary warfare more of an information warfare matter. Therefore appropriately a matter of the NSA as well as action. The military is the hardware arm of warfare to apply hardware to the problem. Blow things up. The NSA is the information arm to provide the military info in order to blow things up. However when the necessary action is purely information defense or offensive action then the NSA is the actor, not the military.
What is the NSA game plan for Monetary System Warfare? Is it being simulated, tested now?
Money is a child of finance in the world order.
The new warfare is one of economic dominance, regardless of the nature of other orders of philosophy. Maybe it always was the root of warfare. A warfare in which some die and some make a killing.
Financial warfare is something we all do every day. This warfare must be controlled for the common good, meaning those that "suffer (by definition)" as casualties of this financial warfare (many truly die) are protected as a security obligation of government and the ambition of those that make a killing from it are also controlled. To do this "Money" must be extracted as an object and made independent of Finance and managed by the government as its Sovereign right. That extraction is done by designing a monetary system that converts money from a debt based object created by the banking system to a debt free asset object created by the government for the common good as well as the defense of the nation on a level economic world wide competitive playing field that uses Money in a Finance application. A competitive playing field on which is played out a race to the top of our collective aspirations, not a race to the bottom.
The Olympics is a good model.
The Olympics is warfare played out in sport.
Maybe military method is not really a form of diplomacy.
Conceptual military methods of strict command and control in the support of the common good and freedom principals of our nation can make a contribution to our social structure if applied to a Monetary System independent of use of money in a Financial System.
We certainly need Regulators and regulation control over the use of money in the financial system. I think that Bill Black would agree with that. Conceptually, military structures do that kind of thing very well.
The NSA is conceptually and extraction of Information Warfare from (but tightly linked to) hardware warfare. A product of our information age. Economic warfare is the big scale war in the information age. All the little shooting wars just make sound an fury in the background but get all the attention.
Military coup to take over governments and/or governing control of social structures is a fact of history and a common theme of fiction.
What really runs the world structure of governance is money. Dollar as the Reserve Currency rules as it is applied to finance. Military forces protect that domination as it is used in finance and thereby protect our financial control of the world and the financial system that enables it.
What makes war a racket is protecting the financial application of money.
The military mission (appropriately assigned to the NSA) should be to internally protect a Monetary System totally open to transparency with privacy protection established by government independent of its Financial Application that is a matter of public and private rules and regulations.
That's my best shot!
The Pentagon Preps for Economic Warfare - April 2009
Such war-games are consistent with a raft of Pentagon planning documents which suggest that National Security Agency (NSA) mass surveillance is partially motivated to prepare for the destabilising impact of coming environmental, energy and economic shocks.
It is not about economic warfare. Economics is Finance. Economics is about what is done with money. Money is at the root. It is about Monetary System Warfare. Control Money and economics is controlled.
Monetary warfare more of an information warfare matter. Therefore appropriately a matter of the NSA as well as action. The military is the hardware arm of warfare to apply hardware to the problem. Blow things up. The NSA is the information arm to provide the military info in order to blow things up. However when the necessary action is purely information defense or offensive action then the NSA is the actor, not the military.
What is the NSA game plan for Monetary System Warfare? Is it being simulated, tested now?
Saturday, November 15, 2014
Sovereign Money - Joseph Huber
This is a link to Joseph Huber "Sovereign Money" website.
Excellent material. I make it a blog entry for my future reference.
I agree totally with what he says here: ( I'm sure he will be glad to know that)/
"As a consequence, commentators overlook the fact that money creation and money lending/spending are two different functions, but carried out uno actu in the present credit-money or debt-money system based on fractional reserves. The wrong identity of credit and money also leads critics to deny that in a modern money system the money base or money supply in circulation can be debt-free (not, of course, the loans or securities issued by use of that money). As long as economists stick to the absolutised axiomatic identification of money with credit, their support for monetary reform is likely to be lukewarm at best."
Money creation and lending are two different functions! The primary and sole purpose of money creation is not lending but direct establishment of a medium of exchange. In the debt based monetary system creation of money that is its primary purpose with secondary purpose of being a medium of exchange.
The Monetary System is the operating system. Lending is simply one of the million of buying/selling of things that can be done using pre-existing money in the Monetary Operating System. In the lending situation it is used to sell/buy (as a medium of exchange) contractual future return payments of money plus interest payments of money. Finance is one application function of money.
Application programs do not dictate nor dominate the conceptual structure of the operating system!
Burning wood is a functional application of thermodynamics, not the the creator of the energy!
Excellent material. I make it a blog entry for my future reference.
I agree totally with what he says here: ( I'm sure he will be glad to know that)/
"As a consequence, commentators overlook the fact that money creation and money lending/spending are two different functions, but carried out uno actu in the present credit-money or debt-money system based on fractional reserves. The wrong identity of credit and money also leads critics to deny that in a modern money system the money base or money supply in circulation can be debt-free (not, of course, the loans or securities issued by use of that money). As long as economists stick to the absolutised axiomatic identification of money with credit, their support for monetary reform is likely to be lukewarm at best."
Money creation and lending are two different functions! The primary and sole purpose of money creation is not lending but direct establishment of a medium of exchange. In the debt based monetary system creation of money that is its primary purpose with secondary purpose of being a medium of exchange.
The Monetary System is the operating system. Lending is simply one of the million of buying/selling of things that can be done using pre-existing money in the Monetary Operating System. In the lending situation it is used to sell/buy (as a medium of exchange) contractual future return payments of money plus interest payments of money. Finance is one application function of money.
Application programs do not dictate nor dominate the conceptual structure of the operating system!
Burning wood is a functional application of thermodynamics, not the the creator of the energy!
Monetary Terrorism
Parliament to debate ‘money creation’, first time in 170 years
Monetary Terrorism! A terrorist attack on the Banking System equal to 9-11!
It strikes terror into the heart of the Banking System and the very foundation upon which it is built and the source of its power to control and extract from society and the common good.
That foundation is DEBT!
What is the cure for debt?
Freedom!
Freedom from debt at the national level. The sovereign right of a nation to create its own debt free money.
It is a terror attack on the Debt Based Banking System by freedom fighters.
What can this lead to? A digital money evolution?
The real war on national debt has begun.
Positive Money - Brits Debate Money Creation
Parliament is going to devote 3 hours to debate money creation for the first time in 170 years on 20 November!
Fantastic!
Watch the online debate at this link.
The UK seems to be so far ahead in addressing this fundamental issue. In the USA we have the Kuchinch Bill but that is as close as we have come to serious discussion. Other cries to "End the Fed" don't really proclaim the issue, just nibble around the edges for mostly political self serving and odd ball philosophies. Some real thinking exists in the USA but nothing at the level that the UK will elevate this to.
PositiveMoney.org is a UK site. A place where they spell it "organisation". It gets attention there. I have always felt that the inclination of Brits to be empirical observers like Darwin runs strong in the national trait genetics. They can look at something objectively, organize their view of it logically and then make a clear simple, concise conclusion. Australians have this trait in their national character and maybe even a more pure one.
Bill Still talks about the upcoming Parliament Debate at this link. Bill Still makes clear statements about things that get to the essence of them. Delivery? Its unique but if he talked like Elmer Fudd it makes no difference to what he says. Maybe that is why it is lost on the media caused brain dead dummies used to the medium being the message.
This video linked from the Positive Money site: Money is at the root of our economic a social problems. The way the Brits speak is the other side of the coin that Bill is on and enhances the subject of discussion. For the media/message brain dead public it helps the medicine go down. For those that get it it adds a delightful flavor to the facts and truth. What is said in the video about the current monetary system is the absolute truth as well as the concluding statement that a positive money system will be much, much better than anything we had before.
This is going to be a Parliament debate. Something Americans are not used to. A public dialog where the issue is actually discussed not just some politician talking to empty seats or seats with filled with empty suits going unchallenged until the next speaker gets their turn to say something unheard. In the USA the debate takes place elsewhere and the question is how much will you donate to me.
Money creation, the power to create it and who really has it and how they do it and what that does to us is the greatest issue of our time. It is the sovereign right of a nation that has been pre-empted or more ditectly, stolen from out government. Stolen from the people. Even the recent Big Heist has had not response to "Call the Cops, I Been Robbed!" The public has been victimized like a battered wife for so long by the banking system that it is the norm with the only difference from day to day being the severity of the beating punctuating periods of recovery from the last beating.
Is MP Steve Baker the Dennis Kuchinich of the UK?
MP Steve Baker wrote this (pdf): Bank Reform Demands Monetary Reform It advocates full reserve banking with a plan to get there. Positive money in other words. Debt free money in even more words. Debt free positive money in its creation essence but debt free money that can be loaned for interest. Money that buys something as a medium of exchange (interest) just like it can universally buy anything that has a price. Interest on contractual debt is merely one of the billions of things that money can buy.
Debt must not the foundation base of a monetary system. The interest that the debt contract buys is merely a function of a Positive Money, Full Reserve Money System Foundation. How could we have gone so wrong in choosing the the base (debt) on which to build our monetary system to serve us.
We did not choose it is the answer. It is in our self endowed power to choose a different base on which to build a monetary system now. It is our right. The debt based banking system is a world wide enterprise. It is the natural right of all free people to choose its founding principals.
Bank of Dave
This is a US Monetary Reform proposal written in the form of an Act based on 100% reserve, debt free money.
A program For Monetary Reform (1939) was an interesting find that calls for 100% reserve and proposes an implementation plan.
Wikipedia describes "Full Reserve Banking"
Joseph Huber presents his thinking on Banking Reform at his website"Sovereign Money"
Fantastic!
Watch the online debate at this link.
The UK seems to be so far ahead in addressing this fundamental issue. In the USA we have the Kuchinch Bill but that is as close as we have come to serious discussion. Other cries to "End the Fed" don't really proclaim the issue, just nibble around the edges for mostly political self serving and odd ball philosophies. Some real thinking exists in the USA but nothing at the level that the UK will elevate this to.
PositiveMoney.org is a UK site. A place where they spell it "organisation". It gets attention there. I have always felt that the inclination of Brits to be empirical observers like Darwin runs strong in the national trait genetics. They can look at something objectively, organize their view of it logically and then make a clear simple, concise conclusion. Australians have this trait in their national character and maybe even a more pure one.
Bill Still talks about the upcoming Parliament Debate at this link. Bill Still makes clear statements about things that get to the essence of them. Delivery? Its unique but if he talked like Elmer Fudd it makes no difference to what he says. Maybe that is why it is lost on the media caused brain dead dummies used to the medium being the message.
This video linked from the Positive Money site: Money is at the root of our economic a social problems. The way the Brits speak is the other side of the coin that Bill is on and enhances the subject of discussion. For the media/message brain dead public it helps the medicine go down. For those that get it it adds a delightful flavor to the facts and truth. What is said in the video about the current monetary system is the absolute truth as well as the concluding statement that a positive money system will be much, much better than anything we had before.
This is going to be a Parliament debate. Something Americans are not used to. A public dialog where the issue is actually discussed not just some politician talking to empty seats or seats with filled with empty suits going unchallenged until the next speaker gets their turn to say something unheard. In the USA the debate takes place elsewhere and the question is how much will you donate to me.
Money creation, the power to create it and who really has it and how they do it and what that does to us is the greatest issue of our time. It is the sovereign right of a nation that has been pre-empted or more ditectly, stolen from out government. Stolen from the people. Even the recent Big Heist has had not response to "Call the Cops, I Been Robbed!" The public has been victimized like a battered wife for so long by the banking system that it is the norm with the only difference from day to day being the severity of the beating punctuating periods of recovery from the last beating.
Is MP Steve Baker the Dennis Kuchinich of the UK?
MP Steve Baker wrote this (pdf): Bank Reform Demands Monetary Reform It advocates full reserve banking with a plan to get there. Positive money in other words. Debt free money in even more words. Debt free positive money in its creation essence but debt free money that can be loaned for interest. Money that buys something as a medium of exchange (interest) just like it can universally buy anything that has a price. Interest on contractual debt is merely one of the billions of things that money can buy.
Debt must not the foundation base of a monetary system. The interest that the debt contract buys is merely a function of a Positive Money, Full Reserve Money System Foundation. How could we have gone so wrong in choosing the the base (debt) on which to build our monetary system to serve us.
We did not choose it is the answer. It is in our self endowed power to choose a different base on which to build a monetary system now. It is our right. The debt based banking system is a world wide enterprise. It is the natural right of all free people to choose its founding principals.
Bank of Dave
This is a US Monetary Reform proposal written in the form of an Act based on 100% reserve, debt free money.
A program For Monetary Reform (1939) was an interesting find that calls for 100% reserve and proposes an implementation plan.
Wikipedia describes "Full Reserve Banking"
Joseph Huber presents his thinking on Banking Reform at his website"Sovereign Money"
Friday, November 14, 2014
Cell Phone IMSI and Vehicle License Plates
License plates uniquely identify vehicles. They are physical, optically visible. They can be and are being collected by law enforcement and private enterprise license plate readers feeding ID and location information into data bases.
Cell phone IMSI are analogous to license plates. Radio wave visible and associated with the related owner of the cell phone at probably a greater degree of owner correlation to operator accuracy than license plates. However operator correlation is probably only one hop away from owner if not the owner.
Cell phone IMSI is the conceptual equivalent of putting a license plate on our back. It simply takes a different reader to see it and connect it to who we are and where we are at any given time that it is looked at. That given time may be periodic or real time all the time. It is just a data block in total information all the time.
We don't know when our license plate and its location is being read, recorded and stored.
IMSI.......same, same.
It is said that 80% of the world's population now has a cell phone? I find that hard to believe, maybe true but the USA? Everybody has one.
Cell phone IMSI are analogous to license plates. Radio wave visible and associated with the related owner of the cell phone at probably a greater degree of owner correlation to operator accuracy than license plates. However operator correlation is probably only one hop away from owner if not the owner.
Cell phone IMSI is the conceptual equivalent of putting a license plate on our back. It simply takes a different reader to see it and connect it to who we are and where we are at any given time that it is looked at. That given time may be periodic or real time all the time. It is just a data block in total information all the time.
We don't know when our license plate and its location is being read, recorded and stored.
IMSI.......same, same.
It is said that 80% of the world's population now has a cell phone? I find that hard to believe, maybe true but the USA? Everybody has one.
Aerial IMSI Sniffer Detectors: We know where you sleep.
Recent reports of airborne IMSI detectors (Wired link here) as a surveillance tool caused me to think about their benefits. Obviously they can scoop up vast numbers of IMSI numbers in a short period of time. To what end use of data value.
Obvious is picking out in real time a known IMSI needle in the haystack of a big city and tracking it.
What is the big data value of thousands of IMSI picked up in an airborne flight over a city. It is a one time snap shot of each unique IMSI associated to a specific location. What is the value of that?
If the plane/drone/helicopter is constantly running a circular pattern then tracking of all IMSI is a periodic snap shot depending on overhead range and timing. If the detecting airborne craft is periodic, every several days or weeks then what is the value of a one day scoop?
Maybe there is a value of a one night scoop. Everybody sleeps. During that time they are stationary, so is their cell phone. It would only take a few night flights collecting IMSI and location between midnight and 4 am to match IMSI and location to a fixed point over different time periods.
The conclusion? That is where the person related to the IMSI is sleeping.
Most cell phone owners are on a multi year provider plan. They have the phone for a long period. Identify where it is at night on a consistent basis and that is where the person associated with it is located. It becomes a data base. When an unique IMSI of interest is identified and input to the data base the location of where it generally or always found during the 12 to 4am period pops up.
Useful information. I would imagine that over period of month there is probably a 90% consistency of cell phone IMSI during that period? Just a guess. Maybe a higher rate if the update is weekly flights. Geographic location would further narrow locations to residential or business sectors indication night workers vs sleepers.
Seems like the airborne IMSI night sweep would be valuable data for a number of surveillance information applications? More than I can immediately think of beyond where a person sleeps.
We know where you sleep therefore we know where you live. The last part of that is a popular threat of potential action.
On the other hand maybe somebody just wants to know that you are sleeping well and getting a good nights rest. Maybe it is the tooth fairy or your mom.
Other times of the day? Airborne sniffer sweepers collect IMSI location of every cell phone in the city. Same location every workday for a large number of cell phones tells where a person probably works. 335 million cell phones in the USA (2013). In any given city how many workers spend the day in the same place with a cell phone in their pocket? Hmmm.....WAG here: half?
Ad this to "We know where you sleep": We know where you work!
The amount of big data generated by an airborne IMSI sniffer sweep is a fascinating speculation. The amount of information derived from this data is vast as is the knowledge about the owner of the cell phone when other data/information is analyzed.
Is this being done? I would bet my iPhone on it!
Are all the sniffers/cell tower simulators in the exclusive possession of legitimate/authorized entities? Most likely not. The value of information that IMSI vacuumed data of a city is immense. What it could be sold for or used for makes the cost of obtaining a sniffer by any means inconsequential. The legitimate cost of a unit is $9,000. Nothing compared to the marketing/intelligence/etc data that it can scoop up. Much of that info is certainly persistent and does not require frequent flights to update. It is only an IMSI number and location. Sold to someone that has access to who is related to that IMSI it becomes specific private info, for what it might be worth in locating anybody. In general it has demographic value.
How did San Diego pay so much for their sniffers?
Obvious is picking out in real time a known IMSI needle in the haystack of a big city and tracking it.
What is the big data value of thousands of IMSI picked up in an airborne flight over a city. It is a one time snap shot of each unique IMSI associated to a specific location. What is the value of that?
If the plane/drone/helicopter is constantly running a circular pattern then tracking of all IMSI is a periodic snap shot depending on overhead range and timing. If the detecting airborne craft is periodic, every several days or weeks then what is the value of a one day scoop?
Maybe there is a value of a one night scoop. Everybody sleeps. During that time they are stationary, so is their cell phone. It would only take a few night flights collecting IMSI and location between midnight and 4 am to match IMSI and location to a fixed point over different time periods.
The conclusion? That is where the person related to the IMSI is sleeping.
Most cell phone owners are on a multi year provider plan. They have the phone for a long period. Identify where it is at night on a consistent basis and that is where the person associated with it is located. It becomes a data base. When an unique IMSI of interest is identified and input to the data base the location of where it generally or always found during the 12 to 4am period pops up.
Useful information. I would imagine that over period of month there is probably a 90% consistency of cell phone IMSI during that period? Just a guess. Maybe a higher rate if the update is weekly flights. Geographic location would further narrow locations to residential or business sectors indication night workers vs sleepers.
Seems like the airborne IMSI night sweep would be valuable data for a number of surveillance information applications? More than I can immediately think of beyond where a person sleeps.
We know where you sleep therefore we know where you live. The last part of that is a popular threat of potential action.
On the other hand maybe somebody just wants to know that you are sleeping well and getting a good nights rest. Maybe it is the tooth fairy or your mom.
Other times of the day? Airborne sniffer sweepers collect IMSI location of every cell phone in the city. Same location every workday for a large number of cell phones tells where a person probably works. 335 million cell phones in the USA (2013). In any given city how many workers spend the day in the same place with a cell phone in their pocket? Hmmm.....WAG here: half?
Ad this to "We know where you sleep": We know where you work!
The amount of big data generated by an airborne IMSI sniffer sweep is a fascinating speculation. The amount of information derived from this data is vast as is the knowledge about the owner of the cell phone when other data/information is analyzed.
Is this being done? I would bet my iPhone on it!
Are all the sniffers/cell tower simulators in the exclusive possession of legitimate/authorized entities? Most likely not. The value of information that IMSI vacuumed data of a city is immense. What it could be sold for or used for makes the cost of obtaining a sniffer by any means inconsequential. The legitimate cost of a unit is $9,000. Nothing compared to the marketing/intelligence/etc data that it can scoop up. Much of that info is certainly persistent and does not require frequent flights to update. It is only an IMSI number and location. Sold to someone that has access to who is related to that IMSI it becomes specific private info, for what it might be worth in locating anybody. In general it has demographic value.
How did San Diego pay so much for their sniffers?
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