human greed caused the financial crisis

By David Verveer

Blessed are those scientists who used their genius in order ensure humanity living a healthier life, who dealt with killer diseases such as aids, cancer, strokes, and further back: plagues, cholera, pests and all those terrible mass killers, that practically disappeared from this world which endangered once our life. The result of their efforts can be seen in an increasing duration of our lifespan. Together with the improvement in living conditions, better education, care for our environment, and many other measures taken worldwide, our living conditions are improving daily.

But then something peculiar happens, suddenly the World economy collapses totally, the rich, the speculators and the people who played around with our savings and investments, decided to enter the crisis mode, with result that suddenly the economy remained without a bottom, and again we found out that this human invention, we called "global economy" is something theoretical, something that does not exist, as this was based on mutual trust and pure bluff, gone are the days when money represented and covered payment for work performed.

The baker of bread pays his suppliers for the raw materials needed to bake the bread, and sold it for a selling price, sufficiently high to allow him in making a living, but not too high, ore else the potential client could not buy his bread.

The baker was bought out by the industrialist, who, with increased efficiency produced a mass product, not as tasty as the bread produced manually in the past, but people need bread, in order to live. Of course, his economical risks as mass producer are much higher, and according our money system, he was forced to increase the price per loaf. But our mass producers have no tools to sell their products directly to the customers, for that he needed the super markets and transporters. Of course the client pays for every one handling (theoretically) the bread. The baking factory becomes slowly but surely, old fashioned, and his competitor produces more and cheaper bread, thus our factory owner goes to the bank, and takes a loan, based on a business plan he presented, prepared by a professional consultants, who promises the bakery owner that if this new machinery is bought, and new real estate is acquired, the bakery will be able to increase his production and in seven years, the money invested,will be returned. The bank provides him a loan, but as the bank employees have to live as well, the monthly pay back contains also the fees for the bank including the risk insurance to the investors of the bank.
I could go on like this for hours, and eventually you the customer pays for it, when you buy your loaf of bread.

This system worked perfectly for hundreds of years, and providing a living for everyone who provided somehow services, but than the bankers started to play around, they started marketing these loans, speculating on successful investments, which are going to make the investors rich in a very short period of time. And if they were good sellers, these shares traded became extremely attractive, and a good investment for the speculators. Soon we got into a situation that all those shares were valued much higher than their actual or real value, based on the loan or investment they covered.

This is a perfect system too get rich, provided that nobody one moment stops and looks at the bundle of shares in his position, and asks himself, is it really worth the money invested, could I get back the full payment for those high valuated shares I bought. If only one hesitate, only one sells his assets, nothing bad happens, but if people start rumors that the bank who gave the loan and issued the shares, has financial problems, the entire neighborhood gets in a panic, runs to the bank, and request the value for their investments, and if the national bank does not save the bank, it collapses, and anybody invested in the bank looses his lifetime savings.

I know, I simplified the world money crisis, as many other factors play a factor in the make believe market, in which we pay with money. But what is money? Money is a promise from the issuer (the bank with credit cards or national treasury with bank notes) that he will pay the owner, the written value in gold or silver, and originally the national treasurer kept for this tons of gold in storage, but when the use of money and the exchange rate between the countries started to be very big, the gold reserve promise became irrelevant, and the exchange value between currencies became a part of the international game of global economy.

Now we reach the current world economic crisis, in which nobody trust anymore the value of money or / and shares, as there is nothing back there to show for, there is no gold reserve, bank notes are valueless (see Zimbabwe) when the exchange rate for example of one dollar runs in the millions of Zimbabian dollars. This time, everybody suffers; the poor are deprived of their job and do not have money to pay for their food, the rich (and in between) don't earn as the economic activities comes to a halt.

But now, let's look back, what happened, which virus caused this disaster? The answer is "human greed". The economics went astray, when the commercial value extended the real value, when the investor bought shares for "high tech", without any tools to check if this "high tech" product really has a market. The speculators worldwide caused this disaster, which will in the near future still demand many more sacrifices, until we go back to the same insane and un-real world economy.

Of course, there is no solution for this human made disease, greed, which just as war is incurable and planted in the human, in order to prevent over-population.

save the world, don't become an ecological zombie

Save the World, don't become an Ecological Zombie

By David Verveer

Yes, I am talking to you, you who believe that the World is in danger, that you personally are causing the Global Warming, you, who are looking for a site on which you can build your theoretical ark, when the waters will rise, due to the disappearance of the Icebergs. My friends, believe me very clever but criminal minds are using you, and instead of using your common sense, you are prepared to stop using your electrical power supply for one hour, in order to satisfy your guilty conscience of enjoying modern life.

But let us begin with giving you some examples, how you contribute directly to the well being of the criminal underworld. For example take the recycling of PET drinking bottles. You are told that PET bottles harm the environment, but that is not true, PET does not break down in the waste dump, and does absolutely nothing to the soil or the air, True, when PET is heated (burned) at temperatures between 400 and 1500 degrees Celsius, it produces a cancer causing gas, but also recycled PET, if burned will create the same danger, you are only delaying it, while wasting an enormous amounts of energy, to recycle. The only way to get safely rid of this relative dangerous material (if burned or heated) is gasifying it with temperature far more than 2,000 degrees, but who cares. But why than are they advertising the recycling of PET bottles? The answer is simple; our distinguished criminals use the tipping fees and governmental grants to whitewash crime money. But just like all other inert solid waste, your precious world will not get colder if you recycle your cola bottle.

They say, this world is warming up, because of your irresponsible use of energy, but did they provide any proof, they did not, because that is impossible, first of all, the temperatures fluctuate in a 40 years (some say 400) years cycle, due to the distance between our Sun and the Globe, we wobble closer and farer away, due to the world being not perfectly round, in the history we have been in hotter periods than the current one, and surprisingly the penguins survived, we have also been in colder periods, and if we compare the hotter years with the colder ones, we see something very interesting, humanity and nature in general, love the warmer periods, the golden age was during such warm period in Europe.

Then some learned fanatic tells you that if the Ice disappears from the North Pole and Mount Everest, we will all drown (it is a good thing that you are already building your arc). In the mean time, according the measurements made by overflying satellites, the sea level is practically staying unchanged or slightly reclining. But facts don't play in the greenists program of bullshitting

Some lunatic has thought out a new folly, by suggesting of closing the lights unanimously at the same time, all around the world. This grandiose scheme will not only cause an increase of energy usage, as engines, machines and equipment run most economically in their optimal mode, and peaks and low usage causes the machines to run less energy efficient, but if we would be really so mad as to close the light switch, as those madmen suggesting, the damage would be enormous costly (including wasting lots of energy / coal).

I am not sure if using a hybrid car will really reduce the output of CO2, as we need to fill the batteries from our electricity grid, and as far I know, our electricity is mainly produced by coal fired Energy plants. Now you will shout, let us use fuel derived from plants (organic matter, mostly cereals), an idea which caused directly a financial crisis, worldwide, with an influx of refugees sleeping in Tel Aviv's parks, as we can still pay for these idiotic ideas, but the world poor can not.

My question is, how come we are such fools, and let criminals use us, clever men that receive laureates, prizes and most importantly, power and money, by believing their fantastic tales, when science and common sense tells us precisely the opposite. To believe in greenism is precisely the same as believing in witch power or the existence of hell as punishment for bad behavior. I actually wanted to say, believing in Santa Claus, but realized that this would turn the readers against me.

don't bite the hand which feeds you

Don't bite the hand which feeds you

By David Verveer

My brother Bob told me a traumatic story, which when you think about it, gives you a true and realistic picture of the world of today. It started some years back, when one of the many street cats in their neighborhood, found a new way to get fed, by standing outside their backdoor and crying softly. One day my sister in law made the mistake in putting out some milk, which was the beginning of a daily ritual of feeding the cat.

My brother, like many, hates cats; especially because some years back he was attacked by one cat, without any apparent reason and ended up with a poisoned hand.

He was against the infiltrating animal from the very beginning, but that did not change anything and slowly but surely, the cat moved in, and transferred from street cat to house cat, with his comfortable cushion in the corner of the kitchen.

Then trouble started, when the cat became ill and of course, my brother took it to the veterinarian, who examined the beast and told my brother, that the cat it had a serious infection in his belly, that has to be removed immediately by operation, at the cost of a mere 480 NIS (US $ 115). Understandably, Bob could not refuse, and the operation was performed and according the veterinarian was successful.

After a half day of keeping the cat under observation, my brother took it back home. The animal was drugged and tranquilized and looked near death.

Bob put him on the back bench of his car in a blanket, and brought him home, where a long night of severe suffering started for both the cat and my brother, as it cried non stop, and he was forced to go and look every time the animal cried out. They decided that there has to be something wrong with the animal, and the following morning, the cat and my brother went back to the vet, who examined him, and gave it some more pain killing drugs.

Again the cat was put back on the back bench in the blanket, but this time it looked like near death, worrying about it, my brother stopped the car, and checked if it was still breathing. Suddenly it jumped up and attacked my brother, resulting 24 serious deep bites in his right hand. After this attack, the cat in deep amok jumped out the car and disappeared forever.

Bob's hand started swelling and for more than a week he suffered severe pains and could not hold the paint brush (Bob is a painter). End of the story.

But does this story not teach us some facts of life, for example, don't try to change a street cat to a house cat, on one hand, and gratitude is not a part of an animal instinct, or cats don't attach to humans and in actual fact find a way to exploit the human to give them what they want, and if we go somewhat deeper, we find that if we replace the above cat by some humans, the story remains unchanged, and ends with the same result, the donator gets bitten, without any show of gratitude, as whatever we try to think that we are different from animals, history shows that animals without conscious act the same way as humans.

whom should I believe?

Whom should I believe?

By David Verveer

Eventually I have to admit reading newspapers, following the news on TV and reading the World press on the Internet is a waste of time and distorts the common sense of the reader and watcher. Lately we get information which contradicts each other totally, and as nobody has the tools to check and verify the real truth, we remain absolutely totally confused. Allow me some of the most current samples:

The nuclear threat from Iran, is a question of less important for our brothers in the USA, but rather important for us Israelis, who live nearby those idiots. According to the information given by the international Press, the Persians are planning to flatten the Middle East (Israel is in the middle of the Middle East, and a nuclear bomb will wipe out not only Israel but also the Palestinians living around, and the Jordanians will have to go for nuclear treatment) in about two years time, while some very high ranking spies working for the US, now tell us, the Iranians are peace lovers, and working hard on making this world an healthier place to live in. Tell me, what is the truth?

Global warming, Icebergs melt, ice bears swim, Gore gets the Noble prize, all caused because I am using my car to get to work, but now they found out that 2006 was colder in average than the years before, thus again, what is true?

The average lifespan is rising by the year, we are getting older and healthier, why do they continue to bombard us daily with information on danger for dying from the various diseases, such as over-eating, getting poisoned from using mobile phones or sitting too near the television, and endless other warnings concerning our health, whom should we believe?

Education is improving, a six grade school boy knows more than a scientist in the Middle Ages, specially, we the Israelis are extremely gifted and well educated, but than we look at the worldwide intelligence tests, and we see that Israel comes in the fortieth place of the 50 odd participant countries. Of course that is no wonder, as every time the scale flips, and the opposition comes into power, they change the entire education system with a new master plan. In the mean time our teachers, instead of apologizing for their bad performance, they strike. If I was a teacher, I would shut up and try to advance the pupils instead the material aims, but of course, who knows what the truth is?

Outer space is infinitive, and goes on and on, but who are we giddying in believing we are the only intelligent (?) creatures alive, based on what? What we see or hear? And if there are others, who will ever know, what they know about us, if we are inferior to them or even worth, an anthill to be observed for educational purposes before final destruction.

My conclusion is, that we don't know much, and there is no way we will ever know what the truth is really or what means the word truth.

our make believe world

Our make believe world!

By David Verveer

Do you realize that most important aspects in our modern life, is related to a vague make belief system, from belief in God (based on hear-say and tradition) to working with and for a monetary system, based on promises to pay the bearer the value of bank notes in gold and silver value, a promise which is broken long ago, and knowingly you know that money bills are in fact valueless pieces of paper.

Such things like borders between countries, difference between people, due to nationality, color, good or bad families, all these differences are not based on facts but on make believe norms, which in reality don’t hold water. A Jew is somebody who’s mother was Jewish, but that is in reality pure bull-shit, if he did not receive a Jewish education, and does not accept the rules made by a bunch of religious rabies, he or she is still Jewish and is allowed to marry with a Jew (here in Israel), and his or her children are automatic accepted Jews.

Living, fighting and dying for an ideal of a God figure, which we never saw or understood, which is presented to us by a bunch of stories and fables, throughout the history, based only on make believe, is in our modern world of proven science, a very weak argument, but not only religion, everything else is based on make believe stories, accepted by the surrounding world.

What is the power that some people have on others, why rich people with make believe money have more rights than somebody who is poor. Why do we accept the superiority of people who were lucky to get born in well-off neighborhood, even if they themselves never bothered to proof their superior brain power or goodness? In our world of “everyone is equal” equality is hard to find.

We accept the difference in people’s rights as God given, aren’t we the chosen people?

Being superior beings(a concept based on fables and believe mostly based on primitive folkloristic traditions, which connection to religion is purely based on heathen traditions), we are convinced that people, believing different, are less worthy than us, the true believers in the true God.

The point I try to make, is that everything in this world is based on “make believe”, concepts which are illogical, and in real fact, unacceptable, if we try for one moment to think logical and study human behavior like any other scientific subject, for example, mathematics and biology, we would reject religion, as an not proven theory, we would reject to be governed and manipulated by paper, which represent promise of value, which we know today, is valueless, and we would appreciate people on their behavior and contribution to mankind instead of being fascinated by their inherited richness.

Summarizing the above, I am proud to be a Jewish Dutch born Israeli, believing in peace and equality, but in order to equalize the common wealth, please don’t start taking anything from me.