* Bitcoin keeps on increasing its value, but bitcoin continues to be stolen by hackers who suffer minimal to zero punishments, because bitcoin is not supported by any major government or corporation. Bitcoin is supported by computer code that is managed by a few mysterious people. Haha. Bitcoin mining is dominated by a few people who built farms of many CPUs and GPUs (thus, the GPU Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 has high sales and increased prices) that are completely allocated for Bitcoin mining. Bitcoin is easily exchanged with the US petrodollar and other government-backed currencies, thus, the official bankers could easily print more fiat currency to buy lots of Bitcoin. Bitcoin mining and exchanges mean only a few people could have tremendous control over Bitcoin.
* The S&P 500 is fluctuating around 2,600 points, which is a record high. I really do NOT think the economy is anywhere that strong right now, but the high stock market is good for my investments. However, a crash may be coming. Truisms for investors: wait for the storm to dissipate; buy low, sell high; long-term investments are usually better than short-term investments, but short-term investments could work (extremely) well if you leverage insider deals and revolving doors from the government and/or major corporations, or if you get lucky; diversify your investments; do not put all of your eggs in one basket; do not take risks that you cannot handle; and remember that money is merely a tool that facilitates trade and indicates simple value, not the meaning of life.
* Have backup plans. Remember to invest in your mental and physical well-being. Do not be a money-junkie who commits suicide (e.g., Rene-Thierry Magon de la Villehuchet) or goes on a killing spree (e.g., Stephen Paddock) when his/her financial plans fail. Losing hurts, but it is an opportunity to start anew. Learn from your losses and successes; it is a fundamental part of life. Aim high, but prepare for many attempts. This truism applies for any situation.
The US corporate-government refuses to let go of increasingly outdated ideas, thus, the US corporate-government wastes tremendous wealth and manpower, but the US corporate-government has low credibility according to many people across the US and the world. Trump is suppose to “Make America Great Again,” but every passing week shows he is a major part of the outdated system.
Google said, “Don’t be evil.” Google glamorizes its international projects to provide a free and fair Internet for anyone (but the project does not include Palestinians, Yemeni rebels, eastern Saudi Arabia dissenters, and anyone who rejects the empire of the Zionist US kleptocracy). According to the Snowden leaks, Google colludes with the US government to spy on everyone across America and the world.
Google and its acquired subsidiary, YouTube, are intensifying their plans to promote the mainstream media in its search results, provide advertisement revenue for the mainstream media and its supporters, demote alternative media for its search results, decrease or prevent advertisement revenue for the alternative media, and slander the alternative media as dangerous, unreliable, or disputable content: “Shots Fired in the Media War! Corbett Report Hit!” (https://www.corbettreport.com/shots-fired-in-the-media-war-corbett-report-hit/). This power grab is a sign of desperation by the US corporate-government, because the US oligarchy and its loyal servants are losing control in various parts of the world. They are afraid of new world where the general public has access to more accurate information, truly diverse solutions, and independent connections. The old world is a rotting corpse that cannot let go, and the new world is a budding flower.
The medieval Christian crusades never ended, but only postponed. In another clumsy power grab, on 2017 Dec 6 (Wed), the Trump presidency announced it will officially recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, thus, the US will eventually move its embassy to Jerusalem. Some US government officials said this change could require years for completion. This Trump decision motivated lots of pro-Palestine protests throughout the Middle East, South Asia, and Southeast Asia. Smaller protests occurred in other nations.
Nearly all of the world’s governments recognize Tel Aviv as the capital of Israel, Jerusalem as a city that is jointly owned by Israel and Palestine, and the Trump presidency’s move as a very controversial plan. The Trump presidency’s plan has many repercussions. The Trump presidency will further damage US approval ratings across most of the Middle East and elsewhere. The Trump presidency will decrease America’s image as the planetary leader of democracy (or majority rule) and degrade the global trust in democracy (or popular decisions). Before the Jerusalem plan, the Trump presidency was already seen as a vainglorious caricature by most people around the world.
According to the rough drafts from the Dead Sea Scrolls and the official versions of the New Testament, Christianity was suppose to be an extreme variation of Judaism, which itself was based on older Middle Eastern religions. Based on incomplete archeology (incomplete because archeology is constantly uncovering the past), the earliest Semitic culture was probably native to prehistoric and ancient Iraq (e.g., Sumer and Mesopotamia). This is why the Torah has lots of myths that are similar to and younger than the myths of prehistoric to ancient Iraq. In other words, the myths of prehistoric and ancient Iraq came first, and they were the starting foundation for the Torah. The Torah also copies and alters myths from Egypt and other Middle Eastern cultures. The Torah takes these modified copies and mixes them with local myths. Judaism eventually became too bureaucratic and centralized. Thus, rebellious Jews decided to create their own variations of Judaism. Some of these Judaic variations turned into Christianity.
Christianity was suppose to directly bring the average person with God, thus, the costly and bureaucratic middlemen were inessential. Christianity was suppose to get rid of the Torah’s or Old Testament’s goofy rituals and severe rules, and create values based on patience, friendship, and reasonable punishments. Unlike mainstream Judaism (which constantly exaggerated Jewish importance and belittled gentiles), Christianity welcomed strangers, heretics, pagans, infidels, etc. These Christian attributes made Christianity a fast growing religion in the Middle East and Europe. Then the Roman empire got hold of Christianity, and Christianity became highly centralized, strictly hypocritical, costly, etc. Then the Saudi Arabia kingdom created the Islamic empire to counter the popularity of Christianity that was controlled by the Roman empire.
All religions are ancient and medieval attempts at primitive science or understanding the real world. Based on modern standards, religion has very little scientific value or factual accuracy, but religion is an artistic system with deep historical roots. Religion is an artistic interpretation of reality, and this is similar to how novels, TV shows, and movies are artistic representations of the real world. Many times, an artistic representation is better than the real thing: “Melania Trump Is Dreaming Of A Dark Christmas” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gob0unzEdRw). The fake Melania Trump on Stephen Colbert’s Late Show is more beautiful, funnier, and smarter than the real Melania Trump in the White House.
The US mainstream media and major telecommunication companies said they are banning, demoting, and financially restricting the alternative media, because the alternative media is significantly controlled by the Russia government trolls, white supremacists/nationalists, conservative extremists, liberal fanatics, lunatics, and other people who promote horrible concepts. In my opinion, this so-called problem in the alternative media is greatly exaggerated, and the accusation is very hypocritical. The US mainstream media and major telecommunication companies are controlled by the US oligarchy and its loyal servants (e.g., central banks, corporate cartels, and government’s various regulatory agencies). The established systems have a history of selling propaganda and agitprop filled with cherry-picked partial truths mixed with lies plus the demotion and censorship of alternative perspectives. The established system is allowed to hack the opposition, conduct surveillance on independent outsiders, and spy on everyone else. According to various reports, the US civilian government, military branch, central banks, and major corporations hire people to create completely fake personalities and partially fake identities on the Internet in order to promote establishment products, services, political viewpoints, politicians, and values.
The Federal Communication Commission (FCC) is holding more discussions on the continuation of net neutrality or the creation of something else. The FCC website accepts public comments, and the large majority of public comments about net neutrality were created by computer programs that were against net neutrality, in favor of giving more Internet control to corporate cartels, pretending to be real people, creating fake identities, repeating the exact same comments, and repeating very similar comments. This massive fraud was confirmed by multiple data analysts. See below for 2 examples.
* “At least 1.3 million comments opposed to net neutrality were likely fake: Report” (https://www.salon.com/2017/11/25/at-least-1-3-million-comments-opposed-to-net-neutrality-were-likely-fake-report/)
* “Fake Americans Dominated the Net-Neutrality Debate” (http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/11/fake-americans-dominated-the-net-neutrality-debate.html)
It is pretty obvious the telecommunication corporations and their business associates are trolling the Internet. Enhanced artificial intelligence will create more believable fake identities all over the Internet. Then we will need experts and specialized artificial intelligence to analyze the raw data in order to separate the real people from the fake people.
In other words, we need more and better media sources to counter corporate-governmental propaganda. Then we could learn more people like Austin Holland who is a former seismologist for Oklahoma state. He published a report about the current and future drawbacks of fracking, but he was pressured by his superiors to make his report more favorable for fracking corporations. He was also contacted by energy corporations and environmental groups to join their causes. His story should be major national news, but it’s only local news: “Officials Caught Forcing State Scientist to Alter Findings to Cover Up Earthquake Fracking Link” (http://thefreethoughtproject.com/officials-force-state-scientist-alter-findings-earthquake-fracking-link/).
See below for more interesting news promoted by the alternative media such as Russia Today, Sputnik News, The Intercept, The Middle East Monitor, Abby Martin at TeleSur English news, science journals, local and independent news organizations, social media websites, etc. Russia Today is the easiest to access, because it has a TV channel, website, and multiple YouTube channels with news videos that you could play in the background while you exercise, study whatever you want, eat a meal, or do anything else. The drawback with Russia Today is that it is based in Russia, thus, it generally avoids controversial news about Russia. The benefit of Russia Today is that it frequently counters propaganda from the US mainstream media, which is the most widespread media in the world. Other alternative news sites could require you to read the news article and/or read the multilingual translations in the video.
We’re suppose to believe in the miraculous benefits of (relative) majority choices, and ignore the hypocritical rules for dumb-mock-crazy elections, majority tyranny, and mob rule. Michael Flynn is under serious FBI investigations for colluding with Turkey and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Other members of team Trump are also under FBI investigations. The controversial issue is not collusion in itself, but who you colluded with and the purpose of the collusion: “‘What we’re looking at is actually Israel-gate’ – journalist” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24yIEsC8I8A). The collusion between Michael Flynn and Russia or Turkey is nothing compared to the collusion between the US corporate-government and Israel. However, the former is in trouble, but the latter is celebrated.
Hillary Clinton and her campaign colluded with Twitter, Google, Facebook, and most TV news and entertainment corporations in order to censor, demote, excuse, and misreport bad news about Hillary Clinton, while popularizing and exaggerating good news about Hillary Clinton. This was revealed by Democrat donors who sued the Democrat Party, email leaks, social media users, revelations by Democrat Party members, and Congressional hearings: “Twitter Admits To Censoring Tweets During 2016 Election” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-B3mNIQwY). Hillary Clinton and her ilk were not punished in any significant manner for their collusion. The solution is not more political parties, more election regulations, impulsive term-limits, etc. The solution is to decrease the influence of democracy and increase the importance of the US Constitution’s Bill of Rights.
Honduras is another “success” story for (relative) majority rule: Honduras Clashes: “Violent protests sweeping country over alleged election fraud” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI6-LAsTaWA). Honduran protesters and rioters said the recent presidential election is illegal, because the votes were rigged and the established president was NOT legally eligible to run for another term. El Salvador is also experience major rebellions against the established system. According to some reports, the US corporate-government has good relations with the established systems in Honduras and El Salvador, which is why the US empire does not greatly support the rebels in those Latin American nations.
America supposedly has the greatest political system in the world, which is democracy, but President Trump lost the popular vote and won the Electoral College’s vote. Thus, Trump’s political career is as extravagantly clumsy as his business record and family life. The Trump presidency wants to create a corporate deep state to counter the government deep state, because President Trump has too many critics inside the government deep state: “Trump White House Weighing Plans For Private Spies to Counter "Deep State" Enemies” (https://theintercept.com/2017/12/04/trump-white-house-weighing-plans-for-private-spies-to-counter-deep-state-enemies). The Trump presidency is working with Erik Prince (a retired Navy SEAL and controversial mercenary leader), Oliver North (a controversial soldier who was entangled in the Iran-Contra affair), and Mike Pompeo (a retired soldier, former politician, and the current CIA Director who is facing significant internal resistance and external criticism).
Like everything Trump has been personally and publicly involved with, the White House is building more lies within deception inside chicanery, and it’s all for the fragile egomania and obese greed of a small group of people. Even with blatant evidence to the contrary, Trump wants everyone to believe he is a great leader for business, politics, patriotism, religion, and morality. Trump believes his arrogant words are facts, but a video record is slanderous fiction: “Billy Bush Believes The Women Accusing Trump Of Sexual Assault” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvcIeSfaB3c). Trump boasted of sexually harassing women while hanging out with Billy Bush, Trump said his boast was merely “locker room talk” (which is a politically correct excuse from a guy who claims to be politically incorrect), then Trump publicly apologized for his “locker room talk,” and then Trump claimed he was not involved with that locker room talk. Trump possibly suffers from multiple personality disorder. Depending on the situation, Trump acted like (1) a toddler who does not know the difference between the real world and his imagination, (2) a spoiled brat who gets away with anything, or (3) an old person suffering from dementia.
The US corporate-government also spends a full range of direct, indirect, and qualitatively superior welfare to Israel, thus, Israel could entrench its apartheid and genocide against Palestine. The Trump presidency wants to move a US embassy to Jerusalem as an unofficial or official recognition of Jerusalem as Israel’s exclusive territory and capital. However, Palestine and the vast majority of the world believe Jerusalem (and many other regions) should be shared between Israel and Palestine. The United Nations General Assembly voted for 6 resolutions that reaffirmed Palestinian rights and criticized Israel’s inhumane violations against Palestine. Six nations (the US and its usefully idiotic proxies) voted against the 6 resolutions, 9 nations abstained, and an overwhelming 151 nations voted for the resolutions: “UN General Assembly affirms illegality of Israeli actions in occupied East Jerusalem” (https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20171201-un-general-assembly-affirms-illegality-of-israeli-actions-in-occupied-east-jerusalem/). In addition, many Islamic Middle Eastern nations warned the US to avoid official acceptance and to refrain from major unofficial support of Israel’s expanding invasion of Jerusalem.
The US empire has spent countless resources, effort, and time to make glorious benefits for Israel in order to satisfy the Biblical superstitions of Zionist Christians, the self-righteous delusions of Zionist liberals, and the God complex of Zionist Jews. That’s also called flushing money down the toilet, chasing after a bad investment, accumulating a gigantic opportunity cost, putting lipstick on a pig, etc. Israel has been an epic waste of US assets for many decades. The US empire could have allocated Israel’s unparalleled welfare to actually help millions of Americans, especially for the advancement of electronics, biotechnology, environmental technology, transportation, housing, healthy diets, education, and space technology. An increasing imperial waste requires expanding imperial control over more nations’ workers and resources. If the imperial waste is greater than the imperial productivity, then the empire will implode or be forced to downsize. Thus, empires tend to constantly expand until they suffer imperial overreach.
The US corporate-government uses corporate cartels, proxy regimes, and proxy rebels to expand its imperial control. The US is the top leader of NATO, and NATO boasts it is the global leader of anti-terrorism, liberation, freedom, and all that is good under the sun. NATO provides extensive support to the oil- and gas-rich nation of Saudi Arabia, and the Saudi regime promotes Islamic extremism. NATO provides lots of welfare to Israel, which commits apartheid and genocide against Palestine. NATO supports the oppressive regimes in Egypt, Yemen, Nigeria, Colombia, Honduras, El Salvador, and so forth, and oppression results in rebellion or terrorism. NATO supports terrorist rebels, freedom fighters, or humanitarian soldiers in Syria and Libya: “British aid for Syria being funneled to extremists” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r7-HihSLDE). The US corporate-government once supported the regional Islamic extremists during the Soviet-Afghani war. NATO's foreign policy accidentally and purposely motivates terrorism or rebellion all over the planet.
NATO’s goal is the monopolization of labor and natural resources around the world: “Shell ‘motivated’ Nigerian Army in deadly crackdown on local tribes opposing extraction – Amnesty” (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiHe5r37Xqg). NATO’s economic needs are based on consumerism gone wild, but this wasteful economic policy is increasingly outdated when the planet has 7+ billion people who have bought into NATO’s lies about economics and other topics. With 7+ billion people, the entire world currently lacks the natural resources, technology, and average intelligence to provide a high per-capita consumption rate for every person or for most people. NATO’s crony capitalism and socialism only work well for a small minority of people: the upper class and their loyal servants. Everyone else is stuck with mediocre to lousy results.
The military is the violent enforcement bureau of the US corporate-government. The bureaucracy of double-standard regulations is the peaceful enforcement of the US corporate-government. For example, the Federal Reserve and US Treasury are allowed to monopolize the financial system based on the petrodollar. The petrodollar is standard across the world in order to spread the US empire’s inflation tax, cartels, sanctions, unending debt, infinite derivatives, and other monetary scams around the planet. The established monetary system is fundamentally rigged to favor the US oligarchy and its loyal servants. Saddam Hussein’s regime in Iraq tried to work outside of the US petrodollar, and his regime was executed. The Gaddafi regime in Libya tried to create alternatives to the US petrodollar, and his regime was assassinated by NATO-backed rebel-terrorists. The regimes in Iran, North Korea, Venezuela, Cuba, Syria, Russia, and China want additional options to the petrodollar, and all of these regimes are considered dangerous according the US empire.
Americans who tried to create independent financial systems were thrown into prisons or, if they resisted arrest, were executed by the US police state. American commoners who tried to cheat the established financial system were sent to prison: “‘I certainly regret’ rigging Iowa Lottery, says cheat who gets 25 years [but parole could release him within 4 years]” (https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/investigations/2017/08/22/iowa-lottery-cheat-sentenced-25-years/566642001/). Eddie Tipton (white guy) was a computer programmer for the Iowa branches of the Multi-State Lottery Association. He conspired with a few other people to rig multiple lottery results in their favor. He also looks like he eats an entire super-sized bag of Doritos for every meal with 5 meals per day and snacks between every meal. He definitely cheated and should be punished, but financial trickery is commonly done and rarely punished in Hollywood, Wall Street, the military industrial complex, Congress, and other institutions of the US oligarchy.