The Past is Beneath “Criticism” ; The ‘Optimal Future’ is a Function of Probability, and a Fortune of a Sincere Continuuity arising from Purer Premises of the Moment.

Man’s relationship with time is in the most literary sense of the term : ‘Skin Deep’.

For Time, wrinkles up, it seems on the body of Man, a reducing force, a keeper of accounts, a gushing, senseless, voice, capable of unconditionally impressing on the Skin of Man the irrevocable function of his experiences : Decay.

But what Is Time? What Is Man? And what is Superficial, and What is Not ? The statements above risk sounding foolish and appear as indictments, if these Vital Premises are not exposed of their conjurations. To Do So necessitates a Study of Relationships, rather than an examination in parts. How they relate and feel and form, rather than how they are divided from one another. More the Appreciation, and the less the mechanics ensures and insures a more Sublime and indeed, Complete Understanding – much as an analyses of cones and heights and cylinders, have never contributed on those mere grounds – to a Musician’s capacity to play the Organ better than he would not knowing its configured — one might say — ‘Superficial’ —  intricacies.

The reason the premise of “Man versus Time” is in a holistic and observable sense, insofar as it is an ‘Objective Phenomena’, is technically superficial is on account of the fact, nothing literally or otherwise, – could be more profound to Man, than Man’s Relationship With Himself.

Just as the Less is not More, Man is not the Time he Spends. That Statement does not require an added study of ‘Expenditures and Balance Sheets’ to be any more Qualified than they appear in that Self-Evident Form above in the allegory. In fact, to present it in any other way would be a Nuisance to the Reader and an insult to his Consciousness.

But is the term ‘Superficial’ an Insult?

When Man relates beyond the Skin, and beyond “prophesies” of appearances, and brush strokes of “modern” Art, – he is electing to leapfrog his rudimentary and standard functions, if only by beginning to not take those “mere” functions for Granted.

Gratitude proves to be a Science to a Man who is capable and powerful enough to be a witness to the relationship he shares with himself. The deeper he enters into his own orifices of his Self-Notion, nothing seems trivial, accidental, or Decadent. That is as much a Fact, as it is a fact, Global Banking has reticulated into utter Fraudulence, and Religion has dealt more degradation, damage, and ruin on Man ( Including the “Religion of Freethinkers” ) – than the Silent and Observable Natural and Quantum Forces as are easily afforded to those that Listen Better and more Wholly than they Speak. Not an Easy Task.

Is the experience of Ease then related to the differentiation of the Superficial and the Profound?

It is Not Easy to Unite with One’s own Self. Yet, it is not Difficult to Desire It when clearly, it is an experience capable of unconditionally impressing on the Spirit/Substance of Man, rather than Skin, - the irrevocable function of his Eternal Form – the very ‘Idea of Man’ being that form – inseparable from what He Is at the paramount moment. Therein, no Decay, but a Great, unsullied, and transcendental propensity is discoverable, notable, and construable – and the Author would hypothesize, can even be granted Construction in the ‘Grand Scheme of Things’.

How then are Ease and Difficulty Differentiated, if they are both expressions of the Mind?

The Superficial Man – One who dwells on the Skin, however, blames. In Christian allegory, he is like the Character Job : Given to him are purely arbitrary passions of an argument – and each passion, its own Principle, and its own Will. If he should dwell on the Skin, he finds blemishes, sores, holes – the whole tapestry of physical pain and afflictions are transcribed on his premises.  This is what he draws out and regards as the “Whole Past” – never mind, that had he not the surface of skin, as he has in Time the assistance of the surface of that Tool ‘Memory’, which alone empowers the Seeker to ask whichsoever inquiry that bodes and bears in his curiosity;  how come would he have Gained the Profound Opportunity of Criticism?

The Superficial Man continues to confuse Means with Ends at no great advantage! Regarding “The Flaws of Histories”, – Castigating and dispatching his dubious “Venom” to the Seeds of Past, ‘As If’ it Still Applies, he empowers that which he criticizes- namely his own Actual Decay/Decadence, – failing to apprehend with either his Soul or his Intellect – that the premises of ‘Past’, ‘Present’ and ‘Future’ are cursory habits of Consciousness – nuanced particles of Man’s own Capacity to Be, or to Become.

The Man who freely Wills a Vision, regardless of mere habits and costumes, while liberally interpreting the Useful aspects Truthfully from the ‘Past’, gives notable credence to a Present and Gratitude to those that strived afore him, and enters into his own futurized Vehicle and transmits himself therein through the Same. Indeed, Time as a function of the Conscious Mind is it not – much like Skin – a Vehicle? A ‘Foe-Friend’ – in the sense, it may appear a combustible vehicle, requiring maintenance, attention, — A Source of Energy, ultimately, that could be termed But the ‘Soul’ or to those of the least metaphysical “bent” – the ‘Prime Substance’. The Question of Existence rests on that Will – that Energetic Animus that supplies the Q     uest. To ameliorate the conditions within one’s own Person and the conditions and circumstances of all others go hand in hand, undistinguished, for one’s own Person Chooses It. And to enliven the Quest, one must summon Will and Vivacity – as Such.

Difficulty is the highest Ease, and the Highest Ease is always Difficult!

( Therein ) The Profound Man – One who dwells on Substance, and shuns hypocrisy and vagaries of illogic, un-reason, and tiresome ineptitude, and even avoids the accumulated lives of the illogic, un-reason, ineptitudes, torpitudes of others more Superificial than He, — Avoids all principles that detract from Candidness, and Dwells on the conditions and Premises of his highest Substantive Self – and in this regard, initiating himself through his 1) Mind – Reason  2 ) Body – Passions    3 ) Soul – Prime Substance , such that the Unity created by the Three are Greater than even the Whole. And in that there is contained – the Grammar – the Principle – the Mysteries of Man.

In the Year Two Thousand and Nine, as pronounced by the Christian Logbook and interpretation of Time, – it appears, there is a great deal of chaos, suffrage, blame, and anger arising out of Man. Everyone is at Blame, but not He. Every Foreign Element to his Consciousness is depraved and not He. The Justice is Unjust, but he presumes he is himself Just in stating that Concept.

But the Angry Man, the Chaotic, and the Irascible. Who is that Man? Is he a Superficial Man? Or is he Man Profound? Moreover, if he is a Superficial Man, will he learn Gratitude, so that his depth may increase towards himself, and so that he comes closer in proximity to the Man Profound? And per the Man Profound, in reaching the higher orifices of his awareness – Will he find it Satisfactory to be overwhelmed by the deplorable “Noise” – the noisy and pitiful vagaries of the Superficial Man, whom he cannot escape within or outside himself, so long as the Man Profound is Obliged to admit to his Humanity, which he Must at all times, unless he departs from its premise, – What of him? Perhaps, it is Love?

Is there an allegorical inflection that is perceptible? ‘Lion and Sheep drinking from the same Pond’ is a beautiful phrase – one that easily comes to the author’s mind when he raises up his eyes to the stars, probing for nebulous Relevance to Clarify itself. Is that not which some call ‘Kingdom of Heaven on Earth’ — That is a Space of such Profound Mutual Understanding and Investment, that it mutually assures Evolution, rather than “Cold War like Mutually Assured Destruction”?

An Investment that leaves both parties Wealthier than they were before and Conscious of the Fact, – if they prove Inevitable in their Reason, their Passions guided by Substance, and their Substance guided by the Whole than is greater than the Sum of the Parts?

The Whole may just be what is contained in the word ‘Love’.

“Amor Omnia Vincit”- as a Spanish friend of mine has been invoking of late with a Steady frequency. Meaning, ‘Love Conquers All’.

Going beyond Superficialities, and giving a Living Flame to Profundity, will be tantamount to transcribe the Equinoxes and Solstices of what is meant by that one word.

Love.

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Alexander K. Rai, MSMA is the author of ‘Reader’s Indigest’. He ( personally ) believes in 2009, the most important aspect of existence is to readily admit one’s Humanity, so long as one is complicit in the Human Nature . Adding moreover that, while it is ‘Human to Err’, to ‘Err Honestly, is to find Truth’. Believing in his own Humanity, while at the same time, regarding the Whole that is more than the Collection of Parts, as the premise of what some may call the basis of his “Personal Faith”, he is giddy, that at any given time he is impersonating Only Himself, and all that is done by  his Humanity, is easily Surpassed by the volition of the Same, and what is prevented, is prevented by the same. The Author asides from being a ‘Real Person’  may in that vein, be also for the disinterested Reader, be a purely ‘Symbolic Speculation’, and shall not be disserved from the profit of Gainful Readership, whatsoever. The Author, therein, as Stated, does not take Credit for either Comprehension or Incomprehension of any of his Creative Works, offered in Honor of him Self and Despite Himself, freely to all that may elect to invest their ‘Time’ – and thereby moisten a bit of their Skin, in the Author’s peculiar unsolicited brand of mental – perhaps – also Spiritual – moisturizer.  The Photography Displayed in this Journal are not the Author’s, but rather transcriptions of images of Vintage Books, whose creative attributions are too many, too vague, or both – To List.

FOREX : Observations on the Symbolic “Geo-Economie”.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear. Thomas Jefferson.

With the world’s geo-politik weaved in within a vortex of chasms and a cross-section of media engendered “abyss consciousness” circuitry pathologically shredding what little remains of the wholesome positivism of mercantile confidence, it is tempting to imagine abstracted empirical truths prejudicially manufacturing unsettling mandates to which entrepreneurial valor is subordinated and circumscribed on a Maddoxian “paradox of thrift” generated by the gawdy grease of a speculative “geo-economie”.

But is the “truth” of the functional syntax of “Why things fall apart”, “What causes rift in transactional systems”, “How mercantile structures rise and decline”, and “The Quintessential Mandate of Ethics” – ( Are These Also ) the Same Truth that originates in these investigations as they are found in the Wider, Overview of Economic Phenemenology?

OR -  Are they discernible in the smallest transactional systems, micro-managed “Within the Grid” by obliging “fellow citizens of the world”, and consented to without afterthought by the multitudes, who perhaps, in this apparent co-manufacture of ‘tie-ins’ manifest above all a psychology that may only be as “Real” as a ‘Shared Quotient of Willingness to Oblige’ – and only as transformable and mutable as the Consciousness that sustains ‘it’?

The thoughts of a contemporary Sophist of German Origin – Eckhart Tolle – resonnate with me more deeply than the “economic truths” paraded before the Great Big all Obliging Normaldom.

Offer a wider horizon of zest and luminosity than the more common and pedestrian brew of a Starbucks Tea Bag offering its sacheted precept of ‘Arm Chair Relaxation’, Tolle’s views extrapolate a more Sentient and Eco-Synaptic Weltanschaaung than any other – bringing Man in a more intimate inclination of accord with a ‘Natural Hierarchy of Values’ that are unobscurated by marginalized “modern economic truths”.

Tolle says, “All things are vibrating energy fields in ceaseless motion. The chair you sit on, the book you are holding in your hands appear solid and motionless only because that is how your senses perceive their vibrational frequency, that is to say, the incessant movement of the molecules, atoms, electrons, and subatomic particles that together create what you perceive as a chair, a book, a tree, or a body. / . . . Thoughts consist of the same energy vibrating at a higher frequency than matter, which is why they cannot be seen or touched.” ( 146/ ‘A New Earth’ ).

The Symbolic Geo-Economie is also a similar intangible with a hyphennated projection of what passes as Real-ness. To Tolle’s Quantum extrapolation of the Order of Natural truths, it is ‘as if’ a holographic counter-”truth” — or even a topograhic falsehood is made more apparent that has existed for hundreds of years within European Meta-Systems and Jungian ‘Element’, that serves as would a velvet veil of chastity over a prized vestal virgin; that is if we imply by such imagery allegorical ‘equanimity’ with the synthetic, pornographic projections of modern “marketing mandates” that signify “allure” to an ‘Object’ of Devotion; whereas, in the Quantum Framework of Ethics, a ‘Subject’ of Devotion is rather advanced, producing a track record of a more implict genus of fortunes, than Commodification of Natural Produce with all its ampledom of conveniences could protract.

The Metaphor of “Money” viz. ‘FOREX : It is a circuitry that is animate and conjugated with every permutation of thought-activated interaction within a large scale transactional ‘grid. Drawing its life blood and ‘Animus’ directly from a harvest of Consensus, it makes an alternative appear rightfully absurd and implausible, regardless of its own essential absurdity by the extrapolated ‘Observation’ of its falsities, its pathological ‘harnesses’ that mislead and objectify natural truths into a vernacular of reduction and density, and within that ‘denseness’ contrives a hedged merit system that offers a wholly trite hierarchy of unnatural values that “Snap across the Grids”.

How is this circuitry made to ‘operate’, who are its enablers, and why is it is pervasive despite the self-evident aphorisms and no-brainers?

What more, what is the ‘Link to Prejudices’, associational cadence of the whole business of thinking and doing, to what extent are all these ‘elements’ weaved together by the loose motions of modern languages, their invocations and permutations at the very level of sound and gustatory “devices”, and their implications at the level of the personal and the objective : over the catalyses of Cause and Effect?

The phrase ‘Geo-Economie’ itself perhaps conceptualizes the paradox of it all, though it is only a ‘Symbolic’ Geo-Economie, as it serves systematically to ‘Dis-Economize’ transactions, and make more un-economical the process of an ‘Economy’ a word which signifies transactional efficacy, principled direction of thoughtful motifs centered around protocols of exchange systems, – yet less those qualities and more the cancerous inflationary quantitative patterns, makes the otherwise “affable” effect of the phrase ‘Geo-Economie’ sound in and of itself misleading. Thus, perhaps extended as an euphemism, I regard the whole framework, technically un-ethical, and viscerally barbaric, — a “Symbolic” Geo-Economie.

Geo-Economie after all is a phrase that hearkens a broad swath of well muscled intellectual certainty that channels an almost intuitive variety of a secular version of a theological assertion.

Like the term “original sin”, the phrase, ‘Geo-Economie’ is grand in its sweeping heights, invoking cathedrals of unassailable ambitions, protected by fleets of photogenic Geithners and “evidently” regulated by the metaphysics of lone maddoxes, further vulcanized by the fiery “pitches” of Investment Bankers, and slam-dunked on the obliques of legislative hoopla-hoops, through which an enmeshed “paradigm” of “thrift” is perpetuated as a gustatory, all implicating, all seeing, all exacting, and all foreboding “virtue from the heights” to which the categorical “lay man” could profess no immunity.

For these reasons precisely, the improved phrase “Symbolic Geo-Economie” sounds less like what the Great Mercantile Scion of the Americas Thomas Jefferson would have outlined as “reasonable”, and more like a ‘Spin’ based traktatus contrived by the skewed geometers of so-called “financial instruments” – and mass-media monikerists.

Less the ‘City upon a Hill’, and more the Necropolis, the phrase ‘Geo-economie’ is as much a venerable costume decking the upturned corpse of the salesman, as it is a potent psychological culminus that spearheads a nameless, tasteless, all-pervasive, “reasoning of thrift” that appears a in Deed a tad unreasonable and wholly suspect, and altogether micro-managed, auto-enabled, sporadic, and like any other contagion – be it originated in “Swines” or “Sheep” wholly preventable.

At least, this is what I discovered personally in my latest segue to Europe, on a quick ‘lay-over’ at the Frankfurt International Airport – ensconsed within a city where some of the earliest “financial instruments” were developed based on the mechanism of ‘leverage’.

Hauntingly familiar and laden with the miasma of a seven hundred year long aftertaste, the sentiment is still dripping, and one could say, is more alive than ever before.

To anyone that knows The History of Frankfurt it is easy to sensitize the truths animating its ‘dimensionalized films’ – its peculiar “Geo-Economic” expressiveness through time and time again, and its relevance to the modern process perspective.

For what is now called “Forex” – or ‘Foreign Exchange Market’ has been around in “aboriginal” structure since the Christian spiritual pilgrimages of the 1300’s which oversaw the advent of a pavilion for institutionally ‘bastioned’ and individually operated psychological framework of currency exchanges that profited from leveraging and over-commissioning unitary valuation models of separate currency systems – to circumstantially penny pinch mass-transit travelers and creating “conditions” and “barricades” that compel them in leaving a little ( or a lot ) of their wealth to lachrymose and halogen lit “havens” of  sanitized bureaus that ‘leverage’ with vulture like skewed talons the finances of travelers who simply have very little choice than to “trade down” their pocket changes ( FOREX bureaus do not accept “coins” – only bank notes ) or if they are naïve enough to not notice as many giddy travelers tend to be, – their entire traveling budgets inevitably undergo unheard of decrements.

Here’s a primary Anecdote: Personally just short of a week ago I lost over 20 % of my currency purchasing power in the proverbial ‘Forex’ instrument in a ‘Sample’ conversion vetted with an initiated ‘risk’ of  us $ 500, which I placed for a direct trade to Norwegian Kroner, but instead was ‘circumstantially coerced’ by the forex representative to trade to the euro dollar instead.

The direct Kroner conversion would have yielded at the contemporary conversion index approximately a purchasing power of Kr. 3,500 or at a unitary institutional rate,  approx. 7 kr. per US $ 1, which vetted to the Euro was only marginally higher at 9 kr. per US $ 1.

The Forex “consultant” utilized every ‘sly ploy’ of circumstance to coerce an exchange of the $ 500 sample to a Euro conversion, declining ‘initiative’ by strategically muddling his courtesies and fumbling around, on what I specified as either a direct dollar to Kroner conversion, “yessing” away mechanically and frivolously to inquires on a “triple-conversion advantage” – and knowingly wasting precious minutes of the layover, and prepping the intercessions of this  deliberately generated “white noise” with ‘impatient’  “yessirs” and furtive glances, and “pressing” gestures to quickly “transact”.

Imperiously enough, the Forex consultant, after having been asked in various precise and exact ways, managed to acrobatically trounce the following questions: “Sir, what rates do you offer for a triple-conversion from the dollar to euro to kroner”, – and “Sir, what advantage do you offer to a triple-conversion to a direct dollar-kroner transaction?”.

The fellow, sitting and fumbling behind a counter of neatly stacked coins of international denominations,  made every possible attempt to generate a distractive ‘white noise’ by systematically declining any useful feedback on these fundamental and exact questions, by simply ‘nodding off’ sympathetically to the questions, like a pharmaceutical doctor in some American parlor of dentistry administering “the latest” commercial panacea for ‘Straight Teeth’ and ducking at all the inquiries of the fellow who wonders what would be the consequence of such strange “alloys” within his teeth.

He extended a forceful geniality and courtesy to psychologically render useless the exact, unpretending, ‘Value’ nurtured in those questions – and contrived every anatomical gesture of his pronounced facial gesticulatii to ‘craft’ a semblance of “pious tolerance” that made my reasonable inquiry of the forex detail seem as ‘condemned’ as the topic of ‘original sin’ and the transactional institution the privileged mantle for purchasing divine exculpation.

The effect was fascinating. The small and delicate throng of ‘tower of babel’ like ‘business class’ travelers, seemed annoyed by my “corrupt” insistence, more preoccupied with the uniterable flaunts of their globe-trotting absentmindedness, their flaccid bunches of foreign bills, their exuding reeks of “boarding gate” neuroses, and a proud embrace of essential defeatism furthered by the existence of the manufactured airport pan-opticon of environmentally engendered miasms that were constantly broadcasting a sort of lobotomizing, pharmaceutical, cult of politeness – that made every defense accessible to reason appear to be highly unreasonable if not “sacrilegious” to the traveler’s sanctimonies of a ‘convenient and quick exit strategy’.

A simple forex exchange all of a sudden proved every bit as ominous as vulture investment banking, every bit as “hype driven” and “costumed” as a pseudo dot com, and every bit as “sophisticated and essential” as uber-caffeinated ‘alert elixirs’.

My layover minutes thinning, I too succumbed my ‘swath’ of benjamins to the vestal virgin sitting behind the halogen lamp. His greasy profits enabled by the “discontented smirks” of end-users, which ‘he’ had carefully manipulated by his gestured feints and ‘sophisticated instruments of pretense’.  His ‘Geo-Economicke Dash’ was successful, and my wallet quickly and neatly thinned.

The proverbial ‘Devil’s Arithmetic’ however proves perfectly uncomplicated.

I ‘discovered’ answers to my own questions by picking up the ‘Finance’ section of a ‘Frankfurter Allgemeine’ newspaper from the airport terminal commons. The math was lucid and simple, and would have made Wittgenstein feel like a sunflower in the garden of Rapunzel (or the Tooth fairy ).

My Questions were two : “Sir, what rates do you offer for a triple-conversion from the dollar to euro to kroner”, – and “Sir, what advantage do you offer to a triple-conversion to a direct dollar-kroner transaction?”.

The Combined Answers : The Institutional rates offered for a triple-conversion from the dollar to euro to kroner would have been inadvisable ( as a simple scan of the forex monitor would have determined ). For the currency would have progressively ‘devalued’ and lost the unitary purchasing power of the direct conversion of us $ 500 to Kroners.

US $ 500 yields approx. 370 euros and approx. 3,500 kroners. A triple conversion system would have applied those 370 euros multiplied it at a unitary level to 9 kroners per euro, and generated ( thereby ) 3,330 kroners – a loss of approximately ( equiv. ) 40 us dollars.

A honest financial counsel would have expended five honest seconds to calmly reply, “Sir, I recommend you pursue the direct translation of dollar to kroner, as the currencies are favored. Would you like to learn about our exchange rates?”

The greasy ‘rektor’ of the forex cottage did no such thing. He contrived shamelessly, harnessing the latent psychology of impatience, agitation, of anxious travelers “pricked” by continuous barrage of disinformational announcements, media distractions, and the sweaty discomforts of Das Kapitalesque courtesies locking horns with a stifling presence of collective-repression.

The forex consultant literally ‘channeled’ upon my own reality of thinning boarding minutes an imbalanced and subtly manipulative psychologicke pinion like a cloudy report of airline cancellation due to ‘overcast’. He applied the basic principle of repetition by politely reciting meaningless “slogans” of the Das Kapital Etiquette-Prinzip – with his aggressively genial “Yessirs”.

This is what one could discern well to call the pathological and internationally manufactured ‘Reasoning of Thrift’ and ‘Geo-Economie’ fully ‘activated’ by conciliatory perspectives of bystanders of the Capital Process ‘delusion’ in an engine steeped upon an exact reflexion of systematic agendum of devaluation – moved with a subversive militarism on the gambit of ‘fatigue’ and a psychology of attrition relentlessly operating from the safe ‘tucked up’ halogen cottage of a glass sealed, hole operated, mime like forex bureau. The ‘Skepticism’ on part of the “fellow consumer” and “world traveler” was not only absent, but also defiantly ‘romantic’ and ‘escapist’.

The Forex consultant then proceeded to lie by downright conniving. He muttered that a dollar-euro conversion would be “the best” and such a conversion is “immediately available”. He delivered his mime like spectacle  with hyphenated micro-gestures of his skin delicately cringing and his permanent smile iced over with the vernacular of “modern european” glitz of theological politeness.

Clearly the opposite fact was established by a rapid scan of his forex monitor ( which he undertook with a quick prompt of his pinky) . He literally dismembered data on spot, on call, on “demand”. Forex.  Frankfurt. History. Institutional Banking. Yes Sir.  No Sir. Please Sir. Thank You Sir.

The icing on the cake topped off with the cherry was that he “tabled” the entire transaction, by not bothering to print out the customary receipt, by never revealing the ‘commission rate’ ( a dizzying 20+ per cent – or  20 cents of every converted dollar  on top of the ‘official’ rate of exchange! ), and offered me a paltry 330 euros for the us $500, netting in a profit of over 100 us dollar on a twenty percentile ‘cut’ model.

My globe-trotting German, Czech, French, Scandinavian, and British compatriots huddled together with their swaths of foreign bills, relieved that I had “vacated” and “flushed” the ‘Gate of Exchange”, turned in their ‘Value’ and were spot-on guillotined. Given a quick visual survey of the sheer quantity of cash the “consultant” guillotined with his grinning, flat screen, politeness – i’d be ( characteristically ) conservative in my estimate that the fellow generated for his forex company a profit of 10,000 dollars in six minutes – literally – out of thin air. Money – not so roughly accepted in the modern paradigm – almost exclusively – as the source of valued ‘Purchasing Power’, that ‘a priori’ had literally been non-existent.

The Geo-Index of factoids as unpretentiously virtualized on the free-flow-of-information model of the internet in the ‘Annexe’ of Wikipedia, where any end-user can transact  as rapidly as he pleases ‘finger tip’ exchanges of useless knowledge for useful discretionary wisdom, the phrase ‘Geo-Politik/ Geo-Economie’ is defined in this way:

Geopolitik developed from widely varied sources, including the writings of Oswald Spengler, Alexander Humboldt, Karl Ritter, Friedrich Ratzel, Rudolf Kjellén, and Karl Haushofer. It was eventually adapted to accommodate the ideology of Adolf Hitler.Its defining characteristic is the inclusion of organic state theory, informed by Social Darwinism. It was characterized by clash of civilizations-style theorizing. It is perhaps the closest of any school of geostrategy to a purely nationalistic conception of geostrategy, which ended up masking other more universal elements.

( 1 ) To educate yourself on the Forex day-day system, follow the exchange directory available on http://www.xe.com/ucc/.

( 2 ) To imbibe an appreciation of the highly psychological nature of currencies and their “actual” purport of ‘Value’ thoughtfully deign to peruse the reflections presented at : http://imsfx.blogspot.com/.

Ladies and Gentlemen, with that, Thank You, and Come Again!

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(AKR) Open Salon Media.  Reporting from Continental Europe. Further Licensed for Direct Distribution by Alexander K. Rai, MSMA.