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Government-industry corruption - educational material - please distribute
How the U.S. system of health care and the economy were destroyed

From Machiavellism to the crooks on Wall Street in cahoots with the crooks in Washington. Never before in all of recorded history has such a small number of people caused such an incredible amount of damage to billions of people in such a short period of time. The current economic crisis is 100 percent man made. The United States is one more case of a country being destroyed by criminal activities. Attacks upon the economy are timed to coincide with adverse events such as the dust bowl, World War II, or the current exhaustion of U.S. oil reserves. The theory is that the attacks fit in well with other adverse economic factors. The United States is not an oil rich nation any more.

The motive behind attacks upon the economy is greed. They provide an opportunity to bilk investors and tax payers out of trillions of dollars. War profiteering and spending sprees to squander tax revenues add to the damage. Investment fraud is at an all time high. The attached article, economy.txt, saves the reader thousands of hours going through tens of thousands of documents to find out how the United States economy was destroyed over the past ten years.

Both the number of property taxing authorities and their tax burden has degenerated into a state of unlimited abuse. Property tax controls are now required. See the file proptax.txt.

In many cases a corrupt system of justice deliberately allows nothing more than a play on words to get crooks off the hook. “That isn’t grand larceny. That is a breach of contract.” or “Those aren’t insurance schemes, those are derivatives.” or “That is not embezzlement. That is just cashing in on large quantities of stock that we gave to ourselves for free.” or “That isn’t mass murder. That is just killing tens of millions of people by price gouging with insulin.” The quickest way to identify criminals is by their use of reverse logic. They think backwards.

The practice of legalizing criminal activities must be stopped immediately, criminal activities that have been legalized must be made illegal again, and the activities of those responsible terminated.

Bob Grant, 4-30-2010

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References:
1. Health care - France is number 1, the U.S. number 37. See
www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html
2. A state by state comparison of health care
http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
3. An international comparison of government corruption
http://www.transparency.org/
4. Employment data can be obtained from
http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm
5. For employment graphs see
http://www.data360.org/report_slides.aspx?Print_Group_Id=95
6. Current unemployment data is at
www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/press/2010/
7. For the money supply see, money stock, M1 or M11 at
federalreserve.gov
8. Legal documents (eg 18 USC) can be obtained from
http://uscode.house.gov/download/download.shtml
9. For a look at the thousands of Frontline (since 1983) documentaries, such as “Obama’s deal”, that expose government and industry corruption, see:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/
10. Transcripts of Bill Moyers Journal are available at:
http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-noflash.html
11. Information on the California retirement system (corrupt) is at http://www.calpers.ca.gov/ The root directory is ca.gov
See also
randomnotes.newswires-americas.com/?p=4689
12. A typical case of corporate fraud (Enron) is at http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-10239964/What-went-wrong-Accounting-fraud.html
13. A good explanation of a Ponzi scheme can be found at
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme
It is no coincidence that business financing is identical. A Ponzi scheme is financing without any business to go along with it.

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Destroying the U.S. Economy and Health Care

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Foreword

The current economic crisis is 100 percent man made. This article deals with one more case of a country being destroyed by criminal activities. The damages caused by corrupt government, banking and health are truly incredible. Controlling criminals is a problem made far more difficult by the wonders of modern technology. The United States is not an oil rich nation any more.

In many cases a corrupt system of justice deliberately allows nothing more than a play on words to get crooks off the hook. “That isn’t grand larceny. That is a breach of contract.” or “Those aren’t insurance schemes, those are derivatives.” or “That is not embezzlement. That is just cashing in on large quantities of stock that we gave to ourselves for free.” The practice of legalizing criminal activities must be stopped immediately, and criminal activities that have been legalized must be made illegal again, and the activities of those responsible terminated.

Trials using large juries, with more than three jurors, are not only destructive of the economy, but also are a source of gross incompetence in the court room. If a jury is used, it should not be larger than three persons, and for competency at least one professiomal juror must be used, such as a judge. Having three jurors for a trial (or indictment) makes no more sense than having three judges.

It was George Bush who presided over the destruction of the U.S. economy over the 2000-2010 time period. Large scale economic mismanagement started with the Reagan administration back in 1980 with the devaluation of the dollar from $35 an ounce of gold to $350 an ounce. A brief lull in large scale mismanagement occurred between January 1983 and January 2005 due to presidential re-election concerns. A massive increase in unemployment was produced by the stimulus/bailout spending spree that started in October 2007. The attack upon the economy consists of three basic components:

I. Destruction of the economy and the monetary system

II. Health care, fraudulent medicine

III. Population plagues and over-population

This article saves the reader thousands of hours going through tens of thousands of Internet documents to find out how corruption destroyed the United States economy over the past ten years.

A typical review of the U.S. health care system can be found at www.businessweek.com/innovate/NussbaumOnDesign/archives/2009/08/design_for_corr.html

Enter “united states health care system” with the quotes into an Internet search engine for a complete run down of the U.S. health care system. The French system is rated number one, the U.S. ranks 37th.

A criminal infested culture is the same as a termite infested house. Left uncontrolled for years, the house is completely destroyed.

Bob Grant, 4-28-2010, economy.txt

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Article I - Destruction of the economy and the monetary system

********** 1. Introduction, greed and corruption out of control.

There are hundreds of well known tactics to sabotage an economy and most require little effort. Many were discontinued at the end of World War II but never were outlawed. Richard Nixon resurrected these back in 1971. They include rationing, wage controls, price controls, abuse of monopoly power, price gouging, alternate day purchasing, manipulation of supply, manipulation of demand, sabotage of goods, sabotage of services, mismanagement of the money supply (too much or too little money), store shutdowns, trade restrictions, the misuse of labor, malfeasance and dereliction of duty by management, the misuse of resources (e.g. using food for fuel), etc. The net effect of mismanagement is a reduction in the performance of the economy.

Even when no criminal intent is involved, most decisions by humans are wrong decisions. It pays to investigate new projects to ensure that they are not motivated by greed, malice or criminal intent. Once it becomes obvious that a wrong decision was made, corrective action should be taken immediately. Unfortunately, the Bush agenda has become the Bush-Obama agenda with no significant corrective action in sight.

********** 2. Mismanagement of the financial economy.

In January 2001 criminals successfully infiltrated the U.S. Department of the Treasury and immediately began an eight year program to sabotage the U.S. economy. By every measure, GDP growth, jobs, median incomes, unemployment, bankruptcies, financial-market performance, George Bush stacks up as the most destructive President on the economic front since Herbert Hoover.

The Federal Reserve still refuses to release its extreme deflationary death grip upon the U.S. economy. The annual growth rate of the money supply, instead of its correct (neutral) 4 percent per year growth rate, has been maintained at an extreme deflationary zero percent growth rate since January 2005 (see federalreserve.gov, money stock, M1 or M11). The rate was an extreme inflationary 7 percent from January 2001 to December 2004. A 4 percent growth rate is neither inflationary nor deflationary. This has completely disrupted the banking system. An extreme inflationary monetary policy is also known of as creating bubbles. An extreme deflationary monetary policy is also known of as bursting bubbles. You are dealing with the type people that would murder their own mother for an ounce of gold if they thought they could get away with it.

********** 3. What drives the process?

Criminals view any adverse economic situation, such as Worldl War II, as a golden opportunity to defraud the public of trillions of dollars. The current situation is one of depleted oil reserves in the U.S. The gas gauge reads empty, but the country keeps right on going as if the gauge says Full. A sabotaged economy can make trillions of dollars for foreign interests as well as special interests within the United States. War profiteering is part and parcel of corrupt government. The concept of a never ending war remains popular in the Pentagon. A war diverts public attention away from massive economic fraud. Destruction of the U.S. economy was part of the Vietnam war also.

********** 4. The return to deficits.

When President Bush took office in 2001, Republicans and Democrats in Washington had built a strong consensus on the need for fiscal responsibility. Bush blew that away with a return to deficit spending. His tax cuts and spending increases and refusal to bring deficits down put one more nail in the economy’s coffin.

********** 5. Iraq and Afghanistan, the war is a disaster.

The cost of invading and occupying Iraq and Afghanistan has been extremely high. The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost between one and two trillion up to FY-2008. Up until October 2007 it was the biggest contributor to the budget deficits. The idea of a never ending war is still very popular in the Pentagon. First they want 75,000 more troops, then 150,000, then 300,000. Like Vietnam, destroying the economy is part of the process.

Although there are plenty of war costs to the general population of the United States, other than entertainment value, there are no benefits. The motive is entirely to enrich relatively small special interest groups. The largest of these groups has become known of as the military-industrial complex (war profiteering). Wars also are used by corrupt governments to cover up criminal activities. Who guards the fox that is guarding the hen house?

********** 6. Health care profiteering.

While war profiteering has been the way to get rich quick for thousands of years, making millions of people filthy rich with health care is relatively new. See Article II below. The United States is becoming a nation driven into poverty not by expensive wars, but by an extremely expensive health care system.

********** 7. Tax cuts for the rich.

Tax loop holes have been around long before George Bush ever took office. See the SSA.GOV web site. One of the most glaring is the Social Security “Just too rich to be able to afford paying social security taxes” provision. In 2008 this was $102,000. This is coupled with a just too poor to receive benefits provision that allows no more than $12,960 in earnings for somebody receiving benefits. Absurdities come from a “We do as we please and get away with it.” orientation. Continuous monitoring and prompt legal action is the only thing that stops criminal behavior. Gross corruption always has resulted in the eventual collapse of governments and corporations.

When Ronald Reagan slashed taxes on capital gains and high earners in the early 1980s, inflation was pushing the middle class into the top tax brackets. Income inequality had been declining for almost five decades. When Bush repeated Reagan style trickle down economics, it caused severe damage to the economy.

********** 8. Financial Regulation.

There were no significant increases in regulation during the Bush years. Bush-era deregulation was in fact a refusal to enforce what few regulations did exist. Bush opposed any financial regulation, existing or new. Deregulation makes it easy to defraud the public. Even the Madoff Ponzi scheme was ignored.

When a government becomes infested with criminals, their victims are destroyed. Nazi Germany and communist Russia are two of the most notorious recent examples. Bankruptcy courts pretend they just can not understand the strange and mysterious corporate management practices that lead to bankruptcy. While most bankruptcies represent losses for those that are bankrupt, in a corporate setting, top executives can be left filthy rich.

It is important that everybody understand the basic relationship between the amount of money circulating in the economy to the amount of goods and services produced. If today $1,000,000 is required to produce 1,000 tons of wheat, and next year 2,000 tons of wheat are produced; it is obvious that $2,000,000 is required next year. The amount of cash has to rise with the amount goods and services produced, all things being equal. Psychology also has to be considered. For instance, $4,000,000 is required if the price of the 2,000 tons of wheat doubles. Inflation causes Farmer Fude to say, “Wow, things are really good this year, I got twice the price I got last year.” He does not notice that the price of everything he buys is doubling also. When the economy is being mismanaged by criminals you might find something like, “Last year $1,000,000 was circulating in the economy. This year we have reduced the amount to $500,000 to prevent inflation. ” While this causes prices to fall, it causes everything else to fall also. Lower prices result in reduced wheat production, reduced pay for workers, reduced employment, reduced trade, reduced savings, etc.

In the United States gas prices are set by whatever the oil companies feel like charging. It could be a dollar a gallon, or just as easily ten dollars a gallon. Since housing prices are set by the market rather than fixed by the government, the extreme inflationary monetary policy from January 2001 to January 2005 caused a rapid price increase. The extreme deflationary monetary policy from January 2005 to the present caused prices to drop. The bag of tricks used by criminals to destroy an economy is large and not limited to money supply manipulation.

Mismanagement of the money supply is a clever way of cooking the books of every business in the country. An inflationary monetary policy creates a false impression of prosperity, while a deflationary monetary policy creates a false impression of a down economy. In the simplest possible terms 1) what happened from January 2001 to January 2005 is exactly what an extreme inflationary monetary policy produces, the M1 (or M11) was rising at a 7 percent per year rate and 2) what happened from January 2005 to the present time is exactly what an extreme deflationary monetary policy produces, the M1 (M11) is rising at a zero percent per year rate. The legitimate range for the annual increase in the M1 is between 3.5 and 4.0 percent. Economic chaos is produced by rates outside this range.

********** 9. Encouraging waste.

After the 9/11 terrorist attacks, President Bush didn’t call for sacrifice. He called for living the good life. It was part of a broader pattern of encouraging financial irresponsibility on the part of everyone. It would bolster the administration’s popularity and help to pile up a huge debt. The fact that the United States is no longer an oil rich nation was immaterial. The population has grown accustomed to an extravagant life style. When the oil has been totally depleted there will be a sudden impact with reality.

********** 10. Energy policy.

Back in the 1970’s an artificial oil shortage was created courtesy of the twisted minds of criminals. Ten years into the future, oil depletion will no longer be a fantasy, but a reality. The question is not “where will we get more oil” but “look at the incredible amount of damage that has been caused by more than a century of rampant oil abuse.” Most people feel that oil has given them something for nothing. The laws of nature do not allow that.

The unwillingness of the Bush administration to take serious steps to reduce the country’s dependence on fossil fuels left the country vulnerable and way behind the rest of the developed world in preparing for a post-oil future. Problems caused by oil price manipulation were part of the attack upon the economy.

The simple fact is that oil reserves in the U.S. are nearly depleted. It is not difficult to look at countries like Japan or England to determine the changes that will have to be made. The United States is no longer an oil rich country. This article deals with the control of a rapid increase in the criminal population of a country. Solutions to oil depletion are contained in another article.

********** 11. Deceiving the public.

Every administration hides the economic truth from the public. The creation and then bursting of the housing bubble was one more program calling for deception. All is not George’s fault. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) now lists the cost of fuel as zero and the cost of housing as zero. This was done by Congressional mandate. Lung cancer is caused by asbestos, not tobacco - another Congressional mandate. The big lie is now more prevalent in the United States than it was in Nazi Germany, or any other socialist country. The news media, as always, refuses to give the public access to the truth. The near perfect censorship of information on the Internet was not George’s idea.

********** 12. The financial stimulus/trust/bailout/TARP funds.

Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson was the mastermind of economic policy in the final years of the Bush administration. It was no surprise that Paulson’s financial rescue was strictly to enrich Wall Street, and had nothing for Main Street in it. The so called financial bailout was in fact a financial bonanza for Wall Street.

Any business subject to massive public and private financing prospers. Any business subject to massive taxes and operating expenses, and a lack of financing quickly fails. This tactic is extremely effective in producing massive unemployment by drawing cash out of the public in the form of a wide variety of ever increasing taxes and other adverse cash flows and putting it into the pockets of the rich and super rich. It is very important to note that the public lives in the U.S., while a large percentage of the rich and super rich are outside the U.S. They include foreign governments and corporations as well as individuals. There has been a massive adverse impact upon imports and exports. This is a “Just when you thought corruption couldn’t get any worse” issue.

********** 13. Devaluation of the dollar.

The sudden devaluation of the dollar to more than $1000 per ounce of gold was the largest since the Ronald Reagan years. Long term investment in the U.S. has been wiped out. Several other currencies, such as the Japanese yen, have shown far better long term stability.

********** 14. The property tax gouging spree.

This was fueled by the extreme inflationary increase in money supply (money stock, M1 and M11) from January 2001 to January 2005. Not only did property values go up, but many jurisdictions increased their property tax rates as well. The United States has not lost its distinction of having the highest property tax rates on Earth. The impact upon the economy is devastating. An odd side effect is that although taxing authorities have never delayed a second in increasing assessments, many are reluctant to decrease assessed property values. Many have increased property tax rates as well. Property tax gouging is as American as apple pie. It is not unusual to find taxing authorities collecting more than fives times what they need to provide essential services. Government officials pretend to have budget shortfalls when in fact they have a glut of tax revenues. If tax revenues were to increase by a factor ten they would have no difficulty in finding ways to squander the resources. A 10 percent per year reduction in property taxes over 10 years is easily achievable.

********** 15. Property rights.

>From a medical standpoint, criminals are simply mutants that have a reversed sense of social responsibility. Like mongoloid idiots, they are non-viable mutants. If the population were made up entirely of criminals, you would have a large mass of people making a living by robbing and murdering each other. The resulting zero level of productively would make it a physical impossibility for the group as a whole to survive for more than a short period of time. Unfortunately their life from birth to death is one of doing nothing right. In a densely overpopulated big city environment a normal human engages in little or no reproductive activity. The criminal breeds like flies since it is the wrong thing to do. A large criminal population is simply one type of plague that has to be overcome to survive. Extintion is most likely to result from extreme environmental factors, such as a large asteroid strike or a severe plague that the population is unable to overcome.

A thousand years ago the concept of land ownership was that peasant farmers were a part of the land. Since most were illiterate, they had no way of knowing that persons in the King’s castle wrote up clever laws that said that the king owns everything in the land. Kings always are very pleased with these laws, since it means that Kings can do as they please, accountable to nobody.

Private ownership by persons other than the King is a completely different concept. Once private ownership is established, the concept that the owner can buy and sell his property can be introduced. Property can be used as loan collateral. It also can be seized by the King if taxes are not paid. As far as the King is concerned, the fact that the peasant has no money is no excuse. Since money comes from the King’s treasury, he can make sure the peasants do not have any money to pay taxes or repay loans. This leads to the development of a slave state, with plenty of slaves to be handled as property. Any property that the King does not like can be disposed of. The problem is much larger than just the criminal nature of property taxes. Etc.

********** 16. Corporate counterfeiting - Still legal

Stock markets can exist only in cultures that are extremely tolerant of criminal fraud. Over time corporations absorb every penny provided by investors, leaving behind nothing but worthless paper. Everybody knows what counterfeiting does to the value of negotiable securities whether they be dollar bills, bonds, or stocks. Counterfeiting by corporations of their own stock is done by printing stock that is not sold on the stock market, but that is held in escrow to be dumped onto the market at a future date as non-cash compensation for employees. For anyone that finds this hard to understand, an example should help.

The world famous Mikrowsoft Corporation went public in 1996 by selling 2,200,000,000 shares of stock that were quickly gobbled up by investment bankers for some $90 billion. Mikrowsoft is a modern example of the price gouging monopoly. No sane person on Earth would pay more than $20 billion for Mikrowsoft after looking at their annual earnings. Mr. Softy, a founding father of Mikrowsoft, on 28 April 2006 dumped 500 million shares of stock when he left Mikrowsoft. It knocked the price from $27 a share down to $22 a share, but he still got $12 billion for it. The amount of stock being traded was 2,200,000,000 shares on 27 April 2006 before the dump, and 2,700,000,000 after the dump. The value of Mikrowsoft Corporation stock on 28 April 2006 was some $59.4 billion. The drop in share value defrauded stock holders (except Mr. Softy) of $12 billion. This is the largest case of grand larceny by one person in recorded history. There are tens of thousands of corporate executives that pull the exact same stunt every year, but at a level nowhere close to $12 billion.

There is another point never mentioned in the media. This is what drove the collapse of October 1929. What if the top ten Mikrowsoft executives decided that they all would dump their stock onto the market on April 28, 2006? Collecting $120 billion from a pool of Mikrowsoft stock that is worth only $59.4 billion would be quite an achievement. What happens is that Mikrowsoft stock becomes worthless. It would sell for zero dollars per share, except nobody would want any.

With insurance schemes such as derivatives, the defrauding of investors has reached a level far beyond anything seen before.

********** 17. Government money supply mismanagement - Still legal

Everybody knows what counterfeiting does to the value of negotiable securities whether they be dollar bills, bonds, or stocks. Counterfeiting by governments of their own money is done by printing money that is not backed up by gold or even silver. Gold reserves back up a larger and larger number of paper money dollars circulating in the economy. The result is rampant inflation. It is important that the increase in paper money circulating in the economy (see federalreserve.gov, money stock, M1 or M11) matches the growth of the economy. Too much or too little causes severe economic damage.

********** 18. Credit card, debit card, etc. abuse.

Many people think a credit card looks like a piece of money. If a rat did not think that rat traps and bait look like a good source of food, they would not work. Some mistakes, such as mandatory health care, add up to extinction for the victims. In a market with rising house prices, a foreclosure is not a disaster but a cash bonanza for the bank. Some internet sites advertise legitimate products (bait) and then ship fake products (switch) making huge profits off of criminal fraud. Everybody knows what a speed trap is. The tricks and traps game is a way of life in the United States.

Robbing the public is as American as apple pie. In theory the huge increase in the supply of corruption should result in an equally huge drop in the demand for corruption. This has not happened. Congress is vastly expanding corrupt health care in the U.S. War profiteering in the middle east is expanding. Banking is becoming more corrupt than ever before. The political system is rotten to the core and getting worse. Economic damages have gone from hundreds of billions of dollars per year ten years ago to trillions of dollars per year today. Both parties have sold their soul to the devil. They both have the same boss. Hence they feel it is important to act different in order to deceive the public. It is like a cadillac salesman telling a customer that the cadillacs he sells are far superior to the cadillacs that the other salesmen sell. You do not want to buy anything from those other guys.

Those who brazenly ignore the law use the law to entrench themselves. The right of might is a well established fact. Many a politician found that he was doing poorly until he started a financially rewarding life style. However, the piper must be paid. Failure to meet the needs of special interests gets the cash flow cut off. Crime not only pays, but it is very lucrative as well.

********** 19. Corrupt immigration. trade and business ownership policies.

Attempting to cover this topic in one paragraph is no different than attempting to cover cancer in one paragraph. Cancer is a disease of old age, and the United States is an old country. Many years of always expanding corruption leads directly to the collapse of the empire. Selling a business to foreign interests is a fatal error that cannot be corrected. There is a universal complaint that goes “You can’t do that! It will destroy the entire country!” that is always countered with the universal reply “Like hell we can’t!” May the deceased rest in peace.

********** 20. Genocide. It is anazing how many people actually believe big lies. A whopper that sounds credible may be believed by more than 90 percent of the population. Documentaries on genocide try to increase their book sales (greed) by claiming that the nation’s leadership woke up one morning in a bad mood and decided to relieve their boredom by killing a few million people. Genocide is a direct result of greed. When Freddy Kruger has no brothers or sisters, he has no idea what brotherly love means and no reason to wipe out the competition. If Freddy has a dozen brothers and sisters he thinks about how much better the world would be if he chopped them up with a machete. Nazi Germany in 1939 was the most densely over-populated country on Earth. Too many people plus the abundant resources needed to wage war and commit genocide are the trigger for the problem. It is as easy to eliminate greed and rivalry as it is to eliminate war and genocide.

********** 21. Bad Leadership - This is a problem of quality and therefore is analogous to the refinement of gold ore, purification of water, or the disposal of sewage. All too often the scum rises to the top and stays there. The first part of the problem is defining what is meant by good and bad leadership. A simple definition that anybody can understand is that good leaders have a Midas touch. Everything they do improves the status of mankind. Bad leaders have a reverse Midas touch. Everything they do turns into a disaster. Hence the United States has been plagued by bad leadership ranging from Vietnam to the recent destruction of the economy. The crash of the derivatives market still lies in the future. A lot of investors will be surprised to find out that they have nothing.

The second part of the problem is the development of effective tactics for getting rid of bad leadership. Impurities have to be removed, the product must be made affordable and safe for use by humans, and fraud and waste must be disposed of effectively. One good example of bad leadership is Richard Nixon. He was the worst of the worst. He was a master of the reverse Midas touch. He was living proof that crime pays. And after five years he finally was kicked out of office. With a long history of devious behavior he never should have been elected in the first place. Even Eisenhower avoided him.

The small number of checks and balances that did exist have been eliminated. As one politician put it, “The voters are like putty in our hands. They fall for whatever line we feed them.” The most prosperous period in U.S. history (1952 to 1960) had a Republican president (Eisenhower) combined with a Democratic Congress. The worst possible sition is a Republican president and Republican Congress. The second worst possible situation is a Democratic president and Congress. It does not matter how honest a President is if he surrounds himself with crooks. Cleaning up the corruption that exists today is very difficult if not impossible.

Overhauling the broken system should be done both deliberately and professionally. When a legitimate program is created the response must be more than “My isn’t that nice, but it would be too much like work to implement.” Legitimate staff and funding must be provided, along with the authority to take corrective action. Provisions must be made for legitimate revisions so that procedures that prove to be wrong are corrected.

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Article II - Health care, fraudulent medicine

The free spirited fun loving life style takes on new meaning in African countries such as Rwanda and Uganda. Filthy living goes far beyond just prostitution and drugs. Africans infected with AIDS and HIV took the underground railroad into the U.S. where they qualified for free treatment as indigents. The doctors and drug companies got rich, the patients got free treatment, and the tax payer always foots the bill. This was some years ago when AIDS quicky travelled from Africa into the U.S. The U.S. has a sordid history of making citizens far worse off than they would be without health care.

At one time war profiteering was the only way to get rich quick. Why get involved in a dangerous war when banks can defraud depositors and investors of trillions of dollars in one year? Defrauding the health care system of trillions of dollars is even easier. The looting would be stopped if the French health care system were adopted in the United States.

The modern all-American health care system, rated number 37 by the United Nations, is based upon seven fundamental principles:

1. Always claim the origin of disease is mysterious and unknown.

2. Always use therapy that is the most expensive and the least effective.

3. NEVER cure anything. Diseases are TREATED, not cured. Whenever possible treat the symptoms and not the disease.

4. Since 95 percent of disease is caused by bad diet, ALWAYS encourage bad eating habits (alcohol abuse, etc.).

5. If therapy causes the mutilation or death of a patient, it is the patient’s problem, not the health care system’s problem.

6. Adverse reactions to prescribed drugs, the improper prescription of antibiotics, unnecessary medical and surgical procedures, unnecessary hospitalization, and price gouging are rampant in the U.S.

7. The objective of American style health care is NOT to cure disease. The objective is to bankrupt the patient.

The current system is strictly greed oriented. A refocus upon a disease curing system is badly needed. They have never even tried the French system of health care, rated number one in the world by the United Nations! Yet they “know” that it could not possibly work! A five year phase-in followed by an evaluation ten years later is extremely easy to implement. An evaluation after ten years would verify that the expected benefits have in fact been achieved.

The most stunning statistic is that the American medical system is one of the leading causes of death and injury in the US, with treatment killing an estimated 100,000 patients each year. By contrast, the number of deaths attributable to heart disease in 2008 was 820,800, while the number of deaths attributable to cancer was 565,650. Price gouging by drug companies results in patient under-dosing with insulin and other drugs. This results in an estimated 89,000 excess diabetic deaths each year. When price gouging amounts to nothing more than mass murder it is a criminal act that needs to be stopped immediately. The initiation of meaningful reforms is long overdue. US health care spending reached $2.4 trillion in 2009, representing 17 percent of the nation’s gross national product. No reversal of the trend is expected in the near future.

The United States is unique in that the objective of health care is not to cure disease, but to leave the patient bankrupt. In 2005 the average medical debt for those who filed for bankruptcy was $12,000. 68 percent of those who filed for bankruptcy had health insurance. 50 percent of all bankruptcy filings included large medical expenses. Every 30 seconds someone files for bankruptcy as a result of a serious health problem.

One of the stranger statistics is that the number of smokers is declining. Did the Government do something? Nope, except for massive tobacco farming subsidies, the Government has done absolutely nothing. Did Phillip Morris do something? Nope, except for massive pro-tobacco advertising, Phillip Morris has done absolutely nothing. The simple fact is that when a product such as tobacco or American style health care kills customers, over a long period time all the customers are dead.

There is a negative correlation between the amount of health care a person receives and life expectancy. In plain English, this means that you are more likely to injured or killed by health care than you are to experience improved health.

Zero morality medicine was not invented in the United States. It began thousands of years ago when tribal medicine men needed to maximize profits to avoid death by starvation. The medicine man was the local drug dealer. He could get you opium to make you feel good, even if it killed you. Today the goal is to become filthy rich at the expense of patients and tax payers.

As might be expected, the three wise monkeys are a pictorial maxim. The fourth monkey was stolen from the collection. Together they embody the proverbial principle to “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”. The fourth monkey is “do no evil”. In medicine this represents “see no cures, hear no cures, speak no cures”. The fourth is the worst, “do no cures.” Although a cure may involve no cost at all, as when advice is given to stop smoking or alcohol abuse, any curative medicine is absolutely taboo in modern medicine.

Today a new maxim is needed. The problem is that even if every health care professional were required to swear an oath of honesty, it would be viewed as a sick joke and an unwanted nuisance. As with any product that kills its customers, over time the number of customers will dwindle towards zero. This is darwinian rejection. The elimination of the worst misfits. Frequently it is possible to find some good in even the most corrupt and evil of systems. The American system of health care is an excellent way to commit suicide, as Wacko Jacko found out.

UN rankings are at www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html . Note that the U.S. is 37th, with France at the top. The French system could be phased into the U.S. over a five year period thereby solving the problem. But again, this would be telling the truth.

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Article III - Population plagues and over-population

1. General - The United States has the distinction of being the most over-colonized country on Earth. Immigrants have always been welcome to come on in and take over the country. If dandelions and Norway rats could do it, so can you. With a state of severe over-population this is the worst possible national policy. A more responsible leadership is required. People keep the door to their house closed and locked knowing that if they do not, everything from bugs to burglars will come storming in.

There is a complex interaction between the gravity of the moon and temperatures (determined by the day of the year). Weather patterns repeat every 19 years as the lunar year realigns itself with the solar year. There also are other patterns such as 48 year cycles. Thus the locust plague or the big drought that occurred 48 years ago may repeat itself again this year. Ocean currents also impact weather. Although weather conditions cannot be controlled, they can be monitored to provide advance warning of impending disasters. Today disasters are modified by modern technology, corrupt government and sometimes an invading army to make them more frequent and worse.

The importance of controlling infiltration can be seen in the development of national borders with unique national languages. Damage can be caused by slow immigration or by a rapid armed invasion. The United States is saturated with “legal” immigrants. The United States is saturated with illegal immigrants. The biggest problem faced by the United States today is too many people for too few resources. There are three phases of population growth that apply to everything from bacteria to elephants. Good times lead to gross overpopulation (phase 1), gross overpopulation leads to the food running out (phase 2), and the food running out leads to swarms of people or insects looking for more food far from home (phase 3).

2. Criminal infestations - While mongoloid idiots (non-viable mutants) quicky wipe themselves out, criminals (non-viable mutants suffering from a reversed sense of social responsibility) are an unfortunate fact of life. There were an estimated 15 million big city criminals in Nazi Germany at the time of World War II. The problem originates from the fact that the normal human response to the dense over-population of the big city is little or no reproduction. The criminal response is to breed like flies since it is the wrong thing to do. The result is a population with no normal humans but a relatively pure population of criminals.

How do you identify a criminal? A list of dozens of characteristic traits would be easy to prepare. However the easiest way for the average person to identify a criminal is their use of reverse logic. They think backwards. The chlorination of water is a good example. We can’t switch from chlorination to ozonation since chlorine is poisonous and ozonation does not poison the water. We can’t switch from chlorination to ozonation since chlorine causes billions of dollars in damage to plumbing each year and ozonation does not destroy plumbing. We can’t switch from chlorination to ozonation since chlorine manufacture poisons fish with mercury and ozonation does not poison fish with mercury.

3. The big city criminal problem has been around for millions of years. Abnormal mutations are seen in red tide, lemmings, insect plagues, etc. There would be no lemmings if normal lemmings swarmed out to the ocean and jumped in. The laws of nature make it impossible to stop mutations. Plagues are a slight variation of the tendency for life forms to establish a territory to live in. Territorial behavior is replaced by completely unconstrained expansion. The swarming behavior is triggered by a period of unusual abundance. While algae need only a few days for a population explosion, humans require several decades. The result is as easy to control as a volcanic eruption. The damage can be far worse. There are no laws of nature that prevent controlling the two triggers for a large big city criminal population. Both the massive flow of resources into the big city and the population density (limit to no more than 100 persons per square mile) can be (but are not) controlled. Regulation must be legitimate regulation and not the criminal fraud and incompetence seen with corrupt government and industry. Big cities throughout the world always have been characterized (correctly) as cess pools of moral turpitude. How to control the problem is a difficult issue.

4. Therefore, the problem is one of controlling uncontrolled behavior. This includes all criminal behavior with the consideration of motives, opportunity, MO, etc. Where there is money or other valuable resources, there is a motive. The subject of controlling behavior would fill a 200 volume encyclopedia. Hence it is important to have honest regulation that is not corrupted by greed and incompetence.

5.The Reicher Scale for Magnitude of over-Population

Magnitude-Persons per Square Mile

1 100 to 200

2 200 to 400

3 400 to 800

4 800 to 1600

5 1600 to 3200

6 3200 to 6400

7 6400 to 12800

8 12800 to 25600

Note: One minute of latitude is considered to be one mile.

Longitude varies with latitude. Equal at the equator. A full time employee at a location counts as one person.

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An important note on global warming: The Earth’s orbit precesses. Think of it as a vibrating drum with the sun at the center and the Earth’s orbit the rim of the drum. The Earth’s orbit bounces up and down relative to the sun. It is currently midway between a 25,000 year period when the south pole gets more sunlight and a 25,000 year period when the north pole gets more sunlight. The fundamental frequency of about 50,000 years includes harmonics of lower amplitude (i.e. that are smaller) of 25,000 years (second harmonic), 16,667 years (third harmonic), 12,500 years (fourth), etc. Today it is going in the direction of greater illumination of the north pole. In plain English, the south pole is cold with a 2 mile thick ice sheet. The north pole is relatively warm with a melting ice sheet. Could a large (25 miles in diameter) asteroid impact 65,000,000 years ago cause the Earth’s orbit to precess? Yes.

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Capitalism - How to get rich quick American style

Introduction: There are three basic types of business. The preferred business type is the price gouging monopoly because it is the most lucrative. It is easy to identify because the prices are ten times what the products are worth. The second is the limited competition business that achieves high prices, but not as high as a price gouging monopoly. The third type is least popular and least lucrative because there is no business at all. In simplified terms that anybody can understand, Joe the plumber working in New York city is our example:

#1 The Price Gouging Monopoly: Joe the plumber uses anti-competitive practices. He got friends in City Hall to enact ordinance 32-249 that states that no plumbing license shall be granted to any plumbing business that has not had at least five years of plumbing experience in New York city. Joe makes sure that any competitors horning in on his monopoly are quickly arrested for operating without a license. What the balance sheet looks like:

Gross annual plumbing business income: $10,000,000

Joe’s income from plumbing: $9,720,000

Ten part time day labor assistants: $180,000

Operating supplies: $100,000

This year’s bank loan (or IPO): $100,000,000

Investment bankers 6 percent commission: $6,000,000

Money set aside for ten years of 3 percent interest: $30,000,000

Amount of loan that goes into Joe’s personal fortune: $64,000,000

What Joe says at the end of ten years: The company is bankrupt. We have no money to pay the loan interest.

Of course, price gouging with pharmaceuticals such as insulin results in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of victims who cannot afford insulin that is overpriced by a factor of more than 25 to 1. It is a case of government sanctioned mass murder.

#2 The Limited Competition Corporation: Joe the plumber uses anti-competitive practices. Friends in City Hall make it very difficult for any new businesses to get started. Joe uses the world’s most corrupt legal system to harass competitors whenever an opportunity arises. What the balance sheet looks like:

Gross annual plumbing business income: $1,000,000

Joe’s income from plumbing: $720,000

Ten part time day labor assistants: $180,000

Operating supplies: $100,000

This year’s bank loan (or IPO): $10,000,000

Investment bankers 6 percent commission: $600,000

Money set aside for ten years of 3 percent interest: $3,000,000

Amount of loan that goes into Joe’s personal fortune: $6,400,000

What Joe says at the end of ten years: The company is bankrupt. We have no money to pay the loan interest.

#3 Joe’s Ponzi Scheme: Joe the plumber decides to quit the plumbing business, but keeps the company name, Joe’s Plumbing Incorporated. Friends in City Hall invest in Joe’s Plumbing and make sure Joe never gets investigated. What the balance sheet looks like:

Gross annual plumbing business income: $0

This year’s bank loan (or IPO): $10,000,000

Investment bankers 6 percent commission: $600,000

Money set aside for ten years of 3 percent interest: $3,000,000

Amount of loan that goes into Joe’s personal fortune: $6,400,000

What Joe says at the end of ten years: The company is bankrupt. We have no money to pay the loan interest.

% % % % % % % % % %

Any accountant producing candid and honest financial statements like these for a bank or a corporation would be fired on the spot. Actual balance sheets look like an EXE file loaded into a word processor. Courts, of course, see absolutely nothing wrong with the top executives of a bankrupt company having eight digit salaries and multi-million dollar bonuses for the past ten years.

A stock market is based upon the same principle as the gambling casinos in Los Vegas. The same applies to “wisely made” bank loans. The population of the United States is filled with tens of millions of people who gladly throw away their money so that stock brokers, as well as bankers and top corporate executives, can scoop it up and become filthy rich. In most cases third parties find “good” investments that leave investors penniless, and top corporate executives filthy rich. Brokers stuff a percentage cut into their personal bank accounts, and let top corporate executives walk off with large sums of money for their personal accounts. It goes without saying that top corporate executives paid nothing for the stock they dump onto the market. The same applies to bank loans provided to the “right” businesses. The businesses are left filthy rich while bank accounts are left penniless. The world is filled with crooks that gladly fleece the suckers of trillions of dollars each year. In some cases the crooks are charged with embezzlement and sent to prison. The relative safety of Wall Street is preferred to the dangerous outside world.

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References:

1. Health care - France is number 1, the U.S. number 37. See

www.photius.com/rankings/healthranks.html

2. A state by state comparison of health care

http://www.commonwealthfund.org/

3. An international comparison of government corruption

http://www.transparency.org/

4. Employment data can be obtained from

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.toc.htm

5. For employment graphs see

http://www.data360.org/report_slides.aspx?Print_Group_Id=95

6. Current unemployment data is at

www.workforcesecurity.doleta.gov/press/2010/

7. For the money supply see, money stock, M1 or M11 at

federalreserve.gov

8. Legal documents (eg 18 USC) can be obtained from

http://uscode.house.gov/download/download.shtml

9. For a look at the thousands of Frontline (since 1983) documentaries, such as “Obama’s deal”, that expose government and industry corruption, see:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/programs/

10. Transcripts of Bill Moyers Journal are available at:

http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/index-noflash.html

11. Information on the California retirement system (corrupt) is at http://www.calpers.ca.gov/ The root directory is ca.gov

º Are SEOs the ‘Bad Guys’?

14.06.2009 ºadmin

“Me, I always tell the truth. Even when I lie.”

There have been a couple of pretty interesting articles written this week that ask a legitimate (if not somewhat sensationalized) question: Does Google consider SEOs to be criminals?

SEOs being SEOs are, by definition, people who make a living trying to manipulate the results of search engines. Now, before you eat me alive here… I don’t necessarily mean manipulate in a negative sense. But in many aspects ‘optimization’ and ‘manipulation’ are somewhat interchangeable terms. An SEO ‘optimizes’ a site in an attempt to enhance that site’s search engine rank or placement. By moving a site in the results, you are, by definition, manipulating the results.

There is nothing wrong with that. There are lots of sites that aren’t ’search engine friendly’ and lots of sites that just do things ‘wrong’ that, when fixed, will notice an enhancement in their positioning for search queries relevant to their site. Search engines don’t mind this. The existence of resources like Webmaster Central are a testament to this.

So the search engines have rules for SEOs and the SEOs can either choose to follow the rules, or they can not follow the rules and face the consequences. The ‘foul’ being called by Michael Gray and Lisa Barone however is maybe SEOs are being subjected to something of a double standard.

Google is pretty hard line on paid links. That’s common knowledge. All SEOs know this and several of them have been taken to task in the past for paid or ‘incentivized’ linking campaigns. Everybody in the business knows paying for links - whether the payment be cash or some other ‘benefit’ - is considered a big time no-no by Google.
Michael and Lisa suggest however that there are lots of people getting by with just that - paying/rewarding inbound links - without suffering repercussions from Google. Just recently, as Michael points out, Google themselves decided to give away the new and unreleased version of their new Google phone to attendees. The giveaway sparks lots of articles, lots of blog posts and yes… lots of links and attention for the new Google phone. Is that incentivizing inbound links? Is it a promotional stunt? Is there a difference? Michael says that android picked up 50,000 new links within 24 hours of the giveaway.

Sure, lots of sites picked up the news about the Google Ion (the proper name of the phone) … but I don’t think they posted a specific link for people to point to, nor did they make the awarding of a phone contingent upon some sort of review or plug for the product. So, in that sense, I would have to call this one a little ‘iffy’ - 50,000 links is an AWFUL lot of links though, isn’t it? But does Google care about links? Why on Earth would they? They may have had an agenda with the giveaway, sure… but I would think it would be to generate buzz for Android… not accrue inbound links. But isn’t one just as good as the other? I dunno…

Now as to whether or not an SEO would suffer some penalty if their client gave away some product to generate some buzz, I don’t know. I’d like to think they wouldn’t. I guess the devil would be in the details on that one. It certainly is an interesting thing to think about though. Does this constitute a double standard? Would an SEO or their client catch Google’s fury if they tried a similar promotional stunt?

Here’s another example. Guy Kawasaki, super high profile blogger, Twitterer and all around social media mogul A lister was given a CAR for a while. Audi sent him an Audi R8 in exchange for him blogging about the car. I don’t know if you know what an Audi R8 is, but it’s really really cool and expensive and Iron Man drove one in the movie… and I guess Audi knew exactly what they were doing because we are still linking to them months later over the Kawasaki post.

The Audi example is a little tougher to rationalize. it was clear that Audi loaned Kawasaki a super hot rod sports car on the condition that he blog about driving it and how great and awesome and fun it was. Audi knew that Kawasaki has a huge following, he’s extremely plugged into the industry and such a post would doubtlessly spawn tons and tons of talk (and links) in for the R8. I don’t know for sure, but I doubt he lost any clout in terms of his Google standing.

Now if Ferrari were to send a high profile SEO type fellow a new Ferrari for a month in exchange for him blogging about it, would Google drop the hammer? I don’t know. Maybe? On one hand, I guess if I’m Audi and I loan a car to somebody with the name recognition of a Guy Kawasaki, then I’m just considering that like a compensated endorsement. We see and hear those on TV and radio every day. Nothing wrong with that, right?

I’m not too sure I am ready to fully come down on either side of this one 100%. I hate to come across as a Google apologist, but at the same time I can’t say that Gray and Barone don’t raise some fairly compelling arguments. Do I think Google ‘has it in’ for SEOs? I would have to say no.

If you asked me if I thought Google was maybe a little more… ‘leery’ of big promotional stunts that came directly from SEOs? Maybe, but as any SEO can tell you, there are no shortage of shady SEOs. Sometimes the good guys get lumped in with the bad guys a little bit in the name of the greater good don’t they…. (cough cough) Patriot Act ring any bells?

Anyway, it’s an interesting concept to consider.

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º What’s Killing the Newspapers?

24.05.2009 ºadmin

As ironic as it may be, newspapers are currently topping their own headlines. Well-known newspapers such as The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times are not only downsizing employees, but are also cutting sections and features from their publications. While the newspaper industry appears to be dying, the news itself is actually flourishing in other forms.

What’s the reason for all this? Some blame the economy and expect the government to bail out the newspapers. U.S. Senator Benjamin Cardin introduced the Newspaper Revitalization Act to Congress, which would allow newspapers to operate as non-profit organizations if they wanted to. This week, Governor Chris Gregoire of Washington State approved a tax break for newspaper printers and publishers.

Some newspapers blame Google for their struggles claiming the search engine is stealing their content. Search industry leader Danny Sullivan disagrees. He believes newspapers actually get “special treatment” from Google. There are news publications that do not appear in Google news, but so many of the complaining newspapers do. These newspapers also receive a tremendous amount of traffic from Google that many other publications would readily appreciate.

Lastly, some even say the newspapers have created their own crisis. Has the newspaper industry embraced the Internet to its full potential? Could they have approached advertising in a different way that could have produced better benefits for them? Are they monetizing their traffic in the most effective manner?

My comment!
People are wising up that many newspapers do not objectively report the news. They frequently have liberal political agendas. They have become uncredible sources of information. In catering to a subset of people they have lowered their readership.”

They have completely lost journalistic credibility. They have totally immersed themselves in liberal politics. I used to be a paper boy and used to love reading the newspaper. When the internet really started to take hold in 2001-2 I realize that they were not embracing and capitalizing on a media that they could have completely dominated. They dug in and now are buried by their stubbornness.

They will soon become a relic of the past.

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º Church of Scientology’s mistreatment

12.09.2008 ºadmin

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Will Smith to Anonymous:

I am NOT a Scientologist On Monday September 8th, superstar Will Smith met with members of Anonymous outside of New Village Leadership Academy, the private school he founded with his wife Jada Pinkett-Smith. “I am not a Scientologist,” Smith told Anonymous in response to concerns that his new school would be used as an indoctrination tool for the Church of Scientology. Many have jumped to conclusions about Smith’s involvement in Scientology, largely due to his public friendship with actor Tom Cruise and the couple’s large donations to Scientology-based charities such as the Hollywood Education and Literacy Project. Smith has refuted any claims of participation in either Auditing or Purification, both critical components of Scientology. Smith went on to explain that, while he has witnessed impressive results from Study Tech within his own family, he will not allow his school to be used as a tool for Scientology. “If Scientologists or anybody tells me how to run my school, I’ll just do this,” he laughed, making an elbowing gesture. The actor began using the Study Tech methods for home schooling his children and has worked with faculty members to adapt those methods for use at NVLA. A primary concern of Anonymous is that schools which use Study Tech must pay licensing fees to the Church of Scientology. “This revenue stream is one of the many sources of income which the Church of Scientlogy uses for such tactics as invoking frivolous lawsuits and hiring private investigators to intimidate critics”, one member explained. “It is much like buying blood diamonds.” While unable to definitively say that NVLA is making no payments to Scientology, Smith did promise to research and verify the information. He then explained that he does not wish to pay a licensing fee to anyone because of his desire to maintain complete control over the teaching methods used at NVLA, an option not typically offered to licensees of Scientology “technology”. Anonymous members point to an evaluation of Study Tech done by Carnegie Mellon professor Dr. David S. Touretzky, which concluded that the allegedly non-secular Study Tech cites the same religious works otherwise used within the organization but with the word “Scientology” systematically removed. “There is no reputable educator anywhere who endorses [study technology],” said Touretzky, a vocal critic of Scientology. “What happens is that children are inculcated with Scientology jargon and are led to regard L.R. Hubbard as an authority figure. They are laying the groundwork for later bringing people into Scientology.” Anonymous provided Smith with information about forced labor camps (RPF), Disconnection and Fair Game, as well as founder Hubbard’s less than spotless background which has since been whitewashed by Scientology, along with links to informational sites such as http://www.exscientologykids.com/ and http://www.studytech.org/. Anonymous demonstrators were pleased that they were able to discuss their concerns and issues with Smith, but remain vigilant. “We appreciate Will’s interest in our efforts and his openness in speaking with us directly. It shows his concern both as a parent and educator. Anonymous is hopeful that NVLA will take the great strides necessary to correct for the deficiencies in Scientology’s Study Tech, or abandon them altogether. We will be keeping an eye on the situation to make sure that NVLA lives up to the goals Will Smith has for it, which include keeping the Church of Scientology out of the classrooms.” Project Chanology is an ongoing campaign against the abuses of the Church of Scientology by the collective known as Anonymous. An info package has been created and is available for download at http://img1.anonbw.com/press/GoldInfoPack.pdf ; For more information, see http://www.whyweprotest.net/ , http://www.unfairgame.net/ or http://www.enturbulation.org/ For information on September’s campaign, visit http://www.schoolsclosed.org/ and http://www.studytech.org/ To learn about the Church of Scientology’s mistreatment and exploitation of children please see http://www.exscientologykids.com/ - a website to support young men and women who have left the Church. ###

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º Gartner: “Windows muss ersetzt werden!”

23.11.2005 ºadmin

Mit ungewohnt deutlichen Worten kennzeichneten die beiden Gartner-Analysten Neil MacDonald und Michael Silver die gegenwärtige Situation auf dem PC-Markt. Was Microsoft mit Windows Vista Kunden einbrocke, sei längerfristig “nicht mehr haltbar”. Der Softwerker ignoriere die Marktbedürfnisse; er biete “fast 20 Jahre alten Code und Entscheidungen” als Bestandteile von Vista an, und die mangelnde Betriebssystem-Konsistenz, etwa von Vista und “Windows mobile”, erschwere es Entwicklern unnötig, Applikationen zu schreiben.

Zudem sei Vista veraltet: Es erlaube nicht, wie es aktuell modulare und virtualisierte Betriebssystem ermöglichen, Applikationen und Betriebssystem zu trennen, so dass neue und alte Software in eigenen Umgebungen ablaufen. Letzteres würde übrigens Microsoft gestatten, das leidige Problem Abwärtskompatibilität zu alten Anwendungen elegant zu lösen.

Kurzum: “Für Microsoft, sein Ökosystem und seine Kunden” gehe es so nicht mehr weiter, sagten Silver und MacDonalds auf der Gartner-Konferenz “Emerging Trends” in Las Vegas.

Nun verhält es sich so, dass Vista bislang kein Publikumsliebling geworden ist. Zu offensichtlich ist die Kritik, die das Anfang vorigen Jahres veröffentlichte und seitdem in Millionen Kopien verbreitete Betriebssystem begleitet. Daran änderte auch das gerade veröffentlichte Vista-Update “SP1Vista” nichts. Nach wie vor fordern Kunden, statt Vista den schlankeren Vorläufers XP auf ihre Rechner zu installieren.

Doch warum Microsoft so gelassen auf diese und andere Kritik reagieren kann, hat einen einfachen Grund: Zwischen 70 und 80 Prozent aller Firmenanwendungen setzen Windows als Betriebssystem voraus. Diese Marktsituation macht Unternehmen von Microsoft abhängig. Auch wenn die aktuellen Entwicklungen im Soft- und Hardwaremarkt - Web-Applikationen, schlanke Betriebssysteme wie Linux oder Apples MacOS auf dem “iphone”, Virtualisierung von Desktops und ähnliches mehr - eindeutig zeigen, dass die Fixierung auf ein Betriebssystem der Vergangenheit angehört und dass, wie Gartner bereits prognostiziert hat, im Jahr 2011 rund 80 Prozent der Applikationen sich gleichgültig gegenüber dem gerade verwendeten Betriebssystem verhalten werden.

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