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A SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS

2011-04-25T10:40:00.000-07:00

SOMETHING SEEMS TO BE MISSING.
STOCKS, BONDS, FOREX, COMMODITIES, FUTURES AND OTHER RISKS....
In a TV ad I saw General Motors give credit to the NYSE for its comeback and progress, its recent innovations that seem to have come from the stock market. Not made was any mention of the massive financial assistance given by the Unites States for the bail out that first and foremost made it possible for GM to pause, restructure and trim the fat from their floundering operation.
Having read a great deal recently about the financial debacle we the country, nay, the whole World has suffered I have revised my thoughts on the NYSE. Not only the stock exchanges but the entire spectrum of massive gambling in international finance: Options, Commodities, Futures, Forex, Stocks and Bonds.

Why should this be permitted at all?
In reality the Brokers are bookies (socially accepted); they work for the house, the Dealers (legal). The platforms or trading accommodations are just instruments of gambling (slot machines); They are the odds makers, the financiers and facilitators.
Why should the general public be involved at all. The entire thing is a no-value function. We are delving into something we know little or nothing about just because there is the dream of a massive fortune to be made.. We are in a zero gain activity; there is nothing being built; there is nothing being created, nurtured or developed. It is simply a gambling activity where money flows back and forth with the vig (guarantee to the house), the spread, the fees, lost to the participants win or lose, accruing in the accounts of the bookies, the insiders.
Bet a dollar on any pair in the FOREX market and you already have lost a good percentage... win or lose. This is the same as at a casino gambling table, a horse race, football game or bingo where one buys a card. The promoter, the bookie has his profit guaranteed; His edge is built in commodity trading is the same.
Nothing is grown, nothing is moved, nothing is processed.
Trading in commodities is just gambling with cash on a product that may or may not exist. The price of the consumer product is at stake, perhaps; but no more crops are being grown, no more precious metals are being mined, no more animals are being slaughtered.
The Stock Market as a whole is a stand-alone entity for the foolish, selfish, dreamers where the participant pays up front to participate and the manipulators can have their day along with the bookies/brokers, dealers/financiers and service support providers/facilitators.
Nothing positive grows out of all this. There is no net gain. The money taken out of the stream of legitimate commercial flow does not produce anything; It is only on a path of ill-gotten gains and meaningless use. If all the money involved were employed in building or creating, there would be employment and industrial growth, education enhancement and plenty of funds to upgrade the medical and transportation infrastructure.
There is justification for a place where a person can go to raise money from the public. Participants should look for their income from the corporate activity and not be encouraged to buy into a company with the anticipation of future growth.
The hold out for future growth by corporate managers is the underpinning of massive seduction and even fraud.
One glaring example of this is the Private Prison sector. A private prison company can make an excellent return on the services provided but when the corporation wants growth they have to depend continuing growth in the prisoner population or getting more contracts from BOP, States, Counties and Cities. For this reason, they lobby lawmakers with big bucks, bribe councilmen, mayors, Boards of Supervisors of Counties, state legislators and Federal elected officials and the administrators along the way. In addition, the seek to buy up all the competition so they can fix the prices or eliminate competition in bidding for contracts. That is not to isolate the private prison, is is to pinpoint a problem that is symptomatic of the system that is fostered by the current state of financial affairs.

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2010-05-29T20:13:00.001-07:00

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SEEKING JUSTICE WITH EQUITY

2010-03-31T18:07:00.000-07:00

Seeking Justice With Equity
Lloyd Winburn
          We acknowledge and take great comfort in those things that are Right With America. There are so many good things about our country that we would not even try to enumerate all of them. We believe, however, that there is one glaring “wrong.” The wrong we address deals with the justice system.
          There is no way we can foster democracy around the world and adopt the practices of our adversaries. Being the country in the world with the largest prison population cannot or should not be a source of pride for us. Being the last major hold-out favoring the death penalty cannot speak much for our “Judean-Christian” heritage.
          Abandoning all hope for diplomatic and economic solutions, we have come to the place were we try to solve all the World’s problems with arms and armaments… Power and arrogance; bravado and the feeling that we know everything and everything we do is right. We lack humility and charity.
          We cannot do what our enemy does and call it right. The degree of harm done to our reputation and heritage in Iraq and Afghanistan by mistreating prisoners will take years to wash away. We must look at what has happened far back into our system of justice here at home and abroad. We must be consistent with our mercy, understanding and faith.
         It is only a matter of a few degrees from what has happened in that infamous prison in Iraq and what happens here in the jails and prisons. We arrest people by profiling and incarcerate them through error and “rush to judgment.”
          Citizens and foreigners are damaged financially, by besmirched reputations, false imprisonment… all in the simple claim of some supposed harm to our national security, our pride or our property. We execute mentally retarded individuals. We try teenagers as adults. We have lost the ability to forgive while not forgetting crimes against us.
         There are practices in prison facilities of the lowest classification of security that are in place only at the whim of wardens or associate wardens or lesser jail-keepers. While discipline and security are important, rehabilitation release are the prime objective of the prison system. The judge does the punishment when he removes the offender from society and puts him in the care of the Bureau of Prisons. Any other punishment should come as a result of the offender not being a model inmate and proving it by overt violations of the rules in place. There are many examples of acts by officials, enough to warrant a review of the practices with a view to making corrections.
          Inconsistencies in policy, varying by measurable degrees prison to prison should be standardized.
          We hope to be able to show up some of these consistencies along with errors of judgments by officials with a view to having them corrected.

DEEDS,DOPE AND YEARNING YOUTH IN THE '60'

2010-03-12T09:23:00.000-08:00

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Just go to the site and search my name Lloyd Winburn

DEEDS,DOPE AND YEARNING YOUTH IN THE '60'

O, estranged embittered youth
Estray upon the Earth
For sooth,
Where have I failed you?

Time can not be blamed;
That space between us
Is more a wall of flame,
A membrane,
Through which ideas pass
Lame, and lack esteem.

Suffered I that same estival,
That painful visitor of youth,
To tell you now
With many summers' more avail,
This too will pass,
Given but you now know.

No physician's cure
Can help you endure
But the Guide can help.
Abide for it is more a journey
Than a malady.

Strange frustrations attend
When looking back
We see no tracks, nor shadows.

And fruits on limbs that bend
For there are many,
Make haste and leave
Appetites unrent.

Seeking, we take flight
On wings of smoke
And float
On blood veins of mysteries
Thinking that the veil
Just might be lifted or release obtained
On some other plain
With lust-pressed drives
Where love might walk despized
We toss our seed
In bellies of whores.

Or give ourselves
When we should pass, not enter,
Vacant rooms
Through easily opened doors.
To bachenalian hours or days.

Waves we call 'vibes' take on
A multi meaning size
And dominate the days
When all our senses
Could be tuned to other flowers
In our Spring.

Apollo's vaults beg us enter
Partake of the nectar of the wines,
The sweets their truth divines,
History with its tragedy and truth
Which can serve our youth,
A lamp upon a rocky shore.

Cannot those same senses,
Sparked by Prometheus and Bacchus,
Be set aflame
By cleansing light and
Sound as on Apollo's lyre?

That summer sickness surviving
Gives one no claim
To enter your World;
Yet, have I that call
To live
And not at all
Reach back to help you
In the whirl
Where disaster need but
A steady hand?

Manner might the weankess be
And I should direct the wind
And struggle not to shake the time
That fruits will fall
Where Time suffices
And fruits but await their call.

The flail reaps not;
I try the kiss,
The whip I feel amiss
And failing search my lot to
Review the answer I have not.

Facts remain and truth is cast
In immutable form
Only in ignorance is known
The pool of dark despair
That draws us down
And deserts us there.

A sea of changing worth
Of shifting sand that wraps us 'round
with smoothing breeze of worthless air.

Struggle to catch
Wisps of smoke in fishers' nets
We fail to snare
The real that passes in a glare
Our attention to be got
And to toss to the swine the pearls
We must have
To pass between these two worlds.

We desert
At a time most opportune
Wnen profits emanate in sprints
But full rivers flow
On capital of patience
And healths reassuring glow.

I do not know the answer
Nor do I want to abandon
The thought
That we can transfer
Lessons learned;
Then, when I think youth cannot
I see what once I held
As wasted survive
A gauntlet thrown
And meld to life.

With torn bruised and broken heart
I bleed
Walking, pushing against
A cycle that has no end.

Lloyd Winburn 1968

JUSTICE MUST BE METED OUT EQUALLY

2010-03-08T10:29:00.000-08:00

BRING THE HALLIBURTON EXECUITVE TO TRIAL NOW.

READ THIS EDITORIAL IN PUNCH:
http://www.punchng.com/Articl.aspx?theartic=Art2010030720372523

US law is clear. Bribing foreign officials is a FEDERAL offense. Go get them! The fats are there, the crime is open knowledge and witness are available to get a conviction.

Halliburton has run rough-shod of national and international laws long enough and enjoys the protection of one of the bigger criminals.. former Vice President Richard Chaney.

We know there have been crimes aplenty committed by these people in Iraq....

Lloyd Winburn

SELF AGRANDIZMENT AND SPITE DRIVES SHERIFF ARPAIO

2009-12-12T09:11:00.000-08:00

HE WOULD DEPRIVE US OF OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS....

Arizona sheriff ups the ante against his foes

By Nicholas Riccardi

Joe Arpaio has escalated his tactics, not only defying the federal government on immigration but launching repeated investigations of those who criticize him.

A little power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely....

Let's open our minds to reason and overthrow this tyrant

Lloyd Winburn

PRISON TORTURE, ISOLATION AND PUNISHMENT

2009-12-02T07:53:00.000-08:00

WAKEN TO THE REALITY OF PRISON CRUELTY

This site is a MUST READ for those who are concerned that the Justice System (Read Prison System) is failing us. It is ineffectual in rehabilitation efforts; it fails in the reduction of crime; it useless in reducing or preventing recidivism; or, increasing public safety.

Go now to this storeroom of great articles on the subject. CLICK

90% OF THEM ARE INNOCENT

2009-10-10T17:00:00.000-07:00

WHERE DO WE HAVE OUR HEAD?

The Head of Amnesty International Quits, gives up, calls the organization's efforts a failure.

The Place of the Ravens, 30km west of Baghdad, has long been of interest to civil liberties groups. The largest prison in Iraq, built in the 1960s by British contractors, has for decades generated stories of abuse, not least under Saddam Hussein, who kept as many as 15,000 people imprisoned there. But it was in 2004, when pictures of offences ranging from the grossly humiliating to murderous leaked out, that the jail's name became a byword for torture – Abu Ghraib.

The abiding image of that period is of a hooded detainee, standing on a box and draped in sack cloth, with electrodes attached to his fingers and testicles as if he is about to be shocked. Other pictures show grinning guards with naked prisoners in degrading poses. Reports of beatings, rapes and deaths were described by the US army's own investigation as "credible". The commanding officer of Abu Ghraib, Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was demoted to colonel for failing to stop the abuses, later said that 90 per cent of the Iraqi prisoners were innocent.

Read the whole story and weep..http:
//www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/irene-khan-banged-to-rights-1800924.html

WE MUST SEARCH OUR CONSCIENCE

2009-10-08T11:41:00.000-07:00

IN OUR CONSCIENCE LIES THE TRUTH.

And in the Truth we will find the need for Justice with Equity and a capacity to Forgive.

A Prayer for openess to the TRUTH:
Defender of the oppressed, help us to value those you value. Help us speak up for those who have no voice, feed the hungry, give drink to the thirsty, welcome the stranger, clothe the naked, take care of the sick, and visit those in prison, recognizing all the while that we are serving you.
..... Thanks to SOJOURNERS

WELCOME TO PARACLETE FOUNDATION'S BLOG

2009-09-18T22:20:00.000-07:00

WE CAN BE FOUND ON LINE HERE Be sure that you know we are paracletefoundation.org becauser there are others with Paraclete in the name.

The most despicable crimes: A short list

Molesting Children: To rob a child of his or her innocence is hard to forgive. The illness that posses the perpetrator is merciless to both the victim and to him or her.
Acting Wrong Under the Color of Law is all all too frequent events. The reason we have our police in bright uniforms with shinny buttons, bright stripes and badges, ribbons and metals is so that we know where they are at all times. Using your position under the Law to take advantage, be cruel to or discourteous to is heinous. Making ill-considered judgments, taking unfair or illegal advantage--- and any number of other crimes--- leads to cruel and unusual treatment
Another crime is that of mistreating people who have been accused of, convicted of and imprisoned for a crime. When we (society) have someone in custody and under our control, we have the duty to treat them in a manner as to NOT injure them, molest them, deny them basic needs, and using unreasonable force or off the hand threats. We are in control. They can not hurt us. Sticks and stones--- you know-- words will never hurt me.
Crimes of a prisoners where there is no physical injury, property loss or the like should be dealt with in a calm deliberate manner. Guards, Wardens, Supervisors should not be of the personal traits that allow these insults of prisoners or minor infractions blow them away. All to often they take personally the acts of an imprisoned person and flail out. Once having don the deed, they sink into a mode of denial and assume the role of the "power" and declare overtly or sub-consciously an aggressive dominate position.

Let all that discussion be taken on by those who make a living doing it.

There are times when the punishment does not fit the crime. We must be aware of this and ever vigil of the infractions of the rules on the part of guards, wardens and supervisors of prisoners.
We receive information regularly of instances where the punishment meted out behind bars is at times way beyond reasonable. We pass them along.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS TO RUN THESE CASES TO THE GROUND AND DO AT LEAST A SUPERFICIAL INVESTIGATION OF THE CIRCUMSTANCES. iT IS LIKE RAISING THE URINAL IN THE MEN'S ROOM... IT KEEPS PEOPLE ON THERE TOES. CALL US, PLEASE IF YOU CAN HELP OF KNOW OF SOMEONE WHO CAN. 1 919 741 5113 Or email us at paracletefoundation@gmail.com

MEANINGFUL DEFINITIONS Issues

Justice: The maintenance and administration of what is just, especially by the impartial adjustment of conflicting claims or the assignment of merited rewards or punishment; the quality of being just, impartial or fair; conformity to truth, fact or reason; to acquit in a way worthy of one’s powers; to treat fairly or adequately; the quality of performing according to law; the principal or ideal of just dealing or right action.

Equity: Justice according to natural (God’s) law; freedom from bias or favoritism; a body of legal and procedural doctrines that supplement, aid or override common and statute law and are designed to protect rights and enforce duties fixed by substantive law; or override a narrow, rigid system of law.
—Webster’s & Black’s Legal Dictionaries