Small Bites: 200 - 299
200. The 'controversy' about Channel 4's The Great Global Warming Swindle leads to a potentially dangerous situation and that is that the 'scientfic consensus' is the only opinion that counts. The 'correct' answer. The whole point is that an alternative view was aired that is not approved. That has to be good for balance otherwise dogma sets in. There are a number of other factors that are rarely mentioned and in so doing amounts to (deliberate?) supression of the facts.
The public should only be informed of accepted and approved dogma. Sounds like you will accept that the Earth is the centre of the universe. Or else.
Arrogance has no place in science. An opinion is just that. Based on the same information, ALL THE INFORMATION, a different interpretation of all these facts can produce a different outcome. In the same way that legal argument can be selective in reviewing only favourable 'facts'.
Ignoring or suppressing? Same thing.
The public should be given ALL the facts.
Professor Carl Wunsch was "totally misled" allegedly into denying global warming and that man's CO2 was not to blame. This combination of concepts is designed to trap objective thinking into dogma. Connecting global warming with man's excessive CO2 production.
This totally ignores the evidence of earlier periods of global warming (and cooling) before man started to burn fossil fuels. This doesn't favour the political argument whether it's pure conservation or, more likely, based on money. See distance tax. Alternative views must be disclosed to the public to promote balance.
But scientists cannot be seen to have doubt. Absolute assertion can be the only approach whether it's right or wrong. "It [the programme] was distorted. I'm the one who has been swindled." Comments like that do sound more like a bruised ego talking rather than being objective.
Professor Peter Cox (University of Exeter, Climate System Dynamics) states: "I am hopeful that most of the UK public remain convinced of reality climate change."
The reality of climate change isn't at the centre of the argument, but the causes of the change. Why it is happening.
201. Not caring anything about what someone thinks displays an arrogance. This is not the same as being influenced by reactions. To be resolute and unaffected does show a caring independence of thought.
202. Cameron and the privileged want to exclude everyone else. Remove any competition.
203. Never see oneself as others do and this is a reason why photos always appear strange. This is how we don't see ourself.
204. Acquiring vs acquisitiveness?
205. When talking about an emotive issue, it generally becomes a subjective condition, but written argument allows a more objective view. There is more time for consideration.
"You don't like the way I objectively argue my case and that is your entire subjective objection? My method? Explain your objections, not just that you object. You must provide your reasons. Your arguments to persuade."
206. 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.
207. A radioactive element could be stable in another (alien) environment, and unknown elements may even exist elsewhere that could never survive here. Knowledge is only what has been learned in our environment. What exists somewhere else can only be speculated and the limits of imagination are the only constraints.
An element with an atomic weight of 500 could never exist on Earth, but that desn't mean such an element doeen't exist. Properties of compounds made using unknown elements would not necessarily need to exist on Earth to facilitate an impossible chemical reaction on Earth. The product of such a reaction may survive on Earth, but could not be synthesised on Earth as the catalyst or enzyme doesn't exist. Couldn't exist.
208. 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.
209. One critical point is that sugar is very abundant and so very cheap.(Fuel source.) It is, therefore, simple economics that fermented sugar provides a very cheap synthesis of a very simple compound (ethyl alcohol, ethanol) that can 'make' enormous amounts of revenue (money) through taxation. To even suggest concern over health issues is cynicism to the extreme. The cost to the taxpayer (not the NHS since that is paid for by the taxpayer) is really a MASSIVE red herring. Same as smoking and tobacco. The HUGE revenue defines the inappropriateness of even considering stamping it out.
The issue most people have is pollution of the local breathable atmosphere. Personally, I care not if smokers want to kill themselves. That's their choice, except for that barbed hook called nicotine. The same one that is firmly attached by government and the tax revenue.
If people drink too much then so what? The issue here is that government makes the money and the citizens of primarily that country have to deal with the problems. It's a bonus for a control freak government by 'proving' that a state controlled policing service is needed to keep (all) the citizens under control.
210. Bush and 'consider it' for next +40 years or so. While Rome burns, Nero fiddles. While the Earth burns, Bush considers.
211. I admit to being somewhat offended by the moral high ground claimed by those like Tony Juniper (Friends of the Earth) and that if you (dare)disagree with that opinion, then you are simply wrong and run the risk of ridicule.
The reason I am offended is that I have no doubt that global warming is a reality and that increasing levels of carbon dioxide makes a very powerful argument based on good science.
Man's lifestyle of spend it all (the oil) 'as if there is no tomorrow' is incredibly paradoxical. There won't be a tomorrow.
George Bush and Dick Cheney are oilmen and so ignore everything not connected to oil and money. Think Iraq.
There's none so blind as those that will not see.
Flooding the market with oil, and so petrol, will keep Gordon Brown quiet by slowing rising prices. Of course, the side issue is the somewhat convenient shedloads of profit to be made.
Juniper's outrageous claim is that opposition to the FotE stance defines support for Bush and Brown and all the lunatic ideas they might have. The influential position they have is probably the most damning problem there can be. Whenever money is at stake all else will be staked against it to protect it. The Devil playing poker to protect his filthy lucre.
I and many like me are not sold on the promoted reason that it is purely mankind's behaviour that is totally to blame. I do not accept the blanket argument that this is the sole reason. Taking into account the precessional (wobble) the Earth displays over a 26,000 year period and other facts like the Mini Ice-Age (1645?) are conveniently overlooked. A complex issue reduced to simplistic argument does not engender confidence.
The arguments for (Bush) and against (Juniper) as described are equally political, even though they are poles apart. I am not persuaded by the partly scientific explanation, though mankind's lunatic use of gas, coal and oil products is clearly not going to help a desperate situation.
Development (NOW) of alternative energy sources and definitely NOT NUCLEAR is essential. Long term the oil will run out. And that's not a maybe. The problems to be faced then will be even more desperate than now. No energy provision and the rise in global temperature almost certain to cause mass extinction. And money won't even exist, let alone help: King Midas.
It's living in complete denial now to die while still in denial.
Madness.
Bush, Brown and Cheney and all the ditherers in the effort to keep making money are dekusional and stand the charge of the mass extinction on a global scale. Not genocide, but homosapiencide.
There will be no justice as there will be no living sole on Earth.
212. Cocaine is an entity that is used for the effect it has. It slows down the re-uptake of dopamine so prolonging the 'good feel factor'. As a drug it has no primary physiological effect. It's what it does that causes an effect.
Alcohol is a drug that has a primary physiological effect and a secondary psychological effect. These function together at varying rates dependent on the individual and their physical and emotional states.
213. Abortion: the growing foetus that is destroyed if allowed to live to full term and flourish after birth may have become the next 'Einstein'. Or an inventor who saves the human race or rescues the world from human activity. The child as the product of rape is objctively a mixture of DNA that wouldn't have happened by choice. Subjectively, the child is unwanted by association to the method of conception. Understandable, but the loss to the human race could be immense.
The selection of a mate simply for conception, or use of an anonymous donor, is not much adrift from physical rape except that choice, based only on subjective assessment, is involved.
214. 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.
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. To be unable to see by denying sight and then assert there is nothing to see is supremely absurd.
Logically and in total objectivity, such beliefs cannot realistically be denied or accepted. I do not deny what is not known and so being not deniable. Religion in reverse. Opting in rather than opting out. Open mindedness.
That is my standing.
215. Human genome is similar enough across all humans to build a creature with the same basic structure. One split brain head, two arms legs and all the other organs. Some minor errors happen that lead to major effects.
The subtle effects like different appearance have nothing to do with what can be learnt if the brain itself has no defects. This is within the realm of experience. The acquisition of information.
What determines tge macro features unlike the minor subtle ones?
216. Conscience is within the domain of consciousness itself and is a characteristic of sentience. Awareness. Humans that do not appear to possess a conscience are not in receipt of higher mental powers. A deficiency (of something non-physical) in the brain.
Science needs to identify an area responsible for every function. The overall functioning of lesser intellectual areas that do not require any thought input are easy to find. The areas that deal with more complex thoughts and decisions are less easy and some very subtle concepts like the 'guilty conscience' or 'reward' do not actually exist. They are a spin-off from other areas and not places of their own. The combined effects create the 'spiritual'.
This gives individuality and confers humanity as a characteristic.
217. 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. Even if this were possible, the cost outlay would not be entertained by investors, yet the cost involved in nuclear power stations is not n issue as there is an enormous profit in construction alone.
Building the beast is one thing, letting it loose is another.
218. There is a major assumption that the unknown universe is the same composition to the known universe.
219. Anti-competition laws: does diversification within the same outlet or chain constitute no monopoly, but technically a monopoly within itself?
220. 'Exclusive' to one chain, in fact, defines no competition.
221. Why shouldn't humans be forced into extinction. Only another species on Earth.
222. AgI and current or any previous deluge to initiate disaster. Devil's Advocate entry.
223. 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.
224. 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 or water (could recycle is not allowed to escape) or natural food with micronutrients. Limited and non-sustainable supply. Gravity is zero so artificial gravity is essential. Radiation (solar storms). Overall: impossible.
225. Creating artificial gravity involves centrifugal (outwards from centre) force. Real gravity is the opposite: centripetal (inwards towards centre).
226. Is it another reason fish are good swimmers in water, but humans are not because the medium is the evolution environment.
227. It takes just one sperm to initiate life from some 350 millions. Like the billions of suns in the galaxy and 'known' universe. One is known to be the cause of life.
228. This persistent denial of even the possibility of alien (other) life on planets, in solar systems and galaxies literally countless light years away. 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 under 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. It is just not recognised as being life. 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.
Once to reach a distant coast was considered impossible. Intrepid explorers courageouly discovered new lands. It is now taken for granted that they 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. That does not render it unlikely that such an achievement cannot 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 connction is not going to provide a solution.
229. 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.
230. 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.
231. 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'radioactive' elements.
232. 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.
233. 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.
234. 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 and 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 will change.
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.
235. True human nature is only suppressed and just inder 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 grat 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 syuch greed and selfish characteristics have stronger repression abilities? Possibly an evolutionary trait?
236. 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 the book with a chapter concerning body language: a very instructive book. Or understanding the chapter about liars and cheats.
237. 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.
238. 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 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 have those who cut down or stop, yet constantly new markets are created where the dangers are not appreciated.
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', but more invisibly in a more transparent way.
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.
239. Short-term thinking means do it today and again tomorrow and he next day. Long-term planning is to do something just once.
240. As much as £14m aid for flood responses withdrawn, yet £9.3bn pledged for Olympic Games.
241. The IPCC is nothing more than a lobby group.
242. 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 by someone else. The buyer of that house. The inflation of house 'value' price rises.
It happens in everything. Buying a 'valuable' painting that grows in 'value'. The value is purely what someone is prepared yo 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. The value is the perceived quality of the content.
Examine it: acetic acid content can be estimated without opening, but the 'name and vintage' transfer 'value' regardless of quality. 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.
243. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
Homer Simpson
(Matt Groening)
244. Outsourcing any electronically communicated information presents a major security loophole. The thread of possession is lost (what's this called!!! Chain of?). India, China...
245. What is the difference between a root vegetable and a fruit? Except the obvious one.
246. "It is not in doubt, if (emphasis) the science is right..." Blair.
Not in doubt? But only according to politicians and other quasi or pseudo scientists. Say it enough times and gullible people will believe it is all fact. Even the not so gullible or those who would consider themselves independent (of dogma) thinkers and, at the least, accept the possibility of the unlikely.
247. Alonso: 'by the men who made him'. Rather like a president since it doesn't take into account any ability.
248. TV 'drama' obviously based on current (ongoing) events are attempting to condition and corrupt the public mind by planting suggestions. To allow such broadcasts reveals conspiracy and collusion to pervert the true course of events that are not yet resolved. In any form.
One angle is to capitalise financially: topical interest or a deeper and more sinister attempt at misdirection and cover-up.
Consider.
249. Whatever the cause of melanoma (skin cancer), be it UVA or UVB or UVX, clearly the Sun is involved. The atmosphere does filter out some radiation before it reaches the ground.
This does raise the question of travel by aircraft, however specious it may seem. Some radiation will pass directly through the metal of an airframe and potentially expose anyone on board. The atmosphere is very thin at 5-6 miles high. Cloud does not exist and sunlight is unmodified by any atmosphere.
This, of course, then brings space 'flight' into focus. Any atmosphere protection is non-existent and the craft skin is relatively very thin. Exposure is maximal and damage was apparently zero.
Reconcile.
250. Northern Rock has claimed assets of £16bn(?) and is liable to pay out only up to a maximum of the first £30,000 of savings. An excellent recipe, in principle, to 'accidentally' make ('create') a great deal of money.
A mortgagee should only be liable to repay the first £30,000 in a likewise fashion. Risk goes both ways, but the bank can secure its own unfair one-way advantageriskIf a borrower defaults FOR ANY REASON then they still owe the total in full with penalties, interest etc. Northern Rock won't be required to do likewise.
If 100,000 borrowers (mortgagees) owe £100,000 each, this amounts to £10,000,000,000 (£10bn) lending and remains payable. Assets are far in excess of that (£6bn).
In effect savers are subsidising this bank by having a reduced payout. The bank cannot lose when things go wrong. A borrower in difficulty cannot win when things go pear-shaped.
The trough smells like a urinal in need of flushing.
251. Do cats dream in pictures? They don't have language, but they have visualisation.
252. The Banking World
Jekll Island 1910.
This private island off the coast of Georgia was the setting for the design of a Master Plan and its subsequent implementation. Seven extremely wealthy men met for nine days and created the Federal Reserve System and it became a real entity three years later on 23rd December 1913. By an act of Congress. This day the rot began to set and has forever got worse. Unless you are rich and powerful. Then you'll benefit. Nobody else. It's an exclusive club and its been this way for a great many years.
J.F. Kennedy was a potential problem. For a while. He had actually decided to act on behalf of those who had elected him by ending the Federal Reserve System. The debt currently stands at $8,400,000,000,000 = $8.4trillion and attracts $bns interest ($174bn for the first 3 months 2006) and equates to an annual yield of some $700bn.
The rich bankers get richer and the poor get poorer.
Familiar?
This is a private bank. The US owes this to a privatelyowned bank much like the UK owes a huge debt to the Bank of England. Nothing to do with the UK, but cynically named to suggest a connection with this private bank. So, who owns the US? Or UK? Who controls World affairs?
253. Immigrant inrease allowed so more housing necessary: more money to be made. Very parasitic.
254. The political two or three-horse race of self-proposed 'leaders'. It's as if people need masters. It's an obnoxious ethic. And who selects the choices to be had?
In the two-horse race, if it's not one then it has to be the other and everybody appears to be happy. Possibly, neither is suitable or even able, but by default one will 'win'. Even 'taking a dive' is possible, so the required winner... wins.
In any compromise or 'winner-loser' contest, there will always be resentment.
255. Creating money equates to creating debt. Selling debt perpetuates 'profits'. The concept of interest has created the illusion of perpetual motion: money growth always appears to be going up in 'value' even though it actually goes down in 'worth'.
Knowing the price of something has no connection with knowing that something's value.
256. Government money: no such thing. It is revenue raised through taxes. Simple and when funds get low raise taxes to replace it. It's inflationary.
Construction industry projects that are hugely profitable are subsidised using public money: Ebbsfleet Gateway.
To seriously imagine that money-creation planners care about lives around Ashford being 'disrupted' is amazing. It's the calculated next phase. It's a requirement. Businesses will need to relocate... The extra time and costs from Brussels or Paris are raising an awful lot of profit. For someone. The disruption is irrelevant. The money to be made is prime with the added bonus of the absolute control over peoples' lives.
The Olympic débâcle will create a bigger mess. The nightmare has started and will get worse over the next five years. The designers of the mess are doing a good job. The mess gets into a wonderful disaster.
Getting to London in 20 minutes? If that's the desire which for many, or even most it certainly is not. Relocation of everybody at huge individual cost. Upheavel and disruption maximised.
Inflationary. Big money-making schemes (link to scam). The end-game goal is becoming so very crystal clear and the global effect is to simply increase wealth by the interest on borrowings.
Create the demand by building, building, building and then provide the solution. Moving people further away into undeveloped areas and creating the future need for regeneration. Paris, Disneyland, Avignon. Holiday potential. But these are occasional and not regular: grotesque red herrings.
It's all in the plan.
257. Words in themselves do not stimulate, but the imagary behind them does. Concentration can wander from the path of the words and into the picture.
258. Map of a personal World. The personal view through one's own eyes and thoughts are unique. It can never emulate or allow an appreciation of another's unique view.
Awareness of his avoids dominance.
259. Inflation: the very fact alone of interest being added is inflationary. If £1 is borrowed and 10% interest is added, this increases the debt instantly to £1.10p. This will be compounded. The inceasing debt appears to be partially offset by salaries increasing, theoretically in a roughly parallel direction. Really, this is actually a cause of inflation and ensures the perpetual upward movement of yield, but downward movement of its value. Inflation is illusory as without it there would be no growth and all would remain static. It's part of the conditioning to expect everything to increase. Always and forever.
Growth
If interest was zero, then inflation would cease to increase. Borrow £1 and pay back £1.
260. Voltaire: I may not agree with what you say, but I defend your your right to say it.
261. Always reactive and never proactive with regard to polical activity.
262. How is a generation of Muslims more aware than a non-Muslim simply learning about the same issues.
263. The illusion of virtual money in property and 'raising' capital debt on it. Pure mist. The property isn't worth its value. All fictional money.
264. The failure to backup is more likely to be the reason for 'lost files'. They were lost and this is the pathetic excuse!
265. Controlling the housing market by allowing immigrants to inflate the numbers and the houses needed. Make money!
266. Olympics, Northern Rock... taxpayers funding it all. In excess of £50bn with these two alone. The British public is paying a staggeringly enormous overhead to help ensure the banking system remains viable. The system is only in existence to make itself money. We borrow money from this globalised cartel so it can charge interest. The system is responsible for the debt in the first place. The one the taxpayer finances. A classic case of create the problem (banking system) and provide the solution (taxpayer).
It's an absolute obscenity, yet passes effectively unnoticed.
267. Buying a property at the right time enabled a large profit to be made. But any money made is reinvested in much more expensive property as a result. So, the buyer needs to borrow a large proportion of the purchase price money to enable a move and the upgrade to complete. If some of the cash is banked to realise the 'profit', it reveals the extent of the illusion. The only winners can be the lenders of virtual money like Northern Rock. And winners can also rapidly become losers in such a volatile and unstable market.
268. Psychology can easily be exploited and abused to indoctrinate with a corrupted influence. Great vigilance needs to be exercised to differentiate between the useful and the dangerous. The abuse can originate from 'developing the better person', but this must depend on who defines what a 'better person' may actually be. Motives are critical to understand. Information provided without conditions and influence enable a decision to be made by the individual. The result can only be personal and benefit that individual through understanding. A distorted or selective dissemination of information will benefit only the one doing the corrupting, but at the expense of the individual.
Horoscopes can only logically be regarded as meaningful if any gravitational or electromagnetic influences every human on Earth. The location of any individual at any moment will be different since no two individuals can occupy the same space. Also, unless at some time from the moment of conception (the start of a new life) a switch is turned on, there can be no unique factors. So: location at the start of life is (probably) not involved, but does enter into a set of parameters that continues throughout life.
269. A better mentor attitude, be it a parent or teacher, is to show and describe without telling. Telling is instruction, showing illustrates advice.
270. The interest payable on a virtual loan is real enough and is identical to gambling with nothing. As long as the bet is accepted, the bet stands. Northern Rock lost.
271. State sponsored terrorism. Americans. Overt attack is OK. Secret 'terrorist' attacks not.
272. The illusion of growth - like a sliding door's leading/trailing edges. They move together as one, but if you only see the leading edge it appears like a curtain being drawn. There is no gain as the apparent growth moves, but costs go up in proportion. Share values increase, but value remains stagnant. If the number of shares increases then worth increases though the shares must be bought for it to work. Again, no real nett improvement. It just seems so. To acquire wealth has a cost effect. The money has to come from somewhere as it cannot be created. It is not obvious who will pay: it may be someone or some group. Shareholders will accept the burden in the belief that an investment can grow. Something lives so something somewhere must die.
273. Training is of only one type: correct whether child or adult.
274. Considering visits to Nazi concentration camps is madness. The penitentiary off San Fransisco was unexpectedly dreadfully harrowing.
275. It's not that alcohol is so cheap, but that water is so expensive. The most important ingredient that sustains life.
276. Central heating can remov water from skin producing a cooling effect. A bowl of water may offset water loss from the skin and reduce the cooling effect.
277. Long-wavelength UVA (throughout the year) and shorter-wavelength UVB (causing burning in the summer months) all damage DNA through free radical action.
278. Reading requires brain activity and increased brain blood flow. Imagination requires effort. Watching TV does not require any such interaction.
279. Climate change and drifting boundaries. Credits may get traded, but the weather brings it all back.
280. The disposal of waste packaging is constantly pushed onto the consumer. In many instances stores supply the content in a convenient plastic blister pack. Getting the item out of this packaging can be both dangerous and difficult and leaves sharp-edged boxes to be disposed of. It's not the item numbers, but how they are packaged. The consumer picks up the problem as there is often no other method to buy an item. The seller's convenience becomes the consumer's problem.
281. Winston squaring up to support hybrid embryos. Predictable, but misleading.
282. Growth is the justifaction for inflation abd investors require profit. No profit then no investment so no growth and hence no inflation. Stagnation. So what?
283. Less mortgages and dropping house values.
284. MPs with their hands in the till: no wonder this example fuels crime.
285. The banks charging extortionate fees covering the fact that they wee hrd up yet still lending. Biting off the hand that feeds cannot and will not provide sustainence when asked.
286. Water shortages encouraged by construction and rise in CO2, both solved by GM. Absolute con. Water is being trapped in concrete. Concrete manufacture creates CO2. These two facts considered together paint the true picture. GM is encouraged, but will do nothing to remove the pain and only prolong it.
287. Insurance linked to DVLA road tax. The TV licence is rigorously enforced, so could car insurance.
288. The concept of satiety may satisfy the feelings of hunger, but cannot provide the necessary fuels for survival. Putting the wrong suboptimal mix of fuel in the tank will generate a suboptimal performance. Even a dangerous one if deficient in the requirement.
289. Unavoidable conflict between science and the sincere goal of planetary survival and oil-based greed. Bush is an 'oilman' and knows nothing, but oil. Money is the driving force and represents the 'richest man in the graveyard' mentality. This is where influence lies: money and power define influence. Greed and self-interest got married.
290. Consider: closed events like Wimbledon exclude talent so where this is seen (Olympics) then the real competition can be appreciated. Exclusion will never bring the best to the fore.
291. Mervyn King (Quality Goes Deep) as Chairman of B of E, had accepted a 'miserly' 2.5% pay increase. Wow, but a £900,000 annual pension. Nine individuals in the Monetary Policy Committee sets interest rates by which all lending rates are set. King is one of these nine, of course.
292. The decision to simply disconnect a 'faulty' guage due to the inconvenience caused on purely commercial grounds. The subsequent destruction of the aircraft because the guage revealed a serious fault with an engine is tantamount to corporate mansaughter. Precedent demonstrates this cannot happen in law. Over 150 died as a result and no one will be blamed, even though a single individual would have created the instruction for the disconnection to be made. Death for convenience.
293. Not cost effective life-saving drugs being funded (NICE). This defines a drug as life-saving, yet not enough ill people to make it worthwhile. If one life is saved, it is morally cost-effective.
294. Olympian football? Biggest mistake imaginable.
295. Global foreclosure (£340bn and increasing daily) - Lehman Brothers Bank. Banking Panic. Create the problem provide the solution. Perhaps this should be:
The public should only be informed of accepted and approved dogma. Sounds like you will accept that the Earth is the centre of the universe. Or else.
Arrogance has no place in science. An opinion is just that. Based on the same information, ALL THE INFORMATION, a different interpretation of all these facts can produce a different outcome. In the same way that legal argument can be selective in reviewing only favourable 'facts'.
Ignoring or suppressing? Same thing.
The public should be given ALL the facts.
Professor Carl Wunsch was "totally misled" allegedly into denying global warming and that man's CO2 was not to blame. This combination of concepts is designed to trap objective thinking into dogma. Connecting global warming with man's excessive CO2 production.
This totally ignores the evidence of earlier periods of global warming (and cooling) before man started to burn fossil fuels. This doesn't favour the political argument whether it's pure conservation or, more likely, based on money. See distance tax. Alternative views must be disclosed to the public to promote balance.
But scientists cannot be seen to have doubt. Absolute assertion can be the only approach whether it's right or wrong. "It [the programme] was distorted. I'm the one who has been swindled." Comments like that do sound more like a bruised ego talking rather than being objective.
Professor Peter Cox (University of Exeter, Climate System Dynamics) states: "I am hopeful that most of the UK public remain convinced of reality climate change."
The reality of climate change isn't at the centre of the argument, but the causes of the change. Why it is happening.
201. Not caring anything about what someone thinks displays an arrogance. This is not the same as being influenced by reactions. To be resolute and unaffected does show a caring independence of thought.
202. Cameron and the privileged want to exclude everyone else. Remove any competition.
203. Never see oneself as others do and this is a reason why photos always appear strange. This is how we don't see ourself.
204. Acquiring vs acquisitiveness?
205. When talking about an emotive issue, it generally becomes a subjective condition, but written argument allows a more objective view. There is more time for consideration.
"You don't like the way I objectively argue my case and that is your entire subjective objection? My method? Explain your objections, not just that you object. You must provide your reasons. Your arguments to persuade."
206. 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.
207. A radioactive element could be stable in another (alien) environment, and unknown elements may even exist elsewhere that could never survive here. Knowledge is only what has been learned in our environment. What exists somewhere else can only be speculated and the limits of imagination are the only constraints.
An element with an atomic weight of 500 could never exist on Earth, but that desn't mean such an element doeen't exist. Properties of compounds made using unknown elements would not necessarily need to exist on Earth to facilitate an impossible chemical reaction on Earth. The product of such a reaction may survive on Earth, but could not be synthesised on Earth as the catalyst or enzyme doesn't exist. Couldn't exist.
208. 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.
209. One critical point is that sugar is very abundant and so very cheap.(Fuel source.) It is, therefore, simple economics that fermented sugar provides a very cheap synthesis of a very simple compound (ethyl alcohol, ethanol) that can 'make' enormous amounts of revenue (money) through taxation. To even suggest concern over health issues is cynicism to the extreme. The cost to the taxpayer (not the NHS since that is paid for by the taxpayer) is really a MASSIVE red herring. Same as smoking and tobacco. The HUGE revenue defines the inappropriateness of even considering stamping it out.
The issue most people have is pollution of the local breathable atmosphere. Personally, I care not if smokers want to kill themselves. That's their choice, except for that barbed hook called nicotine. The same one that is firmly attached by government and the tax revenue.
If people drink too much then so what? The issue here is that government makes the money and the citizens of primarily that country have to deal with the problems. It's a bonus for a control freak government by 'proving' that a state controlled policing service is needed to keep (all) the citizens under control.
210. Bush and 'consider it' for next +40 years or so. While Rome burns, Nero fiddles. While the Earth burns, Bush considers.
211. I admit to being somewhat offended by the moral high ground claimed by those like Tony Juniper (Friends of the Earth) and that if you (dare)disagree with that opinion, then you are simply wrong and run the risk of ridicule.
The reason I am offended is that I have no doubt that global warming is a reality and that increasing levels of carbon dioxide makes a very powerful argument based on good science.
Man's lifestyle of spend it all (the oil) 'as if there is no tomorrow' is incredibly paradoxical. There won't be a tomorrow.
George Bush and Dick Cheney are oilmen and so ignore everything not connected to oil and money. Think Iraq.
There's none so blind as those that will not see.
Flooding the market with oil, and so petrol, will keep Gordon Brown quiet by slowing rising prices. Of course, the side issue is the somewhat convenient shedloads of profit to be made.
Juniper's outrageous claim is that opposition to the FotE stance defines support for Bush and Brown and all the lunatic ideas they might have. The influential position they have is probably the most damning problem there can be. Whenever money is at stake all else will be staked against it to protect it. The Devil playing poker to protect his filthy lucre.
I and many like me are not sold on the promoted reason that it is purely mankind's behaviour that is totally to blame. I do not accept the blanket argument that this is the sole reason. Taking into account the precessional (wobble) the Earth displays over a 26,000 year period and other facts like the Mini Ice-Age (1645?) are conveniently overlooked. A complex issue reduced to simplistic argument does not engender confidence.
The arguments for (Bush) and against (Juniper) as described are equally political, even though they are poles apart. I am not persuaded by the partly scientific explanation, though mankind's lunatic use of gas, coal and oil products is clearly not going to help a desperate situation.
Development (NOW) of alternative energy sources and definitely NOT NUCLEAR is essential. Long term the oil will run out. And that's not a maybe. The problems to be faced then will be even more desperate than now. No energy provision and the rise in global temperature almost certain to cause mass extinction. And money won't even exist, let alone help: King Midas.
It's living in complete denial now to die while still in denial.
Madness.
Bush, Brown and Cheney and all the ditherers in the effort to keep making money are dekusional and stand the charge of the mass extinction on a global scale. Not genocide, but homosapiencide.
There will be no justice as there will be no living sole on Earth.
212. Cocaine is an entity that is used for the effect it has. It slows down the re-uptake of dopamine so prolonging the 'good feel factor'. As a drug it has no primary physiological effect. It's what it does that causes an effect.
Alcohol is a drug that has a primary physiological effect and a secondary psychological effect. These function together at varying rates dependent on the individual and their physical and emotional states.
213. Abortion: the growing foetus that is destroyed if allowed to live to full term and flourish after birth may have become the next 'Einstein'. Or an inventor who saves the human race or rescues the world from human activity. The child as the product of rape is objctively a mixture of DNA that wouldn't have happened by choice. Subjectively, the child is unwanted by association to the method of conception. Understandable, but the loss to the human race could be immense.
The selection of a mate simply for conception, or use of an anonymous donor, is not much adrift from physical rape except that choice, based only on subjective assessment, is involved.
214. 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.
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. To be unable to see by denying sight and then assert there is nothing to see is supremely absurd.
Logically and in total objectivity, such beliefs cannot realistically be denied or accepted. I do not deny what is not known and so being not deniable. Religion in reverse. Opting in rather than opting out. Open mindedness.
That is my standing.
215. Human genome is similar enough across all humans to build a creature with the same basic structure. One split brain head, two arms legs and all the other organs. Some minor errors happen that lead to major effects.
The subtle effects like different appearance have nothing to do with what can be learnt if the brain itself has no defects. This is within the realm of experience. The acquisition of information.
What determines tge macro features unlike the minor subtle ones?
216. Conscience is within the domain of consciousness itself and is a characteristic of sentience. Awareness. Humans that do not appear to possess a conscience are not in receipt of higher mental powers. A deficiency (of something non-physical) in the brain.
Science needs to identify an area responsible for every function. The overall functioning of lesser intellectual areas that do not require any thought input are easy to find. The areas that deal with more complex thoughts and decisions are less easy and some very subtle concepts like the 'guilty conscience' or 'reward' do not actually exist. They are a spin-off from other areas and not places of their own. The combined effects create the 'spiritual'.
This gives individuality and confers humanity as a characteristic.
217. 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. Even if this were possible, the cost outlay would not be entertained by investors, yet the cost involved in nuclear power stations is not n issue as there is an enormous profit in construction alone.
Building the beast is one thing, letting it loose is another.
218. There is a major assumption that the unknown universe is the same composition to the known universe.
219. Anti-competition laws: does diversification within the same outlet or chain constitute no monopoly, but technically a monopoly within itself?
220. 'Exclusive' to one chain, in fact, defines no competition.
221. Why shouldn't humans be forced into extinction. Only another species on Earth.
222. AgI and current or any previous deluge to initiate disaster. Devil's Advocate entry.
223. 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.
224. 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 or water (could recycle is not allowed to escape) or natural food with micronutrients. Limited and non-sustainable supply. Gravity is zero so artificial gravity is essential. Radiation (solar storms). Overall: impossible.
225. Creating artificial gravity involves centrifugal (outwards from centre) force. Real gravity is the opposite: centripetal (inwards towards centre).
226. Is it another reason fish are good swimmers in water, but humans are not because the medium is the evolution environment.
227. It takes just one sperm to initiate life from some 350 millions. Like the billions of suns in the galaxy and 'known' universe. One is known to be the cause of life.
228. This persistent denial of even the possibility of alien (other) life on planets, in solar systems and galaxies literally countless light years away. 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 under 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. It is just not recognised as being life. 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.
Once to reach a distant coast was considered impossible. Intrepid explorers courageouly discovered new lands. It is now taken for granted that they 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. That does not render it unlikely that such an achievement cannot 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 connction is not going to provide a solution.
229. 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.
230. 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.
231. 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'radioactive' elements.
232. 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.
233. 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.
234. 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 and 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 will change.
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.
235. True human nature is only suppressed and just inder 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 grat 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 syuch greed and selfish characteristics have stronger repression abilities? Possibly an evolutionary trait?
236. 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 the book with a chapter concerning body language: a very instructive book. Or understanding the chapter about liars and cheats.
237. 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.
238. 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 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 have those who cut down or stop, yet constantly new markets are created where the dangers are not appreciated.
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', but more invisibly in a more transparent way.
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.
239. Short-term thinking means do it today and again tomorrow and he next day. Long-term planning is to do something just once.
240. As much as £14m aid for flood responses withdrawn, yet £9.3bn pledged for Olympic Games.
241. The IPCC is nothing more than a lobby group.
242. 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 by someone else. The buyer of that house. The inflation of house 'value' price rises.
It happens in everything. Buying a 'valuable' painting that grows in 'value'. The value is purely what someone is prepared yo 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. The value is the perceived quality of the content.
Examine it: acetic acid content can be estimated without opening, but the 'name and vintage' transfer 'value' regardless of quality. 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.
243. "Just because I don't care doesn't mean I don't understand."
Homer Simpson
(Matt Groening)
244. Outsourcing any electronically communicated information presents a major security loophole. The thread of possession is lost (what's this called!!! Chain of?). India, China...
245. What is the difference between a root vegetable and a fruit? Except the obvious one.
246. "It is not in doubt, if (emphasis) the science is right..." Blair.
Not in doubt? But only according to politicians and other quasi or pseudo scientists. Say it enough times and gullible people will believe it is all fact. Even the not so gullible or those who would consider themselves independent (of dogma) thinkers and, at the least, accept the possibility of the unlikely.
247. Alonso: 'by the men who made him'. Rather like a president since it doesn't take into account any ability.
248. TV 'drama' obviously based on current (ongoing) events are attempting to condition and corrupt the public mind by planting suggestions. To allow such broadcasts reveals conspiracy and collusion to pervert the true course of events that are not yet resolved. In any form.
One angle is to capitalise financially: topical interest or a deeper and more sinister attempt at misdirection and cover-up.
Consider.
249. Whatever the cause of melanoma (skin cancer), be it UVA or UVB or UVX, clearly the Sun is involved. The atmosphere does filter out some radiation before it reaches the ground.
This does raise the question of travel by aircraft, however specious it may seem. Some radiation will pass directly through the metal of an airframe and potentially expose anyone on board. The atmosphere is very thin at 5-6 miles high. Cloud does not exist and sunlight is unmodified by any atmosphere.
This, of course, then brings space 'flight' into focus. Any atmosphere protection is non-existent and the craft skin is relatively very thin. Exposure is maximal and damage was apparently zero.
Reconcile.
250. Northern Rock has claimed assets of £16bn(?) and is liable to pay out only up to a maximum of the first £30,000 of savings. An excellent recipe, in principle, to 'accidentally' make ('create') a great deal of money.
A mortgagee should only be liable to repay the first £30,000 in a likewise fashion. Risk goes both ways, but the bank can secure its own unfair one-way advantageriskIf a borrower defaults FOR ANY REASON then they still owe the total in full with penalties, interest etc. Northern Rock won't be required to do likewise.
If 100,000 borrowers (mortgagees) owe £100,000 each, this amounts to £10,000,000,000 (£10bn) lending and remains payable. Assets are far in excess of that (£6bn).
In effect savers are subsidising this bank by having a reduced payout. The bank cannot lose when things go wrong. A borrower in difficulty cannot win when things go pear-shaped.
The trough smells like a urinal in need of flushing.
251. Do cats dream in pictures? They don't have language, but they have visualisation.
252. The Banking World
Jekll Island 1910.
This private island off the coast of Georgia was the setting for the design of a Master Plan and its subsequent implementation. Seven extremely wealthy men met for nine days and created the Federal Reserve System and it became a real entity three years later on 23rd December 1913. By an act of Congress. This day the rot began to set and has forever got worse. Unless you are rich and powerful. Then you'll benefit. Nobody else. It's an exclusive club and its been this way for a great many years.
J.F. Kennedy was a potential problem. For a while. He had actually decided to act on behalf of those who had elected him by ending the Federal Reserve System. The debt currently stands at $8,400,000,000,000 = $8.4trillion and attracts $bns interest ($174bn for the first 3 months 2006) and equates to an annual yield of some $700bn.
The rich bankers get richer and the poor get poorer.
Familiar?
This is a private bank. The US owes this to a privatelyowned bank much like the UK owes a huge debt to the Bank of England. Nothing to do with the UK, but cynically named to suggest a connection with this private bank. So, who owns the US? Or UK? Who controls World affairs?
253. Immigrant inrease allowed so more housing necessary: more money to be made. Very parasitic.
254. The political two or three-horse race of self-proposed 'leaders'. It's as if people need masters. It's an obnoxious ethic. And who selects the choices to be had?
In the two-horse race, if it's not one then it has to be the other and everybody appears to be happy. Possibly, neither is suitable or even able, but by default one will 'win'. Even 'taking a dive' is possible, so the required winner... wins.
In any compromise or 'winner-loser' contest, there will always be resentment.
255. Creating money equates to creating debt. Selling debt perpetuates 'profits'. The concept of interest has created the illusion of perpetual motion: money growth always appears to be going up in 'value' even though it actually goes down in 'worth'.
Knowing the price of something has no connection with knowing that something's value.
256. Government money: no such thing. It is revenue raised through taxes. Simple and when funds get low raise taxes to replace it. It's inflationary.
Construction industry projects that are hugely profitable are subsidised using public money: Ebbsfleet Gateway.
To seriously imagine that money-creation planners care about lives around Ashford being 'disrupted' is amazing. It's the calculated next phase. It's a requirement. Businesses will need to relocate... The extra time and costs from Brussels or Paris are raising an awful lot of profit. For someone. The disruption is irrelevant. The money to be made is prime with the added bonus of the absolute control over peoples' lives.
The Olympic débâcle will create a bigger mess. The nightmare has started and will get worse over the next five years. The designers of the mess are doing a good job. The mess gets into a wonderful disaster.
Getting to London in 20 minutes? If that's the desire which for many, or even most it certainly is not. Relocation of everybody at huge individual cost. Upheavel and disruption maximised.
Inflationary. Big money-making schemes (link to scam). The end-game goal is becoming so very crystal clear and the global effect is to simply increase wealth by the interest on borrowings.
Create the demand by building, building, building and then provide the solution. Moving people further away into undeveloped areas and creating the future need for regeneration. Paris, Disneyland, Avignon. Holiday potential. But these are occasional and not regular: grotesque red herrings.
It's all in the plan.
257. Words in themselves do not stimulate, but the imagary behind them does. Concentration can wander from the path of the words and into the picture.
258. Map of a personal World. The personal view through one's own eyes and thoughts are unique. It can never emulate or allow an appreciation of another's unique view.
Awareness of his avoids dominance.
259. Inflation: the very fact alone of interest being added is inflationary. If £1 is borrowed and 10% interest is added, this increases the debt instantly to £1.10p. This will be compounded. The inceasing debt appears to be partially offset by salaries increasing, theoretically in a roughly parallel direction. Really, this is actually a cause of inflation and ensures the perpetual upward movement of yield, but downward movement of its value. Inflation is illusory as without it there would be no growth and all would remain static. It's part of the conditioning to expect everything to increase. Always and forever.
Growth
If interest was zero, then inflation would cease to increase. Borrow £1 and pay back £1.
260. Voltaire: I may not agree with what you say, but I defend your your right to say it.
261. Always reactive and never proactive with regard to polical activity.
262. How is a generation of Muslims more aware than a non-Muslim simply learning about the same issues.
263. The illusion of virtual money in property and 'raising' capital debt on it. Pure mist. The property isn't worth its value. All fictional money.
264. The failure to backup is more likely to be the reason for 'lost files'. They were lost and this is the pathetic excuse!
265. Controlling the housing market by allowing immigrants to inflate the numbers and the houses needed. Make money!
266. Olympics, Northern Rock... taxpayers funding it all. In excess of £50bn with these two alone. The British public is paying a staggeringly enormous overhead to help ensure the banking system remains viable. The system is only in existence to make itself money. We borrow money from this globalised cartel so it can charge interest. The system is responsible for the debt in the first place. The one the taxpayer finances. A classic case of create the problem (banking system) and provide the solution (taxpayer).
It's an absolute obscenity, yet passes effectively unnoticed.
267. Buying a property at the right time enabled a large profit to be made. But any money made is reinvested in much more expensive property as a result. So, the buyer needs to borrow a large proportion of the purchase price money to enable a move and the upgrade to complete. If some of the cash is banked to realise the 'profit', it reveals the extent of the illusion. The only winners can be the lenders of virtual money like Northern Rock. And winners can also rapidly become losers in such a volatile and unstable market.
268. Psychology can easily be exploited and abused to indoctrinate with a corrupted influence. Great vigilance needs to be exercised to differentiate between the useful and the dangerous. The abuse can originate from 'developing the better person', but this must depend on who defines what a 'better person' may actually be. Motives are critical to understand. Information provided without conditions and influence enable a decision to be made by the individual. The result can only be personal and benefit that individual through understanding. A distorted or selective dissemination of information will benefit only the one doing the corrupting, but at the expense of the individual.
Horoscopes can only logically be regarded as meaningful if any gravitational or electromagnetic influences every human on Earth. The location of any individual at any moment will be different since no two individuals can occupy the same space. Also, unless at some time from the moment of conception (the start of a new life) a switch is turned on, there can be no unique factors. So: location at the start of life is (probably) not involved, but does enter into a set of parameters that continues throughout life.
269. A better mentor attitude, be it a parent or teacher, is to show and describe without telling. Telling is instruction, showing illustrates advice.
270. The interest payable on a virtual loan is real enough and is identical to gambling with nothing. As long as the bet is accepted, the bet stands. Northern Rock lost.
271. State sponsored terrorism. Americans. Overt attack is OK. Secret 'terrorist' attacks not.
272. The illusion of growth - like a sliding door's leading/trailing edges. They move together as one, but if you only see the leading edge it appears like a curtain being drawn. There is no gain as the apparent growth moves, but costs go up in proportion. Share values increase, but value remains stagnant. If the number of shares increases then worth increases though the shares must be bought for it to work. Again, no real nett improvement. It just seems so. To acquire wealth has a cost effect. The money has to come from somewhere as it cannot be created. It is not obvious who will pay: it may be someone or some group. Shareholders will accept the burden in the belief that an investment can grow. Something lives so something somewhere must die.
273. Training is of only one type: correct whether child or adult.
274. Considering visits to Nazi concentration camps is madness. The penitentiary off San Fransisco was unexpectedly dreadfully harrowing.
275. It's not that alcohol is so cheap, but that water is so expensive. The most important ingredient that sustains life.
276. Central heating can remov water from skin producing a cooling effect. A bowl of water may offset water loss from the skin and reduce the cooling effect.
277. Long-wavelength UVA (throughout the year) and shorter-wavelength UVB (causing burning in the summer months) all damage DNA through free radical action.
278. Reading requires brain activity and increased brain blood flow. Imagination requires effort. Watching TV does not require any such interaction.
279. Climate change and drifting boundaries. Credits may get traded, but the weather brings it all back.
280. The disposal of waste packaging is constantly pushed onto the consumer. In many instances stores supply the content in a convenient plastic blister pack. Getting the item out of this packaging can be both dangerous and difficult and leaves sharp-edged boxes to be disposed of. It's not the item numbers, but how they are packaged. The consumer picks up the problem as there is often no other method to buy an item. The seller's convenience becomes the consumer's problem.
281. Winston squaring up to support hybrid embryos. Predictable, but misleading.
282. Growth is the justifaction for inflation abd investors require profit. No profit then no investment so no growth and hence no inflation. Stagnation. So what?
283. Less mortgages and dropping house values.
284. MPs with their hands in the till: no wonder this example fuels crime.
285. The banks charging extortionate fees covering the fact that they wee hrd up yet still lending. Biting off the hand that feeds cannot and will not provide sustainence when asked.
286. Water shortages encouraged by construction and rise in CO2, both solved by GM. Absolute con. Water is being trapped in concrete. Concrete manufacture creates CO2. These two facts considered together paint the true picture. GM is encouraged, but will do nothing to remove the pain and only prolong it.
287. Insurance linked to DVLA road tax. The TV licence is rigorously enforced, so could car insurance.
288. The concept of satiety may satisfy the feelings of hunger, but cannot provide the necessary fuels for survival. Putting the wrong suboptimal mix of fuel in the tank will generate a suboptimal performance. Even a dangerous one if deficient in the requirement.
289. Unavoidable conflict between science and the sincere goal of planetary survival and oil-based greed. Bush is an 'oilman' and knows nothing, but oil. Money is the driving force and represents the 'richest man in the graveyard' mentality. This is where influence lies: money and power define influence. Greed and self-interest got married.
290. Consider: closed events like Wimbledon exclude talent so where this is seen (Olympics) then the real competition can be appreciated. Exclusion will never bring the best to the fore.
291. Mervyn King (Quality Goes Deep) as Chairman of B of E, had accepted a 'miserly' 2.5% pay increase. Wow, but a £900,000 annual pension. Nine individuals in the Monetary Policy Committee sets interest rates by which all lending rates are set. King is one of these nine, of course.
292. The decision to simply disconnect a 'faulty' guage due to the inconvenience caused on purely commercial grounds. The subsequent destruction of the aircraft because the guage revealed a serious fault with an engine is tantamount to corporate mansaughter. Precedent demonstrates this cannot happen in law. Over 150 died as a result and no one will be blamed, even though a single individual would have created the instruction for the disconnection to be made. Death for convenience.
293. Not cost effective life-saving drugs being funded (NICE). This defines a drug as life-saving, yet not enough ill people to make it worthwhile. If one life is saved, it is morally cost-effective.
294. Olympian football? Biggest mistake imaginable.
295. Global foreclosure (£340bn and increasing daily) - Lehman Brothers Bank. Banking Panic. Create the problem provide the solution. Perhaps this should be:
Create a solution and then provide the problem?
World Bank creation.
296. Since the 'accident' at 3-Mile Island in 1979, no nuclear power reactor has been built in the USA. Until proposals NOW.
297. Government needs the taxpayer to bankroll projects. The selling of an idea involves spin to make it sound attractive and so acquire support. The pro-active approach defines creating the problem before providing a solution. The one that's sold to the citizens of the country who need rescuing by the protective government. Selective police protection from the system that has been allowed to develop and sustain those activities that harm. A knife is just the tool that is directed by the hand that holds it. Conscious action focuses the act.
298. The warming seas myth: the water of the Atlantic Ocean around Madeira in early October is rather cold. Even small outdoor and unheated swimming pools in constant sunshine for several hours every day remain quite cool. The alleged warming of the seas appears to be conditioning to accept the justifiction of 'paying our way out' from the problem caused by human excess.
299. Genetic errors and increasing population to mask the extensive field trials.
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