What is our Society's priority?

On the social media, the popular item for last few days is "Kim Kardashian's partial nude photo".

I have nothing against someone posting a nude photo and others watching the same; but when something as irrelevant as a semi-nude phone is the most important item for most people, then it tells us a lot about our society.
It means most people are hollow. They find the best use of their time is to watch/discuss a semi-nude photo. Most people are not interested in improving themselves, solving some problems, teaching their kids, etc.

The future of most people is bleak. Our society will face lot of hardships in coming years.

Budget 2016 in India

A good budget

• Reduces taxes
• Privatizes government companies
• Reduces bureaucracy and rules
• Reduces subsidies and expenses to cut deficit

The current budget raises taxes. There is no privatization of major government companies e.g. BSNL, MTNL, Airports, railways, etc. There is an reduction in bureaucracy. There is no cut in subsidies. The expenses on items like Defence and irrigation has gone up. Subsidies like loan relief has risen. The deficit has risen.

A government, which keeps spending more than it earns, causes inflation and suffering for citizens. Certain small groups may benefit temporarily from this budget, but in the long run Indian economy will be hurt by this budget.

War drums are beating louder

Unrest in middle east is rising. Some countries (Syria, Russia, etc) are fighting ISIS. Some countries (Turkey, USA, Saudi Arabia, etc) are covertly aiding ISIS. ISIS is a puppet. Under the guise of ISIS, the short-term goal is to create violence, death and destruction.

The long-term goal is to replace nationalism with global government. To achieve this long-term goal, all existing systems (that do not fit this new model) need to be destroyed. On the top of the rubble, the "New World Order" will be built.

We can expect in near future:

• More bombs will be dropped in middle east.
• War will be blamed for economic woes in many counties.
• Stocks will fall.
• Interest rates will be lowered, raising inflation.
• Governments will pass laws to restrict the freedom of people.

Prepare well.

Why is FED raising rates?

USA has been printing lots of dollars, under the guise of QE (Quantitative Easing). Many countries are dumping dollars and conducting trade outside the US$, to protect themselves from US$ tsunami. All the dollars being created are not being absorbed outside USA. Billions of dollars created, will now remain in USA. Inflation in USA will rise fast. Unrest will increase in USA if prices start rising rapidly.

FED has to slow down inflation in USA to extend the life of dollar. The only way inflation can be reduced to something manageable is to raise interest rates. So as countries keep abandoning the dollar, FED will keep raising interest rates in USA. If countries abandon dollar fast, interest rates will rise fast; if countries abandon dollar slowly, interest rates will rise slowly.

The rising interest rates will force USA into depression. Stocks and Real estate will fall. Ultimately, FED will have no choice but to abandon the interest rate rises. The dollar, as we know currently, will collapse. Banks will go bankrupt. Only Gold and Silver in your hands will protect your wealth.

Why is oil price dropping?

Here is my belief. I have no proof it, but it sounds very logical.

USA wants Assad out of Syria. Russia is aiding Assad. So to hurt Russia, USA made a deal with Saudi Arabia. You increase your oil production to maximum. Your losses will be compensated because you can go short in oil in derivatives market against USA.

Russia knows that oil price drop is possible because US $ is the world reserve currency and USA can print Trillions of $ to manipulate any market. The only way to reduce USA's power is by reducing the power of US $. So Russia and her friends (China) are making deals all over the world to trade in their local currencies, without using the US $.

As more and more deals are made outside US $, the demand for US $ is decreasing. The FED has no choice now but to raise interest rates to avoid hyper-inflation in USA.

As long as Assad is in power in Syria,

• Oil price will remain below $50.
• FED will keep increasing rates say 0.25% per quarter.

Don't donate to charitable organizations

I almost never give any money to charity because most charities are useless; some are even harmful.

The main beneficiaries of a charity are not the recipients, but the givers. People donate because of feeling of guilt or shame. Some givers get tax benefits, some boost their ego of being better than others. Charity primarily exists to make the donor feel good. It assuages the guilt people accrue over their life, for real or imaginary reasons. In most cases, philanthropy doesn't arise from the love of one's fellow man, but from a need to assuage guilt, a need to show off and a lack of imagination.
Many film stars and famous personalities associate themselves with a charity because of their pride. It is not about improving life of others; it is about being more famous. They buy fame by giving away the money that was either easily earned or undeservedly received.

A charity is corrupting to both parties involved. The recipient of the charity usually does not deserve it. People should have/get things because they deserve them, earn them. People should contribute to improving the state of the world. Rewarding people because they have had bad luck or are stupid, is actually immoral.
A person receiving charity usually does not improve fast. The charity causes an urgent situation to become non-urgent. It takes away the incentive to improve. So charity is a not a virtue; it is a vice.
Poverty is not a function of bad luck, in most cases. Poverty is usually a sign of bad habits. In a free country, it is usually an inability to save i.e. unwillingness to produce more than you consume.
Poverty indicates a lack of self-discipline. Most poor people dream of being rich, but indulge in sloth. Most poor people are not victims of anything other than their own bad habits.

Charity transfers wealth from creators of wealth to consumers of wealth. Money should be in hands of most competent and productive people; the people who create wealth for others. Any effort to take wealth from wealthy (productive) to the poor (non-productive) is counter-productive.

Take the example of UN that accepts donations. The UN is a corrupt club of governments. It should be abolished, but stupid people donate to it.
Let say that there is a natural disaster. Many people donate. Charities rush with food, medicines, etc. Does this help the recipients? Free food hits the market; the price of food falls; so local farmers can't produce profitably. Local farmers go out of business. There is no crop next year. Food shortage becomes worse. The very act of charities trying to help a famine stricken area, prolongs the famine.
Now, consider charitable organizations going round the world treating diseases. Countries have terrible diseases that kill many people, because they are economically underdeveloped. So giving free medicines is like putting band-aid on smallpox. It does not help in solving the problem.

A charitable organization will have secretaries, assistant vice-presidents, etc. Lot of money is wasted on bureaucracy. This is in addition to charities doing more harm than good for recipients.

Governments helping the poor is worse kind of charity because the money comes from taxes. People are forced to pay the taxes and hence are left with less money to give to people who genuinely need help. The idea that "Government can deploy wealth better than people who create wealth " is ridiculous.

When should we give in charity?
I give in charity only to people I know for a long time. These people sometimes need a helping hand. I should feel good about helping; not give because of any guilt. Charity should never be institutionalized, because it creates distortions in marketplace. Charities also tend to attract corrupt people.

We should abolish all charitable institutions and government handouts. Don't replace them with anything. Instead, reduce taxes and regulations to permit more wealth creation. To select few desperate deserving cases, individual conscience would suffice.

Charity should be strictly individual, a one-on-one transaction.

What is happening in Syria?

Basically, there are some power-hungry people in this world, who want Muslims to create terror, and use that as an excuse to extend their military power. Now, for the detailed history.

America has had a long-term plan to destabilize seven countries (Reference). This strategy involves the USA military-industrial complex and the Elite (a select extremely rich and powerful group of people). The strategy aims to control Europe and China; indirectly Russia. The idea is to break up the Monarchy created after World War I, and to replace them with Muslim brotherhood groups, which are under the control of USA.

Muslim Brotherhood was created in Egypt in 1927 as a "Death Cult". It has had assassin squads. In 1950, they were brought by CIA into Saudi Arabia. The Monarchy of Saudi Arabia was convinced by USA, that Muslim Brotherhood would be valuable to Saudi Mosques. This was the fusion of ideologies i.e. political Islam and ultra-conservative Islam. The Saudis financed the Muslim Brotherhood to setup Madrasas in Pakistan, Afghanistan, etc. The CIA watched this.

In 1979, USA provoked a Russian invasion on Afghanistan. CIA trained Mujahideen caused a collapse of Russia. Osama Bin Laden, financed by Saudi's, was responsible for recruiting Jihadists (terrorists), training them in Pakistan and then sending them to Afghanistan. CIA helped Osama Bin Laden in this task. These Jihadists fought against Russia and ultimately bankrupted Russia. In 1991, CIA controlled Yeltsin became President of Russia.

CIA then sent the Mujahideen to Chechnya, where an Soviet Arab oil pipeline sent Baku's oil to Europe. USA wanted a different pipeline that was controlled by USA and European oil companies. USA caused a coup in Azerbaijan (whose capital is Baku) and set up a pro-America rulers. These rulers then routed the Baku's oil to Turkey. So Russia lost control over this pipeline. At that time, Russia was a financial wreck and therefore in no shape to oppose this. This was the CIA-Muslim Brotherhood project in Chechnya.
CIA then used Muslim Brotherhood terrorists to create in Iran an terror squad called ISIS (Islamic state in Iraq and Syria). ISIS is a terrorist proxy army of USA.

The Middle east was run by three groups: Egypt's El Mubarak, Syria's Al-Assad family and Saudi Arabia. Mubarak was destroyed by USA using the Arab Spring revolution. Then USA put a Muslim Brotherhood puppet government in Egypt. Now, Syria has a stabilizing role in Middle East. Multiple religions live peacefully in Syria. Also, Syria is important Geo-politically. In 2009-2010, Iran was in negotiation with Syria to build the Iran Iraq pipeline. This would bring Iranian oil to Europe. Qatar (another USA puppet) wants Saudi Arabian oil to go to Europe via Syria. Al-Assad decided to continue his relations with Russia and permit Iran Iraq pipeline through Syria. Al-Assad did not want close relationship with USA.

As soon as Assad decided not to support USA pipeline, all hell broke loose in Syria. Saudi and Qatar financed terrorists to create havoc in Syria. Assad is a thorn in USA path. Russia has a military base in Syria and so Russia decided to support Assad. Russia was destroying terrorists in Syria. Then a false flag of Paris bombing occurred. This allowed Western countries to counter Russia's attack and support terrorists in Syria.

Now, Russia and China are supporting Assad. The Western counties are violating international agreements by supporting terrorists in Syria.
ISIS is getting financed because of oil through Turkey. So Turkey is supporting Western regions and shooting down Russian airplanes near its border.

So the Syrian war will continue till one of the sides is defeated. On one side we have China, Russia and Assad. On the the other side we have ISIS (Muslim Brotherhood), Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Western nations.