The current Israeli incursion into Lebanon seems to be no more than an orchestrated set-up to allow for the preposition of forces prior to the next stage of the game.
This preposition of forces may be to allow UN forces to patrol southern Lebanon or to allow Russian forces into Lebanon.
In either case, the buildup of US power and influence in the Mideast seems determined, persistent and on-track. Now the US itself may decide to preposition troops in southern Lebanon as it already does along the border of Egypt and Israel.
The de facto US occupation of the Mideast seems on course. Is this designed to encourage a Chinese military strike in future years? We shall see.
More later.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Saturday, March 04, 2006
Holy Rights & National Security
The United States was founded upon the belief that there are certain things that are more important than life.
What is more important than life? Than living?
Some would argue that there is nothing more important than life. This is a common position of some communist ideologues. But even these communist ideologues, when pressed, would agree that their ideology is more important than life.
If life itself were paramount, than all else would fall by the wayside and wars would become meaningless. But life is not paramount and ideology is only one of several factors that are more important than life.
Wars are often fought on the basis of principle. Some of these principles include wealth, power and territory.
In the United States, our founding fathers and our traditions proclaim that human rights, universal democracy, freedom and liberty are all more important than life itself. These are the supposed reasons we are fighting the war in Iraq. If this is not true, then the war in Iraq is a sham, a mockery of the principles upon which America was founded. The war in Iraq would then be a war being fought by the rich and powerful, for the rich and powerful, to protect or to increase their wealth and power.
Whether or not this last statement is true - that the war in Iraq is being fought on bequest of the rich and powerful to maintain or expand their hold on wealth and power - is easily determined by observing the actions of our government in other areas.
If the government shows compassion, caring and attention to the individual rights of the people; to fairness, to peace, to honesty, to integrity, to liberty, to democracy, to freedom; then we can be assured that the government is one in which the Principles of America are a function of the character of the government. But if these principles are excluded in the way the government functions; if we see no or little evidence of such principles in the daily activities and operations of the government, then we can be certain that this administration is one in which only power and wealth have meaning.
Should this administration and the governmental apparatus under its control be found in activities which seek to preserve its wealth, power or security, then the Principles of America are being ignored by those who control the functions of the state. If this administration resorts to torture, secret detentions, abuse or violation of the rights of any individual foreign or domestic, then the reins of government are held by those who believe only in power and wealth and the maintenance of their own position (security).
The government may claim such actions are necessary to protect national security, but what is "national security"?
If our nation was founded upon the principles of freedom, liberty, human rights and democracy with such rights innate upon each individual, then our nation is dependent upon maintaining and securing (security) these rights and principles for each individual.
Our nation's security (National Security) then is based on the government preserving, maintaining and where and when possible expanding these rights for each person.
If the government fails to do this, it is not acting upon the basis of national security but only on the privilege and prestige of the rich and powerful - of those who lay claim to the functions of government.
Such a position is antithetical to a nation founded upon human rights, democracy, freedom and liberty for all. Such a position cannot be said to be "national security" but only the protection of those who seek to expand their wealth and power.
Is our nation protecting the rights of the individual which is true national security, or is it protecting only the power and riches of a few?
"Governments are mere machinery. It is the men who control them that count."
-unknown
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Decide for yourself. Does this administration believe in the Principles of our Founding Fathers? Or is the war in Iraq a sham conducted only to preserve the wealth and power of those running the government?
The truth is revealed in the evidence. The evidence is the actions of government. Katrina, domestic spying and lies from the White House are all evidence.
You decide. What kind of government do we have? What kind of Administration is this?
What is more important than life? Than living?
Some would argue that there is nothing more important than life. This is a common position of some communist ideologues. But even these communist ideologues, when pressed, would agree that their ideology is more important than life.
If life itself were paramount, than all else would fall by the wayside and wars would become meaningless. But life is not paramount and ideology is only one of several factors that are more important than life.
Wars are often fought on the basis of principle. Some of these principles include wealth, power and territory.
In the United States, our founding fathers and our traditions proclaim that human rights, universal democracy, freedom and liberty are all more important than life itself. These are the supposed reasons we are fighting the war in Iraq. If this is not true, then the war in Iraq is a sham, a mockery of the principles upon which America was founded. The war in Iraq would then be a war being fought by the rich and powerful, for the rich and powerful, to protect or to increase their wealth and power.
Whether or not this last statement is true - that the war in Iraq is being fought on bequest of the rich and powerful to maintain or expand their hold on wealth and power - is easily determined by observing the actions of our government in other areas.
If the government shows compassion, caring and attention to the individual rights of the people; to fairness, to peace, to honesty, to integrity, to liberty, to democracy, to freedom; then we can be assured that the government is one in which the Principles of America are a function of the character of the government. But if these principles are excluded in the way the government functions; if we see no or little evidence of such principles in the daily activities and operations of the government, then we can be certain that this administration is one in which only power and wealth have meaning.
Should this administration and the governmental apparatus under its control be found in activities which seek to preserve its wealth, power or security, then the Principles of America are being ignored by those who control the functions of the state. If this administration resorts to torture, secret detentions, abuse or violation of the rights of any individual foreign or domestic, then the reins of government are held by those who believe only in power and wealth and the maintenance of their own position (security).
The government may claim such actions are necessary to protect national security, but what is "national security"?
If our nation was founded upon the principles of freedom, liberty, human rights and democracy with such rights innate upon each individual, then our nation is dependent upon maintaining and securing (security) these rights and principles for each individual.
Our nation's security (National Security) then is based on the government preserving, maintaining and where and when possible expanding these rights for each person.
If the government fails to do this, it is not acting upon the basis of national security but only on the privilege and prestige of the rich and powerful - of those who lay claim to the functions of government.
Such a position is antithetical to a nation founded upon human rights, democracy, freedom and liberty for all. Such a position cannot be said to be "national security" but only the protection of those who seek to expand their wealth and power.
Is our nation protecting the rights of the individual which is true national security, or is it protecting only the power and riches of a few?
"Governments are mere machinery. It is the men who control them that count."
-unknown
"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
Decide for yourself. Does this administration believe in the Principles of our Founding Fathers? Or is the war in Iraq a sham conducted only to preserve the wealth and power of those running the government?
The truth is revealed in the evidence. The evidence is the actions of government. Katrina, domestic spying and lies from the White House are all evidence.
You decide. What kind of government do we have? What kind of Administration is this?
Thursday, February 23, 2006
2006 Inflation Projection
Jones Inflation Estimate for 2006
Using an algorithm I developed approximately 1986, I have prepared an estimate for the 2006 rate of inflation.
I'm projecting a target rate of inflation of 2.45%. Of course, this will depend on vagaries in the economy and world economic-political developments.
This year my algorithm has disclosed a broad range of .67 to 5.74, (first time ever for such a broad range) although the target range remains essentially unchanged at 2.124 to 2.545.
This years' broad range indicates an underlying instability in the world economic and geopolitical situation. Continuing restructuring in the industrialized nations, continuing prospects for war, mass layoffs in the United States, fluctuations in commodities, oil prices and gold prices all converge at this point in history to present the widest range in inflation estimates to date.
As usual, only time will tell, but my estimated rate has been accurate every year within 1/10 of a percent since 1986 when I developed this algorithm.
Using an algorithm I developed approximately 1986, I have prepared an estimate for the 2006 rate of inflation.
I'm projecting a target rate of inflation of 2.45%. Of course, this will depend on vagaries in the economy and world economic-political developments.
This year my algorithm has disclosed a broad range of .67 to 5.74, (first time ever for such a broad range) although the target range remains essentially unchanged at 2.124 to 2.545.
This years' broad range indicates an underlying instability in the world economic and geopolitical situation. Continuing restructuring in the industrialized nations, continuing prospects for war, mass layoffs in the United States, fluctuations in commodities, oil prices and gold prices all converge at this point in history to present the widest range in inflation estimates to date.
As usual, only time will tell, but my estimated rate has been accurate every year within 1/10 of a percent since 1986 when I developed this algorithm.
Friday, February 10, 2006
To Lie, To Cheat, To Steal
The State of the Union Address has come and gone. Nothing new was stated, nothing new has been done, it's all just the same old same old. Pretty much par for this Administration, the worst since Carter.
Mr. Bush continues to lie at every chance he gets while Cheney and Rumsfeld and others contnue to cheat and steal. Lie, cheat and steal seems to be the mantra of this Administration and those who speak the truth are vilified, denounced and mocked. Never has there been an Administration as evil or as vindictive as this Bush Administration.
The Rush for War
Several months before Bush was elected, my sources reported to me that a decision had been made to invade Iraq. Only the confirmation of Bush by the American people would be needed to cement and implement this decision.
On the run up to war, Bush and his cronies in the White House selected only those intelligence estimates which supported their views, dismissing the majority of reports which indicated that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, that the Iraqi people would turn on American soldiers and that the presence of American forces would serve as a lightning rod for Muslims throughout the region.
Under orders from his handlers - which include Cheney - Bush made the case for war and committed the American nation to a war solely to line the pockets of those who brought Bush into power.
Our sons and daughters are dying for no other reasons than oil and money and power. Perhaps the oldest reasons in history. Bush can find no money for the poor, but he can find billions to fight a war he initiated, the money of which circles around into the coffers of such organizations as Halliburton and others.
We think terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, but 5 months before the attack my sources insisted that a major disaster of just such a nature was far advanced in planning by the DC gang and orders transmitted from Washington to Saudi Arabia and finally northward into the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I read a report in May of 2001 of how the US had to convince the American people to invade the nations of the Mideast in order to protect powerful American interests from losing the oil fields to others. A probable course was to initiate an attack upon esteemed American institutions in order to rally the American people around the President while he simultaneously stripped those same people of their liberty and their rights.
We have seen how effective this tactic was. The President and his handlers achieved everything they wanted at the cost of just a few thousand American lives.
Bush and Abramoff
My sources now report that Bush has visited with Abramoff at least 7 or 8 times while the President states he doesn't know the man. But my sources indicate that Bush even interrupted a meeting to take an urgent call from Abramoff.
To lie, to cheat, to steal. This is the slogan of the White House.
Fundamental Christians rally around Bush as one of them, deceived by Bush and his handlers, not realizing Bush is only using them and cares nothing for God or religion.
Every word Bush speaks is suspect. Every move he makes is deceptive. Every thought he thinks is evil.
Although Kerry carried Ohio by approximately 250,000 votes, Bush was declared the winner.
To lie, to cheat, to steal. The White House and those in power will do anything to retain and expand their hold on power, oil and money. They see nothing wrong with sending thousands of our sons and daughters to die in a war they themselves started. Now Halliburton has received a 485 million dollar federal contract to build a series of prison camps and detention centers across the United States. What are they up to now?
To lie, to cheat, to steal. This is the mantra of the people in power. This is the slogan of Bush and his handlers. These are the words they live by and their every action confirms this.
Mr. Bush continues to lie at every chance he gets while Cheney and Rumsfeld and others contnue to cheat and steal. Lie, cheat and steal seems to be the mantra of this Administration and those who speak the truth are vilified, denounced and mocked. Never has there been an Administration as evil or as vindictive as this Bush Administration.
The Rush for War
Several months before Bush was elected, my sources reported to me that a decision had been made to invade Iraq. Only the confirmation of Bush by the American people would be needed to cement and implement this decision.
On the run up to war, Bush and his cronies in the White House selected only those intelligence estimates which supported their views, dismissing the majority of reports which indicated that there was no evidence of weapons of mass destruction, that the Iraqi people would turn on American soldiers and that the presence of American forces would serve as a lightning rod for Muslims throughout the region.
Under orders from his handlers - which include Cheney - Bush made the case for war and committed the American nation to a war solely to line the pockets of those who brought Bush into power.
Our sons and daughters are dying for no other reasons than oil and money and power. Perhaps the oldest reasons in history. Bush can find no money for the poor, but he can find billions to fight a war he initiated, the money of which circles around into the coffers of such organizations as Halliburton and others.
We think terrorists attacked the World Trade Center, but 5 months before the attack my sources insisted that a major disaster of just such a nature was far advanced in planning by the DC gang and orders transmitted from Washington to Saudi Arabia and finally northward into the deserts and mountains of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
I read a report in May of 2001 of how the US had to convince the American people to invade the nations of the Mideast in order to protect powerful American interests from losing the oil fields to others. A probable course was to initiate an attack upon esteemed American institutions in order to rally the American people around the President while he simultaneously stripped those same people of their liberty and their rights.
We have seen how effective this tactic was. The President and his handlers achieved everything they wanted at the cost of just a few thousand American lives.
Bush and Abramoff
My sources now report that Bush has visited with Abramoff at least 7 or 8 times while the President states he doesn't know the man. But my sources indicate that Bush even interrupted a meeting to take an urgent call from Abramoff.
To lie, to cheat, to steal. This is the slogan of the White House.
Fundamental Christians rally around Bush as one of them, deceived by Bush and his handlers, not realizing Bush is only using them and cares nothing for God or religion.
Every word Bush speaks is suspect. Every move he makes is deceptive. Every thought he thinks is evil.
Although Kerry carried Ohio by approximately 250,000 votes, Bush was declared the winner.
To lie, to cheat, to steal. The White House and those in power will do anything to retain and expand their hold on power, oil and money. They see nothing wrong with sending thousands of our sons and daughters to die in a war they themselves started. Now Halliburton has received a 485 million dollar federal contract to build a series of prison camps and detention centers across the United States. What are they up to now?
To lie, to cheat, to steal. This is the mantra of the people in power. This is the slogan of Bush and his handlers. These are the words they live by and their every action confirms this.
Friday, February 03, 2006
"I've Been Outsourced!" Now What?
Your job is not secure.
Centuries ago - or was it the 1990's? - we anticipated that many US manufacturing jobs would outsource to Asia or other 3rd world countries.
This has occured. What we didn't expect was that just a few years later, IT/high tech jobes would follow.
Economists and career consultants all expected that the US would retain its high tech careers with many of those workers displaced and out of work due to outsourcing would retrain and find employment in the IT sector.
It didn't happen that way.
Today thousands of high tech jobs are themselves outsourcing to places like India and China. Even several formerly East Bloc nations of Eastern Europe are capturing high tech work.
With employees in India and China receiving just $5000 a year in salary for a high tech position, the US simply cannot compete - especially when those same Indian and Chinese employees hold advanced degrees from such US institutions as Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Princeton.
You're standing on shaky ground if you plan on retiring in your current job if it's in a high tech or manufacturing field. In fact, it's more like standing on quicksand, because the reality seems to be not "if" that job will disappear but "when."
So what can you do?Start your own business.
It doesn't have be a Fortune 500 company. It doesn't have to have acres of office space and 5000 employees. All it needs is you.
Doing this will require a revolution in the way Americans view themselves vis-a-vis work. Yesterday you could count on some big company cradling you from graduation to retirement, protecting you from all the ins and outs, intricacies and responsibility in earning a profit.
You simply did not need to know that.
But things have changed.
Now we have to relearn how work is done.
Creativity, fast thinking, bias for action and the ability to communicate are all essentials in the new fastpaced global economy.
You don't need to do it all yourself - in fact, you shouldn't. But you do need to communicate to others what you can't or won't do and partner with those who understand what you (your business) needs and can provide the skills and abilities you can't.
Maybe you will have a one-man or one-woman operation outsourcing your work to those Indian and Chinese employees. Maybe you will have just a few employees in the US and Europe all connected by the internet videoconferencing by web, cell phone and iPod or similar devices with your manufacturing or research or software development center in Shanghai, New Delhi or Beijing.
Now is the perfect time to figure out what makes you the happiest doing and creates the highest profit.
For more details about how you can choose to be self-employed and receive a good living go to http://how2getrich.bravehost.com/worklive1.html
The biggest change in how we perceive work lies in our own minds. That's also the location to all of our barriers to being successfully self-employed.
We need to learn to think "outside the box." The box is the way we have learned to think and work from birth. We have to rethink all our biases and opinions about working and discover ways of releasing our creativity.
The world is filled with abundance and there is enough to go around for everyone.Don't believe in the old dogmatic lies of the industrial revolution. Your financial security depends on your ability to find out what makes you the happiest and then identifying a path within that field that will make you financially independent. Your financial security does not depend on some company that gives you a paycheck a couple of times a month.
Your financial security depends on your ability to take an idea germinated in your own mind and then nurturing that idea into a profitable enterprise for yourself.
Yes, that requires work, courage and a whole new way of thinking. But we have no other choice.
We can perceive the advent of the global economy as a great threat or we can perceive it as extraordinarily liberating.
It's all just a choice - a perception.
Choose to be free. Start your own home-based business.
Centuries ago - or was it the 1990's? - we anticipated that many US manufacturing jobs would outsource to Asia or other 3rd world countries.
This has occured. What we didn't expect was that just a few years later, IT/high tech jobes would follow.
Economists and career consultants all expected that the US would retain its high tech careers with many of those workers displaced and out of work due to outsourcing would retrain and find employment in the IT sector.
It didn't happen that way.
Today thousands of high tech jobs are themselves outsourcing to places like India and China. Even several formerly East Bloc nations of Eastern Europe are capturing high tech work.
With employees in India and China receiving just $5000 a year in salary for a high tech position, the US simply cannot compete - especially when those same Indian and Chinese employees hold advanced degrees from such US institutions as Harvard, MIT, Stanford and Princeton.
You're standing on shaky ground if you plan on retiring in your current job if it's in a high tech or manufacturing field. In fact, it's more like standing on quicksand, because the reality seems to be not "if" that job will disappear but "when."
So what can you do?Start your own business.
It doesn't have be a Fortune 500 company. It doesn't have to have acres of office space and 5000 employees. All it needs is you.
Doing this will require a revolution in the way Americans view themselves vis-a-vis work. Yesterday you could count on some big company cradling you from graduation to retirement, protecting you from all the ins and outs, intricacies and responsibility in earning a profit.
You simply did not need to know that.
But things have changed.
Now we have to relearn how work is done.
Creativity, fast thinking, bias for action and the ability to communicate are all essentials in the new fastpaced global economy.
You don't need to do it all yourself - in fact, you shouldn't. But you do need to communicate to others what you can't or won't do and partner with those who understand what you (your business) needs and can provide the skills and abilities you can't.
Maybe you will have a one-man or one-woman operation outsourcing your work to those Indian and Chinese employees. Maybe you will have just a few employees in the US and Europe all connected by the internet videoconferencing by web, cell phone and iPod or similar devices with your manufacturing or research or software development center in Shanghai, New Delhi or Beijing.
Now is the perfect time to figure out what makes you the happiest doing and creates the highest profit.
For more details about how you can choose to be self-employed and receive a good living go to http://how2getrich.bravehost.com/worklive1.html
The biggest change in how we perceive work lies in our own minds. That's also the location to all of our barriers to being successfully self-employed.
We need to learn to think "outside the box." The box is the way we have learned to think and work from birth. We have to rethink all our biases and opinions about working and discover ways of releasing our creativity.
The world is filled with abundance and there is enough to go around for everyone.Don't believe in the old dogmatic lies of the industrial revolution. Your financial security depends on your ability to find out what makes you the happiest and then identifying a path within that field that will make you financially independent. Your financial security does not depend on some company that gives you a paycheck a couple of times a month.
Your financial security depends on your ability to take an idea germinated in your own mind and then nurturing that idea into a profitable enterprise for yourself.
Yes, that requires work, courage and a whole new way of thinking. But we have no other choice.
We can perceive the advent of the global economy as a great threat or we can perceive it as extraordinarily liberating.
It's all just a choice - a perception.
Choose to be free. Start your own home-based business.
Monday, January 09, 2006
The Purpose of Money
| The purpose of money is not to have money. The purpose of money is to give you the financial ability to pursue your dreams. |
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
My New Year's Resolutions
I don't usually make New Year's Resolutions, but this year I decided to make an exception. My New Year's Resolutions To laugh more To love more To spend more time with my family To spend more time with my friends To grow into a closer relationship with God To relax more To stop and smell the flowers more To have more fun If I can accomplish just these things throughout this year, I will consider this year to have been a success. Here's wishing you and yours the very best and most prosperous year ever! |
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
A Time of Tempest
That we are in a time of tempest cannot be denied. All that remains is the reason why.
Bold minds will seek the truth even if the truth is without their common and/or understood experience, and even if their imaginations are too meager to fully comprehend the depths of the truth they discover.
George Bush and friends seem intent upon introducing the New World Order regardless of the deprivation and degradation of the principles and rights which are the foundation upon which this nation was founded.
The Imperial presidency has come at last, as perhaps, it must always come eventually to nations which experiment with democracy and inalienable rights from a Divine Creator.
To forestall our fall into the deathgrip of authoritarianism which could slip into totalitarianism upon the American continent, we need a new revolution.
This revolution must be as counter to the mainstream as was the cultural revolution of the 1960's. It must be as productive as that revolution was with love, peace and music filling the air and the hearts and souls of those who would walk the path of a different drum.
This new revolution must also be a spiritual revolution, for we are a nation adrift without the foundation our Founding Fathers gave us - a nation founded upon the Gospel of Jesus - a Christian nation - born in battle, inspired by principle and dedicated to the promises of equality and self-determination for all.
That we have allowed our government to trample us and use us and rule as slaves is no fault of our government but only the fault of the people, who have allowed themselves - ourselves - to be led like cattle with rings in the noses.
It is never too late to turn about, to stand up for our rights. It is never too late to do what is right. It is never too late for the truth.
There are many who have blazed a path before us - Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, JFK. All had the courage to sit at the front of the bus when the back of the bus was their "rightful place." All had the courage to make known their hopes, dreams and vision of what could be. "Some people see things as they are and ask, why? I see things as they could be, and ask, why not?"
We stand upon a threshold in American history. We stand at two open doors. One leads to a bold future filled with light and promise. The other leads to a dark, dead end street piled with the garbage of decayed minds, the odor of violence and the depression of lost dreams.
George Bush stands beside one of these doors. To determine which door he stands beside we need to look at an ancient Chinese proverb: "To know the character of a small man, look at what he does. To know the character of a leader, look at his lieutenents."
I fear that most people will be unable to discern the truth. For I know that most people will ignore facts which are contrary to their preset beliefs dismissing such facts as irrevelant or erroneous or by simply ignoring them.
The future of our nation and that of our children and possibly the whole world lies in your hands. It is up to you to speak the truth. It is up to you to do what is right. It is up to you to do what is bold. It is up to you to do.
"For evil to win requires only that good men do nothing."
Don't do nothing. Be bold. Live Your dreams. Think for yourself. Do what is right.
Bold minds will seek the truth even if the truth is without their common and/or understood experience, and even if their imaginations are too meager to fully comprehend the depths of the truth they discover.
George Bush and friends seem intent upon introducing the New World Order regardless of the deprivation and degradation of the principles and rights which are the foundation upon which this nation was founded.
The Imperial presidency has come at last, as perhaps, it must always come eventually to nations which experiment with democracy and inalienable rights from a Divine Creator.
To forestall our fall into the deathgrip of authoritarianism which could slip into totalitarianism upon the American continent, we need a new revolution.
This revolution must be as counter to the mainstream as was the cultural revolution of the 1960's. It must be as productive as that revolution was with love, peace and music filling the air and the hearts and souls of those who would walk the path of a different drum.
This new revolution must also be a spiritual revolution, for we are a nation adrift without the foundation our Founding Fathers gave us - a nation founded upon the Gospel of Jesus - a Christian nation - born in battle, inspired by principle and dedicated to the promises of equality and self-determination for all.
That we have allowed our government to trample us and use us and rule as slaves is no fault of our government but only the fault of the people, who have allowed themselves - ourselves - to be led like cattle with rings in the noses.
It is never too late to turn about, to stand up for our rights. It is never too late to do what is right. It is never too late for the truth.
There are many who have blazed a path before us - Martin Luther King, Robert Kennedy, JFK. All had the courage to sit at the front of the bus when the back of the bus was their "rightful place." All had the courage to make known their hopes, dreams and vision of what could be. "Some people see things as they are and ask, why? I see things as they could be, and ask, why not?"
We stand upon a threshold in American history. We stand at two open doors. One leads to a bold future filled with light and promise. The other leads to a dark, dead end street piled with the garbage of decayed minds, the odor of violence and the depression of lost dreams.
George Bush stands beside one of these doors. To determine which door he stands beside we need to look at an ancient Chinese proverb: "To know the character of a small man, look at what he does. To know the character of a leader, look at his lieutenents."
I fear that most people will be unable to discern the truth. For I know that most people will ignore facts which are contrary to their preset beliefs dismissing such facts as irrevelant or erroneous or by simply ignoring them.
The future of our nation and that of our children and possibly the whole world lies in your hands. It is up to you to speak the truth. It is up to you to do what is right. It is up to you to do what is bold. It is up to you to do.
"For evil to win requires only that good men do nothing."
Don't do nothing. Be bold. Live Your dreams. Think for yourself. Do what is right.
Wednesday, December 21, 2005
The Pattern of Dictatorship
From MACOFs Military Maxims - http://starfleet1.tripod.com/maf/foreignpolpolmax.html
75. The Pattern of Dictatorship
History shows that self-made despotic rulers follow a standard pattern:
In gaining power:
1. - They exploit, consciously or unconsciously, a state of popular dissatisfaction with the existing regime or of hostility between different sections of the people.
2. - They attack the existing regime violently and combine their appeal to the discontent with unlimited promises (which, if successful, they fulfill only to a lomited extent).
3. - They claim that they want absolute power for only a short time (but find subsequently, that the time to relinquish power never comes).
4. - They excite popular sympathy by presenting the picture of a conspiracy against them and use this as a lever to gain a firmer hold at some crucial stage.
Upon gaining power:
1. - They soon begin to rid themselves of their chief helpers, "discovering" that those who helped them bring about the new order have suddenly become traitors to it.
2. - They suppress criticism on one pretext or another and punish anyone who mentions facts which, however true, are unfavorable to their policy.
3. - They enlist religion on their side if possible, or if its leaders are not compliant, foster a new kind of religion subservient to their needs.
4. - They spend public money lavishly on material works of a striking kind, in compensation for the freedom of spirit and thought which they have robbed from the public.
5. - They manipulate the currency to make the economic position of the state appear better that it is in reality.
6. - They ultimately make war on some other state as a means of diverting attention from internal conditions and allowing discontent to explode outward.
7. - They use the rallying cry of patriotism as a maens of riveting the chains of their personal authority more firmly on the people.
8. - They expand the superstructure of the state while undermining its foundations:
a - by breeding sycophants at the expense of self-respecting collaborators,
b - by appealing to the popular taste for the grandiose and sensational instead of true values and,
c - by fostering a romantic instead of a realistic view, thus ensuring the ultimate collapse, under their successors if not themselves, of what they have created.
Ed. Note - I do not recall where I originally obtained this. I believe it was written in the mid 1970's.
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005
The Strategy of Peace
Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones
The Strategy of Peace is not a pacifist policy. The Strategy of Peace is an assertive strategy based on military and political power. Nations which employ a pacifist stance act the role of victim and soon become victims of more powerful nations. A nation employing a policy of strength has greater potential for ensuring its security and longevity.
Underpinning the Strategy of Peace is a military truism: War is not about opposing armies, it is about the will of those who would send armies to war.
Utilizing this principle, the Strategy of Peace targets the will of the enemy leadership, convincing them that their initiation of hostilities would not only fail to attain their objectives, but would, in fact, be counterproductive to those objectives, to the entity or organization from which forces would be drawn and even to the leadership itself.
The Strategy of Peace is a simple strategy and consists of several steps:
1. Identify the enemy leadership - those who have decision-making power on whether or not to go to war.
2. Identify the organization. This could be a nation-state, political faction, regional coalition, a networked organization, terrorist pact or local gang.
Each organization seeks survival and respect. There is no organization whose objective is self-destruction, although the destruction of the individual for the sake of the organization may be a valid principle for that organization.
3. Identify the motives and objectives of the organization. What philosophy does the organization adhere to and/or seek to promote?
4. Identify the reasons and objectives the enemy entertains for hostile operations.
5. Search through all the data recovered and prepare a strategy which identifies the enemy's strengths and exploits the enemy's weaknesses while magnifying your strengths and neutralizing your weaknesses. This plan, the Strategy of Peace, will highlight and leverage Steps 7 through 9 below.
6. Prepare a fully orchestrated campaign utilizing all available channels of distribution to reach the enemy leadership and ensure that they receive your message.
The mass media, political analysts, think tanks, college students, broadcast networks and talk shows, letters between corporations, husbands and wives, parents and students; multinational organizations, intelligence organizations, sports authorities and teams, et al, all may be contacted and/or employed (openly or surreptitiously) as a means to convey the terms of the Strategy of Peace to the enemy leadership.
The message to convey to the enemy leadership must include the following points:
7. Convince the enemy leadership they cannot achieve those objectives if they do go to war.
8. Convince the enemy leadership that the material and psychological (to the mass body politick)costs of war to the enemy will simply be too great to recover from.
9. Encourage the enemy leadership that they may be able to attain the objectives they seek by going to war against some other entity.
Step 9, if successful, will serve to diminish the enemy's military capabilities, reducing its ability to prosecute a war in the future. This may also serve to fracture the political infrastructure of the state and any such fractures must be exploited.
The Strategy of Peace is as applicable with guerrilla warfare, terrorist operations and gang activities as it is with nation-state operations.
The Strategy of Peace is not a pacifist policy. The Strategy of Peace is an assertive strategy based on military and political power. Nations which employ a pacifist stance act the role of victim and soon become victims of more powerful nations. A nation employing a policy of strength has greater potential for ensuring its security and longevity.
Underpinning the Strategy of Peace is a military truism: War is not about opposing armies, it is about the will of those who would send armies to war.
Utilizing this principle, the Strategy of Peace targets the will of the enemy leadership, convincing them that their initiation of hostilities would not only fail to attain their objectives, but would, in fact, be counterproductive to those objectives, to the entity or organization from which forces would be drawn and even to the leadership itself.
The Strategy of Peace is a simple strategy and consists of several steps:
1. Identify the enemy leadership - those who have decision-making power on whether or not to go to war.
2. Identify the organization. This could be a nation-state, political faction, regional coalition, a networked organization, terrorist pact or local gang.
Each organization seeks survival and respect. There is no organization whose objective is self-destruction, although the destruction of the individual for the sake of the organization may be a valid principle for that organization.
3. Identify the motives and objectives of the organization. What philosophy does the organization adhere to and/or seek to promote?
4. Identify the reasons and objectives the enemy entertains for hostile operations.
5. Search through all the data recovered and prepare a strategy which identifies the enemy's strengths and exploits the enemy's weaknesses while magnifying your strengths and neutralizing your weaknesses. This plan, the Strategy of Peace, will highlight and leverage Steps 7 through 9 below.
6. Prepare a fully orchestrated campaign utilizing all available channels of distribution to reach the enemy leadership and ensure that they receive your message.
The mass media, political analysts, think tanks, college students, broadcast networks and talk shows, letters between corporations, husbands and wives, parents and students; multinational organizations, intelligence organizations, sports authorities and teams, et al, all may be contacted and/or employed (openly or surreptitiously) as a means to convey the terms of the Strategy of Peace to the enemy leadership.
The message to convey to the enemy leadership must include the following points:
7. Convince the enemy leadership they cannot achieve those objectives if they do go to war.
8. Convince the enemy leadership that the material and psychological (to the mass body politick)costs of war to the enemy will simply be too great to recover from.
9. Encourage the enemy leadership that they may be able to attain the objectives they seek by going to war against some other entity.
Step 9, if successful, will serve to diminish the enemy's military capabilities, reducing its ability to prosecute a war in the future. This may also serve to fracture the political infrastructure of the state and any such fractures must be exploited.
The Strategy of Peace is as applicable with guerrilla warfare, terrorist operations and gang activities as it is with nation-state operations.
Sunday, November 27, 2005
Irag & Vietnam; Unjust War
A commonality exists bewtween the war in Vietnam and the war in Iraq: An unjust war will soon lose the support of the people and demoralize the troops fighting it.
Don't believe the hype that the US Administration, military officials or the media are trying to feed us. It's all lies. For the truth, watch the series "Off to War" on the Discovery Times channel on Saturday nights.
Don't believe the hype that the US Administration, military officials or the media are trying to feed us. It's all lies. For the truth, watch the series "Off to War" on the Discovery Times channel on Saturday nights.
Saturday, November 12, 2005
Spending Us Into Bankruptcy
The President and this current Administration seem intent upon spending the US into bankruptcy.
A slash in taxes, followed by war and hurricanes and the President's promise to spend all that was necessary to resolve these issues without increasing taxes all seem fundamentally naive.
The economy remains sluggish and Americans are not comfortable with the economy regardless of what the numbers may say and especially regardless of proclamations by the President or other officials. People know what they feel in their heart and what they feel - what they sense if a potential weakness in the economy.
In this case, people's feelings and the reality are at odds. The economy is slow and sluggish but surprisingly stable, strong and resilient.
It is strong because despite attempts by the White House to undermine the economy by a "spend, spend, spend" philosophy, the nation has not yet succumbed to a recession.
The Administration seems desperate to induce a recession and possibly a depression in order to increase its power over the rights and liberties of the American people.
The goal of this Administration all along has been to increase its power over the people and deny the essential liberties and rights this nation was based on and further degrade and erode the morals and ethics of a formerly moral and upright people.
A slash in taxes, followed by war and hurricanes and the President's promise to spend all that was necessary to resolve these issues without increasing taxes all seem fundamentally naive.
The economy remains sluggish and Americans are not comfortable with the economy regardless of what the numbers may say and especially regardless of proclamations by the President or other officials. People know what they feel in their heart and what they feel - what they sense if a potential weakness in the economy.
In this case, people's feelings and the reality are at odds. The economy is slow and sluggish but surprisingly stable, strong and resilient.
It is strong because despite attempts by the White House to undermine the economy by a "spend, spend, spend" philosophy, the nation has not yet succumbed to a recession.
The Administration seems desperate to induce a recession and possibly a depression in order to increase its power over the rights and liberties of the American people.
The goal of this Administration all along has been to increase its power over the people and deny the essential liberties and rights this nation was based on and further degrade and erode the morals and ethics of a formerly moral and upright people.
Saturday, September 03, 2005
Tragedy in New Orleans - FEMA Drags Its Feet
Tragedy in New Orleans
FEMA Drags its Feet
Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones
All Rights Reserved
We all see the horror on the nightly news. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. But that isn't the real story.
The real story is the lack of federal response.
Where is the government? Where is the Red Cross? Why aren't there air drops of food and water if it is too unsafe to get people on the ground? Where are the tents, the convoys of air and ground vehicles carrying food, water, clothing, tents and medical supplies?
Such things have happened in every other natural disaster in US history. But these things are not happening in New Orleans today.
Why not?
The President, FEMA, the Red Cross and the federal authorities have all refused offers of aid from many sources. Why? I offered to lead a volunteer group to go in and deliver food and water, but my offer was turned down. Why? Why was help from Russia, Israel, Venezuela and other countries refused? The President may have changed his mind now, or maybe he will in days to come, but in the first few days after this disaster - when it was most critically needed - all help was refused, turned down, denied. Why?
If my understanding of history and politics is correct, its all a setup.
The failure of authorities to act in New Orleans following this disaster, the refusal to allow people to go in so lives could be saved, the gut-wrenching, heart-breaking lack of response by the government allowing people to die, be raped, murdered and beaten is all a setup.
The setup is this.
It's to create the atmosphere for something else to happen further on down the line.
Exactly what, I don't know. It won't be to ban all guns across the country because looters and hoodlums are shooting at rescuers and rescue helicopters. That would be too extreme. It won't be to establish martial law across the country. That also would be too extreme.
But it could be to preposition "emergency supplies" in "critical locations" across the country. These "emergency supplies" would - of course - include military ammunition, ordnance and equipment, in order to "protect the people" in the "affected areas" from "rioters, looters and rampaging gangs of hoodlums and desperate criminals".
I suppose these things Could be going on in New Orleans. But I'm not there, so I don't know for sure. I have heard on the news, as you have no doubt, about helicopters and rescue workers being fired on by snipers and "hoodlums". Although I suppose that is possible, it doesn't make sense. But perhaps the gravity of the disaster has made people lose their common sense or caused them to forget moral values. Perhaps. It does seem certain that at least one case has occurred (that of a National Guard troop being shot in the leg while in a struggle for his gun), so maybe there are a few others as well. Maybe.
I feel a more likely scenario - regardless of who is doing the shooting - if there is any - is to allow the federal government to set up these staging areas so they will be able to move troops around the country with ease and without alarming the population, such troops to include the US Army (Federal, not National Guard), in order to control large areas of the country when, and as the federal government sees fit to do so.
Another possible reason for this "setup" - if there is one - only time will tell - may simply be to enable or allow the government to dispatch federal troops (US Army - not National Guard) to wherever it may deem appropriate as it deems necessary. The US Army is currently prohibited by law from any domestic law enforcement role.
As we see in New Orleans, the National Guard is "overwhelmed", for the first few days it was nowhere to be seen. Only now, 5 days after the disaster - are National Guard troops arriving on the scene in sufficient number to make an impact and establish control over the situation. The Administration may use this as an excuse to permit the federal use of the US Army and/or federal control of the National Guard anywhere in the country as it sees fit; in order to control the people.
Why?
Because this fits in with the long range goal of the federal government ESPECIALLY this administration. To take control of the people and the country, dispense with civil rights and establish a totalitarian police state controlled by the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld and cronies thereof.
Is this just another "conspiracy theory" or does what I say have some merit?
If what I claim is correct, then the federal government will invent a "solution" to the lack of federal response in New Orleans which will further erode the rights of the people - as the 9/11 attacks did - increase the power of the federal authorities and serve to further their goals of establishing a police state in the US.
All this will be done in the name of "public security", or of protection, or some other Orwellian phrase that will sound good, have some idea of "common sense", "seem right", but that in fact will have the direct opposite goals in mind.
So we have 4 reasons that this could be happening.
1. To create prepositioned staging areas of supplies, especially military ordnance.
2. To allow the federal government to freely move troops around the country.
3. Some combination of 1 and 2.
4. Some other reason that promotes the agenda of the federal government in eroding the Constitution, establishing a police state and controlling the people so that they won't protest against the federal government or raise alarms against the further intrusion into private affairs by federal authorities.
To obtain more information about this you could go to:
http://www.davidicke.com
or for a look from a different perspective
http://www.cwg.org
or
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com
or my own
http://purposeoflife.2ya.com
or http://how2getrich.bravehost.com
Truth is all that matters. Where it comes from and how it happens to appear is immaterial. Truth is truth. Lies are lies. Who is telling the truth? Who is telling lies? The truth may be difficult to be believe, but those who are ready for it will recognize it when they receive it. All I am seeking is the truth and I know that the biggest source of lies in this country right now is the White House.
A brave American once said: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
For a vision by George Washington - founder and first President of our country go here:
http://www.crystalinks.com/gw.html
I am a patriot in the classical sense. I believe in life, liberty and free speech. I believe in small government and the freedom for each individual to conduct their affairs as they see fit as long as such conduct does not unduly influence any other individual in the conduct of their affairs.
The present US government seems to disagree with me.
This administration is despicable, vindictive and filled with hate, greed and dissension. It will cheat, lie and steal to enhance its own power and perhaps even kill to protect the power it now possesses. All I can do is pray and spread the truth through blogs and websites.
I am only one person, but as a nation we are many. The Spirit of God goes before us, against such, who can prevail? None. For no one is stronger than God. Though many of us who believe in truth may perish, victory is certain, and those who seek to deny the power of the people will themselves be defeated.
Praise God! And long live the United States!
FEMA Drags its Feet
Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones
All Rights Reserved
We all see the horror on the nightly news. Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans. But that isn't the real story.
The real story is the lack of federal response.
Where is the government? Where is the Red Cross? Why aren't there air drops of food and water if it is too unsafe to get people on the ground? Where are the tents, the convoys of air and ground vehicles carrying food, water, clothing, tents and medical supplies?
Such things have happened in every other natural disaster in US history. But these things are not happening in New Orleans today.
Why not?
The President, FEMA, the Red Cross and the federal authorities have all refused offers of aid from many sources. Why? I offered to lead a volunteer group to go in and deliver food and water, but my offer was turned down. Why? Why was help from Russia, Israel, Venezuela and other countries refused? The President may have changed his mind now, or maybe he will in days to come, but in the first few days after this disaster - when it was most critically needed - all help was refused, turned down, denied. Why?
If my understanding of history and politics is correct, its all a setup.
The failure of authorities to act in New Orleans following this disaster, the refusal to allow people to go in so lives could be saved, the gut-wrenching, heart-breaking lack of response by the government allowing people to die, be raped, murdered and beaten is all a setup.
The setup is this.
It's to create the atmosphere for something else to happen further on down the line.
Exactly what, I don't know. It won't be to ban all guns across the country because looters and hoodlums are shooting at rescuers and rescue helicopters. That would be too extreme. It won't be to establish martial law across the country. That also would be too extreme.
But it could be to preposition "emergency supplies" in "critical locations" across the country. These "emergency supplies" would - of course - include military ammunition, ordnance and equipment, in order to "protect the people" in the "affected areas" from "rioters, looters and rampaging gangs of hoodlums and desperate criminals".
I suppose these things Could be going on in New Orleans. But I'm not there, so I don't know for sure. I have heard on the news, as you have no doubt, about helicopters and rescue workers being fired on by snipers and "hoodlums". Although I suppose that is possible, it doesn't make sense. But perhaps the gravity of the disaster has made people lose their common sense or caused them to forget moral values. Perhaps. It does seem certain that at least one case has occurred (that of a National Guard troop being shot in the leg while in a struggle for his gun), so maybe there are a few others as well. Maybe.
I feel a more likely scenario - regardless of who is doing the shooting - if there is any - is to allow the federal government to set up these staging areas so they will be able to move troops around the country with ease and without alarming the population, such troops to include the US Army (Federal, not National Guard), in order to control large areas of the country when, and as the federal government sees fit to do so.
Another possible reason for this "setup" - if there is one - only time will tell - may simply be to enable or allow the government to dispatch federal troops (US Army - not National Guard) to wherever it may deem appropriate as it deems necessary. The US Army is currently prohibited by law from any domestic law enforcement role.
As we see in New Orleans, the National Guard is "overwhelmed", for the first few days it was nowhere to be seen. Only now, 5 days after the disaster - are National Guard troops arriving on the scene in sufficient number to make an impact and establish control over the situation. The Administration may use this as an excuse to permit the federal use of the US Army and/or federal control of the National Guard anywhere in the country as it sees fit; in order to control the people.
Why?
Because this fits in with the long range goal of the federal government ESPECIALLY this administration. To take control of the people and the country, dispense with civil rights and establish a totalitarian police state controlled by the likes of Cheney, Rumsfeld and cronies thereof.
Is this just another "conspiracy theory" or does what I say have some merit?
If what I claim is correct, then the federal government will invent a "solution" to the lack of federal response in New Orleans which will further erode the rights of the people - as the 9/11 attacks did - increase the power of the federal authorities and serve to further their goals of establishing a police state in the US.
All this will be done in the name of "public security", or of protection, or some other Orwellian phrase that will sound good, have some idea of "common sense", "seem right", but that in fact will have the direct opposite goals in mind.
So we have 4 reasons that this could be happening.
1. To create prepositioned staging areas of supplies, especially military ordnance.
2. To allow the federal government to freely move troops around the country.
3. Some combination of 1 and 2.
4. Some other reason that promotes the agenda of the federal government in eroding the Constitution, establishing a police state and controlling the people so that they won't protest against the federal government or raise alarms against the further intrusion into private affairs by federal authorities.
To obtain more information about this you could go to:
http://www.davidicke.com
or for a look from a different perspective
http://www.cwg.org
or
http://www.nealedonaldwalsch.com
or my own
http://purposeoflife.2ya.com
or http://how2getrich.bravehost.com
Truth is all that matters. Where it comes from and how it happens to appear is immaterial. Truth is truth. Lies are lies. Who is telling the truth? Who is telling lies? The truth may be difficult to be believe, but those who are ready for it will recognize it when they receive it. All I am seeking is the truth and I know that the biggest source of lies in this country right now is the White House.
A brave American once said: "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin
For a vision by George Washington - founder and first President of our country go here:
http://www.crystalinks.com/gw.html
I am a patriot in the classical sense. I believe in life, liberty and free speech. I believe in small government and the freedom for each individual to conduct their affairs as they see fit as long as such conduct does not unduly influence any other individual in the conduct of their affairs.
The present US government seems to disagree with me.
This administration is despicable, vindictive and filled with hate, greed and dissension. It will cheat, lie and steal to enhance its own power and perhaps even kill to protect the power it now possesses. All I can do is pray and spread the truth through blogs and websites.
I am only one person, but as a nation we are many. The Spirit of God goes before us, against such, who can prevail? None. For no one is stronger than God. Though many of us who believe in truth may perish, victory is certain, and those who seek to deny the power of the people will themselves be defeated.
Praise God! And long live the United States!
Tuesday, July 26, 2005
The Cause of the War in Iraq
The war in Iraq continues and President Bush and the Pentagon are nonplussed as to the degree, intensity and size of the opposition. What they don't understand is that a war of low intensity conflict - as this war is (LIC - Low-Intensity Conflict is where at least one side has no regular standing army but instead uses irregular forces drawn from the population or other sources to conduct limited but deadly strikes against their enemy), has no relation to military power. Rather, a war of this type is dependent upon ideology.
Although every war is based to some degree on ideology, a LIC form of war is primarily based on ideology. In the case of the war in Iraq, this ideology is religious in nature.
To quell the opposition in Iraq and prevent American troops and Iraqi citizens from dying, the American military and political leadership must understand the cause of this war. Ideology is the driving force, not military force, not size of the opposition, not the number of Muslims ready to die for their cause.
When 1 Muslim dies in a suicide bombing, this only encourages others to take his or her place. If a combatant Muslim is killed or captured before they have the chance to commit suicide, others will rise up to complete the mission left uncompleted.
This war cannot be won by number of dead. It cannot be won by capturing a region and then releasing that region back to the local populace. It cannot be won by generals or presidents throwing arms, equipment or someone's sons or daughters into the meatgrinder. It can be won by defusing the situation through understanding of the motive for war.
This war is based on a religious ideology. The enemy leadership feels threatened by the American presence, by Western values and a shift of power into the hands of the people and out of the hands of the religious leadership.
To win this war requires convincing the combatant Muslim leadership that continued hostile action on their part will be detrimental to their organization and create a disservice to their religion.
If we do not achieve these objectives, there is a possibility the war will grow, spreading around the world, with new strikes in Europe, the US and nations the enemy believes are providing the US with assistance. This could mean strikes in Japan or Australia which are Western in philosophy but have little or none in terms of military support in Iraq. They support the US by nature of their culture and it is this culture the enemy fears.
The enemy believes that the West has attacked their traditional values and so they are just defending in the only way they believe they can.
We must convince the enemy that their traditional values, their religion and their religious values and their culture will be preserved by the West. We do not seek to "Westernize" them, but rather to accept them into the world community as equals.
We must convince the enemy that their continued attacks do not serve them but rather only provoke us to greater action and greater incursion into their values. We must convince them that the more the enemy strikes out at the West, the more the West will harden its resolve to win this conflict at any cost. As the US sought "total victory" and "unconditional surrender" by the enemy after Pearl Harbor so also will we seek totality in this conflict, even if such a position is not true. We must only convince the enemy that it is what we believe. To win this conflict, the US must find a place that the combatant leadership can aspire to without conflict and this will take greater intelligence anaylsis on the part of the US and the western powers than has thus far been experienced.
We may seek to win on the battlefield, but that cannot occur until and unless we have killed or captured every individual who would make war against the US, (which could be millions), or forcing the entire population into camps or preserves where the whereabouts and activity of every individual is known and closely monitored or displacing every individual to a location where they can pose no threat to the West.
These are unlikely options and serve to highlight the obvious; this war probably cannot be won by conventional means - force against force, because force is merely an outbreak of a deeper condition. We must address that deeper condition to end this war, without doing so, the most likely probability is that this war will just go on and on.
Although every war is based to some degree on ideology, a LIC form of war is primarily based on ideology. In the case of the war in Iraq, this ideology is religious in nature.
To quell the opposition in Iraq and prevent American troops and Iraqi citizens from dying, the American military and political leadership must understand the cause of this war. Ideology is the driving force, not military force, not size of the opposition, not the number of Muslims ready to die for their cause.
When 1 Muslim dies in a suicide bombing, this only encourages others to take his or her place. If a combatant Muslim is killed or captured before they have the chance to commit suicide, others will rise up to complete the mission left uncompleted.
This war cannot be won by number of dead. It cannot be won by capturing a region and then releasing that region back to the local populace. It cannot be won by generals or presidents throwing arms, equipment or someone's sons or daughters into the meatgrinder. It can be won by defusing the situation through understanding of the motive for war.
This war is based on a religious ideology. The enemy leadership feels threatened by the American presence, by Western values and a shift of power into the hands of the people and out of the hands of the religious leadership.
To win this war requires convincing the combatant Muslim leadership that continued hostile action on their part will be detrimental to their organization and create a disservice to their religion.
If we do not achieve these objectives, there is a possibility the war will grow, spreading around the world, with new strikes in Europe, the US and nations the enemy believes are providing the US with assistance. This could mean strikes in Japan or Australia which are Western in philosophy but have little or none in terms of military support in Iraq. They support the US by nature of their culture and it is this culture the enemy fears.
The enemy believes that the West has attacked their traditional values and so they are just defending in the only way they believe they can.
We must convince the enemy that their traditional values, their religion and their religious values and their culture will be preserved by the West. We do not seek to "Westernize" them, but rather to accept them into the world community as equals.
We must convince the enemy that their continued attacks do not serve them but rather only provoke us to greater action and greater incursion into their values. We must convince them that the more the enemy strikes out at the West, the more the West will harden its resolve to win this conflict at any cost. As the US sought "total victory" and "unconditional surrender" by the enemy after Pearl Harbor so also will we seek totality in this conflict, even if such a position is not true. We must only convince the enemy that it is what we believe. To win this conflict, the US must find a place that the combatant leadership can aspire to without conflict and this will take greater intelligence anaylsis on the part of the US and the western powers than has thus far been experienced.
We may seek to win on the battlefield, but that cannot occur until and unless we have killed or captured every individual who would make war against the US, (which could be millions), or forcing the entire population into camps or preserves where the whereabouts and activity of every individual is known and closely monitored or displacing every individual to a location where they can pose no threat to the West.
These are unlikely options and serve to highlight the obvious; this war probably cannot be won by conventional means - force against force, because force is merely an outbreak of a deeper condition. We must address that deeper condition to end this war, without doing so, the most likely probability is that this war will just go on and on.
Sunday, July 10, 2005
The Purpose of Life
The Purpose of Life - Copyright 2005 by Perry Jones
I won't dance around the bush, the purpose of your life is to express yourself.
If this sounds too simple, that's because great truths are almost always quite simple.
So how do you do that? That's where things get tricky.
You express yourself by doing that which you were born to do. Everyone is here on Earth for a specific purpose. Everyone has a perfect work they are supposed to be doing. Not following these leads us to despair, heartache, tragedy, illness, cancer, anger, addictions, accidents, et al. All the negative things that occur in our lives are a result of us not doing those things we are supposed to be doing.
Generally, all of us (almost all of us) have this backwards. We think that in order to be happy in life we need to be successful. Sounds good so far, right? Ok. And in order to be successful we must go to school, go to college, get a degree, get a job in a well paying field, get credit cards and buy those things - the big house, the fine car, the nice clothes, the vacations and all those benefits that come with a high paying job that mean success.
That's what we've been told. That's what we have come to believe. But nothing could be further from the truth.
We can't be happy by doing what everyone else has done. If everyone in the world was doing what they were born to do, then we wouldn't have wars, we wouldn't have hate, we wouldn't have crime, we wouldn't have anger, we wouldn't have pain, we wouldn't have racism, we wouldn't be confronted with a world that is experiencing crisis after crisis.
We would have peace. We would have love, we would have joy, we would have happiness, we would have fufillment and we each would be experiencing all that individually.
How is this possible?
We need to take another look at our purpose.
Another way of coming to our purpose in life is this: Our purpose is
to seek
to serve
to create
First, we seek out the reason we are here. This is our dream, it is the perfect work we are supposed to do, it is that which fulfills us. It also means to seek God in whatever way we recognize Him/Her/It.
To serve means to serve humanity. In this way we serve God. Serving God is serving humanity. We achieve this by creating.
Creating is how we express ourselves.
Creating will be different for each person. It could mean being the best janitor we can be, it could mean being the best doctor we can be. It could mean we are supposed to be a missionary, or an accountant, an attorney, a homemaker, a taxi driver, a warehouse worker, a factory worker or an office worker.
Creating could also mean something artistic - as in being a musician, writing songs, writing books, painting, designing websites, doing tile work or becoming an architect, a sculptor or fashion designer.
Creating could also mean someone who develops crafts such as tile work, handbags, jewelry, floral arrangements, etc.
Or it could mean doing all of these.
To seek, to serve and to create means that we must turn our lives into a masterpiece, a work of art, it means to live in the fullest expression of who we are.
How do we do this?
We do this by following the FFSSS Plan.
FFSSS is an acronym for Family, Financial, Self, Social, Spiritual.
These are the five facets of life that we must address in order to achieve fulfillment and in order to fulfill our purpose in life.
Family
Family means learning to build a good family. If we don't have one, then our family is our neighbor, the homeless person on the street, the people down the street, in the next town, the next state, the next country, the next continent.
Courses at churches, colleges and other locations can help us to build a better family. Books at bookstores and tv shows like Oprah and Dr. Phil can all help us to learn how to build better relationships with our immediate and extended families.
Financial
Financial is understood by all. But what it means here is to learn those principles that will lead us to financial independence in the shortest possible time period. In this period of human history we have perhaps the greatest opportunity to learn these principles.
Books such as the Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Rich Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki, the Multiple Streams of Income books and others by Robert Allen, and the works of Suze Orman as well as others can all help us to learn those principles we need to achieve financial independence.
Courses and seminars, some taught by some of the above authors, are available and can further our education in financial matters.
Self
Self stands for self-development. We aren't going to achieve anything until we learn to leave all our pains behind. They weigh us down like an anchor holding us into the current pattern of our life.
Again, numerous books and courses are available that will help us to learn more about ourselves and take personal charge and responsibility for our lives.
Advanced technologies such as Avatar taught by Star's Edge, NLP (look online) and Dianetics taught by your local Church of Scientology can provide us with skills to use to get the past behind us and retrain our minds to achieve the success for which we are truly worthy.
Self also includes your body. Our bodies are the temples of our souls. We need to learn more about nutrition, exercise regularly and find quiet time just for ourselves. These things may not be so easy in our fast-paced world, but they are critical to our success.
Social
Social is how we deal and interact with other people. In order to achieve the best for ourselves, we will need to build an effective team. This can only be accomplished by understanding the nuances of personality and what makes people tick. It means developing our communication skills and our thought patterns to develop persuasive presentations that will positively affect our environment and those we interact with. A course like the Dale Carnegie course and programs offered by Guthy-Renker can help in this area.
No one achieves anything on their own. The United States has the myth of the lone entrepreneur - the man or woman who built their hugely successful company up from nothing with no one helping them. That is an old and dangerous myth.
The most successful people in any age are those who have built the most effective teams. This takes leadership, courage and humility. It requires courage and humility because in order to be successful we need to ask for help.
Spiritual
Spiritual deals with God, religion and spirituality. There is no reality without spirituality. Every physical law and principle has a like metaphysical (or spiritual) law or principle undergirding it.
Our world is in turmoil now, but it is because we have lost our focus. This focus needs to be on the spiritual. We need to develop a relationship with God.
Our religions of the past have barricaded us from the relationship we need to get to know God better. Our religions have taught us that only certain people can have a direct relationship with God. They have also taught that only certain people at certain times can "talk" with God or receive communication from God. But that is not true.
God is speaking to all of us, each of us, all the time.
We simply have been taught that that is not true.
We need to retrain ourselves that God does speak to us all the time. God is speaking to you and through you. We just need to find out how to come to this understanding, and then the voice of God becomes clearer and clearer.
Tomorrow's religion is not about religion. It is about relationship. Each of us needs to build an immediate and personal relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
These terms may mean different things to different people. But the most important thing is to begin that relationship in whatever way you understand it.
Another thing to realize is this: You and God are one. We all are a facet of God. Each person is just a part of that ultimate Oneness we call God. Whatever we do to another is what we do to ourselves.
I'll expand more on the spiritual in the future.
Following the FFSSS Plan will help us to fulfill our purpose in life. We also need to follow the Principles of Success.
I'll write more about the Principles of Success in another blog.
If you wish to delve deeper into this subject, my website How To Get Rich http://how2getrich.bravehost.com offers free information about success and financial independence.
I won't dance around the bush, the purpose of your life is to express yourself.
If this sounds too simple, that's because great truths are almost always quite simple.
So how do you do that? That's where things get tricky.
You express yourself by doing that which you were born to do. Everyone is here on Earth for a specific purpose. Everyone has a perfect work they are supposed to be doing. Not following these leads us to despair, heartache, tragedy, illness, cancer, anger, addictions, accidents, et al. All the negative things that occur in our lives are a result of us not doing those things we are supposed to be doing.
Generally, all of us (almost all of us) have this backwards. We think that in order to be happy in life we need to be successful. Sounds good so far, right? Ok. And in order to be successful we must go to school, go to college, get a degree, get a job in a well paying field, get credit cards and buy those things - the big house, the fine car, the nice clothes, the vacations and all those benefits that come with a high paying job that mean success.
That's what we've been told. That's what we have come to believe. But nothing could be further from the truth.
We can't be happy by doing what everyone else has done. If everyone in the world was doing what they were born to do, then we wouldn't have wars, we wouldn't have hate, we wouldn't have crime, we wouldn't have anger, we wouldn't have pain, we wouldn't have racism, we wouldn't be confronted with a world that is experiencing crisis after crisis.
We would have peace. We would have love, we would have joy, we would have happiness, we would have fufillment and we each would be experiencing all that individually.
How is this possible?
We need to take another look at our purpose.
Another way of coming to our purpose in life is this: Our purpose is
to seek
to serve
to create
First, we seek out the reason we are here. This is our dream, it is the perfect work we are supposed to do, it is that which fulfills us. It also means to seek God in whatever way we recognize Him/Her/It.
To serve means to serve humanity. In this way we serve God. Serving God is serving humanity. We achieve this by creating.
Creating is how we express ourselves.
Creating will be different for each person. It could mean being the best janitor we can be, it could mean being the best doctor we can be. It could mean we are supposed to be a missionary, or an accountant, an attorney, a homemaker, a taxi driver, a warehouse worker, a factory worker or an office worker.
Creating could also mean something artistic - as in being a musician, writing songs, writing books, painting, designing websites, doing tile work or becoming an architect, a sculptor or fashion designer.
Creating could also mean someone who develops crafts such as tile work, handbags, jewelry, floral arrangements, etc.
Or it could mean doing all of these.
To seek, to serve and to create means that we must turn our lives into a masterpiece, a work of art, it means to live in the fullest expression of who we are.
How do we do this?
We do this by following the FFSSS Plan.
FFSSS is an acronym for Family, Financial, Self, Social, Spiritual.
These are the five facets of life that we must address in order to achieve fulfillment and in order to fulfill our purpose in life.
Family
Family means learning to build a good family. If we don't have one, then our family is our neighbor, the homeless person on the street, the people down the street, in the next town, the next state, the next country, the next continent.
Courses at churches, colleges and other locations can help us to build a better family. Books at bookstores and tv shows like Oprah and Dr. Phil can all help us to learn how to build better relationships with our immediate and extended families.
Financial
Financial is understood by all. But what it means here is to learn those principles that will lead us to financial independence in the shortest possible time period. In this period of human history we have perhaps the greatest opportunity to learn these principles.
Books such as the Richest Man in Babylon by George Clason, Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill, The Rich Dad series by Robert Kiyosaki, the Multiple Streams of Income books and others by Robert Allen, and the works of Suze Orman as well as others can all help us to learn those principles we need to achieve financial independence.
Courses and seminars, some taught by some of the above authors, are available and can further our education in financial matters.
Self
Self stands for self-development. We aren't going to achieve anything until we learn to leave all our pains behind. They weigh us down like an anchor holding us into the current pattern of our life.
Again, numerous books and courses are available that will help us to learn more about ourselves and take personal charge and responsibility for our lives.
Advanced technologies such as Avatar taught by Star's Edge, NLP (look online) and Dianetics taught by your local Church of Scientology can provide us with skills to use to get the past behind us and retrain our minds to achieve the success for which we are truly worthy.
Self also includes your body. Our bodies are the temples of our souls. We need to learn more about nutrition, exercise regularly and find quiet time just for ourselves. These things may not be so easy in our fast-paced world, but they are critical to our success.
Social
Social is how we deal and interact with other people. In order to achieve the best for ourselves, we will need to build an effective team. This can only be accomplished by understanding the nuances of personality and what makes people tick. It means developing our communication skills and our thought patterns to develop persuasive presentations that will positively affect our environment and those we interact with. A course like the Dale Carnegie course and programs offered by Guthy-Renker can help in this area.
No one achieves anything on their own. The United States has the myth of the lone entrepreneur - the man or woman who built their hugely successful company up from nothing with no one helping them. That is an old and dangerous myth.
The most successful people in any age are those who have built the most effective teams. This takes leadership, courage and humility. It requires courage and humility because in order to be successful we need to ask for help.
Spiritual
Spiritual deals with God, religion and spirituality. There is no reality without spirituality. Every physical law and principle has a like metaphysical (or spiritual) law or principle undergirding it.
Our world is in turmoil now, but it is because we have lost our focus. This focus needs to be on the spiritual. We need to develop a relationship with God.
Our religions of the past have barricaded us from the relationship we need to get to know God better. Our religions have taught us that only certain people can have a direct relationship with God. They have also taught that only certain people at certain times can "talk" with God or receive communication from God. But that is not true.
God is speaking to all of us, each of us, all the time.
We simply have been taught that that is not true.
We need to retrain ourselves that God does speak to us all the time. God is speaking to you and through you. We just need to find out how to come to this understanding, and then the voice of God becomes clearer and clearer.
Tomorrow's religion is not about religion. It is about relationship. Each of us needs to build an immediate and personal relationship with God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit.
These terms may mean different things to different people. But the most important thing is to begin that relationship in whatever way you understand it.
Another thing to realize is this: You and God are one. We all are a facet of God. Each person is just a part of that ultimate Oneness we call God. Whatever we do to another is what we do to ourselves.
I'll expand more on the spiritual in the future.
Following the FFSSS Plan will help us to fulfill our purpose in life. We also need to follow the Principles of Success.
I'll write more about the Principles of Success in another blog.
If you wish to delve deeper into this subject, my website How To Get Rich http://how2getrich.bravehost.com offers free information about success and financial independence.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Education: Institutionalized Stupidity
It's easier to lead and to dominate those who have been taught to follow and who have been taught not to think. This becomes an institutionalized doctrine of stupidity and of follow the leader for the undertaught masses when the entire educational system is designed to teach people to not think on their own, but instead to naively and blindly follow the leader. This has been the brand of American education since the beginning of the 20th century.
There is nothing wrong with American teachers. There is something wrong with the system they teach within.
American teachers are as much at the mercy of the system as are the students they teach.
We continuously bemoan and criticize teachers for putting out a shoddy product yet we refuse to provide them the tools necessary to do so.
A maxim states "the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results." Isn't this what we are doing with the system? Isn't this what we are doing with students? Isn't this what we are doing with teachers?
If we truly seek to graduate individuals able to think, decide and act and take their place responsibly in society, we must address the reasons why this isn't happening now. It was happening, it did happen - in the one room schoolhouse.
This may be an extreme example, yet it worked. Perhaps we should study what made it work and bring those elements and concepts into the present. At the turn of the century, calculus was being taught to 7th grade students. The text they were using was by Silvanus Thomson; "Calculus Made Easy" which, regardless of the title, certainly wasn't easy.
If this advanced education could be taught in small little schoolhouses across the country a hundred years ago, why can't we do it today? It's not the teachers who are at fault. Nor, in a sense, is it even the system. Those who know the truth know better. Our schools are turning out dumbdowned individuals intentionally because those who have power want to keep it and an educated population would threaten their hold on power and perhaps even change the world for the better - for the good of all. It is possible, it can be done, but those who hold the reins of power won't permit that to happen.
There is nothing wrong with American teachers. There is something wrong with the system they teach within.
American teachers are as much at the mercy of the system as are the students they teach.
We continuously bemoan and criticize teachers for putting out a shoddy product yet we refuse to provide them the tools necessary to do so.
A maxim states "the definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect different results." Isn't this what we are doing with the system? Isn't this what we are doing with students? Isn't this what we are doing with teachers?
If we truly seek to graduate individuals able to think, decide and act and take their place responsibly in society, we must address the reasons why this isn't happening now. It was happening, it did happen - in the one room schoolhouse.
This may be an extreme example, yet it worked. Perhaps we should study what made it work and bring those elements and concepts into the present. At the turn of the century, calculus was being taught to 7th grade students. The text they were using was by Silvanus Thomson; "Calculus Made Easy" which, regardless of the title, certainly wasn't easy.
If this advanced education could be taught in small little schoolhouses across the country a hundred years ago, why can't we do it today? It's not the teachers who are at fault. Nor, in a sense, is it even the system. Those who know the truth know better. Our schools are turning out dumbdowned individuals intentionally because those who have power want to keep it and an educated population would threaten their hold on power and perhaps even change the world for the better - for the good of all. It is possible, it can be done, but those who hold the reins of power won't permit that to happen.
Tuesday, June 28, 2005
Iraq & the Decline of America
In the middle 1970's, a top Soviet general defected to the United States. In a book he published a few years later, he stated that there would come a Soviet Spring - when the winds of democracy would blow across the Soviet Union. This occurred as he stated. He next stated that this Soviet Spring would be followed by a global war on terrorism. We now know the truth of this statement. Next, he said, would be a war on asteroids and meteorites to be followed by a war on aliens. All these he said would be false. Deceptions and misdirection perpetrated by those in power to obtain more power and wealth for themselves while stripping people of their rights and turning the world into their own slave labor camp.
Although this General did not foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, everything else he stated has occurred, almost to timtable. We see the war on terrorism going on and growing worse while our freedoms are stripped away by the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security.
The Discovery Channel and other vanguard cable channels report that the threat from space is growing; that meteors and asteroids could wipe out life on Earth if they were ever to crash into the planet.
Power is consolidating into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. To determine who is behind all this we need only "follow the money" as Deep Throat once stated.
Now President Bush is saying that we are winning a war that cannot be won, that the numbers of troops in country are sufficient to achieve peace and that the threat from Iraq is declining.
How much of this is sheer fabrication we do not know. This may be more of a Weapons of Mass Destruction type excuse. A Potemkin Village to disguise the truth behind paper thin facades.
In South Dakota, a vice president catches a cold while hunting. But this can be a most dangerous game in which a virus can spread to destroy those who would seek to control all.
The United States is in fast decline.
The United States has reached the point of "imperial overstretch" in which our domestic and worldwide obligations outstrip our ability to deliver on those obligations. Our budget is in deficit and our industry is in decline.
A restructuring is upon us, but the powers that be refuse to relinquish the past. The current administration and past administrations have done much damage to the power of the United States and the liberty that once flourished here.
Our colleges and universities, once the envy of the world are now in decline as visas for foreign students become harder and harder to obtain. The brainpower of these students is essential to the intellectual power of our great schools of learning.
Primary and secondary schools are unable to prepare students for life after school. In excess of 30% of students graduating from these schools are almost totally unprepared and unsuited for life after school.
Our moral and ethical decline is evident at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and in the way we kidnap innocent people off the street to whisk them away to foreign countries where they are tortured for months at a time.
American prisons house over 1% of the American population - mostly the underpriviliged and poverty stricken. Those who are released from prison use their new found prison skills to commit even more dastardly crimes.
Racial enmity, once on the decline, again threatens the inner city and urban and rural America. Hate crimes, violence against those who are different than we and crimes of state threaten every American and imperil the rights we have fought to sustain for over 200 years.
The Statue of Liberty should be weeping. For we are no longer a nation of the free and the brave. We are no longer a nation that opens its doors to the huddled masses of the world seeking to breathe free. We have turned our backs on immigration and in so doing, we have turned our backs on our future.
In all this darkness, and this is just a small sample, there yet is light. The American people are bold and brave and when faced with a challenge, we have always risen to the occasion - when led by enlightened leadership. But there is no such leadership in sight - yet. All we have now are partisan politics, power grabbing decisions and wealth accumulating strategies designed to strip Americans of their rights and wealth and voice.
We will win, as a nation, as a people and as idea. For America Is the land of the free and the home of the brave. That idea lives in our hearts, perhaps, as only an idea right now, but it shall return as a fact, as a lived out function of our daily reality - if noble politicians, bold leaders and enlightened individuals speak up and make their opinions known.
A new world is upon us. The economy becomes global and the world village manifests as a fact. Jobs, once the economic engine of the family and individual are passe in postindustrial states.
We need to relearn about finances, education, spirituality, politics and religion, as all of these are intertwined in ways most people are incapable of fathoming. And, those who can understand must teach those who do not. Enlightened leadership is required now more than ever. An understanding of metaphysical reality must meet with the sharp edges and hard planes of materialism and capitalism which have been the mainstay of the western democracies for a hundred plus years.
Now is the time for change, for the threat is great. President Bush is right about one thing - we are in dire and even fatal straits if we are unable to make things right.
America may be in decline. But it doesn't have to stay that way.
Although this General did not foresee the fall of the Soviet Union, everything else he stated has occurred, almost to timtable. We see the war on terrorism going on and growing worse while our freedoms are stripped away by the Patriot Act and the Department of Homeland Security.
The Discovery Channel and other vanguard cable channels report that the threat from space is growing; that meteors and asteroids could wipe out life on Earth if they were ever to crash into the planet.
Power is consolidating into the hands of a few at the expense of the many. To determine who is behind all this we need only "follow the money" as Deep Throat once stated.
Now President Bush is saying that we are winning a war that cannot be won, that the numbers of troops in country are sufficient to achieve peace and that the threat from Iraq is declining.
How much of this is sheer fabrication we do not know. This may be more of a Weapons of Mass Destruction type excuse. A Potemkin Village to disguise the truth behind paper thin facades.
In South Dakota, a vice president catches a cold while hunting. But this can be a most dangerous game in which a virus can spread to destroy those who would seek to control all.
The United States is in fast decline.
The United States has reached the point of "imperial overstretch" in which our domestic and worldwide obligations outstrip our ability to deliver on those obligations. Our budget is in deficit and our industry is in decline.
A restructuring is upon us, but the powers that be refuse to relinquish the past. The current administration and past administrations have done much damage to the power of the United States and the liberty that once flourished here.
Our colleges and universities, once the envy of the world are now in decline as visas for foreign students become harder and harder to obtain. The brainpower of these students is essential to the intellectual power of our great schools of learning.
Primary and secondary schools are unable to prepare students for life after school. In excess of 30% of students graduating from these schools are almost totally unprepared and unsuited for life after school.
Our moral and ethical decline is evident at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo and in the way we kidnap innocent people off the street to whisk them away to foreign countries where they are tortured for months at a time.
American prisons house over 1% of the American population - mostly the underpriviliged and poverty stricken. Those who are released from prison use their new found prison skills to commit even more dastardly crimes.
Racial enmity, once on the decline, again threatens the inner city and urban and rural America. Hate crimes, violence against those who are different than we and crimes of state threaten every American and imperil the rights we have fought to sustain for over 200 years.
The Statue of Liberty should be weeping. For we are no longer a nation of the free and the brave. We are no longer a nation that opens its doors to the huddled masses of the world seeking to breathe free. We have turned our backs on immigration and in so doing, we have turned our backs on our future.
In all this darkness, and this is just a small sample, there yet is light. The American people are bold and brave and when faced with a challenge, we have always risen to the occasion - when led by enlightened leadership. But there is no such leadership in sight - yet. All we have now are partisan politics, power grabbing decisions and wealth accumulating strategies designed to strip Americans of their rights and wealth and voice.
We will win, as a nation, as a people and as idea. For America Is the land of the free and the home of the brave. That idea lives in our hearts, perhaps, as only an idea right now, but it shall return as a fact, as a lived out function of our daily reality - if noble politicians, bold leaders and enlightened individuals speak up and make their opinions known.
A new world is upon us. The economy becomes global and the world village manifests as a fact. Jobs, once the economic engine of the family and individual are passe in postindustrial states.
We need to relearn about finances, education, spirituality, politics and religion, as all of these are intertwined in ways most people are incapable of fathoming. And, those who can understand must teach those who do not. Enlightened leadership is required now more than ever. An understanding of metaphysical reality must meet with the sharp edges and hard planes of materialism and capitalism which have been the mainstay of the western democracies for a hundred plus years.
Now is the time for change, for the threat is great. President Bush is right about one thing - we are in dire and even fatal straits if we are unable to make things right.
America may be in decline. But it doesn't have to stay that way.
Wednesday, June 22, 2005
Is This the End? God's Coming Wrath
Is this the end? Earthquakes in California. A tsunami in the Indian Ocean. Wars and rumors of wars. Isaiah Chapter 18 says that the nation of "whirring wings" - a nation crossed with rivers, a nation undefeated in war, feared around the world, will send its soldiers to die in the mountains and deserts of the Mid East in a time shortly before the harvest. During this time, this nation will deliver a present to Zion.
What this present delivered to Israel or Jerusalem is we are not told. Above the United States at any one time, over 4000 aircraft are winging their way across the continent. Surely, these are "whirring wings". This will all occur "shortly before the harvest" - the Judgement.
Is this the end? Is God coming soon? There are many who think so. God sends prophets to warn the people of His coming. God also brings earthquakes and other "natural" disasters to help people understand that they need to turn back to Him, to repent. These earthquakes and natural disasters will grow in intensity as the day of God's judgement nears. Are you ready?
The day for this is now upon us. God is warning us strongly to return to Him, to repent, to recognize Him as the ultimate authority. The warnings are here to indicate that if we do not, we will all be lost. Everything will be destroyed.
God loves us so much that He sends us these warnings so that we have the chance to turn back to Him, before it's too late and escape the coming wrath.
People don't understand that natural disasters are not "caused" by God. He has established principles and laws which govern the operation of the universe. When these laws are disobeyed, consequences result. If we step off a 10 story building, we will fall. If we try to cross the ocean by swimming, most likely we will drown. God will usually not save us from our own stupidity, even though it is in His power to do so.
It is we who don't understand that every natural law of the universe is underpinned by a spiritual law. And it is the spiritual law which governs and controls the natural law. When these spiritual laws are broken, the natural law is similarly affected, although it may take months, years or even generations for the impetus of the breaking of the spiritual law to affect the natural law.
This is what we are seeing now. We have polluted the Earth and it is repaying us. We have wars and now earthquakes result. We kill each other for drugs, money or mere acceptance into a gang and morality around the world declines. God says in Galatians 6:7 that He "will not be mocked"; for every action there is a consequence. If we sow to our lower nature we will reap that nature. If we sow to our higher self, we will reap that self.
We have forgotten that we are spiritual beings. We have been taught - deceived really - into believing that we are mere flesh and blood. But that is not true. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. By indulging our physical pleasures we break spiritual laws. Rather than committing ourselves to long term joy and happiness - which come from the soul, we indulge in short term gratification of the body - pleasure.
As we indulge in pleasure of the body, whether physical (drugs, sex, drunkeness, etc.) or emotional (anger, hate, envy, etc.) we build barriers to our spiritual nature and add on to those events which break the spiritual laws. Eventually, these broken spiritual laws manifest as broken physical laws - earthquakes, wars, famines, plagues. And pleasure is habit forming. The more we engage in it, the more we want it.
Satan has tricked us into believing that we can only be happy by engaging in pleasure and materialism. It feels so good and the pleasure is so intense. Yet, everything and anything that does not glorify God is a sin. We can do the same things, theoretically, but doing those things for God will bring us closer to Him, while doing those things for pleasure leads us away and generates Satan's kingdom.
Our time is short. God is and has been patient. But His patience will not continue to endure. There will be calms and lulls before the storm. But eventually the storm will break. We must repent to save ourselves. And God has promised us one more thing.
We can escape the coming storm.
If enough of us repent and turn back to God, building a direct relationship with Him and Jesus through the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, we can bypass the storm.
Churches, religions, doctrines and dogma have had their day. But the day for all such things has passed. Today a new day is upon us. Is is the day of a new direct personal relationship with God through the personage of His Only Son Jesus, guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The Bible and church policy and doctrine may be where we need to start for us to begin that direct personal relationship. But is only a first step. Jesus seeks a direct, immediate and personal relationship with each of us. If enough of us initiate this kind of a relationship, the Earth will not need to go through the terrible day of wrath that is fast approaching.
Nostradamus, prophets, seers, aborigine peoples, New Age channelers, natives of all kinds have all predicted horrible and terrifying earth changes within the next few years. But God has shown me that this is only one possibility. There remains another. Turn to Him, begin that direct, personal relationship with His Son and all these changes will pass us as the avenging angel passed over the Hebrews when they anointed their doorframes with blood of a sacrifice. That angel passed over ("Passover") the Hebrews and went on to claim the first born sons of the Egyptians.
The same time is upon us now. We can die as the Egyptians died or we can accept the Gospel of Jesus in a direct, immediate and personal relationship and escape the coming storm.
What do you choose? I'll explain further in "The Purpose of Life."
What this present delivered to Israel or Jerusalem is we are not told. Above the United States at any one time, over 4000 aircraft are winging their way across the continent. Surely, these are "whirring wings". This will all occur "shortly before the harvest" - the Judgement.
Is this the end? Is God coming soon? There are many who think so. God sends prophets to warn the people of His coming. God also brings earthquakes and other "natural" disasters to help people understand that they need to turn back to Him, to repent. These earthquakes and natural disasters will grow in intensity as the day of God's judgement nears. Are you ready?
The day for this is now upon us. God is warning us strongly to return to Him, to repent, to recognize Him as the ultimate authority. The warnings are here to indicate that if we do not, we will all be lost. Everything will be destroyed.
God loves us so much that He sends us these warnings so that we have the chance to turn back to Him, before it's too late and escape the coming wrath.
People don't understand that natural disasters are not "caused" by God. He has established principles and laws which govern the operation of the universe. When these laws are disobeyed, consequences result. If we step off a 10 story building, we will fall. If we try to cross the ocean by swimming, most likely we will drown. God will usually not save us from our own stupidity, even though it is in His power to do so.
It is we who don't understand that every natural law of the universe is underpinned by a spiritual law. And it is the spiritual law which governs and controls the natural law. When these spiritual laws are broken, the natural law is similarly affected, although it may take months, years or even generations for the impetus of the breaking of the spiritual law to affect the natural law.
This is what we are seeing now. We have polluted the Earth and it is repaying us. We have wars and now earthquakes result. We kill each other for drugs, money or mere acceptance into a gang and morality around the world declines. God says in Galatians 6:7 that He "will not be mocked"; for every action there is a consequence. If we sow to our lower nature we will reap that nature. If we sow to our higher self, we will reap that self.
We have forgotten that we are spiritual beings. We have been taught - deceived really - into believing that we are mere flesh and blood. But that is not true. We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. By indulging our physical pleasures we break spiritual laws. Rather than committing ourselves to long term joy and happiness - which come from the soul, we indulge in short term gratification of the body - pleasure.
As we indulge in pleasure of the body, whether physical (drugs, sex, drunkeness, etc.) or emotional (anger, hate, envy, etc.) we build barriers to our spiritual nature and add on to those events which break the spiritual laws. Eventually, these broken spiritual laws manifest as broken physical laws - earthquakes, wars, famines, plagues. And pleasure is habit forming. The more we engage in it, the more we want it.
Satan has tricked us into believing that we can only be happy by engaging in pleasure and materialism. It feels so good and the pleasure is so intense. Yet, everything and anything that does not glorify God is a sin. We can do the same things, theoretically, but doing those things for God will bring us closer to Him, while doing those things for pleasure leads us away and generates Satan's kingdom.
Our time is short. God is and has been patient. But His patience will not continue to endure. There will be calms and lulls before the storm. But eventually the storm will break. We must repent to save ourselves. And God has promised us one more thing.
We can escape the coming storm.
If enough of us repent and turn back to God, building a direct relationship with Him and Jesus through the guidance and direction of the Holy Spirit, we can bypass the storm.
Churches, religions, doctrines and dogma have had their day. But the day for all such things has passed. Today a new day is upon us. Is is the day of a new direct personal relationship with God through the personage of His Only Son Jesus, guided by the indwelling Holy Spirit.
The Bible and church policy and doctrine may be where we need to start for us to begin that direct personal relationship. But is only a first step. Jesus seeks a direct, immediate and personal relationship with each of us. If enough of us initiate this kind of a relationship, the Earth will not need to go through the terrible day of wrath that is fast approaching.
Nostradamus, prophets, seers, aborigine peoples, New Age channelers, natives of all kinds have all predicted horrible and terrifying earth changes within the next few years. But God has shown me that this is only one possibility. There remains another. Turn to Him, begin that direct, personal relationship with His Son and all these changes will pass us as the avenging angel passed over the Hebrews when they anointed their doorframes with blood of a sacrifice. That angel passed over ("Passover") the Hebrews and went on to claim the first born sons of the Egyptians.
The same time is upon us now. We can die as the Egyptians died or we can accept the Gospel of Jesus in a direct, immediate and personal relationship and escape the coming storm.
What do you choose? I'll explain further in "The Purpose of Life."
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Rich by 18?
How to Make $50,000 to $75,000 a Year by 18
$50,000 - $75,000 by 18
$100,000 - $150,000 by 22
Everyone should have a passive and portfolio income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year by the time they reach 18 and $100,000 to $150,000 a year in passive and portfolio income by the time they reach 22. No, this isn't rich. But it is comfortable. Getting rich by 18 is possible, but not without exceptional skills and a whole lot of luck.
By the time you graduate high school your income should be at least $50,000 a year and by the time you get out of college 4 years later your income should be between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without you having to work for it.
That you do not is not your fault.
The lack of providing financial education - the education that will provide you the knowledge to acquire those assets to generate an income of $50,000 to $75,000 by the time you get out of high school - is essentially the responsibility of our culture.
It is not our parents fault nor is it the "fault" of our educational system. It is primarily the "fault" of our society.
Because this education is unknown to our parents and it is not taught in our schools it is the responsibility of each individual to acquire this information themselves.
Fortunately at this time in our history, this information is readily available to the masses - perhaps for the first time. Books such as the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series by Robert Kiyosaki, "Multiple Streams of Income" by Robert Allen, "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman and "The Automatic Millionaire" series by David Bach all explore and explain the details of this information.
Working for a living, and by this I mean going to work at a job and getting a paycheck once a week or every two weeks, is a relatively new concept. It's only been around for the last 150 years or so or commensurate with (and as a result of) the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Prior to the industrial revolution, only serfs or slaves worked for someone else. Everyone else was self-employed. And that had been the case for thousands of years of human history.
This is the path we need to return to today. Many people feel they cannot master the details or intricacies or stress involved with owning and running a business. Others feel that owning a business is somehow taking advantage of people. For all these people, they are probably right. The alternative for both groups is to be self-employed.
Essentially, this is what the rich and super-rich in our society are doing and have always done. No one can know everything they need to know to run a multibillion dollar business. Very few could even know all they would need to know to run the laundromat down the street. What the rich and the super-rich do is hire people who know what they do not.
This then leaves the owners of business free to focus on the skills they know best and love doing. They leverage time and resources to accomplish the feats they achieve. No one can be a success alone. All success requires teamwork, from the marathon runner to the star pitcher of a MLB team.
The greatest successes in history did not do it alone. They all had teams of successful people behind them, supporting their efforts, involved with the details they did not understand, could not master or simply had no time to focus on. Leverage your skills to achieve success. Focus on those things you do well leaving those things you do not do well or have no time to do to others.
The book "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber is an excellent source of what to do if you own or are thinking about owning a small business. This book will help you understand why 80% of new businesses fail within 5 years and 90% fail within 10. "The E-Myth Revisited" shows us why being self-employed and owning a small busines often becomes worse than a job and working for someone else. Don't make the mistakes most people do when starting or going into business for themselves. Get this book and avoid them.
So. How do you get rich by 18?
The simple answer is that you don't, not without hard work, extraordinary skills, exceptional courage and luck being your close companion.
That leaves me out and probably you too. So what can you and I do?
You can still acquire an income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year without working for it, at least in the sense of going to work at a job and receiving a paycheck. You will still be working, perhaps harder (more hours) than you would for someone else, but you'll be working for yourself.
Working for yourself will provide you with more satisfaction, greater confidence, more prosperity and greater happiness than working for some job.
Not having an income of $50,000 to $75,000 by the time you're 18 or $100,000 to $150,000 by the time you're 22 is not your fault. It is simply because no one told you how.
If you read all the books I have mentioned, you will have a good head start. There will still be a lot to learn, much of it from "on the job training" - the mistakes you will inevitably make, but eventually if you keep at it you will get it.
Those books are a good first step. Next is to discover your passion in life and begin doing it. Even if it leads you away from learning about financial education. As you begin this path, implement the 4 Way Test.
The 4 Way Test was developed by Herbert Taylor in 1932 and is now a credo of Rotary International. The test is this:
1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Living the 4 Way Test will bless you spiritually, emotionally and materially. The world is in dire straits now, perhaps more so than ever in history. Living the 4 Way Test, implementing it in our lives, in our homes, in business and in politics can set things on the path to a better world. Not implementing the 4 Way Test will condemn us to more of what we see going on all around us. If you have a better way of implementing ethics and morality into your everyday affairs, do it, if not, use the 4 Way Test.
Most of the successful people I have researched and interviewed started their first business at around the age of 9. If you are not one of these, don't worry. It's never to late to begin. But a start at 9 will amass the assets you need to achieve an income of $50,000 to $75,000 9 years later - with the proper education, financial knowledge and mastery of the necessary principles.
Learning these principles will enable you to go to college and acquire additional assets to achieve an income of $100,000 to $150,000 in another 4 years. This is not an impossible dream. It is possible - for everyone.
Sports. What about sports? Or dance? Or art? There is no excuse for not acquiring the proper financial education for only this will free you from the tyranny of work or financial enslavery. However, if sports, dance or some other field is your passion in life, do it. Let the financial education come later.
Fulfilling your passion in life is the only true way to be happy in life. The money will come by following that path. But then, as the money begins to roll in, we need to initiate our financial education in order to hold onto and protect the wealth we have.
America is the most litigious society in the world, and will only get worse. Financial education will enable us to protect our financial assets, minimize our taxes and ensure us an income when we are no longer able to pursue our passion. Financial education will protect us from losing all that we have gained when just one lawsuit can take it all away.
It will require 8 to 10 years of work after you begin this path for you to achieve an income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year in passive and portfolio investments. And that assumes that you're about average and acquire the financial education and master the necessary principles to do so. It will require another 4 to 5 years to reach $100,000 to $150,000 in annual passive and portfolio income. But it is possible. You can do it.
Rich at 18 may be an impossible dream. But never having to work again at 18 is not, if you begin soon enough. Be bold, live your dream, follow your passion and learn the financial education you need to be free from work, and to retain the income that makes living your dreams possible.
http://how2getrich.bravehost.com/rich18.html
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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work from home advocate. He has several websites including How To Get Rich - http://how2getrich.bravehost.com, Millionaire Books - http://millionairebooks.1afm.com and others.
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$50,000 - $75,000 by 18
$100,000 - $150,000 by 22
Everyone should have a passive and portfolio income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year by the time they reach 18 and $100,000 to $150,000 a year in passive and portfolio income by the time they reach 22. No, this isn't rich. But it is comfortable. Getting rich by 18 is possible, but not without exceptional skills and a whole lot of luck.
By the time you graduate high school your income should be at least $50,000 a year and by the time you get out of college 4 years later your income should be between $100,000 to $150,000 a year without you having to work for it.
That you do not is not your fault.
The lack of providing financial education - the education that will provide you the knowledge to acquire those assets to generate an income of $50,000 to $75,000 by the time you get out of high school - is essentially the responsibility of our culture.
It is not our parents fault nor is it the "fault" of our educational system. It is primarily the "fault" of our society.
Because this education is unknown to our parents and it is not taught in our schools it is the responsibility of each individual to acquire this information themselves.
Fortunately at this time in our history, this information is readily available to the masses - perhaps for the first time. Books such as the "Rich Dad, Poor Dad" series by Robert Kiyosaki, "Multiple Streams of Income" by Robert Allen, "The 9 Steps to Financial Freedom" by Suze Orman and "The Automatic Millionaire" series by David Bach all explore and explain the details of this information.
Working for a living, and by this I mean going to work at a job and getting a paycheck once a week or every two weeks, is a relatively new concept. It's only been around for the last 150 years or so or commensurate with (and as a result of) the beginning of the industrial revolution.
Prior to the industrial revolution, only serfs or slaves worked for someone else. Everyone else was self-employed. And that had been the case for thousands of years of human history.
This is the path we need to return to today. Many people feel they cannot master the details or intricacies or stress involved with owning and running a business. Others feel that owning a business is somehow taking advantage of people. For all these people, they are probably right. The alternative for both groups is to be self-employed.
Essentially, this is what the rich and super-rich in our society are doing and have always done. No one can know everything they need to know to run a multibillion dollar business. Very few could even know all they would need to know to run the laundromat down the street. What the rich and the super-rich do is hire people who know what they do not.
This then leaves the owners of business free to focus on the skills they know best and love doing. They leverage time and resources to accomplish the feats they achieve. No one can be a success alone. All success requires teamwork, from the marathon runner to the star pitcher of a MLB team.
The greatest successes in history did not do it alone. They all had teams of successful people behind them, supporting their efforts, involved with the details they did not understand, could not master or simply had no time to focus on. Leverage your skills to achieve success. Focus on those things you do well leaving those things you do not do well or have no time to do to others.
The book "The E-Myth Revisited" by Michael Gerber is an excellent source of what to do if you own or are thinking about owning a small business. This book will help you understand why 80% of new businesses fail within 5 years and 90% fail within 10. "The E-Myth Revisited" shows us why being self-employed and owning a small busines often becomes worse than a job and working for someone else. Don't make the mistakes most people do when starting or going into business for themselves. Get this book and avoid them.
So. How do you get rich by 18?
The simple answer is that you don't, not without hard work, extraordinary skills, exceptional courage and luck being your close companion.
That leaves me out and probably you too. So what can you and I do?
You can still acquire an income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year without working for it, at least in the sense of going to work at a job and receiving a paycheck. You will still be working, perhaps harder (more hours) than you would for someone else, but you'll be working for yourself.
Working for yourself will provide you with more satisfaction, greater confidence, more prosperity and greater happiness than working for some job.
Not having an income of $50,000 to $75,000 by the time you're 18 or $100,000 to $150,000 by the time you're 22 is not your fault. It is simply because no one told you how.
If you read all the books I have mentioned, you will have a good head start. There will still be a lot to learn, much of it from "on the job training" - the mistakes you will inevitably make, but eventually if you keep at it you will get it.
Those books are a good first step. Next is to discover your passion in life and begin doing it. Even if it leads you away from learning about financial education. As you begin this path, implement the 4 Way Test.
The 4 Way Test was developed by Herbert Taylor in 1932 and is now a credo of Rotary International. The test is this:
1. Is it the truth?
2. Is it fair to all concerned?
3. Will it build goodwill and better friendships?
4. Will it be beneficial to all concerned?
Living the 4 Way Test will bless you spiritually, emotionally and materially. The world is in dire straits now, perhaps more so than ever in history. Living the 4 Way Test, implementing it in our lives, in our homes, in business and in politics can set things on the path to a better world. Not implementing the 4 Way Test will condemn us to more of what we see going on all around us. If you have a better way of implementing ethics and morality into your everyday affairs, do it, if not, use the 4 Way Test.
Most of the successful people I have researched and interviewed started their first business at around the age of 9. If you are not one of these, don't worry. It's never to late to begin. But a start at 9 will amass the assets you need to achieve an income of $50,000 to $75,000 9 years later - with the proper education, financial knowledge and mastery of the necessary principles.
Learning these principles will enable you to go to college and acquire additional assets to achieve an income of $100,000 to $150,000 in another 4 years. This is not an impossible dream. It is possible - for everyone.
Sports. What about sports? Or dance? Or art? There is no excuse for not acquiring the proper financial education for only this will free you from the tyranny of work or financial enslavery. However, if sports, dance or some other field is your passion in life, do it. Let the financial education come later.
Fulfilling your passion in life is the only true way to be happy in life. The money will come by following that path. But then, as the money begins to roll in, we need to initiate our financial education in order to hold onto and protect the wealth we have.
America is the most litigious society in the world, and will only get worse. Financial education will enable us to protect our financial assets, minimize our taxes and ensure us an income when we are no longer able to pursue our passion. Financial education will protect us from losing all that we have gained when just one lawsuit can take it all away.
It will require 8 to 10 years of work after you begin this path for you to achieve an income of $50,000 to $75,000 a year in passive and portfolio investments. And that assumes that you're about average and acquire the financial education and master the necessary principles to do so. It will require another 4 to 5 years to reach $100,000 to $150,000 in annual passive and portfolio income. But it is possible. You can do it.
Rich at 18 may be an impossible dream. But never having to work again at 18 is not, if you begin soon enough. Be bold, live your dream, follow your passion and learn the financial education you need to be free from work, and to retain the income that makes living your dreams possible.
http://how2getrich.bravehost.com/rich18.html
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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work from home advocate. He has several websites including How To Get Rich - http://how2getrich.bravehost.com, Millionaire Books - http://millionairebooks.1afm.com and others.
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Thursday, February 24, 2005
How To Get Rich
How to get rich is really quite simple. 1. Generate excess cash. 2. Invest your excess cash in passive and portfolio investments until the income from those investments is great enough to enable you to retire. Of course, most people get stuck on number 1.
Generate excess cash. First, let's define "excess cash". Excess cash means that you have an income coming in that is 2 to 3 times the average for your area. You can create this excess cash in one of two ways.
The first way to generate excess cash is to work 2 or 3 jobs at the same time. The second way is to learn a trade that pays about 2 to 3 times the average pay for your area. What trade? That depends on the area you live in.
Electricians, accountants, carpenters, masons may all make 2 to 3 times the average wage for your area. Also, almost anything in the health field such as nursing, pharmacology, physical therapy, radiology, etc. may generate 2 or 3 times the average income for your area.
How do you determine the "average" income for your area? This also is easy if you don't mine being inexact. Just go to any Wal-Mart or McDonald's in your area. Ask them what their starting pay is. The "average" income for your area will be about one and a half to two times the amount Wal-Mart or McDonald's pays their entry level people. If there's a large discrepancy between what McDonald's and Wal-Mart pays just take the average of what they pay, then double it. This is the average income for your area.
Now that you have excess cash, what do you do with it?
You invest it.
Excess cash is invested in passive and portfolio vehicles. It is not partied away, it is not used to buy a bigger house or a finer car. You do not use it to take better vacations or improve your wardrobe. Use it Only to invest in passive and portfolio investments. When the income from these investments is great enough that you can retire, then go on that nice vacation, buy those fine clothes, purchase that big house or nice car, but for now, don't spend it, invest it. Do this right and you should be able to retire in 2 to 10 years. 2 years will be if you're lucky.
Passive investments or vehicles are investments primarily in business or real estate. However, investments in licenses, patents, copyrights et al would also qualify.
Portfolio investments are more familiar. These are investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, T-bills, etc.
With your first bit of excess cash you will need to visit an accountant. Have the accountant prepare 3 financial plans for you. The first plan will be the income you'll receive in retirement at just a sustenance level. The bare minimum to get by. The second plan will be the amount of income you'll need to get by at a "comfortable" level. The third plan will be the amount of income you'll need to retire rich.
Each plan will include not only the outcome - how much income you'll receive in retirement - but also how much you'll need to invest each year to get there and what "vehicles" you'll need to invest in.
A "vehicle" is any investment category or object whether it be real estate, stocks, mutual funds, a business, copyright on a book or a patent. Any of these could be a vehicle - a device you have invested in to increase your current assets and future income.
Your current lifestyle must support your future goals. Acquire no new debt unless it is "good" debt. Good debt is any debt that you obtain which produces income for you. Bad debt is any debt which takes money away from you. This is also the true definition of an asset and a liability.
Contrary to traditional accounting practice and common understanding, an asset is anything you own that puts money into your pocket on a regular basis. A liability is anything you own that takes money out of your pocket.
You must not enhance your lifestyle to the point that you spend your excess cash. Your excess cash is only to be invested. Do not buy the Porsche or the mansion on the green or the designer clothes or the Rolex watch. Wait. With determination, work and perseverance, you'll be able to retire soon anyway. "Soon" being a relative term meaning anywhere from 2 to 10 years.
So that's how you get rich. Simple, easy, relatively quick and almost no risk. You just need to get that excess cash flow in place. And then you're on your way.
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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and helped these companies generate millions to their bottom line. Perry is the Organizer for the recent Extra-Ordinary Film Festival http://eofilmfestival.goduck.net in Tempe, Arizona, and has several websites including Millionaire 1000 http://millionaire1000.1afm.com and Home Cash Flow http://homecashflow.1afm.com
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Generate excess cash. First, let's define "excess cash". Excess cash means that you have an income coming in that is 2 to 3 times the average for your area. You can create this excess cash in one of two ways.
The first way to generate excess cash is to work 2 or 3 jobs at the same time. The second way is to learn a trade that pays about 2 to 3 times the average pay for your area. What trade? That depends on the area you live in.
Electricians, accountants, carpenters, masons may all make 2 to 3 times the average wage for your area. Also, almost anything in the health field such as nursing, pharmacology, physical therapy, radiology, etc. may generate 2 or 3 times the average income for your area.
How do you determine the "average" income for your area? This also is easy if you don't mine being inexact. Just go to any Wal-Mart or McDonald's in your area. Ask them what their starting pay is. The "average" income for your area will be about one and a half to two times the amount Wal-Mart or McDonald's pays their entry level people. If there's a large discrepancy between what McDonald's and Wal-Mart pays just take the average of what they pay, then double it. This is the average income for your area.
Now that you have excess cash, what do you do with it?
You invest it.
Excess cash is invested in passive and portfolio vehicles. It is not partied away, it is not used to buy a bigger house or a finer car. You do not use it to take better vacations or improve your wardrobe. Use it Only to invest in passive and portfolio investments. When the income from these investments is great enough that you can retire, then go on that nice vacation, buy those fine clothes, purchase that big house or nice car, but for now, don't spend it, invest it. Do this right and you should be able to retire in 2 to 10 years. 2 years will be if you're lucky.
Passive investments or vehicles are investments primarily in business or real estate. However, investments in licenses, patents, copyrights et al would also qualify.
Portfolio investments are more familiar. These are investments in stocks, bonds, mutual funds, annuities, T-bills, etc.
With your first bit of excess cash you will need to visit an accountant. Have the accountant prepare 3 financial plans for you. The first plan will be the income you'll receive in retirement at just a sustenance level. The bare minimum to get by. The second plan will be the amount of income you'll need to get by at a "comfortable" level. The third plan will be the amount of income you'll need to retire rich.
Each plan will include not only the outcome - how much income you'll receive in retirement - but also how much you'll need to invest each year to get there and what "vehicles" you'll need to invest in.
A "vehicle" is any investment category or object whether it be real estate, stocks, mutual funds, a business, copyright on a book or a patent. Any of these could be a vehicle - a device you have invested in to increase your current assets and future income.
Your current lifestyle must support your future goals. Acquire no new debt unless it is "good" debt. Good debt is any debt that you obtain which produces income for you. Bad debt is any debt which takes money away from you. This is also the true definition of an asset and a liability.
Contrary to traditional accounting practice and common understanding, an asset is anything you own that puts money into your pocket on a regular basis. A liability is anything you own that takes money out of your pocket.
You must not enhance your lifestyle to the point that you spend your excess cash. Your excess cash is only to be invested. Do not buy the Porsche or the mansion on the green or the designer clothes or the Rolex watch. Wait. With determination, work and perseverance, you'll be able to retire soon anyway. "Soon" being a relative term meaning anywhere from 2 to 10 years.
So that's how you get rich. Simple, easy, relatively quick and almost no risk. You just need to get that excess cash flow in place. And then you're on your way.
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Perry Jones is a successful entrepreneur and work at home advocate. He has worked with several Fortune 500 companies and helped these companies generate millions to their bottom line. Perry is the Organizer for the recent Extra-Ordinary Film Festival http://eofilmfestival.goduck.net in Tempe, Arizona, and has several websites including Millionaire 1000 http://millionaire1000.1afm.com and Home Cash Flow http://homecashflow.1afm.com
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