Small Bites: 001 - 099
1. If a 'food additive' is required, then opt-in with independent proof that it is safe. And prove that the additive is required before it is ‘added’.
Unlike aspartame.
2. Speed cameras: people seem to be annoyed, irritated or distracted by speed cameras, but not mundane things like adverts on TV or even other road users with 'bad' attitude. Odd. Worse is the highly cynical detector systems being peddled. Staying within prescribed speed limits is the most effective method of avoiding 'speeding tickets' rather that exceeding those limits. It's incredibly patronising to have drivers parading their arrogance by indicating that they know best. Arguing with a judge in a Court of Law is NOT recommended.
3. It's (allegedly) almost a certainty that if you're exceptionally rich (just a few £millions) it has been through original dishonesty and/or crime. A return into history may reveal the truth as long as it has not been deliberately hidden and so covered up. This is apparently, not always the case.
4. UN chief: "NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) cannot defeat Taliban by force".
Really, or is this just a softening-up, conditioning bow shot, statement of fact?
5. See Benefit Provider
Provide benefits to keep people in poverty. There is no reason for the beneficiaries to do anything and they become totally dependent on the State (benefits). This in turn supports the government that 'provides' the benefits and virtually ensures future votes to get (back) into power. Effectively, this is simple bribery using, of course, taxpayers (public) money that was originally provided by taxpayers to the incumbent government (by force and threats of imprisonment). Buying votes with public money.
Who would bite off the hand that feeds?
What does government do with the freely given (!!!), and unaccountable £billions 'donated' by the non-dependent taxpayer? What is the real reason for the egotistical need for power? Power only implies an arrogance and the desire to control. Why? Access to the £billions in government coffers. Perhaps. Without accounts, how would you know if you were being robbed blind?
6. 'Correct' answers according to... who? This is a method of control. To be 'right' is to provide the accepted conditioned response. Indoctrination. Similar to education: the 'correct' answer is rewarded. A 'wrong' answer receives condescension. Behaviour is controlled in a similar way. The origins of the 'rebel': original thinking is constrained by conformity being regarded as 'correct'. Rebellion is 'wrong' even if it is the 'right' action to take.
7. The deployment of an additional 21,500 US troops to Iraq could be just a crude attempt at the Trojan Horse (disguised) offensive into Iran. When the USA talks about complete withdrawal from Iraq, consider where the troops will ultimately (for now) be deployed.
8. Go to work to afford to run the car that takes you there rather than have a car for more practical reasons. Work to live or live to work? Eat to live or live to eat?
9. What a pathetic justification given by the organisers of an F1-11 stunt in Brisbane. About 300 trees had (allegedly) been planted to soak up the 68 tonnes of greenhouse gases produced. As though this is instant. And is this for a young or mature tree? That's around 4 trees per tonne. That must be over the lifetime of the alleged planting. Hardly making much immediate difference.
10. Attempt to alter genetics by slimming are purely illusory. Men don't all go for skinny women. It's a woman-woman competition thing. Offspring will be genetically determined not by lifestyle, but the individual genome. Lifestyle has an effect, but it is a reletively small one.
11. Flogged a dead horse: mixing up climate change and burning fossil fuels. Bad science.
12. Politicians are always so pompous and arrogant (self-importance). Point heavily supported by virtue that nobody else matters.
13. Caution: there's a lot of hype and disinformation on many subjects being accepted into the public domain. Loosely based on 'fact' and so the illusion is promulgated in the attempt to reach the desired end: persuasion by fear.
14. The growing tendency for self restraint to be absent is a reflection of the level of control. People fail to think for themselves. Look to speed cameras for an example: the so-called "nanny state". And where did such a phrase originate?
Government, of course.
15. Dumb down ('dumbing down') maths to fit the needs for life skills. This presumes the 'life' is known and defines massaging what 'life' will be. This is not providing the maths that is needed for the basic understanding of manipulating figures. Only what has been planned for the future.
Defines controlling what people will be allowed to do. Provide for the selected 'skills' only.
Rampant spinning.
16. Possibility of three-way collusion between car manufacturers, petrol companies and government. Money driven (pun intentional). Faster (and heavier) cars generally have bigger engines and so use more petrol at any speed, but the faster the greater the consumption. Consideration of simple physics shows that the factors working against efficiency, like wind resistance, increase by a square function: double the speed and increase these effects by four. Treble speed and multiply by nine. So, doubling speed will increase consumption by four times. This is the reason why economical driving techniques involve maintenance of a relatively lower speed. To move a heavy vehicle from standstill is energy (fuel) inefficient. Imagine a petrol-engined TIR lorry: they don't exist as they would be hopelessly costly to run.
Even small-engined cars driven for performance-display consume more fuel.
Rationing petrol may have it's attractions, but this isn't cost effective if maximum profit is considered. Think commercial. Think profiteering.
17. The pensions débâcle is another example of potentially theft by stealth or the redistribution of wealth. Wealth is not created, but acquired or appropriated (winners and losers). The fund contents went somewhere. Never 'destroyed'. The only way to do this is to actually and physically destroy paper cash. But even then the cash was exchanged for something which survives and may still exist. Paper money or metallic cash has no real value. Only intrinsic. Symbolic and trade value. Nothing else.
The illusion.
Perhaps when gold coins were made from pure gold or silver coins from pure silver. Gold ingots are valuable, but only in the fact that the ingot is relatively rare and resists atmospheric decomposition. Otherwise it is just another terrestrial element that has an elevated “value and worth”.
After all, gold makes the world go round. Like diamonds or oil (black gold). Without them, the Earth would stop “spinning”, wouldn’t it!
18. The finance director of Associated British Foods has welcomed last week's (end Feb 2007) price increases in the bread industry. A standard Kingsmill 800g loaf up from 88p to 96p. An increase of just over 9%. And that is behind Warburtons breaking the 'magic' £1 barrier. Broken through so now no stopping?
[Running faster than a 4-minute mile was once considered impossible. Or travelling faster than sound. After it had happened this became commonplace.]
"We've had lot of support from the trade," says John Bason, the finance director.
But, does the customer support such increases?
Weak UK sugar profits have been offset by ABF's Polish sugar business.
Primark is the clothing chain.
19. The Theatre Royal (Margate) to be demolished: a prediction. As the second oldest theatre in the country (and a listed building), finance has always been a struggle. Suddenly, Thanet Council wants to buy it. Finance seems readily available from the Arts Council to fund future ventures.
The prelude to the sell off and develop apartments and the conversion into money, money, money. For someone.
20. Before making any decision government should have all the information. However, selective use of all the information can introduce damage. Once made, the consequences of any decision won’t be undone, the 'planned' damage will be done, but blaming it on ineptitude!
21. Accounting irregularities and possible fraud at McAlpine's Welsh slate business. The suspension of two senior managers after an internal audit uncovered "systematic misrepresentation of production volumes and sales for a number of years" so the claim goes. As a 'small business' with a turnover of just £27m in 2005, analysts slashed 2006 estimates to £30m from £43m.
An accounting irregularity of £13m?
The company says those involved tried to hide the financial implications of their actions by pre-selling slate at substantially discounted prices. "The board believes that the behaviour and collusion of the managers responsible has been entirely deliberate and involves the possibility of fraud."
Then: "We don't think this has been done for any personal gain, so at this stage it is not a matter for the police."
How does "pre-selling slate at substantially discounted prices" not 'create' something, somewhere for someone.
Perhaps I am just being naïve.
22. Downing Street has gathered together some 1.5 million email addresses in its database. This has happened because of the electronic petitioning over the internet to the website (allegedly). Apart from who owns the list and any access by opposition parties, or taking into account data protection, does this expose the senders to extraordinary attention by the government?
Surveillance by stealth.
23. Israel seeks permission from US (!!!) to fly over Iraq (???) on the way to attack Iran (!!!). This has to be made public for Iran's ears and especially ours. Diplomatic, behind the scenes moves could be made, but that way, of course, it would all be kept secret. But no. Tell everybody. Then everyone is complicit.
Sabre rattling and nobody's taken in by it all.
It seems to be all part of the Bush 'exit strategy' from Iraq when the oil pipeline ownership is all 'sewn' up.
24. Writer Alan Bennett has joined a group campaigning against a proposed wind farm on Denshaw Moor claiming it will be a blight on Saddleworth Moor. Shame these people think that such a 'blight' is worse than a coal-fired power station or worse. The prospect of a nuclear power station on the horizon? Someone else's horizon, of course.
And the greater dangers are all less visible. No smoke, but the monster lurks silently within.
Out of site and out of mind.
25. Row as elite universities admit fewer state pupils.
Ignoring prejudicial reasons for such a policy, it is an indication that weakening standards is a likely cause. Why should a university take students that 'appear' to have done well, when the standard of the exam is not particularly high.
Contentious, but cynical government attempts to make it appear that everything is going up when it is patently obvious the opposite is happening.
Poor maths skills cost British adults, it is alleged, more than £800m a year as shoppers fail to notice they are short-changed. So often, change is just dumped into a customer’s hand since the till tells the operator what change to disburse. The operator does not have the mental skills to check what is taken from the till as change. It may not be dishonesty, just inadequate arithmetic skills.
This is progress.
26. Toothpaste fails school drug test.
Random drug testing: Colne Community School, Brightlingsea, Essex has suspended its random drug testing as two pupils had been wrongly tested positive because of their toothpaste.
Tests showed that the toothpaste could produce results similar to those given by amphetamines or methamphetamines. Perhaps the results of the random test were not erroneous, but the toothpaste contains sinister additives. The brand of toothpaste has not been declared by the school. It has refused to name it, apparently.
27. 'Forgotten' £44m: owners sought.
Halifax has a problem identifying the rightful owners of £44m of "forgotten" money held in 110,000 old and unused accounts. It is quite likely that a large part of this, if not all, has arisen from executors failing to identify the accounts. So, they will never be accessed since nobody knows of their existence. Probably, the beneficiaries of wills would benefit.
The Halifax no doubt pays no interest on this money (£44m), but uses it for free.
28. Dr. John Reid 'will lead anti-terror department'.
Moves to make John Reid head of terrorism and security at the split Home Office are being "actively considered" by Tony Blair.
Time to start worrying even more. Assuming there is nobody already panicking.
29. Banks can't lose as they loan money without checks and then overcome this loss on bad debts from investment banking.
Collectively, banks made some £40 billion in the past year.
But, check out Northern Rock. Borrows on the money markets since it “lends” as mortgages to it’s customers more than it takes in from savers. Mortgagees provide interest on the capital - eventually. It's theoretical money owed in principle only. The business is then built on this virtual money.
30. Distance tax will logically lead to car sharing being indirectly encouraged. Less congestion. The next logical step is to place a tax on occupants who are not family. Then, of course, all occupants including family. The real test is in whether any future government removes the tax.
No, it will not even try. They are all the same body, just wearing a different mask. Labels.
31. Minimum wage: cynically, to maintain a minimum wage and not increase it. Keep this to the minimum and any %age payrise can appear quite generous, yet be very little in real terms. Government inflation figures are a fraud because the formula used (whatever it may be) gives the appearance of a low rate when (nearly) everyone knows it's a lie. The real cost of living to real people is very much higher than the engineered figure that does not take into account real outgoings. Fuel of all types, taxes everywhere and always more on the horizon. And then some more. People have to live inside the lie. Inflation busting rises to maximise profiteering are ignored because a reminder of the (real) rate of inflation suggests there is not a problem. Taxation levels go up, council tax goes up by more than inflation, energy prices up. Up, up, up… Yet the official figure remains low, low, low.
The con? It's not just a con. It's a fraud.
All governments do it. It's a financial trick. The illusion.
32. There is something very wrong somewhere. Although there are more cars and vehicles than commercial aircraft, the amount of fuel consumed and the associated CO2 created is quite disproportionate for the headcount and distance travelled. One aircraft, probably not full, may account for 200 people. This is balanced against 200 vehicles with only one occupant per vehicle (driver).
An aircraft might fly 1000 miles, but the majority of fuel is consumed taking off and reaching cruising height and speed. This will be the same regardless of the overall flight.
The volume of fuel (kerosine vs petrol) used?
33. Example of anti-scientific approach:
"We tried eveything we could think of to make this reading go away."
"The magnetic field measured was stronger than predicted."
This anomaly didn't affect performance (of gyroscopes), the problem quietly dropped. Such an important finding lay undisturbed for 20 years. It didn't fit and so was not investigated.
Bad science.
Rather than attempting to examine in the open, it is try to find a reason to ignore something that doesn't fit.
34. So galling that "it has cost the NHS £billions". It has cost the taxpayer ... Anyway, so 'they' say whoever 'they' are. If 'they' say so then it must be true. Another undefinable and bottomless pit. Need more money? The taxpayer will fund it.
But: isn't that a dereliction of duty by not providing value? Nobody seems to notice or care.
Don’t bother to ask, just take.
35. Note for the illusion of wealth 'creation'. The perception of the 'winners and losers' game. True creation only happens in the mind. Thoughts. Not tangible, but very real. The notion of the material as valuable is really quite laughable.
Diamond: nothing more than an allotrope of carbon.
Worthless.
Like coal, charcoal or oil. All carbon based. Like humans.
36. Interest rates need to be raised above 8% to control booming house prices. Surprised? Shouldn't be. It's to be anicipated as part of the long term plan to amass more money. All part of the ‘wealth’ redistribution process. More people, more houses, more potential money. More expensive property, longer term loans to keep 'affordable', but greater the interest the longer the term.
I still despair for the generation maturing now who need to buy property in which to live and not fill the pockets of a landlord (the parasite: lives off the host and puts nothing back) with their money. Not the real problem: the staggeringly selfish and greedy who simply perpetuate the myth that wealth is actually created and not just moved around.
37. Computerised lip-reading systems to tackle crime? Rather to assist surveillance. And anyway, lip reading is not foolproof and the wrong message can (conveniently) be the interpretation.
38. Issues that involve 'ethics' should not be resolved (if, in fact, they are) by public consultation. Potentially serious consequences should not be allowed to involve the layman's unqualified opinion. It is too dangerous to let the poorly (mis)informed decide. Science is not always filled by integrity. And the potential for misleading information to gain advantage for all sorts of motives is possible always. Some things should just be left alone.
It possibly requires the ‘expert’ to understand the complexities, but the unqualified layman to offer an honest and unbiased verdict.
The 'fait accompli' gives the appearance of public consultation, but it never involves public choice.
39. Someone's credibility is measured by how much their creative output makes in terms of money.
40. Lung cancer caused by tobacco was not stopped. But cholera very quickly dealt with. Why? There's no money to be made in sudden death, only taxation from a 'long-lived' causation of death.
41. Narrow-boned and size zero. Genetics cannot be changed. Natural size 12 can never be a size zero (British size 4) with good health.
Humans cannot breathe unaided underwater without gills.
42. Devil's Advocate: it is noteworthy that when favourable things are said, they tend to be believed. Distasteful things tend to be disbelieved. Politicians pander to that fact. They can change their tune in a heartbeat if it's favourable and is probably the main reason for inconsistency. The obvious lie that is seldom challenged. They seem to forget that the earlier audience still hear the tune that was played. A new audience (generation) hears the tune of the day, but the earlier audience now hears the first one, the second one, the third and so on.
Allegiance of the corrupted is to the corruptor.
43. The concept of arranged marriages: absolute control of a bargaining chip. The right to personal control of a once only existence is denied. Culture 'owns' life, it seems.
44. Insider dealing. At government ministerial level this concept cannot exist when the rules are changed/invented before such dealing exists. Being ahead of the game not just ahead in the game.
45. Government is to decide about the Westwood Cross development of 1000 homes. Of course, it is bound by definition to say 'yes':
1000 x £200,000 (conservative estimate) = £200,000,000
It was decided a long time ago. Water feed, sewage disposal capability? Who cares? The system in the new 'estate' may be of a high standard, but the real problem is that it links in to the rubbish national system. Waste going nowhere.
Common sense should be the guide to buying a house on high land. Houses can only be ‘bought’ where they exist. Built on cheap land in unsuitable places. The reason it’s cheap.
But: £200,000,000.
That's what really matters.
46. Chinese whispers: history gets changed and justifications and 'facts' become better established with time basing new books and articles on older 'fact'. If that earlier 'fact' is a lie, then the truth gets buried deeper and deeper.
47. Consider the Titanic tragedy: accident or manslaughter? Or murder for financial gain?
48. Publicly removing qualified doctors: designed to increase FEAR levels and uncertainty.
49. Reduce the amount of water available to facilitate profit in the construction of new homes. Water supply is necessary to build. Possibly more important than drainage when it comes to selling properties.
Incidentally, the use of more and more concrete adds to the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide: CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2. Notice the misdirection to blame it all on humans? Humans use concrete, but it is not directed here. It is more lucrative to blame human consumption of oil and so raise revenue through taxation than it is to compromise the construction industry by blaming the major material used.
The warming oceans release more CO2. The Sun is getting hotter as time goes on.
50. Scientists sometimes show themselves to be megalomaniacs. To 'spend' £billions to attempt the recreation of a theoretical event (Big Bang), and perhaps cause the annihilation of all existence in the process, is absolute madness. It makes the opening of Pandora's Box look like a fun thing to do. Just to have a peek.
Chasing the existence of 'God'. That would be considered delusion by these very scientists who consider themselves on a crusade to determine the origin and future of the Universe and what makes it work. The idea of a single theory of everything when time and distance distortion complicate even the simplest of theories.
51. The poor (large majority) and the illusory 'middle-rich' (non-existent) subsidise the wealthy (tiny minority).
52. The origins of the 'red carpet': is it so royalty can walk over the bloodied corpses after battle and hide the devastation? Like red uniforms to disguise and hide blood stains of the dead and wounded.
53. A dead giveaway: HMRC. Revenue AND customs. Linking revenue not just from simple income tax, but also tax on anything and this implies legal and illegal imports.
54. There will come the time of 'critical mass' when redistribution is no longer concealed. Subsidising the wealthy by taking from everyone else will end. Like oil, it will run out. There is nothing left. What happens? The modern day Revolution. The rising of the masses against the wealthy. But the greed of the masses has confused thinking. There is too much to lose. So three sides to the coin. The minority of the wealthy (those that 'own' the wealth and actually believe they are superior), those that believe they are getting richer (the 'middle rich' in reality just a subset of the poor) and the poor (those that know they are not rich).
The war will be fought by the non-existent 'middle rich' against the poor. The wealthy minority will just sit back and watch: the same class fighting itself while the rich just observe and pick over the 'winnings'. The poor have always been seduced and corrupted into protecting the wealthy.
The virus protects the host.
A national army and police force are used to control the masses.
55. The corporate goal of profit on the back of making sick people live longer, will eventually create a global population so large that it will overwhelm life on Earth.
It is happening now as manufacturing is decimated and just moved around. Only a few large multinationals exist and these will get fewer and ultimately there will only be the one. Closer than imagined by hiding parent ownership.
World government. World domination complete.
56. A compassionate and caring society seems to encourage diluting itself and threatening itself with non-perfect offspring. Paradoxical. But what is perfect? Physically or mentally deficient? Eugenics can only assess physical effects. Mental deficiency only comes to light after birth. And even birth itself can create the problem where none up until that time existed.
After birth comes mind control.
57. Gang up or team up? The talk in terms of £billions could be a simple indicator to demonstrate that companies are getting bigger. Remember that a billion is ONE THOUSAND times bigger than the million and noticeably billionaires are becoming more commonplace than millionaires.
£$Millionaires, £$billionaires, £$trillionaires… figures mean nothing. Value remains the same and all is based on perception And if mental capacity is zero..?
Microsoft and Yahoo are reported to be considering teaming up against Google and that Microsoft may even buy Yahoo for $50 billion. Yahoo's share price jumped 10% based on this report.
Microsoft can’t do it alone.
Competition can be healthy for growth, but there comes a time when competition just becomes destructive.
58. Alienate the public DELIBERATELY and cause greater unrest to justify the need for more powers. Control is growing. The craving for it has been around for a long, long time.
59. Identify the gene for breast cancer. So it can be used to cause damage?
60. Cameron (remember him?) and the privileged want to exclude everyone else. From anything. Especially those things that are important. The lesser privileged should have no opinion since not being privileged must, by definition, mean stupid. Such stupefying arrogance. Removes any competition. Or rather: interference.
61. Ice cores show gas levels in a particular era, apparently. Yet what is the certainty of this being accurate. Over 1000s of years there is no way of knowing, only assuming, that the analyses are correct for that period. Maybe there is a constant, albeit extremely slow, change in concentrations much like cell death and regrowth. Micromelting and refreezing. This is over 1000s of years. Everything is in some sort of flux.
62. All the spouting about 'tonnes' of CO2 each human produces in a year going about our daily lives, it would be educational to know how much we respire annually just existing. And how much an annual saving can be offset by one medium haul plane journey. Different aircraft of a range of distances makes it difficult to accurately estimate, but even a crude value would be very enlightening.
63. Consumption of fossil fuels: Bush will 'consider it'. For the next 40 years or so. While Rome burned, Nero fiddled (probably a euphamism for doing nothing). While the Earth burns, Bush considers and does nothing. But the money pours in and the poor get poorer.
64. Anti-competition laws: does diversification within the same outlet or chain constitute no monopoly, but technically a monopoly within itself? Consider Tesco and that ilk.
'Exclusive' to one chain, in fact, defines no competition.
65. Why shouldn't humans be forced into extinction. Only another species on Earth.
66. Cloning: an apparent 'clone' cannot be a real copy anymore than a duplicate photograph. The actual image may be a perfect copy, but it must be on different (physical) paper. Any individual atom is unique. Any drop of water is unique. Cloning cannot happen. Only the illusion of cloning. A human 'clone' could never have cloned thoughts, or it would have to be a soulless machine with no consciousness of its own. No individuality. A computer.
Like a production vehicle: all the vehicles may appear and perform in an identical way. Nonetheless, they are still different vehicles.
67. Man evolved on Earth. There is no possibility of lengthy survival off Earth unless an identical environment is provided. Space is hostile: cold, no natural oxygen (specific to life on Earth) or natural food with micronutrients. Gravity is zero so an artificial gravity would be essential. Lethal radiation (solar storms). Overall: impossible.
68. It takes just one sperm to initiate life from some 350 millions. Like the billions of suns in the galaxy and 'known' universe only one is considered to be the cause of life.
69. The illusion of 'making man in god's image' can be explained in terms of evolution. In a basic overview, physical human development has not changed much over the thousands of millennia of existence. The growth of the foetus into a form ready for birth has a greater complexity than appears outwardly. Not only the development of the organs themselves, but the timing of growth and the interconnections of these organs. The miles of arteries, veins and even smaller blood vessels all making the correct connection. Errors do happen and organs do malfunction or make wrong connections.
This the information is in the genome. The master map. The plan from which a living being is built. Human, cat, hampster or monkey.
70. Conventional wisdom has it that after the 'Big Bang', hydrogen and helium existed and other atomic nucleii formed in the furnace of stars. Other atoms that are unstable may have formed in our star: the Sun. This is a relatively cool star. It is reasonable to suppose that a hotter star may form other elements or even stable forms of' terrestrial radioactive elements.
71. A plane is going to fly anyway so why shouldn't I be a passenger in it? The 'carbon footprint' won't be any different and a plane can only take a fixed number of people. By avoiding planes won't stop them being operated unless a reduced passenger manifest/inventory starts to have an effect. A real dilemma. 'Sacrificing' an opportunity to travel just means I lose out. The only way forward is if the plane does not fly and so I am denied the opportunity. The opportunity withdrawn, but operators still need revenue to operate and this means providing opportunity.
Symbiosis in the wrong direction.
72. Some people are so easily led that only suggestion even by behaviour alone is enough to effect a habit. The influence of others is almost invisible unless the psychotic need to control is recognised. It is obvious when understood. Like reading a book with a chapter concerning body language: a very instructive book. Or understanding a chapter concerned with liars and cheats.
73. The ego is an expensive and dangerous characteristic. Something that many cannot afford to have. It can put people into huge debt and potentially fatal situations.
74. As much as £14m aid for flood responses (permanent) withdrawn, yet £9300m pledged for Olympic Games (just 16 days).
75. The International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is nothing more than a lobby group to promote the cause for climate change. Even though it is (probably) based on a flawed premise (propaganda).
76. Outsourcing any electronically communicated information presents a major security loophole. The thread of possession is lost. India, China...
77. What is the difference between a root vegetable and a fruit? Except obviously that one grows above and the other below ground. The composition of the produce. Chemical. Enzymes. Vitamins...
78. PAYE: the state gets it cut first. You get what's left. Same as the residue of an estate: it's what remains after any tax has been paid.
The 'Stay out of Jail' ticket. Problem and Solution scenario with conditioning. ‘Accepted’ because there is no choice.
79. The carrot and the stick: ensure the divide between earnings and the cost of purchase of ‘desirables’ widens and so perpetuate the wealth creating machine.
Perpetual motion.
80. Thousands of years ago when man was mystified by what today are regarded mundane phenomena, the concept of a 'God' can be understood. Today such beliefs do not make sense. Explanations of 'fact' seem to be insufficient. A belief still overwhelms established fact.
When today many deny the existence of aliens or life anywhere else in the entire universe yet have 'belief' systems that encapsulate 'fairies at the bottom of the garden', this attitude is without foundation. The logical connection is that 'God' is an alien entity. The religious sector (all faiths) would probably be horrified at such a thought. That defines the attitude that any lifeform however advanced and superior to human life is subordinate even though any real comparison testing is (not yet) possible. Such is the extent of real ignorance, but based on denial.
The size of the universe is not known and cannot be known or even conceived. To deny the existence of any other lifeform, anywhere else except Earth, is like living with your head beneath the sand and claiming to see all. To be unable to see by denying sight and then assert there is nothing to see is supremely absurd and arrogant.
Logically and in total objectivity, such beliefs cannot realistically be denied or accepted. Denial of the unknown is illogical. The concept of religion, but in reverse. Opting in rather than opting out. Open mindedness.
81. This persistent denial of even the possibility of life on other planets (non-terrestrial), in solar systems and galaxies literally countless light years away is small thinking. Extraterrestrial indeed. The solution of pi has never been solved. Billions or trillions of light years is just a beginning. Limitless or only limited by the imagination. To imagine life on Earth is all there is, is simply fantasy. Science fiction. Rather a paradox.
Then to consider the evolution of life along human lines only. Why? Life is only as we perceive it. Many times scientists have been 'surprised' by a new lifeform on Earth or from the depths of the sea. Newly discovered life that has survived for millions of years without Man's knowledge. Almost keeping its existence secret.
Life could co-exist with humanoid life. Maybe the person standing next to you. It is just not recognised. Maybe mountains and trees do have spirits. Any solid, liquid or gas or... imagine. If it can't be explained then it cannot exist. Arrogance continues simply attempting to mask ignorance. Or stupidity. Rejecting possibilities because they don't fit into 'known' dogma.
This demotes the scientist to an ordinary person who simply...
...doesn't know. It creates problems by the nature of being inexplicable. That will never do.
Once to reach a distant coast was considered impossible. Intrepid explorers courageouly discovered new lands. It is now taken for granted that these lands do exist. And can easily be reached. Perhaps reaching another planet outside the solar system is not possible. It probably is impossible with science as it is today. But that does not render it unlikely that such an achievement can never be successful.
One hundred years ago to fly above the ground was unthinkable. Now limited space travel is possible, but progress is not going to happen unless a different form of travel is discovered. The energy, distance and time connection is not going to provide a solution.
82. On a simplistic level, the sudoku (sod uku!) analogy provides a comparison for science. A puzzle can be almost completed, more than 95%, only then to discover an error. Everything to that point seemed to fit, but the solution cannot be achieved. The solution is wrong.
One early mistake is not detected as everything seems OK. In fact, the error is compounded by every subsequent answer being based on the answers already provided. Towards the end, the mistake is realised and a minor error seems to be a major error. It is actually no bigger than the early one.
It is tempting to tinker with corrections, but just creates another unsolvable puzzle. The easy way is to start again.
Science cannot do this. Or won't. Too much knowledge has been uncovered. Much undoubtedly correct and subsequent knowledge is also likely to be right when based on good information. The difficulty is to distinguish the right from the wrong.
It is probable that most scientific knowledge is honest, but knowlege based on incorrect assumptions can only lead to an apparent major conflict.
This also highlights the more serious damage done by cheats.
Even defragmenting a hard drive can illustrate the problem, but in a different sense. There is possibly no original error, but fragmentation causes new information to be placed distant from related parts. This creates disarray, potential errors and a real danger of failure. It certainly slows things down. Rather like politics, which has the ability to slow real progress to a snail's pace. Or even slower. To a standstill. Scattered information becomes more disorganised. Tiding up to relocate the related parts can restore balance.
Unchecked science can create dangerous disarray. But the problem remains: how is such a check performed and against what? The check of new information may be made against wrong earlier information. This compounds the error, but the mistakes remain undetected. Even the method of checking may be based on an error. Misconceived.
83. The Great Climate Change debate (con) is likely to backfire. The West has been 'persuaded' about CO2 and global warming. The true reason is simply to introduce nuclear power under the zero CO2 flag of convenience. China has no interest in the global warming debate and refuses to accept emissions targets as it has no obligations to do so. If 'rich nations' continue to reduce their CO2 emissions, China need do nothing and could become a 'rich nation' too. Balance the opportunity.
This fails to recognise the West's (US) desire to keep other countries down so it can be globally dominant. The way it will backfire is that western civilisations won't play ball by letting China get away with producing unchecked amounts of CO2 when they must reduce their own.
It won't work and so the original conning of their own people will backfire. It has to. Ironic to an extreme. If all other countries were to rise against the China threat then the US need do nothing and would still rise above the rest as the survivor by default.
84. Climate change has its potential advantage. The amount of water globally is constant. Over the 1000s of millennia, this amount has never changed. The distribution as vapour, liquid and solid states alters by the moment, but the total water remains constant. It is effectively removed from the circulation by becoming bound in cement and other materials that 'consume' water. Each growing human in the increasing population removes around 60kg water.
Clouds are airborne water repositories. Rain goes up and it comes down. Clouds move around. The warmer conditions cause more evaporation and rainfall must become more frequent and heavier (perhaps). Warmer water allows more hurricanes and cyclones to form generating more and stronger winds. Clouds disperse greater distances. The whole nature of weather is changing.
Short term, it affects mankind as migration is not a natural characteristic. Long term the Earth will recover and the animal world will continue to evolve. Man is well on his way to extinction. Possibly, sped up by behaviour traits, but inevitable nonetheless.
85. True human nature is only suppressed and just under the surface. Witness the suspension of inhibition. Excessive alcohol consumption. Behaviour suddenly changes as though a switch has been thrown to reveal a more selfish attitude. One that involves only self gratification.
In the 'western world', more and more is the selfish nature becoming more apparent. Other parts of the world too. Greed and self advantage are to a great many the only reason to live. As though it's the only reason for life itself. Man and other life, even pond life, has existed for millions of years. Wealth, in terms of money, is a very recent invention by comparison and is only the medium to manifest a repressed nature.
Millions of years ago, survival would hang on this selfish nature. Nothing much has changed. Possibly those who don't show such greed and selfish characteristics have stronger repression abilities? Possibly an evolutionary trait?
86. Property ladder: one of the most successful conditioning exercises ever devised. Get on the property ladder at any cost. Creates a market for the building industry and is the fuel to increase 'value'. Any building opposition will always be overruled since the construction industry makes so much money. The increase in population even though a major threat to an overstretched planet Earth is allowed to grow even more because the larger consumer market means more wealth for the few. It's all heading towards meltdown. Faster and faster and caused by greed.
The more building, the more water is locked up in cement and mortar. Ultimately more salt manifests as the water is slowly being removed. The growing population could consume this growing surplus, but the encouragement is to reduce consumption. But like attempts to reduce smoking will have those who simply cut down, there is a constant opening of new markets where the dangers are not appreciated. Even if these dangers are known, the overwhelming money making potential is just too great to overlook. Just the potential to make shedloads of money.
China as an example. A massive potential market. A growing population to be made ill in order to make more money then 'fix' the situation with modern (expensive) drugs.
Create the problem then provide the solution. Same as 9/11. To imagine that the idea of Nazism just vanished with the 'end' of WWII is fantasy. The ideologies have evolved, but are little changed in reality. Forcing control through beliefs of the 'masters' onto the 'pawns' of general world society is happening even more today. The government of one country becomes a federal government and individual people-control (majority) is lost to the few (minority). Proportionately, federal control creates a growing majority with a decreasing minority. The European-government is a relatively small step away from a world-government dominated by the US. The illusion demands this. Who would be in control. Like puppet Bush has his masters, it is just unclear who they really are.
Blair won't go away and still 'meddles' as a 'international' envoy. Note the 'international'. British envoy would be too incendiary. The man who started it all sent in to moderate the fires of Hell.
A smaller global population and less competition may enable survival of all, but the 'animal' competition behaviour will end by the competition for diminishing resources as is happening already demonstrated by the quest for oil. The wars being started to justify the 'competitive' aquisition of another's natural resource.
What is happening about Iraqi oil and is it being bought at market prices and revenue going to Iraq or is it being plundered. Blood and oil do not mix unless you add the catalyst called money.
87. Buying profit: any money 'made' (profit) from the sale of a house doesn't create money. It does create the illusion of wealth, but nothing else. The profit that appears to be made is actually a greater potential future debt bought up by someone else. The buyer of that house. The inflation of house 'value' price rises. The seller buys the next property at a higher price so doesn't ever win. Eventually, the estate 'value' is realised upon death, but inheritance tax catches a great deal of this. Today it's 40%. Tomorrow it may be the same or more, but never, never any less.
It happens in everything. Buying a 'valuable' painting that grows in 'value'. The value is purely what someone is prepared to pay for an item. An old bottle of wine (vintage and so valuable) appreciates in the buying and selling game. The bottle has worth only if it remains unopened. The moment it is opened, it becomes worthless. It is simply an old wine. Possibly a sour and disgusting old wine. Maybe not. The value is the perceived quality of the content.
Examine it: acetic acid content could be estimated without opening, but the 'name and vintage' transfer 'value' regardless of quality. Even if it's nearly pure vinegar. Who would determine such quality? Certainly not the possessor. A canny buyer should, but then business would make this a very stupid thing to do. Even though common sense strongly suggests it.
Common sense, business and money do not make a happy trinity.
88. In the city over £14bn in bonuses alone is highly suggestive of the enormous amount of money movement involved. Remember wealth is not created so all this money must be lost or soaked up by every loser in the world. The only single item that is created is a BIGGER and growing debt that has the illusory appearance of success.
How can it be that if everybody has never had it so good there is so much debt globally? Clearly, few actually own the products that get them into debt, but thanks to 'credit' cards, virtual money really exists. An illusory world. The idea of money is an illusion. Most transactions are conducted electronically and the scope for money laundering is huge. Actually not just being cleaned, but disappearing into a pure virtuality.
A counterfeit bank note can be noticed, yet a counterfeit electronic transaction is less easy to detect. Virtual robbery. The proceeds of a virtual theft are simply virtual. The illusion is wealth and ownership. It is only theoretical and needs to be transformed into a physical form (gold) to be of 'real' transactional worth.
The supply of diamonds is leaked out from time-to-time. Probably one of the worlds most abundant natural resources. And best kept secrets: money often engenders deceit. Tremendous heat and pressure are needed to form diamonds and that is what there was when the Earth accreted from space debris.
89. Iraq prepares to allow foreign firms to exploit its oil and gas riches. Iraqi leaders approved a draft law opening the country's oil reserves to foreign investors.
Perhaps they have been guided by an independent US advisory body?
The bill (Bush benchmark for America's continuing commitment to Iraq) came amid intense pressure from British and American diplomats so to enable foreign involvement in the originally nationalised industry. There are promises that oil and gas resources would be "the property of the Iraqi people" and the revenues distributed equally amongst the regions. The process of exploitation of Iraq's fields will be transparent and open. This is all expected to "sail through" parliament. Apparently, the regional government's deals would be modified to comply with the new legislation.
Let the beast go and then try to alter its behaviour?
Iraq's oil reserves are amongst the world's largest and the Americans are still involved. Bush is making noises suggesting a US exit strategy. Bush is sabre rattling at Iran.
Game, set and match on the horizon?
90. 'Terrorists' only include the 'soldiers'. Those suicide bombers who are prepared to 'sacrifice' themselves in the attempt to maximise the death of a perceived enemy based fundamentally on religion. Basically, a corrupt mentality. Madness. To murder on the basis of a variety of belief systems. All unproven. Belief. The ultimate in conspiracy theories? The difference is an unquestioning mind. Acceptance of the dogma without any thought. Just total acceptance.
Who are the real terrorists? The generals who send out their soldiers? The world 'leaders' who take civilisation to Hell and never themselves run any risk. The Bushes, Blairs, Cheneys, Rumsfelds and the list grows in its familiarity. Safe in their bunkers. Protected by 'security' personnel. Never taking a single risk that affects themself.
Even the Patricia Hewitts of the world. Thousands are sacrificed to save their 'job' and 'face'. These individuals are quite obnoxious.
So, who are the real terrorists? Ask yourself the question. And listen objectively to your own (honest) answer. There is no room for subjective belief systems. Think, but don’t live in denial.
91. Fashion designers and size 'zero'. It's quite pathetic. Women are demonstrating themselves as stupid, yet they want to be taken seriously? Falling into the control of some faceless 'fashion' designer house who proclaims the instruction: jump.
The response? How high!
The pursuit of perceived fame and fortune. Only for the few 'models' who push the image. It's self promoting. A viscious cycle. Someone in the background 'designs' and then the image is promoted as though it is good and important. It's just lethal like the pointed-toe (winklepickers - peculiar term) shoes or stiletto heels.
Dangerous and lethal. Sadly, in objectivity, only stupid people fall into the image of 'fashion' and it's simply another form of terrorism. The result? Destruction of the female sex. Effectively it's a form of (single sex) genocide.
92. Notice how under age pregnancy is being made more acceptable? There is rarely any mention of unlawful sex. Conditioning is happening. What used to carry a prison term is now effectively ignored and by the silence even encouraged.
The mixed up thinking is that paedophilia is a wicked crime against children by adults. But when does the rape of a child (still not consensual sex if underage) become simply underage sex. What age does the one move to the other.
Can paedophilia be exercised by a 'young' male?
What constitutes young?
Predatory behaviour of one child on another child?
When does a child become an adult?
When can consent be meaningful or not?
The fact that such questions can be valid does suggest terminal confusion is afoot.
93. It's very depressing to recognise the effort spent in terms of time and money to develop weapons of destruction rather than the same effort to solve mankind's survival.
Developing the thermonuclear weapon that avoids the necessity of a fission explosion (atomic bomb) to initiate detonation. Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) uses a powerful focused laser beam to condense hydrogen to such a density and temperature that it can ignite an explosive fusion reaction.
The specialised knowledge to 'understand' such devices loses sight of how the devices will be used. Almost like capturing the energy in a thunderbolt. This would make a powerful weapon. That would be important. Even if this were possible, the cost outlay would not be entertained by investors, yet the cost involved in nuclear power stations is not an issue as there is an enormous profit in construction alone.
Power is always retained by the State. Control possibilities always take priority over any application, however beneficial to the majority.
Building the beast is one thing, letting it loose is another.
94. Anti-competition laws: does diversification within the same outlet or chain constitute no monopoly, but technically a monopoly within itself?
95. 'Exclusive' to one chain, in fact, defines no competition.
96. Cloning: an apparent 'clone' cannot be a real copy anymore than a duplicate photograph. The actual image may be a perfect copy, but it must be on different (physical) paper. Any individual atom is unique. Any drop of water is unique. Cloning cannot happen. Only the appearance. The illusion of cloning. A human 'clone' could never have cloned thoughts, or it would have to be a soulless machine with no consciousness of its own. A computer.
Like a production vehicle: all the vehicles may appear and perform in an identical way. Nonetheless, they are still different cars.
97. On a simplistic level, the sudoku (soduku!) analogy provides a comparison for science. A puzzle can be almost completed, better than 95%, only then to discover an error. Everything seems to fit, but the solution is wrong.
One early mistake is not detected as everything seems OK. In fact, the error is compounded by every subsequent answer. Towards the end, the mistake is realised and ssems to be a major error. It is actually no bigger than the early one.
It is tempting to tinker with corrections, but just creates another unsolvable puzzle. The easy way is to start again.
Science cannot do this. Or won't. Too much knowledge has been uncovered. Much undoubtedly correct and subsequent knowledge is also likely to be right when based on good information. The difficulty is to distinguish the right from the wrong.
It is probable that most scientific knowledge is honest, but knowlege based on incorrect assumptions can only lead to an apparent major conflict.
This also highlights the more serious damage done by cheats.
Even defragmenting a hard drive can illustrate the problem, but in a different sense. There is possibly no original error, but fragmentation causes new information to be placed distant from related parts. This creates disarray, potential errors and a real danger of failure. It certainly slows things down. Rather like politics, which has the ability to slow real progress to a snail's pace. Or even slower. To a standstill. Scattred information becomes more disorganised. Tiding up to relocate the related parts can restore balance.
Unchecked science can create dangerous disarray. But the problem remains: how is such a check performed and against what? The check of new information may be made against wrong earlier information. This compounds the error, but the mistakes remain undetected.
98. The illusion of 'making man in god's image' can be explained in terms of evolution. In a basic overview, physical human development has not changed much over the thousands of millennia of existence. The growth of the foetus into a form ready for birth has a greater complexity than appears outwardly. Not only the development of the organs themselves, but the timing of growth and the interconnections of these organs. The miles of arteries, veins and even smaller blood vessels all making the correct connection. Errors do happen and organs do malfunction or make wrong connections.
This the information is in the genome. The master map. The plan from which a living being is built. Human, cat, hampster or monkey.
99. The Great Climate Change debate (con) s likely to backfire. The West has been persuaded about CO2 and global warming. The true reason is simply to introduce nuclear power under the zero CO2 flag of convenience. China has no interest in the global warming debate and refuses to accept emissions targets as it has no obligations to do so. If 'rich nations' continue to reduce their CO2 emissions, China need do nothing and become a 'rich nation' too. Balance opportunity.
This fails to recognise the West's (US) desire to keep other countries down so it can be globally dominant. The way it will backfire is that western civilizations won't play ball by letting China get away with producing unchecked amounts of CO2 when they must reduce their own.
It won't work and so the original conning of their own people will backfire. It has to. Ironic to an extreme.
Unlike aspartame.
2. Speed cameras: people seem to be annoyed, irritated or distracted by speed cameras, but not mundane things like adverts on TV or even other road users with 'bad' attitude. Odd. Worse is the highly cynical detector systems being peddled. Staying within prescribed speed limits is the most effective method of avoiding 'speeding tickets' rather that exceeding those limits. It's incredibly patronising to have drivers parading their arrogance by indicating that they know best. Arguing with a judge in a Court of Law is NOT recommended.
3. It's (allegedly) almost a certainty that if you're exceptionally rich (just a few £millions) it has been through original dishonesty and/or crime. A return into history may reveal the truth as long as it has not been deliberately hidden and so covered up. This is apparently, not always the case.
4. UN chief: "NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) cannot defeat Taliban by force".
Really, or is this just a softening-up, conditioning bow shot, statement of fact?
5. See Benefit Provider
Provide benefits to keep people in poverty. There is no reason for the beneficiaries to do anything and they become totally dependent on the State (benefits). This in turn supports the government that 'provides' the benefits and virtually ensures future votes to get (back) into power. Effectively, this is simple bribery using, of course, taxpayers (public) money that was originally provided by taxpayers to the incumbent government (by force and threats of imprisonment). Buying votes with public money.
Who would bite off the hand that feeds?
What does government do with the freely given (!!!), and unaccountable £billions 'donated' by the non-dependent taxpayer? What is the real reason for the egotistical need for power? Power only implies an arrogance and the desire to control. Why? Access to the £billions in government coffers. Perhaps. Without accounts, how would you know if you were being robbed blind?
6. 'Correct' answers according to... who? This is a method of control. To be 'right' is to provide the accepted conditioned response. Indoctrination. Similar to education: the 'correct' answer is rewarded. A 'wrong' answer receives condescension. Behaviour is controlled in a similar way. The origins of the 'rebel': original thinking is constrained by conformity being regarded as 'correct'. Rebellion is 'wrong' even if it is the 'right' action to take.
7. The deployment of an additional 21,500 US troops to Iraq could be just a crude attempt at the Trojan Horse (disguised) offensive into Iran. When the USA talks about complete withdrawal from Iraq, consider where the troops will ultimately (for now) be deployed.
8. Go to work to afford to run the car that takes you there rather than have a car for more practical reasons. Work to live or live to work? Eat to live or live to eat?
9. What a pathetic justification given by the organisers of an F1-11 stunt in Brisbane. About 300 trees had (allegedly) been planted to soak up the 68 tonnes of greenhouse gases produced. As though this is instant. And is this for a young or mature tree? That's around 4 trees per tonne. That must be over the lifetime of the alleged planting. Hardly making much immediate difference.
10. Attempt to alter genetics by slimming are purely illusory. Men don't all go for skinny women. It's a woman-woman competition thing. Offspring will be genetically determined not by lifestyle, but the individual genome. Lifestyle has an effect, but it is a reletively small one.
11. Flogged a dead horse: mixing up climate change and burning fossil fuels. Bad science.
12. Politicians are always so pompous and arrogant (self-importance). Point heavily supported by virtue that nobody else matters.
13. Caution: there's a lot of hype and disinformation on many subjects being accepted into the public domain. Loosely based on 'fact' and so the illusion is promulgated in the attempt to reach the desired end: persuasion by fear.
14. The growing tendency for self restraint to be absent is a reflection of the level of control. People fail to think for themselves. Look to speed cameras for an example: the so-called "nanny state". And where did such a phrase originate?
Government, of course.
15. Dumb down ('dumbing down') maths to fit the needs for life skills. This presumes the 'life' is known and defines massaging what 'life' will be. This is not providing the maths that is needed for the basic understanding of manipulating figures. Only what has been planned for the future.
Defines controlling what people will be allowed to do. Provide for the selected 'skills' only.
Rampant spinning.
16. Possibility of three-way collusion between car manufacturers, petrol companies and government. Money driven (pun intentional). Faster (and heavier) cars generally have bigger engines and so use more petrol at any speed, but the faster the greater the consumption. Consideration of simple physics shows that the factors working against efficiency, like wind resistance, increase by a square function: double the speed and increase these effects by four. Treble speed and multiply by nine. So, doubling speed will increase consumption by four times. This is the reason why economical driving techniques involve maintenance of a relatively lower speed. To move a heavy vehicle from standstill is energy (fuel) inefficient. Imagine a petrol-engined TIR lorry: they don't exist as they would be hopelessly costly to run.
Even small-engined cars driven for performance-display consume more fuel.
Rationing petrol may have it's attractions, but this isn't cost effective if maximum profit is considered. Think commercial. Think profiteering.
17. The pensions débâcle is another example of potentially theft by stealth or the redistribution of wealth. Wealth is not created, but acquired or appropriated (winners and losers). The fund contents went somewhere. Never 'destroyed'. The only way to do this is to actually and physically destroy paper cash. But even then the cash was exchanged for something which survives and may still exist. Paper money or metallic cash has no real value. Only intrinsic. Symbolic and trade value. Nothing else.
The illusion.
Perhaps when gold coins were made from pure gold or silver coins from pure silver. Gold ingots are valuable, but only in the fact that the ingot is relatively rare and resists atmospheric decomposition. Otherwise it is just another terrestrial element that has an elevated “value and worth”.
After all, gold makes the world go round. Like diamonds or oil (black gold). Without them, the Earth would stop “spinning”, wouldn’t it!
18. The finance director of Associated British Foods has welcomed last week's (end Feb 2007) price increases in the bread industry. A standard Kingsmill 800g loaf up from 88p to 96p. An increase of just over 9%. And that is behind Warburtons breaking the 'magic' £1 barrier. Broken through so now no stopping?
[Running faster than a 4-minute mile was once considered impossible. Or travelling faster than sound. After it had happened this became commonplace.]
"We've had lot of support from the trade," says John Bason, the finance director.
But, does the customer support such increases?
Weak UK sugar profits have been offset by ABF's Polish sugar business.
Primark is the clothing chain.
19. The Theatre Royal (Margate) to be demolished: a prediction. As the second oldest theatre in the country (and a listed building), finance has always been a struggle. Suddenly, Thanet Council wants to buy it. Finance seems readily available from the Arts Council to fund future ventures.
The prelude to the sell off and develop apartments and the conversion into money, money, money. For someone.
20. Before making any decision government should have all the information. However, selective use of all the information can introduce damage. Once made, the consequences of any decision won’t be undone, the 'planned' damage will be done, but blaming it on ineptitude!
21. Accounting irregularities and possible fraud at McAlpine's Welsh slate business. The suspension of two senior managers after an internal audit uncovered "systematic misrepresentation of production volumes and sales for a number of years" so the claim goes. As a 'small business' with a turnover of just £27m in 2005, analysts slashed 2006 estimates to £30m from £43m.
An accounting irregularity of £13m?
The company says those involved tried to hide the financial implications of their actions by pre-selling slate at substantially discounted prices. "The board believes that the behaviour and collusion of the managers responsible has been entirely deliberate and involves the possibility of fraud."
Then: "We don't think this has been done for any personal gain, so at this stage it is not a matter for the police."
How does "pre-selling slate at substantially discounted prices" not 'create' something, somewhere for someone.
Perhaps I am just being naïve.
22. Downing Street has gathered together some 1.5 million email addresses in its database. This has happened because of the electronic petitioning over the internet to the website (allegedly). Apart from who owns the list and any access by opposition parties, or taking into account data protection, does this expose the senders to extraordinary attention by the government?
Surveillance by stealth.
23. Israel seeks permission from US (!!!) to fly over Iraq (???) on the way to attack Iran (!!!). This has to be made public for Iran's ears and especially ours. Diplomatic, behind the scenes moves could be made, but that way, of course, it would all be kept secret. But no. Tell everybody. Then everyone is complicit.
Sabre rattling and nobody's taken in by it all.
It seems to be all part of the Bush 'exit strategy' from Iraq when the oil pipeline ownership is all 'sewn' up.
24. Writer Alan Bennett has joined a group campaigning against a proposed wind farm on Denshaw Moor claiming it will be a blight on Saddleworth Moor. Shame these people think that such a 'blight' is worse than a coal-fired power station or worse. The prospect of a nuclear power station on the horizon? Someone else's horizon, of course.
And the greater dangers are all less visible. No smoke, but the monster lurks silently within.
Out of site and out of mind.
25. Row as elite universities admit fewer state pupils.
Ignoring prejudicial reasons for such a policy, it is an indication that weakening standards is a likely cause. Why should a university take students that 'appear' to have done well, when the standard of the exam is not particularly high.
Contentious, but cynical government attempts to make it appear that everything is going up when it is patently obvious the opposite is happening.
Poor maths skills cost British adults, it is alleged, more than £800m a year as shoppers fail to notice they are short-changed. So often, change is just dumped into a customer’s hand since the till tells the operator what change to disburse. The operator does not have the mental skills to check what is taken from the till as change. It may not be dishonesty, just inadequate arithmetic skills.
This is progress.
26. Toothpaste fails school drug test.
Random drug testing: Colne Community School, Brightlingsea, Essex has suspended its random drug testing as two pupils had been wrongly tested positive because of their toothpaste.
Tests showed that the toothpaste could produce results similar to those given by amphetamines or methamphetamines. Perhaps the results of the random test were not erroneous, but the toothpaste contains sinister additives. The brand of toothpaste has not been declared by the school. It has refused to name it, apparently.
27. 'Forgotten' £44m: owners sought.
Halifax has a problem identifying the rightful owners of £44m of "forgotten" money held in 110,000 old and unused accounts. It is quite likely that a large part of this, if not all, has arisen from executors failing to identify the accounts. So, they will never be accessed since nobody knows of their existence. Probably, the beneficiaries of wills would benefit.
The Halifax no doubt pays no interest on this money (£44m), but uses it for free.
28. Dr. John Reid 'will lead anti-terror department'.
Moves to make John Reid head of terrorism and security at the split Home Office are being "actively considered" by Tony Blair.
Time to start worrying even more. Assuming there is nobody already panicking.
29. Banks can't lose as they loan money without checks and then overcome this loss on bad debts from investment banking.
Collectively, banks made some £40 billion in the past year.
But, check out Northern Rock. Borrows on the money markets since it “lends” as mortgages to it’s customers more than it takes in from savers. Mortgagees provide interest on the capital - eventually. It's theoretical money owed in principle only. The business is then built on this virtual money.
30. Distance tax will logically lead to car sharing being indirectly encouraged. Less congestion. The next logical step is to place a tax on occupants who are not family. Then, of course, all occupants including family. The real test is in whether any future government removes the tax.
No, it will not even try. They are all the same body, just wearing a different mask. Labels.
31. Minimum wage: cynically, to maintain a minimum wage and not increase it. Keep this to the minimum and any %age payrise can appear quite generous, yet be very little in real terms. Government inflation figures are a fraud because the formula used (whatever it may be) gives the appearance of a low rate when (nearly) everyone knows it's a lie. The real cost of living to real people is very much higher than the engineered figure that does not take into account real outgoings. Fuel of all types, taxes everywhere and always more on the horizon. And then some more. People have to live inside the lie. Inflation busting rises to maximise profiteering are ignored because a reminder of the (real) rate of inflation suggests there is not a problem. Taxation levels go up, council tax goes up by more than inflation, energy prices up. Up, up, up… Yet the official figure remains low, low, low.
The con? It's not just a con. It's a fraud.
All governments do it. It's a financial trick. The illusion.
32. There is something very wrong somewhere. Although there are more cars and vehicles than commercial aircraft, the amount of fuel consumed and the associated CO2 created is quite disproportionate for the headcount and distance travelled. One aircraft, probably not full, may account for 200 people. This is balanced against 200 vehicles with only one occupant per vehicle (driver).
An aircraft might fly 1000 miles, but the majority of fuel is consumed taking off and reaching cruising height and speed. This will be the same regardless of the overall flight.
The volume of fuel (kerosine vs petrol) used?
33. Example of anti-scientific approach:
"We tried eveything we could think of to make this reading go away."
"The magnetic field measured was stronger than predicted."
This anomaly didn't affect performance (of gyroscopes), the problem quietly dropped. Such an important finding lay undisturbed for 20 years. It didn't fit and so was not investigated.
Bad science.
Rather than attempting to examine in the open, it is try to find a reason to ignore something that doesn't fit.
34. So galling that "it has cost the NHS £billions". It has cost the taxpayer ... Anyway, so 'they' say whoever 'they' are. If 'they' say so then it must be true. Another undefinable and bottomless pit. Need more money? The taxpayer will fund it.
But: isn't that a dereliction of duty by not providing value? Nobody seems to notice or care.
Don’t bother to ask, just take.
35. Note for the illusion of wealth 'creation'. The perception of the 'winners and losers' game. True creation only happens in the mind. Thoughts. Not tangible, but very real. The notion of the material as valuable is really quite laughable.
Diamond: nothing more than an allotrope of carbon.
Worthless.
Like coal, charcoal or oil. All carbon based. Like humans.
36. Interest rates need to be raised above 8% to control booming house prices. Surprised? Shouldn't be. It's to be anicipated as part of the long term plan to amass more money. All part of the ‘wealth’ redistribution process. More people, more houses, more potential money. More expensive property, longer term loans to keep 'affordable', but greater the interest the longer the term.
I still despair for the generation maturing now who need to buy property in which to live and not fill the pockets of a landlord (the parasite: lives off the host and puts nothing back) with their money. Not the real problem: the staggeringly selfish and greedy who simply perpetuate the myth that wealth is actually created and not just moved around.
37. Computerised lip-reading systems to tackle crime? Rather to assist surveillance. And anyway, lip reading is not foolproof and the wrong message can (conveniently) be the interpretation.
38. Issues that involve 'ethics' should not be resolved (if, in fact, they are) by public consultation. Potentially serious consequences should not be allowed to involve the layman's unqualified opinion. It is too dangerous to let the poorly (mis)informed decide. Science is not always filled by integrity. And the potential for misleading information to gain advantage for all sorts of motives is possible always. Some things should just be left alone.
It possibly requires the ‘expert’ to understand the complexities, but the unqualified layman to offer an honest and unbiased verdict.
The 'fait accompli' gives the appearance of public consultation, but it never involves public choice.
39. Someone's credibility is measured by how much their creative output makes in terms of money.
40. Lung cancer caused by tobacco was not stopped. But cholera very quickly dealt with. Why? There's no money to be made in sudden death, only taxation from a 'long-lived' causation of death.
41. Narrow-boned and size zero. Genetics cannot be changed. Natural size 12 can never be a size zero (British size 4) with good health.
Humans cannot breathe unaided underwater without gills.
42. Devil's Advocate: it is noteworthy that when favourable things are said, they tend to be believed. Distasteful things tend to be disbelieved. Politicians pander to that fact. They can change their tune in a heartbeat if it's favourable and is probably the main reason for inconsistency. The obvious lie that is seldom challenged. They seem to forget that the earlier audience still hear the tune that was played. A new audience (generation) hears the tune of the day, but the earlier audience now hears the first one, the second one, the third and so on.
Allegiance of the corrupted is to the corruptor.
43. The concept of arranged marriages: absolute control of a bargaining chip. The right to personal control of a once only existence is denied. Culture 'owns' life, it seems.
44. Insider dealing. At government ministerial level this concept cannot exist when the rules are changed/invented before such dealing exists. Being ahead of the game not just ahead in the game.
45. Government is to decide about the Westwood Cross development of 1000 homes. Of course, it is bound by definition to say 'yes':
1000 x £200,000 (conservative estimate) = £200,000,000
It was decided a long time ago. Water feed, sewage disposal capability? Who cares? The system in the new 'estate' may be of a high standard, but the real problem is that it links in to the rubbish national system. Waste going nowhere.
Common sense should be the guide to buying a house on high land. Houses can only be ‘bought’ where they exist. Built on cheap land in unsuitable places. The reason it’s cheap.
But: £200,000,000.
That's what really matters.
46. Chinese whispers: history gets changed and justifications and 'facts' become better established with time basing new books and articles on older 'fact'. If that earlier 'fact' is a lie, then the truth gets buried deeper and deeper.
47. Consider the Titanic tragedy: accident or manslaughter? Or murder for financial gain?
48. Publicly removing qualified doctors: designed to increase FEAR levels and uncertainty.
49. Reduce the amount of water available to facilitate profit in the construction of new homes. Water supply is necessary to build. Possibly more important than drainage when it comes to selling properties.
Incidentally, the use of more and more concrete adds to the atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide: CaCO3 -> CaO + CO2. Notice the misdirection to blame it all on humans? Humans use concrete, but it is not directed here. It is more lucrative to blame human consumption of oil and so raise revenue through taxation than it is to compromise the construction industry by blaming the major material used.
The warming oceans release more CO2. The Sun is getting hotter as time goes on.
50. Scientists sometimes show themselves to be megalomaniacs. To 'spend' £billions to attempt the recreation of a theoretical event (Big Bang), and perhaps cause the annihilation of all existence in the process, is absolute madness. It makes the opening of Pandora's Box look like a fun thing to do. Just to have a peek.
Chasing the existence of 'God'. That would be considered delusion by these very scientists who consider themselves on a crusade to determine the origin and future of the Universe and what makes it work. The idea of a single theory of everything when time and distance distortion complicate even the simplest of theories.
51. The poor (large majority) and the illusory 'middle-rich' (non-existent) subsidise the wealthy (tiny minority).
52. The origins of the 'red carpet': is it so royalty can walk over the bloodied corpses after battle and hide the devastation? Like red uniforms to disguise and hide blood stains of the dead and wounded.
53. A dead giveaway: HMRC. Revenue AND customs. Linking revenue not just from simple income tax, but also tax on anything and this implies legal and illegal imports.
54. There will come the time of 'critical mass' when redistribution is no longer concealed. Subsidising the wealthy by taking from everyone else will end. Like oil, it will run out. There is nothing left. What happens? The modern day Revolution. The rising of the masses against the wealthy. But the greed of the masses has confused thinking. There is too much to lose. So three sides to the coin. The minority of the wealthy (those that 'own' the wealth and actually believe they are superior), those that believe they are getting richer (the 'middle rich' in reality just a subset of the poor) and the poor (those that know they are not rich).
The war will be fought by the non-existent 'middle rich' against the poor. The wealthy minority will just sit back and watch: the same class fighting itself while the rich just observe and pick over the 'winnings'. The poor have always been seduced and corrupted into protecting the wealthy.
The virus protects the host.
A national army and police force are used to control the masses.
55. The corporate goal of profit on the back of making sick people live longer, will eventually create a global population so large that it will overwhelm life on Earth.
It is happening now as manufacturing is decimated and just moved around. Only a few large multinationals exist and these will get fewer and ultimately there will only be the one. Closer than imagined by hiding parent ownership.
World government. World domination complete.
56. A compassionate and caring society seems to encourage diluting itself and threatening itself with non-perfect offspring. Paradoxical. But what is perfect? Physically or mentally deficient? Eugenics can only assess physical effects. Mental deficiency only comes to light after birth. And even birth itself can create the problem where none up until that time existed.
After birth comes mind control.
57. Gang up or team up? The talk in terms of £billions could be a simple indicator to demonstrate that companies are getting bigger. Remember that a billion is ONE THOUSAND times bigger than the million and noticeably billionaires are becoming more commonplace than millionaires.
£$Millionaires, £$billionaires, £$trillionaires… figures mean nothing. Value remains the same and all is based on perception And if mental capacity is zero..?
Microsoft and Yahoo are reported to be considering teaming up against Google and that Microsoft may even buy Yahoo for $50 billion. Yahoo's share price jumped 10% based on this report.
Microsoft can’t do it alone.
Competition can be healthy for growth, but there comes a time when competition just becomes destructive.
58. Alienate the public DELIBERATELY and cause greater unrest to justify the need for more powers. Control is growing. The craving for it has been around for a long, long time.
59. Identify the gene for breast cancer. So it can be used to cause damage?
60. Cameron (remember him?) and the privileged want to exclude everyone else. From anything. Especially those things that are important. The lesser privileged should have no opinion since not being privileged must, by definition, mean stupid. Such stupefying arrogance. Removes any competition. Or rather: interference.
61. Ice cores show gas levels in a particular era, apparently. Yet what is the certainty of this being accurate. Over 1000s of years there is no way of knowing, only assuming, that the analyses are correct for that period. Maybe there is a constant, albeit extremely slow, change in concentrations much like cell death and regrowth. Micromelting and refreezing. This is over 1000s of years. Everything is in some sort of flux.
62. All the spouting about 'tonnes' of CO2 each human produces in a year going about our daily lives, it would be educational to know how much we respire annually just existing. And how much an annual saving can be offset by one medium haul plane journey. Different aircraft of a range of distances makes it difficult to accurately estimate, but even a crude value would be very enlightening.
63. Consumption of fossil fuels: Bush will 'consider it'. For the next 40 years or so. While Rome burned, Nero fiddled (probably a euphamism for doing nothing). While the Earth burns, Bush considers and does nothing. But the money pours in and the poor get poorer.
64. Anti-competition laws: does diversification within the same outlet or chain constitute no monopoly, but technically a monopoly within itself? Consider Tesco and that ilk.
'Exclusive' to one chain, in fact, defines no competition.
65. Why shouldn't humans be forced into extinction. Only another species on Earth.
66. Cloning: an apparent 'clone' cannot be a real copy anymore than a duplicate photograph. The actual image may be a perfect copy, but it must be on different (physical) paper. Any individual atom is unique. Any drop of water is unique. Cloning cannot happen. Only the illusion of cloning. A human 'clone' could never have cloned thoughts, or it would have to be a soulless machine with no consciousness of its own. No individuality. A computer.
Like a production vehicle: all the vehicles may appear and perform in an identical way. Nonetheless, they are still different vehicles.
67. Man evolved on Earth. There is no possibility of lengthy survival off Earth unless an identical environment is provided. Space is hostile: cold, no natural oxygen (specific to life on Earth) or natural food with micronutrients. Gravity is zero so an artificial gravity would be essential. Lethal radiation (solar storms). Overall: impossible.
68. It takes just one sperm to initiate life from some 350 millions. Like the billions of suns in the galaxy and 'known' universe only one is considered to be the cause of life.
69. The illusion of 'making man in god's image' can be explained in terms of evolution. In a basic overview, physical human development has not changed much over the thousands of millennia of existence. The growth of the foetus into a form ready for birth has a greater complexity than appears outwardly. Not only the development of the organs themselves, but the timing of growth and the interconnections of these organs. The miles of arteries, veins and even smaller blood vessels all making the correct connection. Errors do happen and organs do malfunction or make wrong connections.
This the information is in the genome. The master map. The plan from which a living being is built. Human, cat, hampster or monkey.
70. Conventional wisdom has it that after the 'Big Bang', hydrogen and helium existed and other atomic nucleii formed in the furnace of stars. Other atoms that are unstable may have formed in our star: the Sun. This is a relatively cool star. It is reasonable to suppose that a hotter star may form other elements or even stable forms of' terrestrial radioactive elements.
71. A plane is going to fly anyway so why shouldn't I be a passenger in it? The 'carbon footprint' won't be any different and a plane can only take a fixed number of people. By avoiding planes won't stop them being operated unless a reduced passenger manifest/inventory starts to have an effect. A real dilemma. 'Sacrificing' an opportunity to travel just means I lose out. The only way forward is if the plane does not fly and so I am denied the opportunity. The opportunity withdrawn, but operators still need revenue to operate and this means providing opportunity.
Symbiosis in the wrong direction.
72. Some people are so easily led that only suggestion even by behaviour alone is enough to effect a habit. The influence of others is almost invisible unless the psychotic need to control is recognised. It is obvious when understood. Like reading a book with a chapter concerning body language: a very instructive book. Or understanding a chapter concerned with liars and cheats.
73. The ego is an expensive and dangerous characteristic. Something that many cannot afford to have. It can put people into huge debt and potentially fatal situations.
74. As much as £14m aid for flood responses (permanent) withdrawn, yet £9300m pledged for Olympic Games (just 16 days).
75. The International Panel for Climate Change (IPCC) is nothing more than a lobby group to promote the cause for climate change. Even though it is (probably) based on a flawed premise (propaganda).
76. Outsourcing any electronically communicated information presents a major security loophole. The thread of possession is lost. India, China...
77. What is the difference between a root vegetable and a fruit? Except obviously that one grows above and the other below ground. The composition of the produce. Chemical. Enzymes. Vitamins...
78. PAYE: the state gets it cut first. You get what's left. Same as the residue of an estate: it's what remains after any tax has been paid.
The 'Stay out of Jail' ticket. Problem and Solution scenario with conditioning. ‘Accepted’ because there is no choice.
79. The carrot and the stick: ensure the divide between earnings and the cost of purchase of ‘desirables’ widens and so perpetuate the wealth creating machine.
Perpetual motion.
80. Thousands of years ago when man was mystified by what today are regarded mundane phenomena, the concept of a 'God' can be understood. Today such beliefs do not make sense. Explanations of 'fact' seem to be insufficient. A belief still overwhelms established fact.
When today many deny the existence of aliens or life anywhere else in the entire universe yet have 'belief' systems that encapsulate 'fairies at the bottom of the garden', this attitude is without foundation. The logical connection is that 'God' is an alien entity. The religious sector (all faiths) would probably be horrified at such a thought. That defines the attitude that any lifeform however advanced and superior to human life is subordinate even though any real comparison testing is (not yet) possible. Such is the extent of real ignorance, but based on denial.
The size of the universe is not known and cannot be known or even conceived. To deny the existence of any other lifeform, anywhere else except Earth, is like living with your head beneath the sand and claiming to see all. To be unable to see by denying sight and then assert there is nothing to see is supremely absurd and arrogant.
Logically and in total objectivity, such beliefs cannot realistically be denied or accepted. Denial of the unknown is illogical. The concept of religion, but in reverse. Opting in rather than opting out. Open mindedness.
81. This persistent denial of even the possibility of life on other planets (non-terrestrial), in solar systems and galaxies literally countless light years away is small thinking. Extraterrestrial indeed. The solution of pi has never been solved. Billions or trillions of light years is just a beginning. Limitless or only limited by the imagination. To imagine life on Earth is all there is, is simply fantasy. Science fiction. Rather a paradox.
Then to consider the evolution of life along human lines only. Why? Life is only as we perceive it. Many times scientists have been 'surprised' by a new lifeform on Earth or from the depths of the sea. Newly discovered life that has survived for millions of years without Man's knowledge. Almost keeping its existence secret.
Life could co-exist with humanoid life. Maybe the person standing next to you. It is just not recognised. Maybe mountains and trees do have spirits. Any solid, liquid or gas or... imagine. If it can't be explained then it cannot exist. Arrogance continues simply attempting to mask ignorance. Or stupidity. Rejecting possibilities because they don't fit into 'known' dogma.
This demotes the scientist to an ordinary person who simply...
...doesn't know. It creates problems by the nature of being inexplicable. That will never do.
Once to reach a distant coast was considered impossible. Intrepid explorers courageouly discovered new lands. It is now taken for granted that these lands do exist. And can easily be reached. Perhaps reaching another planet outside the solar system is not possible. It probably is impossible with science as it is today. But that does not render it unlikely that such an achievement can never be successful.
One hundred years ago to fly above the ground was unthinkable. Now limited space travel is possible, but progress is not going to happen unless a different form of travel is discovered. The energy, distance and time connection is not going to provide a solution.
82. On a simplistic level, the sudoku (sod uku!) analogy provides a comparison for science. A puzzle can be almost completed, more than 95%, only then to discover an error. Everything to that point seemed to fit, but the solution cannot be achieved. The solution is wrong.
One early mistake is not detected as everything seems OK. In fact, the error is compounded by every subsequent answer being based on the answers already provided. Towards the end, the mistake is realised and a minor error seems to be a major error. It is actually no bigger than the early one.
It is tempting to tinker with corrections, but just creates another unsolvable puzzle. The easy way is to start again.
Science cannot do this. Or won't. Too much knowledge has been uncovered. Much undoubtedly correct and subsequent knowledge is also likely to be right when based on good information. The difficulty is to distinguish the right from the wrong.
It is probable that most scientific knowledge is honest, but knowlege based on incorrect assumptions can only lead to an apparent major conflict.
This also highlights the more serious damage done by cheats.
Even defragmenting a hard drive can illustrate the problem, but in a different sense. There is possibly no original error, but fragmentation causes new information to be placed distant from related parts. This creates disarray, potential errors and a real danger of failure. It certainly slows things down. Rather like politics, which has the ability to slow real progress to a snail's pace. Or even slower. To a standstill. Scattered information becomes more disorganised. Tiding up to relocate the related parts can restore balance.
Unchecked science can create dangerous disarray. But the problem remains: how is such a check performed and against what? The check of new information may be made against wrong earlier information. This compounds the error, but the mistakes remain undetected. Even the method of checking may be based on an error. Misconceived.
83. The Great Climate Change debate (con) is likely to backfire. The West has been 'persuaded' about CO2 and global warming. The true reason is simply to introduce nuclear power under the zero CO2 flag of convenience. China has no interest in the global warming debate and refuses to accept emissions targets as it has no obligations to do so. If 'rich nations' continue to reduce their CO2 emissions, China need do nothing and could become a 'rich nation' too. Balance the opportunity.
This fails to recognise the West's (US) desire to keep other countries down so it can be globally dominant. The way it will backfire is that western civilisations won't play ball by letting China get away with producing unchecked amounts of CO2 when they must reduce their own.
It won't work and so the original conning of their own people will backfire. It has to. Ironic to an extreme. If all other countries were to rise against the China threat then the US need do nothing and would still rise above the rest as the survivor by default.
84. Climate change has its potential advantage. The amount of water globally is constant. Over the 1000s of millennia, this amount has never changed. The distribution as vapour, liquid and solid states alters by the moment, but the total water remains constant. It is effectively removed from the circulation by becoming bound in cement and other materials that 'consume' water. Each growing human in the increasing population removes around 60kg water.
Clouds are airborne water repositories. Rain goes up and it comes down. Clouds move around. The warmer conditions cause more evaporation and rainfall must become more frequent and heavier (perhaps). Warmer water allows more hurricanes and cyclones to form generating more and stronger winds. Clouds disperse greater distances. The whole nature of weather is changing.
Short term, it affects mankind as migration is not a natural characteristic. Long term the Earth will recover and the animal world will continue to evolve. Man is well on his way to extinction. Possibly, sped up by behaviour traits, but inevitable nonetheless.
85. True human nature is only suppressed and just under the surface. Witness the suspension of inhibition. Excessive alcohol consumption. Behaviour suddenly changes as though a switch has been thrown to reveal a more selfish attitude. One that involves only self gratification.
In the 'western world', more and more is the selfish nature becoming more apparent. Other parts of the world too. Greed and self advantage are to a great many the only reason to live. As though it's the only reason for life itself. Man and other life, even pond life, has existed for millions of years. Wealth, in terms of money, is a very recent invention by comparison and is only the medium to manifest a repressed nature.
Millions of years ago, survival would hang on this selfish nature. Nothing much has changed. Possibly those who don't show such greed and selfish characteristics have stronger repression abilities? Possibly an evolutionary trait?
86. Property ladder: one of the most successful conditioning exercises ever devised. Get on the property ladder at any cost. Creates a market for the building industry and is the fuel to increase 'value'. Any building opposition will always be overruled since the construction industry makes so much money. The increase in population even though a major threat to an overstretched planet Earth is allowed to grow even more because the larger consumer market means more wealth for the few. It's all heading towards meltdown. Faster and faster and caused by greed.
The more building, the more water is locked up in cement and mortar. Ultimately more salt manifests as the water is slowly being removed. The growing population could consume this growing surplus, but the encouragement is to reduce consumption. But like attempts to reduce smoking will have those who simply cut down, there is a constant opening of new markets where the dangers are not appreciated. Even if these dangers are known, the overwhelming money making potential is just too great to overlook. Just the potential to make shedloads of money.
China as an example. A massive potential market. A growing population to be made ill in order to make more money then 'fix' the situation with modern (expensive) drugs.
Create the problem then provide the solution. Same as 9/11. To imagine that the idea of Nazism just vanished with the 'end' of WWII is fantasy. The ideologies have evolved, but are little changed in reality. Forcing control through beliefs of the 'masters' onto the 'pawns' of general world society is happening even more today. The government of one country becomes a federal government and individual people-control (majority) is lost to the few (minority). Proportionately, federal control creates a growing majority with a decreasing minority. The European-government is a relatively small step away from a world-government dominated by the US. The illusion demands this. Who would be in control. Like puppet Bush has his masters, it is just unclear who they really are.
Blair won't go away and still 'meddles' as a 'international' envoy. Note the 'international'. British envoy would be too incendiary. The man who started it all sent in to moderate the fires of Hell.
A smaller global population and less competition may enable survival of all, but the 'animal' competition behaviour will end by the competition for diminishing resources as is happening already demonstrated by the quest for oil. The wars being started to justify the 'competitive' aquisition of another's natural resource.
What is happening about Iraqi oil and is it being bought at market prices and revenue going to Iraq or is it being plundered. Blood and oil do not mix unless you add the catalyst called money.
87. Buying profit: any money 'made' (profit) from the sale of a house doesn't create money. It does create the illusion of wealth, but nothing else. The profit that appears to be made is actually a greater potential future debt bought up by someone else. The buyer of that house. The inflation of house 'value' price rises. The seller buys the next property at a higher price so doesn't ever win. Eventually, the estate 'value' is realised upon death, but inheritance tax catches a great deal of this. Today it's 40%. Tomorrow it may be the same or more, but never, never any less.
It happens in everything. Buying a 'valuable' painting that grows in 'value'. The value is purely what someone is prepared to pay for an item. An old bottle of wine (vintage and so valuable) appreciates in the buying and selling game. The bottle has worth only if it remains unopened. The moment it is opened, it becomes worthless. It is simply an old wine. Possibly a sour and disgusting old wine. Maybe not. The value is the perceived quality of the content.
Examine it: acetic acid content could be estimated without opening, but the 'name and vintage' transfer 'value' regardless of quality. Even if it's nearly pure vinegar. Who would determine such quality? Certainly not the possessor. A canny buyer should, but then business would make this a very stupid thing to do. Even though common sense strongly suggests it.
Common sense, business and money do not make a happy trinity.
88. In the city over £14bn in bonuses alone is highly suggestive of the enormous amount of money movement involved. Remember wealth is not created so all this money must be lost or soaked up by every loser in the world. The only single item that is created is a BIGGER and growing debt that has the illusory appearance of success.
How can it be that if everybody has never had it so good there is so much debt globally? Clearly, few actually own the products that get them into debt, but thanks to 'credit' cards, virtual money really exists. An illusory world. The idea of money is an illusion. Most transactions are conducted electronically and the scope for money laundering is huge. Actually not just being cleaned, but disappearing into a pure virtuality.
A counterfeit bank note can be noticed, yet a counterfeit electronic transaction is less easy to detect. Virtual robbery. The proceeds of a virtual theft are simply virtual. The illusion is wealth and ownership. It is only theoretical and needs to be transformed into a physical form (gold) to be of 'real' transactional worth.
The supply of diamonds is leaked out from time-to-time. Probably one of the worlds most abundant natural resources. And best kept secrets: money often engenders deceit. Tremendous heat and pressure are needed to form diamonds and that is what there was when the Earth accreted from space debris.
89. Iraq prepares to allow foreign firms to exploit its oil and gas riches. Iraqi leaders approved a draft law opening the country's oil reserves to foreign investors.
Perhaps they have been guided by an independent US advisory body?
The bill (Bush benchmark for America's continuing commitment to Iraq) came amid intense pressure from British and American diplomats so to enable foreign involvement in the originally nationalised industry. There are promises that oil and gas resources would be "the property of the Iraqi people" and the revenues distributed equally amongst the regions. The process of exploitation of Iraq's fields will be transparent and open. This is all expected to "sail through" parliament. Apparently, the regional government's deals would be modified to comply with the new legislation.
Let the beast go and then try to alter its behaviour?
Iraq's oil reserves are amongst the world's largest and the Americans are still involved. Bush is making noises suggesting a US exit strategy. Bush is sabre rattling at Iran.
Game, set and match on the horizon?
90. 'Terrorists' only include the 'soldiers'. Those suicide bombers who are prepared to 'sacrifice' themselves in the attempt to maximise the death of a perceived enemy based fundamentally on religion. Basically, a corrupt mentality. Madness. To murder on the basis of a variety of belief systems. All unproven. Belief. The ultimate in conspiracy theories? The difference is an unquestioning mind. Acceptance of the dogma without any thought. Just total acceptance.
Who are the real terrorists? The generals who send out their soldiers? The world 'leaders' who take civilisation to Hell and never themselves run any risk. The Bushes, Blairs, Cheneys, Rumsfelds and the list grows in its familiarity. Safe in their bunkers. Protected by 'security' personnel. Never taking a single risk that affects themself.
Even the Patricia Hewitts of the world. Thousands are sacrificed to save their 'job' and 'face'. These individuals are quite obnoxious.
So, who are the real terrorists? Ask yourself the question. And listen objectively to your own (honest) answer. There is no room for subjective belief systems. Think, but don’t live in denial.
91. Fashion designers and size 'zero'. It's quite pathetic. Women are demonstrating themselves as stupid, yet they want to be taken seriously? Falling into the control of some faceless 'fashion' designer house who proclaims the instruction: jump.
The response? How high!
The pursuit of perceived fame and fortune. Only for the few 'models' who push the image. It's self promoting. A viscious cycle. Someone in the background 'designs' and then the image is promoted as though it is good and important. It's just lethal like the pointed-toe (winklepickers - peculiar term) shoes or stiletto heels.
Dangerous and lethal. Sadly, in objectivity, only stupid people fall into the image of 'fashion' and it's simply another form of terrorism. The result? Destruction of the female sex. Effectively it's a form of (single sex) genocide.
92. Notice how under age pregnancy is being made more acceptable? There is rarely any mention of unlawful sex. Conditioning is happening. What used to carry a prison term is now effectively ignored and by the silence even encouraged.
The mixed up thinking is that paedophilia is a wicked crime against children by adults. But when does the rape of a child (still not consensual sex if underage) become simply underage sex. What age does the one move to the other.
Can paedophilia be exercised by a 'young' male?
What constitutes young?
Predatory behaviour of one child on another child?
When does a child become an adult?
When can consent be meaningful or not?
The fact that such questions can be valid does suggest terminal confusion is afoot.
93. It's very depressing to recognise the effort spent in terms of time and money to develop weapons of destruction rather than the same effort to solve mankind's survival.
Developing the thermonuclear weapon that avoids the necessity of a fission explosion (atomic bomb) to initiate detonation. Inertial confinement fusion (ICF) uses a powerful focused laser beam to condense hydrogen to such a density and temperature that it can ignite an explosive fusion reaction.
The specialised knowledge to 'understand' such devices loses sight of how the devices will be used. Almost like capturing the energy in a thunderbolt. This would make a powerful weapon. That would be important. Even if this were possible, the cost outlay would not be entertained by investors, yet the cost involved in nuclear power stations is not an issue as there is an enormous profit in construction alone.
Power is always retained by the State. Control possibilities always take priority over any application, however beneficial to the majority.
Building the beast is one thing, letting it loose is another.
94. Anti-competition laws: does diversification within the same outlet or chain constitute no monopoly, but technically a monopoly within itself?
95. 'Exclusive' to one chain, in fact, defines no competition.
96. Cloning: an apparent 'clone' cannot be a real copy anymore than a duplicate photograph. The actual image may be a perfect copy, but it must be on different (physical) paper. Any individual atom is unique. Any drop of water is unique. Cloning cannot happen. Only the appearance. The illusion of cloning. A human 'clone' could never have cloned thoughts, or it would have to be a soulless machine with no consciousness of its own. A computer.
Like a production vehicle: all the vehicles may appear and perform in an identical way. Nonetheless, they are still different cars.
97. On a simplistic level, the sudoku (soduku!) analogy provides a comparison for science. A puzzle can be almost completed, better than 95%, only then to discover an error. Everything seems to fit, but the solution is wrong.
One early mistake is not detected as everything seems OK. In fact, the error is compounded by every subsequent answer. Towards the end, the mistake is realised and ssems to be a major error. It is actually no bigger than the early one.
It is tempting to tinker with corrections, but just creates another unsolvable puzzle. The easy way is to start again.
Science cannot do this. Or won't. Too much knowledge has been uncovered. Much undoubtedly correct and subsequent knowledge is also likely to be right when based on good information. The difficulty is to distinguish the right from the wrong.
It is probable that most scientific knowledge is honest, but knowlege based on incorrect assumptions can only lead to an apparent major conflict.
This also highlights the more serious damage done by cheats.
Even defragmenting a hard drive can illustrate the problem, but in a different sense. There is possibly no original error, but fragmentation causes new information to be placed distant from related parts. This creates disarray, potential errors and a real danger of failure. It certainly slows things down. Rather like politics, which has the ability to slow real progress to a snail's pace. Or even slower. To a standstill. Scattred information becomes more disorganised. Tiding up to relocate the related parts can restore balance.
Unchecked science can create dangerous disarray. But the problem remains: how is such a check performed and against what? The check of new information may be made against wrong earlier information. This compounds the error, but the mistakes remain undetected.
98. The illusion of 'making man in god's image' can be explained in terms of evolution. In a basic overview, physical human development has not changed much over the thousands of millennia of existence. The growth of the foetus into a form ready for birth has a greater complexity than appears outwardly. Not only the development of the organs themselves, but the timing of growth and the interconnections of these organs. The miles of arteries, veins and even smaller blood vessels all making the correct connection. Errors do happen and organs do malfunction or make wrong connections.
This the information is in the genome. The master map. The plan from which a living being is built. Human, cat, hampster or monkey.
99. The Great Climate Change debate (con) s likely to backfire. The West has been persuaded about CO2 and global warming. The true reason is simply to introduce nuclear power under the zero CO2 flag of convenience. China has no interest in the global warming debate and refuses to accept emissions targets as it has no obligations to do so. If 'rich nations' continue to reduce their CO2 emissions, China need do nothing and become a 'rich nation' too. Balance opportunity.
This fails to recognise the West's (US) desire to keep other countries down so it can be globally dominant. The way it will backfire is that western civilizations won't play ball by letting China get away with producing unchecked amounts of CO2 when they must reduce their own.
It won't work and so the original conning of their own people will backfire. It has to. Ironic to an extreme.
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