The Problem Of Santa Claus

July 2, 2008

Elaine Meinel Supkis

Tonight, we go off the metaphorical cliff. Time to look into a very strange but rather obvious evil force of economics, one that is seldom mentioned: Santa Claus. To discover why this is so queer, I must beg for some pardon as I wander through today's dreadful economic news, we look to July, 2007 to see that the bad news a year later was perfectly clear back then. And we try yet again to understand the nature of philosophy, religion, finance, history and how these things lead us to understand the complex relations of modern reality. Which is about as queer and bizarre as things can possibly be, considering how we pride ourselves on being 'rational'. We are not rational.

From the warmongering Washington Post: Surrogate Silliness
Can we please stop talking about meaningless bloopers?

ENOUGH ALREADY! The country's at war, the economy is struggling, oil prices are surging. The Republican and Democratic presidential candidates have dramatically different approaches to all this and more. And we've just concluded Day Three of the latest surrogate pseudo-drama: "Gen. Wesley K. Clark: Stupid Comment or Deliberate Slight?"

Casting guilt by surrogate association is a bipartisan affliction, so ours is a nonpartisan lament: Cut it out! The Clark blooper is no more revealing than was the Charles R. Black Jr. pseudo-outrage or the James A. Johnson ersatz scandal. What Gen. Clark had to say -- that Sen. John McCain's military experience was not "a qualification to be president" -- was stupid, substantively and politically. If Sen. Barack Obama's campaign somehow whispered in Gen. Clark's ear to adopt this approach, the campaign has obviously been taken over by people other than the smooth crew that helped Mr. Obama win the Democratic nomination.

Every once and a while, the world turns upside down, the various people running things awry suddenly climb through the mirror in the parlor and end up in Alice's Through the Looking Glass Universe. The people doing this often don't realize they walked into the Alternate Universe. They talk and act as if they are normal even as they are babbling backwards and are turned inside out. They can't see themselves in a mirror so they can't tell they have fallen into this other place they can't comprehend. They just keep on babbling.

The mainstream media have to occasionally tell the truth and let in some light or they would be totally ignored. They know that propaganda will be rejected if they lie so nonstop and blatantly that even the supporters of a dictatorship cease to pay attention. After all, we are more likely to get news from The Watchtower. Reading bubble gum cartoon wrappers are more useful than reading the Washington Post or the New York Times. I read them only to laugh or groan. So it is with this obviously hysterical editorial written, I assume, by the creepy owner of this rag.

For the last 30 years, the media has played the false outrage, the 'gotcha' game. Everyone they want to protect is never bothered by all this. People they wish to prevent from gaining power are given the full treatment of this childish style of media gangsterism. Sometimes the media, in order to play 'gotcha' would simply make up or manufacture fake quotes and bloopers which they would then discuss endlessly.

All for a purpose! Despite the owner of the WP whining about 'war' and 'gas prices' the last thing this creep wants is for our candidates to debate about both of these openly and sanely. This is because both topics are attached to highly charged things: Israel and WWIII. Even as the WP and other media outlets lie to us nonstop and as they push us relentlessly into WWIII, they won't give an ounce of oxygen or space on the page to anyone who talks about the situation in Israel, international finance supporting Zionism and how this is leading to a massive explosion in the Middle East that will destroy America. Already, the wars are driving up oil prices to levels we can't cope with! Yet even now, the mysterious Alice of the Washington Post who wants us to talk about IMPORTANT things, refuses to note that the wars and the high oil prices are THE SAME PROBLEM with the SAME CAUSES! If we wrote to this baffled Alice and told him about this, we would be told to drop dead.

http://wiredispatch.com/news/?id=236039
U.S. helicopter shot down in Afghanistan

REUTERS

The Taliban have brought down a number of aircraft, but so far the militants are not thought to have obtained surface-to-air missiles that could alter the balance of the war dramatically.

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So, bin Laden and his friends now have surface-to-air missiles? [I have an email in to her to verify that she's not misinterpreted this. -FNC] Will the Washington Post ask McCain and Obama about this interesting turn of events? The brohaha over 3am phone calls, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran, Jerusalem is to be only a Jewish Israeli city, etc. is hyper-important. Yet the key issue for us Americans is not mentioned even if these things are brought up: how in the hell are we going to pay for all this? And how is this destroying America's finances? And isn't this a very serious problem? The trillions pouring down the drain via futile military efforts, isn't that a top, #1 topic? Who cares about who is the better Generalissimo. Who understands we are going bankrupt? Do any of these candidates know what the real danger is? $200 a barrel oil means the End of the American Dream! And how do we prevent this from happening?

By talking about how we can bomb, bomb, bomb Iran while keeping the very narrow Straits of Hormuz open? The WP doesn't want to talk about this. Much less, admit that wild war spending causes inflation!

Schools of thought: teach children philosophy, experts urge

Children of all ages should study philosophy in school to develop their critical thinking skills, education experts said today.
Academics suggest that, rather than start off with Socrates, teachers use common classroom disputes to help children learn about abstract philosophical principles such as fairness, morality and punishment. They give the example of apportioning blame for spilling paint.
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In one class, discussing heroism, eight-year-olds had raised the example of firefighters in the 9/11 attacks unprompted, she said. Older pupils in secondary schools could look at the concepts in more depth and learn about the philosophers that had studied them.

"In knowledge-based subjects, discussion is dominated by the children with the most facts at their fingertips.

"Because philosophical questions cannot be settled by factual evidence, discussion doesn't get derailed by missing knowledge or closed down by the introduction of new information."

Good lord. What a queer view of philosophy! To discuss anything in the philosophical realm, one first must have many levels of knowledge and information already. Up until then, it is very difficult. Philosophy is intimately connected with religion and not the 'feel good' religious side but the 'astronomy' side of religion: the planets, the stars, the sun and the moon: how do these interact with the 'gods' and with humans? How does this cosmic system work? Why do humans have several levels of involvement with this system? How does this system view 'good' and 'evil' if it is a system and not absolute?

Philosophers looked at the stars, looked at the earth and examined all of this very closely. In particular, they looked into etherial things such as numbers, geometry, time and space. One of the top priorities of philosophers from Time Immemorial was to turn lead into gold! And to find Immortality or Eternal Youth. To obtain all of this, they often strayed into the occult, into magic which is very connected with philosophy.

If one has to be ambitious and has peculiar children like I was when young, these students in High School may end up reading Hegel, just for starters. But before that, they must read Goethe's 'Faust' Part I and then, after Hegel, Part II. I remember the lessons whereby we read Hegel: I discovered quickly that if I diagrammed his paragraphs, I noticed that he artfully redefined many German words connected with non-physical concepts such as the word, 'Will'.

Also, he understood the concept of Libra: the swinging from one extreme to the other as each ends up offsetting the other. This is such a basic idea, it can be grasped even by children. 'Philosophy' isn't having opinions about trivial matters which then 'illustrate a moral' as if this were a Victorian elementary school. One other thing here: fairy tales are very moral but not in the way we expect. They are Hegelian in many ways: balance must be found and protected! The surface appearance can mislead and delude. When philosophers wrestle with concepts, they actually are dealing with the Gods and thus, are in danger of losing the argument, their souls and their sanity. Which makes philosophy a very dangerous topic. And is why I took courses in this field.

When we understand philosophy, it becomes rather easy to understand the news. To make predictions. To penetrate the veil that covers reality, a veil thrown over reality by many interested parties who want to delude us deliberately. The reason I am taking time to talk about all this is because this is the Great Secret of my own business here: I apply Hegelian logic to financial and political news. And I use the systems set up by the ancient Greeks, Egyptians and the good people of the City of Ur to light up the darkness.

China's premier urges US to stabilise dollar

(AFP) - - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao has again called on the United States to stabilise the dollar, warning the greenback's decline was posing threats to the global economy.

"China is taking measures to safeguard its stable economic development," Wen said during a meeting with visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Monday, according to a statement posted on the foreign ministry's website.

"(We) hope the US will overcome its subprime crisis soon and stabilise the exchange rate of the US dollar, which is significant to the whole world," he said, according to the transcript posted late on Monday.

A reader very kindly sent me this tidbit. This warning from China should be on the front page of the Washington Post. But it was not.

This was due to a need to keep a lid on reality. This news comes from Japan who keeps a very close eye on China, it being the Giant Dragon right next door:

G-8 expansion worries Tokyo

A more likely cause of concern for the host nation at Lake Toyako, Hokkaido, is Sarkozy's proposal to include China, India and other emerging economies in the G-8 framework.

As Japan is the only G-8 member from Asia, officials apparently fear that such a development would dilute Tokyo's influence within the exclusive club.

"At the G-8 summit, we must produce concrete results, rather than merely discuss issues," Sarkozy told Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda in Rome on June 3. "We have to increase the number of member countries if we are to respond to changes going on around the world."

Fukuda made it clear he did not agree and that Japan would support the current setup.

China and Japan have had some very interesting rapprochements this last six months. Japan has ceded a great deal to China. China, not the US, arranged things with North Korea, just for example. But this is crossing a line Japan wants to keep drawn in the sand. Japan uses the other G8 nations as fools. The others still don't quite understand Japan's game. They think Japan is an ally rather than a dire foe. If China comes in the door and is party to all the conspiratorial meetings held by these imperialists who brought us WWI and WWII, why, Japan will lose...POWER.

Japan wants to keep this power. If China begins to chair meetings about the weak yen/0% interest rate regime, why, the others might figure things out since China does a number of things Japan does. So far, Japan has been able to joyously join the EU and US in attacking China for acting very Japanese! The philosophy of history tells us that if we have open eyes and look at ourselves and our allies in the mirror rather than being lost like poor Alice, we might be able to see the innermost workings of these geometrically set relations, the triangulations, the complex inner relationships, the emotions from the past, the desires of the future. This means collecting lots of information! Facts first! Then we examine the world to see if the facts fit into a framework. If one or the other fails, one or the other needs to be changed.

For some reason, the US has chosen to ignore Japan except for stories about funny Japanese anime characters, odd social customs, queer habits, etc. But when it comes to economic or political news, Japan vanishes. The Japanese don't mind this at all. Like bankers or criminals or conspirators, they prefer to operate in the dark. This is why none of the US news media outlets talk about any of the bizarre, often religious cult-like or even outright occult rituals of the very powerful and famous. We know everything about Spear's sex affairs and relations with her children and nothing about how our rulers hang out, have sex, chew the cud or plot nefarious plans for world domination!

Both China and Japan want a strong dollar. But neither can get it in the long run since the US has a much too big trade deficit with both nations. Europe wants a strong dollar for the same reason. All the G12 want the US to be the leader in the coalition to produce export to the US. The US wants this too but can't do it unless the world gives us infinite credit which we can use to buy all this. And this causes inflation. This is because of Hegelian physics: all things must balance at some point in time.

Crude Oil Rises to Record Above $144 After U.S. Supplies Drop

(Bloomberg) -- Crude oil rose to a record above $144 a barrel in New York after a U.S. government report showed an unexpected decline in inventories.

Supplies dropped 1.98 million barrels to 299.8 million last week, the lowest since January, the Energy Department said yesterday. Analysts in a Bloomberg News survey had predicted the report would show a 500,000 barrel rise in inventories. Prices also climbed as the dollar weakened.

The agony of the dying dollar meets the war talk that has endangered global oil production. It is not difficult to figure out the boycott and isolation of Iran is directly tied to the high cost of oil. This was quite visible last summer. Before the banking collapse. Just for spite, I went back to my July, 2007 postings and sure enough, there it all is! So easy to see back then, even more obvious today. Yet it is occult to most people dependent on the media to tell us what is really going on.

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Here is my July, 1, 2007 story about some of the astonishingly stupid things Harvard professor said about the US running everything very deep in the red vis a vis all our trade partners:

Tim, one of the readers of this news service kindly sent me this Harvard Magazine article where a group of professors try to talk about the personal and international consequences of America running deep in the red. Of course, half of them are grasshoppers who think there will never be a winter so who cares if we run everything in the red while the others are ants who fret about all this but feel that the Chinese ants who work hard and save will keep both the ants and grasshoppers in America alive because they will lose money if they don't save us from our own silly follies. Not one of these people discussed our trade deficits in energy! And only one had an inking about China's plans for us.

Rereading this article, I see nothing but total insanity. One professor, Jeffrey Frankeleven, said, 'Putting international politics aside for a moment, “When a country gets a capital inflow [such as the United States has now], generally speaking things are pretty good,” observes Jeffry Frieden, Stanfield professor of international peace. “It allows you to invest more than you save, and consume more than you produce. There is nothing necessarily wrong with that,” he notes.'

He is worried that we are not using this flood of Funny Money™ flowing back into the US for 'productive' purposes. But the entire point of this 'trade' is precisely to strip us of as much of our 'productive' base as possible! This is the PLAN, not mere happenstance. Children can be forgiven for not understanding dynamic systems, the malice of others and history. But a professor has no excuse at all. The astonishing stupidity shown by top 'intellectuals' in these matters is due to a simple thing: they will not grow up and understand how HUMANS operate as beings within the matrix of history and psychology.

Last July, I was deeply disturbed by international events rapidly moving towards an end of the Japanese carry trade cycle. I could see that the US was entering a collapsing credit crunch before it hit. Anyone leafing through these many postings from back then can see from the headlines alone, my alarms and warnings were quite loud and very much on target. Everyone already knew the housing bubble had burst and bankruptcies and dropping housing values were increasing. But stocks were soaring, the buy-up deals were roaring ahead. Only ONE hedge fund was in trouble! Then bang! The whole thing collapsed.

Here is my July 1, 2007 story about the global debt of $533 trillion:

Derivatives are shooting for the moon! This system is honey and milk for them. $533 TRILLION???? Did I read this right? This money is all phantom wealth. It is the result of a lot of chanting and wand waving on the part of quite a few slippery lying bastards. At least the Indians realize who is at the bottom of this scam! They are examining the Japanese closely. They can see Japan will destroy their native industries just like it has here in the US. Note that this isn't happening to China! The Dragon is not stupid.

Indeed, the only intelligent analysis I have read this last week is from India. And China. Both of these huge nations' leaders talk to each other just as the Chinese dragon talks to the Russian bear. They are slowly working out a system that will deal with Japan's fake depression and the liquidity it is unloading on everyone, sinking the entire planet into incredible debts. $533 trillion is tremendous. And it is very dangerous and the US should be stopping this except Goldman Sachs runs our Treasury and other systems so they benefit form this half a gazillion in debt we are drowning in.

The gigantic Derivatives Beast was HALF as big as it is today! It is now a quadzillion dollars. I called it 'Gazillion' back then. This story is barely mentioned by anyone in the major media. As things get radically worse, the Washington Post is whining about 'gotcha' silliness while not changing the conversation to REAL things that are rotten as hell.

The second day of July, last year, the SECOND hedge fund failed. Today, so many are failing, it is hard to keep track and I frankly don't care anymore. The lesson is obvious to even the densest fools except for Bernanke, of course.

Another Hedge Fund is Dying And the Bank of Japan Insults Us:

All the hedge funds are singing the same song. They are all following the same path to perdition. They are all going to hell in a handbasket. The first warning sign is, they suddenly won't allow investors to pull their funds out of the sinking ship. The next move is, investors go to court. The hope is, during the few weeks this is going on, a miracle will happen, the clouds of gloom will split open and a Jesus of financial miracle will descend and multiply the fishes and breads in the hedge fund's accounts.

In about three days we will read about Horizon's sun setting. The proud risk-takers will tank and the old story continues: you can't trust 'trusts' and risky investments are exactly that. Raters like Moody's will have to be investigated and reformed since they gave false AAA rates on contaminated fund bundles. It looks more and more that I was right when I first voiced suspicion about the craft of bundling really nasty loans to very bad credit customers with good loans to people with a sober credit history. This activity is very similar to bad credit people buying good credit ratings by piggy-backing onto a neutral credit card with a person who has good credit so they can gain enough points to go even deeper into debt.

The entire housing industry reeks with fraud and deceptions. Everyone wanted to keep the good times rolling, the good times created entirely by Greenspan's 1% interest rates back in 2003-2004. But those easy money days ended by the middle of 2005 and the downhill slope created a climate of desperation. Real Estate companies started a new scheme of having the home seller hand, under the table, enough money to the home buyer to pay for the down payment.

The flood of bad news now is a raging torrent. Floods, earthquakes, typhoons, tornadoes, all join hands to entertain us as we see our entire economic system die under one hammer blow after another. And the chaos caused by sheer stupidity at the top is why this is so bad! For we can't follow the path to moderation, safety, comfort and contentment if we also try to live wildly beyond our means, run around killing or threatening everyone, encouraging rapine, vicious politics and hysteria. The US has this very long list of governments we wish to overthrow, countries we wish to divide and conquer, nations we want to see ripped to shreds and weakened. And amusingly, so do our enemies many of whom are our trade partners and even allies.

This is pure insanity! And should be the focus of the Washington Post! Not whining about childish word games whereby we try to censor anyone who says 'the wrong thing' when debating our foolish political actions in the world at large! Just like the media went nuts when Obama correctly noted that US lower classes who vote for Republicans are 'bitter'. Eh? Well! I live in the countryside filled with heavily-armed and very bitter people! They have no idea how to fix the mess they are in. But they are not happy just because they can't focus logically on the obvious problems that bedevil them.

GM Falls to Lowest Since 1954 After Merrill Suggests Bankruptcy

(Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp. shares fell to their lowest level since 1954 after a Merrill Lynch & Co. analyst said the automaker may need to raise as much as $15 billion and faced the possibility of bankruptcy.

The ``dramatic drop-off'' in the U.S. sales market probably will continue through 2009, forcing GM to find additional funding, analyst John Murphy, who lowered the shares to ``underperform'' from ``buy,'' said in a report. ``Bankruptcy is not impossible if the market continues to deteriorate.''

GM dropped $1.77, or 15 percent, to $9.98 at 4:15 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. That was the lowest since Sept. 2, 1954, adjusted for splits, according to Global Financial Data in Los Angeles. The shares' daily percentage decline was the steepest since Oct. 19, 1987.

The US is rapidly losing its last industries! This is ALARMING. Yes, GM caused their own problems. Yes, the unions asked for goodies only for themselves and didn't think about their fellow workers. Yes, healthcare is a problem. Yes, the profits from SUVs were far more than for smaller cars with less overhead. Yes, the US ignored the obvious approach of the Hubbert Oil Peak. Gads, we are still debating if there can even be one! Much less, it's obvious effects that are, like the waves from a distant hurricane, already beating on our shores as a drumbeat of warnings of the howling winds that approach below the horizon!

Wishful thinking pervades all systems. This is because of our childhoods: one of the worst entities to be created and then exploited is the demonic master who comes direct from the Cave of Wealth and Death: Santa Claus. He even lives 'at the North Pole' which puts him as a 'negative' force, the equator and warmth being the opposite. He is a Winter god who comes when the sun is the lowest and seems to be leaving forever in the Northern Hemisphere where He was created. Santa Claus rides his sleigh which is really an incarnation of Pluto's golden chariot of Libra---he comes into the house as if he were a thief or an intruder. And then he mysteriously leaves us wealth!

In logical reality, he is obviously a Death God. We have even elevated him past all the other gods born in the wreckage of the Aries Age when the stars of Pisces rose in the East in the Vernal Equinox. Xmas is Santa's time frame. In the present era, the Zodiacal stars that rise on Xmas are Capricorn:

Capricorn is associated with the Greek myth of the goat Amalthea, who provided the infant Zeus with milk, or ambrosia in some versions. Zeus placed her in the sky to honor her (Catasterismi). Capricorn is also associated with the god Saturn and the god Aristaeus.

The Babylonian zodiacal sign is called šaxû "ibex." The sun in this month entered the suxûru-fish constellation, called the star of Tashmetum, the wife of Nabu. The goat-fish is known from depictions on Babylonian monuments as a representation of Enki/Ea.[3] Also linked to the Greek God, Pan.
The astrological symbol for Capricorn is said to represent the horns and tail of the goat-fish or sea-goat.

Santa Claus is a modern god created bit by bit over the last 1,000 years until his commercial rebirth as the jolly elf that gives us all Xmas gifts on that night. This Santa god is only 100 years old! He rules our economic world with an iron fist. All world trade is very much focused on his passage. He is directly responsible for creating a tremendous amount of our collective debts! He DESTROYS WEALTH. Even as he makes sellers of 'gifts' richer, he focuses not on useful or good things but luxuries, frivolities, foolishness and the useless.

He is also the dark shadow of some very ancient gods such as Enki from the City of Ur:

Enki is also the master shaper of the world, god of wisdom and of all magic. He is the lord of the Apsu (Akkadian, Abzu in Sumerian, hence perhaps the Greek abussos and English word "abyss"), the freshwater ocean of groundwater under the earth. In the later Babylonian "Enuma Eliš" Abzu, the "begetter of the gods", is inert and sleepy but finds his peace disturbed by the younger gods so sets out to destroy them. His grandson Enki, chosen to represent the younger gods puts a spell on Abzu "casting him into a deep sleep" confining him deep underground. Enki subsequently sets up his home "in the depths of the Abzu." Enki thus takes on all of the functions of the Abzu including his fertilising powers as lord of the waters and lord of semen[3].

This 'abyss' is also the Outer Darkness. Note the mixture of being buried and dead, semen and magic powers! The examination of this emanation of Santa Claus should be examined by school children! They can discuss why this 'god' was launched at the same time capitalist manufacturing and factories were first systematically launched, Santa Claus is an expression of capitalism and is the capitalist icon du jour. The graphs showing exports from China to the US show a very definite jump each September ending in the first week of December. This is the activities surrounding the worship of Santa Claus.

And so we wander from the Washington Post's bizarre editorials, through the halls of our schools, to Japan and then China and off to a discussion about Santa Claus! And believe me, Santa Claus is very much a grave danger to our nation, to our security, to our sanity! He is nearly totally evil at this point for his powers are vast! The entire media worships his iconic powers and our merchants bend their minds and wills towards increasing his magic powers and his reach! They wish to make us his slaves! Mindlessly, we are to obey his dictates and this is for us to bankrupt ourselves buying things we know are bad for us or know will ruin our ability to take care of our families. Or worse, spoil our children and turn ourselves into useful idiots who view ourselves as consumers. And even worse, teach us that magic, not labor, makes for happiness and wealth!

For on top of all this, Santa is a fraud. He leaves us only one thing: lots and lots of BILLS. Which must be paid before we bow to his shrine a year later and make it worse. Most people's lives are now a treadmill from Xmas to Xmas, the debts piling up higher and higher. Much of this ending up in trash heaps or piled about the house to the ceiling. The worst of materialism coupled with artificial exhortations to buy inappropriately. This mad celebration has turned on us and is now devouring our economy, our social systems.

Can we confront this and end it? Or will this monster, barely 100 years old, grow even more powerful? This is one of the key battles for the mind and soul which are now being waged. I bet any candidate for President who says, 'There is no Santa Claus' will be abused even more than anyone denying Jesus.

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Dear Elaine,