Jesse Misa

13/03/2024

The Financial Industrial Complex

In a speech of less than 10 minutes, on January 17, 1961, President Dwight Eisenhower delivered his political farewell to the American people on national television from the Oval Office of the White House. Those who expected the military leader and hero of World War II to depart his Presidency with a nostalgic, "old soldier" speech like Gen. Douglas MacArthur's, were surprised at his strong warnings about the dangers of the "military-industrial complex."

So along those lines let me use the same warning of the “Financial Industrial Complex!” You might be aware that in the last few weeks so many articles has been popping up about the Reserve Bank of New Zealand might or will increase the official cash rate again to contain inflation. As if New Zealanders have not had enough bad news and been experiencing a down trend in every sector. This news of a possible rate increase is the proverbial kick in the guts . But the question I have is what is the present government doing to help curve the fear and provide some hope to New Zealanders. People no doubt will face some difficult choices in the next 6 months to next year regarding their mortgages and loans on how they will be able to afford let along pay for it. Most councils in the country are increasing rates and if you noticed we had a major increase in electricity and water bills lately. So much for the 3 Waters saga and its pending repeal. What hope can we expect that things will definitely change for the better?

The Reserve Bank needs to do some soul searching about another increase. Its desires to control inflation might just be the very straw that breaks the camels back for many already suffering and even almost to be homeless Kiwi’s.

Desperate times requires desperate measures and our government need to pull all stops to solve this family killing move if the official cash rate does increase to place that will not only kill
Market confidence but destroy the very lives of those it was trying to protect. My plea is that the Reserve Bank not increase the offical cash rate and the government be brave enough to lower taxes to help stimulate our economy. It is a gamble, but what is the alternative, increase the water table and watch people drown?!

The government need to be austere, meaning our MP’s need to set the example by taking a pay cut and look at wasteful government spending that had supported pet projects that is sucking the life out of our economy. Their move of getting people back to work is going in the right direction, addressing also generational dependency on an already failing social welfare system.

It is showing (The National Government) some boldness but not bold enough to address high interest rates on credit cards and the possible proliferation of loan sharks that many might venture to in very hard times.

Maybe the government will be so bold to take out gst on basic commodities like milk, bread, eggs, etc! To at least on the
Interim to help in mitigating family needs to put food on the table.

And lastly to begin to explore our own energy sector to begin to mine existing sites and actively look for new ones. In case war (WW3) breaks out I wonder if NZ has enough fuel reserves to last a year or two, that is the kind of boldness we need! This kind of moves help mitigate fear and provide hope.

President Dwight Eisenhower warned in 1961 about the military industrial complex and if we are students of history we find the connection to the Financial Industrial Complex, that in this inflationary environment most banks are reporting record profits. How can this be? We suffer, while the banks records major profits, how does that compute!

Look I am not an economist and I will not pretend to know the answer, common sense dictates to ask the right questions and my hope is that somehow we shall arrive to the truth. Because the Truth shall set us free!

11/10/2023

God bless everyone

18/08/2023

Being stuck in bed sick with the flu for 3 days now is never a good thing. All the aches and pain, the coughing and not to mention the depressive state one feels is debilitating indeed!

But then feeling sorry for myself is not my strong suit so I begun to pray and ask God to help alleviate the pain of those who are sick like myself! But I had an epiphany!

For several years now our nation of New Zealand is in bed, sick. The coming of COVID has not helped but highlighted the symptoms of our malady our country is suffering from. It would take such a catastrophic global event that very few were allowed to question and that in it self is the beginning of the it’s sickness to deteriorate further!

I do not need to spell out what is wrong in this country ( many Kiwis know what I mean ). We have been led onto a road that in a way has taken away the manna and perhaps the destiny which I had the privilege of experiencing and assimilating 33 years ago when I first arrived in this once beautiful country.

It is not hard at all to compare how we have descended in our politics and national character and spiritual heart!

When what once was good is now evil! And what is evil is now good! How can we trust our leaders when the first thing they do is bail out on a sinking ship. Where is the leadership that is ready to go down with the ship when because of political expediency we cancel free speech, the freedom of faith and the right of an individual to ask the pertinent question before they are persecuted and vilified for their beliefs!

We are no longer a free country when we are not free to stand and speak our mind. That our speech can become hate to someone and there in is where the problem lies. Who is the arbiter of truth!

New Zealand was founded upon Christian values. Our national anthem spells that out so clearly! Gone are the days when as Kiwis we can discourse and have a b**r afterwards.

The ideological lines has been laid and we are divided. But another truth is a kingdom divided in itself will not stand.

I remember a parliament that fought fiercely with words and policies but after the elections the parties worked for the a single minded fervour to benefit NZ as a whole!

But that has eroded too! It is all about power and not service, all about love of self and ideology rather that the love for its people.

I pray that New Zealand will choose wisely this election. Let us work together to bring healing to this sick and
bedridden fellow. And perhaps if we do we shall see this nation arise again.

I pray God defend New Zealand 🇳🇿!

22/05/2023

I promised myself I won’t write another post in Facebook. That the last one was the last time. But if I was going to write my last post it better be good!

We have been given one chance to live life on this blue and beautiful planet. And yet we seem to have this capacity to ruin it over and over again. The wars, greed and slaughter we perpetuate in each generation since our creation boggles the imagination.

When will we ever learn, when will we wake up and begin to realise that in spite of our fallen nature. There is that Divine Spark in us that has the capacity to bring restoration, love and peace.

However, in ourselves alone we shall fail until we return to the one who made us declares…”For I know the plans I have for you, plans to give you a hope and a future… For He loved the World so much that He gave His only Son as a ransom for all.”

In God there is redemption alone! May you find Him waiting at the door, your name He Calls! Welcome Home!

02/12/2021

I posted this a day ago and I had been censured and my post had been blocked or limited. Our freedom of speech is under attack and to share your opinion is no longer valid.

December 2 2021 “A Date that Will Live In Infamy”!

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor unprovoked and is known today as a “date which will live in infamy”.

The attack on Pearl Harbor also launched a rash of fear about national security, especially on the West Coast of the USA. In February 1942, just two months later, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. The order authorized the Secretary of War and military commanders to evacuate all persons deemed a threat from the West Coast to internment camps, that the government called "relocation centers," an act that would forever change the fabric of its society and would embark on a form of apartheid on its own people to be exact 112,000 with 70,000 of them American Citizens.

Sadly many families had their sons serving in the Armed Forces sent to fight in Europe as many serve with distinction and bravery, while their own families languished in the internment camps.

This horrible act was accepted by the vast majority of Americans and allowed to happen as it disenfranchised and segregated them from society. Many of them lost their jobs, homes and livelihoods with very little warning and they were forced to conform.

The war ended and they were finally released. But it would take over 40 years before this barbaric act was finally chastised by the supreme court and in 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of internment, apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was interned.

I tell this story to parallel what we are going through as a nation Dec 2 2021 almost 80 years later. The segregation of the unvaccinated, the penalties imposed, the lost jobs and livelihood, the violation, the discrimination experienced because of lost employment. The unvaccinated had been made an enemy, creating a two-tier system in a once loving and free society.

One of the most stunning ironies in this episode of American civil liberties was articulated by an internee who, when told that the Japanese were put in those camps for their own protection, countered "If we were put there for our protection, why were the guns at the guard towers pointed inward, instead of outward?"

The guns seem to be pointed inward! Once valued nurses and doctors and health workers who braved Covid 19 before the vaccines are now ostracized by a people and government that once hailed them as heroes.

We need not repeat history, we can definitely speak up and challenge this new interment camps though invisible are no less dangerous and soul quenching. I challenge our courts and the powers at be to stand and speak up before it is too late, or is it?

The unintended consequence of this apartheid is far reaching and let us pray that history will be kind to those who perpetrate this atrocity.

The most loving thing to do is for a broader approach. Love is like that as it is not willing for anyone to be lost. But once people are counted as an inconvenience then it stops to be kind and loving.

May God give us grace and love to overcome, and perhaps if we apply it now, when can reverse this unkind gesture and replace it with unfettered kindness that will bring healing and restoration to all and to a system that is broken...

01/12/2021

December 2 2021 “A Date that Will Live In Infamy”!

On December 7, 1941 the Japanese Imperial Navy attacked Pearl Harbor unprovoked and is known today as a “date which will live in infamy”.

The attack on Pearl Harbor also launched a rash of fear about national security, especially on the West Coast of the USA. In February 1942, just two months later, President Roosevelt, as commander-in-chief, issued Executive Order 9066 that resulted in the internment of Japanese Americans. The order authorized the Secretary of War and military commanders to evacuate all persons deemed a threat from the West Coast to internment camps, that the government called "relocation centers," an act that would forever change the fabric of its society and would embark on a form of apartheid on its own people to be exact 112,000 with 70,000 of them American Citizens.

Sadly many families had their sons serving in the Armed Forces sent to fight in Europe as many serve with distinction and bravery, while their own families languished in the internment camps.

This horrible act was accepted by the vast majority of Americans and allowed to happen as it disenfranchised and segregated them from society. Many of them lost their jobs, homes and livelihoods with very little warning and they were forced to conform.

The war ended and they were finally released. But it would take over 40 years before this barbaric act was finally chastised by the supreme court and in 1988, Congress passed, and President Reagan signed, Public Law 100-383 – the Civil Liberties Act of 1988 – that acknowledged the injustice of internment, apologized for it, and provided a $20,000 cash payment to each person who was interned.

I tell this story to parallel what we are going through as a nation Dec 2 2021 almost 80 years later. The segregation of the unvaccinated, the penalties imposed, the lost jobs and livelihood, the violation, the discrimination experienced because of lost employment. The unvaccinated had been made an enemy, creating a two-tier system in a once loving and free society.

One of the most stunning ironies in this episode of American civil liberties was articulated by an internee who, when told that the Japanese were put in those camps for their own protection, countered "If we were put there for our protection, why were the guns at the guard towers pointed inward, instead of outward?"

The guns seem to be pointed inward! Once valued nurses and doctors and health workers who braved Covid 19 before the vaccines are now ostracized by a people and government that once hailed them as heroes.

We need not repeat history, we can definitely speak up and challenge this new interment camps though invisible are no less dangerous and soul quenching. I challenge our courts and the powers at be to stand and speak up before it is too late, or is it?

The unintended consequence of this apartheid is far reaching and let us pray that history will be kind to those who perpetrate this atrocity.

The most loving thing to do is for a broader approach. Love is like that as it is not willing for anyone to be lost. But once people are counted as an inconvenience then it stops to be kind and loving.

May God give us grace and love to overcome, and perhaps if we apply it now, when can reverse this unkind gesture and replace it with unfettered kindness that will bring healing and restoration to all and to a system that is broken...

10/11/2021

It's unlawful to discriminate someone on these grounds in the following areas of public life:

employment
education
access to public places
provision of goods and services
housing and accommodation.

Read this a few times and tell me if we are still a human rights believing and upholding nation. By the way this came from the website of our justice.govt.nz, under Human Rights Law.

Is our government breaking its own law they swore to uphold!

07/11/2021

Freedom is never free, there is a price for freedom. But when a government tries to mandate a reward system to attain it and disregards others freedoms to choose, then it is tyranny! Many of NZ’s forefather’s fought in two great wars to fight those tyrannical powers to free peoples not its own. How then shall we respond?

Jesus said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

Vaccinated vs the unvaccinated! An invisible line has been drawn causing friends, families and love ones to choose sides and be segregated, even to become disagreeable with each other causing divisiveness and great pain. Relationships are strained to the point of tearing and the unintended consequences of this unwise mandate to control a virus not the fault of anyone, except those who propagate its fear.

We are called to be kind, to be a team of 5 million but when a line has to be crossed then it stops being kind and loving.

To be loving needs a bridge not a wall, but the bridge requires a broader approach not just a single solution. Love conquers all and what is means is that it is relentless in its pursuit not to alienate others.

History teaches us when we segregate we stop become loving and being kind. Fear becomes the order of the day and it’s sinister side to the utmost becomes unkind and deadly when people are literally disenfranchised by losing jobs and to the utmost, hope!

Well meaning as it might be the cause and effect of such a segregation has far reaching effects that any government has no understanding nor experience so far.

When the last pandemic happened in New Zealand when 10’s of thousands of Kiwi’s died, people of this country loved on one another, crossing over to neighbours and families, not thinking that some of them will also die in the process of providing the greatest act of charity, one’s life!

It is not time to segregate, no matter which side you stand own the loving and kind thing to do is to reach out with understanding and listen to each other! Let us not allow circumstances separate us but rather bind us together.

This is the most kind and loving thing to do…let us learn to lay down our own lives for one another, perhaps using a rugby analogy… this will be the most important scrum of our lifetime!

Shoulder to shoulder, Now that is the Team New Zealand I know and remember!

God bless you in Christ Jesus Name!