Saturday, December 3, 2016

INTEREST - USURY

INTEREST - USURY

We are currently living in an age of rage. Racism, robbery, murder, genocide, wars and ethnic cleansing are becoming common place and people as a whole are being desensitized to its heinousness. All of this is done in the name of, or because of money. Money related to exorbitant Interest / usury rates on different scales, ranging from the United Nations system / IMF sanctioned "host country's" loans of $1.0 billion or more, to small student loans, to micro business loans.  The banks are lending everyone money, the chain stores are lending everybody money, the loan sharks are lending everybody money, pawn brokers are lending everybody money, purely  so that these lenders can buy things they don't really need, let alone afford, with money they don't really have, to impress people they don't really know just so they could be seen as  a "somebody".

The world has gone completely mad — literally! Or shall I rather say, those "one percenters" who place their own egos over and above that of humanity — is be blame for the chaos. Among them the bankers, the lawyers and the propaganda machines. The masses of impressionable people out there are easily swayed by their offerings of living large, constantly suggesting that they hanker after big and expensive homes and flashy cars, and brand name products, etc  achieved through their "in your  face" television, radio and news paper advertising.


Fake branded handbags on display in a shop in Korea
Meanwhile homes are being repossessed, cars are being repossessed, furniture are being repossessed yet high end clothing chain stores are making more credit available to their entire database to further enslave them and thereafter harass them for late or non-payment of their accounts. Their clothes are highly overpriced because of the "branding", since nobody wan't not to be seen not wearing "branded products" like surf and skate board clothing from Oakley, Billabong, Quiksilver, Nike and  Levi, etc, not to mention the extreme range of other branded apparel. Then there is also apparel ranging from Brioni Vanquish II / to Desmond Merrion Supreme Bespoke / Ermenegildo Zegna Bespoke suits, to Salvatore Ferragamo / Stefano Bemer Shoes, to Armani / Versace shirts to Turnbull & Asser / Roberto Cavalli ties, to Zimmerli / Bresciani socks, to Icebreaker / Frigo underware and even Rolex / Patek Philippe watches.  Buts that's just what the men aspire to wear. 



Fake branded Ladies heels

Whereas the women go for dresses from Emporio Armani / Christian Dior / Marc Jacobs / Prada / Dolce and Gabbana, and shoes by Louis Vuitton / Christian Louboutin / Jimmy Choo / Alexander McQueen / Gucci / Stuart Weitzman / Gucci / Brian Atwood / Stuart Weitzman, under garments by Victoria’s Secret / Fox and Rose, with watches from Cartier / Rolex / Richard Mille, etc. Young and teenage girls hanker after the Kardashian Kollection, while young teenage boys hanker after rappers and their Puff Daddy /  Jay-Z: dress code  —   Sean John label / Rocawear label respectively. 


Fake penile erectile medication, fakes placeabos on the left, ethicals on the right.



So what really makes these branded products or even the people they are named after "better" than any other person or  a tailor made shirt, suit or tie or a pair of hand made shoes from your local tailor, cobbler? Nothing really, except price. Everybody wants to be seen having money or give the impression that they are wealthy yet most people don't really have money and are in fact poor. They are perhaps credit worthy because they have jobs but that's also the only reason why they leap out of bed in the morning at an unruly hour and brave the traffic and public transport to get to work because of their dire  need to service their enormous debt  — recurring debts like, house payments, car payments, clothing payments, furniture payments,  groceries payments, amenities payments. Hardly have they made a payment when the next payment is due and that's only because they want to look good and live large — or rather live way above their means. All of this is fictitious, make-believe, imaginary, trickery, false, fake, counterfeit. 


Fake Rolex and fake Patek Phillippe watches







Speaking about counterfeit. Virtually everything out there is counterfeit. Ladies Louis Vuitton / Hilde Palladino / Mouawad / Lana Marks / etc, counterfeit handbags are rampant, totally pervasive. Like wise, virtually every Rolex watch  model has been cloned and are called replicas. Even money, banknotes in virtually every currency have been counterfeited. Fake iPhone charger are also widespread and has a tendency to go faulty and could cause your house to burn down. There are fake car parts abound. pharmaceutical drugs were even found to be counterfeit   mere expensive placeabos.  One can even find fake firearms, counterfeit ammunition and fake handguns almost indistinguishable from  the replicas.


Fake firearms indistinguishable from real firearms



Fake Bullets









Cubic Zirconia is fake diamond but mind you, diamond is the only item mentioned in this blog that is in fact real. Originally created by God Almighty, though man has never been able to clone it exactly other than make lab diamond simulants.  Though today's big challenge is to be  honest with yourselves. It certainly better to be 100% percent yourself —  a true diamond — rather than be  a 50% fake of somebody else.

Having said that, it is the originators and the counterfeiters who are the "one percenters". Some of them unscrupulously encourage child labour in sweat shops, deal in conflict diamonds and counterfeit pharmaceuticals  with activities  extending to modern slavery in Europe. Seriously, the world is going mad, or  has it gone fake?