A link to a talk about the nuke disaster in Japan on democracy now:
http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/30/prescription_for_survival_a_debate_on
Possible problems: The entire Northern Hemisphere becomes contaminated and cancer especially lung and skin cancers sky rocket.
Much of Japan is permanently contaminated with radioactivity and over hundreds of years there are many millions of horrendous painful deaths by cancer.
GE and other corporations are of course going to step in and make things right???
Or will the Japanese Nany state once again take care of the corporations disaster?
It's worth it, a few decades of profit for GE and whatever electric co in Japan ran those nukes, and the rest of us get cancer and a polluted environment. Great Deal!
Thursday, March 31, 2011
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
katelepsis
For virtuous behavior to be possible, human beings must not hold any beliefs which are false, for if they did it might be possible for these false beliefs to form the premises of arguments which lead to the conclusion that another, true belief is false. The Stoics agree with Socrates that, if we want to have a really good life, a life of the sort that humans beings are programmed and constructed to have, we have to have knowledge of certain facts, in the first instance of the world around us , we need to be sure that what we think we know we really do know; and we need to have a theory which explains how this is possible. Now the Stoics distinguished between opinion, a variable epistemic state characteristic of human beings who are not sages, and knowledge which only the sage possesses.
Fact: if you close the garage door and sit in the garage running the car you will die.
Opinion: Well I think breathing CO2 is good and healthy, I am going to heat my home out of my cars tailpipe.
Fact: Mercury and other heavy metals are bad for breathing
Opinion: Mercury and heavy metals being a hazard for human health is just nonsense.
Fact: Concentrating too much wealth leads to absolute corruption
Opinion: Wealth in any amount is a good thing as it causes all men to strive for becoming rich.
Fact: Most humans do not strive for wealth and power and are creative and productive by nature
Opinion: Humans are born in Sin and and are intrinsically evil only a harsh brutal competitive world can create any good.
Fact: War is not healthy for humans and other living beings
Opinion: War is a necessary component of a great democracy so long as civilized discourse and deliberation direct the violence towards appropriately considered goals.
Opinion or Fact? The bible is the root of all morality and virtue?
Capitalism is the one and only, the end of history is upon us and as soon as we bring all into the truth of our way the entire world will be as one.
Opinion or Fact? We have killed 50% of the planet, we are killing the Oceans, We have decimated all animal and bird species, We are overheating the planet, we are depleting the soil and will soon reach a limit, overpopulation is going to cause big problems, toxic chemicals are overloading the ecosystem and leading to cancer and other diseases, radiation is not good, abortion is bad, teaching evolution is false science, the bible is literal fact, women are evil, humans are born in original sin, earning 1 million times as much as another is acceptable?
Fact: if you close the garage door and sit in the garage running the car you will die.
Opinion: Well I think breathing CO2 is good and healthy, I am going to heat my home out of my cars tailpipe.
Fact: Mercury and other heavy metals are bad for breathing
Opinion: Mercury and heavy metals being a hazard for human health is just nonsense.
Fact: Concentrating too much wealth leads to absolute corruption
Opinion: Wealth in any amount is a good thing as it causes all men to strive for becoming rich.
Fact: Most humans do not strive for wealth and power and are creative and productive by nature
Opinion: Humans are born in Sin and and are intrinsically evil only a harsh brutal competitive world can create any good.
Fact: War is not healthy for humans and other living beings
Opinion: War is a necessary component of a great democracy so long as civilized discourse and deliberation direct the violence towards appropriately considered goals.
Opinion or Fact? The bible is the root of all morality and virtue?
Capitalism is the one and only, the end of history is upon us and as soon as we bring all into the truth of our way the entire world will be as one.
Opinion or Fact? We have killed 50% of the planet, we are killing the Oceans, We have decimated all animal and bird species, We are overheating the planet, we are depleting the soil and will soon reach a limit, overpopulation is going to cause big problems, toxic chemicals are overloading the ecosystem and leading to cancer and other diseases, radiation is not good, abortion is bad, teaching evolution is false science, the bible is literal fact, women are evil, humans are born in original sin, earning 1 million times as much as another is acceptable?
Friday, March 25, 2011
Deficits: Nany State or Negligent Visionless State?
If you were a corporation who would you want to win the election for an important leadership position?
Option A: A strong bold leader with high intellectual skills.
Option B: An egotistical shallow not very bright person.
Well you probably got it right you would prefer B. And if you could get even 20% dolts elected and in office then you could really gum up the works and get your desired result: Ineffective directionless governance.
It does seem to me that we have about 50% incompetent leadership and the works are getting really seriously jammed with Bull Shit.
Back to Negligence
You will not here the politicians talking about the main problem with the current intention financial economic crises. As it is not a financial crises. It is not a budget crises. It is not a not enough money crises. It is not a crises of there not being enough workers and small business in the United States to fulfill all that this nation needs to be run well and prosperous.
You will not hear them say, Well Cap Pig you know if you have a nation of people making $25 an hour then you have an economy 10 times bigger than it is now and then all the business gets to dig in to all that extra money created. If you create money by paying out a reasonable standard to the disabled and poor elderly and students and the unemployed then that creates a huge cycle of business that keeps on rolling.
You will not hear them say the reason there are all these budget shortfalls is because the average persons wages have fallen for 40 years. Simple logic here, if governments are reliant on taxes on incomes and money spent if you squeeze peoples incomes then simply rationally the income to governments goes down.
If you combine that with cutting taxes on the big business and wealthy who now take more and more of the income due to lower and lower incomes of their minions then again you cut government income.
This is not good. Our government is "Our government" The people of the USA's government. We pay it and support it to do our bidding.
You won't hear them say that either.
You won't hear any top level politicians speaking out loud that the biggest corporations are in fact international corporations not United States Corporations, not in any way having any real concern for the benefit of the USA or it's continuation or survival as a democracy or as a nation of free or prosperous people. You won't hear them say that they are beholden to a new international elite that knows no boundaries and respects no laws and has no limits on it's ability to do whatever it pleases by the very reality of its huge and overwhelming combined resources which dwarf even the United States government.
No you won't hear of the Nanny corporations, or that international corporations have too much power and too much money and get too much of your income in gasoline charges, credit interest, utility bills, the cost of your housing and how much you pay for everything.
No you won't hear from the leadership that your taxes are hugely excessive because the corporations do not employ enough people nor pay the majority of those employed enough so that they can live a decent life as they can foist those expenses off on the government, all the while claiming it is the "Nanny government" instead of the negligent corrupt corporation that has caused the problems.
You won't hear the leaders asking when this so called destructive-creative capitalism will creatively destruct the oil and auto and coal and electric and war machine industries and form up a new industrial paradigm.
NO you won't hear any such from the current leadership, because we do not have a leadership. We have a totalitarian system in which the folks bought and paid for are the house servants of the masters.
And if our elected negligent vision less non leaders are the house servants then you got to figure that the rest of us are just the field slaves.
How long can an entire nation be told that freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and war is peace???
Option A: A strong bold leader with high intellectual skills.
Option B: An egotistical shallow not very bright person.
Well you probably got it right you would prefer B. And if you could get even 20% dolts elected and in office then you could really gum up the works and get your desired result: Ineffective directionless governance.
It does seem to me that we have about 50% incompetent leadership and the works are getting really seriously jammed with Bull Shit.
Back to Negligence
You will not here the politicians talking about the main problem with the current intention financial economic crises. As it is not a financial crises. It is not a budget crises. It is not a not enough money crises. It is not a crises of there not being enough workers and small business in the United States to fulfill all that this nation needs to be run well and prosperous.
You will not hear them say, Well Cap Pig you know if you have a nation of people making $25 an hour then you have an economy 10 times bigger than it is now and then all the business gets to dig in to all that extra money created. If you create money by paying out a reasonable standard to the disabled and poor elderly and students and the unemployed then that creates a huge cycle of business that keeps on rolling.
You will not hear them say the reason there are all these budget shortfalls is because the average persons wages have fallen for 40 years. Simple logic here, if governments are reliant on taxes on incomes and money spent if you squeeze peoples incomes then simply rationally the income to governments goes down.
If you combine that with cutting taxes on the big business and wealthy who now take more and more of the income due to lower and lower incomes of their minions then again you cut government income.
This is not good. Our government is "Our government" The people of the USA's government. We pay it and support it to do our bidding.
You won't hear them say that either.
You won't hear any top level politicians speaking out loud that the biggest corporations are in fact international corporations not United States Corporations, not in any way having any real concern for the benefit of the USA or it's continuation or survival as a democracy or as a nation of free or prosperous people. You won't hear them say that they are beholden to a new international elite that knows no boundaries and respects no laws and has no limits on it's ability to do whatever it pleases by the very reality of its huge and overwhelming combined resources which dwarf even the United States government.
No you won't hear of the Nanny corporations, or that international corporations have too much power and too much money and get too much of your income in gasoline charges, credit interest, utility bills, the cost of your housing and how much you pay for everything.
No you won't hear from the leadership that your taxes are hugely excessive because the corporations do not employ enough people nor pay the majority of those employed enough so that they can live a decent life as they can foist those expenses off on the government, all the while claiming it is the "Nanny government" instead of the negligent corrupt corporation that has caused the problems.
You won't hear the leaders asking when this so called destructive-creative capitalism will creatively destruct the oil and auto and coal and electric and war machine industries and form up a new industrial paradigm.
NO you won't hear any such from the current leadership, because we do not have a leadership. We have a totalitarian system in which the folks bought and paid for are the house servants of the masters.
And if our elected negligent vision less non leaders are the house servants then you got to figure that the rest of us are just the field slaves.
How long can an entire nation be told that freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, and war is peace???
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Libya : Duped Again
Green Phoenix absolutely views war as not green and not sustainable.
This Libya invasion and the civil war there prior to it is most amazing. I guess they figure the US and the general world populations are just suckers to be sold the daily lie, or the daily version from the ministry of truth.
First of all for Libya to go 42 years under the so called tyrant we are now attempting to get rid of or have leave or don't know actually what we want to happen, that tyrant must have had covert support and approval of the USA and the European powers. All the bull and all the state department shenanigans and all the posturing all those years were pure appearance politics for the masses.
What has happened now is that in the civil war in Libya whoever it is the USA was backing is now loosing. Things are not going our way and hence we intervene. Do you really believe that your 100 billion a year secret services and your Trillion Dollar a year Global Military machine could not have any idea what is going on in a small desert dictatorship? Would they lie to us? You bet they would. It is all for "National Security"
"National Security" Defined as, it is a secret because it is so corrupt and against all your values that you would demand that all those involved be imprisoned and all their assets turned over to the people, thus all records must be sealed until everyone involved is dead.
My prediction: Oil will go up in price. Libya will be divided and conquered. Someone will get the tens of billions of dollars of oil wealth squirreled away in western banks, and you can bet it will not be the Libyan people. The new Libya or the new Libya and the other non oil Libya will need to be enslaved to western interests and all the planes and tanks destroyed in our invasion will have to be repurchased from western powers with loans to the Libyan people, profiting the Libyan elite and the Western powers. Western Corporations and western security firms will descend upon Libya and reap huge profits from rebuilding the oil infrastructure and getting all of Libya's Oil out of the ground as expoitativley and profitably as possible.
If the Libyan resistance is strong there may be an Iraq style drawn out terror period inflicted by the US and hundreds of thousands of Libyans will be killed, most of the infrastructure of the nation will be destroyed in the name of depriving the enemy of resources and comforts, and the nations best and brightest will head for the exits and emmigrate to other places.
And the news and the state department will guarantee their man is put in power and that all are told of the great democratic revolution and the success of free market capitalism over tyranny.
And there will be no mention of the huge environmental destruction, the huge releases of toxic chemicals and oil in to the environment, the depleted uranium munitions spread all over the place, the waste of oil and metals and all the things used to get the military there on target. No mention of the lands destroyed and polluted and no mention of the impact once again on an entire nation being terrorized by machines flying through the air and dropping highly environmentally hazardous devices that explode and kill all within range indescriminately of wether they are freind or foe, human or animal or bird or plant.
This Libya invasion and the civil war there prior to it is most amazing. I guess they figure the US and the general world populations are just suckers to be sold the daily lie, or the daily version from the ministry of truth.
First of all for Libya to go 42 years under the so called tyrant we are now attempting to get rid of or have leave or don't know actually what we want to happen, that tyrant must have had covert support and approval of the USA and the European powers. All the bull and all the state department shenanigans and all the posturing all those years were pure appearance politics for the masses.
What has happened now is that in the civil war in Libya whoever it is the USA was backing is now loosing. Things are not going our way and hence we intervene. Do you really believe that your 100 billion a year secret services and your Trillion Dollar a year Global Military machine could not have any idea what is going on in a small desert dictatorship? Would they lie to us? You bet they would. It is all for "National Security"
"National Security" Defined as, it is a secret because it is so corrupt and against all your values that you would demand that all those involved be imprisoned and all their assets turned over to the people, thus all records must be sealed until everyone involved is dead.
My prediction: Oil will go up in price. Libya will be divided and conquered. Someone will get the tens of billions of dollars of oil wealth squirreled away in western banks, and you can bet it will not be the Libyan people. The new Libya or the new Libya and the other non oil Libya will need to be enslaved to western interests and all the planes and tanks destroyed in our invasion will have to be repurchased from western powers with loans to the Libyan people, profiting the Libyan elite and the Western powers. Western Corporations and western security firms will descend upon Libya and reap huge profits from rebuilding the oil infrastructure and getting all of Libya's Oil out of the ground as expoitativley and profitably as possible.
If the Libyan resistance is strong there may be an Iraq style drawn out terror period inflicted by the US and hundreds of thousands of Libyans will be killed, most of the infrastructure of the nation will be destroyed in the name of depriving the enemy of resources and comforts, and the nations best and brightest will head for the exits and emmigrate to other places.
And the news and the state department will guarantee their man is put in power and that all are told of the great democratic revolution and the success of free market capitalism over tyranny.
And there will be no mention of the huge environmental destruction, the huge releases of toxic chemicals and oil in to the environment, the depleted uranium munitions spread all over the place, the waste of oil and metals and all the things used to get the military there on target. No mention of the lands destroyed and polluted and no mention of the impact once again on an entire nation being terrorized by machines flying through the air and dropping highly environmentally hazardous devices that explode and kill all within range indescriminately of wether they are freind or foe, human or animal or bird or plant.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Equinox and Capitalism
A though Experiment for those who might consider human symbols as the driving force of human life.
Imagine that as of March 21st, instead of the days lengthening and spring and then summer coming, the earth for some reason flopped over and reversed it's orientation and the days started getting shorter again? And we were to get a second winter, followed by the seasons resuming normal behavior.
Ah yes, we would face mass starvation as instead of all the worlds farmers planting and harvesting we would have a second winter. Mass livestock die off with no grains, mass collapse of all the food industries with no resupply of all the natural grown inputs to the food industry and civilization would probably collapse All merely from one skip in the seasonal progression of the earth and suns dance in the Heavans.
This thought experiment is to get the thought process going. What are we really dependent on?
What is our real source of Capital?
If the sun did not shine then how much money would it take to re-finance a new one?
Imagine that as of March 21st, instead of the days lengthening and spring and then summer coming, the earth for some reason flopped over and reversed it's orientation and the days started getting shorter again? And we were to get a second winter, followed by the seasons resuming normal behavior.
Ah yes, we would face mass starvation as instead of all the worlds farmers planting and harvesting we would have a second winter. Mass livestock die off with no grains, mass collapse of all the food industries with no resupply of all the natural grown inputs to the food industry and civilization would probably collapse All merely from one skip in the seasonal progression of the earth and suns dance in the Heavans.
This thought experiment is to get the thought process going. What are we really dependent on?
What is our real source of Capital?
If the sun did not shine then how much money would it take to re-finance a new one?
Sunday, March 20, 2011
Automobile Evolution
Here is one of many recent articles on Vehicles that can drive themselves:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-driving-audi-automobile
The car that drives itself I believe will be an important part of sustainable transportation. A world of Nine Billion people driving 5 Billion Cars is certainly an unsustainable and not very aesthetic world in any case.
The solution is that the personal and unique automobile needs to die and the era of the basic utility car needs to be ushered in, along with a global initiative to build an integrated mass transit system.
But to the issue of the car that can drive itself. Instead of having 5 Billion car which sit useless 95% of the time and while in use clog up roads and parking spaces we could have perhaps 500 million utility cars globally.
Instead of owning a car cars would be a utility owned by a service provider. Cars would be capable of driving themselves anywhere any time. And cars would be out fitted with a basic card reader that a user would insert to start up and then insert to record when done. The cars would have several micro cameras for scanning the interior to keep the user responsible for abuse and damages and or leaving the car a mess after use.
In this future when you need a car you make a call, or send a text to the universal car service server and the system searches all the cars in use and not in use and simply has the nearest available unit drive to where you are, or if nearby gives you the walking instructions to get to it. This system could extend to utility vehicles such as pick up trucks and vans for those who need such from time to time but not for business purposes.
This system could work well in High density population areas. And most of us rarely think about it but according to government studies the average car costs you $8000 a year to own and operate over time.
That is like taking a 20 dollar Bill and flushing it down the toilet every day! Whether or not you even use it (the car not the toilet).
Riding mass transit or getting a utility car for perhaps 10 dollars a shot would be a bargain.
Of course this would require that Global-continental-state-local integrated mass transit system that the current power structure abhors even having a discussion about, so that no one needed a car most of the time anyway.
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=self-driving-audi-automobile
The car that drives itself I believe will be an important part of sustainable transportation. A world of Nine Billion people driving 5 Billion Cars is certainly an unsustainable and not very aesthetic world in any case.
The solution is that the personal and unique automobile needs to die and the era of the basic utility car needs to be ushered in, along with a global initiative to build an integrated mass transit system.
But to the issue of the car that can drive itself. Instead of having 5 Billion car which sit useless 95% of the time and while in use clog up roads and parking spaces we could have perhaps 500 million utility cars globally.
Instead of owning a car cars would be a utility owned by a service provider. Cars would be capable of driving themselves anywhere any time. And cars would be out fitted with a basic card reader that a user would insert to start up and then insert to record when done. The cars would have several micro cameras for scanning the interior to keep the user responsible for abuse and damages and or leaving the car a mess after use.
In this future when you need a car you make a call, or send a text to the universal car service server and the system searches all the cars in use and not in use and simply has the nearest available unit drive to where you are, or if nearby gives you the walking instructions to get to it. This system could extend to utility vehicles such as pick up trucks and vans for those who need such from time to time but not for business purposes.
This system could work well in High density population areas. And most of us rarely think about it but according to government studies the average car costs you $8000 a year to own and operate over time.
That is like taking a 20 dollar Bill and flushing it down the toilet every day! Whether or not you even use it (the car not the toilet).
Riding mass transit or getting a utility car for perhaps 10 dollars a shot would be a bargain.
Of course this would require that Global-continental-state-local integrated mass transit system that the current power structure abhors even having a discussion about, so that no one needed a car most of the time anyway.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Nuclear Insanity
Boiling water with radioactive materials to spin steam turbines is kind of a dumb ass way to make a lot of electricity. It does however function as a wonderful way to concentrate huge amounts of capital for the bean counters. Once these water boilers are built using huge government subsidies and gigantic secretive contracts to put together the suppossed high tech steam boilers which create obscene profits for all the big international contractors then the owners want them to operate for 50 or 60 years so as to maximize returns on their illusionary paper investments. You pay for the Nuke, and you pay for all the profits and then you pay for the juice coming out of the thing. Great deal.
A nuke at 10 billion dollars to provide electricity for what? For 10 Billion they could have superinsulated millions of homes and put photovoltaices on the roofs.. But that does not concentrate your paycheck upwards into one place where it can be put to use as proper non earned income.
The current disaster clearly shows the absurdity of building nuclear water boilers. In any long term sustainable world, lets say thinking our civilization were to last 1000 years even, the rate of these things getting hit by disasters is just unacceptable. But we of course are just looking at next quarters earnings not 1000 years out.
So please tell your congress person or senator that you would like to get beyond boiling water with dangerous atomic elements and would much prefer a super insulated house and photovoltaics and smart electric grids and stuff designed to use less electricity and heresy maybe even a reduction in the use of electronic devices and a return to good old stuff made out of things like wood and metal.
Pretty damn simple.
A nuke at 10 billion dollars to provide electricity for what? For 10 Billion they could have superinsulated millions of homes and put photovoltaices on the roofs.. But that does not concentrate your paycheck upwards into one place where it can be put to use as proper non earned income.
The current disaster clearly shows the absurdity of building nuclear water boilers. In any long term sustainable world, lets say thinking our civilization were to last 1000 years even, the rate of these things getting hit by disasters is just unacceptable. But we of course are just looking at next quarters earnings not 1000 years out.
So please tell your congress person or senator that you would like to get beyond boiling water with dangerous atomic elements and would much prefer a super insulated house and photovoltaics and smart electric grids and stuff designed to use less electricity and heresy maybe even a reduction in the use of electronic devices and a return to good old stuff made out of things like wood and metal.
Pretty damn simple.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Free speech = Money New Party "Bills and Ficts"
If the Supreme Court ruling that money equals free speech is to be held on to as one of our Highest ideals of democracy and justice then we should really continue following this way of looking at the world to its highest and best fruition in governance.
If competition in our perfect world of free markets weeds out the weak and rewards the strongest and best who then rise to the top as the current wealthiest 400 American have. If money equals free speech, then we can conclude that these 400 persons best and wisest of us all now have free speech rights equal to 1/2 of the US population.
I think it is time we have a fourth branch of Government. The house of Billionaires, or Bills for short.
And a house of Fictions, with the CEO's of the 50 largest corporations and 10 Largest Banks sitting in its governing council.
These would replace the house and senate as old worn out inefficient institutions of slavery and oppression upon those who have free speech rights. The Bills and the Ficts having done real work in the real world and having attained proof of moral and economic standing by their very stature are the only viable candidates to rule us with wisdom and make proper and right decisions about what the country is going to do.
This would eliminate all the messy politics and whining and snivelling about the Bills and Ficts contolling congress and the senate and they would just take control directly. A much more honest and fulfilling system than the bizzare craziness we now have.
The Bills would write all the law and these would be kept secret. then the Ficts would write up the version to be released to the public which would just be nice politically correct fun ways of bringing the law to the people so that no one need get worried or upset about anything ever again.
If competition in our perfect world of free markets weeds out the weak and rewards the strongest and best who then rise to the top as the current wealthiest 400 American have. If money equals free speech, then we can conclude that these 400 persons best and wisest of us all now have free speech rights equal to 1/2 of the US population.
I think it is time we have a fourth branch of Government. The house of Billionaires, or Bills for short.
And a house of Fictions, with the CEO's of the 50 largest corporations and 10 Largest Banks sitting in its governing council.
These would replace the house and senate as old worn out inefficient institutions of slavery and oppression upon those who have free speech rights. The Bills and the Ficts having done real work in the real world and having attained proof of moral and economic standing by their very stature are the only viable candidates to rule us with wisdom and make proper and right decisions about what the country is going to do.
This would eliminate all the messy politics and whining and snivelling about the Bills and Ficts contolling congress and the senate and they would just take control directly. A much more honest and fulfilling system than the bizzare craziness we now have.
The Bills would write all the law and these would be kept secret. then the Ficts would write up the version to be released to the public which would just be nice politically correct fun ways of bringing the law to the people so that no one need get worried or upset about anything ever again.
Monday, March 7, 2011
Mike Moore at the Wisconsin Capitol
I would have to agree with Mr Moore:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApVdPnyJUu4&feature=related
400 Americans have more wealth than the 155 million 1/2 of the population.
35 largest corporations have more wealth than the entire US government.
Is this acceptable??? Supreme court rules money is free Speech???
Fewer persons than are seated in the US congress have as much wealth as 1/2 of the nation.
35 CEO's can command more resources than the US government.
Money is free speech. Guess who will get their wishes and desires fulfilled.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ApVdPnyJUu4&feature=related
400 Americans have more wealth than the 155 million 1/2 of the population.
35 largest corporations have more wealth than the entire US government.
Is this acceptable??? Supreme court rules money is free Speech???
Fewer persons than are seated in the US congress have as much wealth as 1/2 of the nation.
35 CEO's can command more resources than the US government.
Money is free speech. Guess who will get their wishes and desires fulfilled.
Sunday, March 6, 2011
March 2011 Crises Review
From the MArch 5th Economist Global statistics page.
Crises is over. At least one would conclude that looking at the awesome returns on almost every market globally, the change upward in industrial production etc across the board.
You won't read about it or hear about it as the whole "crises" is one big con job.
The unreported crises is in those numbers:
Commodities are up almost 50% and food as well up 50% year over year.
And most recently not reported yet oil up 25% now probably up 35% year over year.
Also not reported is the growing new explosion of the price for farm land thanks to that explosive growth in food prices..... IN the US we are overpaying for food and manufactured products by 90% due to our hugely exploitative capitalist system of all the money going to those who do nothing. But at some point the rising prices of food and commodities will kick in , I would guess soon especially if current trends keep going another 50% or 100% increase in a year or over a few years will start to become a real big percentage of the cost of production and all the capitalist middle men will then need the increase plus all increases in all their intermediary charges.
Oil is at its peak production and the industry and the pundits will use problems and wars etc to justify the rising cost rather than the real reason that Oil is at its peak and will become more and more valuable and hence more and more of a prize and hence more and more conflict over who gets it. .
Take a look at the March National Geographic page 72. Very nice graphic illustrating how the Global economy was 5.3 Trillion in 1950, and is now $55 Trillion, about Ten times larger than 1950. That is a mind boggling example, as that means the World War Two world was Ten times smaller in terms of stuff humans took out of the natural environment and used and threw away, and that means now today if the world economy grew at lets say 5% for two years, between now and 2013 we would increase the use of resources and increase output by the amount of the entire global economy in 1950!
At some point, like a pond with an infestation of toxic oxygen depleting bacteria in it growing exponentially, one day everthing is perfect, then a small zone is taken over and it grows doubling in size daily, maybe it takes years and years for that infestation to fill up and destroy half the pond and even on that day the day that half the pond is destroyed and half is OK, even on that day things may appear pretty good in the half that is not yet toxic.... But the very next growth period kicks the whole thing over and then the entrie system collapses.
Are we in that pond? The big Blue Marble Pond? And are we the toxic infestation?
Look at the box on page 72 of National Geographic, picture it as a globe, the planet earth, and think about that little box for 1950, and the huge box for 2011, and wonder how much of the Globe would that box fill? Are we half way there yet? Many would say we are past halfway needing 2.5 planet earths to sustain our current over consumption and or totally waste full and inefficient use of everything.
The real crises is our system of finance and banking money and control combined with the materialist rationality of converting all things living and not living to commodities and spread sheet numbers.
The truth is all over the place on FSTV, in books reviewed on CSPAN all the time, in hundreds and thousands of publications and Web PAges. Being brought out by many organizations and advocated even by many in the top echelons of the system. So why is the exact opposite of what needs to be done being done???
Crises is over. At least one would conclude that looking at the awesome returns on almost every market globally, the change upward in industrial production etc across the board.
You won't read about it or hear about it as the whole "crises" is one big con job.
The unreported crises is in those numbers:
Commodities are up almost 50% and food as well up 50% year over year.
And most recently not reported yet oil up 25% now probably up 35% year over year.
Also not reported is the growing new explosion of the price for farm land thanks to that explosive growth in food prices..... IN the US we are overpaying for food and manufactured products by 90% due to our hugely exploitative capitalist system of all the money going to those who do nothing. But at some point the rising prices of food and commodities will kick in , I would guess soon especially if current trends keep going another 50% or 100% increase in a year or over a few years will start to become a real big percentage of the cost of production and all the capitalist middle men will then need the increase plus all increases in all their intermediary charges.
Oil is at its peak production and the industry and the pundits will use problems and wars etc to justify the rising cost rather than the real reason that Oil is at its peak and will become more and more valuable and hence more and more of a prize and hence more and more conflict over who gets it. .
Take a look at the March National Geographic page 72. Very nice graphic illustrating how the Global economy was 5.3 Trillion in 1950, and is now $55 Trillion, about Ten times larger than 1950. That is a mind boggling example, as that means the World War Two world was Ten times smaller in terms of stuff humans took out of the natural environment and used and threw away, and that means now today if the world economy grew at lets say 5% for two years, between now and 2013 we would increase the use of resources and increase output by the amount of the entire global economy in 1950!
At some point, like a pond with an infestation of toxic oxygen depleting bacteria in it growing exponentially, one day everthing is perfect, then a small zone is taken over and it grows doubling in size daily, maybe it takes years and years for that infestation to fill up and destroy half the pond and even on that day the day that half the pond is destroyed and half is OK, even on that day things may appear pretty good in the half that is not yet toxic.... But the very next growth period kicks the whole thing over and then the entrie system collapses.
Are we in that pond? The big Blue Marble Pond? And are we the toxic infestation?
Look at the box on page 72 of National Geographic, picture it as a globe, the planet earth, and think about that little box for 1950, and the huge box for 2011, and wonder how much of the Globe would that box fill? Are we half way there yet? Many would say we are past halfway needing 2.5 planet earths to sustain our current over consumption and or totally waste full and inefficient use of everything.
The real crises is our system of finance and banking money and control combined with the materialist rationality of converting all things living and not living to commodities and spread sheet numbers.
The truth is all over the place on FSTV, in books reviewed on CSPAN all the time, in hundreds and thousands of publications and Web PAges. Being brought out by many organizations and advocated even by many in the top echelons of the system. So why is the exact opposite of what needs to be done being done???
Slow Money
Slow money looks like a good movement towards starting a financial alternative to normal banking and investment which invests in alternative agriculture and green industry and job creation.
http://www.slowmoney.org/
Check it out.
I fear that like many alternative things like the growing microfinance movement getting coopted by the big banks this may turn more and more in to a big business capitalist bean counting enterprise.
Looks great now and could be a big positive force.
http://www.slowmoney.org/
Check it out.
I fear that like many alternative things like the growing microfinance movement getting coopted by the big banks this may turn more and more in to a big business capitalist bean counting enterprise.
Looks great now and could be a big positive force.
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Termination of Professionals and Educated
Check out this story about Lawyers
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?_r=1&hp
Recently the same has been written up about doctors.
And the smart computer that won on Jeapordy.
And smart computers fooling is it a person or computer responding to e-mail competitions.
Next Decade see smart computers replacing:
Lawyers, Legal Assisstants, Doctors, All Medical assisstants, Nurses, Accountants, And becoming teachers.
A Corporate dream world where we no longer need anyone to do anything as 99% of professional and legal and technical services can be done by smart machines with human drones to do the drudge work.
But of course super fast computers and mini micro servos may soon make the ultimate corporat wet dream a fully functional robot that can do anything a human can do except one thing better:
A computer or a robot can be programmed to never ever ask for compensation or benefits.
Maybe the professionals will wake up and get organized in time, but the time is coming where human beings will not be needed to serve the corporation at all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/05/science/05legal.html?_r=1&hp
Recently the same has been written up about doctors.
And the smart computer that won on Jeapordy.
And smart computers fooling is it a person or computer responding to e-mail competitions.
Next Decade see smart computers replacing:
Lawyers, Legal Assisstants, Doctors, All Medical assisstants, Nurses, Accountants, And becoming teachers.
A Corporate dream world where we no longer need anyone to do anything as 99% of professional and legal and technical services can be done by smart machines with human drones to do the drudge work.
But of course super fast computers and mini micro servos may soon make the ultimate corporat wet dream a fully functional robot that can do anything a human can do except one thing better:
A computer or a robot can be programmed to never ever ask for compensation or benefits.
Maybe the professionals will wake up and get organized in time, but the time is coming where human beings will not be needed to serve the corporation at all.
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