School is okay. Hmm there's APUSH but with this awesome teacher, AP BIO with this other awesome teacher, Pre-Calculus Honors with this really crappy teacher, PHOTOGRAPHY is my favorite class and the teacher is okay, JAPANESE 1 is hella fun because of the really funny teacher, and we're not doing anything in literature yet. By the way I don't really like my literature teacher.
Anyway, Don'tPanic itself hasn't had any recent updates, however, Heydon Prowse had a new update just 15 hours ago on Twitter. I read it and was very confused because I'm not so much into the market economy and such. But I tried to understand as much as I could for the sake of attempting to be more comprehensive of APUSH :[
The link led to an online page of the Rolling Stone magazine. By the way, that name sounds real familiar. It was basically talking about six bubbles of the American market... two of which I remember were banks and the internet. I think the overall article and the purpose of all those videos were just discussing that the American market is a joke and scam. What hit me and what I actually understood, were the sky-rocketing [not really] gasoline prices last year (or the beginning of this year, I can't remember). They reached around $4.50 around where I live, and almost $5.50 elsewhere!! Anyways, apparently, according to that contributing editor of the Rolling Stone magazine, the economy has been taken over by these speculators, not actually the consumers and such. The sudden increase in oil was rather irrelevant to the numbers in supply and demand. I'm rather skeptic about this, but more... undoubtful at the same time.
Apparently, we haven't really had any "free market", since the 1920's? There's something about international banks and then these money collectors and other such people investing in a whole bunch of crappy stuff, knowing what they've invested in is of really bad "quality"... and somehow that leads to the middle classed and low class people in American societ stripped of money [Sorry the wording was confusing I didn't really understand it]. The point is, when it seems like the banks are trying to lend us money, trying to bring us out of a economic depression, they are the ones that started it all in the first place (Goldman Sachs).
I think it will be unfair to only laugh at the MPs in the UK. All these secretaries of whatever in the US have pretty much been doing the same thing to America. There was almost $90,000 of American's taxpayer dollars for some stupid materialistic thing of a company coming out of the economy. Most had something to do with "Goldman Sachs"? Oh yea, that's the powerful bank maneuvering much of the world economy with all their secrets and scams. I also remember when banks first came into play as they do now, like Citibank and such, they left their expected standards long ago, leaving their customers clueless and unable to see the dangers of trusting in these kinds of banks.
My opinion on all of this? There's obviously some kind of economical hierachy here. Greedy, powerful men maneuvering the economy to get large sums of money at the top of the economical pyramid, affecting the economy and ways that the people at the bottom of this pyramid had nothing to do with, really. I don't get why people try so hard to get millions and billions of dollars anyway. They're all going to die and burn in hell if they don't do something useful with this money (say, ACTUALLY SAVE AMERICA?). I can't believe they dont recognize that their lives are just a generation, and after their death their life in hell is forever.
Alice also informed me of the Dalai Lama (is that how you spell his name?). The general knowledge I had of the Dalai Lama (sorry I'm too lazy to find the correct spelling) was that he was just some asian human rights activist who won a nobel prize. That's all the PK I had of him because of the lack of teaching of a stupid history teacher last year (by the way, I like how Mrs. Platt sort of indirectly insulted Belshe, haha). One truth of this lama dude is that he doesn't live what he says, and that he's enslaved many people... in Tibet? Gosh sorry I'm not that informed on Asian politics right now :[ He aroused much of the conflicts between Tibet and China, and apparently, China really dislikes what that lama dude has done. I'm not going to discuss the conflicts between them, as I don't know much about their two political systems. However, I'm just really shocked of the masks people can wear. It reminds me of how the brilliant Thomas Jefferson wrote of free men and equal opportuniy in the new world while he himself owned a handful of slaves. I think Jefferson was religious too; quite ironic, and stupid. That President Ma Ying Jiou is willing to work with the Dalai Lama is quite shocking to me. I'm not mad or anything but Ma Ying Jiou really should know better of leaning on people like this. On the other hand, half of Taiwan's citizens have been brainwashed by Min Jin Dang and might need some stupid person to take care of them. But here's how I see it:
Taiwan citizens have been becoming paranoid of President Ma Ying Jiou not dealing with the recent typhoon. Yes, many people died, which is a tragedy. But most of them are just stupid enough to not recognize the true factors of why so many tragic things happened, thus they blame the government and point fingers at the President. Ma Ying Jiou, being clueless and unsure of what to do, turns to the Dalai Lama, whom most stupid Taiwanese citizens view as an actual good person. Maybe his ironic teachings may bring Taiwan back to their feet, but I really hope they won't be brainwashed by this lama dude. It's just sad how they actually view him as a good person. I'm really scared he'll bring them prejudice towards China. THAT is the stupid maneuver I think that Ma Ying Jiou did. At the beginning of his presidency he had set rather good relations between China and Taiwan, but now he's fumbling with these relations.
[This is rather vague. Look at bottom of entry]
The reason I can talk like this about Taiwan is because I'm considered a Taiwanese citizen, too. I'm not against my own country, it's simply the truth for more common-sensed people like me. I don't dare talk about China or Tibet because most of those stories I get are on Taiwanese and American sides, and I haven't yet heard the other side. So don't criticize me on this.
What a sad, sad world. It's going to end soon, but not in 2012, you retards.
//edit!!!:
I have just been further informed about relations between Ma Ying Jiou and the Dalai Lama. Getting straight to the point, the reason that Ma Ying Jiou approved of the Dalai Lama to come was because he thought he didn't really have a choice. It was just a rather stupid decicsion. The Min Jing Dang invited the Dalai Lama to come and deal with the people stripped of their home, and in order for such a leader to enter the country and meet with this group of people, they needed the Presiden'ts approval. Thus, Ma Ying Jiou just signed for the heck of it, without thinking much of relations between China and Taiwan.
Another thing someone should know is that those victims of the typhoon are all under a Christian religion. Having someone of a different religion come preach to Christians is... rather ineffective. Like, why didn't Ma Ying Jiou get buddhists leaders or Christian missionaries inside of Taiwan to go up into the mountains and preach? Why the Dalai Lama? Especially because of the tensions between the Dalai Lama and China. I guess China kind of feels like "We've spent so much money trying to help you, how could you bring someone like this between us?".
The truth of the matter is that Ma Ying Jiou does not want to meet the Dalai Lama. He says that the Dalai Lama will head straight into the affected area and none of the members of Guo Min Dang will have anything to do with the Dalai Lama. He just expects the Dalai Lama to do certain sermons and such to maybe bring the victims hope. The truth of the matter is that this is also the hand of Min Jin Dang in the political game. I recognize that they're trying to mess with relations between China and Taiwan, this whole nationalistic game plan.
Ma Ying Jiou could have done better, yet treating a whole nationalisticly brainwashed country is also very difficult.
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