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29 Sunday Nov 2015
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THE BEADY EYE FINAL OPEN LETTER TO THE DELEGATES AT THE PARIS CLIMATE CONFERENCE. WHAT WILL IT ACHIEVE?
28 Saturday Nov 2015
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Dear Delegate. 28/November/2015.
I am “cautiously optimistic” about the prospect of a global climate agreement emerging from negotiations in Paris.
AS WE ALL KNOW International deal-making fundamentally hinges on assessments of national self-interest by the parties involved.
This is and will be the reason FOR THE PERSISTENT failure of the global climate change negotiations.
On the other hand it is also the best chance of offering a pathway to THE WORLD for success.
Nations will not be able to agree on who is to blame, on how to allocate emissions, or on projections for the future.
We don’t know how to allocate emissions among nations, the global economy makes this impossible anyway, and the early differentiation between developed and developing economies is no longer valid.
Fortunately, environmental transformation and technological change are not waiting for this paralysis of political agreement to end.
We are in the early stages of a global race to supply a set of new technologies and scalable systems — likely the largest economic opportunity of the 21st century.
I think the time has come for the international community to alter its collective climate strategy, cease the search for the impossible all-encompassing top-down agreement — described unattractively as “burden sharing” — and instead encourage an approach that builds on national self-interest and spurs a “race to the top” in low-carbon energy solutions.
A new agreement should recognize that a simple one-formula-fits-all framework is not feasible:
Instead, a new start is needed, based in part on what has been called “pledge and review”: but this has to be financed fairly by placing a WORLD AID COMMISSION ON GREED. (See previous letters)
Nations may will pledge concrete steps to reduce their carbon emissions and periodically submit their progress to the international community for review so what it will change nothing without the Capitalist World putting it hand in its back pocket.
” The debates that are likely to dominate the Paris talks will not be about emissions but about money.”
Higher emissions between now and 2030 would not inevitably take the world beyond 2 degrees, but they would certainly make the task more expensive and disruptive. It would probably leave the world requiring emissions cuts of more than 5 percent each year after 2030. Many technology analysts say that is next to impossible.
Most of the world’s major nations will pledge to make significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. But serious doubts remain as to whether these promised cuts will be nearly enough to avoid the most severe impacts of climate change.
In Copenhagen in 2009, rich nations agreed to establish a Green Climate Fund to help poorer nations. They promised to collectively put $100 billion annually into the fund beginning in 2020.
Less than a fifth of this has so far been pledged from public funds.
Instead, rich nations are talking increasingly about topping up with private finance. A statement from the G7 leaders summit in Germany in June said that “mobilizing of private sector finance is crucial” to the fund, and would “unlock the required investments in low-carbon technology, as well as in building resilience.
This is pie in the sky.
”African countries, and others with little or no responsibility for climate change, want a separate fund to compensate them for “loss and damage” resulting from climate disasters such as extreme heat, wild weather, floods, and droughts.
This would be a 21st century equivalent of war reparations — for climate crimes rather than war crimes.
There are too many scientific uncertainties about exactly how sensitive the atmosphere is to growing concentrations of greenhouse gases. We could get lucky, but equally there might be tipping points that could suddenly accelerate warming.
Scientists say is probably the last realistic chance for the world to prevent global warming going beyond 2 degrees Celsius.
Some kind of deal will probably be done.
But will it be one more diplomatic fudge or a real triumph for the climate?
Pledged in so far to cut emissions cover more than 65 percent of current global emissions. The pledges vary. Some are absolute targets expressed as tons of carbon dioxide per year in 2030; others are targets measured against business as usual, or promises to reduce emissions for every dollar of economic activity.
Will they finalize and formalize a binding international agreement.
With as many as 40,000 officials and heads of different nations I doubt it.
The economic impact is too great.
We have to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution will take more than an agreement.
Economic self-interest is the key. With a World Aid Commission on all High Frequency Trading, on all Foreign Exchange transaction ( over $20,000) and on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions and new drilling licences we will have a perpetual fund to solve Climate change and all other inequalities in the World.
Even if the major industrialized economies were able to reduce their emissions completely, the prognosis for the earth’s atmosphere would still be grim if resource-rich developing countries do not change course.
Yours Sincerely.
Citizen of the Planet.
THE BEADY EYE ( FINAL INSTALLMENT) ASK’S WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS.
26 Thursday Nov 2015
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We don’t have to be united. We don’t have to agree. We don’t always have to “stand together,” even. If one thing changes everything will change.
We do however have to live on the same planet with conflicts of ideologies political, or religious.
Our painting now has all its elements Money, Religion, the Gun, Humanity, Earth and Woman,and it need of completion, framed and displayed.
Before we go any further if there is an Artist out there and a Sponsor or rich person that wants to do something with this piece of incredible art, fee free to do so on a crediting me with the concept.
We have placed Woman sitting on top of Earth which is represented by a background wash of intense color that shines through a transparent wash of humanity. She is sitting with her back to us. We have then peppered our canvas with the gun, money and religion.
The question is how do we make all the elements come together.
Rather than the usual frame we are going to use a circular frame which will be hung in a large Plexiglas dark glass Pipe. The pipe to represent tunnel vision.
We will fill the pipe with crystal clear waters the source of life and illuminate it with pulsing white light from back-end. This will simply enhances the natural beauty of our painting which is hidden in the transparent wash of humanity.
Light in general changes as it penetrates into the ocean., which is exactly what to achieve with our painting of the world. Placing the viewer in the euphotic zone.
Because all life in the oceans is ultimately dependent upon the light which is selectively scatters and absorbs in water it will act as a filtration of the viewers wavelengths of visible.
Our Pipe will be suspended from the ceiling at the height of an average person.
This will represent Space in which our planet exists. It will also create a clear space for the viewer cutting out any peripheral distractions.
The viewer will be invited to take a set of earphone, because sound is the one element we could not capture on canvas.
The CD will reflect the sounds that are relevant to our elements in the composition.
The “goodness” of sound is a totally scientific and quantifiable thing that allows no room for personal preference, bias, or interpretation. Its heard in a thousand different directions.
There you have it.
I hope the this series of posts has led you through the looms of life that has made our world so difficult to live as one family of humans.
We can only hope with these many-coloured skeins, may we weave the pattern of or spiritual tapestry to give covering for lives yet unborn.
When you don’t know how to do something; where the first place you turn?
The internet Right?
It doesn’t help you truly.
All it takes is for you to imagine the average human being is like you.
If you can do that, you make a better world, and a more difficult one for groups like ISIS to exist in.
The international community is by now quite experienced in pretending that the massive humanitarian crisis exists in some acceptable and remediable form, destined to improve with time.
Insisting on the humanity of the victims is also a political act, and as tragedy is spun into civilisational conflict or an excuse to victimise those who are already victims, it’s a very necessary one.
The world has been encouraged in this dangerously expedient ignorance by the media. The history of misrepresentation is long and ugly.
“Entire generations may be lost” It requires a willful blindness not to see what is occurring.
Don’t close your eyes to the truth. The truth is difficult to accept at
times. This is a humanitarian crisis !! not just caused by Climate
Change but by Greed. (see previous posts)
THE BEADY EYE ( PART FIVE) ASK’S WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS.
25 Wednesday Nov 2015
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In the last post of this series I mentioned that our canvas of the world needed Woman.
Since we men focus on the exterior so much, you would think they are entirely different species. But they are not.
The question is how do we introduce them to our painting.
Inside they couldn’t be any similar.
Both men and women want to be loves and accepted. Both men and women are capable of human tendencies like sympathy and empathy. Both men and women are just as fallible when it comes to greed and vices.
In short, I have no idea what it’s like to be a woman. Every answer will be different.
The belief that women are inferior to men is no more a ‘label’ of inferiority for women it affected their lives and actually made them inferior.
Women presently bear the brunt of economic injustice, violence, poverty and hunger.
The modern global conversation around women’s rights and political participation has been taking place for almost 40 years.
Gender roles have been assigned by society. Examples of this are everywhere.
At the top of industry and government, the faces remain stubbornly male.
You don’t have to believe in patriarchy to realise that the law was made by men and is dominated by men, and that the same goes for parliament. Which means that in all the making of the law, women are largely absent. It is not surprising that the law doesn’t work for women.
More importantly, as a growing world of humanists, we understand that no society can truly be free until every citizen has the same rights; to deny even the least of its members carries the potential to deny all of its members freedom and liberty.
But the question remains do women want absolute parity in all things measurable.
Equality-by-numbers advocates should be thinking about women’s progress in terms of what women show that they want, not what the spreadsheets say they should want.
One way or the other Women are stymied by the need for humanity to reproduce. The ultimate magic trick in the universe.
Being a woman feels like being a human being, with the power to grow another human being inside oneself, and all that entails, including what society thinks you should be doing with that power.
The failure to root out prejudice against women is one of the major barriers to progress and prosperity.
Gender discrimination also breaches international human rights agreements and domestic laws in most countries.
As our canvas is depicting the state of Earth which is mother to us all we will place woman above the grinning men of humanity.
Why?
Because as we know humanity, without woman there would be no humanity. Behind every human is a woman. It is the best feminine qualities which will help us to develop peace on earth. They shared a faith in humanity, whether born of religious conviction or humanism.
In the good fight for peace and reconciliation, we are dependent on persons who set examples, persons who can symbolize what we are seeking and mobilize the best in us.
However fewer than 3 percent of signatories to peace agreements are women. No women have been appointed chief or lead peace mediators in UN-sponsored peace talks.
Is this because woman are primarily ruled by their emotions. It’s not that they lack logic; it’s just that their logic is over-ruled by their emotions.
Human fertility was the highest premium factor in existence
As long as we remain mysterious to ourselves, so will the universe.
We know now that no organization can prosper without tapping into the full mental and emotional potential of both genders.
Recognizing the importance of long-term investments in gender
equality at different stages of the life cycle has never being more important.
This will be the problem with Artificial Intelligence.
There is no magic key to unlocking gender equality in the world of work.
Not only has the United States not ratified the Equal Rights Amendment it is the only developed nation that has not ratified the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).
Countries who ratify the CEDAW are required to enshrine gender equality into their domestic legislation, repeal all discriminatory provisions in their laws, and enact new provisions to guard against discrimination against women.
The only countries in the United Nations who haven’t ratified CEDAW are: Iran, Palau, Somalia, Sudan, South Sudan, Tonga, and the United States.
Every human being must feel the same because we are all the same species ( Homo Sapiens)
So, to put it plainly, women had a place in society that wasn’t just dictated by male prejudice. There is no mystery in being a woman, whatever a human being wants and need that’s exactly what a woman needs too.
The rights of women in particular are being shunned massively throughout the globe. Sadly, in many countries, women are believed to be inferior. The belief that men are superior to women, otherwise known as patriarchy, has to end.
Human rights are defined as rights that are afforded to all human beings universally on the basis of their common humanity.
So as woman is the foundation stone of all humanity we will apply her with a pallet knife in a seated position with her back towards us (so men are not distracted) right in the center of the top of our canvas.
All that is left is to frame our painting and display it.
Adultry is Haram in Islam and I think in most religions as well, but you know what the consequence is? Stone to death ONLY THE WOMEN! This leads to fear of sex, fear or making love, fear of men, fear of public, fear of love itself!
But middle east is life for men, women are odalisques and servants to please men. That’s how they are raised from childhood, teach them to clean the house well, obey their father, obey their husbands, and obey until death.
THE BEADY EYE ( PART FOUR) ASK’S WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS.
23 Monday Nov 2015
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Our painting now has a wash of money, a random application of religion and the Gun with a transparent over wash of humanity.
I think it would be a grave injustice to speak of the human species ( Other than ISIS and their like) as in some sense evil, even though we are destroying the environment so efficiently at the present time.
The nature of humankind is to expand its population, to gain security, to control, to alter. For millions of years that paid off without undue damage.
But then what happened was, as we developed a modern industrial capacity, and then the techno scientific capacity to eliminate entire habitats quickly and efficiently, we succeeded too well and at long last we broke nature. And now, almost too late, we are waking up to the fact that we have overdone it and that we are destroying the very foundation of the environment on which humanity was built.
Its time to add a healthy dollop of Earth to our canvas.
One frequently quoted piece of evidence against a Christian green ethic is the command to our first parents to ‘fill the earth and subdue it’ (Genesis 1:28).
How should we interpret this?
Does this mean we should be thrilled at increasing populations?
Well, to start with, ‘filling’ is not the same as over-filling. We should also remember that it is only in the last 100 years, that over-populating the world has become a real prospect.
In giving us “dominion”, God appointed us as His stewards or care-takers, and will hold us accountable for the way we discharge our responsibility, just like the husband-men and talent-holders in Jesus’ parables (Mat. 25:14-30, Luke. 20:9-16).
It does not matter whether you are a believer or not the ‘State of the Planet’ makes clear that we are unique in terms of our destructive potential, and we alone must change our behavior in response to moral beliefs and challenges.
People with or without religious belief can (and do) recognise and accept that we have a role as Stewards. It is agreed by ALL RELIGIONS that humans are not simply answerable to future generations for their management of nature, but that they are answerable to the one God who created them in his image so that they would manage the earth on his behalf.
The key or ethical argument – an argument of stewardship, an argument of handing on a world as rich as the one we inherited does not need any religious belief.
The rate at which species are becoming extinct as a consequence of human activity is staggering.
The problem is all around us and we are all part of the problem.
The problem now is recognising this fact. It can be the first step in becoming an active part in the solution
Human beings have created derelict industrial sites, open-cast mines, scrap yards and polluted rivers and beaches. Our current actions are producing greater and more rapid changes than ever before.
There is some pallet of colors to pick from. Soil erosion and loss of fertility. Deforestation Water-quality pollution Waste. Generation and global toxification. Human and cultural degradation. Alterations of earth’s energy exchange with the sun – green house gasses keep in too much heat resulting in global warming.
Our life-styles tend to keep us isolated from the awesome power and beauty of creation. Consequently we loose sight of its wonder, and as a result, we have a poorer understanding of the mess we ARE ALL IN.
Most of us are disconnected from our actions and their environmental effects.
We seldom if ever see our food growing, because it comes from shops. Few people who buy petrol from garages have ever seen an oil production platform or refinery. We may claim to deplore environmental damage, but by acquiescing in the system makes us accomplices in the crime.
We can just continue with the inevitable consequences of ignorance and greed, thoughtlessly bending the world to creating more bits of garbage to amuse ourselves…
No matter which course we take knowledge does not lead automatically to action.
The time has come… to destroy those who destroy the earth.
Why is it that the activities of our one species, aiming at no more than living in reasonable comfort and avoiding hunger, should cause such devastation on the rest of the natural world?
The answer is in our back ground wash, and how it has being applied with greed and corruption of power by all societies.
By now we should understand which of humanity’s activities inflict the greatest damage on the diversity of animal and plants of this planet.
But the problem is we are self centered and look like remaining so.
The average American consumes 40 times as much energy as the typical third-world inhabitant and the average European some 20 times as much.
One European uses as much energy as 20 Bangladeshis.
In short, a change to our societies, our economics, and our politics and our world organisations is needed.
Here is a snap shot of what the Paris Climate Change Conference 2015 is up against.
Qatar :
Qatar’s carbon emissions per capita are the highest in the world and three times as high as the United States’. Qatar, gas prices in Kuwait are among the lowest in the world, while GDP is among the highest. This, coupled with a lack of public transit infrastructure, makes road travel the sole means of mobility for both citizens and businesses moving goods. According to the Global Footprint Network, the average Kuwaiti uses 22 times more resources than the country provides per person.
Ireland:
A fuel farm on the outskirts of Dublin, Ireland, grows rapeseed (canola) plants to ultimately make biofuel.
In 2008, however, Ireland’s greenhouse gas emissions per capita were the second highest in the European Union.
Agriculture is the largest source of emissions, but emissions from vehicles have more than doubled since 1998.
However, there have been improvements in recent years: 2009 was the second year in a row in which transport emissions declined, and an increase in renewable sources of energy in the early 2000s reduced emissions from the energy sector by 10 percent in 2009.
The United Arab Emirates:
Despite being the world’s fourth largest oil exporter (behind Saudi Arabia, Russia, and Iran), the United Arab Emirates has publicly pushed for a renewal of the Kyoto protocol (the agreement among industrialized nations to cap emissions), announced a plan to increase renewable energy production, and even launched a 1-gigawatt concentrated solar generation project.
Yet Dubai, a city of 1.5 million people (many of whom are immigrants seeking their fortunes, like the workers pictured above), the world’s largest shopping mall, and an indoor ski resort, currently gets all its energy needs from the burning of natural gas, which is why it ranks third on Global Footprint’s list.
Denmark :
A Danish farmer surveys his Christmas trees shortly before they are sold in December 2008.
Denmark’s carbon emissions are half that of the United States’, but its cropland (the amount of viable land that can be used to produce crops) requirements are much higher. Because so much meat is eaten per capita in Denmark, the country must import a large amount of grain—so much that it would take up 215,000 square feet (2 hectares) of land per person, or 2.5 times more land than the country has.
United States :
New York City twinkles at night, with Fifth Avenue and Broadway clogged with cars.
If everyone lived like the average American, the Earth’s annual production of resources would be depleted by the end of March, the Global Footprint Network’s report said.
Americans’ love of road trips, suspicion of public transit, and growing energy demands fuel the country’s high per-capita carbon emissions.
Belgium :
A Belgian farmer drives his tractor in this undated photo.
Belgium’s biocapacity of cropland is extremely low, so much of its food must be imported. This begins to explain Belgium’s high ranking on Global Footprint’s list.
Australia :
A lumberman cuts down a karri tree, a type of eucalyptus, in Western Australia.
Australians emit 28.1 tons of carbon dioxide equivalent per person, one of the highest per-capita rates in the world. In addition, the country’s demand for wood, food, and pasture uses the equivalent of 753,000 square feet (7 hectares) of land per person, nearly four times greater than what is available on average around the world.
Canada :
Canada’s biocapacity is 14.92 hectares per capita, 5.5 times average global consumption. So if the world’s resources were as abundant everywhere as in Canada, we’d have more than enough to go around.
Even so, Canada’s cities are energy hogs. The country has the seventh highest rate of carbon dioxide emissions per capita. Total greenhouse gas emissions in Canada rose 24 percent between 1990 and 2008.
The Netherlands :
Sheep near a village in the Netherlands will go toward feeding Dutch citizens, yes, but for the most part, the Dutch consume more than they produce.
The small country, with its high population density and relatively little land area for crops and pasture, consumes six times more resources (energy, food, and more) than it is able to produce, and about three times more than the Earth overall is able to sustain.
God only know what China, India, and Russia and the rest of the world would add.
What ever it is we must spread the riches of World more evenly.
This can only be achieved by making Profit for profit sake create a World Aid Fund ( see previous posts) to tackle the Inequalities, Correct the damage to the climate, and protect what is left.
We all know that there is little point to any thing if we are not alive.
Its time to change from selfie square heads, and like button pressers to searchers.
Where there is poverty we must find it. Where there is pain we must find it. Where there is abuse we must find it. Where there is modern day slavery we must find it. Where there is inequality we must find it. Where there is pollution we must find it.
In fact its time to find what is of value to us all. 
Don’t be a square head contribute. All comments are valued.
You might think our canvas is now completed but you be wrong. There is one more color to add and that is Woman.
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22 Sunday Nov 2015
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THE BEADY EYE ( PART THREE) ASK’S WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS.
22 Sunday Nov 2015
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Our painting of the world now has three elements Money, Religion and the Gun, but how do we knit them together into our modern-day canvas.
We need a large brush of Humanity. 
We should endeavor to apply humanity as another wash, somewhat like the magnetic field that surrounds the earth in order to give color to the voices, of Humans.
We are all attracted and attached to one another. Money, Religion and the Gun all melt into the background when we apply Humanity.
The continuing changes in the spread, reception, interaction, sharing, and understanding of global information have altered the process of human and technological communication.
The last few decades have seen a growth in the role of the English language around the world as the lingua franca for economic, scientific, and political exchange.
Since its conception, the Internet has, so it seems,revolutionize the ways of human communication. It is the rise of computer-mediated, communication and the Internet, more than anything else, which has and is reshaping the WORLD.
It enables rich (or technology able) countries to take monopoly over the content generated on the Internet and it is becoming a form of cultural and linguistic imperialism in which western values dominate.
Which is one of the reasons why the world is like this – a Mess.
Our application of Human Language will have to be in a medium that is not permanent as you can only recognize and describe language change once it has occurred. So it will be like the Aurora communicating, untouchable, here to-day gone to-morrow.
The Language of Globalization is a relatively recent term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that result from dramatically increased international trade and cultural exchange.
However, this term as a concept is being use now in a wider way to describe all aspects of global human existence – social, cultural, educational and political.
The Web/Internet is a process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world.
It has come to define a level of economic, social and cultural activities that have outgrown national borders and markets through either industrial combinations and commercial groupings that cross national frontiers, international agreements that reduce the cost of doing business in foreign countries, or cultural influences of certain societies on others.
Globalization offers huge potential profits to companies and nations but has been complicated by widely differing expectations, standards of living, cultures and values, and legal systems as well as unexpected global cause-and-effect linkages.
In it Capitalist form it has led to the formation of terrorists groups, wars, unsuitability and poverty along with inequality, climate change, driven by outrageous individual and corporate Greed.
To put it simply, information technology has been termed as the medium of a new, and fourth revolution in human communication and cognition, matched in significance only by the prior three revolutions of language, writing, and print (Harnad, 1991).
Information technology impact on how people interact, access information, and share information akin to the Bi Sheng revolution about 900 years ago in ancient China (Song Dynasty). This impact is occur much more quickly than anticipated, leaving all of our World Organisations in need of radical overhaul.
Globalization is believed by some to lead to an end of a cultural diversity as it imposes sameness in the countries of the world; where everyone in the world is the same when we are far from it.
Globalization has been viewed primarily as an economic phenomenon, involving the increasing interaction, or integration of national economic systems through the growth in international trade, investment, and capital flow. However, this definition has expanded to include also cross-border social, cultural, political, and technological exchanges between nations and in particular.
It was hoped that electronic used for communication between groups who have no other language in common, would erode Inequality and take millions out of poverty. To most extent it has done this, removing the middle man, opening transparency to remove corruption.
Unfortunately it is driven by global corporations that are being dragged through Social Media to table of responsibility. While the rest of us are being turned into modern-day slaves bound together by Debt Bondage.
Despite all its apparent benefits, globalisation has some downsides which could possibly derail the world. 
Of course years ago none of this mattered as the great unwashed were unaware that they were being ripped off.
Giddens (2000) defined globalization as a separation of space and time, emphasizing that with instantaneous communications, knowledge, and culture could be shared around the world simultaneously.
As Paolillo (1999: 1) puts it, in his introduction to a paper on the virtual speech community: ‘If we are to understand truly how the Internet might shape our language, then it is essential that we seek to understand how different varieties of language are used on the Internet.
About 85% of the world’s important film productions and markets use English and 90% of the published academic articles in several academic fields, such as linguistics, are written in English.
The Internet is bad for the future of many languages but it might be the saving grace of many others. It can also argued that the Internet must evolve its own principles and standards in order to grow and maintain as a newly emerging linguistic medium (Crystal, 2001)
It must not be transformed from a tool for information processing and display for the few to make money but become a free tool for all. 
It’s important to recognize, though, that it’s our nonverbal communication—our facial expressions, gestures, eye contact, posture, and tone of voice—that speak the loudest.
When your nonverbal signals match up with the words you’re saying, they increase trust, clarity, and rapport. When they don’t, they generate tension, mistrust, and confusion.
Perhaps this is the problem with modern-day communication. The way you look at someone can communicate many things, including interest, affection, hostility, or attraction. Eye contact is also important in maintaining the flow of conversation and for gauging the other person’s response.
You need physical space to communicate many different nonverbal messages, including signals of intimacy and affection, aggression or dominance.
Emotional awareness enables you to:
- Accurately read other people, including the emotions they’re feeling and the unspoken messages they’re sending.
- Create trust in relationships by sending nonverbal signals that match up with your words.
- Respond in ways that show others that you understand, notice, and care.
- Know if the relationship is meeting your emotional needs, giving you the option to either repair the relationship or move on.
- Our body language, expressions, and words can sometimes fire different signals all at the same time.
Our task is not to make societies safe for globalization, but to make the global system safe for decent societies.
THE BEADY EYE ASK’S. (PART TWO) WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS.
20 Friday Nov 2015
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As with all paintings it’s beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the artist uses of the colors he sees.
In part one we have applied a wash of Money with a ramble application of religion.
Now its time to dip our brush into more intense colors and forms. Let’s have a dart of “gun culture,” the Gun.
At the risk of turning our picture into naive art as citizens of the world, perhaps we should demand an end to the unimaginable suffering of victims and their families – the maiming and killing by guns of our fellow human beings.
The annual toll from firearms in the US is running at 32,000 deaths and climbing and this is a country at peace.
To absorb the scale of the mayhem, it’s worth trying to guess the death toll of all the wars in American history since the War of Independence began in 1775. The staggering fact, is that 212,994 more Americans lost their lives from firearms in the last 45 years than in all wars involving the US.
In the past decade in which the fear of terror has cost the USA hundreds of billions of dollars in wars, surveillance and intelligence programmes and homeland security. Ten years after 9/11, homeland security spending doubled to $69bn. The total bill since the attacks is more than $649bn.
One more figure.
There have been fewer than 20 terror-related deaths on American soil since 9/11 and about 364,000 deaths caused by privately owned firearms.
If any European nation had such a record and persisted in addressing only the first figure, while ignoring the second, you can bet your last pound that the United States would be warning against travel to that country and no American would set foot in it without body armour.
The historic lunacy of this position in the USA springs from the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, and is derived from English common law and our 1689 Bill of Rights.
The gun lobby is too powerful to challenge and that nothing will ever change. It’s no wonder that it is mostly seen as a matter of personal safety. The AR 15, the gun that Adam Lanza used to murder 20 children in Newtown, is now the most popular rifle in America.
International pressure may be one way of reducing the slaughter over the next generation. This has reached the point where it has ceased to be a domestic issue. The world cannot stand idly by.
You might ask why we did not use Gun as the wash to our painting. The reason is you have to buy a gun.
Our perception of danger is easily distorted by rare events like the Recent Killings in Paris.
You also might say that Guns don’t attack children; psychopaths and sadists and terrorists do.
Weapons may have saved the planet from a future too terrible to imagine.
The one that has and is changing the future is the Kalashnikov AK – 47. The 47 refers to the year of its commission 1947.
Invented by a gifted tank mechanic to save Russia’s Mikhail Kalashnikov, who died in Russia on 23 Dec 2023 aged 94.
Russia not only distributes the Kalashnikov rifles all over the world, but also licensed its production in over 30 other countries, including China, Israel, India, Egypt and Nigeria.
It’s the most effective killing machine in human history – a gun that, on its 62nd birthday, is still killing as many as a quarter of a million people every year, in every corner of the globe.
It is believed that AK-47s have caused more deaths than artillery fire, airstrikes and rocket attacks combined. Responsible for more deaths than any other individual model of weapon in human history.
It has truly changed the course of human history in so many different conflicts that we hardly have time to discuss them.
It’s the tool that lets “freedom fighter” groups – or “terrorist” groups, depending on whose politics you follow – hold off entire armies of well-trained soldiers packing million-dollar weapons systems.
The average global price of the assault rifle was estimated at $534 in 2005, according to Oxford University economist Phillip Killicoat. Though in African countries the price of AK-47 is on average $200 cheaper.
In the U.S. it has jump from $600 to $1,500, as gun owners rush to buy genuine Russian weapons before they disappear from store shelves.
It was the US, which gave the Al Qaeda founder his first AK-47 to fight the Soviets in Afghanistan.
The image of AK-47 appears on the flag of Mozambique as well as coats of arms of Zimbabwe, Burkina Faso (1984-97) and East Timor. The Kalashnikov rifle is also present on the flag of Lebanese militant organization, Hezbollah.
Coins dedicated to Mikhail Kalashnikov and his creation were issued not only in Russia, but also in such a peaceful place as New Zealand, which marked the rifle’s 60th birthday with special two-dollar pieces.
The French newspaper, Liberation, named AK-47 the most important invention of the XX century.
Colombian artist, Cesar Lopez, has transformed a dozen of AK-47s into guitars, with then UN General Secretary, Kofi Annan, getting one of the musical instruments as a gift in 2007.
There are more than a thousand types of dangerous guns in the world.
Our brush is now dripping in violence. However every man has the right to risk his life in order to save it.
Our next color should recognize this fact.
However to turn our painting of the future away from destruction and war to the possibilities of living together in peace we need to find a color that is common to all to wipe the earth terrorists of the face of the planet.
THE BEADY EYE ASK’S: WHY IS THE WORLD LIKE THIS?
19 Thursday Nov 2015
Posted in The Future, The world to day., Where's the Global Outrage.
What lies ahead rests on entire speculation or instinct because we live in a world of great threats that we cannot foresee that is turning everyone to his own way. 
Things never stayed still.
Humans are not limited anymore that much to their instincts, they are able to go beyond using their will power and imagination. However we will always be limited by the technology of our time.
This is a disturbing fact which is not fully understood.
But Something else is going Wrong On The Way To The Future,
AND ITS A dilemma ; Latin for a mess.
So in this post ( Which I am sure will require further investigation) I will try avoiding the obvious biological reasons and historical truths in approaching the explanation.
I will present it more like a painting where you chose the wash to paint the picture on.
These days you can get any opinion you want. The problem is you can
also get any fact you want… In general, we have little confidence in
numbers or statistics. Except in the world of science, where they mean
something precise, they are mostly lies and misunderstandings that you
believe because Goggle says it.
Of course, it’s never that simple.
It should be obvious that we are all far better off today than we were a half-century ago. That this should have been the easiest period in human history in which to make progress and peace.
Never before had there been so many inventors and entrepreneurs. Never before had they so much accumulated science and capital to work with. Never before had there been so many people making things… and so many consumers with money in their pockets to buy them.
And never before were there so many earnest lawmakers, PhD economists, curious researchers, diligent policymakers, and nonprofit-employed do-gooders – millions of people all doing their level best to make us happier, healthier, and richer!
As recent events in Paris highlight, something seems to have gone BADLY wrong on the way to the future… we are still nearer to the animal behavior than to advanced capabilities.
Global peace built on a foundation of nation-states is an oxymoron.
So lets start the painting with the wash of Money and Inequality.
If something grows too big, then it destroys itself from the inside.
To lay claim of bringing tectonic changes to capitalism remains a far cry!
Humans are still in development of their individual personalities.
The truth can be difficult to stomach. Most governments loathe the truth.
Government wants the benefits of what people create, but it doesn’t want anyone to get rich from the creating. Yet economies all over the world are in trouble. Government leaders and economists galore talk about monetary policy as if it could rev up economies that are staggering under excessive taxation, suffocating regulation and massive government spending.
Governments have virtually no concept of taxes being a barrier or hindrance to commercial activity; they simply see them as a way of controlling an economy’s total purchasing power, or “aggregate demand.”
Not to benefit ALL the people.
They pretend that we owe them a portion of our money (our labour, our time) and collect it through taxes and interest on loans and fees. They don’t own the money they only own the currency. They are not unaware of this fact they are simply trying to hide it so that they can justify their claim against our labour which is the only thing of real value in the economy.
When in fact “Economic actors” are the drivers. ( See previous posts-Sovereign Wealth Funds/ High Frequency Trading/ Foreign Exchange transactions.)
Government can either impede their activities or create an environment in which they can rise and flourish. The only single economy is the global economy which is now under attack from Trade Deals.
Free markets are inherently unstable, and capitalists are their own worst enemies. They both see the economy as a machine that should run smoothly. So-called business cycles — booms and busts — irreverent of the consequences to us that make the economy.
Austerity is for losers. There’s always money to wage war and build weapons, indeed, to continue developing weapons, generation after generation after generation. National interests are business interests.
When it comes down to it the economy is a reflection of how people spend their time. Some of their time is dedicated to labouring (creating products and services) while other time is dedicated to eating and sleeping and leisure activities (consuming those products and services).
Money is a value store for the time spent labouring. Currency is how we exchange that value. Money measures wealth; it is not wealth itself. Money reflects what we do in the marketplace.
The problem with our modern economy is that most people (bankers, etc) lead us to believe that currency and money are the same time and they use the terms interchangeably. The banks own the currency but they do not own the money (value store for labour).
Too many countries today formulate policies under a similar assumption.
Economists, bankers and political leaders don’t understand the most basic of subject: ” Money”
When it comes to monetary policy, they have it backwards.
The argument is over eradication of mass poverty. Many are bias to the fact that capitalism has done a great job in lifting billions out of the penniless syndrome. This may be totally or partially true or completely wrong.
Highest GDP and poverty-free are two developments that most like to cheer.
Countries treat their economy as if it is an isolated entity from the prosperity of their people, putting the economy first and not the happiness of the population as a whole.
Just look at the results of Quantitative Easing. (PRIVATELY OWNED Bank’s, with a chairman’s that are appointed and not voted on by, we the people.) They are now printing currency without any legal permission to do so.
When the government does this, it’s called quantitative easing” Although its name sounds official it is NOT part of the government! It is a PRIVATELY OWNED BANK, with a chairman that is appointed and not voted on by, we the people.
Government, not the marketplace, is the real driver of commerce. Money does not controls the economy.
Money as we all know some say is the root of all evil. It certainly has driven such an appetite for profit that is has put our planet into a death spiral of confusion WITH THE HOPE OF technological escape.
The United Nations is that it’s a unity of entities defined by their hatred of one another and committed to the perpetuation of “the scourge of war.
From the very beginning, the principle of nationalism and the United Nations was almost indissolubly linked, both in theory and practice, with the idea of war.
Five centuries of European colonialism and global culture-trashing, and the remaking of the world in the economic interests of competing empires, cannot be undone by a single institution and a cluster of lofty ideals.
Our ‘way of life’, our behavior, our goals and values are making us blind, are confusing us and are driving us more and more into disease and destruction.
Now that we have the wash let’s dip our brush into the color of Religions. The role of religion and religious organizations.
Since the awakening of religion, wars have been fought in the name of different gods and goddesses. When conflicts are couched in religious terms, they become transformed in value conflicts.
By value conflicts I mean they have a tendency to become mutually conclusive or zero-sum issues. They entail strong judgments of what is right and wrong, and parties believe that there cannot be a common ground to resolve their differences except by force or separation.
Obviously religious and spiritual rules made up by humans doesn’t protect humanity from being distinguished. Its more or lees an accident of birth which religion you use. It could be treated it as a marginal variable which would be a mistake so we will apply it to the canvas randomly a dash here and there. Because unless we are born with a piercing eyesight, what lies ahead rests on entire speculation or instinct not religion.
Humans have mostly lost this religious instinct and they are ‘eating’ each other as much as they can and are allowed by others.
There is one part of the population of the world who are overweight and sick because of too much food and an other part who are starving to death. It’s no wonder we have terrorists in all forms.
On one side we have freedom and possibility to make decisions, on the other side they are losing the protection which was given through the instinct that life is sanctimonious.
Religion gives dignity to death.
The West is characterized by a desecularisation of politics and a depolitisation of religion. In the Communist bloc, religion was officially stigmatized as the opium of the people and repressed.
One could start by investigating systematically which positive or negative roles religion plays now.
It should, however, be remembered that it was not religion that has made the twentieth the most bloody century. Lenin, Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse-tung, Pol Pot and their apprentices in Rwanda maimed and murdered millions of people on an unprecedented scale, in the name of a policy which rejected religious.
It is therefore important to develop a more profound understanding of the basic assumption underlying the different religions and the ways in which people adhering to them see their interests.
It would also be very useful to identify elements of communality between the major religions.
They all could hold a world meeting and at least agreed to differ without the need to inflict Crucifixion on the unborn. The major challenge of religious organizations remains to end existing and prevent new religious conflicts.
Civilizations are differentiated from each other by history, language, culture, tradition and, most importantly, religion. There are no ‘ pure ‘ religious conflicts. People can be empowered by providing them with theological support against injustice. More than two-thirds of the world population belongs to a religion.
Religious organizations have the capacity to mobilize people and to cultivate attitudes of forgiveness, conciliation. They can do a great deal to prevent dehumanization. They have the capacity to motivate and mobilize people for a more peaceful world. Religions and religious organisations have an untapped and under-used integrative power potential.
To assess this potential and to understand which factors enhance or inhibit joint peace ventures between the Christian religions, but also between the prophetic religions (Judaism, Christianity, Islam), the Indian religions (Hinduism and Buddhism) and the Chinese wisdom religions, is an urgent research challenge.
Unfortunately attention is now paid to the militant forms of religious fundamentalism as a threat to peace.
How can we find a way out of the mess?
It is only us, the people, who can change the course of action.
The world cannot survive without a new global ethic, and religions play a major role, as parties in violent conflicts, as passive bystanders and as active peace-makers and peace-builders.
Hans Küngs’ thesis that there cannot be world peace without a religious peace is right.
Our Canvas is now ready for some additional work so if you have any suggestions my paint brush is ready.
The truth in this when you believe “the media”, the unsavory courtisane of “the politics”, is playing to create division, anger and hate. It is their game and they make money from this.
Here below is a woman that talks sense as to what we are in such a mess.
THE BEADY EYE SAY’S : Most violence remains unfathomable.
17 Tuesday Nov 2015
In light of the recent events in Paris this post is sure to touch on some
very raw nerves but if we are to honor those who lost their lives
we must come to some understanding of the horrification or
glorification of killing other than the frenzy of fear now being created
by the media.
Television is an energy drain and a large source of fear and negativity for many. Watching violence, diminishes the harshness and reality of these acts, by gradually numbing us. Along with Social media it is one of the fastest ways to disconnect yourself from the world.
Most people just want to live their lives in peace.
however this is completely undermined by modern day, which would make you think that most people are violent and destructive.
Violence on television is however part of our societal experience.
The number of murders seen on TV by the time an average child finishes elementary school: 8,000. The number of violent acts seen on TV by age 18: 200,000
Most of us will never engage in an act of extreme brutality.
We will never shoot, stab, or beat someone to death. We will never rape another human being or set them on fire. We will never strap a bomb to our chests and detonate ourselves in a crowded café.
And so, when faced with these seemingly senseless acts, we find ourselves at a loss.
At the same time for most of us in the world we have become so use to killing it means little or nothing to us unless it directly affects us.
If you stop and ask yourself why are we so prone to kill this is a subject that has been intensely debated for centuries, probably because it says so much about who we are and whether we can justify war and other collective violence.
If we really want to solve the problem of violence, there is nothing for it but to risk a kind of understanding that threatens our own values, our own way of life. We have to gaze into an abyss.
People are violent because they feel they must be; because they feel that their violence is obligatory.
Usually when someone is murdered, people expect the murderer to feel culpable. This though, is not the case in war. When in war, a soldier is taught that the enemy deserves to die, for no other reason than that they are the nation’s enemy. They know that they are harming fully human beings. Nonetheless, they believe they should.
Has warfare been handed down to us through millions of years of evolution?
Is it part of who we are as a species?
Is warfare is rooted in evolution?
At the heart of these question is whether humans have a natural capacity to kill other humans. Some social scientists have concluded that evolution has in fact left us with this unfortunate ability.
Luckily there is within most men an intense resistance to killing their fellow-man.
Violence does not stem from a psychopathic lack of morality. Quite the reverse: it comes from the exercise of perceived moral rights and obligations.
Many people assume that soldiers in a firefight instinctively respond to enemy fire by shooting back, and that soldiers in a kill-or-be-killed situation will choose to kill. But informal interviews conducted with thousands of American combat soldiers during World War II by army historian S.L.A. Marshall revealed that as many as 75% of soldiers never fired their weapons during combat.
Very few people would seek out an opportunity to kill others.
At the same time, you may find it hard to believe that it is sometimes impossible for soldiers to kill others even when their own lives are at risk.
Throughout history and around the world people have come up with ways to overcome an aversion to killing, such as dehumanizing the victim, placing distance between the killer and the victim, and using drugs or loud music to induce a trance-like state in a killer. This trait would have been amplified and passed down through the generations until it was eventually inherited by modern humans, who presumably took this predisposition and ran with it, inventing more and more efficient ways to kill each other.
Aftermath of World War II, the U.S. military embarked on a campaign to more effectively prepare soldiers for combat by employing realistic training exercises. New recruits began to practice shooting at pop-up, human-shaped targets rather than the traditional, stationary bull’s-eyes. More and more elaborate and realistic combat simulation exercises and ’war games’ were implemented.
The point of this new training was to make killing an automatic response under combat conditions. And it worked. Combatants in institutional wars do not fight primarily because they are aggressive. Humans excel at overcoming our biological limitations using technological innovation.
All terrorism and war co-evolved, promoting conflict between groups and greater harmony within them.
There is no morality in war.
The original founders of the religions were the human incarnations of the same God like Krishna, Jesus, Mohammed, Buddha etc.
Every religion says that their God only created this entire earth or this entire humanity. Unfortunately, there is only one earth and this proves that there is only one God mentioned by all the religions.
Along came those religions about 4000 years ago and endless war! in the name of religion (so they can not be religions or spiritual they can not be So new armies formed called Religion?.
Since God is one and the same, there cannot be contradicting concepts between the religions. But we find some contradictions and people are divided based on these contradictions. This division is leading to quarrels and finally killing each other. These contradictions cannot be from God because there is only one God as said above.
The Q`ran says that you should protect even the follower of other religion and convey the message of Allah to him. It is left to him to follow or not.
The same God exists in different forms in different religions.
Unfortunately we are the only living species that can reason and as a result, we realized that the only way to have things your way is by domination therefore, we divide and conquer. And as we become more powerful, we distort things. We twist the truth to fit our ulterior motive. And to convince the mass to adopt your belief in the name of God.
Unfortunately, it does not follow that every problem comes with its own prepackaged solution.
War is vague and illogical because it forces humans into extreme situations that have no obvious solutions. In a war, you kill someone and even if you win, you lose. The parts that are left out are the tragedies, and the permanent scars the war left.
And yet despite this apparent aversion to killing, we still manage to kill each other with alarming frequency.
Fortuitously this aversion to killing exists, and it reassures us that warfare is not an inescapable part of human life, and gives us hope that one day we might stop fighting wars.
Killing isn’t something that comes naturally to people.
Funny that people decry killing when it is because of their own demands that make it happen.
How can this be?“
Is that we’re simply too smart for our own good with propaganda to brainwash the masses into accepting this bloodshed day after day.
I’m interested how this applies to terrorists.
So would it be social engineering like “dehumanizing America, Israel, the West” or the cult of violence in many of those societies, plus enticements of financial rewards for the family of the suicide bombers in question that would help over come terrorists from their natural inclination not to kill. Most terrorists are paid mercenaries.
It isn’t easy to change a culture of violence.
You have to give people the structural, economic, technological and political means to regulate their relationships peacefully.
Legal sanctions are insufficient on their own.
Critically, the message has to come from respected people within the killer’s own community. Their own ideas about right and wrong matter most;
The ideas of those they care about and respect matter more.
Only when violence in any relationship is seen as a violation of every relationship will war diminish. Once everyone, everywhere, truly believes that violence is wrong, it will end.
The danger for Europe as a result of the horrific loss of life in Paris is not declaring war on terrorism but shutting down its borders. Open Borders is a declaration of intent that countries share goods and wealth and if they don’t they should. If all countries helped each other I think there would be no need for war.
This would separate out those who wish for war due to some perversion. If dangerous people can be motivated by genuine moral beliefs, we face a troubling dimension to morality.
If Paris is to teach us anything it is that there is a cost to modern-day warfare, that people will kill each other quite deliberately not just with particularly technologically advanced, like drones.
Our ancestors would have carried out deadly attacks only when they severely outnumbered their victims and not with low-cost attacks on unsuspecting neighbors.
When you declare war like Mr Holland and before him Mr Bush with Mr Blair you create fear which leads to killing and loss of the very liberties that so many died for.
France’s military efforts against ISIS have developed gradually over the course of the last 15 months. France began airstrikes against the Islamic State in Iraq in September of 2014 so Mr Hollands declaration of war is somewhat retrospective.
Prior to the American invasion in 2003, which France pointedly refused to join. Hollande insisted that France’s involvement would be strictly limited. “We will only intervene in Iraq,” he said.
Now he declaring a war ( rightly so) that France can not win it on its own. Nor will NATO who will have to get its arch-enemy Mr Putin on its side.
Unlike the wars created by 9/11 this time the drum beat is not a war against civilization as you could not describe ISIS as Civilized.
These days we have portable power.
This is a war to protect the West concept of Liberty which we will win by turning every Smart Phone into the eyes and ears of Freedom.
My message to ISIS is.
You may not tell us to kill. The society that you insist on – Killing is living. This is not a society anyone other than a barbarian would want to live in.
This lesson has being with us from the creation of man. The danger is that we forget it.
Whatever drove the Paris attackers to commit their horrific acts is certainly more complex and varied than the French government’s conduct in the world. It is no secret that the world’s attention can only be split so many ways.
The lessons of Paris today provide our best chance to get to the bottom of the ‘peace versus justice’ debate, expose its fallacies, and move beyond it.
MAY ALL WHO LOST THEIR LIVES RIP.
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