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Synopsis: The Oracle

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“What price would you be willing to pay for an instrument of absolute power?
Would you be willing to betray your friends and family, to even kill your own father?

Or would you be willing to commit even more heinous acts of mass murder, including genocide?”

The Oracle: The Succession War

The Oracle: The Succession War

A young man, tempted by fate, driven by ambition that he simply does not understand, must inevitably chose between everything he treasures in life and the unlimited power of the mysterious Oracle.

The Oracle: The Succession War is an epic drama on a grand scale. It is the story of two families: the ruling Centama dynasty and their most loyal ally, the Tantamount family. A violent succession war is unleashed when the King of Arcania falls suddenly ill. His four sons, his most ambitious and clever daughter-in-law, and the renegade son of a prominent lord, all battle for the Arcanian throne. For whoever controls the throne, also controls a device of unlimited power known to all Arcanians simply as the Oracle. This device can alter pure imagination into stark reality. But there is a dark truth: it is not enough to desire the Oracle, for the Oracle must also desire you. Therefore, the Oracle actively manipulates the various challengers to the Arcanian throne, seeking out the one it will allow to rule over it.

The Oracle is a masterwork of imagination. The book literally takes the reader inside a vast infinite universe of pure thought where anything and everything is possible. It is a magical world, filled with an amazing array of vibrant pulsating rainbow-like colors, a world of surreal splendor. It is also a dark world, for at the epicenter of the Oracle lies an ambition for power so raw, so unadulterated, that it dare not fall into the hands of one who is unworthy.

And yet, those who seek the Oracle are the most ambitious, the most ruthless and unprincipled of people, bereft of any morality whatsoever. The youngest son of the Arcanian King, Pantamanu, believes the Oracle is his by the right of inheritance. Bellazar, a stunningly beautiful black woman, the wife of the king’s third eldest son, is driven by an equally destructive compulsion to rule the Oracle. And Montama, the innocent and impetuous son of a prominent highly principled and loyal lord, learns that he may very well be the chosen one and that it is his destiny to rule.

The battle for the Oracle is not conducted merely by mortals, for two unscrupulous entities, with the power of mighty wizards, reside inside the Oracle itself. They too seek to control its unlimited power for their own selfish purposes. The battle therefore occurs on two levels – within the real world and within the realm of imagination.

A series of battles unfolds, each fought in a unique setting: upon the banks and barren interior of a giant meteor crater and the tops of the world’s tallest trees. In these battles mortals must fight not only each other, they also must confront horrendous two-headed beasts while soldiers ride on the backs of giant primates. As these mere mortals battle savagely, the Oracle wizards seek to manipulate their destiny. The war of human versus human is therefore joined by another more frightful spectacle: the war of humans versus Oracle wizards. In these battles anything the mind can conceive of can become reality. From the very first page the action is unrelenting, as each contestant for the throne must decide, what price will they pay for an instrument of unlimited power? In the end, only one will rule the Oracle, that is, unless the Oracle itself rules the world.

Coming this November 30th, from award winning author Richard Wayne Waterman the most powerful, exciting and controversial novel of the year - The Oracle: The Succession War.

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Dr. Richard Waterman of the University of Kentucky, Lexington is an expert in Presidential Politics and Policies, Executive Power, Bureaucracy, History, and Political Science. He has written many highly acclaimed books on the subject, considered among the Top-5 Presidential Researcher and is one of the most cited scholars in the field.

The artwork, visualizations, illustrations, maps, architecture, and landscape is designed by Sendil Nathan.

                   ISBN13              ISBN10
Hard Cover     978-0-9826072-6-8     0-9826072-6-1
Paperback      978-0-9826072-7-5     0-9826702-7-X
ebook          978-0-9826072-8-2     0-9826072-8-2
LCCN           2010922823

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November 29, 2010

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Target: US Military Defense Budget on Crosshairs

Freshman Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky described his views in a campaign video in which he stated, “We have huge budgetary problems, and the Republicans often say, ‘Oh, it’s just that welfare queen. If she’d just go back to work, we’d balance the budget.’ Well, the truth of the matter is if you look at the numbers, there’s not enough money just in welfare to cut to balance the budget. You have to look at the entire budget, and about 40 percent of that budget is the military.”

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November 19, 2010

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Deepawali: The Way of the Llight

Divya - Indian oil lamp.

 

The mind must rise above the material nourishment of the body and soul, like a wick above the oil, for it to be lit by Enlightenment and shine like the bright oil lamp in the Darkness of Existence.

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If the wick is too short it will be drowned in the oil of material existence and shall not have the ability to rise above the common denominator to be fired up to a lamp of life.

If the wick it too tall, it shall burn too fast, too brightly, without the nourishment of life and shall extinguish.

Oil Lamp, Ancient Samaria

When millions of billions of these lamps are lit, then and only then, shall the civilization of life be worthy of the Way of the Light.

Deepawali celebrates the Way of the Light.

There is no wisdom in the universe that an ant cannot see.

Light does travel in a straight line only in theoretical physics. Even an ant can look up to the sky and the twinkling stars shall speak of the Way of the Light.

Twinkling STars


Happy Deepawali !


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November 6, 2010

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Captain Bernanke On Course for Icebergs. Welcome to the United States of Titanic.

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This week Ben Bernanke is likely to announce a new programme of “large-scale asset purchases”. The aim of quantitative easing is to dispel deflation and reduce unemployment. Yet the plan is beset with controversy[1]. It’s not clear whether it will have much effect on the real economy or whether the Federal Reserve chairman has fully considered the long-term consequences of his unconventional policy. Investors have already bid up asset prices in anticipation of the central bank’s move. But the financial gains from quantitative easing are a fool’s gold.

It is generally agreed that a bout of quantitative easing in 2008 succeeded in calming the markets. But conditions are different today. The credit system is not dislocated and banks are willing to lend, according to the Fed’s survey of senior loan officers. The problem is not with the supply of credit but with lacklustre demand from the private sector. Any new money created by the central bank expanding its balance sheet may well end up adding to the existing pile of more than $1,000bn of excess reserves in the banking system.

Quantitative easing is also intended to reduce unemployment, which remains at very elevated levels. But much of the current unemployment may be structural in nature. People who can’t find a job because they are in the wrong place with the wrong skills won’t find their prospects improved by the central bank acquiring Treasury bonds. Nor will lower rates help many consumers. After the recent decline in house prices, about half of US homeowners find themselves owing more than their homes are worth and are thus unable to refinance. And since long-term rates in the US are already so low, quantitative easing is unlikely to promote much new business investment.

Mr Bernanke is tilting at windmills. Not only is deflation absent in the US, it is arguable whether mild deflation is economically damaging. And even if it were, no one knows whether asset purchases by the central bank could succeed in reversing a deflationary tide. After the great credit binge, deflation reflects the desire of households and companies to pay down their excessive debts. It is a symptom, not a cause, of a problem. The experience of Japan over recent decades shows that deleveraging does not end because long-term rates decline. This explains why the Bank of Japan believes quantitative easing is futile.

Mr Bernanke hopes that by boosting asset prices, consumers will spend more. But as Tim Lee of Pi Economics points out, this implies a further decline in saving at a time when the country’s net savings rate is negative. The US needs to save and invest more to ensure its long-term prosperity. Quantitative easing threatens to postpone the necessary rebalancing of the US economy.

The fiscal consequences of quantitative easing are also troubling. The financial crisis has put the nation’s finances in disarray. The 2010 US fiscal deficit will be about 9 per cent of GDP. With the Fed ready to monetise a great chunk of the government’s spending, there is even less chance that Washington will exercise fiscal discipline.

Quantitative easing involves the manipulation of household balance sheets by the central bank. As a result, asset prices are distorted and bubbles are inflated (as GMO’s Jeremy Grantham[2] explains in his latest Quarterly Letter*). Over recent months the markets have anticipated QE2 by rushing indiscriminately into risky assets. Valuations have become extended. At current levels, US equities offer poor future returns and Treasury bonds are very overvalued. The Fed may succeed in distorting asset prices in the short run, but it cannot do so indefinitely. People who have been misled into spending more today because of a temporary improvement to their balance sheets will have to retrench at some future date.

The international consequences of quantitative easing are also deleterious. Over the past couple of months the dollar has weakened as liquidity has flowed towards the higher-yielding currencies in emerging markets. The recipients of unwanted capital inflows have been forced to buy dollars to prevent their currencies appreciating. But foreign exchange interventions serve to loosen domestic monetary conditions in emerging markets, producing inflation and asset price bubbles.

This explains why several countries, including South Korea, are considering the introduction of capital controls.

In recent months, brokers have eagerly anticipated the launch of QE2. Their clients have been enjoined with nautical metaphors to “ride the liquidity wave”. But they have identified the wrong ship and the wrong location for the cruise. Rather than steering towards balmy waters, Captain Bernanke has set course towards the iceberg fields. Full speed ahead!

 

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October 31, 2010

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The importance of Protecting Consumer Privacy

The importance of Protecting Consumer Privacy

The architecture of the new world of social networks and smartphones is starting to throw up some vexing questions of control. Unless they are resolved, a potentially highly profitable way of delivering services to consumers will fail to reach its full potential, as users shy away and regulators start to interfere. Sometimes when a big consumer technology company is caught failing to protect the privacy of its users’ personal information it is tempting to compare it to a child caught with one hand in the cookie jar. All that personal data are so valuable, how could anyone resist an illicit dip every now and then?The danger, if junior doesn’t learn to keep his or her hands out, is that someone in a position of authority will try to put a tighter lid on the jar. The fact remains, Technology is a Junior and demonstrates all the immaturity of Facebook's Mark Zuckerman's age and experience, as well as the typical jewish arrogance of Shylock fostered by the investors to manipulate the media, finance and investment markets.

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October 21, 2010

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They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

The parallels between mid-1930s Great Depression and the early 21st century are frighteningly similar. Yet, the 1930s produced far richer allegories such as “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?” than in the last decade. It was a gargantuan task just to convince Americans, especially the investment class, that the American Psyche is indelibly altered by the experiences of the last decade with traumatic finance and economics. Our findings on that aspect of purely scientific study minus the allegories and art can be found at http://www.decitica.com.

Almost all of the middle and lower classes are locked in a dancing marathon where they slog their asses off to eke a decent living. But the end of the marathon dancing does not wait a prize, a windfall, as $1500 in Depression era dollars for the destitute, but unpaid bills. People are working to pay off their bills, investing to pay off their bills, working overtime or double shifts to pay off their bills. Sending children to education to pay off their bills. Saving for future to pay off their bills. In the end, American Life a loss-loss game, a negative-sum returns.

Americans are in the same predicament as Jane Fonda was at the end of the film; Unable to take her own life, she wishes someone else can shoot her from her misery. The prize horse has broken her leg and is in peace with euthanasia as the final solution.

The film comes closer to my heart and soul as I watched the winning horse in Kentucky Derby in 2008 being shot to death on the race track. Eight Belles, not knowing what the Americans had in mind with that name, represents Ashta-Lakshmi, or eight incarnations of goddess of wealth, Lakshmi. Shortly after my College of Design splattered their hands with the blood of my mother’s death, they shot the horse in symbolic parallelism.

America has since shot her horses, her wealth, her civilization. Americans can dance all they want, but there will be no prize at the end of the line. Merely the smoking end of the barrel waiting for the next in line.

Welcome to America. “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”

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October 4, 2010

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The Tenth Inning: The Final Architecture

While Free Agent Players were priced at exorbitant levels it served the financial and investment controllers of Major League Baseball to foster and recruit Latino players from impoverished Latin American places such as Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico at a fraction of the cost.

While players like Roberto Clemente and the Negro League made major forays into the teams and the hearts of fans, it wasn’t until the 1990s that Major League Baseball moved into a space that can be confidently categorized as well integrated and open to minorities.

The landscape for Indian doctors, engineers, computer technologists and management consultants were similarly expanded in America in accordance to the same financial and investment costing as was played out in Baseball, the true all-American game. And similar to large numbers of players from Latin American countries were given the ticket back home after a few seasons in minor leagues, most computer programmers who arrived on temporary work visas found themselves returning to India. Some were dejected by the culture of America and felt homesick for the cultural richness of the Indian subcontinent, closeness to old friends and relatives, and the familiarity of home grown bias, prejudices and discriminations than tolerate a foreign version of the same.

While America welcomes talented baseball players from almost any country except Cuba, the discrimination against Latin Americans continues to fester as derogatory cheap labor bent on destroying the American job prospects for locals and branded as drug mules and violent criminals. No such prejudice exists against Indians as the immigration system fosters eugenics of importing only those from India who qualify highly on entrance exams and steep qualification requirements.

Much work is needed on the two way street called America as racial and ethnic groups are still largely segregated on the superstructures of urban designs and plans making the very architecture of western civilization largely isolated and immune clusters of genetic variations.

In final analysis, the satellite maps should demonstrate integration of peoples of every part of the planet. It is, unfortunately, the karma and dharma of America to champion that ‘All Men are Created Equal,’ and be architecturally identifiable as such and visually obvious. The founders of the American Republic etched that fate in stone.

Just as New Amsterdam was gridded upon the Manhattan island well before the arrival of immigrants from Europe to the New World, America today needs to follow the indelible markings on ground that were once championed by Commissioner Clinton to be repeated today to unroll the architectural welcome mat for new immigrants, others and those who are not similar to the Europeans of the past. That all men are equal has to prove itself on the ground.

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September 28, 2010

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Go Meditate!

  1. Take three deep breaths
  2. Close your Eyes
  3. Sit Quietly
  4. Try not to Think
  5. Continue as long as you can

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September 28, 2010

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Al-Qaeda’s Next Target: Kentucky. Huh??

The Seven Kabbala Clues of Kentucky Zionism

The first clue came in on September 12, 2001. Every single airport and airstrip controlled by FAA and NTSB in America was shut down, with the exception of Air-Force Bases and airstrips classified even within NORAD. Yet, the BlueGrass Airport in Lexington, Kentucky was opened for a single private jet to take flight. Osama Bin Laden’s family needed to be flown out of this country. Since USS Cole bombing off the coast of Yemen, Osama has been on America’s cross-hairs. President Clinton even launched a decapitation strike against Bin Laden by launching missiles from Navy’s Aircraft Carriers off the Arabian Sea into Afghanistan. There is no way Osama’s family network is going to be shopping for horses in Lexington unless his family members are within the custody of the Islamic Al-Qaeda’s counterpart – The Zionist Al-Qaeda.

The second clue happened when I met Professor Penny Miller. Something simply did not go right and my critical thinking triggered. She had no talent to be a professor, let alone be promoted to full professor and climb the ladder this far with a single publication her entire life, a book co-authored with a former Kentucky Governor which she never wrote. She was in a very strategic position filtering out students who were politically interested and active with a desire to go into Law School. She was fostering those who were about to enter the world of legislation. She doled out scholarships and grants to students of a certain profile that I later came to term zionist-friendly. Her son was the Treasurer of the Commonwealth of Kentucky bankrupting individuals and institutions critical of the Jewish banker and their Zionist network. He’s now the treasurer of the state democratic party and the point man for Jewish political money.

The third clue arrived when I was admitted into the zionist infested School of Architecture. For some odd reason this school was stuck-up with Modernism. Most people do not know that Modernism was born as a counter-revolution to Nazi architecture that harked back to Renaissance and the grandeur of classicism, the architecture of the Roman Empire. The jews who opposed the blatant revival of empire classicism for the Third Reich adored Modernism, which was discarded and disbanded by the Nazis and relocated to America. Modernism is the architectural response to the victory at WWII in terms of political ideology of designing the civilization and urban plans. Architecture had moved away from the failures of modernism except at University of Kentucky. Such colonial hangover and apartheid architecture requires significant financial backing of Zionist network to survive well into 21st century.

The fourth clue arrived in the form of a fool of an Indian Muslim. He joked one day that the historically preserved modernist house that he civil engineered for the husband of Professor Penny Miller really only needed reinforcement steel rods the size of the thumb, or a normal zionist penis, but instead the client insisted that he use concrete rebars the size of elephant penis. The design came in from Mossad and they needed a local fool to sign off on the structural engineering. In return, he’d conduct crash courses every year for engineers and architects across the country who need to pass an external exam in structural engineering in order to be certified a professional in the field. The exorbitant fees, annually, for the crash course served well as a continued retainer to maintain the image of a fool and avoid any financial audit. Given the euro-centrism and white-supremacy in the course content, pedagogy, admissions, and graduations, that resulted in loss of accreditation his presence was an anathema as a token colored man.

The fifth clue arrived when one fine morning the famous Civil Rights Lawyer and husband of Penny Miller died. She fell in love with a zionist at the funeral and married him within a year. How can a woman married to a civil rights lawyer for 41 years be married to a zionist within months of his death? I dug around to find that the owner of the elephant-penis-sized steel reinforced historical modernist house never really fought for the african american anytime in his life but was of the singular objective to create legal precedences to protect his 1.7% jewish-american minority should they someday face anti-zionist backlash from whites, browns, blacks, asians and europeans. He used the Civil Rights laws enacted by President Johnson since June 3, 1965 intended for the African American for the exclusive benefit of the Jew. That answers part of Louis Farrakhan’s oft-repeated question, “Where were the white jews when blacks were slaves?”

The sixth clue arrived when Richmond Army Depot started leaking dangerous nerve agents as Sarin and Agent Orange into the surface water and underground streams. It turned out that my neighborhood was heavily protected with an enormous stash of Weapons of Mass Destruction. While nuclear free for energy, Kentucky has an enormous stash of nuclear weapons on top of all the WMD. It is very hard to fathom why the Beverly Hillbillies need so much weaponry. And why a jewish lawyer needs a house that can withstand any tank or missile attack with the sole exception of last decade’s JDAM – missiles made with depleted uranium DU for bunker busting efficiency. When depleted uranium arrived the house went into inhabitable museum.

The seventh clue arrived when I happen to chance on a documentary on PBS that Supreme Court Justice Brandeis originated in Kentucky. The documentary makes one fleeting cursory mention in the very end about his association with the zionists. Brandeis in Kentucky is extremely interesting because the Zionist Organization relocated its headquarters from Berlin to New York in the late 19th century with the help of Brandeis in leadership. Such a relocation is impossible without the financial network firmly in Kentucky.

If the Islamic Al-Qaeda is looking for its counterpart – Zionist Al-Qaeda – to tango then it needs no further to look than Kentucky.

Bulls-Eye! The horse capital might very well witness the Trojan Horse in the future.

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September 13, 2010

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Mutation of the Concrete Jungle in Free Market Capitalism

Today’s mutations have the potential to shift us away from business models based on economies of scale, asset intensification, concentration, and central control. The deconstruction of the Financial Colonialism and Monarchy has begun.

Creating value in the age of distributed capitalism
As mass consumption gives way to the wants of individuals, a historic transition in capitalism is unfolding.
Capitalism is a book of many chapters—and we are beginning a new one. Every century or so, fundamental changes in the nature of consumption create new demand patterns that existing enterprises can’t meet. When a majority of people want things that remain priced at a premium under the old institutional regime—a condition I call the “premium puzzle”—the ground becomes extremely fertile for wholly new classes of competitors that can fulfill the new demands at an affordable price. A premium puzzle existed in the auto industry before Henry Ford and the Model T and in the music industry before Steve Jobs and the iPod.

The consumption shift in Ford’s time was from the elite to the masses; today, we are moving from an era of mass consumption to one focused on the individual. Sharp increases in higher education, standards of living, social complexity, and longevity over the past century gave rise to a new desire for individual self-determination: having control over what matters, having one’s voice heard, and having social connections on one’s own terms. The leading edge of consumption is now moving from products and services to tools and relationships enabled by interactive technologies. Amazon.com, Apple, eBay, and YouTube are familiar examples of companies solving today’s premium puzzle. Lesser-known companies like CellBazaar (in emerging-market mobile commerce), TutorVista (in tutoring), and Livemocha (in language education) also abound.

It would be easy to construe these as isolated cases of innovation and industry change, but I believe they represent much more: a mutation in capitalism itself. What’s the difference? Innovations improve the framework in which enterprises produce and deliver goods and services. Mutations create new frameworks; they are not simply new technologies, though they do leverage technologies to do new things. Historically, mutations have superseded innovations when fundamental shifts in what people want require a new approach to enterprise: new purposes, new methods, new outcomes.

In the same way that mass production moved the locus of industry from small shops to huge factories, today’s mutations have the potential to shift us away from business models based on economies of scale, asset intensification, concentration, and central control. That’s not to say factories are going away; their role in supplying quality, low-cost goods, including the technologies underpinning the shift to more individualized consumption, is secure. Yet even mass production is becoming less homogenous (consider the ability to order custom sneakers from Nike). And for many goods and services, new business frameworks are emerging: federations of enterprises—from a variety of sectors—that share collaborative values and goals are increasingly capable of distributing valued assets directly to individuals, enabling them to determine exactly what they will consume, as well as when and how. This shift not only changes the basis of competition for companies but also blurs—and even removes—the boundaries between entire industries, along with those that have existed between producers and consumers. The music and newspaper industries ignored this shift, to their great detriment. I believe all businesses will have to find ways to adapt to this new world if they want to grow.

The economist Joseph Schumpeter cautioned his readers not to expect new forms of economic development to announce themselves with a grand flourish. “The ‘new thing,’” he wrote, “need not be Bessemer steel or the explosion motor. It can be the Deerfoot sausage.”1 My hope is that this article will help executives see the links between today’s “Deerfoot sausages,” recognize the magnitude of the economic transition these mutations portend, and begin setting—or at least contemplating—a new course in this changing world.

It won’t be easy. But enterprises that can leverage technology and real-world social connections to solve their piece of the premium puzzle—creating individualized ways to consume goods and services at a radically reduced cost—will prosper as they realize wholly new sources of value that remain invisible to companies still bound by conventional business models.

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September 11, 2010

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