Category: Economics

American Medical System is Rotten to the Core

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One of the dark sides of a democratic republican is the dominance of big corporation to sway legislation to pass laws that negatively affects the well beings of the people. One of this obvious dysfunction can be seen in the American medical /insurance system. Our medical system failed; It’s a corrupt system, a financial scam, designed for profit, not care. Health insurers implement secretive practices that stop people from accurately knowing what they’re being charged. Companies like TeamHealth (owned by Blackstone) have such an influence over the business of the medical industry, that chances are your doctor or nurse is employed by them. And investment firms like Vanguard and Blackrock own at least a part in almost every single major publicly-traded hospital or healthcare system in the entire nation.

For more than a hundred years, the American medical system is hijacked by big corporations. In the early 1900s, Rockefeller Foundation used campaign donations and lobbyists to promote its own agenda. In exchange for large campaign contributions, legislation put the American Medical Association (AMA), a private institution, in charge of overseeing medical training and practice in the U.S.A. Unfortunately, the AMA was heavily influenced by the Rockefeller Foundation which was looking for a way to promote their patented drugs. Consequently, the AMA promoted allopathic medicine to the point that it became the only approved form of medicine taught in the U.S. And doctors began prescribing Rockefeller Foundations’ patented medicines to manage, not cure illnesses and diseases. This short video helps to explain how the American Medical Association took over medicine and changed the landscape of health forever.

Here is a long full medical documentary of Big Secret that explores the truth behind some of today’s most widely-accepted medical practices, and seeks to expose how the focus on corporate profits influences traditional medical treatment in the United States. Under financial pressure, alternative medicine education was shut down from the American medical system. When asked whether medical schools could teach students how to be “more efficient and effective” with the EHR, American Medical Association deleted its original tweet. The discussion from doctors highlighted just how out-of-touch this AMA organization has become.

Having taken many medicines since my teenage years, I have in the process self-educated myself on many Chinese Alternative Medicine principles, while also growing increasingly mistrust of allopathy medicine. I truly believe alternative medicine and herbal medicine can hugely cut down costs and provide American people with better medical coverage. It is said, Prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death in the USA. You can see why in China most people distrust western medicine. Even the most modern hospital in China will still have large TCM departments.

I am one of the millions of Americans who do not have medical insurance. The Health Insurance Cost Has Risen 55% in the last 10 years. The Annual Health Insurance Cost for Family Coverage is Now $21,000 Per Year. The Employee Premium Contribution has Increased 40% in the Last 10 Years to $5,600 Per Year. That is More Than What the Average US Household Spends on Food, which is $4,600 Per Year. The Health Insurance Deductible Has Increased 110% in the Last 10 Years to $1,364 Per Year. The Problem is that Only 39% of Americans Can Afford a $1,000 Unexpected Healthcare Cost… Therefore, the Vast Majority of Americans Cannot Afford Their Health Insurance Deductible. Health Insurance Companies are Incentivized by the Market for healthcare costs to rise. A Study by Stanford Researchers Found that a 4% Annual Increase in Healthcare Costs Leads to a 48% Increase in Health Insurance companies’ Stock Price Over 10 Years. However, a 2% Annual Increase in Healthcare Costs Only Leads to a 22% Increase in Health Insurance Company Stock Price. Researchers Propose that the US Department of Labor clarify the fiduciary responsibility of employer health plan sponsors to keep employee healthcare costs down.

Former health care CEO argues America’s medical system rewards bad outcomes. Lacking a good medical education, the American people are falling prey to many lies of modern medicine. When it comes to the fear of newly identified diseases, lies often substitute for data, and for those afflicted, stigma supplants compassion. The treatment of illnesses such as cancer, HIV, influenza, and tuberculosis, are often rooted in the falsehoods of their first portrayal. Dr. Nathalia Holt is the author of Cured: The People who Defeated HIV (Dutton 2014), looks at the precision of our cultural and scientific understanding of disease and considers the influence of perception in medicine, and asks, what is the truth about the treatment of our most deadly diseases? A case in point is the treatment of Covid-19 using traditional Chinese medicine – low cost and effective.

Finally, here is an excellent discussion by an Indian medical scientist, educationist, and author about Ayurveda over Western medicines. Recipient of Dr. B. C. Roy Award in 1999, and the Padma Bhushan Award in 2010, one of India’s highest civilian awards, Dr.BM Hegde speaks on the idea of how ayurvedic medicines are far better for the human body than western medicines. He talks about important theories on how the human body actually functions in a given environment and how Ayurveda blends itself with the human body. Dr.Hegde speaks about the importance of meta medicines which would eventually decide the health factor of humans on earth.

Can you actually make a disease disappear? Dr Rangan Chatterjee thinks you can. Often referred to as the doctor of the future, Rangan is changing the way that we look at illness and how medicine will be practiced in years to come. He highlighted his methods in the groundbreaking BBC TV show, Doctor In The House, gaining him much acclaim from patients, his contemporaries and the media.

What Does Love Have to Do with Capitalism?

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I was really lucky to born in a time of relative equal society, where even though we were all poor, but we were innocent and relatively peaceful by our own. I was lucky to born in a place that has a strong culture that were full of positive role models and the adherence to the teaching of ethical traditions. I am very very grateful. I wish to pass what I learned to the next generation.

While the media all over the places are heated with speculation of former President Donald Trumps’ resident in Florida Mar-a-Largo estate being searched under warrant, there are some other heart reckoning voices that compelled me to recorded this down. I also know the problems that is now prevalent in United States, especially the lower class, is also just as rampant in China – millions of children were left out without care in the countryside（留守儿童）while their parents were forced to taking low pay jobs in the far away cities. The children are too young to have their voices heard. These are urgent and important issues that relate to the future of humanity. Have Mercy! Pastor John MacArthur calling for the the whole society and governments all over the world to take priority to help these children. Time is of essential!

We have a massive massive problem in or society. The subject at hand, the subject of courage is really a vital vital part, first Corinthians 16, 13 – just a series of brief commands – Be on the alert, Stand firm in the faith, Act like men, Be strong and then Verse 14 – Let all you do be done in love. That is no easy recipe. To play the role of leadership, authority, responsibility, protection, to be strong when everybody around you is compromising, and do it all in love, is a challenge that can only be met by a spirit-filled man. We have face the fact that we have to do all those things in the last three years of Grace Church. I [Pastor MacArthur] have to be on the alert, I[Pastor MacArthur have to be sort of General that understood what the enemy was doing and father people, provide for them a kind of protection, a kind of safety, a kind of security that made them feel safe, loved and secure, show strength and do all of that in love. It did not work out so well the last couple of years for a lot of institutions and a lot of churches, they really did none of those things. Or they did some of those things some of the time and some of those things none of the time. The result of that is now beginning to show up as life sort of slowly gets back to normal, and may go a little faster back toward normal with Elon Musk buying Twitter.

But now as these people who didn’t really exhibit those kinds of characteristics face the aftermath of what happened when they did not act that way. They try to put the pieces back together, it is not working out too well. There are seminaries, Christian institutions, are floundering massive budget cuts, staff cuts, faculty cuts, there are churches that may never come back again, they may never be able to recover where they were or even close to that. The evangelical landscape in terms of leadership has shifted significantly once we kind of thought we knew the team and now we’re not too sure who’s on what team. It’s as if there was all of a sudden an open market and everybody could re-draft everybody, and people are winding up with new teams and new groups and new theological definitions and new associations. And the whole thing is chaotic.

People ask me[Pastor MacArthur] what happen to your friend, it was interesting who didn’t say anything for two years about what Grace Church was doing, all kind of various things in the Christian Community, no one ever penned anything about what the lord was doing at Grace Community. It is like we were either an outlier or a threat. Or they didn’t want to be compared. But this was an opportunity where balancing out all these things including doing it in love. We stood where we should have stood. We are continue to do what we have been called by God to do. We are not going to waver, we are going to take whatever comes. You want your people to be willing to put their lives, their children, their resources, their future into your care. Life is not going to get back to what it was in the past. It is going down a pathway where strength is going to be very very important…. all the things about shutting the church had very little to do with Covid, but this was an opportunity for people who resented the church to take aim at the church, and cover it with the supposed pandemic. At the same time it was important for us to take the stand that we took through all of these on the woke issues, we took those stands with love because they were biblical. (note: just a contrarian view for you to see Why some hated Pastor John MacArthur so much)

…This is a very weak culture. The men in this culture are insipid and weak. Men have slipped when they are challenged by the culture, instead of standing up to the culture, they cave to the culture. And if you do that, if you give what the culture want, the culture will pull you down to the very bottom, like a ball and chain dropping you in the ocean. If you follow this culture, you are going to end up in feminism and LGBT and transgender-ism. That is where the culture will take you. …… Last couple of days Good Morning American program had a transgender 11 year old on as a hero – a pathetic tragic little boy dressed like a girl and made a hero out of him. One of the guys clapping for him was Michael Strahan of the NFL…. what is where we (culture) are.

25 Million children(one third of total) in America live without a biological father. … Children between grade 1-12, 40 percent of them live without a biological father. So where is the influence coming on them? And if there is no biological father, there is likely no mother in the home because she’s got a living to support the family. So they are at the mercy of the faculties of their elementary schools and so forth. And with the transgender and sexual identity, what you have is essentially a large core of lesbians who are now the school teachers grooming little children to be homosexuals. Grooming should be a crime, it should be a crime and it is if you are a heterosexual groomer….But it’s not if you’re a homosexual groomer you can join the teachers union, you can get a 35 little five-year-olds ?

50 percent of children in our country are born outside of marriage. 85% of prisoners are grown up in a fatherless home. 85 percent of children have behavior disorder come from father less homes. 90 percent of youth who run away and are homeless come from fatherless home. The majority of homeless come from fatherless homes. Such children are 300 more likely to do drugs and carry weapons. We have a massive, massive problems in our society that has nothing to do with past history. It has to do with the absence of men, strong men. This is a holocaust produced by sexual immortality, the relentless assault of feminism and overexposure to perversion and then just bad fathers. Nothing is more devastating to a society. The only hope for stability in a society, the only hope for peace in a society, the only hope for tranquility is virtuous manhood. And it basically has disappeared. Evil abounds everywhere and how men respond to that will determine society’s parameters.

Masculinity, how would you define that? It is the willingness and the determination to take responsibility to reduce evil and produce good. No culture can rise above the character of its fathers or the lack of it. The feminist lie has been that patriarchy is tyrannical, patriarchy is toxic, it needs to be destroyed. To destroy father/responsibility is to destroy society.

It is disastrous into Exodus 20: I the lord your God, I am visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children. Who is responsible for a generation’s influence on the next generation? It is the fathers. That gets visited on the third and fourth generation of them to hate me. Unconverted people hate God. If you have weak, sinful, iniquitous fathers, who hate God, that is going to be perpetuated into multiple generations. The corruption of any generation produces corruption subsequently. To those who love me and keep my commandments, therein lies the only possible hope for the society. Somebody has to love and keep his commandments….

One thing in synchronicity with all these happening is the huge extreme gaps of inequality produced by a extreme distorted value system – 50 years of trickle down economy fallacy. What a crumble middle class mean? Professor Robert Reich explains why the growing federal debt enriches Wall St. bankers and wealthy Americans. We need strong governments to pool resources to help those budding vulnerable. The American Democracy is falling. For the suppressed and the suppressing class, both are Dukkha.

The Evolution of wealth inequalities over the last two centuries.

The Eightfold Path – Right View and Right Intention with Climate Change as a Case Study

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Right Understanding is clear knowledge of the Four Noble Truths, encompassing the “Three Basic Facts of Existence”: Anicca (Impermanence), Anatta (Pali for “non self” or “insubstantiality”; in Sankrit Anatman) and Dukkha (suffering or unsatisfactoriness). Without understanding the Four Noble Truths (the “diseases”) of what use is the “cure” (The Eightfold Path)? So Four Noble Truth teaches us to live within our means and be moderate in our interaction with others and with the environment. As the three poisons (Ignorance, Greed, and Aversion) often tip our minds off balance unconsciously. We need to be very vigilant to the mindset/attitudes behind our thought processes, speeches, and actions. The eightfold path is the way to self-cultivation and self-actualization. Right Intention means do no harm, no killing, and compassion.

One of the cases in point is the discussion of Global Warming and Climate Change. These are on the agenda of the World Economic Forum as well as on that of many governments. A huge problem in modern political governments is the lacking of what Buddhism called the Right View. People are blind-minded by science, and they do not realize the limitation of science, and thus instead of believing in the Right View, they are believing in the superstition/bias of science. Modern governments do not take into account the input of Native indigenous heritage, religion, metaphysical study, or other disciplines of holistic research. Western democracy used to be the model for other “non/less democratic” countries. However, people have seen a lot of social unrest, violence, inequality, human rights violations, and abuse of political power in western countries. In recent years, people have started questioning the western way of democracy and whether western democracy is the ultimate solution for a fair society. Meanwhile, inside China, the disruptive impacts of the market economy over the last 40 years have reared their ugly head, resulting in the revival of Chinese traditional philosophies and Confucius principles. The internationally intellectual circle has started dialogues on these pressing issues. That is a huge topic we can further explore in the future.

But since we are talking about climate and environment, we can first start with the cosmology of traditional Chinese philosophy. Climate and environment were specifically discussed in ancient Chinese, but ancient Chinese philosophy is built on the relationship of human with Heaven and Earth. A fundamental concept is the resonances of humans’ energy with that of Heaven and Earth. (天人感应), Another is the dynamic equilibrium. Confucius believes that let states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish. Confucians took to heart that our human nature comes from Heaven and that the Way of Heaven is accessible through self-knowledge. To understand the Mandate of Heaven we must continuously cultivate ourselves. This completes the triad of Heaven, Earth and humankind (天地人三才. Confucian regards Humanity as a partner of both Heaven and Earth, and he regards the Earth as a living entity.

In the west, English writer and speaker Alan Wilson Watts (6 January 1915 – 16 November 1973) was well known for pioneering the interpretation and popularization of Japanese, Chinese and Indian traditions of Buddhist, Zen, Taoist, and Hindu philosophy for a large Western audience. Alan Watts has 5 most important commendations for the people in the 21st century. In answering the question “How does one bring oneself into accord with the Tao?” He wrote in Become What You Are, “If you try to accord with it(Tao), you will get away from it(Tao)”. For to imagine there is a “you” separate from life which somehow has to accord with life is to fall straight into the trap. If you try to find the Tao, you are at once presupposing a difference between yourself and the Tao.” This is very much the same interpreation of Buddhism’s teaching of One (non-ducality). Alan Watts continued to explain:

In the West, “nature” is something that’s equated with the countryside or the mountains — a place that is wild and out there. Nature is thus something you enjoy from the safety of your couch via a David Attenborough documentary or when you finally get out of the city on the weekend. This divide between our daily life and the natural world has grown so much that most of us don’t know where the food we eat every day comes from and feel out of place in the silence and vastness of open, cementless spaces. In Chinese, the word for nature is ziran(自然）, which means “self so”, or “so of itself”. Ziran doesn’t mean green pastures over yonder. There is no word to distinguish between “us” and “nature” in Chinese. It means a spontaneous process that happens in and of itself. This notion of ziran （自然） — the natural, spontaneous process of life — is the basis of the principle of “Tao”. The Chinese philosophy based around living in accordance with the Tao, and that is attributed to the person (or likely persons) Lao Tzu, is called Taoism.

To continue combatting the issue of climate change/environmental protection, the native Indigenous American should be brought into the discussion as well. Before the Whites came to America, Indigenous Native America has been living in harmony with Heaven and Earth. But nowadays Native tribes are experiencing an environmental peril exacerbated by policies — first imposed by white settlers and later by the United States. Everything that we do as humans affects the environment in some shape or form. This fundamental belief put the Native American human on equal footing with the animal they hunted for food or the berries they took from the bush. It is said that United States Constitution is based on the Iroquois Constitution, the oldest living Constitution, also known as The Great Law of Peace, shares the Field Museum in Chicago. Our Founding Fathers, including Benjamin Franklin, were in contact with the leaders of the Iroquois Confederacy, and they were invited to speak to the Continental Congress in 1776. In 1988, the U.S. Senate recognized the Great Law of Peace as an inspiration for the United States Constitution, stating, “The confederation of the original 13 colonies into one republic was influenced by the political system developed by the Iroquois Confederacy, as were many of the democratic principles which were incorporated into the constitution itself.” The Native Indigenous Americans helped the whites in many ways to adjust to the newfound land. Mother Teresa reminds us not to forget those who had helped us.

Among the religious group, there is quite a consensus on how the mind affects the climate and the unseen energy vibration. Here is what Pope Francis said on climate change:

Buddhist Monk Venerable ChinKung fully shares the view with that of Pope Francis. He said the craving mind of humanity accounts for the vibration of the magnetic field. This magnetic field to a large degree electrifies the personal level of individual circumstances and invigorates the collective level social atmosphere and environmental conditions. To testify to this point of view, we can look into the story of Master Xu Yun (虚云老和尚）prayed for the relief of severe drought conditions in the hot summer in August of 1900. During the war, the City of XiAn was in chaos: many people died, and disease and pandemics were rampant. The air was highly populated and smell very bad. Master XuYun led a group of over a thousand monks to pray and chant for seven straight days, eventually, the miracle happened and people got snow in the summertime. The Empress of that time, Chixi was so grateful that she made long bowed to Master XuYun.

So we definitely need to allocate resources to battle climate change. But we need to get into the root cause and have a holistic consideration. The resources should be given to the most needed area rather than political interest groups/or lobbying groups. Just like we are against a drug abuse economy, we are against a climate change economy. Science and technology, by themselves, will not be able to reverse the effect of climate change. Professor Chomsky explains why social, racial, and economic justice is just as crucial as science in determining how humans can reverse climate catastrophe. Looking into Green New Deal, the Degrowth movement, the tension between unions and the environmental movement, and climate change are more of a democracy problem rather than an economic issue.

Finally all it boils down to love and mind, Famous mystics and Astrologist Isabel Hicky summarized it the best: 



    		    	


    	
    
    

    
    






    
    
    

    
    	

    		
Creative Solution for Economic Crisis – Case Study of Sri Lanka

    		    		

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Listening to BeiQi’s Youtube program conjures up ideas to use financing for constructive usage.   Currently many global south countries were among the most damaged economies by the raging inflation globally, the slow down in business activities and hazardous health conditions of Covid-19 impact.  Sri Lanka is one of the most striking case in point.   This island country had experienced unprecedented social political crisis in the recent years.  On the other hand, the developed countries have tons of capital looking for good investments.  As a global village, maybe this is a good opportunity to negotiate win-win negotiation. 





Contrary to the impression of accused corruption, the chart reveal the President and government are the underneath factor for stabilization.  Despite the circumstances, Sun(representing the President and Government) conjunct Saturn(execution, organize, planning, effort) situated next to the MC at the top of the chart are highly involving many aspects of the natal and progressive chart as well as the cosmos vibration of the moment(the out most transit ring). The Saturn being the North Node ruler, have a grand trine with the natal Moon and natal Pluto denoting a high level of social coherency and power. The current Sri Lanka President and Parliament are fighting a uphill battles together with their countrymen(the natal Moon at 26 degree of Virgo conjuct natal Pluto at 29 Virgo) .  





There are tremendous pressure to integrate idealism into reality(Opposition of Sun/Saturn to natal Neptune) by deploy methodology, process, techniques(Tip of T-square represented by Asc at 7-8 degree of Virgo) .  The country will uphold their spirituality (natal/progressive Neptune) as their driving force(progressive Mars at 8 degree of Leo) for the positive changes to come.  This is a country that will radiate tremendous spiritual power to light up the world as the time progress. 















As shown above, according to the news, Sri Lanka run into financial difficulty. All the loans they have came from third world countries and China. But they have built beautiful airport, hospital in addition to very nice port and tons of natural resources.  In U.S. we have tons of capitals looking for good investment, maybe this is a great project for collaboration and constructive use of high finance?   Maybe loan in the form of U.S government to Sri Lanka Government, with the condition to share the profits.    With U.S Government in 30+ Trillion debt, maybe we can do some projects like these to gain income for paying off the debt?  just an idea.