What is Wall Street going to do next?

The housing debacle was the last scam created by a tag team of politicians and financiers. The congress wrote the right laws to create the opportunity for Wall Street to execute the scam. As the pressure to create higher and higher returns continues to be a fact in the markets and little sources available of new growth I wonder what is the new global Ponzi scheme being designed as I write this blog. Stay alert because the media is not going to inform you remember last time? they were the cheer leaders. It is coming for sure, let me know which one do you think it is.

Are social media platforms the future?

I heard a very smart and successful venture capitalist talking about this subject matter. He said that he does not think social media platforms will be the future. He believes that  most content will be distributed directly to consumers without the need of such platforms. We are now starting to see this dynamic taking place in music, films, documentaries, e-commerce and the creation of personal brands. I agree with this assumption that is why I have always said that one of the most powerful skills moving forward is online marketing because it is going to be all about who can take incredible and desirable content from the creators to the consumers. The group Radiohead is a great example. Many filmmakers are skipping the centralize model to go directly to their audience. Yes models like Facebook I think will be great marketing tools but not the distribution mechanism. We are entering a cool, individually empowering brave new world. Que Viva online Marketing, Que Viva the creators and Que Viva individual power.

It looks like sustainability could be the next gold rush

I believe our current system of excess consumption, environmental destruction and fantasy finance is now really starting to hit a wall. This paradigm and it tools have stopped working. It is not feasible to create prosperity, health, happiness and a toxic free environment  on this train. I am now starting to believe sincerely that the way to create growth and get the global economy going in a real way is through implementing a sustainable system and shifting to a green economy. It is not about saving the planet. It is about prosperity and growth in the right way. It is real capitalism and democracy not this quasi democracy and quasi capitalism we have going on now.

Syria come on?

How long are we going to continue to watch this massacre by this ruthless beast in Syria and not doing anything? We have to start choosing humanity over gangsters. We have stop protecting, rationalizing, justifying, doing with business, selling stuff to, protecting their associates  and looking the other way when it comes to these regimes and dictators, specially governments, corporations, cultural, media, entertainment elites and their own societies. It is not cool to support oppressors, killers and thief's. There are so many incredible people doing incredible things why support these creatures and their friends.

Dictators: the new victims of transparency-they are being demolished

It is seems that Dictators are being demolished by technology and transparency. They are dropping like flies all over the place of course some are hanging on by a thread like Putin and Chavez that now seems to be dying. Chavez has tried very hard not tell the Venezuela people the truth about his disease. As consequences he ran to Cuba for treatment to avoid transparency and got probably the worst of medical care on planet for his cancer. It looks like it is going to cost him his life. Transparency ambushed him and maybe killed him.The world is entering into a new model where more and more transparency will rule. Dictators you can run but you cannot hide. We got you! next step return the money that you and your friends have stolen as well as pay the consequences-we are watching.

The Establishment is starting to come around

I read and watched videos of a Wall Street Journal conference called ECO:nomics about the future of energy. I thought it was fascinating to see the status quo of business being slowly dragged kicking and screaming into changing their ways and joining the new model of global sustainability. The reason being that they are starting to realized that the profits are not in the old paradigm anymore the money is in the new way being and doing business where people and the planet matter. They are still using the old language and references but trying to apply it to the new world order of sustainability.This conference is a must see and read:http://online.wsj.com/public/page/environment-economy-03262012.html

Enjoy as they are being dragged into being responsible and conscious human being playing the role of business people.

wow wow

We need a third party now

The two party's main alliance in this country is with the past, the old ways, the old clans, the old status quo, the old group of friends, the old destructive habits. These two guys cannot move us forward. They can only move us down and we are going down fast. It seems we cannot get out of the traditional pattern, even though the world as become very untraditional. I am fiscally conservative, a libertarian, socially moderated and very angry at these two dirty characters. They only way to stop being victims of this matrix is to disconnect from this game and create a new grid. Politics in America is like junk food, big long term consequence and really stupid.

It is all about inspiration

I read, I listen, I see and I try to understand what is going around me in the world, I perceive a lack of inspiration and no will to really move in a new direction that will spark our inner juices and the inner juices of our human race. It seems we are heavily invested in the current non functional status quo and holding on to for dear life to the old living paradigm. It is a scenario in which we all know most of it is not working, it is destructive, boring and and has no heart. To me this is why has Apple's market capitalization that as over taken Exxon at least today at $445.25 billion. Why? because Apple's brand, products and philosophy inspires us. It does not compromise for the mediocrity the world seems to have taken as it default status.

Apple is actually a good living model to study. We are all eventually going to explode into a shift.

The Chinese are fighting back

I was very surprised when I read a story this morning in the Wall Street Journal about a town in Southern China where the population as taken over the town due expropriations of lands by central government. People are not taking it anymore, transparency is rearing its beautiful head and disrupting the authoritarian games being played by many governments and corporations. Time to run and hide for ever you Mr Politician.

Is our future Blade Runner or is it Mad Max?

I saw a documentary " Crude Impact" It dealt with peak oil and the damages we are inflicting on the planet by the extraction of oil. It also focuses on the unsustainable path we are on due to our hyper consumption. A day after I saw the movie "Blade Runner" which depicts a society in the year 2019. It is very gray and polluted , machine like with no humanity. After the movie I thought we could very easily end up live the Blade Runner scenario if we do no make significant changes in how we think, act and living. I felt a great sense of hopelessness and darkness, but after some contemplation I realized the we are responsible for the future we create. I would like see a more humane, sustainable, nurturing, non toxic, individualistic and healthy place to live, so why not create it and fight for it instead of complaining and feeling defeated and overwhelmed . I am glad I saw this documentary and this movie. I feel invigorated and more responsible.

Yes the game is rigged, yes government has been acquired

I relate in a way with the general sentiment of The Wall Street protest. What I do not understand

is why Wall Street? The main culprit here is the political system that has been set up for it to be bought,The White House, Congress and The Judicial system.We like it or not we have a system controlled by a small group of campaign donors. In my mind the government has set the rules and it is suppose to enforce them. Currently the government has set the boundaries and makes sure no one disrupts the current paradigm which is "please buy me"

Wall Street is simply taking advantage of the rules of the game. That is like blaming a baseball player for stealing second base, that is within the rules of the game. I say Occupy Washington every politicians homes and the supreme court for giving further power to corporations to expand their abilities donate even more to candidates(easier acquisition). There is garage sale going on in Washington, next election buy yourself a congressman or women as well as some favors from your president, maybe you can get government financing for own Solar company.

Wow, wow Democracy in the toilet

Assets versus liabilities in the USA-Scary future-Ocuppy Washington

If you really want to know where we are in this country and how crazy, out of touch and irresponsible politicians have been with our future just go to the Treasury Department's website and look for Fms.treas.gov/frsummary/frsummary2010.pdf . It will blow your mind how deep in the whole we really are, as well as how much of actual financial reality is being hidden from us and not made available to the public. Europe, long terms does not look that bad, boy the Chinese must be laughing as they lend us more with a shovel in their hands. The shift must come we all need to become leaders because the current group is too corrupt and has been bought off a long time ago. We cannot afford to have the current establishment running this game, if we want to continue to have a game.

We are going to be forced into living simple and self reliant lives.

I believe that we are in a period of very little growth that will last maybe ten to fifteen years. We are de leveraging mountains of government and personal debt. At the same time we are making a slow transition to a sustainable economy and living model. During these times we will see lower levels of consumptions on the basics and less spending in the unnecessary. Prices of food and energy are predicted to go higher. As a consequence we are going to have to live less dependent lifestyles. It sounds painful but the more I think about it could end up being the other way around, this current model the one we are living now being the painful one and the simple and self reliant a more happy one. Lets see but no doubt the shift is almost here.

The repetition machine and the imitator is dead, Creativity is the new killer app

The system is not working, which system? the government, the financial system, the system of consumption, etc. Why? because we are stuck in rotting spin of repeating the same old behaviors and actions in a very efficient manner. The only problem is that the composition of these behaviors are reinforcing a system that no longer works. So how do we create a change? I think it is about having the courage to start creating on a personal level as well as at a

societal level. Of course there is a small group of people and powers to be that want the game to stay the same but the majority of us know the system is broken. Lets recreate a new us, with new behaviors, believes, new agreements and actions which will eventually create a system that may work for lots of us. It is about creativity, innovation and not be a repetition machine and an imitator of what does not work. The W3.

Default planet-Default nation

It seems that we are moving into a global scenario of a default planet in which the whole world is in such debt that growth will not be part of our experience for some time. I continue to believe that we are creating a political class that is irresponsible and debt addicts. The US political system is broken like it is in most of the world. Lets kick them out and send them to live among us in reality. It is time to tare down the walls and create another game that works for all of us. I say lets start sending them to jail, lets criminalize politics. Many are asking for the heads of Wall Street players, why not congress and Presidents? Game over-Default nation.

What an exciting time to be alive

It is a fascinating time to be alive. The traditional is no longer applicable, the logic and rational is falling apart. No matter how much the status quo tries to make it work the framework is melting. The economic system cannot grow, Politics is rotten even in the best of circumstances. Dictatorial systems are really having a hard time being centralize, oppressive and stopping the flow of conversations and information. It is not a good time to be a dictator nor a close end system of any kind. There is only one thing to do and that is to create a new way of living, new systems and a new happiness. This is wonderful. This means will need to create our own visions and live in them. Forget the experts and the establishment-Time to follow our own inner voices and leap for the new, from the more practical point of view, the traditional is no longer profitable and fun-it has gone stale. W3

A new political class is needed-Public servants not self servants

At a global scale there is an urgent need for a new political paradigm. The current class is simply not capable and not responsible nor evolved enough take this planet in the direction that is need to avoid a collapse. This current political class is not conscious of the real issues nor are they humble enough to realize the extent of the damage being inflected on society and the world by their lack of responsibility, arrogance and their child like behavior. The time as come for us to restructure and create a political class that is composed by public servants and not self servants. Vote, donate and kick them out with your brain and not with your denial and comfort.W3

The New paradigm emerging even in traditional media

Today's( September 12th)The Wall Street Journal has a section on the Environment. It is actually pretty good. It is focus on the creation of greener cities. As you read it so can sense the creation of a new urban living model that is slowly emerging out of the ruins of our current toxic and wasteful paradigm. This is occurring while most of the world is still trying to squeeze a drop of efficiency out of business and living models that longer works. If you do not believe me have you checked out recently the Financial system, wow talk about a racket that only works for five guys. Time to move on to the next game, because this one has hit the wall. I believe there are tremendous opportunities in the next phase it just takes some faith in the human race.

W3

America's and China's downfall could be through our mouths

I watched the Documentary "Knives and Forks". It is a very powerful film. It show how food is the weak link in American society and how we are destroying ourselves by eating mountains of junk food and animal based products. The Chinese are now starting to copy us and they have joined the obesity and chronic disease fest. It is amazing the current level of denial that we are living in, 40% of Americans are obese. Health care will sink America. To the obesity epidemic we need to add the fast growing aging population in the USA and in the rest of the planet.We now spend on health care then defense. Another great documentary to watch is "Food Inc". We really have to be very self reliant because we are surround with tons of mis leading concepts, lies and big corporate interest focused on their short term interest and not on our own long term health. Join W3 the New Global Paradigm-use your power.

The global economy fact or fiction?

Have the economies of the first world been growing in the last ten years or is it a debt illusion, meaning no growth all debt, question? fiction or nonfiction? I say fiction. It has been in it's majority a big Pyramid of debt creating the perception of progress but the reality has been all about economic destruction, the sacrifice of many generations and severe damage to the ecology of the planet.

Fiction or nonfiction?

If it is fiction- can we catch the creators of this Ponzi scheme and make them pay? or should we continue to go after the small time criminal pretending they are a problem. We need to get a global alarm clock so we can all wake up to what is really happening. W3