Thursday, February 25, 2010

This time it is different:

This time it is different:

It seems many rich Greeks including professionals like doctors avoid paying taxes by under declaring and now that the country is in distress, unable to meet its debts obligations, in order to protect their wealth, they have taken their money out of the country (capital flight) and this aggravates a bad situation such that it collapses where it may not have without the capital flight.

THIS STORY IS NOT UNIQUE BUT IT IS EVEN UNIVERSAL IN THIS WORLD. THE FEW EARN A LOT BY HOOK AND CROOK AT THE EXPENSE OF THE SYSTEM AND THE COMMON PEOPLE, AUGMENTED BY TAX EVASION. IN GOOD TIMES THEY LEAVE THEIR MONEY IN BANKS BUT IN TODAY’S WORLD, CAPITAL CAN FLEE AND WHEN THEY DO THEY EMPTY THE BANKS SO THAT THEY HAVE NO MONEY AND THIS CAN LEAD TO A CRISIS.

AMERICA AND UK ARE ACTUALLY IN THE SAME BOAT AS GREECE, THEY MAY NEED TO RAISE INTEREST TO INDUCE FOREIGNERS TO KEEP BUYING TREASURY BILLS AND THIS RAISED INTEREST RATE CAN STIFLE ANY ECONOMIC RECOVERY SUCH THAT GOVERNMENTS ARE CAUGHT BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA.

Anwar spent 6 months in jail for nothing:

When Anwar was sentenced to six years in prison for abuse of power (to ask police to suppress allegations of sodomy), the six months he spent in jail before sentencing was not included when it should have been included. The reason may be to disqualify him from the coming future elections.

The written judgment by the judge why Anwar was guilty was because ANWAR FAILED TO CONVINCE THE COURT OF HIS INNOCENCE and therefore he is guilty.

It is not Anwar’s job to convince the court of his innocence but the prosecution job to convince beyond reasonable doubt Anwar was guilty and so the judgment is a travesty of justice.

This is a country where law is applied according to whims, by right Anwar should be in jail now because sodomy is not a bailable offence.

Again before the trial the court must reveal to the defence what evidence it has against Anwar and what witnesses it intends to call so that Anwar can prepare his defence but this was refused and the prosecution insists it does not have to do so.

AS I HAVE SAID, IF ANWAR TRULY SODOMIZED SAIFUL AND THEY HAVE DNA EVIDENCE, WHO CAN DENY THE GOVERNMENT AND SO IT DOES NOT HAVE TO RESORT TO SUCH HIGH HANDED DISPLAYS OF DISADVANTAGING THE DEFENCE AND SO WHY HAS IT DONE SO.

 THE RULING ELITE HAD NO DIFFICULTIES OVERRULING THE PREVIOUS RULING AND GETTING THE FEDERAL COURT TO RULE ZAMRY WAS THE LEGITIMATE MB OF PERAK SO IF IT HAS A GENUINE CASE AGAINST ANWAR, WHY GO THROUGH SUCH HULABALLOO THAT ALIENATES PUBLIC INDEED INTERNATIONAL OPINION AGAINST IT?

Women break down when recounting their rape:

Many women will breakdown and cry when recounting their rapes if it was an ordeal and even those who are stoic will be visibly sad or laboured when they have to relive their ordeals by recounting the event.

Many men are more shy than women to expose their private parts and so if Saiful has been truly sodomized by Anwar, why has he remained so composed in facing questioning about the event that should haunt him?

Sex one of life’s pleasures says Abbott:

Where there is mild to moderate force to be received through sight, sound, touch, smell and taste, there is pleasure and so whoever seeks pleasure be it sex or food or a cool breeze is seeking and enjoying contact with mild to moderate force that is stressful, meaningless and not everlasting or perishes. So whoever seeks sex seeks what perishes and he too will perish.

There are countless avenues through the five senses to receive mild force and so there are countless avenues for pleasure in this world and sex is only one of these avenues.

HE DOES NOT MEAN WHAT HE SAYS BECAUSE WHAT HE MEANT IS THAT SEX IS ONE OF THE TRUE PLEASURES OF THE WORLD THAT EVERYONE ENJOYS BUT THIS IS SO, ALTHOUGH MANY ENJOY SEX, THERE ARE SOME WHO HATE SEX, SO SEX IS NOT ONE OF LIFE’S PLEASURES, IT CAN BE TORTURE FOR SOME WOMEN EVEN MEN.

Sex is not always a pleasure even in the same person:

Sex is not always a pleasure even in the same person and so you are deluded to sing its praise. If you just had sex or are sick or tired then sex can turn you off. If the girl is ugly or nasty or smelly, sex may not be the pleasure you tout.

THERE IS NO NEED TO WAX LYRICAL OVER SEX, IT IS JUST A PLEASURE AND NOT ALWAYS SO AND SO HE IS DELUDED AND THAT IS NOT THE WAY TO HEAVEN.

UK may be worse than Greece:

Because tax receipts in January was much worse than expected, UK had a deficit for Jan when it always had a surplus and so UK’s public finance may be even worse than Greece. Many nations, US, Japan are in deep trouble and this could mean big trouble brewing this year.

On borrowed time: shock deficit threatens UK recovery

The national debt: £848,500,000,000

Gordon Brown’s launch of a Labour election campaign promising economic recovery was in jeopardy last night as a record slump in tax receipts fuelled fears that Britain could slip back into recession.

Official figures showed that the Treasury borrowed another £4.3 billion last month. It is the first time since records began in 1993 that the nation has been in the red in January, traditionally the month when government coffers are swelled by big tax receipts.

Economists, who had expected a surplus of about £2.8 billion, sounded renewed alarm, with some saying Britain’s deficit could exceed Greece’s. Kate Barker, of the Bank of England Monetary Policy Committee, added to the gloom, warning the recovery would be “hesitant” and another quarter of negative growth was possible.

Treasury officials insisted that the Government remained on track to borrow a total of £178 billion, 12.6 per cent of GDP, as forecast by Alistair Darling in the last Pre-Budget Report. However, City experts said the figures showed that the deficit could overtake the 12.7 per cent recorded by Greece.

That prospect makes a grim backdrop for the launch this weekend of Labour’s election slogans, which include promises to “ensure recovery” and “protect jobs”. In a speech today, the Prime Minister will rehearse his key economic themes with an attack on the Conservatives. “Instead of helping a recovery, their hatred of government action would risk the recovery,” he will tell a meeting of centre-left political leaders.

But Philip Hammond, the Shadow Chief Secretary to the Treasury, said that the “appalling” figures illustrated the urgent need to start reducing the rate at which debt was growing. “The Prime Minister must now heed the advice of leading economists and business leaders and set out a credible plan to get the deficit under control, starting this year to put Britain back on her feet,” he said.

Jonathan Loynes, of the economics consultancy Capital Economics, said: “Extrapolating the trend forward points to a full-year borrowing figure . . . equivalent of around 12.8 per cent of GDP, just in excess of Greece’s 2009 deficit . . . It is clear a more credible plan to restore the public finances to health will be required shortly after the general election to keep the markets and rating agencies at bay.”

The Government has had a surplus every January since monthly records began as millions of people settle their income tax and capital gains tax bills. The Treasury coffers were in surplus by £5.3 billion in January last year. But tax receipts plunged last month, reflecting sliding asset prices during the recession. Income taxes dropped by nearly 20 per cent year on year. Government spending continued to spiral, rising by 10 per cent compared with January last year.

The Institute for Fiscal Studies expects the Chancellor to finish the financial year just inside his borrowing forecasts of £178 billion, but analysts said that this would not change the pressing need for a sharp correction in the public finances. Total government debt stood at £848 billion in January.

Last night it emerged that more than 60 leading economists — including the Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz and five former members of the Monetary Policy Committee — have signed letters backing Mr Darling’s decision to delay spending cuts until 2011.

Sex makes life meaningful:

Often when people say ‘sex is one of life’s pleasures’ they actually mean emotionally that ‘sex makes life meaningful’.

The two are not equivalent and so the person did not say what he meant and did not mean what he said and it is therefore false.

There are many for whom sex is not a pleasure but even drudging and torture as some who work as prostitutes or must submit to their husbands may experience therefore it is false to say that sex is one of life’s pleasures because it can also be suffering and even in the same person it can be sickening or loathsome at times.

Sex does not give or add meaning to life, it is not make life meaningful and it has nothing to do with meaning except in your false perception or delusion.

THUS ANYONE WHO PERCEIVES THAT SEX IS WHAT MAKES LIFE WORTH LIVING IS DELUDED, HEADED FOR SUFFERING. IT IS FALSE TO SAY SEX IS A PLEASURE BECAUSE IT CAN BE DRUDGING EVEN TORMENTING EVEN IN THE SAME PERSON AT TIMES.

Pleasures are not absolute:

All pleasures are never absolute but relative, dependent on a mental state that is conducive to experiencing the pleasure derived from the senses that is always the product of mild to moderate force received.

Thus depending on your mood or disposition, the same pleasure (eg sex) that you may wax lyrical can be sickening or offensive.

The mind that is calm, unstirred by emotions (like, dislike, sadness, hurt, agitation or fear) free from stress, restlessness and distraction is the mind that is best suited to receiving and enjoying pleasures.

Thus people who are emotional (liking and disliking) and stressed (tired, harassed by demands) do not enjoy pleasures as much as those who are unemotional, unstressed.

In order to experience pleasures you have to possess a body with receptors or sensors, namely sight, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting through which to receive the incoming mild to moderate force that is requisite to experiencing pleasures and that is a restriction compared to someone who does not possess a body. A body is a burden not the pleasure it is touted to be.

EVEN IF TO HAVE A BODY IS A PLEASURE, BECAUSE PLEASURE IS A PRODUCT OF FORCE INPUT AND FORCE IS BLIND, MEANINGLESS AND LEADS TO STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND DISTRACTION, PLEASURE IS MEANINGLESS AND ULTIMATELY BAD NOT GOOD AS PEOPLE WHO PERCEIVE FALSELY PERCEIVE.

AGAIN IN LINE WITH THEIR FALSE PERCEPTION THEY PERCEIVE THEIR LIKING OR ATTRACTIVE STIRRING OF THEIR MENTAL FORCES ENHANCES PLEASURE WHEN IT DETRACTS, THEY THINK THEY HAVE SEX WITH ROMANTIC MUSIC ENHANCES WHEN IT DISTRACTS.

THERE IS NOTHING EVERLASTING IN PLEASURES, IT JUST LASTS AS LONG AS THE MILD FORCE IS RECEIVED VIA THE SENSES. INSTEAD IT IS THE CONDITIONED INCREASINGLY INTENSE ADDICTION THAT DRIVES THE HOOKED FOOL TO SEEK MORE AND MORE THE SAME PLEASURE AND TRY TO AUGMENT IT WITH GARISHMENTS.

The pleasures of making others suffer:

People speak of the pleasures of making others suffer, inflicting pain and seeing others suffer but they may be speaking falsely because it is not pleasure they are talking about but instead it is urge and liking.

WHEN PEOPLE EXPERIENCE PLEASURE INFLICTING SUFFERING OR SEEING OTHERS SUFFER THEY ARE ACTUALLY EXPERIENCING LIKING, THEIR MENTAL FORCES ARE STIRRED ATTRACTIVELY (AS OTHERS MAY BE STIRRED REPULSIVELY) AND THEY LIKE IT NOT ARE EXPERIENCING PLEASURE SEEING PEOPLE SUFFER. THIS LIKING TO SEE OTHERS SUFFER AND HURT OTHERS IS CONDITIONING OR ADDICTIVE SO THAT SUCH PEOPLE HAVE INCREASINGLY INTENSE URGES TO SEE OTHERS SUFFER AND INFLICT SUFFERING.

Tiger Woods: I thought I could get away with it

In other words now he knows he cannot get away with it and that is the reason for reforming.

If this is the case, as is likely, it is not a true reformation but an enforced reformation and whatever is enforced can be broken. Unless you want to go mad, the true reason for not doing something is because it is wrong or meaningless or harmful, not because you cannot get away with it.

Even if he and everyone here has an urge to defile himself and others thus, to cheat it is possible for someone who truly understands, who has no urge to defile himself and others sexually thus to have no urge to do so and that is truly a reformation and the way to heaven.

NOT BEING ABLE TO GET AWAY WITH IT IS NOT A TRUE REASON FOR NOT DOING SOMETHING BUT THE TRUE REASON IS YOU HAVE NO URGE TO DO IT BECAUSE IT IS MEANINGLESS, WRONG AND HARMFUL TO SELF AND OTHERS. IF YOU REFORM BECAUSE YOU NOW KNOW YOU CANNOT GET AWAY WITH IT, IT IS A HYPOCRITICAL REFORM VULNERABLE TO RELAPSE.

The only true reason for not doing something:

It is not because something is false or harmful or meaningless that you do not something (eg sexually philander like Tiger Woods) but the only true reason is because you have no urge or desire or interest in doing it. As long as you harbour interest or urge to do or say it, you are controlling that urge and what is subject to control is subject to loss of control and relapse. The wise has no urge to say or do anything but when the occasion arises, he may say or do something out of full understanding because it is meaningful and of benefit to others.

THE HIGHER BEINGS IN HEAVEN HAVE NO URGES TO SAY OR DO ANYTHING WHICH IS WHY THEY HAVE NO BODIES WITH WHICH TO PERFORM DEEDS AND GOD OR BRAHMAS DO NOT SPEAK AND ACT TO THIS WORLD, THEY HAVE NO CONTACT WITH THIS WORLD (IT IS FUTILE IN ANY CASE BECAUSE MOST WILL NOT LISTEN). GOD SEES AND HE WILL SETTLE SCORES WITH YOU LATER BUT HE SELDOM DIRECTLY INTERVENES IN THE COURSE OF THINGS ALTHOUGH IF YOU ARE SWEPT OUT TO SEA BY A TSUNAMI AND CRY TO HIM FOR HELP HE CAN IMMEDIATELY FASHION A LOG FOR YOU TO CLING TO.

AGAIN ENLIGHTENED ONES HAVE NO URGE TO FABRICATE ANYTHING, TO DO ANYTHING AND WITH THE END OF ALL DESIRES, WITH DISENCHANTMENT, THEY EXTINGUISH THEMSELVES NEVER TO RETURN TO THIS WORLD OF SUFFERING AGAIN.

THUS IT IS NOT EVEN BECAUSE SOMETHING IS TRUE OR MEANINGFUL OR GOOD THAT A PERSON DOES IT, IT IS BECAUSE HE UNDERSTANDS THE SITUATION AND DECIDES WITH REASON TO DO OR SAY SOMETHING BECAUSE IT IS BENFICIAL TO OTHERS.

For Tiger Woods to admit that he sexually philandered because he thought he could get away with it is to admit that he is a dishonest person, putting on a false wholesome front or he is a hypocrite.

Ezam stole millions from Soros:

According to RPK Ezzam who defected to UMNO from PKR and is now a leading detractor of Anwar, falsely represented the “Free Anwar Campaign” that RPK was solely in charge, went to New York with a few others to meet with Soros’ managers and got Soros to donate millions that he then siphoned off secretly.

According to RPK, Ezzam and many who returned to UMNO had sworn in many ceramahs they would never return to UMNO and in a videotaped interview, Ezzam’s mother even said she will curse her son if he returned to UMNO.

Rais Yatim was with Semangat and condemned UMNO’s actions and even wrote a ‘thesis’ against the ISA but now he has conveniently forgotten his past ideals.

Rosmah knew Altanturya:

According to RPK, not just Najib but Rosmah knew Altanturya, it seems she spent $200,000 shopping in Paris one day and Altanturya was there together with diplomatic staff to help her carry her purchases.

Rais Yatim was one of the pioneers of Semangat 46, the Umno Baru nemesis in 1988. Rais, Ibrahim Ali, and many other Semangat 46 leaders, said at that time that they would never rejoin Umno even if they died and were reborn. They said they would never lick back their spit. They also said that when Dr Tun Mahathir Mohamad dies they are going to piss on his grave (saya akan kencing atas kubur Mahathir).

And Rais was amongst those who said all this. But he later rejoined Umno while Dr Mahathir was still its President as well as the Prime Minister of Malaysia. Rais, therefore, did lick back his spit. And he did not need to die and be reborn before he rejoined Umno.

Rais got his doctorate for writing a thesis that was opposed to the Internal Security Act (ISA). When asked later why he has now changed his stand and supports the ISA when he was originally opposed to it, and even got his doctorate for his thesis that opposed it, he replied that his thesis was merely an ‘academic exercise’ and it does not necessarily mean that that is his stand.

During his Semangat 46 days, Rais and his gang went round the country giving talks whacking Umno and Dr Mahathir. They said that Umno and Dr Mahathir have insulted the Malay Rulers and have eroded the powers of the Rulers. Umno and Dr Mahathir are traitors to the Malay Rulers and the Malay race, argued Rais.

The Father of Independence and First Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tunku Abdul Rahman, hated Umno. He refused to rejoin Umno and died as a Semangat 46 member. The same for Tun Hussein Onn, the Third Prime Minister of Malaysia, who also refused to rejoin Umno and died as a non-Umno member.

And, of course, the same for Rais who also said he would rather die than rejoin Umno. Today, however, he is not only an Umno member but also a minister and the ‘spokesman’ for the party.

There are many who were once in Semangat 46 or Parti Keadilan Rakyat who shouted the same rhetoric. For example, Ezam Mohd Nor, once the Youth Leader of Keadilan, plus his entire Youth EXCO, went round the country swearing a sacred oath called Sumpah Keramat (sacred oath). And this Sumpah Keramat was a sacred oath to Allah that they would NEVER rejoin Umno and that their mission is to see the destruction of Umno.

In the name of God they would never rejoin Umno. In the name of God their mission is to bring down Umno. Today, they are all back in Umno. Their sacred oath to God or Sumpah Keramat came to nought in the end.

I once did a video recording of Ezam’s mother where she said that she will curse her son if he ever rejoins Umno. I made a VCD of that interview and distributed it throughout Malaysia.

To the Malays, a mother’s curse is a very serious matter because they believe that heaven lies beneath the feet of your mother. Ezam, of course, did rejoin Umno together with most of his EXCO members who had taken that sacred oath or Sumpah Keramat.

That is the credibility of all these people. They originally came from Umno. They cursed Umno. They swore a sacred oath in the name of Allah to never rejoin Umno. Even their mothers promised to curse them if they rejoined Umno. Then they go and rejoin Umno.

Can we take the word of these types of people? Do what they say matter? Or should they just be ignored as people who have no pendirian (stand) and people who we should not take seriously?

Okay, next target is Najib’s wife, Rosmah Mansor. In the sphere of perception, Rosmah is seen a bitch. However, ironically enough, this is her own doing rather than because the opposition attacked her.

There are so many stories floating around about her. One story concerns four retired generals going to her house to meet Najib. She came out and asked them whether they want to meet Najib about politics or business. They asked what difference would it make and she replied that if they want to meet Najib about politics then he will be out in a short while but if it is about business then they are to talk to her and not to Najib.

This story is well known amongst the military personnel.

The next story is about her shopping spree in Paris where she spent RM200,000 in just one day. Now, the icing on the cake is that Altantuya was with her that day and she was helping Rosmah carry all her things including her credit cards and whatnot.

Quite a number of Malaysian Embassy staff members were also there to help Rosmah carry her stuff (RM200,000 in shopping is a lot of stuff) so this story has spread amongst the diplomatic community.

In 2008 she was in Indonesia to attend to bank function. As she strutted to the main table like a queen, walking behind her was her lady-in-waiting holding a cushion. The lady-in-waiting then placed the cushion on the chair before Rosmah sat down. Even the Raja Permaisuri Agong does not get this kind of treatment.

Invariably, since it was a Malaysian bank function, the place was crowded with Malaysians and they all felt like throwing up. They not only felt so embarrassed but nauseous as well.

Then remember her trip to China, which she gave an interview about? In her interview she grumbled that Najib left her all alone in her room while he attended to matters of state. She got so pissed off that she told Najib to send her back to Malaysia. Since he is so busy and has no time for her then send her home.

This was what she admitted in her newspaper interview.

And recently she went to India with Najib. They had planned all sorts of programs for her in Chennai but she stayed in her room and refused to come out. Chennai is so filthy, she said, so she refuses to leave her room. “Why are Indians so dirty?” she exasperatingly told her aides.

This latest foot-in-the-mouth is currently being much talked about amongst diplomatic circles. So, as I said, most damage to Rosmah is being done by her herself. The opposition does not need to raise any issues. She volunteers all the ammunition needed to win the perception war.

Doing is always suffering compared to not doing:

To speak or do is always suffering compared to not speak or do because you do not have to use force and consume energy to not speak or do anything.

So why is it suffering for ordinary people if they remained silent or inactive?

Apart from their misguided views or delusion, it is because they have urges even strong urges to say or do certain things in certain situations that they must exert even great force to restrain that makes it as much if not greater suffering not to speak or do when certain things happen.

For a person who has no urges, who is at peace with himself and the world, it is always the case that not to speak and not to do anything is not suffering compared to speaking and doing.

For a person with urges, who is not at peace with himself and the world, then not to speak and not to do anything is as much even greater suffering then speaking and doing but afterwards no matter whether he chose to speak or not speak, do or not do, he is wracked with suffering and conflict in a no win situation. Speaking he suffers, not speaking he also suffers and this can be agonizing even to homicidal suicidal levels.

Further whatever people say or do are plans that can be memorized precisely or approximately to be rehashed and so whatever people say or do are rehashed according to precisely or approximately memorized plans in which they merely select and provide varying power to carry out.

IT IS ONLY BECAUSE EMOTIONAL PEOPLE ARE DELUDED, THEY HAVE GREAT URGES TO SAY OR DO CERTAIN THINGS IN CERTAIN SITUATIONS THAT IT IS SUFFERING FOR THEM NOT TO SAY OR DO CERTAIN THINGS IN CERTAIN OCCASIONS. NO MATTER IF THEY RESTRAINED THEMSELVES NOT SAY OR DO OR SAID OR DID, AFTERWARDS THEY ARE RACKED BY STRESS AND RECRIMINATIONS. FOR THOSE WHO SEE TRULY AND HARBOUR NO URGES, IT IS ALWAYS TO CASE THAT NOT TO SPEAK OR DO IS NOT SUFFERING COMPARED TO SAYING OR DOING NO MATTER HOW TRUE OR MEANINGFUL OR GOOD IT IS.

Editing is not composing:

Do agree the newspaper editor is not responsible for the articles appearing in the newspaper? He merely edits, decides which articles to appear or not in what sequence, he may amend or delete certain parts of articles but he is not the author of those articles.

Similarly people who are rehashing from their mental jukeboxes are never the true authors of whatever they are saying or doing, they may edit, just like a newspaper editor but he is not the author of the articles in the paper.

Restless, deluded and interested:

And so it is that the reason people find it irresistible to speak or act in certain situations is because they are restless, deluded and interested to speak or act. Some or all the above factors are in play to motivate people when they speak and act.

It is because they are restless that they are compelled to say or do something, they cannot keep still.

It is because they are deluded that they think what they say or do is charming, meaningful and good when it is a pain to the ear, meaningless and harmful to self and others.

It is because they are interested or have great urge or desire to say or what they want to say or do that drives them irresistible to say or do it.

THUS COMPARED WITH HAVING SEX EVEN WITH THE PRETTIEST GIRL IN THE WORLD, IT IS SUFFERING TO DO IT THAN NOT DO IT AND IT REFLECTS THE PERSON’S DELUSION AND INTEREST OR URGE THAT HE FINDS IT THE OTHER WAY ROUND, TO HAVE SEX WITH HER IS LESS SUFFERING THAN NOT TO. YES, YOU UNDERSTAND, BUT YOU UNDERSTAND WRONGLY THAT HAVING SEX WITH THE PRETTY GIRL IS LESS SUFFERING THAN NOT HAVING SEX. YOU THINK IT IS WORTHWHILE BUT YOU NEED TO USE FORCE AND DO WORK TO HAVE SEX.

TKL

Interest is liking:

People are interested in saying A in a certain situation and saying B in another situation.

Thus ‘interest’ is not specific or meaning but something that non specifically generally motivates people to say different things in different situations.

What is the nature of this ‘interest’?

This interest is based on blind, meaningless force, it is a nice word for ‘like’. In other words when people have interest to say A in a certain situation they have liking to say A or their mental forces are stirred attractively to say ‘A’.

THUS IF A PERSON HAS INTEREST TO SAY OR DO CERTAIN THINGS, WHAT HE SAID OR DID IS DRIVEN BY BLIND MEANINGLESS FORCE RATHER THAN GUIDED BY TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT THE SITUATION MEANS.

Anuar Shaari, Ezam & Soros:

Quote RPK:

“Anuar Shaari, a former Finance Ministry officer who worked for Anwar between 1996 and 1998, arrived at the Melaka Tengah district police station at about 10am on Thursday and spend about 30 minutes with Melaka Tengah OCPD ACP Salehhudin Abd Rahman to pass on the information,” said The Star newspaper report.

Actually, this is only part of the story. What The Star failed to report is that Anuar Shaari continued working for Anwar right up to 2004 or so, maybe longer. He was one of the principal ‘operators’ from the day Parti Keadilan Nasional was launched on 14 April 1999 right till the launch of the Free Anwar Campaign in August 2000 and beyond.

In 2003 or thereabouts, Anuar Shaari, Ezam Mohd Noor, and two other people who have all since left the opposition, made a trip to the United States. I did not know about it until I received a phone call from a contact in the US. He wanted me to verify who these four people are and whether it is true that they work for the Free Anwar Campaign.

I was caught off guard and did not know how to respond. I lied and said I was in a meeting and whether I could call him back later. I then got in touch with someone who would know what was going on and asked him what was happening.

The person I contacted was surprised that I had found out.

I was of course quite perturbed. The Free Anwar Campaign was just me. I was running the Free Anwar Campaign alone. There were no other people involved in the Free Anwar Campaign. How come there are now four people in the US who are supposedly there on the Free Anwar Campaign business?

The person I spoke to told me why they were there. He then asked me to call back the US and confirm with the person who had called me that the four are legitimate. I did as I was told -- but not before I gave that person a piece of my mind and told him I did not like what was going on. Nevertheless, for the sake of the cause I will obey the order.

I then called back the US and told my contact that the four people who were there are legitimate. I also gave him the names of the four people and my US contact confirmed that I was right.

It is important that I confirm that these four are authorised to act on behalf of the Free Anwar Campaign, my US contact informed me. Then he asked me another question. “Is it true that the opposition is very short of money and that if they had a few million Ringgit then the opposition has a better chance of winning the next general election?”

“That is true,” I replied.

“Okay,” my US contact told me. “Then we will help arrange something for them. Ten or twenty million Ringgit is no problem for us. We can handle that.”

That was just before the March 2004 general election. But the tens of millions in election funds were not sent to Malaysia. Instead, it was channelled to Hong Kong. And the March 2004 general election came before the money could be diverted from Hong Kong to Malaysia. And we never heard of the money again. Soon after that Ezam and his gang, which included Anuar Shaari, left the opposition and joined Umno. Some left just before the 2004 general election.

I found out later from a very senior party leader that the money came from George Soros (see more here: http://www.georgesoros.com/). The four in fact personally met Soros in his office. And I was even told who had arranged for the meeting and the subsequent funding.

On 2 September 2004, I met Pawanchik Merican, one of Anwar’s lawyers, in the Palace of Justice in Putrajaya. “Do you know that Ezam and Anuar Shaari have been collecting money in the name of the Free Anwar Campaign?” Pawanchik asked me.

“Yes, I know,” I replied.

“Did they give you anything?” Pawanchik asked me.

“No, not a sen,” I replied.

“I thought so,” said Pawanchik. “I was told they are using your name to collect millions and that they did not give you anything. Why don’t you close down the Free Anwar Campaign? If not these people will use it to collect money.”

My wife who was there agreed with Pawanchik. “That’s what I keep telling him but he is so stubborn,” added my wife.

“I will never abandon Anwar halfway,” I told Pawanchik. “Once Anwar is free then I will close down the Free Anwar Campaign.”

“What if he is not freed? What if he spends 15 years in jail? Do you want to continue running the Free Anwar Campaign for another nine years without being paid any salary and allow them to use it to raise money?”

“I suppose so,” I responded. “But Anwar will be freed today. So today I can close down the Free Anwar Campaign.”

“None of the lawyers think so,” said Pawanchik. I just shrugged my shoulders. Two hours later Anwar was freed by the Federal Court and I went home to make my last posting, ‘Alhamdulillah, Anwar is now free’, and closed down the Free Anwar Campaign.

Yes, that is the story of Ezam Mohd Nor and Anuar Shaari. Of course, I know the identity of the other two who also made that trip to the US, plus the ‘fifth man’, the man I phoned. I also know the name of the senior party leader who told me that the tens of millions came from Soros. And, invariably, I also know the name of my US contact who set the whole thing up. But as long as they keep their peace with me then I shall keep their secret safe. However, the minute they cross me, then their names will be revealed.

Never go back on your words:

Most people announce or declare something, forget about it and then go back on their words not realizing there is deadly karma involved in not fulfilling your promises or going back on them.

Thus Schumacher returned after he retired.

Dr M left UMNO and then returned.

Ezzam, Rais Yatim and many others swore not to return to UMNO and now not only returned but are vocal advocates of UMNO.

WHAT THESE PEOPLE DO NOT REALIZE IS THE PAINFUL EVEN EVERLASTING KARMA INCURRED ON GOING BACK ON THEIR WORDS.

IF YOU ARE NOT SURE OF YOUR PROMISES, DO NOT MAKE THEM, THERE IS NO NEED TO MAKE THEM AND THEY ARE DRIVEN BY EMOTION NOT UNDERSTANDING.

If it is true that Ezam swore never to return to UMNO and then did so, then he is not a man of integrity and his words about Anwar are not worth the paper it is written on.

Why people go back on their words:

It is impossible for a person who truly understands his words to go back on his words because if he understood his words what is said is true and will always remain true and cannot be reverted.

It is only because what people say is false, driven by emotion not true understanding that they can subsequently change their minds and detract from what they said.

Thus Ezam swore never to return to UMNO because his swearing was not based on understanding of what UMNO truly was but based on hatred and anger like a spite man and thus driven by blind emotion he swore never to return only to break his promise later.

A person whose statement never to return to UMNO is based on a true understanding of the evil nature of UMNO can never return to UMNO because he knows UMNO’

Ezzam did not change from good to bad:

Ezzam never changed from good to bad and if you perceive that is possible or is the case, you perceive and understand falsely.

The TRULY good never change from good to bad, they always remain good because they understand truly that bad is suffering and potentially fatal. Very rarely the bad (goat) changes from bad to good.

The common false perception is that Ezzam changed from good when he railed at UMNO and swore never to return to bad when he embraced UMNO and attacked Anwar. In truth both actions are consistent and bad and self serving.

It is never good except in your false perception to swear at anyone even UMNO and you swear because you hate or are wrathful and that is evil never good and based on blind force not understanding.

It is selfish pursuit of material success for Ezzam to join UMNO and perhaps he followed Anwar because Anwar is not as hard as the other UMNO potentates and when Anwar was subjected to persecution Ezzam became a pariah and was subject to unfair persecution so that his position in UMNO became untenable and so he left and angered by his unjust treatment he swore in hate at UMNO. Later when money was dangled before his eyes by UMNO in order to tempt him to cross his boss Anwar, the same self serving greed caused him to switch camps.

SWEARING AT UMNO AND SWEARING NEVER TO RETURN IS NOT DERIVED FROM GOODNESS EXCEPT IN YOUR DELUSION. BECAUSE OF THE ABUSE EZZAM WAS SUBJECTED TO BY UMNO BECAUSE OF HIS AFFILIATION WITH ANWAR, HE HATED UMNO AND THAT IS NEVER GOOD BUT BAD AND REFLECTING HIS SELF SERVING LACK OF PRINCIPLES AS IS COMMON IN SO MANY ORDINARY PEOPLE (EG RAIS YATIM, NALLA, ZAHRAIN, ANUAR SHARIFF, BADAWI) WHEN THE CARROT OF MATERIAL REWARDS WAS DANGLED BEFORE THEIR EYES, THEY SWITCHED CAMPS WITHOUT HESITATION.

IF YOU UNDERSTAND FALSELY THAT EZZAM CHANGED FROM GOOD TO BAD, YOU ARE IN DANGER OF BEING DECEIVED BY OTHERS WITH MATERIAL LOSSES AND EVEN YOUR DEATH AT STAKE. A PERSON WHO UNDERSTANDS TRULY IS NOT DECEIVED BY OTHERS AND THEREFORE NOT IN DANGER OF LOSS OR DEATH.

EZZAM LIKE SO MANY EMOTIONAL PEOPLE, WAS NEVER GOOD IN THE FIRST PLACE EXCEPT IN YOUR DELUSION.

The end of all perplexity and conflict:

If you perceive Ezzam switched from good when he condemned UMNO to bad when he joined UMNO and condemned Anwar then you will be wracked by perplexity and irresolvable conflict as to how this can happen.

If you understand truly that Ezzam was not good when he railed against UMNO, he was merely acting the wrathful scorned lover and so his action later to spurn PKR and join UMNO on financial inducement is not perplexing but to be expected.

THE TRULY GOOD NEVER BECOME BAD ANYMORE THAN A SANE MAN WOULD PUT A BULLET IN HIS OWN HEAD. THUS WHAT YOU SEE OF PEOPLE APPARENTLY GOOD BECOMING BAD ARE ILLUSIONS NOT THE TRUTH.

Singapore acts to cool property market:

In a belated attempt to cool the Singapore property market, the government has announced two new measures to combat it, namely stamp duty on property transactions and raising the down payment required.

You may be correct to think these measures are effective, will ‘cool down the market’ and it is possible to control a speculative or hot property market so that it is neither too hot nor cold or you may be deluded, the measures are like mosquito pricks to an elephant and it is impossible to forever control a property bubble, sooner or later it will burst with painful consequences for the foolish and greedy. If you don’t want a crash then don’t allow a property bubble to build.

THE TRUTH IS THAT THE PROPERTY BUBBLE IN SINGAPORE HAS EXISTED FAR LONGER THAN PEOPLE CONCEDE, IT IS NOW MONSTROUS IN SIZE AND WHAT MEASURES THE AUTHORITIES TAKE ARE EFFETE AND THE END RESULT OF ALL BUBBLES IS A PAINFUL CRASH.

YOU THINK SINGAPORE IS MADE OF DIFFERENT OR STERNER STUFF BUT IT IS LIKE THE US. HOW MANY EXPECTED THE US TO RUN INTO SUCH DEEP TROUBLE AS TODAY?

THUS MANKIND IS DELUDED. THE SINGAPORE GOVERNMENT IS DELUDED TO THINK SUCH MEASURES ARE EFFECTIVE OR THAT THEY CAN TWEAK THE MARKET TO BE JUST NICE, NOT TOO HOT OR COLD, ANYONE WHO ALLOWS PROPERTY BUBBLES TO ARISE IN THE NAME OF ECONOMIC EXPEDIENCY IS PLAYING WITH FIRE AND WILL GET BURNT.

Hsien Loong: No property bubble yet

There may be no property bubble yet, but Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on Sunday said recent moves to curb speculation were necessary to avoid more drastic action later on. Packed showrooms and fast-rising prices have become a concern for authorities, who introduced new measures on Friday to cool the property market before things got out of hand.

This is Hsien Loong’s perception that there is no property bubble yet. If what I say is true that there is already a massive bubble far longer than people concede and he perceives there is no bubble, does he not have false perception and understanding.

WHETHER THERE IS A PROPERTY BUBBLE IN SINGAPORE IS OBJECTIVE NOT FOR ANYONE TO DISPUTE. A BUBBLE CAN BE CLEARLY DEFINED AS SUCH AND SUCH. IF YOU TALK ABOUT NO BUBBLE AND YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND WHAT A BUBBLE IS, YOU ARE A FOOL WHO DOES NOT UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SPEAK. IF YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT IS A BUBBLE AND YOU PERCEIVE THERE IS NO BUBBLE WHEN THERE IS A MONSTER THEN YOU HAVE FALSE PERCEPTION.

So what is a bubble?

Any soaring rises in price of an item (eg house or share) when its cost remains the same or has not risen in tandem is unjustified and caused by speculative pressure, people buying not because they need the article but to gain when prices rise later.

What the costs of building a particular house can be determined and if prices keep rising far above the costs, it is a bubble caused by speculative demand.

Goldman defends Greece debt swaps

Gerald Corrigan

Mr Corrigan says Greece was not the only country to use currency swaps

The lesson of Greece’s demise is that it was not true substance that was behind its recent boom but it was financial engineering abetted and commissioned by supposedly reputable bankers like Goldman Sachs who are only interested in making money that enabled Greece to borrow and thus live way beyond its means for so long.

NOT JUST GREECE BUT MANY COUNTRIES INCLUDING UK, US, EVEN JAPAN LIVED WAY BEYOND THEIR MEANS BY FINANCIAL ENGINEERING THAN TRUE SUBSTANCE.

THE CURRENT CRISIS IS A FINAL RECKONING AND BECAUSE THE BOOM OF THE PAST WAS NOT TRUE BUT ENGINEERED OR ARTIFICIALLY CONTRIVED, THERE IS NO WAY TO RETURN TO THAT STATE AND SO THOSE WHO ENTERTAIN FAT HOPES OF A REVERSION TO THE BOOM OF THE RECENT PAST ARE DELUDED, LOOKING FOR THE POT OF GOLD AT THE END OF THE RAINBOW.

Quote: "They were very much consistent and comparable with the standards and behaviour of measurements used by the European Community [at the time]."

BEING CONSISTENT WITH AND COMPARABLE TO THE STANDARDS AT THE TIME IS NOT A TRUE REASON FOR DOING SOMETHING AND SO HE IS GIVING EXCUSES AND PRACTICING FALSE LOGIC THAT WILL END IN HIS MAD LOGIC. THE TRUE REASON FOR DOING SOMETHING IS IF IT IS RESPONSIBLE, TRUE AND BENEFICIAL TO ALL.

WHAT HE MEANS THAT HE DID NOT SAY IS THAT HE SEES IT IS WRONG BUT HE OR GOLDMAN SACHS IS ONLY APING OTHERS.

 

A Goldman Sachs boss has defended the bank's 2001 debt-swap deal with Greece that may have allowed the country to mask the extent of its debt woes.

Gerald Corrigan, chairman of Goldman Sachs Bank USA, the bank's holding company, said it was "consistent" with the regulations of the time.

However, speaking in the UK, he admitted that "with hindsight" it should have been more transparent.

The debt-swap deal was legal at the time, but has since been prohibited.

They were very much consistent and comparable with the standards and behaviour of measurements used by the European Community [at the time]

Gerald Corrigan

The complicated "currency swap" financial deal between Greece and Goldman Sachs is now being investigated by the European Union (EU) after it was discovered by the EU statistics agency Eurostat.

It is claimed that the deal enabled Greece to hide the extent of both its public deficit and national debt.

The EU has given Greece until the end of February to give details of how it affected its accounts.

'Other countries'

Speaking before the UK's Treasury Committee of MPs, Mr Corrigan said the deal was far from unique at the time.

"It is true that a family of currency swaps that were entered into jointly by Greece and Goldman Sachs were of a nature that they did produce a small, but not insignificant reduction in Greece's deficit and debt," he said.

"They were very much consistent and comparable with the standards and behaviour of measurements used by the European Community [at the time]."

Mr Corrigan added that since EU rules on the matter were modified in 2007, it suggested they "were more liberal than they could have been back in 2001".

He added that such currency swaps at the time were "not limited to Goldman Sachs and Greece", but said he did not know which other banks or countries may have had similar deals in place.

Greece's Finance Minister George Papaconstantinou also insisted last week that his country was not the only one using such financial arrangements back in 2001.

He added that such deals had now "been made illegal, and Greece has not used them since".

Mr Corrigan was giving evidence to the Treasury Committee as part of its enquiry into the global banking sector.

Why there will be no significant recovery:

It is actually not difficult to see, the signs are all there clearly that it is economic cancer and terminal and those who entertain hopes of significant recovery are naive or perceive falsely.

Mankind has reached checkmate in ways more than one.

Because of outsourcing as befitting a free market where companies strive to maximize profits, major companies have shifted their manufacturing bases to cheap countries like China thereby depriving their consumers in affluent western countries of employment needed for them to consume and so unless companies are willing to make the wise move to sacrifice some of their profits by repatriating back, everybody will die, the rich western economies will die of unemployment, the companies making fat profits will die when their customers die and the cheap labourers of the East like China will also die because nobody buys the goods they make. Most Chinese do not earn the kind of money to afford to buy the goods and now with soaring property prices they may have to pay exorbitantly for their mortgages too.

Now there are marauding mad hedge funds that borrow money and go around speculating, shorting shares, currencies and pushing up oil prices and this will create havoc that is the way to collapse not construction.

Now there is a small minority with most of the money whilst savers money in banks is gone recklessly lent by bankers and many are heavily in debt through mortgages and credit card.

THERE ARE MANY STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS THAT RENDER A RETURN TO THE PAST BOOM IMPOSSIBLE EXCEPT IN THE DELUSION OF THE NAIVE.

THE PAST BOOM WAS NOT BUILT ON SOLID SUBSTANCE BUT IT WAS A WILD PARTY USING SAVERS’ MONEY, CHEATING LIKE THE ENGINEERING THAT ENABLED GREECE TO BORROW MORE THAN IT SHOULD.

NOW THE MONEY IS SEQUESTERED MOSTLY IN THE HANDS OF A FEW LIKE DEVELOPERS, CORRUPT POLITICIANS (SUHARTO WAS WORTH BILLIONS) AND THIS MONEY CAN RUN AWAY FROM THE COUNTRY AT THE SLIGHTEST DANGER AND THEY TRAWL THE WORLD IN HEDGE FUNDS LOOKING FOR KILLINGS OR PLUNDERING THE SYSTEM IN SHORTING SHARES, CURRENCIES, FLOWING IN AS HOT MONEY AND PUSHING UP OIL PRICES THAT CAUSE DISASTER FOR THE ECONOMY.

TO MAXIMAL PROFITS, COMPANIES HAVE MOVED TO LOW COST CENTRES LIKE CHINA DEPRIVING THEIR RICH CONSUMER MARKETS OF EMPLOYMENT NEEDED TO SUSTAIN CONSUMPTION. THE EROSION OF EMPLOYMENT IN RICH MARKETS HAVE NOW REACHED THE STATE THAT THEY CANNOT AFFORD TO CONSUME AS BEFORE.

IN TRUTH SAVERS’ MONEY IN BANKS HAVE ALL BEEN RECKLESSLY LENT AND NO LONGER EXIST IN BANKS, BORROWERS WHO FOOLISHLY BORROWED TO FINANCE HOUSES AND CREDIT CARDS ARE NOW DROWNING IN DEBTS AND THIS MONEY BANKERS LENT OUT ARE NOW IN THE HANDS OF THE FEW RICH WHO ENTRUST THEM TO HEDGE FUNDS THAT MARAUD THE FINANCIAL MARKETS ALL OVER THE WORLD IN SEARCH OF QUICK BIG GAINS AS HOT MONEY FLOWING INTO COUNTRIES LIKE CHINA, SHORTING SHARES AND CURRENCIES AND PUSHING UP OIL PRICES.

Window of opportunity or danger?

If you perceive falsely that the present crisis is just a temporary setback and we are in for the good times soon then you may be driven by greed to make bets by investing or buying properties or share and should this be the twilight before the crash you will be burnt.

If you perceive truly that all is not well, it is terminal cancer, you will not expose yourself to debts.

AND SO IT IS IMPORTANT THAT YOU SEE THINGS CLEARLY, IF YOU SEE A WINDOW OF OPPORTUNITY TO BUY CHEAP NOW TO SELL HIGH LATER AND THIS TURNS OUT TO BE LULL BEFORE THE FEROCITY OF A COMING STORM YOU MAY BE PUTTING A NOOSE AROUND YOUR NECK.

Without US printing money there would not have been a boom:

Without the US printing money way beyond its means that the world blithely accepted as gold there could not have been the mammoth boom of the recent years.

Now the world is awakening to the truth that the US is an emperor with no clothes, is the world going to continue to happily accept the pieces of overrated toilet paper that the US prints as acceptable receptacles of value?

WITHOUT THE WORLD CONTINUING TO KEEP ACCEPTING INTRINSICALLY WORTHLESS PAPER FROM THE US AS PAYMENT AND THE US ALREADY HAS A MOUNTAIN OF DEBTS, HOW CAN THE WORLD PROSPER OR BOOM AS BEFORE?

THE WORLD COULD NOT AFFORD TO CONSUME AS BEFORE AND IT WAS THE ILLUSION OF THE US RECKLESSLY PRINTING WORTHLESS PIECES OF PAPER THAT ENABLED IT TO BOOM SO MUCH. THE US IN TRUTH CANNOT AFFORD TO CONSUME AS IT DID BEFORE AND SO NOW, WILL THE WORLD CLOSE THE EYE AND ALLOW THE US TO KEEP PRINTING WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY?

Australia fights terrorists with tough visa checks:

If you see nothing wrong or think it is a matter of semantics you may have wrong view that the Buddha said is the way to hell or the animal womb.

The truth is that Australia countered terrorists with stringent visa checks.

Countering is not fighting, stringent is not tough, if you think they are interchangeable when they are not, you have false perception that will end in mad perception and that is the way to hell or the animal womb not heaven.

AUSTRALIA IS TAKING ACTIONS TO COUNTER TERRORISTS NOT FIGHTING TERRORISTS, THE VISA CHECKS ARE STRINGENT OR METICULOUS NOT TOUGH. METICULOUS IS NOT TOUGH EXCEPT IN YOUR FALSE PERCEPTION IT IS.

Just Justice for Saiful?

What is so important about Saiful’s sodomy case that the judge considers his duty not to recuse and let another judge preside?

IF SAIFUL’S CASE IS SIMPLY A CASE OF AN INNOCENT YOUNG MAN BEING SODOMIZED BY AN OLD MAN THEN IT IS NO BIG DEAL, RECUSE YOURSELF AND ALLOW ANY OTHER JUDGE TO PRESIDE OVER THE CASE.

THE FACT THAT THE JUDGE SAID IT IS HIS DUTY THAT HE NOT RECUSE HIMSELF REFLECTS THAT THIS IS NOT AN ORDINARY CRIME, NOT JUST JUSTICE FOR SAIFUL BUT THERE IS FAR MORE AT STAKE, THE CONVICTION AND DESTRUCTION OF ANWAR.

Objectively it will be worse this year:

Things seldom if ever happen without warning or signs and it is wrong interpretation of signs or ignoring them that makes people come to the opposite conclusion that things will improve when it will worsen.

Objectively, shorn of like or dislike things will be worse this year. There are many signs of that.

Governments have stopped their spending programs (out of necessity) and without the boosts of their spending (tax credits, cash for clunkers, incentives for not firing workers) economies are going to slide again as reflected in Germany’s evaporation of growth in the last quarter. UK had to borrow in January because tax receipts were too low and bank lending is sliding down because of little demand for credit by companies.

Defaults on mortgages are likely if not certain to rise as the unemployed run out of money and people abandon their houses that cost more than their mortgages. In the US you will be blacklisted but the bank cannot bankrupt you for defaulting on your mortgage.

Governments must either seriously cut back their spending or raise interest to attract lenders and both these are going to crimp rather than stimulate the economies.

Apparently the commercial property market has escaped foreclosure so far and its share of bad loans may be as bad as the residential market.

NOT ONLY WILL THERE NOT BE A RECOVERY BUT THERE IS AMPLE EVIDENCE THAT THINGS CAN WORSEN EVEN SERIOUSLY THIS YEAR.

Spending is easy, repaying is hard:

This is a rule and in general and in this specific case of the world economy, it holds true.

It is very easy to spend $1 million dollar on a Ferrari but it is very difficult to repay it especially when the money you thought you had eg in share and property vanishes in thin air and you lose your job.

BECAUSE THE PAST GLOBAL BOOM WAS BASED NOT JUST ON SPENDING BUT SPENDING ON BORROWED MONEY THAT THE BORROWERS DID NOT HAVE IN SAVINGS IT IS GOING TO TAKE A LOT OF HARD WORK OVER PROLONGED PERIODS TO REPAY.

IF YOU DON’T REPAY OR PARTIALLY REPAY THE DEBTS WILL KEEP PILING UP ACCRUING INTEREST THAT MAKES IT WORSE AND WORSE. AND WHILST YOU ARE REPAYING DEBTS IT IS IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE PARTYING AND SO THOSE WHO THINK THERE WILL BE A QUICK REVERSION BACK TO A BOOM ARE LIVING IN AN ALICE WONDERLAND.

Cole may quit Chelsea over threat of discipline

Defender furious at being singled out and will argue that he has not broken his contract

Cole apparently faces a £400,000 fine over sexual misconduct and he is threatening tit for tat to leave the club.

LEAVING A CLUB TO PUNISH THE CLUB FOR DISCIPLINING YOU IS A FALSE REASON AND ANYONE WHO DOES THAT IS COURTING INSANITY BECAUSE IT IS AN INAPPROPRIATE ACTION. A RATIONAL REASON FOR LEAVING IS IF YOU ARE LEFT ON THE SIDELINES OR NOT WANTED.

Easy to spend and yet it took so long:

It is easy to spend yourself into trouble and yet it took so long for the world to spend itself into this crisis and so you are unrealistic to not just to expect that will get out of trouble soon but we will SPEND ourselves out of trouble.

Just as it took so long for the world to spend itself into this trouble it will take just as long if not longer time to get out of trouble.

After decades from its burst bubble in the 1980s, that Japan is mired in trouble is a portent. Whereas Japan could keep alive by exporting to America for worthless pieces of paper, the US has nowhere to export itself out of trouble.

AFTER YOU SPENT YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE, YOU NEVER SPEND YOURSELF OUT OF TROUBLE BUT THIS JUST DIGGING A BIGGER HOLE AND IT REFLECTS THE DELUSION OF GOVERNMENTS AND EVEN ECONOMISTS LIKE KRUGMAN WHO THINKS THE ANSWER IS TO SPEND OURSELVES OUT OF TROUBLE EVEN WHEN GOVERNMENTS THEMSELVES ARE FULL OF DEBTS.

AFTER YOU HAVE SPENT YOURSELF INTO TROUBLE THE CORRECT COURSE IS TO REIN IN SPENDING, SPEND WISELY ON ESSENTIALS, TRIM EXCESS WASTEFUL SPENDING AND SAVE TO REPAY YOUR DEBTS. UNTIL YOU HAVE REPAID YOUR DEBTS YOU ARE STILL IN TROUBLE.

Why it took so long:

The reason why it took so long for the world to spend itself into the big mess today is that in the name of political expediency and court popularity governments all over the world have promoted spending beyond capacity, they kept lowering interest rates and doing whatever possible to encourage spending whenever economies threatened to cool and this kept excesses going for so long.

Further it helps to have Uncle Sam recklessly printing money and using the intrinsically worthless pieces of paper to keep paying for its purchase from the world.

NOW THE RICE HAS BEEN SO OVERCOOKED THAT IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TO COOK IT FURTHER AND THE WORLD HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO EAT THE CHARRED REMAINS.

MANKIND WAS GOING FOR BROKE AND AS TOUGH AS THE FWD WAS, IT HAS NOW FINALLY BROKEN.

Unproductive overspending of borrowed money:

It may be true the past extended boom was based on wealth the world actually has (they can afford it) without borrowing and it was spent on productive pursuits that will have returns to the system or it may be case that the past boom was based on spending money borrowed from the future that the world did not yet earn and it was spend largely on unproductive pursuits that are unlikely to strengthen the system.

BECAUSE THE PAST BOOM WAS BUILT ON MASSIVE BORROWING FROM THE FUTURE DEPLETING THE MONEY OF SAVERS ALL OVER THE WORLD AND LAVISHED ON UNPRODUCTIVE PURSUITS (HOUSES TO STAY, CARS, CREDIT CARD PURCHASES OF HOUSEHOLD ITEMS, SERVICES LIKE HOLIDAYS, RESTAURANTS) REVERSION TO HEALTH IS GOING TO BE AGONIZING AND EXTENDED IF IT IS NOT ALREADY TERMINAL LIKE CANCER.

MOST BORROWERS OR DEBTORS CANNOT PAY THEIR DEBTS AT THE MOMENT, THEY ARE DEPENDING ON FUTURE EARNINGS THAT MAY NOT MATERIALIZE TO PAY AND THEY HAVE WASTED THEIR BORROWINGS ON UNPRODUCTIVE GOODS (HOUSES, CARS) SO THAT IT WOULD TAKE A LONG TIME FOR THE SYSTEM TO RETURN TO HEALTH.

THE RECENT CRASH WAS NOT BY CHOICE BUT INEVITABLE, THE SYSTEM WAS STRETCHED PAST SNAPPING POINT AND IT SNAPPED.

Anger or force not understanding is the basis of Cole’s action:

Cole’s reported threat to leave Chelsea because he was fined for his sexual misconduct is driven by anger or the repulsive stirring of his mental force.

Anger is a proxy of mental force and so the basis of his action is blind meaningless force and anyone whose actions are based on blind meaningless force is headed for insanity and so that is why I said he is headed for madness and madness is not the way to heaven but to hell and thence eternal perdition.

ANYONE WHO SPEAKS OR DOES THINGS OUT OF EMOTIONS (ANGER, EXCITEMENT, SADNESS, HURT) IS TAKING ACTION NOT GUIDED BY TRUE UNDERSTANDING OF THE SITUATION BUT DRIVEN BY BLIND MEANINGLESS FORCE AND THAT IS THE REASON WHY HE IS DOOMED FOR INSANITY AND THENCE PERDITION.

Shopkeepers cry foul over highway interchange

Shopkeepers may be unhappy or even angry or upset but they are not crying foul except in your fabrication that is intended to impress others and stir emotions.

Anyone who speaks thus is tampering with the truth, has karma inciting emotions in others and is not headed for heaven but even an eternity in perdition building up a pile of skeletons as high as a mountain existing as animals, according to the Buddha.

‘Cry foul’, ‘up in arms’ are hackneyed phrases copied from others, memorized and retrieved to be applied to situations to impress others as to your linguistic prowess and to stir emotions.

If you don't want your head chopped even many times, then you must learn to say 'shopkeepers unhappy or angry or upset not cry foul'.

Honesty is the best policy:

No 10 unleashed forces of hell on me, says Alistair Darling

Alistair Darling

The Chancellor confirmed last night that Downing Street launched a smear operation when he said - correctly - that the recession was poised to be the worst in 60 years

Whilst mankind extol the virtue of honesty, even those who confess to be honest believe in dishonesty, they think if they ignore or hide bad news eg the truth about the economy, it will not be as bad because people will not panic and it might even go away if we ignore it.

That is false logic and perception because denial makes it worse, it may delay the reckoning but when it comes, it can no longer to held back then pent up pressures makes it worse. What was originally a moderate treatable disaster becomes catastrophic.

THERE ARE MANY INCLUDING THOSE WHO THINK THEY ARE UPHOLDERS OF TRUTH WHO NEVERTHELESS BELIEVE THERE IS A CASE OF HIDING THE TRUTH, OF PRETENDING ALL IS WELL OR IT IS NOT AS BAD AS IT ACTUALLY IS BECAUSE THE TRUTH WILL CAUSE PANIC THAT WORSENS THE CONSEQUENCES. THIS IS DELUSION, THE LONGER YOU DENY REALITY AND PRETEND IT IS BETTER THAN IT IS, THE WORSE THE FINAL OUTCOME BECAUSE DECISIVE ACTIONS ARE DELAYED.

THERE IS NO JUSTIFICATION FOR TELLING LIES, NO MATTER HOW UNPALATABLE THE TRUTH IS, IT MUST BE TOLD. HEAVENLY BEINGS NEVER TELL LIES AND IF YOU WANT TO GO TO HEAVEN, TO AVOID TORMENT YOU MUST ALWAYS TELL THE TRUTH.

NO ONE IS A MASTER OF HIS LIES BUT HE IS A SLAVE BECAUSE LIES ARE CONDITIONING AND YOU MUST USE FORCE TO TELL LIES ACCORDING TO PLANS YOU FABRICATE, REHEARSE AND REGURGITATE AND YOU WILL END UP HOPELESSLY TANGLED UP HEADED FOR INSANITY.

Why lies is the path to insanity:

Lies are never natural but must be fabricated. In order to tell lies you must fabricate, think to manufacture a plan of your lie and then you must mentally rehearse and memorize it until it is quite convincing in order to successfully sell it to others.

What you do not realize is that you are converting yourself into a robot of your lie or plan of falsity that once fixed or finalized becomes a plan that dictates what you say or do and you merely use force, even great force or emotion to ram it through as convincingly as you can to make others accept your lie as true.

WITHOUT FABRICATING AND FINALIZING A PLAN OF YOUR LIE, MEMORIZING IT AS WELL AS POSSIBLE AND THEN REHASHING AS FAITHFULLY AS POSSIBLE FROM THAT MENTAL PLAN, YOU CANNOT TELL A LIE. WHAT YOU ARE DOING IS WILLING YOURSELF TO BELIEVE YOUR LIE IS TRUE JUST AS YOU DESIRE OTHERS TO BELIEVE YOUR LIE AS TRUE. INITIALLY YOU KNOW YOUR LIE IS FALSE BUT INCREASINGLY YOU START TO FALSELY PERCEIVE YOUR LIE IS TRUE AND THAT IS THE PATH TO FINAL INSANITY, BELIEVING WHAT IS FALSE IS TRUE, WHAT IS SHIT IS FOOD.

IT IS THE PLANNING AND RECORDING OF THE PLAN OF THE LIE IN YOUR MIND AND REHASHING AS ACCURATELY AS POSSIBLE FROM THAT MENTAL PLAN THAT MAKES TELLING LIES LIKE EATING PUFFER FISH, YOU ARE CAREFUL NOT TO BE POISONED BY THE POISON OF THE FISH BUT THE FLESH ITSELF HAS POISON AND SOONER OR LATER YOU WILL SUCCUMB TO THE FATAL POISONS OF YOUR LIE TO BECOME INSANE.

IF YOU THINK YOU CAN TELL LIES WITH IMPUNITY, TELL LIES WITHOUT BECOMING MAD LATER YOU MAY BE RIGHT OR DELUDED.

All evils come from thinking:

Without thinking or prior programming you cannot commit an evil with mouth or body.

Thus in order to make a football tackle that deliberately breaks your opponent’s leg, you must think and see how it should be done, which part of his leg to aim for and with which part of your shoe and how to do it in such a way as to make it appear as unintentional when it is fully intended.

WITHOUT PROGRAMMING OR PRIOR THOUGHT ABOUT HOW TO COMMIT A FOUL OR EVIL OR TELL LIES ONE CANNOT DO IT.

THUS THINKING IS THE FATHER OF ALL EVILS AND THE MAN WHO CAN STOP THINKING WHEN PROVOKED OR UNNECESSARY IS HIGHER AND CANNOT BE GUILTY OF AN EVIL. IF YOU CANNOT STOP THINKING YOU CAN BE PROVOKED TO LASH OUT VERBALLY OR PHYSICALLY AND BE SUCK INTO SUFFERING.

BECAUSE EVIL THINKING IS DRIVEN BY FORCE IT IS CONDITIONING SO THAT THE PERSON BECOMES A ROBOT OF EVIL INCREASINGLY BONDING HIMSELF TO EVIL EACH TIME HE COMMITS EVIL UNTIL HE BECOMES AN ADDICT OR ALCOHOLIC OF EVIL FACING INCURABLE TORMENT.

China is a bubble risk:

Richard Fletcher

Such statements are published as if it is truth when it is deluded.

China is not a bubble risk but it is a full blown bubble waiting to pop and so the statement is false or deluded.

SUPPOSE THE TRUTH IS THAT CHINA IS A MASSIVE BUBBLE POISED FOR BURSTING. AREN’T YOU A FOOL TO SAY IT IS A BUBBLE RISK?

Newsweek: Why Africa may be the new Asia:

This is deluded thinking.

Each continent has its characteristics. Asia is economically successful because of the obsessive devotion to work and wealth creation mostly of the Chinese & Japanese stock that have very different traits to Africans and it is unlikely Africans can match the Japanese or Chinese single minded industriousness.

HE IS SPECULATING AND HIS FANTASIES ARE RUNNING WILD. UNLESS YOU SEE THAT AFRICA WILL BE THE NEW ASIA YOU SHOULD AVOID SPECULATING THAT ALSO INVITES OTHERS TO SPECULATE WITH KARMA NOT MERIT.

Happy days will be here again soon?

Quote:  Almost every advanced country—the United States, Britain, Germany, Italy, France, Japan, Belgium, and others—faces some combination of huge budget deficits, high debts, aging populations, and political paralysis. It's an unstable mix. The unpleasant choices now confronting Greece await most wealthy nations, even if they pretend otherwise.

Your children will have to clear your debts:

There was a baby boom after the second world war and these baby boomers produced fewer children and so the future generations will be smaller and they have to contend with the huge pile of shit or debts that their parents bequeathed them.

UNLESS YOU THINK YOU CAN WAVE A MAGIC WAND AND MAKE ALL THE DEBTS DISAPPEAR, THE CHILDREN TODAY WILL HAVE THE WORK CUT OUT FOR THEM CLEARING THE MAMMOTH PILE OF DEBTS THEIR PARENTS HAVE BEQUEATHED THEM AND IF YOU THINK NEVERTHELESS WE ARE HEADED FOR GOOD TIMES SOON, YOU MAY HAVE SERIOUS FALSE OR DEFECTIVE PERCEPTION, YOU ARE AN INCURABLE OPTIMIST WHO PERCEIVES ALL IS WELL EVEN AS THE AXE FALLS ON YOUR NECK.

How to go to heaven:

Jesus said who will give you what is yours, meaning your place in heaven is yours but you must be pure enough to claim it.

The minimum qualification to go to heaven is achievement of serenity of mind and body which means you must not use force to stretch syllables, change speed and loudness giving an effortless freedom from stress, restlessness and inability to concentrate which is serenity of mind and body. This is the first higher state of mind as described by the Buddha.

THUS IF YOU CAN OBJECTIVELY NOT USE FORCE TO STRETCH SYLLABLES, CHANGE SPEED AND LOUDNESS AS YOU SPEAK IT ACCORDS YOU ONE ETERNITY OR AGE OR BILLIONS OF YEARS IN HEAVENLY EXISTENCE.

If in addition you are capable of stopping thinking, you can go about life eg eating or walking without thinking, that is the second higher state of mind that accords you two eons or Ages in heaven.

IF YOU CAN WALK OR DRIVE WITHOUT THINKING A THOUGHT, YOU CAN STOP THINKING; THAT IS THE SECOND HIGHER STATE OF MIND THAT ACCORDS YOU TWO ETERNITIES IN HEAVEN.

If in addition your mental force is neither stirred attractively (like) or repulsively (dislike) what you see or hear or taste or smell, then that is the third higher state of mind that accords that being 4 eons or Ages in heaven.

ACHIEVE THE ABILITY NOT TO STIR YOUR MENTAL FORCE TO LIKE OR DISLIKE THINGS AND THAT IS THE THIRD HIGHER STATE OF MIND THAT ACCORDS YOU FOUR ETERNITIES OR AGES IN HEAVEN.

If you further tune your consciousness to experience neither pain (only force can give pain) nor pleasure (pleasure is the product of incoming mild to moderate force in the perceptions) then your mind is freed from all force and pure and that is 500 eternities in heaven.

If you can further overcome all considerations of form to access the sphere of the infinitude of space then that is a lifespan of 20,000 eternities, if you further overcome all considerations of space to access the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness that is 40,000 eternities in heavenly existence and finally if you overcome all considerations of consciousness to attain the sphere of nothingness that is the maximal lifespan of 60,000 eons.

I think Inter can beat Chelsea:

In the aftermath of Inter Milan’s narrow 2-1 home win over Chelsea, this person is driven by emotion (never true understanding) to say he thinks Inter can beat Chelsea, in the process exhorting others to take up position either way that they have no right because they do not know and are speculating.

Not to think is something they cannot do and rather than worthless, not to think is incomparable bliss here and there is a reward of even 2 eternities in heaven. Such thinking (that Inter can beat Chelsea) is based on partisanship, wanting the future to happen favourably and greed that provokes others similarly inclined to take up position either pro or con and this is karma not merit.

UNLESS YOU CAN SEE SOMETHING THAT HAS NOT HAPPENED IS TRUE, YOU SHOULD NOT SAY IT UNLESS YOU WANT TO COURT DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY WHEN WHAT YOU SAID WILL HAPPEN DID NOT HAPPEN AND EVEN IF IT DID HAPPEN IT DELUDES YOU THAT YOU CAN PREDICT THE FUTURE WHEN YOU CAN’T, YOU MADE A LUCKY GUESS. TOSS A COIN AND THE COIN WILL BE RIGHT HALF THE TIME TOO.

IT IS NEVER GENUINE UNDERSTANDING THAT DRIVES EMOTIONAL PEOPLE TO THINK BUT IT IS FORCE IN THE FORM OF GREED AND HATE AND RATHER THAN MASTERS OF THEIR THINKING THEY ARE SLAVES OF THEIR THINKING THAT IS CREATING SERIOUS KARMA FOR THEM AND TRAPPING THEM IN THE PRISON OF THOUGHT THAT WILL END IN INSANITY THEY DO NOT BELIEVE.

What is the meaning of facial expressions?

You see many changing expressions on the faces of people like smiling, frowning, scowling, being puzzled, sad and pained.

So what do expressions mean?

Facial expressions are mirrors of the force changes roiling the mind and whoever has facial expressions however mild is stirring his mental force that is not only totally unnecessary but harmful in causing stress, restlessness and inability to concentrate.

There are two reasons for facial muscles to move when speaking, one is to convey emotion that you want to impart on others or exhibit and another is to reflect the force changes occurring in the speech, it reflects the style or force prolonging, changing speed and loudness of the speech.

Expressions are never freshly specifically composed for each occasion but rehashed from memory and therefore the person with expressions is a robot.

YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, THINK IT IS MEANINGFUL AND GOOD WHEN THEY ARE REFLECTIONS OF FORCE ROILING THE MIND THAT HARMS THE MIND WITH STRESS, RESTLESSNESS AND INABILITY TO CONCENTRATE AND THEY ARE REHASHED WHICH MEANS YOU MUST BE A ROBOT NOT JUST THERE BUT EVERYWHWERE ELSE YOU ARE A SOMNOLENT ROBOT OR PARROT.


Thursday, February 18, 2010

Obama doesn’t begrudge Wall Street Bo...

Obama doesn’t begrudge Wall Street Bonuses:

It is not a matter of begrudging or not begrudging the fat bonuses but do these bankers merit the big bonuses?

If you know the truth of the worth of what these bankers have done, it is even criminal and they do not deserve such big bonuses.

Begrudge means unhappy or don’t like, what is there to be happy or unhappy about big bonuses and of what use is being happy or unhappy about those bonuses? The substance of the matter is whether these bankers merit these bonuses or they are criminal, should be jailed rather than awarded such fat bonuses.

THUS IF OBAMA TRULY SAID THAT IT REFLECTS HOW SILLY HE AND EVERYONE LISTENING WHO SEES NOTHING WRONG WITH BEING UNHAPPY OR DISAPPROVING IS.

Zahrain’s grouse:

Zahrain is a PKR MP who recently accused Guan Eng of being a dictator.

According to The Sun, what happened that miffed Zahrain, who is chairman of Island Golf Properties is that his recommendation that a $2 company be given the rights to manage Bkt Jambul Country Club that has turnover of millions without open tender was rejected by Guan Eng.

If this is true then he is guilty of slander and wanting to gain unrighteously.

RPK and his son

GUEST COLUMNISTS


Thursday, 11 February 2010

If indeed, the government is in anyway implicated in the physical and mental distress of Raja Azman, simply for the sake of getting back at RPK, then it deserves nothing less then the curse of the whole nation upon it. 

Suflan Shamsuddin, The Malaysian Insider

This is the speech of someone who does not truly understand on two counts.

Firstly, it is not an accident but the ruling elite is getting back at RPK by subjecting his son to abuse. There is no reason to subject him to the abuse he is suffering for the crimes he is alleged to have committed and it is not an accident he is RPK’s son and so it is not maybe but it is a form of hitting RPK where it hurts.

TO THOSE WHO ARE AFFLICTED WITH DOUBT AND UNCERTAINTY THEY ARE NOT SURE WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF A CERTAIN ACTION, TO THOSE WHO DISCERN, IT IS.

Secondly, he cannot speak for the whole nation, the whole nation is not going to curse the government so what he says is false.

The Buddha also eats meat:

Being vegetarian was never stated as a tenet of Buddhism by the Buddha and it reflects corruption by followers that they become obsessed with vegetarianism. The Buddha never said you must be a vegetarian to go to heaven. Eat but don’t kill and make sure you don’t get carried away eating meat.

THUS ANYONE WHO MAKES A FUSS OR MUCH ABOUT THE VIRTUES OF BEING A VEGETARIAN IS DELUDED. IF YOU SO LIKE TO BE VEGETARIAN YOU MAY BE BORN A COW THE NEXT TIME.

Below is an account of the Buddha accepting a meal with meat offered by a military general who became his follower.

The general Siha knowing that The Blessed One had accepted the invitation, worshipped, circumambulated The Blessed One and went away. The general Siha then addressed a certain man and said:Go and find what meat there is in the market! The general Siha at the end of that night prepared various kinds of nourishing eatables and drinks in his home and informed The Blessed One: - ßVenerable sir, the food is ready, it is the right time."

Then The Blessed One putting on robes in the morning, and taking bowl and robes approached the house of the general Siha together with the Community of bhikkhus and sat on the prepared seats. At that time many Niganthas were walking from street to street and from junction to junction with raised hands saying ßToday the general Siha has killed fat cattle and has prepared food for the recluse gotama. The recluse Gotama knowing the meat is prepared on account of him partakes it."

Then a certain man approached the general Siha and whispered in his ear: ßSir, know that many Niganthas are walking from street to street and from junction to junction with raised hands saying ßToday the general Siha has killed fat cattle and has prepared food for the recluse gotama. The recluse Gotama knowing the meat is prepared on account of him partakes it. Sir, from a long time these venerable ones depreciate The Blessed One, the Teaching and the Community of bhikkhus. Accusing The Blessed One with unreal false statements, these venerable ones cannot destroy the fame of The Blessed One in this manner. We would not destroy the life of any living thing knowingly!."

Niganthas attacked the Buddha for eating meat:

Hearing the news that the Buddha accepted a meal with meat from the general, the Niganthas who were hostile to the Buddha lined the streets to broadcast the news the Buddha ate meat, not realizing they are deluded and barking up the wrong tree of vegetarianism.

They may have slandered the general who bought meat from the market not killed fat cattle.

Then a certain man approached the general Siha and whispered in his ear: ßSir, know that many Niganthas are walking from street to street and from junction to junction with raised hands saying ßToday the general Siha has killed fat cattle and has prepared food for the recluse gotama. The recluse Gotama knowing the meat is prepared on account of him partakes it. Sir, from a long time these venerable ones depreciate The Blessed One, the Teaching and the Community of bhikkhus. Accusing The Blessed One with unreal false statements, these venerable ones cannot destroy the fame of The Blessed One in this manner. We would not destroy the life of any living thing knowingly!."

Why judge should cite paper for contempt:

Apparently the UMNO controlled Malay papers carried provocative headlines and showed Saiful pointing at a bed where the sodomy allegedly took place. This photo may have been leaked to the press by the court photographer because the press was barred.

INACCURATE HEADLINES AND PHOTOS OF THE BED HAS THE EFFECT OF INFLUENCING THE PUBLIC TO BELIEVE UNFAIRLY THE ALLEGATIONS ARE TRUE SINCE SAIFUL IS POINTING TO THE BED WHERE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE TAKEN PLACE.

THUS THERE IS A CASE FOR THE DEFENCE TO ASK THE JUDGE TO REPRIMAND THE PRESS AND EVEN CITE IT FOR CONTEMPT.

INSTEAD THE JUDGE FALSELY SAID THE EVIDENCE WAS IN OPEN COURT AND REFUSED TO CITE THE PRESS FOR CONTEMPT.

THE REALISM OF SAIFUL POINTING AT A BED THAT MUST HAVE BEEN ILLEGALLY OBTAINED HAS THE PYSCHOLOGICAL EFFECT OF INFLUENCING THE PUBLIC TO ACCEPT SAIFUL’S ALLEGATION AS TRUE.

IT IS NOT FOR THE PRESS TO DECIDE WHAT HAPPENED BUT FOR THE COURT TO DECIDE WHETHER THE ACCUSATION IS TRUE OR FALSE.

Dr M was responsible for abolishing the jury system:

The jury system is a more fair system of meting justice because these groups of people are selected at random from the population, screened for unawareness of the case and during the trial they are isolated from the press.

Dr M was the one who abolished the jury system so that the judge became both judge and jury and more prone to manipulation by the executive.

IT CANNOT BE IN THE NAME OF EFFICIENCY THAT THE JURY SYSTEM WAS DISMANTLED BY DR M BUT IT WAS TO EXPEDITE HIS MANIPULATION OF THE COURTS BECAUSE IT IS MUCH HARDER TO COERCE A POSSE OF JURORS BUT IT IS MUCH EASIER TO EXERT PRESSURE ON A JUDGE TO DECIDE IN YOUR FAVOUR.

If Anwar was charged under a jury system:

Had Dr M not replaced the jury system with the judge as jury system, this sodomy charge may not have been contemplated let alone come this far because the prosecution would have to convince a group of jurors that Anwar is guilty as charged and this is much more difficult to achieve although you may attempt to rig the selection of jurors or intimidate or bribe them.

IN A JURY SYSTEM, NOT ONE MAN WILL DECIDE THE GUILT BUT THE MAJORITY OF THE PANEL WILL DECIDE AND THE JUDGE IS THERE AS A REFEREE, IT IS NOT HIM WHO DECIDES IF THE ACCUSED IS GUILTY.

Put yourself in Anwar’s shoes:

Supposed you have been unfairly accused of sodomizing someone, you have not been convicted of the crime, you may be innocent and the court is trying to establish your innocence or guilt.

BEARING IN MIND YOU HAVE NOT BEEN CONVICTED BY THE COURT AND SUPPOSED YOU ARE INNOCENT, WOULD YOU LIKE PHOTOS THAT ARE ILLEGALLY OBTAINED OF YOUR ACCUSER POINTING TO A BED AS IF IT ACTUALLY HAPPENED WHEN IT ACTUALLY DID NOT HAPPEN SPLASHED OVER THE FRONT PAGES OF NEWSPAPERS?

IF YOU THINK THE PHOTO UNFAIRLY PREJUDICES OPINION WHEN YOU HAVE NOT BEEN FOUND GUILTY MIGHT THERE NOT BE A CASE TO ASK THE JUDGE TO CITE THE PAPER FOR CONTEMPT OF COURT?

Hammering nails into your coffin:

Exactly what Dr M’s motives were when he abolished the jury system may be known, if it was meant to bulldoze everything so that he became the judge behind the scenes of cases that matter to him, it is another important nail of future pain into his coffin.

Many do realize they have already hammered many nails into their coffins of pain and they are still defiantly hammering more not realizing that in order to exit their coffins later, they will have to pull out each nail painstakingly with their own teeth. Their teeth may become bruised and even broken after extracting one nail or they become good at it (adapt to it), but they have so many nails in their coffin that it will take much time and pain to extricate themselves.

IT IS VERY EASY TO HAMMER A NAIL INTO YOUR COFFIN OF FUTURE SUFFERING BUT YOU MAY HAVE TO USE YOUR BARE TEETH TO PULL OUT THOSE NAILS AND SO THE WISE MAN WILL ENSURE HE DOES NOT HAMMER TOO MANY NAILS INTO HIS OWN COFFIN.

The Lies New Straits Times Will Tell:

Quote: On Wednesday, the Umno-owned News Straits Times even front-paged PKR secretary-general Saifuddin Nasution as having said, “PKR ready to act on Guan Eng”.

“I got a shock when I saw the papers. Can you imagine the impact on Guan Eng and how angry the DAP members would feel if the news was true,” Saifuddin told Harakahdaily.

He has since demanded that the daily issues a correction. “In my phone interview, I unequivocally said Zahrain was wrong to lash out at Guan Eng. I stressed that inter-party relations and complaints should be brought up in the PR Leadership Council,” Saifuddin stressed.

Today’s NST has degenerated into an unscrupulous mouthpiece for UMNO willing to resort to lies to slander the opposition.

IF NST CAN PUBLISH SUCH WILLFUL LIES OR TWIST FACTS SUCH, WOULD PRINTING A PICTURE (ILLEGALLY OBTAINED) OF SAIFUL POINTING AT A BED THAT WOULD CAST ANWAR IN BAD LIGHT BE WITHOUT MALICE AS THE JUDGE CLAIMED?

Tried not guilty yet:

Anwar is only being tried for sodomy, he is not guilty yet and even if he is truly guilty, let alone found guilty of sodomy there is no need, it is meaningless to run pictures of his accuser pointing at a bed except to derogate, to paint Anwar negatively in the eyes of the public and therefore the motive in publishing the picture is malicious.

If the picture turns out to have been illegally obtained through the court photographer, then even more the publication should be censured.

Many, especially those who are corrupt will raise a hue and cry and sue if their reputations are publicly called to question even when it is true and yet they see nothing wrong, think it is fair game to drag Anwar’s name in the mud on the basis that he has been accused of sodomy even as the trial is running.

UNLESS YOU LIKE YOUR DIRTY LINEN TO BE AIRED PUBLICLY YOU SHOULD REFRAIN FROM THE SAME. EVEN IF ANWAR WAS TRULY GUILTY OF SODOMY THERE IS NO NEED TO PUBLISH ILLEGALLY OBTAINED PHOTOS OF HIS ACCUSER POINTING AT THE BED. THERE WILL BE JUDGMENT FOR THOSE RESPONSIBLE AND IT IS FAR MORE PAINFUL THEN THEY DREAMT POSSIBLE.

The Buddha: Should a person commit evil, let him not do it again and again. Let him not find pleasure therein, for painful is the accumulation of evil.

Many not just do evil, they find pleasure in harming others. What the Buddha tells you is that the accumulation of evil is painful.

Intended to flesh out allegation:

Often evil people driven by force or ill will are not even aware what their motives for saying or doing certain things are.

The conscious or unconscious motive of publishing pictures of Saiful pointing at a bed is to flesh out the allegation, that it has a basis, here is the bed where it all happened. Because it is presented to the public the tendency is to accept it or cause doubt and uncertainty in those who are unreceptive.

THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE PURPOSE FOR PUBLISHING THE PHOTO AND IT IS TO TRULY OR FALSELY BRING HOME, TO PROVIDE REALISM TO THE ACCUSATION, TO PROVIDE A PHYSICAL BASIS FOR THE ACCUSATION.

THERE IS NO NEED FOR THAT AND IT IS ALWAYS DRIVEN OUT OF MALICE AND THE JUDGE IS GUILTY OF POOR JUDGMENT IN SAYING HE SAW NOTHING WRONG.

YOU SEE NOTHING WRONG WITH SOMEONE PUBLISHING A PHOTO OF ANWAR’S ACCUSER POINTING AT THE INCRIMINATING BED BUT IF SOMEONE WERE TO DO THE SAME TO YOU, YOU MAY FIND IT OFFENSIVE.

The purpose of a jury:

The purpose of a jury is that not one man but a group of men who have as little prior knowledge as possible, who are isolated from public opinion and indeed contact throughout the case is assigned the task of determining whether a man is guilty as charged.

A jury is selected from amongst the public and screened for lack of knowledge for the case and during the entirety of the trial they are locked up in a hotel and the newspapers they read are screened for news about the case.

Although a judge is trained in the legal system, he is a poor substitute for a jury and there is a serious danger of miscarriage of justice because judges can be incompetent, of poor conduct (judges can be alcoholics, sleep and even masturbate on the job apart from being vulnerable to coercion and bribery so it is dangerous to entrust one man however highly qualified to determine the guilt of the person charged.

It is rare indeed in this world to have a judge whose integrity is impeccable, who is un-swayed by public opinion and personal prejudices to come to an objective substance only correct judgment.

YOU MAY THINK A JUDGE IS MADE OF STERNER STUFF, HE IS NOT SO GULLIBLE AS TO BE SWAYED BY NEWSPAPER REPORTINGS BUT JUST BECAUSE HE IS A JUDGE DOES NOT MEAN HE IS NOT VULNERABLE TO PERSUASION BY WHAT HE READS AND SEES THAT MAY BE A DISTORTION OF REALITY.

THERE IS NO PURPOSE FOR PUBLISHING AN ILLEGALLY OBTAINED PHOTO OF SAIFUL POINTING AT A BED EXCEPT OUT OF MALICE AND THE FACT THAT THE JUDGE SAID HE SAW NOTHING WRONG IS AN INDICATION EITHER HE IS DELUDED OR HE IS PARTISAN, NOT FIT TO BE THE JUDGE IN THE CASE.

JUST AS THE JURY MUST BE SCREENED FROM PUBLIC OPINION, THERE IS NOTHING SPECIAL ABOUT JUDGES WHO ARE JUST AS HUMAN AND VULNERABLE AND SO IRRESPONSIBLE REPORTING WHILST THE COURT IS IN PROCESS SHOULD BE TREATED AS CONTEMPT OF COURT.

Giving the benefit of the doubt:

Because men by nature can be blindsided by insufficient evidence, he cannot see or know exactly what happened in a case, if there is a question that the person may be innocent he is given the benefit of the doubt and he is discharged sometimes not tantamount to acquittal.

Thus the benefit of the doubt should always be given to the accused and should there be a possibility that he did not do it that cannot be dismissed, he is discharged.

THUS IN THIS CASE, IF THERE IS ANY POSSIBILITY ANWAR MAY BE INNOCENT, HE SHOULD BE GIVEN THE BENEFIT OF THE INCONCLUSIVENESS (NOT DOUBT).

God sees and knows everything, He knows if Anwar did or did not sodomize Saiful and so the question of the benefit of the doubt does not arise.

Tkl

Goldman Sachs: the Greek connection

(It seems Goldman Sach’s evil knows no bounds, it is involved in all sorts of shenanigans that are forms of cheating for unrigheous gains. The right conclusion from all these is that recovery is impossible, the world has made a mess of itself and is headed for extended even terminal woe)

Investment giant's role in eurozone debt crisis falls under spotlight

By Stephen Foley in New York

Goldman Sachs, the giant investment bank, is today at the centre of the row over the Greek government's finances, amid recriminations over complex financial deals that allowed the eurozone nation to skirt its debt limits.

With European finance ministers meeting in Brussels today and tomorrow to discuss ways to prevent a debt crisis threatening the eurozone as a whole, a spotlight has been shone on techniques used by Greece and other indebted countries to give the appearance of lower budget deficits and debt levels.

The euro membership rules place strict caps on the size of government deficits relative to a national economy, but Goldman Sachs and other banks helped Greece raise cash earlier in the decade in ways that did not appear in the official statistics. With the current recession causing even official budget deficits to balloon all across the continent, fears of further hidden liabilities have been contributing to the crisis of confidence in Greek debt and pulling down the value of the euro.

Goldman Sachs has been the most important of more than a dozen banks used by the Greek government to manage its national debt using derivatives.

The bank's traders created a number of financial deals that allowed the country to raise money to cut its budget deficit now, in return for repayments over time or at a later date.

In one deal, Goldman channelled $1bn of funding to the government in 2002, in a transaction called a cross-currency swap. There is no suggestion of any wrong-doing by Goldman Sachs. Such deals are an expensive way of raising money, but they have the advantage of not having to be accounted for as debt.

The eurozone rules dictate that governments must keep a country's deficit below 3 per cent of its Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and must take on total debt of no more than 60 per cent of GDP – rules that Greece did not keep to, even during the economic boom. Goldman Sachs, the world's most powerful investment bank, is already under intense scrutiny in the ongoing controversy over banking practices, pay and profits. President Barack Obama last month launched an assault on Wall Street, proposing to cap the size of the biggest US banks and clamp down on their trading activities. On the same day, Goldman began distributing nearly £10bn in pay and bonuses to its staff for their 2009 performance, just a year after the financial system was bailed out by governments.

Reflecting the importance of the Greek government as a client, and the scale of the fees to be generated from derivatives deals, Goldman sent Gary Cohn, who as chief operating officer is second-in-command of the global group, to Athens last November to pitch for new business with the debt management office.

According to a report yesterday, Goldman suggested a way that Greece could push healthcare liabilities further out into the future. The bank has refused to comment. Other eurozone countries have been discovered using cross-currency swaps similar to one causing concern in Greece, including Italy, which did a controversial transaction with JP Morgan before it joined the euro.

The size and scale of the use of derivatives is not fully understood, even by Eurostat, the European Union's official statistics body, which has complained that member nations' finances are opaque and that the information it is given about derivatives deals is incomplete.

Gustavo Piga, an economics professor at the University of Rome, whose 2001 paper on the topic sparked furious debate within the EU, questioned the wisdom of using Wall Street banks to invent ways to skirt debt rules. "What kind of relationships start to arise between these governments and these banks once they are in this mortal embrace of reciprocal blackmail potential? How does this change the dynamics on other issues, such as the regulation of banks?

"We have no idea – maybe nothing, but certainly there is a conflict of interest here," he told Risk magazine this week.

EU leaders promised last Thursday to make sure that Greece could meet its debt repayments, but sketched no mechanism for doing so, and pledged no specific sums of money. They reiterated their demands for Greece to redouble efforts to impose the swingeing public spending cuts that have prompted widespread labour unrest.

Finance ministers are continuing to work on contingency plans for a bailout this week, amid signs of disagreement over the scale of austerity measures to be demanded of Greece.

The European Central Bank is seeking tougher measures than the politicians are willing to demand.

The experience, stirring and use of mental force:

The Buddha spoke of the purity of a being’s mind and it is the absence of force like the freeing of the moon from obscuring clouds that determine the purity of that mind. It is the presence of force in a person’s mind that renders it impure and that is always suffering even to intense and eternal durations.

There are three separate modalities or actions of mental force in a being’s mind and they are the experience of force acting on the mind, the stirring of mental force at things perceived and the use of force to think, speak and act.

All beings’ mental states can be classified into five states of increasing exaltedness from the ordinary to first mental state (serenity of mind and body with thought conception), second (absence of thought), third (equanimity or neither liking nor disliking) and finally the fourth (neither pain nor pleasure) and highest mental state.

The use of mental force:

In the ordinary mental state that characterizes all beings trapped here, the mind is not only using force to fabricate thoughts, speech and actions, they are constantly using force to prolong, change speed and strength that is perceived as stylish & meaningful when it is not only totally meaningless but creates insoluble stress, restlessness and inability to concentrate in themselves and others and this is the path to even eternal punishment.

The first higher state of the mind that the Buddha described as serenity of mind and body with discursive thought present is merely the abolition of the senseless for show use of force to prolong (eg syllables), change speed and strength (eg loudness) that releases the person’s mind and body from stress, restlessness and distraction and therefore he attains the serenity of mind and body that the body with discursive thinking that the Buddha described as the first higher state of the mind.

WITHOUT STOPPING THE SENSELESS CONSTANT USE OF FORCE TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH YOU CANNOT EXPERIENCE THE EFFORTLESS SERENITY OF MIND AND BODY THAT THE BUDDHA DESCRIBED AS THE FIRST HIGHER STATE OF MIND.

WITH THE STOPPING THE SENSELESS CONSTANT USE OF FORCE TO STRETCH, CHANGE SPEED AND STRENGTH YOU AUTOMATICALLY EXPERIENCE THE EFFORTLESS SERENITY OF MIND AND BODY THAT THE BUDDHA DESCRIBED AS THE FIRST HIGHER STATE OF MIND.

THEREFORE IS THE CESSATION OF THE TOTALLY USELESS, FOR SHOW USE OF FORCE TO FASHION STYLE OR PROLONGING (OF SYLLABLES), CHANGING SPEED AND STRENGTH (LOUDNESS) THAT IS THE KEY OR SINE QUA NON OF THE FIRST HIGHER STATE OF MIND THAT IS HAPPINESS HERE AND RESULTS IN ONE AGE OR ETERNITY IN HEAVEN AS AN ANGEL.

Even without fabricating style, if a person thinks, speaks and does things he must use and expose his mind to harmful force. People here can stop speaking and doing things at least sometimes and for brief periods, it is thinking that they cannot stop, when they are conscious, they are constantly thinking about this and that sometimes silly sometimes purposeful.

Thus the ability to stop thinking when fully conscious and therefore totally stop using force is the next higher step and signifies the next higher state of mind the Buddha described as the absence of thinking.

WHEN YOU THINK, YOU MUST USE FORCE, WITHOUT USING FORCE YOU CANNOT THINK AND SO THE PERSON WHO CAN STOP THINKING AT WILL FULLY CONSCIOUS HAS ACHIEVED A HIGHER STATE OF MIND, THE SECOND HIGHER STATE OF MIND DEVOID OF ALL THINKING. HE JUST SEES AND DOES OR DOES NOT DO AND THIS STATE ACCORDS THAT BEING TWO ETERNITIES IN HEAVEN.

The stirring of mental force:

Just because the person is not using his mental force to fashion thinking, speaking and doing with or without style does not mean his mental force cannot be also stirring to be attracted to (like) or be repulsed (dislike, hate or anger) by what he sees, hears, smells, tastes and touches.

THUS THE NEXT HIGHER STATE IS CHARACTERIZED BY EQUANIMITY, THE BEING’S MIND IS NEITHER STIRRED ATTRACTIVELY OR REPULSIVELY BY WHATEVER HE PERCEIVES. HE JUST SEES, HE IS NEITHER ATTRACTED NOR REPULSED BY WHATEVER HE SEES AND THIS HIGHER STATE OF THE MIND ACCORDS THAT BEING FOUR ETERNITIES IN HEAVEN.

NOT ONLY DOES THE BEING STOP USING FORCE TO FABRICATE THOUGHTS, SPEECH AND ACTIONS, THE MENTAL FORCE OF THE PERSON WHO HAS ATTAINED THE THIRD HIGHER STATE OF MIND IS NEITHER STIRRED ATTRACTIVELY OR REPULSIVELY BY WHATEVER IS GOING ON.

The experience of force:

Pain and pleasures are products of force (and nothing else), it is mild and moderate force transmitted through sight, sound, touch, smell and taste that give rise to pleasure and in perverse situations in masochists, even intense force received is experienced as pleasure. It is the experience of strong to intense force that gives rise to pain, without experiencing strong force there can be no pain.

Thus whoever experiences pleasure is experiencing force, is exposing his mind to force.

Whoever seeks pleasure is seeking force, is exposing his mind to force.

Whoever enjoys pleasure is not enjoying something true and meaningful, is enjoying force that is not only blind, meaningless and does not last but is always harmful, force harms and degrades the mind that enjoys pleasure or force.

WITHOUT EXPERIENCING FORCE IMPACTING ON YOUR MIND, YOU CANNOT EXPERIENCE PAIN OR PLEASURE, IT IS FORCE AND NOTHING ELSE THAT IS THE INDISPENSABLE INGREDIENT OF PAIN AND PLEASURE.

WHOEVER DOES NOT ENJOY AND THEREFORE SEEK PLEASURE DOES NOT EXPERIENCE PAIN AND PLEASURE AND HAS TUNED HIS MIND TO DISREGARD OR IGNORE PAIN AND PLEASURE AND THIS IS THE FOURTH HIGHEST STATE OF MIND THAT IS THE HIGHEST BLISS AND GIVES THE BEING EVEN 500 EONS OR AGES IN HEAVENLY DEATH FREE, WOE FREE EXISTENCE.

Further, as taught by the Buddha, the being who has attained the fourth highest state of mind can obtain 20,000 eons in heaven if he can overcome all considerations of form to access the sphere of the infinitude of space, he will obtain an lifespan of 40,000 eons if he overcomes all consideration of space to access the sphere of the infinitude of consciousness and he obtains the maximum lifespan of 60,000 eons if he overcomes all considerations of consciousness to access the sphere of nothingness.