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Let's explore where the western society stands on this issue, which, unlike China, is presently committed to a death spiral of economic disintegration in an orgy of gargantuan financial speculation. What happened to the principle of: Love thy neighbor in this world? It has been retranslated, to read: Take advantage of thy neighbor; steal from thy neighbor, loot they neighbor; rule over thy neighbor; and murder thy neighbor if there is a buck to be made by it. It is not being said, however: enrich the world of thy neighbor. This, though, is what F. D. Roosevelt had said.
It is actually a self-evident requirement to enrich the world of our neighbor, because the world of our neighbor is the world that we, too, share. The ancient peoples from ages long before Christ Jesus understood this principle. They understood it as a sound economic platform. Reference to this is found in the early section of the Bible*(See Leviticus 19). One finds even traces of it in the moral code of the Mosaic law. It is remarkable, indeed, that such fundamental truths, which have been self-evident in the primitive world of ancient cultures can no longer be understood in our scientific age. This is so in spite of monumental evidence being demonstrated in support of the ancient truths.
Contrary to this evidence, the opposite 'theology' is being preached from every economic pulpit in the West. And the consequences are horrid. The once thriving industrial economies of the western nations have become rust-heaps, and the nations a social 'basket' case riddled with crime, unemployment, and poverty that are altogether killing people on a very large scale. In Russia this regression is so far advanced that the nation is loosing over a million people per year, in spite of new births. And this is just the beginning of a fast accelerating trend. The world as a whole is in a deep crisis as its global financial and economic system has been so thoroughly looted that it is near the point of a global systemic disintegration, yet the looting continues to grow in intensity as it must, in order to keep the bubble alive by keeping it growing.
Even the so-called "Asian Tigers," the much tooted "miracle economies" of the 1990s lie wounded by speculation, and in ruin, because of it. The weakened tigers had been feasted on by the hyenas of the Empire, the mega-speculators, called "fund-managers." Of these, Gorge Soros (Qantum Fund) was denounced as the undisputed leader of the pack, by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia whose nation was hit with a 12% loss of its currency value during a recent speculative attack by George Soros on the Indonesian economies. Mahathir Mohamad pointed out that in this single attack on his nation the economic progress that the Malaysian people had worked for over the last ten years were wiped out in a day. It appears that the tigers were purposely 'cultured' to become food for the hyenas. Nor was Malaysia the only target. All the tigers suffered this fate, most of all Thailand.
It should be noted that the so-called miracle economies that were destroyed during the recent predatory attack can be faulted for only one thing, namely that they had followed the IMF's directives for them to the letter.
Defining the impending crisis.
Most people do not believe that the world is facing a crisis. This is sad, because any intelligent person should be able to realize that it is impossible to squeeze 40% in profits out of a productive industry that produces at the very most a 2% yield. Yet 20-40% is what modern 'investors' expect from the stock and financial markets. On the stock trader's floor such vast profits are indeed realized. Except these profits don't mean anything. The inflow of a few billion dollars into the market, strategically directed, can act as a catalyst to uplift all values across the entire market, which frequently raises the combined market value by hundreds of billions. The resulting increase in perceived value, then, is regarded as profit that people borrow against. In reality, not a single penny of extra wealth has been produced by the industries that the market represents, which means that the assumed value is totally fictitious. The assumed 'value' of stocks is merely the price that an investor is willing to pay. It has nothing to do with any real value based on actual profit being generated by the companies that issued the shares being traded. The assumed value can be sky high today, and a fat zero tomorrow.
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