Shane's Ship Story

We have so many problems. Which problem is most important?

Someone says: Well clearly, my problem is the one we need to fix first… We must solve the thing that is most important to me first. After all, I am working on the thing I think is most important. Otherwise I would be working on something else…

May I encourage you to think with me on this?

What if there actually is a way to solve 95% of our problems by working together to solve a certain root cause of all our problems? I know this can be done.

Join me in recognizing that problems should be prioritized. Let’s see if there is such a thing as a highest priority problem.

Let’s use a ship analogy.

Suppose there is a large, sophisticated, 4,000 passenger ship designed to sail from one continent to another over the course of three months. Suppose this ship has a several problems, including a rude captain, four thieves, a murderer, a pirate, a lazy crew, poorly prepared food, severely damaged dishes, crumbling paint and lumpy mattresses.

Which problem would you address first? And when would this happen?

Suppose there are three groups who each identify the problems they consider most important. Suppose they divide their energies and go to work. Let’s say that they all succeed or that some succeed or that none succeed. You choose the outcome you prefer.

Let’s also suppose that there is one other problem. The ship has a large hole that takes on water at a rate of 500 gallons per minute. Using every available resource, only 250 gallons per minute can be pumped out of the ship. At this rate, the ship will sink somewhere over the deep ocean about halfway to its destination.

While all the issues are important, only the hole in the ship affects every person on the ship. Only one problem absolutely must be solved or all is lost for the passengers.

The same problem will provide gain for the pirate and his associates. They like the hole.

The pirate who drilled the hole will have a vessel waiting to collect the loot and carry him on to the next adventure. He knows that the mathematical reality of water flow guarantees the ship will sink.

The only hope for the passengers is for them to know about the hole in the ship and plug it.

While they cannot remove the water fast enough, there will be no need to remove any water if they simply plug the hole before they leave. If the hole is plugged along the way, then once the hole is plugged, they have time, resources and opportunity to save themselves and the ship.

If they have knowledge of the hole and understand its effect, they will plug the hole and the remaining problems will matter again.

If for any reason they do not plug the hole, nothing else matters because good food and soft mattresses are not needed by people who have been looted and left to die.

Now let’s see if there is such thing as a root cause.

Suppose the pirate offered safe passage and part of the loot to the captain, part of the crew, the murderer, thieves and the ship owner.

Now we see clearly that the passenger’s loss is their gain. We also see that the danger we face, this group does not face.

We can also see that the reason this group of people has gathered on the ship is to steal, kill and destroy.

If the passengers were aware of what was coming, they would patch the hole and deal with the pirate.

But let’s just suppose that the passengers patch the hole and don’t even realize that this plan was in motion.

With hope of success gone, the pirate, murderer, thieves, captain and lousy crew would leave. Since now there will be no insurance settlement, the ship owner would again need to provide a valuable product and service to stay in business. To prevent loss, he would ensure that the food and other comforts were at least adequate and he would hire a dependable captain and crew.

Now we see that the hole in the ship was part of a plan to capture wealth. When the hope of gain through theft was gone, the criminals disbanded, the owner protected his property and employed his capital to gain a return. The passengers were safe and recipients of good service.

The Lesson

Some problems make all other problems meaningless and unimportant. Some problems are a higher priority.

Some problems are the hidden cause of other problems. The secondary problems divert our attention and keep us busy while our ship is sinking.

The United States is like this ship. We are nearing the deep waters. We must plug the hole. If we plug the hole, the problem you are most concerned about will probably disappear.

Do you know what the hole is?

PASS ID Act - Papers please

When will we learn?

Why are two international agencies involved in the creation of the PASS ID Act? Why is the international agency AAMVA called the hub and backbone of this system which is designed to track US citizens?

Why does this type legislation continue to be brought forward when the people of the United States always reject the ideas? Who is overriding our wishes and rights?

We should be asking: Who has that kind of power and how did they get it?




S 1261 - PASS ID Act

For one example, from the text of the proposed legislation:

(2) Subject each person who submits an application for a driver’s license or identification card to mandatory facial image capture.

This is a problem.

Global Warming - A Planned Tool Of Manipulation

When will we learn?

The government and other powerful manipulators want us to believe global warming is a problem and that this problem is caused by man. They also want us to believe that all scientists support this position. That is an outright lie.

Thousands of scientists have attempted to make their positions known, but what they say is rewritten by bureaucrats in official reports, is suppressed or unpublished.

We should be asking: Who has that kind of power and how did they get it?

American Capitalism Gone With a Whimper

This is a very interesting article from the perspective of a gentleman in Russia.

Reprinted from:

Mat Rodina and Pravda

It must be said, that like the breaking of a great dam, the American decent into Marxism is happening with breath taking speed, against the back drop of a passive, hapless sheeple, excuse me dear reader, I meant people.

True, the situation has been well prepared on and off for the past century, especially the past twenty years. The initial testing grounds was conducted upon our Holy Russia and a bloody test it was. But we Russians would not just roll over and give up our freedoms and our souls, no matter how much money Wall Street poured into the fists of the Marxists.

Those lessons were taken and used to properly prepare the American populace for the surrender of their freedoms and souls, to the whims of their elites and betters.

First, the population was dumbed down through a politicized and substandard education system based on pop culture, rather [than] the classics. Americans know more about their favorite tv dramas [than] the drama in DC that directly affects their lives. They care more for their "right" to choke down a McDonalds burger or a BurgerKing burger than for their constitutional rights. Then they turn around and lecture us about our rights and about our "democracy". Pride blindth the foolish.

Then their faith in God was destroyed, until their churches, all tens of thousands of different "branches and denominations" were for the most part little more [than] Sunday circuses and their televangelists and top protestant mega preachers were more [than] happy to sell out their souls and flocks to be on the "winning" side of one pseudo Marxist politician or another. Their flocks may complain, but when explained that they would be on the "winning" side, their flocks were ever so quick to reject Christ in hopes for earthly power. Even our Holy Orthodox churches are scandalously liberalized in America.

The final collapse has come with the election of Barrack Obama/ His speed in the past three months has been truly impressive. His spending and money printing has been a record setting, not just in America's short history but in the world. If this keeps up for more [than] another year, and there is no sign that it will not, America at best will resemble the Wiemar Republic and at worst Zimbabwe.

These past two weeks have been the most breath taking of all. First came the announcement of a planned redesign of the American Byzantine tax system, by the very thieves who used it to bankroll their thefts, [losses] and swindles of hundreds of billions of dollars. These make our Russian oligarchs look little more [than] ordinary street thugs, in comparison. Yes, the Americans have beat our own thieves in the shear volumes. Should we congratulate them?

These men, of course, are not an elected panel but made up of appointees picked from the very financial oligarchs and their henchmen who are now gorging themselves on trillions of American dollars, in one bailout after another. They are also usurping the rights, duties and powers of the American congress (parliament). Again, congress has put up little more [than] a whimper to their masters.

Then came Barrack Obama's command that GM's (General Motor) president step down from leadership of his company. That is correct, dear reader, in the land of "pure" free markets, the American president now has the power, the self given power, to fire CEOs and we can assume other employees of private companies, at will. Come hither, go [thither], the centurion commands his minions.

So it should be no surprise, that the American president has followed this up with a "bold" move of declaring that he and another group of unelected, chosen stooges will now redesign the entire automotive industry and will even be the guarantee of automobile policies. I am sure that if given the chance, they would happily try and redesign it for the whole of the world, too. Prime Minister Putin, less [than] two months ago, warned Obama and UK's Blair, not to follow the path to Marxism, it only leads to disaster. Apparently, even though we suffered 70 years of this Western sponsored horror show, we know nothing, as foolish, drunken Russians, so let our "wise" Anglo-Saxon fools find out the folly of their own pride.

Again, the American public has taken this with barely a whimper...but a "freeman" whimper.

So, should it be any surprise to discover that the Democratically controlled Congress of America is working on passing a new regulation that would give the American Treasury department the power to set "fair" maximum salaries, evaluate performance and control how private companies give out pay raises and bonuses? Senator Barney Franks, a social pervert basking in his homosexuality (of course, amongst the modern, enlightened American societal norm, as well as that of the general West, homosexuality is not only not a looked down upon life choice, but is often praised as a virtue) and his Marxist enlightenment, has led this effort. He stresses that this only affects companies that receive government monies, but it is retroactive and taken to a logical extreme, this would include any company or industry that has ever received a tax break or incentive.

The Russian owners of American companies and industries should look thoughtfully at this and the option of closing their facilities down and fleeing the land of the Red as fast as possible. In other words, divest while there is still value left.

The proud American will go down into his slavery with out a fight, beating his chest and proclaiming to the world, how free he really is. The world will only snicker.

Stanislav Mishin

Another Gun Grab

The second amendment is not about hunting or recreation. The second amendment is about the right of the people to defend themselves from thieves and tyrants.

Any effort to curb second amendment rights is an effort to prepare the way for tyrants.

The following quote is attributed to Benjamin Franklin:

A well armed society is a polite society.

Well said Ben.

An "ism" for everyone

When will we learn?

This is a good video, which I understand to have been produced in 1948.

John Maynard Keynes

Following is an excellent compilation of quotes about Keynes prepared by Dr. David Noebel of Summit Ministries and posted on the Worldview Times website. Dr. Noebel begins with a recent quote by Larry Summers from the Charlie Rose show and then follows with a series of quotes about Keynes. Keynes and those around him clearly desire the destruction of the capitalist system, the family and all other forms of personal liberty and private property.

Note that Larry Summers is a "top" Obama "economic" "advisor"

- Shane

Worldview Times - John Maynard Keynes

John Maynard Keynes
(1883-1946)

Prepared by David A. Noebel
Summit Ministries

Posted on the Rush Limbaugh website, February 19, 2009.

Charlie Rose: "What idea, what person has most Influenced your thinking on how to deal with this mess?"

Larry Summers: "Keynes. Keynes and those that followed him." February 18, 2009.

1. "Veritas [foundation] feels that without doubt the following study will prove that the Keynesian 'system'-if it can be called a system-is the primary economics system being taught in Harvard. Veritas also feels that "Keynesian economics' is a misnomer. It is not economics. It is a leftwing political theory." Zygmund Dobbs, Research Director, Keynes at Harvard. New York, NY: Veritas Foundation, 1963. 2.

2. "Even Whittaker Chambers … admitted: 'The simple fact is that when I took up my little sling and aimed at Communism, I also hit something else. What I hit was the forces of that great socialist revolution, which, in the name of liberalism, spasmodically, incompletely, somewhat formlessly, but always in the same direction, has been inching its ice cap over the nation for two decades.'" Ibid. 3

3. "Keynesism is so-called after John Maynard Keynes, British economist (1883-1946). His teachings are today considered an ideological base for British and American Socialists." Ibid. 8

4. "No matter what phase of left-wing infiltration we study, be it in government, in information media, in foundations, in labor unions, or whether we deal with Keynesian socialism, neo-Marxian socialism or with Bolshevik communism, the tracks lead inevitably to Harvard University." Ibid. 8

5. "There are three main trends of socialist thought in the Western world. They are: the communist soviet brand; social democratic neo-Marxism; and Keynesian theories which are actually an extension of the [British] Fabian movement. Curiously, Keynesism proved to be adaptable to the Fascists as well as the Socialist world." Ibid. 10

6. "The socialist lectures conditioned the young minds to hate capitalism as an outmoded and cruel system; the second phase was to despise and distrust individual capitalists as exploiters and reactionaries who oppose social improvements; and thirdly the fledgling radical is hooked by clever 'scientific examples' and formulae which prove to him that the present social order is predestined to collapse and socialism is foreordained to take its place." Ibid. 13

7. "Almost the entire membership identified as belonging to the first Ware cell (Soviet spy ring-ed.) came out of the Harvard Law School: Alger Hiss, Nathan Witt, Lee Pressman, John Abt and Henry H. Collins Jr. Harry Dexter White and Lauchlin Currie were teachers (Economics teachers-ed.) as well as students at Harvard." Ibid. 14

8. "Today [British] Fabians use the teachings of John Maynard Keynes as their catechism of political economy. The American Fabians have slavishly installed Keynesism as the new faith, both in the Universities and in Government bureaucracy. To lay bare and dissect these premeditated deceptions is the true task of the political science of our day." Ibid. 40

9. "Hugh tax-free Foundations, such as the Ford, Carnegie and Guggenheim Foundations, backed by billions of dollars, became the nesting places of Keynesism." Ibid. 41

10. "At the age of 20 (1903) Keynes became a member of a Fabian group at Cambridge which was headed by G. L. Dickinson, a prominent Fabian Socialist. As an undergraduate, Keynes, imitating his father, expressed strong opposition to the principle of private enterprise (Laissez-Faire)." Ibid. 43

11. "This was in line with the general attitude of the Fabian Society, which favored government run by the Civil Service and not a government responsive to the electorate." Ibid. 44

12. "It was during this period (1913) that Keynes adopted the concept of eliminating gold as a standard of the monetary system of the nations of the world. His notion of a managed currency (that he sold F. D. Roosevelt on twenty years later) was an old socialist catch-call, espoused by the Fabians since the turn of the century. It is a fundamental concept of State-Socialism." Ibid. 44, 45

13. "Keynes did not keep his Socialist convictions to himself in those days. His opposition to the private enterprise system was well known to London society. Clarence W. Barron, then publisher of the Wall Street Journal, while in London in 1918, made the following observation: 'Saw Professor Keynes of the British Treasury…Lady Cunard says Keynes is a kind of Socialist and my judgment is that he is a Socialist of the type that does not believe in the family.'" Ibid. 45

14. "Singing the Red Flag, the highborn sons of the British upper-class lay on the carpeted floor spinning out socialist schemes in homosexual intermissions…The attitude in such gatherings was anti-establishmentarian. To them the older generation was horribly out of date; even superfluous. The capitalist system was declared obsolete, and revolution was proclaimed as the only solution. Christianity was pronounced an enemy force, and the worst sort of depravities were eulogized as 'that love which passes all Christian understanding.' Chief of this ring of homosexual revolutionaries was John Maynard Keynes…Keynes was characterized by his male sweetheart, Lytton Strachey, as 'A liberal and a sodomite, an atheist and a statistician.' His particular depravity was the sexual abuse of little boys." Zygmund Dobbs, "Sugar Keynes." See Goggle "John Maynard Keynes: Lavender & Bolshevik." Or http://members.tripod.com/~BioLeft/keynes.htm For further information on Keynes' homosexual behavior note A. L. Rowse, Homosexuals in History. New York, NY: Macmillan Publishing Co. Inc., 1977,271f. Also, Mark Skousen, The Making of Modern Economics: The Lives and Ideas of the Great Thinkers. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2001, 325

15. "In this same work [The End of Laissez-Faire] Keynes showed an early bias (1924) against savings and investments as economic virtues. From virtues he transformed them into evils…Fabian Socialists have long considered those who saved and invested as a stumbling block against the march of Socialism." Keynes at Harvard, 49

16. "Keynes concept of controlling society extends beyond political and economic matters. He even advocates social control of the number of children per family." Ibid. 49

17. "Keynes is a Socialist that does not believe in the family. Naturally, in order to control the birth rate the State must break up the family as an independent and free unit." Ibid. 50


18. "Margaret Cole, English Fabian revolutionary, has stated: 'We Socialists used Keynes and the U.S.S.R. as touchstones." Ibid. 60

19. "The entire Keynesian apparatus is based upon the principle of control and regulation by government…capitalism should now be regulated and controlled by a central authority…One of the central themes in Keynes' system is a condemnation of the principle of 'savings.' …Here is [Keynes] General Theory in a nutshell, with its trans valuation of all values. The great virtue is Consumption, extravagance, improvidence [not providing for the future]. The great vice is saving, thrift and 'financial prudence.'" Ibid. 63

20. "The concept of eliminating savings is not an economic one but a political one. If there are no savings there is no private money for investment. Without private investors the government must provide investment capital. If the government provides for investment it has the power to dictate the conduct and processes of those who need investment capital…All this is demagogy and claptrap. It differs from the Marxist brand only in technical detail." Ibid. 64,65

21. "Another major prop of Keynes' theory is Mrs. Joan Robinson …What Keynesians do not say is that this lady is considered in international communist circles as one of the world's outstanding Marxists. Mrs. Robinson has widely publicized the fact that the difference between Marx and Keynes are only verbal. She later wrote: 'The time, therefore, seems ripe to bridge the verbal gulf.'" Ibid. 68

22. "Keynesian leftists…are confident that a great national debt and continuing inflation plus enormous internal and foreign commitments assure the continuance of Keynesian operations for generations to come regardless who is in power." Ibid. 77

23. "Stuart Chase, representing the Fabian socialists in the United States proposed Keynes as the socialist ideal long before Keynes wrote the General Theory in 1936. Chase outlined the Keynesian principle of abandoning the gold standard in 1932…Chase called his book A New Deal. It was written in 1931 and published in 1932. Franklin D. Roosevelt borrowed this socialist slogan as a label for his administration." Ibid. 78,79

24. "Curiously, the authorities used by Chase in his book the Economy of Abundance (1934) were G.D.H. Cole, J.A. Hobson, Julian Huxley, Bertrand Russell, J. M. Keynes, John Strachey and H.G. Wells, all spawned by the British Fabian Society." Ibid. 79

25. "An analysis of Keynesism in the United States is incomplete without a discussion of the role of Harry Dexter White while Assistant to the Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Harry White was considered by Keynes as the 'central figure' in Keynesian manipulations in the United States. White played a major part in organizing Keynes' pet project-the International Monetary Fund. In the interim Harry Dexter White was exposed as an active Soviet spy…To this day, Keynesians see nothing wrong in White's Soviet role…This eulogy of Harry Dexter White was printed three years after he was exposed as a Soviet spy-typical of the attitude of Fabian socialist elements toward the whole coterie of spies and Fifth Amendment communists in the United States." Ibid. 83

26. "The line between fascism and Fabian socialism is very thin. Fabian socialism is the dream. Fascism is Fabian socialism plus the inevitable dictator." Ibid. 87

27. "The Keynesian formula fits all totalitarianisms. Juan Peron's dictatorship in Argentina used the Keynesian technique as authority in economic and political matters…Nehru traces the beginning of his interest in socialism to his Cambridge days when the Fabianism of Shaw and the Webbs attracted him…The Nazis did admire the Keynesian theme whereby the government has authority over the whole economic life of the nation…Sir Oswald Mosley, current Fascist leader was a leader of the Fabian Society at a time (1930) when Keynes' ideas were already the officially accepted Fabian line." Ibid. 89, 90

28. "Shortly before his death Schumpeter concluded that the basic leftist ideologies are based not on science but on a vision." Ibid. 96

29. "At the end of his life Keynes wrote: 'We were not aware that civilization was a thin and precarious crust erected by the personality and will of a very few [actually by a governing class] and only maintained by rules and conventions. It did not occur to us to respect the extraordinary accomplishment of our predecessors in the ordering of life or the elaborate framework that they had devised to protect this order. We completely misunderstood human nature, including our own.'" A. L. Rowse, Homosexuals in History. 277

30. "By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but confiscate arbitrarily: and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some…the process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace (1920)

Prepared by David A. Noebel, May 18, 2009
Summit Ministries, Manitou Springs, CO 80829