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There are no military solutions to ‘environmental insecurity’.

07 Monday Jul 2014

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In the middle of the 20th century, we saw our planet from space for the first time.

From space, we see a small and fragile ball.

Over the course of this century, the relationship between the human world and the planet that sustains it has undergone a profound change.

The traditional forms of national sovereignty raise particular problems in managing the ‘global commons’ and their shared ecosystems – the oceans, outer space, and Antarctica. Many such changes are accompanied by life-threatening hazards.

Our Common Future, does not have to be a prediction of ever-increasing environmental decay, poverty, and hardship in an ever more polluted world among ever decreasing resources but the time has come to take the decisions needed to secure the resources to sustain this and coming generations.

 

This new reality, from which there is no escape, must be recognized – and managed.

There are more hungry people in the world than ever before, and their numbers are increasing. So are the numbers who cannot read or write, the numbers without safe water or safe and sound homes, and the numbers short of wood fuel with which to cook and warm themselves. It is impossible to separate economic development issues from environment issues; many forms of development erode the environmental resources upon which they must be based, and environmental degradation can undermine economic development.

Poverty is a major cause and effect of global environmental problems.

The gap between rich and poor nations is widening – not shrinking – and there is little prospect, given present trends and institutional arrangements, that this process will be reversed.

Humanity’s inability to fit its activities.

There is a growing scientific consensus that species are disappearing at rates never before witnessed on the planet, although there is also controversy over those rates and the risks they entail. Yet there is still time to halt this process

The changes in human attitudes that we call for depend on a vast campaign of education, debate, and public participation. A new international programme for cooperation among largely non-governmental organizations, scientific bodies, and industry groups should therefore be established for this purpose.

By the turn of the century, almost half of humanity will live in cities; the world of the 21st century will be a largely urban world. A safe and sustainable energy pathway is crucial to sustainable development; we have not yet found it

The world manufactures seven times more goods today than it did as recently as 1950. There is only one solution. CAP GREED AT SOURCE.( See previous blogs)

WE HAVE ALL HEARD OF BLACK HOLES BUT HOW ABOUT A DARK POOL

06 Sunday Jul 2014

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Dark Pools are generally operated by banks, they are supposed to be a safe way for institutional investors to execute block trades without worrying that their transactions will move market prices.

Another way to make money out of money just for the sake of profit.

Off-exchange venues have mushroomed in the past several years along with high-frequency trading, a twin development that demands more scrutiny.

Today, more than a third of equity trading in the United States and Europe is done outside the public exchanges, and most major banks run dark pools, including Citigroup, Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, Morgan Stanley and UBS and Barclay’s.

Powerful computers, some housed right next to the machines that drive marketplaces like the New York Stock Exchange, enable high-frequency traders to transmit millions of orders at lightning speed and, their detractors contend, reap billions at everyone else’s expense before the deal is completed.

Powerful algorithms — “algos,” in industry parlance — execute millions of orders a second and scan dozens of public and private marketplaces simultaneously. They can spot trends before other investors can blink, changing orders and strategies within milliseconds.

Those small payments, spread over millions of shares, help high-speed investors profit simply by trading enormous numbers of shares, even if they buy or sell at a modest loss.

High-frequency traders generated about $21 billion in profits last year. But with some 40 percent of stock trades now occurring off-exchange, there is mounting evidence that the shift is obscuring the true prices of stocks, raising the cost of trading and, by extension, damaging investor confidence.

In recent days it has being claimed banks covered up predatory high-speed trading in dark pool operations. Barclays being named as one enriching its pockets at the expense of investors. There is no reason to believe that this kind of wrong doing is limited to Barclay so financial regulators are to impose more transparency which is a complete Jock.

I can hear you saying what is got to do with me. A profit is a Profit whether is honest or not.

However the question must be asked, is there such a thing as an honest profit with the Internet becoming a critical platform for international trade in the 21st Century.

The cross-border flow of information is increasingly providing a vast range of economic opportunities that if realized will drive innovation, invention and productivity growth. At the same time as the significant economic potential of the Internet is beginning to be more fully realized, governments are increasingly intervening in the operation of the Internet in order to address challenges such as from cyber crime and ensuring data privacy.

Over 2.3 billion people have access to the Internet and this figure is expected to grow to five billion by 2020. The Internet has the potential to change how international trade is conducted.

The words ‘to make money’ hold the essence of human morality…Money is the material shape of the principle that men who wish to deal with one another must deal by trade and give value for value. Money is not the tool of the moochers who claim your product by tears, or of the looters who take it from you by force. Money is made possible only by the money. Not an ocean of tears not all the guns in the world can transform those pieces of paper in your wallet into the bread you will need to survive tomorrow …

Your wallet is your statement of hope that somewhere in the world around you there are men who will not default on that moral principle which is the root of money.

What I consider to be evil about Dark Pools, algorithms,  high-frequency trading is that they all generate profits for those that don’t need more profit.

They do so without contributing one iota to the problems facing all of us now and in the future.

This is why me must capture Greed at it source.

To place a 0.05% World Aid Commission on all such transactions over $20,000.  It will cost us nothing but it can only be achieved by all of us demanding it. ( See previous Blogs)

There is no use sitting under your energy-saving light bulb with a shopping bag for life. If you want to do some think spread the word. I can guarantee you it will make you feel a lot better.

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THE FUTURE IS PRICELESS : Look how quickly our world is transforming around us.

03 Thursday Jul 2014

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I found this map posted on the Geospatial World website, reproduced below,  it shows those ares of the planet that have faced significant drought since 1981.

The question is what are we doing about it?

We that is us humans are of course fighting to see who is going to own it.

When in fact the whole lot will be owned by Sovereignty Wealth Funds long before any wars/ conflicts have ended.

However don’t despair.  Whether we are on the threshold of a Golden Age or on the brink of a global catastrophe that will extinguish our civilization is, I believe, not only unknowable, but also undecided.

In the mean time our Politicians often can’t see past the next election. Many business leaders seem focused only on the next quarter. The media spends most of its time on trivia.

Meanwhile, long-term problems and opportunities are ignored.

We can do nothing to change the past, but we have enormous power to shape the future.

Of course, we feel abysmally ignorant of how to proceed, but as we join together, forming networks of human concern about the future, I believe we will find the strength and wisdom needed to create a better future world.

(See previous blogs)

” Foresight is the key to survival in a world of disruptive innovation.

To be efficient and effective in today’s complex, interlinked and fast-changing environment,governments need to redesign their structures and processes to capitalize on a new set of actors and tools.

One way or the other just in case we all awash in sea water with ever-growing amounts of useless data we had best have some global survival action plans ready.

The future is indeed priceless.

It will be filled with digital implants, mind controlled exoskeleton upgrades, age reversal pills, hyper-intelligence brain implants and bionic muscle upgrades all of which are destructive enough to lay waste to global commerce, electrical grids, and civic order around the world.

If they ever did come to pass. All of these technologies will literally make us more Trans-human.

In the near future, smart phones will fade into digital history as the high-resolution smart contact lens and corresponding in-ear audio plugs communicate with our wearable computers or “smart suits.”

The “cloud” will become more intelligent, not just a place to store data.  

Cloud intelligence will evolve into becoming an active resource in our daily lives, providing analysis and contextual advice. All information will be instantaneously available in the augmented visual future.

So once again I ask the question what are we to do in our present world, where distribution of wealth is skewed. Where only 20% of the population enjoy the benefit of life in the developed world. Where the gap between the haves and have-not’s continues to in-crease.  Were Globalization continues to be better tailored to the prospects of the able and the strong, and, although of value to human competition and progress, it serves only that fraction of the world that has revolutionary advances in technology and Capital.

Right now we have a world at the beginning of the 21~~ century divided, not only politically but also between hope and hopelessness.

It’s no wonder in a world seeking prosperity through globalization and revolution that the world’s population who are able to exploit the market and the available re-sources are turning to Sovereignty Wealth Funds SWFs

These are the source of the questions we will have to face in a very complex future.

Are we all going to stand by while the privatization of every think we value is plundered for the sake of profit.

To shape our future in we need to develop a new perspective – one encompassing the economic, political, religious, and cultural dimensions of world affairs.

This can only be done if we place a value on all that is precious to life itself.

We might be able to create our own reality with clusters of information cults. But they if you are lucky enough to be in one of these groups they can only see certain augmented information realities.

Across the globe, religion remains an influential force, one that impacts how we view ourselves, each other, and the world around us.  But all the prayers in the world  will not provide fresh drinking water, clear unpolluted air, energy, food. health, education, and peace. They will not invent new antibiotics, stop mass immigration, or win the lotto.

Nor will they stop by 2050, the scale of extinctions of ocean-dwelling plants and animals that may equal the five great global extinctions of the past 600 million years.

There is only one Solution. We must make greed contribute to all of us.

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