Day 178: Zuma says to benefactors: "Everything you touch will multiply" - EMC will End Corruption

For more context, please read Jo'burg's R1bn 'present' to Zuma benefactor.

The Problem

At the ANC anniversary gala dinner, President Zuma of South Africa made the statement that "wise" businessmen who support the ANC could expect that everything they touch would multiply. In the Mail & Guardian, this has been called a 'controversial remark' - but is it really controversial if everyone is doing it?

Whoever supports Zuma will receive support in return - this is how political parties buy their power in a country. An example was in the newspapers just a few days ago - where Reddy Vivian's company was awarded a R1.25 billion contract to supply 'smart' electricity meters to the city of Johannesburg. The way in which the tender was awarded is full of irregularities.

• "Detailed allegations that an initial technical evaluation score-sheet was amended to improve the result for Reddy's company, Edison Power;

• The revised scoring pushed another bidder, Hefcom, below the cut-off 70% technical score. When price was factored in, Hefcom – whose bid was half the cost of Edison's – would have scored better than Edison;

• A letter informing Edison it had won the bid is dated before City Power supply chain management even received the bid recommendation or the chair of the adjudication committee had signed off on the decision;

• Edison's share of the contract was pushed up from an initial recommendation of a R600-million share of an R800-million contract to an exclusive contract for R1.25-billion; and

• A man central to the award, City Power chief executive Sicelo Xulu, is alleged to be "friends with Zuma" though he denies this."

If it hadn't been for friends-politics, and if tenders were awarded purely on quality, Hefcom would have probably been awarded the tender, which would have halved the cost for supplying the electricity meters. The South African public is being conned continuously as no decision is made in the best interest of the whole, but only in the interest of those in power - both the politicians and the companies. This type of neocolonialism is a big problem as it perpetuates inequality and brings about results that are completely inefficient, imposing unnecessary costs to those with less. And, where decisions are not made to support life but to support greed, the environment incurs higher costs as well - because the environment which gives life is simply not considered.

The Solution

Firstly, each one will earn an equal income within EMC. One of the problems we're facing today, which prevents people from working together to find solutions for common problems, is the fact that the value of a person is not recognised as being equal. And each one's value IS equal - Because we are all here and we are all Life - it doesn't matter in which form - without Life, you wouldn't be breathing right now. Yet, the current capitalistic system gives value through money in an unequal way - creating the perception and idea that people are not Equal. Understand - equal does not mean the same - we are not all the same. Some run faster than others, some understand math better, for others math is like an alien monster. We are not equal in capacities and skills in that we are not all the same - but we all are equal in value - there is no one more important then another, there is no one that deserves better opportunities than another.

Every time each one receives an equal income, each one's value is being recognised as being equal to that of another. When value is not equally recognised, it creates the perception that there is a lack of value to go around and that each one must compete to receive value. With everyone receiving equal income, such competition for value will for a large part disappear - because there is no fear of ending up without value and without recognition. Things like power-hunger will for a large part disappear due to this simple correction, as being in a position of power is merely one of the ways individuals attempt to find value and recognition through competition. With each one being out for themselves, the larger picture is forgotten, and one's responsibilities towards one's fellow human beings are forgotten. Once everyone is recognised as equal, working together as a group becomes possible, because things like jealousy, competition and sabotage no longer stand in the way.

Of course, in EMC - Politics will be different from what it is today - one will not give up their voice to a representative and then hope that this representative indeed acts in your interest. Instead - each one will be part of the decision making. We go back to the origin of democracy, which was direct democracy. Ones territories started becoming too big for people to gather and do the decision-making, a system of representation was introduced. And for a moment, this was the best option available. But with today's technology, we are able to implement true democracy once again - because we don't require to physically come together to discuss and vote on things. We discuss and vote on things with people far away all the time on the internet; on forums, on twitter, on facebook. So - to organise our political system in a way that everyone has a direct say is today possible and very do-able.

Those in political positions will merely be managers, but they will not be decision-makers - and therefore, will not have the ability to influence, for instance, who is awarded the tender for supplying electric metres.

Rewards

EMC will put an end to Corruption - making sure that the funds that are pooled together through tax is no longer wasted on the exuberant lifestyle of those in power. Tax money will be used to provide each one with their Basic Living Rights. You'll be able to follow these things online, monitoring the entire process of why a certain solution was selected and you'll be able to say whether you agree with the decision.

Obviously, less money and resources will be spent on investigating corruption, cycling cases through the justice system. With such distractions out of the way, we'll be able to truly focus on how we can enhance life - for humans, animals and plants - this will create a different world for everyone, the world we were told we lived in as children, but soon realised was a lie.

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Day 115: Like Father, Like Son

 I’ve been doing some reading on the political development of countries post-independence. What is interesting is that the West is very much into getting these ‘less developed countries’ to a democratic state of affairs, but it just doesn’t seem to want to work. While I was reading, the point opened up that in essence the West was like a ‘Parent’, which imposed their ways unto these countries as a ‘child’ and where these countries simply observed how things were being done and how things could be done.

So is it really a surprise that there is so much corruption, dictatorship, war, disregard for human rights in these Third World Countries? I mean, all they are doing is copying the parent as those who were governing before them, which was the West. What they saw was corruption, exploitation, abuse, war, death, violence, disregard for human rights – all for the sake of self-interest as making a quick buck at the expense of many.

So what is going on in these countries as the corruption, exploitation and general disregard for Life – is merely a reflection of patterns patterned in by the parents. So, can you really blame these countries for acting the way they do? For not having a democracy? For having military rule? All they ever saw was people coming in and with force as violence and coercion, take the resources from them for their own benefit, and saw how easy it was to get what you want as wealth, if you use force and corruption. So then when the West left, all they did was copy what was done to get what they want. I mean, for a long time they were living in misery and poverty, and now they suddenly had a chance to get the abundant lifestyle their oppressors had. Once they had the power, wealth and influence they were so long deprived of – they were afraid of going back to life of poverty and misery – and so they did everything they could to remain in power.


What is going on in the World and the things we don’t like to see and talk about, as all those apparent ‘negative things’ which make us feel down – like poverty, starvation, misery, child soldiers, corruption, abuse – are really the direct consequence of who we have accepted and allowed ourselves to become, where our actions as self-interest have created a little monster that we can’t seem to stop – yet this little monster is us, just a more direct, obvious version. All we’ve done as the West is “civilianised”’ our exploitative ways, where we refined them and make them look so sophisticated, intelligent and complex – so that at first sight, it looks like we’re doing some cool shit – but once you look behind the curtain as the sophisticated charade – we are still doing the exact same thing we’ve been doing for centuries = abusing other for our own ends.


It is time to take self-responsibility and wake up from the illusion that we are good, civilised people – the amount of suffering in the world as never been this high through the whole of history, this again just shows our process of evilution. It’s time to stop and clean up the mess we’ve all created – check out EqualMoney.org and see how we can be a responsible, sustainable society that Respects all Life

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Day 113: Responsibility for Colonial Past

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to view having colonies as a symbol of power and prestige.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to view having colonies as a symbol of superiority of being able to control and subject an entire nation/country to my will, culture and ruling.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to believe it is something to be proud of if you live in a country that has colonies, like that makes you a greater person somehow.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to question Belgium's role as a colonial ruler as well as its responsibility it had/has after the colony of Congo became independent - just thinking that after the declaration of independence, we had reached a happy ending, and thus - our job is done - because we are happy, we are satisfied, not considering all the parties involved.

I forgive myself for not accepting and allowing myself to realise that there is something seriously wrong with our country, our world and ourselves if we cannot look our children in the eye and openly share about our country's history because we know we are responsible for the suffering of millions through first stripping them of everything they ever knew in colonising them and then leaving without facilitating an effective transitional and support system to be implemented - like cutting off someone's legs and then expecting them to start walking.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to keep quiet about the topic of Congo, harbouring it as a taboo within myself, because I believe that if I don't speak of it, don't think about it, then it doesn't affect me and it allows me to live in ignorant bliss.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to use countless excuses of why we shouldn't support Congo after independence, when actually we just think of the country as a burden that we have nothing to gain from anymore - since we can achieve the same goals through purely economic means as developing countries are being drawn into the globalisation process where resources are pulled away from them without having to give proper repayment, as they don't have the financial power to demand to be respected and treated as equals.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to claim to be working towards a better world when we are too ashamed of who we are and what we have done as a people, a nation, to educate the next generations about ti so that the young generations can learn from past mistakes.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to claim to be working towards a better world while deliberately abdicating responsibility for the harm we have done unto other people, pretending that we can create a better world without requiring to take responsibility for our thoughts, words and deeds.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to claim to be working towards a better world while we are too ashamed to admit to our own mistakes and within this, place shame above what needs to be done in consideration of what is best for all - and thus, I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to participate in an absolute act of self-interest.

I forgive myself for accepting and allowing myself to claim to be working towards a better world while we cannot look our children in the eye and speak straightforwardly about the world we created for them as it is a legacy of problems that we are leaving to our children to sort out.

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Day 111: Evilution - Neocolonialism - Part 2

This blog is a continuation to:
Day 98: The Unholy Trinity
Day 99: Money Votes
Day 102: Liberalism
Day 103: Abstract Equality
Day 104: We have to Protect our Freedom!
Day 105: Human Liberties
Day 106: Structural Adjustment
Day 107: Getting Reality to conform to an Illusion
Day 108: Virtual Democracies
Day 109: Politics as a Double-Faced Game
Day 110: Evilution - Neocolonialism

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to define myself and my ways as ‘civilised’ and ‘best’ while my actions show a completely different story

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that ‘I know best’ and within that impose my ideas/beliefs/opinions upon others/whole countries – in the belief that because ‘it worked for me it must work for you’

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that ‘prosperous’ parts of the world are only in such a position due to a past of extreme oppression and exploitation

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the ‘wealth’ of the so called ‘prosperous’ nations in the world is built on the past as years of exploitation and stealing and so I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that I cannot expect other countries to become prosperous like me – because I am not allowing them the same path of exploitation that I / we have followed in the past – where our richness is based on their poverty within having taking advantage of the ‘weaker’ countries for years upon years – and then blame these poor countries for the position they are in for not being ‘willed enough’ – while all the while they are in a weak/vulnerable position because those who were better off took advantage of them within draining them of their resources and putting into place structures which many years after ‘independence’ still have disastrous consequences/effects

I forgive myself that I have accepted and allowed myself to believe that if these weak/poor countries just adopt my philosophy they will be okay – without seeing and realising that they are finding themselves in a completely different position/context since they do not get to exploit/abuse others for their own economic gain – which is why enforcing an opinion as ideology unto them will never better their situation

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that an exploitative method of gain can only work for some and not for all – the exploiter needs someone to be exploited – and so it is not practically possible for all to exploit because there is no-one left to be exploited – and within that our current economic within adopting exploitative methods is only ever keeping the exploited in place

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that the problem will remain as long as one exploit the other and as long as one does not distribute resources equally – some will always be better off than others which will only further tip the scale

I forgive myself that I haven’t accepted and allowed myself to see and realise that nothing has changed in terms of how we deal / treat other people – where previously it was very direct and in your face, where we now simply moved to more ‘subtle’ indirect ways of exploitation – but the exploitation is still here


I commit myself to show that the idea of what is ‘civilised’ is completely fucked up, as it has always been used from a starting point of superiority towards others and used as a justification for abuse

I commit myself to show that the reasoning of ‘it worked for me so it must work for you’ does not apply if one does not take into consideration all the factors/dimensions which contributed to having it ‘made it work’ for you and only consider a fraction and then only impose this fraction within self-interest

I commit myself to show that out of proportion prosperity can only come about by out of proportion poverty

I commit myself to show that how things are currently presented as how things apparently work /operate does not agree with what actually happened in history

I commit myself to show that an exploitative way of life can only work for some at the expense of others

I commit myself to show that the solution is not for everyone to become exploiters but for everyone to be treated equally such as proposed in the Equal Money System

I commit myself to show that no change has yet taken place, and that we’ve simply further specified and perfected our methods of exploitations to make them less obvious yet at the same time more effective

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• Day 109: Politics as a Double-Faced Game
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• Day 103: Abstract Equality

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Day 110: Evilution - Neocolonialism

This blog is a continuation to:
Day 98: The Unholy Trinity
Day 99: Money Votes
Day 102: Liberalism
Day 103: Abstract Equality
Day 104: We have to Protect our Freedom!
Day 105: Human Liberties
Day 106: Structural Adjustment
Day 107: Getting Reality to conform to an Illusion
Day 108: Virtual Democracies
Day 109: Politics as a Double-Faced Game

Let’s have a look at why many countries who are under Structural Adjustment Programs, came to turn to international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank.

Most of these Third World Countries had been previously colonised by the West.
During this time, the colonised countries’ existence was only relevant to the Colonising country in so far that it could use it for resource extraction or trade benefits. During the colonial rule, a lot of changes took place in terms of the colonies’ infrastructures. Infrastructures were built in relation to the country’s function, and like we just mentioned, this function was to serve the colonising country.

So any and all infrastructures built in these countries, were built to direct the flow of resources towards the West. Most of the time, these infrastructures were focused on only a few goods, like cocoa, tobacco, coffee.

So what happened after independence?

During the colonial rule, all these countries were submerged into the international economic/money system – they were now part of the game. When the colonial rulers left, they had no choice but to continue playing the game – the ties were already too much ingrained. So now they had to come up with a plan to be able to continue to play the game. Unfortunately, the only infrastructures in place in these countries in terms of international trade, were those to serve the West. So even though the colonial rulers left – these colonised countries still continued to play the exact same role after colonisation. Considering that there were many of these countries, and many of them focused/specialised on the same goods/crops – they were now competing with each other to get their goods sold to the West, which forced them to lower their prices as much as possible just to get their stuff sold.

Previously during the colonial rule, the occupiers would finance much of the country’s development that would further trade. Now that they had left, these third world countries were left with nothing. The only thing they could do to ‘kickstart’ their economies = was to borrow money.

Every since then, many of these countries went into Debt and have so far not been able to repay it.

The loans they get now, are conditional as seen in Day 98 and Day 106 – where not only these countries are at the mercy of the West economically – but now also have to conform politically. So in essence, nothing has really changed. Just through money, a new form of ‘indirect’ colonialism replaced the older ‘direct’ colonialism – but countries are still being exploited.

Look at it simplistically:

The West comes and colonises Third World Countries. They take their resource and built stuff which only serves the West. Then they go away and leave the Third World Countries alone, and let them plunge into massive Debt just for the sake of survival. But the only reason why they had to go into Debt, was because of the actions of the West.

I mean, it just doesn’t make any sense!

We call ourselves ‘civilised’ and ‘evolved’ – but we’ve really not changed at all, we’ve just gotten better at covering up what we do and make it sound more acceptable – while it is totally NOT.

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