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How can the world financial system allow a trillion dollars to be written-down or written off within the last few months? How can oil jump from less than $12 to $147 over the past few years and then fall down to $91 in a couple of weeks? What kind of manipulation is this? To a lay person, it sounds like an economic war.

Let's take a scientific approach to answer the question. There is a cause and effect for every action on earth and in the universe. Einstein's discovered; E=MC??; which relates to everything as energy. Energy can take many forms and guises but nothing is ever lost. It can turn gasses into mass and visa-versa. We humans were born out of stardust which, billions of years ago, swirled around the cosmos like Dancing Dervishes. The energy that created the sun, then earth, is still forming and reforming everything in the material world. Einstein also declared everything is relative in a space time zone and all is unified. However, that is disputed by other scientists who came up with a chaos theory where everything is random and things happen by chance.

In every walk of life you are always going to get opposite view points no matter how sound and effective the argument for or against. In fact, a distinguished debater can argue the case for both sides of a dispute and articulate each case in parallel terminology that will make sense to opposing parties. For instance, take the price of gold and how it is traded on the commodity markets and how it obtains its changing values.

Gold is a metal and every ounce that has been mined over thousands of years and is still around. The quantities keep increasing as the gold nuggets are dug out of the ground every day. It has an industrial use and a jewelry use. If these two components were the only way to value gold its price would be more stable and lower. However, it is also perceived to be a hedge against inflation and also a supposedly safe haven in a world of economic and political chaos. Both these two components depend on how well the intellectual propaganda machine operates its rhetoric on events played out on the world stage.

With the help of the media and hi-tech, information is fed to the public at warp speed. The trades are performed on mercantile exchanges. The contracts are margined so a small percentage of the monthly contract price is required to trade each contract of 100 ounces. The value can increase and decrease at a fast pace due to all types of leveraged derivatives and electronically traded funds known as ETFs.

On the other side of the value of gold it does not yield any monetary interest. Also, there is a charge when dealing on exchanges and if delivery is taken large quantities will be stored in a bank for security. When demand for the yellow metal drops it becomes a depreciating asset that is a liability because money has to be paid out to store it. Over the past 30 years the price has swung from $250 -- $1000. Today, the price is around $850 an ounce because of the financial market turmoil. Since most people who trade commodities lose money it is a speculation only for people who enjoy gambling in a casino. When fear evaporates the price may fall twice as fast as it went up.

Oil and food commodities are different as they have an end use. Nevertheless, outrageous prices have been allowed to spiral out of control by a lack of regulation by people in power who believe in the myth of keeping alive a free market. When prices can be controlled by perceptions, ideas, thoughts and suggestions, then my friends, we are dwelling in the PITS of humanity and the markets are not free. They are held captive by topsy-turvy reason and logic that many self-interest experts can explain as factual. Supply and demand is paramount but figures can and do become distorted, thus supplying propaganda and fallacies with room to air.

Without getting too bogged down with the complexities of financial markets as they are a 62 trillion dollar market. They are extremely complex these days and contain collateralized mortgage notes that are turning out to be of little value. These also depend on credit swaps, which is the rate banks lend each other money. The lower the ratings of a financial institution the higher interest it has to pay to stay in business. When credit rating agencies such as S&P and Moody's, downgrade them at a crucial and vulnerable time, they prematurely go into bankruptcy or taken over by the government as is the case in AIG, brought about mainly by the negative forces of short sellers.

If that were not enough, hedge funds that are unregulated have sprung up and they can short stocks at will. If they work in conjunction with each other, which is deemed to be illegal, they can bring down sound financial institutions in a matter of days if the company is having temporary liquidity problems. Even if everything is legitimate in the short selling, once it reaches a certain level mutual funds and the public become fearful and they sell the stocks they own.

The web of greed and fear becomes ever increasingly wound up in unregulated markets that resemble a Wild West shoot out, otherwise known as free market capitalism. The reverse is being projected when commodities or stocks reach overvalued levels. Both long and shorts are governed by erroneous thought process when extreme values are extended beyond normal expectations. This is what is going on in a nutshell but of course it is much more intricate as the devil ego/intellect is in the details.

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I had a dream last night about my brother who died 5 years ago, I remember he looked quite dashing, dressed up and we started talking. I was asking him questions about traveling the different dimensions and the cosmos. About the universe and all. I was really interested in what he had to say. Even upon awakening I do not recall what his answer was. But its as if he never left. His spirit is still around. Death is not dying but a rebirth to eternity. Hope you enjoy the poem. God bless and have a wonderful week. Keep up the great articles.

Jeannie Diazio

When the spirit departs the human body

The body lies to rest not the spirit

The spirit which is composed of Love

Is the part of God "I AM"

Love is immeasurable and compassionate,

Love is irreplaceable,

Love awaits all ready to accept the special

Gifts it has to offer

Love the infinite home of Jesus

Love surpasses all,

Love is unpretentious,

Love is composure,

Love is: God's conjunction between earth and heaven

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The Picnic A Jewish Rabbi and a Catholic Priest met at the town's annual 4th of July picnic. Old friends, they began their usual banter. 'This baked ham is really delicious,' the priest teased the rabbi. 'You really ought to try it. I know it's against your religion, but I can't understand why such a wonderful food should be forbidden! You don't know what you're missing. You just haven't lived until you've tried Mrs. Hall's prized Virginia Baked Ham. Tell me, Rabbi, when are you going to break down and try it?' The rabbi looked at the priest with a big grin, and said, 'At your wedding.'

Are You in Control of your mind and body?... Can you outsmart your foot?

1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are nutty) and while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot off the floor and make clockwise circles.

2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right hand. Your foot will change direction. See if you can stop it from changing direction.

Judgmental Moral ... Sent in by a reader

Have you ever been guilty of looking at others your own age and thinking, surely I can't look that old...Well.... you'll love this one...

My name is Alice , and I was sitting in the waiting room for my first appointment with a new dentist. I noticed his dds diploma which bore his full name. Suddenly, I remembered a tall, handsome, dark-haired boy with the same name had been in my high school class some 30-odd years ago. Could he be the same guy that I had a secret crush on, way back then? Upon seeing him, however, I quickly discarded any such thought. This balding, gray-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate. After he examined my teeth, I asked him if he had attended st. Pius High school .

"Yes. Yes, I did. I'm a warrior," he gleamed with pride."When did you graduate?" I asked. He answered , "in 1963. Why do you ask?" "You were in my class!" I exclaimed. He looked at me closely. Then, that old, bald, wrinkled, gray-haired goat asked me ... "What did you teach !"

"When we can conquer the desires of the mind defined by intellect and ego we can claim to live a prosperous life."_Michael Levy