Inside a parking lot in malaga, i found this machine that you place one euro and then blow inside using a straw. I guess it analyses the alcohol in your breath. If your alcohol level is high, your car gets locked by the tires and the machine automatically calls the cops to come and pay you a visit, NOT really:P but think about it, your drunk as hell and then u see this machine, i guess you would laugh like crazy, then what you just sit and wait it out?

Today I watched documentary talking about business and economy in basic simple language and that’s the most important thing in documentaries, I believe the best efficiently MSG is the one we get it without any extra boring explanation.

We all need money and spend our time, health and more running after it and every one have his own reasons for example I want money to Buy Fancy cars to Attract girls ;r anyways money became purpose in our life not a method to make it better so we should at least know more about creating that expensive piece of paper. I’m gonna make it simple so don’t worry readers who hates economic language- derivative ” In a world that 34,000 children die every single day from poverty “Thanks god we have Oil” wela chan ma7ad fakar eysawy rejeem” and preventable diseases, in a world 50% of population lives on less than two dollars a day let us see how hard creating money is, well if united state government for example decides that it needs some money it give the federal reserve “US Central Bank” a call and request the amount “say 20 Billions” the federal reserve reply sure we will buy 20 Billions in government bonds for you and then the government takes some pieces of papers put special design on them and call them treasury bonds then they put value on this bonds to the sum of 20 Billions and sends them over to the federal reserve to make the trade :

” Government ==Bonds==> Federal reserve” ” Fed ==20 Billions==> Government Bank Account”

at this point paper notes become legally money that’s mean adding 20 billions to the US Money Supply and there it is 20 Billions New Money Have been created.

In another way the government signed loan contract with the federal reserve “Central Bank” in other word the money created out of debt . hehehe

My article ends here but I’ll give you more as a bonus only if you really want to know how world largest economy money supply expand :

When 20 B deposit in U.S government bank account it will become part of the bank reserve and 10% of the amount ” which is 2 Billions” will be held as required reserve and the 90% of the amount “18 Billions” gonna be Excessive reserve and will be used as bases for new loans so what they do when they make loans is to accept promissory notes “Loan contract” in exchange for credits “Money” to the borrowers transaction accounts. In other word we will always create money out of nothing simply because there is a loan demand and there is deposits that satisfy the reserve requirement .

Technically the average mathematical result is 180 Billions Dollars can be created from 20 Billions in other word 9 × Any Deposit amount can be created out of thin air and that’s because of our perfect deposit money creation/loan cycle System ;O

the question is what give the newly created money value ? Answer : the money that already exist, the new money steal value from the existing money supply and decrease the purchasing power of dollar then price of goods and services rise “that’s what we call Inflation” . Our system cause Inflation, $1 IN 1913 Required $21.60 IN 2007 to match value !! hehehe ;] that’s 96% Devaluation in 94 years since the federal reserve came into existence .
in our financial system money is debt and debt is money .
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The more money there is the more debt there is

“If there were no debts in our money system, there wouldn’t be any money” Marriner Eccles – Governor of the federal reserve Sept 30th 1941 . ! ;]

The story behind the title : show me the money is a cheat word for an old strategy game I used to play it and when I write show me the money in the game I get a lot of money out of nothing! but I couldn’t imagine that some one can use it in real life !!

PS : The more I know about business and economy the more I care about health and happiness .

Sources : Modern Money Mechanics

It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society J-KRISHNAMURTI

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I have given up a long time ago on Corporate Kuwait and how they perform their Corporate Social Responsibilities (CSR) towards their customers that they serve, its always the usual CSR that wake up today thinking “Oh lets give PS3 to some kids in a hospital ward” it like giving an African poor kid a laptop with no real use, don’t get me wrong here this is not defined as CSR it is what it is  “giveaways”. But a friend of mine have told me about Small to Big, i knew  about it last year but missed it. But this year it came in with a bang, Small to big is sponsoring a trip to Kings College in the UK for entrepreneurs to join workshops in leadership, strategy, and execution.Its about time some Kuwaiti company is investing back in its community. I think its an excellent step by Viva and many other Kuwaiti companies should follow suite. Its the first time i get interested in any CSR program in Kuwait.

The Small to Big (STB) is a program fully sponsored trip to Kings College in the UK, by Viva Company. One major point that i really like in the requirements is that the company has to be registered officially and running for a year, so bye bye cup cakes and accessory business:P This requirement by STB means that the people applying are real business people that would like to establish a business with a prospect of growth, and i’m going to be applying too. Entrepreneurs in Kuwait who have the guts to take a risk and enter the start-up world are in dire need of such workshops. These workshops help especially non business people to understand the main element in entering such a field, think about engineer, designers and pharmacists that have great idea’s but know nothing about business. These workshops close such gaps.Visit STB site and take a look.

A friend of mine came up with an idea for a new conventional Dry Cleaners, he wanted to use the net with the store. Creating a laundry store on the net basically. So i researched the idea and it sounds good but i faced resistance when people started telling me “who would log on a site instead of just getting to the store instead dropping of your laundry?”. Personally i think registering online and getting serviced without leaving your home is great, and if the price would be cheaper that’s another plus. The dry cleaners next to my house washes a shirt for 500 fils, which i think is fine but if the price would go even lower that would be better. So my idea is to try to cut cost down to provide a cheaper per garment price and introduce something else: A “green” dry cleaner! i got the idea when i read what was the basic liquid used in dry cleaners; its called Perc or perchloroethylene. This shit is harmful in many ways, skin disorders, considered a carcinogens in Canada, and it should be handled in certain methods with restirction on usage. The employees handling such chemicals should have health insurance coverage and protective wear. After reading such shit, i started thinking is their any laws/restrictions/khara:P in Kuwait that protects consumers or the employees from such harmful substances, is this harmful substance disposed in a safe method? 

So i continued reading and found out something called Wet cleaning which is considered a cleaner approach to dry cleaning. It uses sophisticated machines that use computers to clean clothes and use water instead of the Perc. So many dry cleaners in the US and Canada are adopting such methods and are satisfying their green earth friendly consumers. So again i thought would an idea like such work in Kuwait, becomingthe first green laundry store in Kuwait?  You see when smart, knowlegble government employees have a sense of respect to the environment and introduce such laws or restrictions, business then start coming up with new ways to counter such constructive laws such as a green laundry. But i guess in Kuwait its all about Allah Kareem.

Watching tv one day i came across an ad that explained that you got a chance to apply for funding if your business idea gets accepted, after i have checked out the website sponsored by MIT i started thinking about an idea but i wanted it to have a social twist to it. So i came up with two ideas which i will explain but please if you got better one add them and we may contribute in some way and if we win, your names can be added as the founders of the idea, yes there is a prize for the winner (15,000KD) which will be invested to start the business. I do have some kind of meshed thoughts but i cannot put them into an idea. Let me brief you on what i personally had in mind; my main goal is to increase awareness in the Kuwaitis society, it may be both Corporate or Community wise, but i have it meshed up with Corporate Responsibility (CR), to push companies to accept some corporate responsibility towards the community and make its employees who are part of the community to contribute to people working in the labor class. It can be called as a switching function, where i give certain employees a day off by taking their job in a later shift, ie: giving an employee at costa a break today and i take his later shift, or doing the same with the employees who clean the streets. Then instead of every company in Kuwait trying to show off some CR, we can organize them in a more strategic long term programme. Where a true programme is setup-implemented within these organizations to perform real CR instead of using beach clean ups as PR stunt. Thats one idea which sometimes feel good and other times feels stupid, so i keep the rest of that idea in your hands. The second is completely different and it came to me because i was pissed off about not finding certain books that i would like to buy in Arabic. Then the bomb that pissed me off is that why does our government have the right to tell us what to read and to not. Why should i even consider not reading a certain book because a religious guy in the ministry thinks its bad for me, then maybe i should read the book and make my own @#$%^&% mind if its bad or good. So the thought took a regional perspective and then i compared Kuwait to the rest of the GCC, yes we do have a little better censorship system but other dont and we all (GCC) got the Internet. Why not create a site like google books for Arabic books to get published on the net for Arab people to read what they please. So feel free to bash the ideas as much as you want. 

When looking around your home, room, car etc etc you can see how many comfort we own. When i see such services being marketed to people i keep thinking how much of our brains are we utilizing. Do we really deserve such comforts to ease our minds more, or are we supposed to increase our synapses in our brains. When looking at the emirates suite on-board service, i just think cant we get a good old fashioned comfy seat and a nice book to read. Some consumers plan there trips because the Emirates airlines has the best entertainment system. I’m complaining because when sometime i just sit at home and watch TV, after a couple of hours you feel bad inside thinking what did i do to increase my brain usage. I honestly think that a book is much more satisfying to the brain than TV (witch includes sound and image) compared to pure quietness. Average human brain usage revolves around 3 to 4% utilization, Einstein used about 6% of his brains capacity. I just think sometimes if we continue living the way we are, we may lose some and go back to 2%. Just imagine whats going to happen in 500 years ahead? How much would our brains be working at and what would it produce if it was at 16% or more? Just a note, Sir Richard Branson just flew his first Virgin Atlantic plane using biofuel. Wanting to create a better enviroment and running an airline business at the same time. Just compare the two different  visions of Emirates airlines and Virgin Atlantic. 

Last Thursday i was watching Alwatan TV, they do have nice programing but this is not the case. I watched this show where there is this family affair lawyer (abdul jalleel something) , explaing these cases about ladies that have been victim of men taking advantage of there kindness and so on so on… the thing that comes to mind is that “is Kuwait becoming like other western countries?” well who knows, do you know? do i know? This guy goes on TV and starts showing Kuwait public that we have such cases, thats fine with me but not explaining how much percent these cases are from our society. We sure do know that divorcee rates are high using statistics from the Ministry of Justice. Surly divorce cases like such are interesting to watch, it atleast affects 55% of the population. But to find such extreme stories of theft and talking them to a major Kuwaiti show on prime time is a shame. Why its a shame, because Alwatan TV has his sights on ratings and not any thing to do with society. If they think making the Kuwaiti mainstream think that every marriage proposal is a possible theft scenario waiting to be unfolded, we surly have chaos on our hands. But by all means its free TV and they can do what ever they want but atleast give respect to jerry springer who has the rights of such ludicrous show:P

Watching the show on Thursday: So when listing to one lady, explaing how the guy tried to come with his family to marry her, his family members kept on dying before he visited her. So thats why he had to get married in a more discrete way and take advantage of her, so offcource the guy is lying so he can marry this lady that claims she is a victim, a friend just looked at me and said why didn’t she look for the obituaries. Can i say more or shall i say love is blind! 

Most have tried Facebook and or have an existing profile, compared to the others like Hi5, myspace and the rest, surly Facebook made it to the top. But now it seems they got greedy, most of you heard about the privacy incident with Facebook, and that they want to use your buying patterns to be released to friends in your Facebook, which i witnessed first hand. Honestly i think this is a major breach of personal privacy, i was on amazon yesterday and saw a new popup that stated, that my wish list is for the public to see. I guess this has something to do with Facebook. I had friend profile on Facebook that showed what they are planning to buy from amazon, i mean yes i have some books on my blog but that does not mean i dont hide others too. Your personnel search queries on Google can be used one day, i mean this list can go on and on…Day by day, i feel that Facebook is loosing its subscribers. Its becoming a place where your digital self is portrayed and can be used, manipulated or hacked by others. I just wish if we in Kuwait had some laws that would protect such issue and can backfire on there US counter parts. Its always the US that pushes for reform and new laws, but when its vice versa the whole game changes. Sure Facebook has its advantages but is disadvantages are growing too. Try to be careful and switch off applications that monitor your buying patterns, or like the one on amazon.

I’m a regular at costa, nothing against the others but i just like the taste of their coffee, anyways one day i was ordering my coffee at costa and while waiting for the order i noticed a email sent from the management with a reference to all costa employees it said: “No employees are allowed to take a holiday starting from December 1st to the 8th of January.” There reason was that they are expecting higher sales due to eid and the new years holidays, WHO does not expect an increase in a spending in such times. What bothers me here is that half of costa’s employees are Christan’s and the end of December to them is a religious and family oriented holiday. I cant understand how such a company can make such a decision and ruin its employees holidays, believe me such tactics will back fire and only profit the managers handling such business in the short term. I wish some how that the costa management in the UK can see such discriminative orders.