Thoughts about aliens

In the post I wanted to share a few of my thoughts regarding aliens. Former Canadian defence minister Paul Hellyer has been speaking quite a bit about UFO’s and our inadequate reactions to their warnings about our behavior towards the earth we live in. I always wondered why official authorities started coming up with various facts about aliens. This particularly intensified when crisis hit 2008. It is very interesting why we should listen to some strange warnings from some inhabitants from other planets when we get more serious warnings from common sense, religion and many other sources. 

I do not mean to play some wise guy who knows everything and tells that there is no life in other planets. I simply state that this question, as well as other many other questions try to divert our attention from real problems (such as financial crisis that we have recently experienced) and their causes rather than answer them. I mean, pick up the Bible and you will get much more serious warnings and explanations why we live as we live and why there is so much evil around us and in us. Why listen to some alien coming from other planet? If they are real, who knows how they live there, maybe they have some kind of dictatorship there and try to do the same thing here. Well, I do not believe they exist in the first place. And even if they existed, I would not listen to them. 

I believe it is also a good source for commercial purposes. What a cool topic for writing a book, produce a movie! We enjoy mysteries, secrets, mysticism and things like that. There is a lot of commotion about 2012 and the end of the world, Mayan calendar and etc. It sows fear in people’s minds, but does not show real reasons for a possible collapse that could happen in 2012. There definitely could be a collapse in economic and social security spheres. Why? Nations are increasing their national debts in geometrical progression and the day is coming when they will no longer be able to pay off those debts. 

They will also no longer be able to pay pensions if nobody finances their budget deficits. And you do not need aliens to tell you that. And you do not need prophets to tell you that. Look at how our financial system is functioning and you will see that disaster is coming. And you will know why. You cannot spend more than you make. So, I do believe there is God, but I do not believe there are aliens and they try to send us some weird signals about the changes that we need to make. We have the same and even more signals everywhere around us. Let us simply open our eyes. 

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How long are commodities going to climb up

How long are commodities going to climb up

We have been seeing gold, silver, oil and other commodities going up for a considerable period of time. I want to talk a little bit today on my expectations for further direction in the market. Ben Bernanke declared that recession of 2008 is over. He and the rest of FED together with the Congress and the Senate decided that the best way to put global economy back on track is to stimulate it by pumping it with printed money. We should also not forget that the money that is thrown into economy is debt based. So, the debt will be put on the shoulders of taxpayers. 

I have been looking at the areas where the printed money was distributed in the economy and saw that much of it was used for creating new working places. Unfortunately, most of the positions were not stable places in manufacturing or other places that create additional value, but merely short term projects. It was also somewhat strange to see the attempt to stimulate construction sector, which still has a few million of unoccupied houses. Why stimulate it? Let the market clean up, reach the bottom and then start going up. 

Anyway, when so much money is poured into economy and there are plans to pour out more, you can be sure that at some point inflation will skyrocket. It won’t start very quick, but after some time it will start rising pretty fast. Where do you think you can invest when inflation starts rising at an alarming rate. Definitely not in stocks as high inflation makes it difficult for companies to borrow money for working capital and investments due to high interest rates that usually stay very high when inflation is raging in a global economy. 

So, where would you want to invest? You would want to invest somewhere more tangible and not some paper securities. You would want to invest into things: gold, silver, oil, rice, sugar and etc, which are commonly known as commodities. Oil usually precedes any inflation as high prices of oil cause all prices of products and then services to go up, because all global economy is tied to prices of oil. It is a global currency, which reflects the prices of products in most market sectors. So, when inflation starts picking up people get worried about their wealth as it starts disappearing as snow which melts at the beams of spring sun. 

Investors seeing the situation start putting their money into commodities, mostly gold and silver as these protect your money and wealth best from raging inflation and also help you to increase your capital immensely. So, if you asked me how long commodities are going to rise, I can tell you, as long as money is printed and economy is stimulated artificially with paper stuff that loses value on a daily basis. Therefore, I would encourage you to think how you could protect your capital. In my opinion, it is by investing in commodities. There will be retracements, which will give you good opportunities to enter the market. I believe you should do it. Good luck in your investments. 

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Globalization or monopolization

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Googler thoughts on globalization

Globalization or monopolization

Globalization is a pretty popular word now. It simply means world functioning as one unit in politics, economy, trade and maybe even culture. Most people would tell you how good it is to have free movement of goods and people and ability to work in a country of your dreams, but they hardly realize that the process has and will definitely have more disadvantages than advantages. In fact, I believe the process can also justly be called monopolization. 

This free movement of goods and ability to do business in any part of the world creates an illusion of big opportunities. If you start looking at European Union, which could be the best example of globalization, you actually see the model of former Soviet Union with slightly changed shape and slightly different ideas. However, each country has a quota of what they can produce and export, which means that bigger countries like France and Germany(also Great Britain) have tremendous advantages over other smaller European countries. 

To do business in European Union in certain sphere you must have a dozen of requirements, certificates and the like, which not every company is able to get. It is pretty difficult for small companies to compete in such a big market. Over the previous ten years I saw a lot of small companies going bankrupt and big companies becoming stronger because all the requirements for business are very favorable for big companies and very unfavorable for small firms. 

It means one single thing, that in the future all economy will be run by huge corporations and who knows; maybe there won’t be any small businesses anymore. You could very well see in the banking sector too. Some banks are bigger than the GDP of their countries. What could happen if they went bankrupt? Tens of thousands people would be jobless and how fast will they be able to find new work again? This only shows how important private small and medium businesses are. There would never be a crisis of such magnitude as we saw in 2008 if global economy would be small and medium company based and not giant company based. 

Who failed during crisis and whom the governments tried to save with taxpayers’ money? Not small folks I guess. No, it was these huge mega corporations that are too big to fail. We cannot depend on a few big companies for the health of the whole economy. It is impossible. What if they decide to gamble with taxpayers’ money, which they often like doing? What are we going to do then? 

As you can see I am more against globalization and I hope you understand why. Governments should retain their sovereignties in order for democracy to continue functioning. Countries should be able to decide what is acceptable for them and what is not. Now in Europe, we are told more and more what we should accept and what we shouldn’t, as if we are some sort of brainless creatures. If the process continues we can actually see some sort of dictatorship, which would be a hybrid of communism and capitalism. Let’s pray it does not happen.

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Googler thoughts on financial crisis of 2008


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Googler thoughts on financial crisis of 2008

Today on googler blog I want to give you a few thoughts on the financial crisis of 2008. I believe the entire world was affected by it, yet the biggest part of the world did not really understand the causes that led to the crisis. I am absolutely convinced that we can definitely know those causes and that the crash could have been predicted and avoided. We have not created a system which we cannot control and we do not play the game that beats us. We have to see how the financial system works and what happens when there are excesses reached in the system. 

In order to understand the causes we need to understand how important money for our global economy is. It is economic blood. When blood is normally circulating through human body everything is fine, but when you start experiences things like thrombus, low blood or high blood pressure and the like, your body gets into trouble. You might have a stroke or a heart attack or some other serious thing may happen.

The same is true about current economic system. When money circulates around all economic system and there is enough of it (not too much and not too little) everything is fine. However, when there is a sudden or gradual increase of money in the system, we start having an economic disease which is called inflation. It is ok when it is small and stable. However, if the amount of money in the system continues increasing, inflation continues rising and we finally have what is called a bubble. How is that bubble formed?

By means of borrowing and lending. In present system money comes through huge commercial banks, which get their money through central banks and distribute them to smaller commercial banks, which in their turn lend it to businesses and private individuals. So, when everybody is rushing to borrow and there are those (banks) who are rushing to lend, the system is flooded with money. If the process continues for a considerable period of time, inflation gets out of control. Everything is booming, salaries rising, new businesses are being created and…gradually interest rates are being raised.

This increase in interest rates is meant to cool the economy from heating, but unfortunately it is seldom applied at the right time and it seldom creates desirable results. This process starts a chain of bankruptcies because some companies and private individuals are no longer able to pay their debts. This causes banks to increase interest rates even more in order to compensate losses. Finally everybody is in trouble, because at some point banks are not willing to lend anymore as interest rates are very high. So, money stops coming to the system and that’s when bubble explodes and crisis comes. That’s what happened in 2008 right when lending and construction boom ended. 

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Googler thoughts on Libya attack

Googler thoughts about Trump statements regarding Obama’s birthplace

Googler thoughts about Trump remarks regarding Obama birthplace

Although there has been enough proof that Obama is an American citizen, Donald Trump tried to pour in some oil back on the topic. As always lovely Sarah stepped in to boost Trump’s statements about Obama’s birthplace. You might wonder why these things are brought back in the media. I believe there could be a few reasons for that. Firstly, Mr. Trump would like to push himself for the position of the president. Whether he fails or succeeds is another story. 

The second idea is that the ruling class usually tries to shift public attention from real problems and concentrate on trifles, scandals, rumors and other stuff that merely promotes vanity and stupidity of the people who use all possible opportunities to draw attention to themselves and show how they care for others. I believe we have more serious questions to solve than the birthplace of Obama. Of course, if that is true, that would be an ironic fact which has been overlooked before elections. Lies should not be tolerated. However, there are much bigger lies that are placed in front of the society as the truth and media does not bother to write about that. I hope we will become smart enough to see the big picture of what is happening and not run after every rumor that we hear. 

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Googler on Japan nuclear crisis

Googler thoughts on Japan nuclear crisis

Today on Googler blog I am going to give you a few thoughts of mine about Japan’s nuclear crisis. We would all agree that the earthquake that caused these terrible consequences raises the question whether we should continue relying on nuclear energy or not. Of course, it is one thing for me sitting in front of my television set or pc to speak about those things, it is another thing for those who live in Japan and it is a completely different thing for those who work in Fukushima trying to put the power plant back into control. 

However, it is not a problem that only Japan has to deal with, but the thing has become pretty global now and everybody is involved. Firstly, we see that not everything is under our control and in order for us to continue using nuclear power we need to think of more ways to make our power plants secure. If we are not able to do that, then I doubt if we can continue relying on this source for further supply of energy. Life and health is more important than cheap energy. But if it is possible to do, we should take advantage of any method to create more secure nuclear power plants. 

By regulations of European Union my nation (Lithuania) had to close its nuclear power plant as it had one reactor that was Chernobyl’s type. At the moment we do not have any other source of energy of our own and we are forced to buy it from abroad. This is dramatically reflected in cost that we pay for electricity now. So, if we blindly reject nuclear power, we will definitely see much higher prices of energy production as other ‘renewable sources of energy’ are still much more expensive, be it wind, sun or some thermo power. 

I wish we could switch to them, but at the moment, when economic crisis is still much felt around the globe, investing in these types of energy sources is beyond financial possibilities of most countries, unless they want to get deeper into debt. So, I think we should stick to nuclear energy for the time being and spend more time thinking how to make those power plants more secure. It involves a lot of discussion. Most probably nations which live in seismic zones should radically reduce the number of nuclear power plants. I think it will definitely happen. But closing power plants now would only increase the chances of the second wave of financial crisis, which in my opinion is a real threat even without taking into account what happened in Japan. 

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What is googler

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What is a googler

Googler is a term that is basically associated with the famous Google Company and the company’s search engine. It is a person who enjoys browsing google.com search engine to find out anything that he/she needs. If you searched for other meanings of the word you would find out many more meanings. I would recommend looking through various definitions of the term in urban dictionary to find what else the term could mean. I personally enjoy browsing Google as I find it very easy to use and find things quite fast. Therefore, the blog would deal with the ideas or interesting things that I find on internet as well as things happening in the world from the perspective of me as a Google.com fan. 

So, each day I am going to share a short post on something that I find online and add my own perspective on that. It can very often be just a few thoughts on some topic such as economy, entertainment, culture, blogging and etc. 

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