Posts by StarTrekAngel

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Did you know Banks create money out of thin air?

by TerryWalstrom in

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banks create money “out of thin air.”empirical studies have been undertaken to prove this thesis and this is the conclusion:.

in the 5,000 year history of banking, banks have been thought of as “deposit taking institutions which lend money”.. 1. what is the legal reality?

banks don’t take deposits and don’t lend money.the public is under this false impression on purpose because the language of banks is not legal language.. so--what is a “deposit”?a deposit is not actually a deposit.

StarTrekAngel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nBPN-MKefA

I think there is mostly a misinterpretation of the concept. Banks do print money money out of thin air, just not all the time. However, that's not to say your local branch or even the entire corporation is doing so. They don't have the power to just add it there. Banks means just that, the banking system on itself does it, not a particular bank whom may be borrowing money from each other.

The simple side of it is that you can't make things out of nothing. You don't grow a crop without seeds just like you can't have money without something. That something used to be gold or other tangible goods.

Someone please show me what that is now and I will believe money doesn't get generated out of thin air.

Everything in the financial world is binary. you can't buy bitcoin if you don't sell your dollars. True, inflation is not only a consequence of increased money supply. It can also come from devaluation. But both play a role. Just like I said, it's a balance between two things. Just like a dollar can devaluate not because of the American economy itself but because may be other economies are changing.

Supply and Demand.... repeat that to yourself. Supply and Demand is the ultimate regulator of markets. Money is no different. The balance between the money supply (the printing of money) and money demand (which can be trigger by devaluation among other things) can cause inflation to fluctuate. That is the reason the federal reserve banks of every country try to reign in the balance of both by doing things like regulating interest rates.

By the way... making money out of thing air does not necessarily equal money the bank can pocket as profit. It means they can loan money they don't have and basically put it out on the street by means of the borrower.

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Asylum Caravan

by dubstepped in

alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?

i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?

it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.

StarTrekAngel

Yes. You are correct. That is exactly my point. That is why I said I would gladly pay more for those products if it came down to it and it was done by legal workers at the right wages. It was exactly my point that the greedy corporations still prefer illegals to work for lower wages. That is partly the reason there is no effort to legalize them and a major reason as to why they keep on coming no matter how many obstacles you throw at them.

When I said that they are not a social burden, I meant by claiming benefits. The cost of detaining them counts but not from the perspective most people look at it. Most people that are angry at illegal immigrants claim that they come here to take their jobs and claim benefits and that is what i am referring to. Hardly anyone will tell you they want to stop illegal immigrants because it is too costly to detain them.

The jobs are not taken in the way of stealing from you. They are given to the lowest bidder and that is what voters should concentrate on. Cut the ability for companies to hire illegal workers and the illegals will stop coming. No wall or detention facilities would be required and money will be saved. Yet the rhetoric from certain political parties is that they are your enemy

I certainly don't want bad people crossing the border. Like I said, they've been in my backyard. I don't propose open borders as a solution. That is another rhetoric used in the political ads. We are never going to arrive to a proper solution if we keep breaking apart the issue and not considering it as a whole.

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Asylum Caravan

by dubstepped in

alright, so what is the deal with the thousands coming to the states right at election time seeking asylum?

i'm not up on this, usually try not to be, but how can this not be manipulative?

it's either manipulative in the size of the group and pressure that creates, or in where it started or who started this, etc.

StarTrekAngel

Native South American here... living in South Texas for 18 year very very close (like 10 min away) from the place where those kids were detained a while back.

Facts from the ground...

- A wall is already there and it hasn't stopped anyone. If you want a picture of it, I can go bye it today and take a shot. I have seen illegals arrested in my backyard (literally speaking within the limits of my property) even with the wall in place. After the installed a blimp with cameras and sensors it never happened again. Way more effective and cheaper than a wall but there are businesses out there ready to make a buck on the political rhetoric

- South America may not be as deadly as a German concentration camp but if you use that as a reference or a metric to determine asylum eligibility then you are no better off than those who justify the watchtower child abuse policy by saying this happens everywhere. Is not that you are wrong, your humanity threshold is just off. Where have I seen that before??? With that said, the crime rates and the atrocities committed by gangs in central and south America are heavily under reported. All that along with the corruption and persecution you experience if you don't conform to the demands of the gangs. We recently went to Mexico to drop off a close relative who is here legally but is leaving the US voluntarily as a step towards legalization (yes, that is a thing). We dropped him off at a bus station but before that he had to find out which bus line is up to date with the drug lords. If you take the wrong bus line you run the chance of getting stopped and robbed or even killed. Once he got there, he told all his family he was on vacation for fears of getting kidnapped if local gangs got to know someone has an interest on him returning

- It is a myth that illegal immigration is a social burden. Not saying some people do seek the easy way out but the vast majority of illegals work hard for their money and they do jobs no one else want to do. If that doesn't seem to chime with you just simply know that if they were here legally, your fruit and your hotels and other services would be much more expensive. Don't get me wrong... I would gladly pay for it. All I am doing is pointing out a fact. I know plenty of illegals and some of them are relatives of my wife. I don't know a single one of them that is counting on government to take care of them. My wife worked the fields along side many of them for 5 years as a teenager. Same there... no welfare queens to be seen. There are more welfare seekers among Mexican Americans born and raised in the US than from illegals. The real social burdens are the companies that will come to benefit from overpriced services to the government and that would make a political push for the status quo so they can keep raking in the dough at our expense. This include the jail operators, contractors that will build facilities and even some airline charters that deport people

Done with the facts from the ground part

The caravan thing is fishy.. I'll give you that. If we are going to down the conspiracy theory path... either party could have initiated this for political purposes. Any radical political idea or change can be carried out without the name calling and the bullying. If anyone should be able to spot that should be us ex-cult members. Bringing up the birthright citizenship issue at this last hour is not any less suspicious than the caravan. All politicians a crooked, but this one president can smear shit in your face and people still smile pleasantly as long as he keeps pointing out to any mere little climb of the stock market. Never have I seen such blind compliance to any little bullshit he points out as positive while blaming CNN and the democrats for everything else. Oh no... wait, I have... at the watchtower.

The words of Deborah Layton are more applicable than ever before... "If there is any lesson to be learned it is that an ideal can never be brought about by fear, abuse and the threat of retribution"

It seems like many here have forgotten those words

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A Cult Tactic: Removing Guilt By Dehumanising Others

by pale.emperor in

in the real world, very few parents would disown their own children simply because they read a magazine that told them to do it.

very few people would forever completely ignore their own parents because an elder got up on a platform one day and announced that they no longer follow the same religion as you.. in the real world it just doesn't happen.

and yet, for 8 million jehovah's witnesses it's very a normal part of their world to treat "other people" differently than they'd treat each other.

StarTrekAngel

And yet as conscious as we all seem to be of this fact, there are many whom fail to see the same parallels with other situations in life. Very easy to find in politics lately.

The one thing that has come to shock me after waking up is how many people fail to stay away from the next cult.

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Business class for Governing Body

by Sergey Antonov in

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hello everyone!

does anyone have any confirmation that the governing body uses the business class for its flights?.

also interesting is the information about the hours that were on the hand of one of the members of the governing body..

StarTrekAngel

Well that Rolex could certainly be a knock off. But check out the beauty that GB Jackson wore for the ARC interview. That was indisputably an Apple watch and it was golden in color. I am not aware of any company out there making an Apple Watch knock off.

Long story short, he was wearing a $12,000 watch. Any average witness would have been scolded for flaunting such display "of one means of livelihood". Whether he bought it or got it as a gift makes no difference. Humbleness is a principle, not a situation. He could have straight out rejected the gift or passed it along to the organization as a donation.

At least that is what he would have demanded of us.

Regarding the First/Business class travel, there was a full time pioneer in my old cong with contacts high up. He had been sent in many trips as a backup CO and as an assembly delegate. He would never hesitate to show how well the org treated those who dedicated themselves like he did, which included first class travel. If such low laying underlying gets the royal treatment, what can you expect from the kings?

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Watchtower Corporation Hacked By It's Own IT Department

by Brokeback Watchtower in

it's hard for me to think that the watchtower it department must be fully aware of wt duplicity as in they are experts in using the internet and are fully aware of what the internet is saying about their boss.. so why not hack them and make more public their utter bullshit in a humanitarian concern expressed by what ever powers he has to reduce guilt.. as the reputation of the watchtower goes south and more dirt is revealed the more likely it is for those in position of trust like watchtower it department to be forced into a very precarious position of helping a bunch of frauds and so why should it be of any surprise that some type of corrective vengeance is planed by many members of the it..

StarTrekAngel

IT departments such as theirs are heavily divided even internally. There was a few videos leaked not long ago in this site that were internal IT videos. I would risk to say that 80% of those working for IT have hardly any clue of where to even go to find the dirty laundry, let alone have the required access to it. In many cases you can be in charge of systems where you don't really have access to the content itself.

Even then, even if the top IT dog turned on it, there are plenty of logs and plenty of watchers to rat you out before you can cause too much damage. Not to say it is impossible, just not that easy.

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Tax question: How are illegals paid at farms, lawn care, construction, etc?

by Bad_Wolf in

i was wondering how exactly is it that illegals can get paid and be under the radar?

a business takes in cash.

at farms, construction, etc, most probably comes in from checks and credit.

StarTrekAngel

This from first hand experience as many relatives of my wife side of the family are here in less than legal terms.

Hardly anyone would be willing to sell their own SSN in this age of identity theft. Generally there is two main way an SSN makes it to the hands of an illegal worker for use

- Families lend each other the SSN from their underage kids. This is done to "help" relatives in need whom are here illegally. Problem is you don't always know if this other person is trust worthy or if in an effort to make an extra buck this person will sell your SSN further down the line.

- Some people come to the US and have babies. They eventually have get a SSN. If they happen to go back to Mexico shortly after (this is not always the intent, people just wing it sometimes) they realize they are not using the SSN so it is handed over to others for work or it is given to a legal family member so they can claim it in their income tax in exchange for a piece of the pie. I know of at least one relative that got screwed over this. He accepted the SSN of a child as a "favor" for a poor family in exchange for like 30% of the return. He did this not knowing the parents of the child were trying to play everyone (generally the money is demanded ahead of the actual return coming in). This is an easy flag for the IRS. The child was being claim as a dependant in more than one tax return and he got audited. Had to pay back everything with penalties.

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KH Hall doors to remain locked during meetings?

by StarTrekAngel in

my mother in law told us this morning that they read a letter in her cong last night.

from now on kh doors will be locked after 15 min of meeting start.

only the fire exit (one way door) will remain unlocked.

StarTrekAngel

My mother in law told us this morning that they read a letter in her cong last night. From now on KH doors will be locked after 15 min of meeting start. Only the fire exit (one way door) will remain unlocked.

Anyone else heard this? May be it is regional? Lately there has been a couple of protest at this KH and outside the Assembly Hall in La Feria, TX. The consensus in the cong is that this is a result of those protests

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The Children Act - Emma Thompson - advertised on ITV One - prime time.

by freddo in

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as you probably know "the children act" is a film starring emma thompson as a high court judge deciding whether or not to transfuse a teen jw.

it is due to be on general release in the uk on august 24th 2018. september 14th usa.. its shortened trailer is being advertised in the uk on the biggest independent tv channel - namely itv - at prime time.

just seen it in advertisment breaks between 6pm and 7pm uk time.. thought you might like to know..

StarTrekAngel

I saw the trailer and that is all I needed to see to decide not to watch it.

I was somewhat on the fence until the show the WT lawyer in court pretending to care for the life of this kid.

Total bullshit

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Anyone watching the handmaids tail?

by blownaway in

i thought this was all about the 18th century.

but its current or just post current times.

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StarTrekAngel

hmmm. I think what merits some concern is the fact that we are analyzing whether the current administration is close or far from being like the show. Such would make many lose interest because it indeed seems far fetched. With that said, if you would have told any of the Jonestown people that leaving for South America was crazy and that next thing you knew you would be dead, they too would have said that was far fetched.

The story does not have to come to realization exactly as presented in the show. Both sides of the proposition can meet each other half way. Which is probably how it usually happens. Coming from a country where there has been plenty of government coups and extreme ideology changes, I can tell you none of it happens overnight. There is alway chest pounding at the tail end of the story because no one thought it could happen. Much like when Serena comes to realize her daughter could be subjected to the same fate as other sinful women.

Just because the book was published in 1985, it doesn't mean is not relatable to the times. The book was not meant to represent current times. Our modern political time may have made this old writing relevant. There is a difference.

Just like indoctrination, if an ideology like that was to take place, it would hardly be by force and in a matter of months. It would be much slower and methodical. You already have Christians babbling about Trump being a god sent. Using the bible to justify their actions. You have a supreme court judge that believes the president should be excluded to judicial prosecution while in office.

Having lived there for 21 years, the US sounds and looks ever more like South America with a Christian twist to it.