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So I was looking forward to the whole rapture thing on 6-6-06, mostly because I need some new clothes, and perhaps wallets, maybe a new car... Needless to say, I was completely disappointed. I was hoping that the dead would rise from their graves, and I was hoping that the whole damien omen thing would have been worthwhile... Nothing. Nothing at all happened of any major significance. The closest thing to evil appearing was Ann Coulter released a new book.

Anyways, I spent the day randomly checking news sites to see if chaos was anywhere and it had me thinking, and I started fantasizing about the rapture and all of the looting I would do should it ever happen, and just think, I wouldn't have any Christian fundamentalists bitching at me when I did it.

"In antiquity those that excelled in warfare first made themselves unconquerable in order to await the moment the enemy could be conquered."
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War

So I go out to eat with my father, and he gives me an investment tip during dinner. His advice was to invest in Uranium Mines in Australia, since the Chinese Government just bought out the mines from control of Europeon and North American Control. They are currently building as many as 50 nuclear power plants for the Super Country, and having nothing but nuclear energy, like their sometimes ally, sometimes enemy Japan. Japan is filled with Nuclear power plants, and I often wondered why, and then my military mind comes to a probable and possible reason for the increased interest in nuclear power.

Many countries saw amazing footage of the previous and current Persian Gulf distraction, and along with the movie, Jarhead the world was told this message, American Ground Troops are extremely limited in experience. The placement of Nuclear Power Facilities would limit air strikes to a certain area, forcing any western forces into a ground war, for which their soldiers are far more experienced, not to mention, know the terrain. Students of History know that it is very foolish to wage a land war against Asia. Napoleon figured that one out the hard way. The Korean and Vietnam wars (along with the War of 1812) are taught to us as wars that came to a stand-still, with no clear victor. That is a lie. Our casualties in those three wars clearly out number the enemy, and for the most part our distance and retreat or pull out of the area is pretty ridiculous.

On top of all of this, Bush, being the master strategist and millitary genius that he is, has a goal of spreading our millitary so thin to the point of ineffectiveness. In our own damn millitary history, we have shown what happens when a millitary is divided, and it already philosophically is, asking for the retirement of defense secretary Rumsfeld. Then, you hear stories of our American hero soldiers being forced to lay down the oil pipe with the name Haliburton on it. Certainly, Haliburton is the only corporation that could do the reconstruction of Iraq, however, I'm not entirely sure why we're there.

Saddam Hussein is an asshole. A royal asshole at that. Some one who committed genocide and put fear into the hearts of the people of his country. However, he kept them in check, and now we have a civil war on our hands, and who's responsible? The American People. On top of that, we are facing unemployment, economic recession, and of course, civil unrest. Our civil liberties, our "FREEDOMS" our invaded, all of our private information can be used against us, and on top of that, no one seems to care all that much.

___Hostile Takeover: The End of Democracy as We Know It___

So in case you are not "in the loop," my current, and next story (and the one after that, apparently), deal with corporations. Anyone who knows me knows that I'm not a fan of corporate culture. I don't fit in that environment, so I'm going through the idea of what's going on, and looking at it with my Sun Tzu perspective, but I think what's going on, and where things are headed are in a not so good development.

Most banks are owned by corporations, which means that corporations control the currency, the ability to buy land, the ability to create credit cards, the ability to do anything regarding money. The Feds create the money, but we generally outspend on a credit card. Oddly enough, people have forgotten about the ability to save money. Rather than paying interest on a loan for a car, you could save your payments up in an interest bearing account, and get the car, with money left over. Rather than fianancing that new HD-TV, you have the ability to afford it for the 37 dollars a month. Making interest as opposed to paying it can be explained. This rabid dog consumer culture needs to be put down, and luckily, our faceless corporations which hide behind boardrooms have a solution.

So I decided that I'm going to change my socio-political blogs to being over here, since myspace sucks most of the time, and is far too public. Anyhow, what lately has been an issue is mandatory health insurance, and I am opposed to this for several reasons. The number one reason is that I know that I will eventually become older, it happens. As we grow older, we need our doctor's more and more, so our need for insurance increases, as does our policy's premium. Now when someone states that you must provide insurance for your employees, you rule out a lot of small businesses that simply can't afford to provide insurance for their employees. Not to mention, it provides an environment ripe for discrimination against the middle aged and older Americans.