Gross National Happiness - despite everything

This post is about the world debut of Gross National Happiness measures, or GNH, to take the place of those tired Gross National Product figures, or GNP. 

GNP is used to monitor manufacturing economy activity in industrial societies but includes financial gains.  GNP led to managing of countries using information that has horribly distorted the overall picture.  And bear in mind that all forms of ignorance are unnecessary.

Perhaps now that rich donors have a complete stranglehold on what is taught under the term, economics, in universities, and the credibility of economics grads is at an all-time low, it's time to allow economic academics to briefly give up on ignorance and recognize the obvious. 

Our academics appear to be adopting new sets of indicators that look at fulfillment.  But this could be some of that ol' time tokenism.  Tokenism is the best way to suppress true reform and prevent our chances of adapting to reality.  You simply ensure that you can say, "Oh, we already have a department in place that's in charge of that.  (But we don't listen to what they say, and we don't give them money so they won't threaten the existing system which, let's face it, our donors ensure we continue to do well within.)"

But something really is going on.

The French government began publishing happiness indicators in 2009. 

The Office for National Statistics in the UK has a program in place to measure national well-being at the same time that prime minister, Cameron, is touring East Asia to promote sales of weapons made in the UK.

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, OECD, is drawing up guidelines for members (mostly finance ministers of 'developed countries') to collect “well-being data”.

Daniel Kahneman, a psychologist who won the Nobel Prize in economics, is drawing up measures of “subjective well-being”. His group is financed by the Obama administration.  (We might wonder, "When is well-being not subjective?"  So look for answers, coming soon.)

The first World Happiness Report was published recently, commissioned for a United Nations Conference on Happiness, under the auspices of the UN General Assembly.  There's input from Columbia University’s Earth Institute, and two happiness experts, Richard Layard of the London School of Economics and John Helliwell of the University of British Columbia.

The happiest people are in countries in northern Europe:

Denmark,

Norway,

Finland,

Netherlands. 

Countries with the most misery are on the African continent:

Togo,

Benin,

Central African Republic,

Sierra Leone.

At the UN Headquarters in New York City on April 2, 2012 the country of Bhutan hosted 600 participants from governments, academia, civil society and religious bodies.  The conference focused on Bhutan's new economic paradigm. 

Prime Minister of Bhutan, Jigmi Y. Thinley: "It is now the intention of the meeting on April 2, (2012) to bring together people from around the world – ... we are looking at the launching of the initiative for the creation of a sustainability-based paradigm comprising of, basically, four dimensions. These are: 

1. well-being and happiness;
2. ecological sustainability; 
3. fair distribution; and
4. efficient use of the increasingly scarce resources."
   

The conference outcomes will inform negotiations related to Rio+20, the global conference on sustainable development in June of 2012.  Bhutan will present the revised plan.

Bhutan is a Himalayan kingdom.  But it's no Shangri-La.  There's wealth and then some estimates peg a quarter of the population of 700,000 as living on less than US$1.25 a day.  70 percent of the population is without electricity.  

It's a country which experiences large, ongoing problems with Nepalese migrants.  It borders on Assam (India) where there is political unrest, and Tibet, which was violently reabsorbed into China.  So the country remains rocky in more ways than one.

And in 2014, Bhutan will go further and hold a conference at home aimed at developing a new GNH-based agreement equivalent to the Bretton Woods Agreement to establish post- WWII global economic controls.  See previous blog post for the significance of the Bretton Woods Agreement and why it fell apart.

Note:  Coverage of Bhutan's conference at the UN was also given by:

Kuensel (Bhutanese news site)

Matthieu Ricard's Blog 

The Guardian

The Economist

New York Times

The Washington Post

CNN

as well as Canada’s CBC and Global News, plus Le Monde, and Time. 

Fighting over a Faint Glow on Screens

Media reporting and non-reporting on the broader implications of the US debt crisis generally contributes to mounting confusion.  This posting attempts to bring some clarity about what is going on in the world, behind the headlines.

The last blog posting introduced the phenomena of currency wars.  Earlier we looked at how the job of government is to ensure that everyone has a way to contribute and benefit from society.  Now engaged in an international society should we have governments going after one another with sanctions that suck life out of society?

Currency wars are an example of how removed some of us have become from mutual benefit and bringing goodness to society.  

Storehouses of Gold in Asia

Since well before the American Revolution of 1776, China has supported the US in becoming a Western power.  This was not pure altruism.  This was self-interest.  China wanted to create another Western power strong enough to balance the European empires of England, Holland, Portugal.  Therefore Chinese, and what are now Taiwanese families took gold from their underground storehouses and lent huge amounts of gold bullion to the US.
Source:  David Wilcock’s team of researchers. 
http://divinecosmos.com/start-here/davids-blog/1022-lawsuit-end-tyranny-ii

Recently China balked at the thought of funding attacks against itself and its neighbouring countries.  The families asked for the gold they lent to be returned. The major banking clans that, in effect, own the Federal Reserve, were apparently required to appear in court within the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) in September 2010.  The BIS was set up as the international arm of the Federal Reserve.   

The court case was about gold contracts going back hundreds of years.  

The gold owners won, and the judgment totaled the astronomic amount of 286-trillion dollars in today’s dollars. This was reported by Benjamin Fulford who used to be the chief Asia correspondent for Forbes business magazine.  Because the BIS court was set up to be a secret world court it does not issue records to the public.  However, reports surfaced that the Federal Reserve has delayed making the big payout.  The Federal Reserve bankers are either unable or unwilling to return the trillions they owe and have taken a dismissive attitude.  

In November of 2011 some of the gold owners filed a lawsuit in New York State courts for a much smaller amount.  This time there is a public record of the case that is still awaiting a court hearing.
http://divinecosmos.com/media/Keenan_complaint_11-23-2011_SDNY.pdf 

We get an idea of the sheer magnitude of the smaller amount from this Fox News report.  We see it is up there with the amounts that the US owes it's major national creditors.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ttSmZknU9mI

According to the National Defense Authorization Act passed into law on New Year’s Eve of 2011, the US debt is now the biggest threat to American security.  The act clearly states that the US will reposition more military power into the West Pacific.  We saw American marines repositioned into Australia (and therefore China's backyard,) three months later.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NbbKivB2LM 

The traditional Eastern US protectorates, Asian countries that are beneficiaries of US military might, are dumping or considering dumping the US dollar as an international exchange currency, along with US military protection. See the previous Social Creator blog, and 7-minutes into  http://rt.com/programs/keiser-report/episode-271-max-keiser/

The Old World Economy

The Bretton Woods Agreement came out of the 1944 meeting to establish rules for a post WWII global economy.  

West Germany was the first to unilaterally get out of it, in May 1971.  It was simply unwilling to devalue the Deutsche mark in order to prop up the dollar.  Within three months the West German economy rebounded, and the dollar declined 7.5% against the Deutsche mark.

The US had gone into debt for the first time in the 20th century in 1971, because of the Vietnam War.  The heavy debt combined with a negative U.S. trade balance.  

Other nations followed West Germany and began to demand their gold, based on America's "promise to pay" – that is, to redeem their dollars for gold.  Nixon changed US law in 1971 allowing the Federal Reserve to legally refuse to honour contracts that required the US to pay in gold.  Nixon introduced 'fiat' money, literally backed only by hot air, by declaration.  Fiat money is based on law.
Google the definition of 'fiat currency'.

Looking behind Today's News Headlines

What does today's situation look like, as a currency war scenario? 

We have other countries joining the US military to enforce respect for numbers electronically stored in Federal Reserve and BIS computers.  These computer entries are displayed as lights on screens.  

The entries were meant to create a faint glow.  However they are used to create vast consequences in terms of human misery. 

These ciphers must be taken seriously.  They represent dollar amounts backed by legal contracts.  These Fed and BIS ciphers are abstractions.  They cannot be redeemed for the delivery of gold, food, water, a collaborative labour force, or anything else of value since 1971.  

The earlier blog posting on BRICS countries suggested that a currency backed by a lot of Asian gold could take it's place.  Forces allied within NATO might ensure the dollar cannot be dislodged from the centre of today's international currency exchanges. 

Without NATO military in place to enforce other countries to accept the ciphers, our notions of vast dollar amounts of national debts would probably quickly cease.  We might experience large scale renewal and abundance around the world.  

We would see big changes in the Federal Reserve and Bank of International Settlements abilities to control the world's economy, and control currency exchanges.

For more on currency wars since Roman times until the present, see this article by John Perkins. He has advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, U.S. Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. He worked directly with heads of state and CEOs of major companies. His books on economics and geo-politics have sold more than 1 million copies:
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27967.htm 

Why the News no longer Makes Sense

It seems that the story behind most news items these days has been politicians, military and corporations working towards shared ends.  It`s involved sending people off to war.  War is the impersonal use of physical power.  Its about using biology and putting it behind guns.

During the early 1990’s and the first Gulf War we saw protestors' signs that read ‘War is not an Energy Policy’.  Many people realized that the story behind the story behind news items was ensuring continued access to energy produced by oil, using chemistry. Now we see production of energy from uranium as the big story behind news about Iran.  Iran could  be using uranium for social use or for destruction  Again its about using chemistry.  

It’s widely known that Western energy policies have included suppressing the democratization of clean forms of energy both at home and abroad.  Governments worry about people having easy access large amounts of energy at home using physics.  

Perhaps governments currently see this suppression as necessary because large amounts of energy could ‘fall into the wrong hands’ and be turned into weapons.  The National Defence Authorization Act, passed into law in the US on New Year's Eve, 2011, specifically mentions pulsed photonic weaponry – or what we must assume is the weaponization of light.  Sounds like battling light sabres to me.  Perhaps watching too much Luke Skywalker.

The actual technology being referred to here is energy from the vacuum, or EFTV.  Its a topic well worth Googling if only to see how something the military has used since the 1930`s is being portrayed.

   

The story behind the story behind the story behind the news items these days is currency.  The America dollar has not involved gold since the time of Richard Nixon.  In fact we are now into currency wars.  Imagine that.  And there is nothing within the use of numbers in a computer that the currency represents,  People are going hungry in Greece for example because the debt numbers in a computer have been adopted by consensus.  See currencywarsbook.com for more on this kind of development.  

So let`s take a look at what currency wars look like...  Note how Saddam Hussein in Iraq was accepting currencies other than the dollar, for oil.  This enraged the financial sector in the US. 

Qaddafi started to require gold for oil rather than US dollars.  He was also setting up a banking system for Africa, independent of Europe.  And then America and mostly Italy and France attacked Libya. 

Iran has accepted gold for oil.  Iran is being deliberately financially destabilized through sanctions.

Let`s start to understand what`s behind the news.  Let`s start to pull this together:

Story Level I
Use of biology - armed wars

Story Level II
Use of materials in chemistry - wars about oil.

Story Level III
Use of energy in physics - recent wars over energy from the vacuum

Story Level IV
Use of numbers in mathematics - recent currency wars

If the world situation is difficult to follow, it’s because currency is hard to understand.  Currency is about numbers and using math.  And math is actually not a science but a form of philosophy.  Let`s say we now used metaphysics, a branch of philosophy for wars. Newscasters are not up for reporting on that.

It could be argued that studies of currency belong in algebra.  Remember algebra... that way of getting both sides of the equals sign to remain equal to one another, or balanced?   

Think of the philosophy of algebra in terms of, say Taoism, which seeks to align with the balance of two principles of Life - sometimes called yin and yang, shiva and shakti, self and flow, etc.  

Take another look at the financial destabilization of Iran.  Its about denying Life, or using sanctions to deny balance within a country.  Recently we saw the expulsion of Iran from SWIFT, which facilitates exchanges of currency amongst countries.  If you can`t turn currency or numbers into a weapon, then suppress or block the flow of currency.  This is death culture.  This begins to impose or inflict economic depression.

Think of algebra in terms of karmic repercussions, of equal and opposite actions, of atonement.  And think of algebra the same way you think about beats that create waves,  cycles, or vibration.  This is not the usual stuff to get your head around while nibbling and watching the news on telly.  

So we don't understand the news and therefore our world.

You can bet that in currency wars only bankers act as the commanders and generals.  To make the decisions on all the big moves in the world, bank owners need battalions of number crunching officers.  The bankers wage war on countries without the public, governments, military or corporations fully understanding the 'why' or the 'how'. 

Balance in the world is now either maintained or messed around with by several bank owners.  This is not conspiracy theory.  This is algebra.  Highly complex levels of algebra, but algebra all the same.

And clearly algebra and conspiracy theory are not the same.

We all want things to add up in our minds.  It is more than wanting, its a shared need amongst humans.  Yet we have not understood the news for a long time. 

What is a conspiracy theory?  It's how we take extremely complex world situations and get them to add up.  Clarity emerges gradually.  We arrive at highly complex levels of algebra through intuition about pattern and balance rather than through mathematics.