Sovereign debt or common wealth?

Interesting read from the Centre for International Governance Innovation in Waterloo, a thinktank founded by former Research in Motion Chief Executive Officer Jim Balsillie in 2001, where our previous Prime Minister of Canada Paul Martin believes time has come to create a global Chapter 11 process or what he calls a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism.

Specializing in the world of international governance, the Centre for International Governance Innovation uses interdisciplinary research and analysis, policy and innovations and communications to move ideas affected by the global aspects of the economy, energy and the environment via development and security that ensures global sustainability, addresses gaping inequality and safeguards human rights. Pure to its mandate advocating for an intellectual knowledge to power exchange, no matter how incremental or eventual, we finally have an global or international political economic debate forming on the restructuring of the international financial market and system after this recent global economic shock and crisis with a North American champion to boot. In these days of decision, we as one global community have grown economically beyond questions of moral hazard and free ridership, issues that can go on in the now with impunity and can be resolved at to be held future rounds of talks. Though I personally believe the current trauma is more systemic insofar as the failure of institutional checks, controls and counteraction against greed, Martin is right that a great starting point is to rally and climax from, if only to regain lost confidence in a broken system temporarily before looking to more permanent and equitable one in the not so distant future.

Indeed, the interdependent global economy and its various institutions, such as the World Bank and International Monetary Fund, has shown itself to be in desperate need for many rules and regulations, such as this proposed sovereign debt restructuring mechanism, at the sacrificial loss of national security and sovereignty, the question however today is this enough?

There is no remembrance when you can not forget.

So as I finish the first stage of the new Schwarzlose workout training program, which is basically a hybrid system that simply takes all the best from two No Pain No Gain style old school bodybuilding workout routines being Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sylvester Stallone with some of Jason Statham mixed to fill in any gaps. Though obvious this action is just a natural bulk up system, fully built for one to go out into the world feeling good, sleeping eating, drinking and training well at their maximum to gain their maximum physique, but this action can also be a cutting down system too by feeling stronger, sleeping longer, training harder, drinking more and eating less until that maximum physique is attained once again. Just in starting on this program alone, I have gained a little over 3 and three quarters of extra lean mass in a month, which maybe slow but that is new muscle over the old and lowered the total body fat percentage by one full percent according to my pinching calipers.

One point to stress on the bench press and even the squat and deadlift however, my gains have not come from the routine's but rather the rather intense progressive overload method created and reformulated by the strength and conditioning program in the athletic department at the University of Nebraska Cornhuskers, where you are consistently increasing the amount of iron you are lifting incrementally yet consistently and your muscle stimulus potential to build more longer strength, larger size and lean mass.

As I began the post here on Canadian Remembrance Day, did something I have not usually had time for, sat down to watch a couple films being the 46 minute 1998 National Film Board of Canada's John Mccrae's War In Flanders Fields and the 169 minute 1998 Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan where all of us went from Guelph, Ontario to Flanders, Belgium and from Payton, Iowa to Normandy, France in just seconds. With only the idea of not to reason why but to do and die, soldiers gave their lives for country and cause their leadership deemed essential, necessary and right to keeping its Capracornian principles and ideals of society being freedom, liberty and democracy, where God is for us and no one can be against us. This is also the society that openly teaches us to just earn it even though we know we never can, so indeed lest we forget memoriam eorum retinebimus angus Dei omnium Rex ta panta en Christoi synesteken forever, that is remember also the One we do know Who through we all shall indeed earn this once and for all.

Tea Party Occupy Wall Street Protestors waving the Red, Black and Blue

First came a Tea Party then a need to Occupy, with both a deeper sense of economic doubt and social inequality than had been felt before the grander political change, some believe that both should either benevolently merge or hostily takeover as one protest, running an independent presidential candidate in the upcoming American Presidential election with the message "Forget about change, they want dollars, instead give us liberty not debt!" as the working election slogan on the current state of affairs then see how policies like restoration of Constitution of the United States and the broken democratic process and political system with fair pay and taxation, ending the doubledipped advanced recession, megagreedy big bank bailouts and its supposed creator United States Federal Reserve Bank fly in real time and life.

If one reads between the lines quietly along the Allied Western Front, they can see nothing but negativity coming from the majority of people over their ultimate life purpose in this world, but indeed a time has come for a more positive solution to all the problems entering so rapidly into their lives.

Taking a couple steps back from the protests, the people within and those without need to realize that justice is something we do not find in this world, as it says in the Holy Bible Matthew 5:45 "That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust." Like the philosophically virtuous question of ethics in the eyes of Aristotle and Plato, justice is the proper disposition to act what is just in action and to be think what is good in thought, bringing Athens in line with Jerusalem while holding to cautious warnings from both Tertullian and Paul to look to the next world and life. Speaking on the gift of eternal life, Jesus once famously said in the Holy Bible Mark 10:31, "But many that are first shall be last and the last first." and that we can all take to the bank.

Obama not our America changed

We had hope, change we could and yes we can, believe in.

But we did not realize that it was not a vote for a candidate of change for President, but a candidate that changed as President, as Obama was a flipflop of himself pre and post election. As candidate on the campaign trail, he was an excellent populist speaker on communication and supposedly horrible executive manager, yet as the President in the White House, he has been a perfect executive manager in government, only to lost his touch as that populist speaker. The only conclusion one American can simply come to, is that Obama, not our America, has changed.

It may have begun with us, but as we come to the light at the end of the long tunnel, it has ended with him.

First an Arabian Spring and now an American Fall

By now everyone knows about the amazing chain of events in the Middle East that started in Tunisia where a grassroots revolution through civil resistance over widespread governmental corruption leading up to the self immolation of Mohamed Bouazizi in the mantra of "Ash Shab Yurid Isqat An Nizam", ousting of President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali and Prime Minister Mohamed Ghannouchi, continues through Algeria, Lebanon, Mauritania, Sudan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Morocco, Western Sahara, Palestinian National Authority, Jordan, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Kuwait, Syria and has likely now ended in Libya with its raging civil war and the dramatic overthrow of its head of state Muammar Muhammad Abu Minyar Al Gaddafi that ensued within, together called the Arabian Spring in the East.

I would now like to argue that turning from the Afroriental expression of independence, freedom and democracy, one not exactly like the prepackaged globalized United States marketed product sold abroad colonialistically through Western styled education, health care and human rights then outsourced back to us through budgetary cost benefit analysis and contracting using the low risk and high reward tradeoff principle, we now look to the Americoccidental spectre of a coming American Fall in the West. Politically, a promise of hope and change has lead to just more of the same, leading jokers on the left to Occupy Wall Street like 1929 and clowns on the right to repeat the Boston Tea Party like 1773 in protest, yet no one wants to face the realities of 2011, where from lobbyists to legislators, a nation continues to be overpromise, underestimate and nondeliverable as "Mission Accomplished" becomes "Assignment Incomplete". Add this to the obvious twinning of both economic and defense aims, ways and means into undesirable strategic ends, whose consequences domestic and foreign bring no one closer to its original stated goals, one can now understand how government, not the citizen, has given up on its supposed commitment towards achieving cultural goals through the traditional democratic processes in America.

The politically elite powered triumvirate which is the military industrial complex, and not the White House or its President, may still call the final shots in a direct line, from Wall Street to the Pentagon to the Beltway, but that same old iron triangle establishment of the status quo is slowly bending to the will of, by and for the people though current results do not show it, with every Tea Partier, Street Occupier or some other kind of unaligned independent protesting citizen joining their brave new civil rebellion and their own mantra of "Do Not Tread On Me" against big imperialistic government, excessive taxation with no special representation, treatment or service for the people yet ballouts its special interests using political collusion, correctness and bias, the gap between those legally represented by vested interests in their society and those without any of all of this grows wider and deeper, until one day the rule of law and the power of interest will no longer be.

Democracy is as democracy always does

Democracy is as democracy always does, even at just less than 50 percent strength last night in Ontario, historically lower than any provincial vote ever before since Confederation in 1867, which meant the parties that have been delivering status quo to the taxpayers of the province would end up getting the majority of the vote actually made, while those promising citizens hope and change would have to wait until next time to try again.

Also just less than 50 percent was the colouring of the Saugeen riding Tory blue by the voters there, while the province itself remained Grit red with 53 seats, albeit by a supposed major minority of 37 percent, with an opposition of 54 seats made up of 37 Progressive Conservatives at 35 percent and 17 New Democrats at 23 percent, fringe parties took the huge brunt of the blow, where even the Greens free fell five points to 3 and Reform did not even register a point at 0.

In the end, the electors of Bruce Grey Owen Sound, who decided collectively who their representative individually for the next session of legislature would be, felt safe with more of the same in Walker, rather than taking the chance at change with a choice for Jolley and bucking against the status quo, thus enacting a Bill of Rights rather than a Shane of Responsibilities.

Minority and Resilency equal Opportunity for Independence

As we state in the opening preamble of our own 2011 Ontario provincial election camapaign statement of principles, Bruce Grey Owen Sound is home to independent minded citizens with the resilience, endurance and perseverance to find new opportunity in the face of difficulty, indeed these are difficult and tumultuous days we live in. Unknown are the environs we move towards, in various areas, economically a slowdown is all but guaranteed, how deep no one knows, politically a minority is also in the cards, whose it will be for sure, with Tweedle Red and Tweedle Blue neck and neck tied, is completely uncertain.

With such a history of resilency economically and knowledge of a minority politically, now is the right time for Bruce Grey Owen Sound to declare its political, economic and cultural independence, with a vote for Independent Shane Jolley.

An Ontario Legislature at Queen's Park will have no mandate, rudderless without any clear sense of aim, lacking the people first principles an Independent can give it. The lone common voice of the Bruce Grey Owen Sound people could finally be heard in Toronto independently, finally making a real difference, especially during this era of fiscal and economic insecurity where critical thinking, not party platform parroting, to begin getting out of the hole we have dug ourselves into. An important vote for Independence could give Bruce Grey Owen Sound the kingmaking power and control of the 107 seat Assembly in that minority government, if we decided to properly use the local resiliency we have always had to bend yet not break, to simply be strong and resilient in times of trouble and thus must resurrect the maverick political spirits of United Farmer Labour Agnes Macphail, Liberal Red Grit Eddie Sargent and Progressive Conservative Tory Bill Murdoch by voting Independent again with Shane Jolley for a more responsible citizen, community and country across the Province of Ontario.