originally posted on GDS April 2020 (updated slightly as things have happened in the last year)
… at the end of this post is a list that might prove handy for dot connecting … A few questions that might be asked in relation to the list are: Where does this money go? What does this money support? How is this money connected to other money (both here and abroad)?
Given that for the foreseeable future the majority of us are under house arr… er … ummm … “working at home” there may be a spare moment here and there for us to perform some Giza Citizen Analysis. …
To get things rolling lets take a look at Number 3 on our countdown, Warren “All the World’s A” Buffett. (reread this sentence in the voice of Casey Kasem for better effect)
I don’t think this an unfair moniker in that he does seemingly serve himself in an “all you can ‘eat’ manner” from “food” placed out in “public areas”.
Mr. Warren “All the World’s A” Buffett has/had an interesting connection with a company called NetJets Inc. Look for yourself.
I’ve wondered, as of late, when there will be legislation that will allow private money to “go black” as FASAB 56 did for federal money. One might argue that there is already such a mechanism in the form of the “Foundation”. Of course this wouldn’t be for you and me (you know … us deplorables, masses, hoi polloi, the great unwashed, plebeians, scum … we who are most certainly not among the Oligos. For “us”, as described above, we get “The American Families Plan Tax Compliance Agenda.” This is the opposite of FASAB56.
… for new members who may be consciously working on their World View.
“What this means is that FASAB56 allows federal entities to manipulate data and even omit spending altogether when reporting on the grounds of national security. This as the aforementioned article states, raises the following questions: Who counts as a federal reporting entity? When and how can these entities conceal or remove financial information from their reports? What information can be removed? When does something count as confidential, and who makes that determination?” from The Sirius Report - full article can be found at The Shocking Truth of FASAB 56 And What It Seeks To Hide
Why should one be concerned about having control of the self (not self-control, there is a difference between the two) in understanding the formation of their World View? If one does not exert explicit, conscious control of the self in the method for this process, a possible circumstance in which one might find themselves (subject to the Method of Authority applied by some other) could be described as follows:
“Let an institution be created which shall have for its object to keep correct doctrines before the attention of the people, to reiterate them perpetually, and to teach them to the young; having at the same time power to prevent contrary doctrines from being taught, advocated, or expressed. Let all possible causes of a change of mind be removed from men’s apprehensions. Let them be kept ignorant, lest they should learn of some reason to think otherwise than they do. Let their passions be enlisted, so that they may regard private and unusual opinions with hatred and horror. Then, let all men who reject the established belief be terrified into silence. Let the people turn out and tar-and-feather such men, or let inquisitions be made into the manner of thinking of suspected persons, and, when they are found guilty of forbidden beliefs, let them be subjected to some signal punishment.” (C. S. Peirce - The Fixation of Belief, Popular Science Monthly 12 (November 1877), 1-15.
Why is this important? If one does not have control of the self in freely choosing the method for fixing one’s beliefs some one else (person, entity, or institution) will be most happy to choose and provide a method TO/FOR YOU.
The INTENTIONAL infliction of COGNITIVE DISSONANCE (creating an intense state of doubt where one is essentially placed into a conscious catatonia (abnormality of movement and behavior arising from a disturbed mental state (typically schizophrenia). It may involve repetitive or purposeless over-activity [Hmmmm., you mean like the suggestion of almost continual hand washing?], or catalepsy (a medical condition characterized by a trance or seizure with a loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body), resistance to passive movement, and negativism), and DISSOCIATION (a disconnection between one’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or sense of who one is) while almost every human being is attempting to understand the feeling of what is happening (a logically necessary ability as feeling [an above threshold accumulation of sensory relations] precedes thought, hence the importance of controlling the initiation and processing of what is, in ordinary language, called emotion, in order to interpret the World as accurately as possible. Why is this important? … because what follows is either behavior or non-behavior), particularly under current circumstances, is the perfect opportunity to hijack this most basic human of processes.
Top 15 Richest Americans, according to Forbes
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Jeff Bezos, Amazon – $ 114 billion
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Bill Gates, Microsoft – $ 106 billion
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Warren Buffett, Berkshire Hathaway – $80.8 billion
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Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook – $69.6 billion
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Larry Ellison, software – $65 billion
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Larry Page, Google – $55.5 billion
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Sergey Brin, Google – $53.5 billion
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Michael Bloomberg, Bloomberg LP – $53.4 billion
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Steve Ballmer, Microsoft – $51.7 billion
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Jim Walton, Walmart – $51.6 billion
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Alice Walton, Walmart – $51.4 billion
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Rob Walton, Walmart – $51.3 billion
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Charles Koch, Koch Industries – $41 billion
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Julia Koch & family, Koch Industries – $41 billion
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MacKenzie Bezos, Amazon – $36.1 billion