[사설] 1차 추경 절반도 못 쓰고 또 추경, 정권 ‘정치 실탄’ 된 추경 조선일보 ---->정부에서 돈을 쓸수록 경제는 망가지고, 시민들은 가난해진다. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1보)강창일 주일대사, 문대통령 도쿄올림픽 지지하고 방일원한다고 아사히신문 인터뷰 백성의피눈물 http://www.ilbe.com/view/11350699642 강창일 대사가 일본 아시히신문과 공식인터뷰한 기사이며 일본정부가 이러한 문대통령의 희망을 "어른스럽게" 받아들이면 좋겠다고 애걸. 일제시대 강제동원과 위안부 보상문제도 우리 법원 압박해 문재인이 압박해 기각시켰고 일본을 기쁘게 할 추가적인 회유책도 12개 이상 준비되어 있다고 자랑한 기사에는 내 얼굴이 다 화끈해졌음. 예전엔 죽창 언급하며 반일하자고 국민선동해서 무역보복 당하고 국내 일식집 망가뜨리고 2030세대 일본취업 다 막더니, 이제 와선 이완용이 울고 갈 아부라니.. 싸이코인가? 결국 선거와 통치에 반일이용해 국민들만 피해봤네. 애비는 일제때 우리 농민수탈했던 농업과장이었고, 자기는 일본 야동 즐기며 친일파 김지태유족 변호해 117억 혈세 받아내고 일본전자기업들과 싸우던 삼성 이재용 잡아 가두고, 마누라는 일본 우라센케 다도에 미치고, 딸은 일본 우익단체가 세운 고쿠시칸대학에서 유학하고, 아들은 일본만화와 비디오가 방천장까지 닿을 정도로 탐닉했으니.. 토착왜구 원조집안이었네 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 평양주재 대사의 충격 증언! 김정은은 '바지사장'! 신인균의 국방티비 https://youtu.be/PqKUmgxlS4s ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 미국의 반자본주의 심각하다. 서구문명 몰락의 시작인가? 위기의 지구촌 시대정신 연구소 https://youtu.be/hKlw_7sgfa8 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 복지-전쟁 국가와 법정 화폐 시스템은 권위주의 정부를 유지하는 생명선이고, 이걸 폐지해야만 권위주의 정부를 몰아낼 수 있다. The Road to Authoritarianism is Paved with Fiat Currency Ron Paul Last week, the Federal Reserve announced it will maintain an interest rate target of zero to 0.25 percent for the rest of 2021. The Fed said it will also continue its monthly purchase of 120 billion dollars of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities. Some Fed board members are forecasting a rate increase by late 2022 or 2023, though with the rate still not reaching one percent. The Fed will neither allow interest rates to rise to market levels nor reduce its purchase of Treasury securities. A significant increase in interest rates would make the government’s borrowing costs unsustainable. The Fed also raised its projected rate of inflation to three percent, although it still insists the rise in prices is a transitory effect of the end of the lockdowns. There is some truth to this, as it will take some time for businesses to get back to full capacity. However, the Fed began taking extraordinary measures to prop up the economy in September of 2019, when it started pumping billions of dollars a day into the repo market that banks use to make short-term loans to each other. The lockdowns only postponed and deepened the forthcoming Fed-caused meltdown. Germany’s Deutsche Bank recently released a paper warning about the Federal Reserve continuing to disregard the inflation risk caused by easy money policies designed to “stimulate” the economy and facilitate massive government spending. Germans have reason to be sensitive to the consequences of inflation, including hyperinflation. Out-of-control inflation played a major role in the collapse of the German economy in the 1920s, which led to the rise of the National Socialists. This pattern could repeat itself in America where we have already witnessed the rise of authoritarian movements. Last summer, groups exploited legitimate concerns about police misconduct to foment violence across the country. Can anyone doubt that an economic crisis that leads to mass unemployment, foreclosures, and maybe even shortages will result in large-scale violence? Or that the violence will be exploited by power-hungry politicians? Or that many people will once again fall for the big lie that preserving safety requires giving up their liberty? The apparatus of repression already exists in the form of a surveillance state, police militarization, and big tech’s cooperation with big government to stamp out dissent. Now, President Biden and his congressional allies want to use the January 6 US Capitol turmoil to justify expanding government powers in the name of stopping “domestic terrorists.” Part of this new campaign is expanding censorship of “extremism,” defined as any views that threaten the status quo. The Biden administration has taken a page from the Communist playbook in suggesting people report their friends and family who are becoming “radicalized.” We may still have time to prevent collapse in America, or at least to make sure the collapse leads to a transition to a free society. The key to success is spreading the ideas of liberty until we have the ability to force the politicians to dismantle the welfare-warfare state and the fiat money system that is the lifeblood of authoritarian government. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 거짓에 대한 열린 마음은 오히려 해롭다 열린 마음을 가지라고 하는데, 그 대상이 거짓인 경우에도 열린 마음을 가질 필요는 없다. 이런 경우의 황금율은 이것이다: 당신이 알고 있는 것에는 닫힌 마음을 가져도 되고, 당신이 모르거나 이해하지 못한 것에는 열린 마음을 가지라는 것이다. 레너드 리드가 발표한 9가지 자유 사회의 원칙 5. 창조는 개인적인 것으로, 때론 경쟁하고 때론 협력하는 개인에게서만 나온다. 6. 교환에서의 자유는 절대적인 원칙이다. 7. 어떤 상품이나 서비스의 가치는 타인이 자발적인 교환에서 그에게 주는 만큼이다. An "Open Mind" Is of No Use When It's Open to Lies Gary Galles In our world, there is very little people agree upon. One thing that seems to be an exception is that having an open mind is almost universally well regarded, while having a closed mind is almost universally criticized. However, such rhetoric presumes that what we are open or closed to is the truth. That leads to some problems of understanding, because we are routinely exposed to a great deal of nonsense, which we do not want to be open to, as well as truth. That is particularly important to understand in a period when Americans have been repeatedly told to “follow the science” (say on mask restrictions) to prove they are not just obstinately closed-minded, when the main purpose was to open people’s minds to falsehoods, while at the same time they have been browbeaten to close their minds to legitimate questions about vaccines, mandated closures, critical race theory, and more, with both types of arguments used to reduce our freedoms. Leonard Read insightfully addressed such issues in “Open versus Closed Minds,” chapter 22 of his 1973 Who’s Listening? We should have an open mind to what he wrote. Open-mindedness is almost everywhere hailed as a virtue…. A person of closed mind, on the other hand, is generally condemned as narrow, shallow, nit-witted…. But this, of course, poses the question: To what should one’s mind be closed and to what should it be open? I would like my mind open to truths yet to be perceived and closed to all nonsense. While no one knows overmuch, each of us knows some things…. A good rule: Close the mind on what one knows and understands and keep it open to what is not known and understood. In either function, one’s mind serves him as a guide … helping him to avoid the ditches and stay on the road toward his destination. Read begins by explaining why someone being close-minded about something need not be an inverse indicator of their wisdom on the topic, and being open-minded on something need not be a positive indicator of their wisdom on the topic. The more one knows and understands, the more the issues upon which his mind is closed! But although a closed mind may indicate the number of issues upon which a man has reflected and reached settled conclusions, it also might be a sign that one has perceived next to nothing. The degree of closed-mindedness is not necessarily an accurate gauge of how much one knows and understands! The lesson? Never try to estimate the knowledge and wisdom of others by how closed or open their minds. A person’s mind may be closed with … things which he knows or sincerely believes and upon which he can act; or it may be closed and quite empty, receptive to no ideas at all. By the same token, a mind may be open, but open to every kind of an idea—wise or foolish; or it may be so open on every side that no idea can be registered there for reference or use. So the question is not entirely whether a mind is open or closed but whether it is a working mind and, if so, to what purpose. Read then takes his view of what we should, and what we should not, be open to, and asks a very uncommon question about it—what kind of openness would serve both ourselves and society, both those around us today and in posterity? The idea that one’s mind should be open to that which is not known or understood and that our aim is to grow in knowledge and wisdom, gives rise to a logical and relevant question. How may we best serve each other as each of us pursues this end? By opening our minds to each other! By so doing, we expose what light we have gained and, thus, maximize the total enlightenment. Open-mindedness in its best sense! Unquestionably, this sharing process accounts for the greater expanse of knowledge and wisdom … we have inherited from the past…. We are free to pick their brains, so to speak, to whatever extent we are willing to open our minds to their ideas. Likewise, we may pick the brains of one another among our contemporaries to the extent each is willing, always bearing in mind the personal responsibility to choose and judge which ideas to accept or reject, and which of ours are worthy of sharing with others. As Ortega phrased it, “The known is what’s no longer a problem.” So numerous and all-pervasive are our problems that the unknown must be regarded as infinite…. Those issues to which the mind is still open are problems rather than answers…. Thus, the best one can do for others is to enumerate those ideas and propositions on which his own mind is closed—express what he believes to be true. Not only did Leonard Read add to our ability to know what we are talking about with open- and closed-mindedness, he provided us an example, laying out things his mind was closed to—core principles which he believed were true, and solid premises from which to reason and evaluate behavior. He wrote, “Here I stand, I can do no other.” The Golden Rule and the Ten Commandments. 1. The good society rests on individuals having high moral scruples and ethical guidelines; no organizational gadgetry, however deftly devised, can overcome moral and ethical deficiencies. 2. Government limited to administering justice and keeping the peace—equality before the law—is an essential adjunct to morality … 3. Government—organized force—can only inhibit, restrain, penalize. It has no business interfering in the creative realm. 4. Creativity stems exclusively from individuals acting privately, competitively, cooperatively, voluntarily. 5. No man who lives, no association, nor any government is competent to decide for any other where he shall work, what his hours or wage shall be, what and with whom he may exchange, or what thoughts he shall entertain. 6. Freedom in transactions is an absolute principle. 7. The value of any good or service is what another will give in willing exchange. 8. The good or bad politician is not the cause of good or bad government. He reflects the thinking of his constituents. When the thinking is good enough, then good men can and will be elected to office. 9. Obedience to one’s highest conscience is to seek approval from God, not men. Leonard Read’s closed-mindedness on certain principles as true provides us material for serious reflection about what we believe. And he reflects some ancient wisdom that is unfortunately more often honored in the breach than in modern practice. He seems to be channeling Marcus Aurelius, who wrote in Meditations, “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.” Further, Heraclitus, in Fragments, suggests perhaps a better term than closed-mindedness for Read’s approach: “To be even-minded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature.” Read also provided us a way to evaluate the quality of our own closed-mindedness. There is a reliable test as to whether or not one’s closed-mindedness derives from a growing knowledge or from a lack of understanding. If from lack, there will be a sense of know-it-all-ness; if from growth, the more issues on which one’s mind is closed, the better paved is his access to the unknown. This test merely emphasizes the obvious: the more one knows, the more is he aware of the unknown. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------