On our planet, many species have become extinct due to human activity. Humans are "evolutionarily asymmetrical" relative to all of the other species on our planet. Lesser species cannot defeat human guns, harpoons, nets, snares, and traps. Our guns, fishing ships, mining, oil drilling, and consumption are stripping the planet clean. Humans have a rapacious appetite for everything. We do not take only what we need; we exploit natural resources and hoard.

Our system of printing fiat money and proliferating the supply of fiat money has become unbalanced because of the irrationality, greed, and fraud inherent in deficit spending. America's borrowing of money, the expansion of its money supply, is financially asymmetrical relative to all other countries. Now the banks are hoarding money and controlling it for their own selfish interests. This too is Fraudaffluence because it harms the common people and businesses who need to borrow money.

Uncontrolled cellular growth is cancer. The uncontrolled growth of the US money supply is a cancer in the world’s financial system. If each US dollar is an individual cell, then we have thirteen trillion cells in the world financial system. The US debt is thirteen trillion and climbing. The runaway growth of cell-dollars form a malignant tumor that will either inflate or collapse depending upon which financial doctor is diagnosing the malignancy.

The yet-to-be-printed future dollars and Treasury bonds that it will take to nourish the malignant tumor of already printed dollars and Treasury bonds is astronomical and will sap the financial vitality of the US and the rest of the world. The financial doctors are using experimental, untested treatments. However, the numbers are the numbers. Thirteen trillion dollars will only dissolve by use of further financial sophistry or the Magical Elixir of Insolvency. Alternately, the dollar will become extinct and a new financial species will evolve.

"Evolutionary Asymmetry" has happened in our money supply with the US dollar. Evolutionary asymmetry in Nature has caused the extinction of weaker species. By analogy, what lesser currencies will become extinct due to the dollar and its problems? What new financial species will emerge? If a new financial species arises, we can be certain that Fraudaffluence will be at work in its DNA.

Until there is Justice in Finance, this world is doomed to suffer from chronic fraud.

Justice in Finance may be a fantasy. There is talk of financial reforms from the Obama Administration, but what does reform mean with a thirteen trillion dollar debt that keeps growing? How can such a financial asymmetry ever be balanced? What counterweight exists that can balance thirteen trillion dollars in debt?

In some sense, Karma is simply Evolution testing the fitness of all structures. Economic structures and policies based in fraud, dishonesty, irresponsibility, and massive debt will not survive beyond a few generations. The post-WWII economic system has proven unfit and is failing. In real terms, billions of people are affected because the economic system is global. When consumer spending dropped in the US beginning in 2008, China saw 100,000 factories shuttered in 2008 alone as the linked global economic system collapsed. China shared some the blame, for its factories were criminally building unsafe products, for example toys painted with lead based paints. The owners of certain Chinese factories were quite willing to endanger the lives and health of people in the US, Europe, and the rest of the world to become fraudulently affluent.

The present world economy is in the middle of severe upheavals largely caused by Fraudaffluence. The Euro is at risk due to the alleged fraudulent numbers used by Greece to get into the EU. Greece is now hanging precipitously in hopes of a bailout.

Fraudaffluence, the search for easy affluence by lying, cheating, and stealing, is as old as Humanity itself. The Old Testament forbade merchants from using false measures to "tip the scales" in their favor. The Code of Hammurabi also outlawed the use of false measures.

In California where I live, the use of "false measures" by the State Government has always existed to tip the scales in favor of the State. Both the stated and hidden taxes in California are so rampant that many businesses and residents have left the Golden State. California is an example of a bloated political system that gives unreal benefits to State Workers. The State Workers have long demanded exorbitant pensions, early retirements, and job protection. Now with default looming for California, all of the lavish benefits may go away. What did California State Workers and Political leaders gain by plundering the State to give themselves easy affluence? In general, pension plans in the US are unfunded by about one trillion dollars. Corporations and governments have better things to do than be responsible. The problems always belong to someone else.

The "magical thinking" in America is that the US Government should make all problems go away by endlessly writing large checks to corporations, states, and industries that have fallen on hard times due to incompetence, greed, mismanagement, and poor quality. Rather than actually addressing and fixing problems, leaders at all levels find it easier to ask for free money to make problems go away. Yet, like all trash, the problems have to "go away" to somewhere. Trash "goes away" into landfills and landfills create their own set of environmental problems. The "Debt Trash" created by the US Government is dumped into the Deficit Landfill. The "Deficit Landfill" exists as binary code in some magical, unseen place. However, its power reaches deeper everyday into the US GDP. Our "Debt Trash" is recycled into ever larger interest payments.


Financially speaking, America is running out of places to dump our financial trash. China is becoming less and less interested in taking out America's financial trash each week.

At the government level, Fraudaffluence has been funded by massive government borrowing at the Local, State, and Federal level. There is nothing wrong with borrowing what one can repay, but profligate borrowing is Fraudaffluence, for it allows governments to live far below their means and excuses political leaders from responsibility for actually balancing a budget -- or at least maintaining debt at realistic levels. The unreality in the American economy has always existed, but now it is become unreal in a very bad way, for it is becoming real. Financial Reality in America was never supposed to happen. Famous American ingenuity was supposed to make it go away.

The next waves of pain from Fraudaffluence are coming. There are still more shocks ahead. The governments of the world, particularly the US, cannot use deficit spending (debt) to solve problems forever. Some economists see hyper-inflation ahead for the US Dollar. Paradoxically, if there has been greater monetary fraud in Europe, the Dollar may fare better in the short run than the Euro.

There is a massive lack of basic honesty in the world among those in power. Financial predation and lies have always existed. After financial collapses new laws are made to safeguard the common people and their money. These laws are inevitably watered down by special interests in the finance and banking sectors. With tools such as "Quant Trading" the global economy is still run by the Fraudaffluent Crowd using their supercomputers and supersoftware.

If one subscribes to the Illuminati theory, all of the current economic problems are simply an Illuminati housecleaning in which the rich get richer, the poor get poorer, and the middle class gets poorer. If this is the case, there may be another Revolution in which the bastards are dragged from their country clubs and hanged. Who knows? What is certain is that the anger of the citizens in America is rising while our political leaders apparently lack even the basic skills to handle deep and fundamental problems.

L. Ron Hubbard once opined that Earth is a prison planet where criminals from other planets were dumped. If this is true, Xenu obviously dumped the bankers, finance people, and politicians here first. Indeed, no self-respecting planet would want these people!

The Great Money Rapture of 2008 has Happened! Jesus Took the Money -- and Not the People -- to Heaven! Satan Now Free to Roam the Earth and Cause Tumult.

In a stunning metaphysical repudiation of the uniquely American heresies known as Evangelical Christianity and Wall Street, Jesus came back and, as the old saying had it, boy was he pissed!

Jesus recently returned to Earth and found that Gopianity -- yet another portmanteau word I have created by fusing GOP + Christianity -- had risen to power and basically destroyed the economy of America. To be sure, other forms of religious and political Corruption and Greed had infected America, China, Russia, Europe, and the Middle East. However, the marriage of American Evangelicals and the Republican Party gave birth to especially dangerous Demons who spawned war, profligate deficit spending, excessive and easy credit, foolishly dangerous home loans, and the rest of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Essentially, Satan's Agents, masquerading as Angels of Light to their respective constituencies, rose to political and financial power after which they raped and plundered the world in this decade. Angered that the Leaders of the Human Race had once again acted in unrighteous ways that have harmed the working people of the World, God acted in Judgment and sent Jesus to Rapture all of the Money off the Earth. Without money, these demons are at risk of incurring the outrage of the global citizenry to whom they have lied. There will be Revolution.

Beginning in the late 1970's, America's Evangelical Christians traded their Birthright of Salvation for Political Power and Wealth. While the ostensible goal of "Dominion Theology" was to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth, demons nevertheless crept in unawares and lied to the Evangelicals. These demons promised to outlaw abortion and homosexuality and the naive Evangelicals in turn gave them their votes and huge amounts of money to win political office. In retrospect, whether people like George W. Bush and his father, James Dobson, or William Kristol were ever really saved remains a mystery here on earth. Oddsmakers in Hell have placed the line at 10 to 1 that these people were never actually saved. Judging from the fruits of their labor, Hell looks to be correct on this question.

Due to this Gigantic Global Fraudaffluence, God recently sent Jesus to Earth to conduct a surprise Money Rapture. To the utter chagrin of wealthy religious people and rich atheists alike, The Great Money Rapture of 2008 "caught up"countless trillions of dollar to Heaven. It was just as the 13th Apostle had warned us in his 1st epistle to the Thessalonians:

Now, brothers, about times and dates we do not need to write to you, for you know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. While people are saying, "Peace and safety," destruction will come on them suddenly, as labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape. (I Thess. 5:1-3)

The trillions of dollars that were Raptured to Heaven will be burned this Christmas season in God's Fireplace. Even now as I write, Saint John is laughing at the wealthy and powerful of this World as he shovels their hundreds of billions of dollars taken by Bernie Madoff, Wall Street, and Congress into God's Fireplace. Those souls in Heaven who were poor in this World will gather round God's Fireplace to toast the freshest marshmallows plucked by the Cherubim from the luminous Clouds of Grace and Mercy that surround God's Throne. The Poor are now Rich in Spirit as they bask in the Shekinah Glory of God. The wealthy of this World are now Poor as they curse others (but never themselves). Were Job's Comforters' present, they would surely recommend to the Fallen Wealthy that they, "Curse God and Die."


The countless billions of dollars that the wealthiest people in the world have lost prove that in the Eschaton there is indeed a reversal of the Order of Life. The wealthy have been brought down low and exposed as the worst of Sinners. The words of the Prophet Hosea arise from antiquity to indict the Fraudaffluents who have plundered the world's economy for their own gain:

The merchant uses dishonest scales; he loves to defraud.

Ephraim boasts,
"I am very rich; I have become wealthy.
With all my wealth they will not find in me
any iniquity or sin."

"I am the LORD your God,
who brought you out of Egypt;
I will make you live in tents again,
as in the days of your appointed feasts.

(Hosea 12: 7-9)

The wealthy liars are Ephraim; they are Wall Streeters and Big Business who hid behind the labels of Conservative, Liberal Moderate, Evangelical, God and Country, or whatever labels it took to convince people to entrust their life savings, 401K's, pensions, and financial safety to them. And then these Wall Streeters and people in Big Business betrayed that trust and plundered the financial systems of the US for their own avarice. That is why Jesus took all of their ill-gotten money away in the Money Rapture.

The Wall Street bankers and the CEO's of Big Business considered that their wealth made them the perfect predators who were righteous: Their victims deserved it. Their victims had it coming for being greedy and stupid. And yet pride always comes before a fall. These Fraudaffluents waved the Bible, the American Flag, promises of high returns on money, or whatever else it took to work their con. They then raped and plundered with what they thought was utter impunity. However, their Ponzi Scheme of derivatives and arcane financial trickery has now collapsed. Many of these people are now being caught, exposed, bankrupted, and some even imprisoned.

The cover over the two trillion dollars that the US Congress allowed Henry Paulson to give his friends on Wall Street will be torn asunder very soon. We will all get to know the names of faces of those people who took our tax dollars. And surely God's Judgment will fall upon them individually and collectively. The Money Rapture will impact 2009 and beyond as Karma inexorably works to balance the scales. The financial criminals will be broken upon the wheel of history; President Bush and his financial people were no better than Bill Clinton and his financial crowd. The labels of Conservative and Liberal no longer matter, for they have no meaning in the face of an imploding economy.

Religion did play a major role in the Great Money Rapture of 2008, for the fusion of Evangelical Christianity and Republican-dominated politics resulted in a US that was ultimately controlled by Wall Street and not by any Christian principles whatsoever. During his ministry, Jesus had specifically commanded that his disciples feed the poor, take care of widows and their orphans, and visit those who are in prison. Gopianity found such orders from the Savior to be wholly inconvenient and preferred instead to invest its money in stocks, bonds, and donations to gain political power, in particular the power over all three branches of the American government. Once Gopianity had seized the White House and Congress and held sway on the Supreme Court, this bastardized amalgam of Church and State destroyed all of the financial rules, tore up the US Constitution, and realized the heart-desire of the Neocons: To launch its beloved, yet ultimately bankrupting, War on Terror. This "War" is one part Oil and one part codespeak for the Crusades of Bush I and Bush II. (When will the religious insanity end? When will Christianity and Islam realize that they can only ever play each other to a tie? When will the world denounce insane religious and political warfare altogether and demand honesty and justice?)

Gopianity found it highly useful for decades to perpetuate a massively polarizing fight against abortion and gay rights. Surely, as Rome burned, the Evangelicals in the White House and in Colorado Springs blamed it all on gay people and abortion. This was the blind leading the blind; this was James Dobson telling George Bush that Jesus had Bush's back. Gay rights and abortion were moral distractions designed to focus people's attention elsewhere. Many people were so caught up in these polarizing issues that they ignored the financial realities. Had abortion and gay rights been made States Rights issues in the 1970's, the larger Federal focus could and should have been concerned with Fiscal Responsibility, a notion completely alien to the Bush Administration and its friends on Wall Street and in Big Business. The children and grandchildren of the "Greatest Generation" did nothing except to ruin the America for which their parents had fought, sacrificed, and died for.

Shielded from view by the polarizing distractions of Gopianity's screaming blowtorches such as Rush Limbaugh and FoxNews, the Pigs of Wall Street and Big Business gorged themselves at the Troughs of Broken Capitalism. Astonishingly, these Pigs ignored the sensible bonmot that they had fed to we retail investors for decades: Hogs get fat, pigs get slaughtered. And so the Pigs of Wall Street and Big Business have been led off to slaughter in the Great Money Rapture of 2008. Their money has gone to "Money Heaven" while they find themselves in a most discomfiting and unfamiliar position.

Jesus said, "As a man sews, so shall he reap." Thus, just as the Pigs of Wall Street and Big Business cynically butchered Everyman, both now find themselves inescapably on the hook:

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Tribalism and the Post-News Age

The Post-News Age is a term I use to refer to the fact that we are living in a Post-News Age and have been for about ten years. The Post-News Age began when "the old media" saw the lucrative earnings of the tabs, the power of Matt Drudge, and the need for 24/7/365 coverage on cable.

There is no more news; there are simply for-profit media corporations creating versions of synthetic reality that favor their political bias and the needs of their corporate sponsors.

There has not been any authentic news for a long time. What exists is Tribal News. Each media empire is a for-profit tribe that draws its power from the political leaders and corporations it supports and is a part of.

Modern electronic Media Tribes are opposed to each other in a large contest for money and power. Hence, Fraudaffluence has become woven into the fabric of news because fraudulent and distorted news can be used to manipulate and consolidate money and power into the hands of that modern electronic Media Tribe whose synthetic version of reality best resonates with the collective fears and hopes of the Masses.

The Iraq/Afghanistan War is a prime example of the FoxRush Electronic Tribe creating a synthetic version of reality that manipulated and consolidated power and money into the hands of the Bush Tribe. The FoxRush and Bush Tribes are an Illuminati Corporation.

Plunder

Fraudaffluence has expressed itself in the subprime loan disaster and high oil prices. These two forms of Fraudaffluence are Plunder itself, the rape of America's economy that contributed nothing. The ripples savage the world's economy.

I looked at the numbers and saw that high oil prices tracked neatly to President Bush's so-called stimulus package. When Big Oil learned that $168 billion was going to be sent out to Americans, the temptation was too irresistible: An easy way for Big Oil to take the $168 billion was to begin manipulating the price of gasoline at the pump and have it peak across the time period that the checks were hitting. This was Plunder.

Likewise, the fraud at IndyMac and other banks was Fraudaffluence: CEO's and sales people making large bonuses and commissions by approving loans that should never have been approved. These fraudulent loans drove a housing boom that allowed many people to borrow their equity by refinancing. These people spent the money on consumer goods, or on debt reduction necessitated by purchasing consumer goods and luxuries on credit.

What is fraudaffluence?

It is a compound word I have coined: Fraud + Affluence.

Fraudaffluence is defined as any afflunce that comes about by use of fraud. The word fraudaffluence is useful because it allows us to distinguish affluence gained by honesty as opposed to affluence gained by fraud. Honesty and morality are important. The word fraudaffluence can help us to negatively define those who use various forms of fraud to obtain affluence. This new word "fraudaffluence" can be used as a modern substitute for the stocks in which people were locked in days of old to publicly shamed for their misdeeds.

What is an example of fraudaffluence?

The hiring and exploiting of illegal aliens is one of the largest and most common forms of fraudaffluence in America. Many middle-class contractors claim that they must hire illegals because, "Everyone else does." This is how they excuse their criminality and gain personal affluence. This is fraudaffluence.

Corporations also engage in fraudaffluence by hiring illegals, lying to investors, making false claims, adulterating their products, etc.

Fraudaffluence is what happens when capitalism, religion, government, and the many other avenues that money travels down are left unchecked. Enron was a stunning example of fraudaffluence of individuals using a corporation to perpetrate fraud. This fraud created great personal affluence for the Enron executives who were indicted. Big Oil is awash in profits from frauaffluence gained by manipulating markets.

From a spiritual perspective, money gained by fraudaffluence can be said to have bad karma. Hence, those whose fortunes are based upon fraudaffluence will attract bad karma.

In this blog, I will explore fraudaffluence from my point of view. I was was born and raised in Los Angeles. This is my homeland and I have seen it negatively transformed by fraudaffluence. Los Angeles is the penultimate example of how to use all sorts of frauds to create affluence.