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“The Beady-Eye” : Francois Hollande

16 Saturday May 2015

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This is the first post under the heading  ” THE BEADY- EYE”

The Beady eye will take a look over the course of the year at the track record in presa form of the Worlds most Powerful. ( People/ Corporations/ Organisations.)

Where best to start than France where I reside.

So Let’s turn the Beady Eye on President François Hollande who celebrated on May 6 the third anniversary of his election to the highest office in France. He was the first candidate in 31 years to unseat an incumbent president after a single term.

This invites us to look at the record of the man and his policies.

In May 2012, François Holland became the seventh president of the Fifth Republic. Born August 12, 1954 in Rouen. François Hollande received a Catholic religious education which he considers “a good experience” but defines itself as “non-believer” with “no religious practice” and having his “own philosophy of life”

He was discharged from military service because of his myopia.

As President he is;

  • Grand Master  of the National Order of the Legion of Honour.
  • Grand Master of the Order of Merit.
  • Canon of honor of the Basilica of St John Lateran, the Cathedral Saint-Jean-de Maurinne, St Julian of Le Mans,and Saint-Etienne Chalons, churches of ST. Hilary of Poitiers, of Saint-Martin Tours and Saint-Martin d’Angers.
  • Proto canon of the Cathedral of Our Lady of Embrun and Our Lady of Clery .

and Official decorations.

Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit of law as grand master of the Order (15 May 2012).

Knight of the Order of the White Eagle (Poland) on 16 November 2012.

Knight Grand Cross with Grand Cordon of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic on 21 November 2012 .

Order of Wissam Mohammad El, exceptional class ( Morocco) on 3 April 2013 .

Grand Cross of the National Order of Mali (15 July 2013) .

Order of the White Double Cross, First Class (Slovakia) on 29 October 2013 .

Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Charles (Monaco ) on  14 November 2013 .

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of the Netherlands Lion ( 20 January 2014).

Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Bath (UK) 0n the (5 June 2014.

Mr Hollande UNICEF’s Felix Houphouet-Boigny Prize for his contribution to peace and stability in Mali.

François Hollande, was elected in 2012 to bring an end to austerity and to tax the rich, has turned into a liberal. Or at least a social-liberal.

The image of the President three years provided a much darker than the picture the candidate wanted to sell back in 2012. “Mister Little Jokes” http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17675980, he seems to have strayed into the dark side of farce.

At the age of 59 years in true French style he was engulfed in a sex scandal just like the kind of private-public muddle that had damaged the early months of Nicolas Sarkozy’s term of office. He left his common law politician wife, Segolene Royal, the mother of his four children. Royal had political aspirations of her own and, in 2007, ran for the presidency against Hollande’s wishes.

For six years he lived with his girlfriend Valérie Trierweiler.

Valérie Trierweiler, had enjoyed the high-life luxuries of a presidential wife – costing taxpayers a fortune. The perks of her life as first lady include five staff, multiple homes across France, a stunning wardrobe, private jets and cars.

In Trierweiler’s former life, she was also a mistress to the president.

He progressed to another affair with a sex kitten actress Julie Gayet, 41 divorced with two children. The apartment where Hollande and Gayet had met was said to have connections to the Corsican mafia.French President Francois Hollande (L) s

He went from the President of Kisses’ to ‘President of Hisses.’

Politically Mr Hollande claimed that unemployment would drop by the end of 2013. When this looked absurdly unrealistic, he vowed instead to “invert the trend”, a semantic contortion by which he meant stopping the total rising, something that has yet to happen either.

A little less denial and a healthy dose of realism may thus be welcome.

At over 45% of GDP, France’s tax take stands with Belgium’s as the highest in the euro zone. Fewer than 20% of voters believe in his ability to turn the economy around. Frances largest export is Capital.

Mr Hollande famously promised during his election campaign to slap a 75% top income-tax rate on the rich—yet his government vowed that nine out of ten households would not be touched by tax increases. The 75% tax was thrown out by the Constitutional Council.  Not before the French actor Gerard Deparieu did a runner and is granted Russian citizenship by President Valdimir Putin. However most ordinary people have seen their tax bills rise.

The December Euro Plus Monitor from the Lisbon Council, a Brussels-based think-tank, notes that France is the only big European economy beset by serious problems not to have taken bold steps towards reform.

Beneath his bon homme exterior, he displays few declared convictions, always ready to compromise, Francois Hollande is now ideologue.

While French industry is waning, both by lack of demand, lack of competitiveness, and lack of funding.

He is imposing on France unending budgetary rigor, growing unemployment, rolling back the French political and social model, and introducing rules that deprive citizens of their sovereignty and freedom, and he does it all without qualms.

Even though France recently showed a 0.06% rise in it economy it is collapsing under the blows of foreign competition and non-economic pressures.

If he is serious about lowering charges on business, he also needs to make serious spending cuts. These are always harder than tax rises.

Therefore the inexorable rise in unemployment should come as no surprise.

Add to that an unthinking and largely unfair tax policies, and we can understand why demand is stagnating, but also the wrath of the middle and working classes, resulting in truly disastrous poll ratings for François Hollande.

Hollande has refused to acknowledge the structural dimension of unemployment in France, which he says is largely due to membership of the euro zone. It is the fact that today there are about 600 000 people suffering burnout while at the same time we have almost 4 million unemployed people without counting the severely underemployed.

He has buried his promise of tax reform. What’s more, Piketty said last year, the degree of improvisation in Hollande’s fiscal and economic policy “is actually quite appalling.” He is edging away from traditional Socialist policies and is chipping away at the generosity of the welfare state.

To employ anyone in France remains a nightmare to this very day.

Hollande is President, but of which country?

On January 8, 2015, he decreed a day of national mourning following the attack against Charlie Hebdo. In the wake of Charlie Hebdo attack the French government has approved new Surveillance laws giving massive and limitless surveillance of the population.

Francois Hollande likes to don the clothes of the defender of freedom and human rights, but one is forced to question his position in light of the new Surveillance laws recently passed.

Hollande’s campaign promises, to legalize same-sex marriage and adoption for same -sex couples it is now a matter of freedom of conscience for mayors of each city/town/village.

Over the last five years Islamic State is thought to have earned £75million ransoming more than 50 captives. Four French and three Spanish hostages have been released this year after money was delivered through an intermediary.

There is growing international anger that France is funding IS jihadists by paying ransoms to free hostages.

In the mean time he is selling arms.

Francois Hollande was the first foreign head of state to attend a summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council. Here he signed a contract under which Qatar has agreed to buy 24 Dassault Aviation-built Rafale fighter jets in a deal worth $7 billion. The deal comes as most of the Gulf states look to boost their firepower amid regional instability.

The case of the two Mistral helicopter carriers is another prime example.

As a result of the Ukrainian crisis, Hollande took the decision to suspend delivery to Russia. But he travels in person for the signature of “Rafale” combat aircraft contracts with Qatar and probably with the United Arab Emirates.

It looks like that China will purchase two amphibious assault ships that were originally intended for Russia.

So where is the red line? Certainly not on the issue of democracy.

The attitude of Francois Hollande, and more precisely its different attitudes with respect to Russia and these countries could therefore translate well latent Eurocentrism, at best, and at worst a form of racism, hidden under the mask of condescending smile.

The question of the presence, or absence, of Francois Hollande at the May 9 victory day parade in Moscow, something that has nothing to do with disagreements he may have with Putin, but which is rich in the symbolism of these same principles, may confirm this.

Unless this cynicism hides something much more serious.

Last week Cuba unveiled new data it said confirmed there were billions of barrels of oil beneath its Gulf of Mexico waters.

On Monday Hollande said France “will be a faithful ally” to Cuba as the country reforms it’s centrally planned economy and tries to re-enter the global economic system. La visite de François Hollande à Fidel Castro, le 11 mai, à Cuba, est la première d'un chef d'État français au leader politique cubain.

Speaking at the University of Havana, Hollande said: “France will do everything it can to aid the process of opening Cuba and help get rid of measures that have so seriously damaged Cuba’s development.”

Hollande also met with Cardinal Jaime Ortega to award him the Legion of Honor, France’s highest honor, and inaugurate a new building for the Alliance Française cultural center.

In Cuba he was accompanied by five of his ministers and nearly two dozen French executives, including representatives of Pernod Ricard beverages, hotel company Accor, Air France, supermarket Carrefour and the telecommunications company Orange.

Cuba announced an oil exploration deal with France in the Gulf of Mexico.

French oil major Total signed an agreement on Monday to explore for offshore oil with Cuban state oil monopoly Cuba Petroleo (Cupet). Cuban state-run television reported the exploration agreement without giving further details.

France s bow to the dictator for oil.

This man ‘who made ​​history’ – as says François Hollande – seized power in 1959, shot, trapped, turned his tropical gulag island, hunted homosexuals and, in fifty-six, found neither the time nor the inclination to hold free elections. ”

( Picasso painting has sold a little over $ 142 million on Monday night in New York ” This sale reflects the fact that some in this world, do not know what to do with their money, preferring to inflate the bubble of the art market rather than invest in creative activities of wealth and employment. In this sense, the fate of the Women of Algiers demonstrates the disturbances of the world today. Fortunately, this has not much to do with art itself. There will always be men and women to take a sheet of paper and a pencil.)

To be fair top diplomats from Japan, the European Union, Italy, the Netherlands and Russia have visited the island in recent months in bids to stake out or maintain ties with an island that suddenly looks like a brighter economic prospect amid warming US-Cuba relations.

Other examples of Mr Hollands hyperventilation hand shakes.

France – an ally of the Rwandan government that ruled before the genocide – stayed away from last year’s 20-year commemoration after rebel-turned-President Paul Kagame renewed accusations of a direct French role in the killings.

To his credit Hollande seems to have taken on the role of regional gendarme in the enormous Sahel region.

The EU has no shortage of crises on its borders and beyond, it is hard to see that she will succeed in galvanizing European governments into a more coherent foreign policy.

During his tenure as President of the French Republic François Hollande is ex officio one of the two Heads of State of the Principality of Andorra , neighboring independent micro-state of France.

His recent reception in Haiti leaves a lot to desire.

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On Thursday he said he would not seek a second mandate if he fails to deliver on his pledges to expand national wealth and lower a long-running rise in joblessness.

“We have to go further with reforms concerning youth employment, integration of long-term unemployed people, improve the performance of our businesses, facilitate the financing of our economy,” he added.

What are his prospects for success in 2017? Zero.

 

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Trans-Pacific Partnership.

10 Sunday May 2015

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A new word in the English language has recently been coined: investor-state.

The term refers to corporations who have the power to sue nations before a jurisdictional tribunal for infringements on their commercial interest.

Phillip Morris, for example, has sued Australia over that country’s rules requiring hazardous warning labels on cigarette packaging.

Now they say that there is nothing so useful to man in general, nor so beneficial to particular societies and individuals, as trade.

This however is a step to far by Capitalism. The notion that an agreement is clothed with a public interest and has been devoted to the public use is little than fiction intended to beautify what is disagreeable to the sufferers. US

The TPP is a far-reaching proposed multinational agreement among a dozen Pacific Rim countries (but not including China) designed to lower or eliminate tariff and trade barriers among the subscribing nations.

The pact deals with monetary tariffs, intellectual property rights, trade regulations and quotas imposed by the signatory nations with a goal of reducing those to a minimum to allow trade to flow freely among countries.

The countries involved include Brunei, Chile, New Zealand, Singapore, the U.S., Australia, Peru, Vietnam, Malaysia, Mexico, Canada and Japan.

Advocates note that domestic markets alone aren’t sufficient to create the sales, the return on investment and the innovation needed to advance the production of goods and services efficiently among Pacific Rim nations.

The trade agreement has been characterized as “NAFTA on steroids,”

A deal that will easily allow foreign competitors in low-wage nations or multinational companies with overseas operations to pay extremely low wages to workers and to ignore pollution and worker and consumer safety rules that prevail in the more developed countries when producing goods in less-regulated environments.

What particularly alarms ( in the USA)  is that TPP critics on both sides of the political aisle is that the  TTP partnership’s advocates are pushing for Congress to give the president fast-track authority to finish negotiating the deal, to limit debate on the pact’s provisions and prohibit Congress from amending the deal, giving elected representatives the power only to reject or approve the deal as a package.

The TPP is a back-room secret trade deal that will have a huge negative impact on FOOD SAFETY, internet freedom, environmental protection, national sovereignty, intellectual property and more. It is basically a permanent power grab by corporations and financial companies that will make it impossible for the citizens of countries joining the TPP to choose what laws and rules they want to live under.

The TPP is a massive giveaway to multi-national corporations like Chevron and Monsanto and Phillip Morris.

If TPP is signed it’s here forever.

Read more here: http://www.thenewstribune.com/2015/02/22/3648823_the-trans-pacific-partnership.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy

So who are these investor-states?

Well, besides , Monsanto, the Bank of America, Chevron and Exxon Mobil are among them and they’ve been granted their power though a negotiated agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).

Ironically, only 5 of the 29 measures in this agreement speak directly to trade issues. The other 24 reach into areas previously unthinkable.

It restricts, for example, a sovereign nation’s ability to support local produce within its borders and proposes sweeping changes with regard to the internet. The United States government rejected SOPA, the bill that would have instituted rigid copyright laws on intellectual property, but those same rules are proposed under TPP.

To say that the negotiations underway lack transparency is an understatement. So far, the measures have been kept under lock and key. Even members of Congress are beginning to complain about the lack of information.

All signatory countries will be required to conform their domestic laws and policies to the provisions of the Agreement.

Why should you be concerned?

Because the,

TPP raises significant concerns about citizens’ freedom of expression, due process, innovation, the future of the Internet’s global infrastructure, and the right of sovereign nations to develop policies and laws that best meet their domestic priorities.

Because the,

TPP will affect countries beyond the 11 that are currently involved in negotiations. Like ACTA, the TPP Agreement is a plurilateral agreement that will be used to create new heightened global IP enforcement norms. Countries that are not parties to the negotiation will likely be asked to accede to the TPP as a condition of bilateral trade agreements with the US and other TPP members.

Because we must,

truly address the secrecy or the private-industry-dominated process.

In sum, the TPP puts at risk some of the most fundamental rights that enable access to knowledge for the world’s citizens.

Below is a 10 minute clip from Democracy Now which speaks to the issue:

http://www.democracynow.org/2013/10/4/a_corporate_trojan_horse_obama_pushes

In the World we have seen the consequences of giving corporations the same right to free speech as individuals.

Giving them nation status is an idea that should keep everyone awake at night.

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Congratulations to The Conservatives A fair Won Election.

10 Sunday May 2015

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The United Kingdom is just shy of a population of 64 million 2015.

65.8%  Voted in England
65.7% Voted in Wales
71.1% Voted in Scotland
58.1% Voted in N. Ireland

66.1% UK of the population Voted.  Leaving 42.3% that did not vote either because they were to young or not registered to vote or could not be bothered. 

The election in 2015 had an 86% probability of producing the least proportional outcome in more than 70 years.

This is what happened: With First Past the Post AND what should have happened under Proportional Representation (PR)

UK vote share after 650 of 650 seats

Party SEATS     %                                    SEATS    Difference
CON 325        36.9                    CON           240           -90  
LAB 232        30.4                    LAB            213           -19
UKIP 1            12.6                    UKIP            83           +82 
LD 12          7.9                       LD              53            +41
SNP 56          4.7                      SNP            37             – 19 
GRN 1           3.8                       GRN            24.             +23

– there would be 27 seats between Labour and the Tories, not 83

– Ukip would have 83 MPs not 1

– the Greens would have 24 MPs, not 1

Voting under proportional representation WOULD take the Tories out of control, but they would still be the biggest party.

There is a huge discrepancy between the SNP’s 56 seats and Ukip’s 1 seat.

Yet Ukip have received 3.7 million votes, and the SNP 1.4 million.

First-past-the-post means you can get a lot of MPs with not much of a share of the vote.So England currently has an electoral system that can’t even allocate the MPs in the same order as the popular vote, let alone in proportion…
The difference is even starker when you look at the DUP. They have recorded less than 200,000 votes, but have 8 seats.
The Tory government would NOT have got a majority under proportional representation.

First-past-the-post is and should be groaning and swaying under the strain for change.

The present voting system is designed for two blocs: a government and an opposition.

You can see it in the layout of the Commons chamber.

But over the past five years England has moved from a two-and-a-quarter party system to a five or six party system. The old argument for first-past-the-post – that it boosts the larger party and so provides stable government – no longer applies.

There are further peculiarities with the English voting system.

There are six types of elections in the United Kingdom: United Kingdom general elections, elections to devolved parliaments and assemblies, elections to the European Parliament, local elections, mayoral elections and Police and Crime Commissioner elections.

First-past-the-post is used to elect MPs to the House of Commons and for local elections in England and Wales.

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The Alternative Vote is used to elect the majority of chairs of select committees in the House of Commons. The AV is also used for the election of the Lord Speaker and by-elections for hereditary peers.

The Supplementary Vote system is used to elect the Mayor of London and other elected mayors in England and Wales.

The SV system is very similar to the AV system.

Under SV, voters are limited to a first and second preference choice. A voter marks a cross in one column for their first preference candidate and another cross in a second column for their second preference (if they wish to do so).

The Single Transferable Vote system is used to elect the Deputy Speakers in the House of Commons. STV is also used for electing the Northern Ireland Assembly, local elections in Scotland and Northern Ireland and European Parliament elections in Northern Ireland.

The Additional Member System is used to elect the Scottish Parliament, the National Assembly for Wales and the London Assembly.

The Closed Party List system is used to elect Members of the European Parliament, with the exception of Northern Ireland which uses Single Transferable Vote.

Furthermore.

The Fixed-term Parliaments Act 2011 provides for general elections to be held on the first Thursday in May every five years.

Can I vote for a new Prime Minister?

No.

You can only vote to elect your local MP in a general election. The Prime Minister is appointed by the Queen, who is guided by constitutional conventions.

The Queen has a special relationship with the Prime Minister, the senior political figure in the British Government, regardless of their political party.
Although she is a constitutional monarch who remains politically neutral, The Queen retains the ability to give a regular audience to a Prime Minister during his or her term of office.

The Queen gives a weekly audience to the Prime Minister at which she has a right and a duty to express her views on Government matters. If either The Queen or the Prime Minister are not available to meet, then they will speak by telephone.

However, there are two provisions that trigger an election other than at five-year intervals:

A motion of no confidence is passed in Her Majesty’s Government by a simple majority and 14 days elapses without the House passing a confidence motion in any new Government formed.

A motion for a general election is agreed by two-thirds of the total number of seats in the Commons including vacant seats (currently 434 out of 650)
Previous to this Act, the Prime Minister could call a general election at any time within the five-year period and not all Parliaments lasted the full five years.

The Sovereign’s assent is required to all bills passed by Parliament in order for them to become law. Royal Assent (consenting to a measure becoming law) has not been refused since 1707.

Archbishops and bishops are appointed by The Queen on the advice of the Prime Minister, who considers the names selected by a Church Commission. They take an oath of allegiance to The Queen on appointment and may not resign without Royal authority.

The Queen is Sovereign is Head of the Armed Forces.

She is also the wife, mother and grandmother of individuals either having served, or are currently serving, in the Armed Forces. The Queen holds the position of Colonel-in-Chief of numerous regiments in the United Kingdom and throughout the Commonwealth.

There is only one occasion on which Parliament meets without a Royal summons, and that is when the Sovereign has died.

Civil and criminal proceedings cannot be taken against the Sovereign as a person under UK law.

There you have it.

I predicted in a previous post prior to the election that this election would be the last using First Past the Post and the result would see the end of the United Kingdom as it is known.

No system is perfect.

The disadvantage of PR is that it can produce very uncertain results as recently in Belgium, and the whole thing is stitched up behind closed doors without the public being involved.

There is no doubt that the opportunity for a new Youth Party is now presenting itself. Let’s hope there is some Britain with Talent to take up the mantel before 3000.

There are five years of turbulent political territory to negotiate in or out the the EU.

Politics is supposed to be for everyone so you might not have known that;

Concurrent with the general election is a poll to decide Britain’s national bird. Tens of thousands have voted in the online poll for their favorite from a list of 10, including the barn owl, blackbird, blue tit, hen harrier, kingfisher, mute swan, puffin, red kite, robin and wren.

The winner of the pecking order is expected to be named Friday, around the time results from the parliamentary election appear.

Pub Landlord Al Murray Says it all;

 

 

 

 

 

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Now is the time for CHANGE.

06 Wednesday May 2015

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As the human race keeps on making steps in technology & science in a world of shallow values, instant gratification and quick fixes we can all congratulate ourselves for have made enormous steps since the invention of fire.

But our prospects are gloomy.

Are you like me not sick to death of all the rhetoric coming from our out of date, unfunded World Organisations to save the world.

We might be able to see further than ever before into galaxies that allows to us to discover habitable planets like the Gliese 581 but to date we are unable to see (as one) the need to address what is wrong with our world.

We also might  be connected to each other by star-dust but it seem more like sawdust.

And there is no denying that science has made huge steps, but society has not.

The changes that people around the world have said they want to see are extremely complex but the sooner we fix them, the sooner we move to the future we imagine.

If we can’t convince people that we need a safe planet with no one forced to live in poverty then we’re clearly not doing something right.

It is obvious the world will not be sustainable if we continue to have more than a billion people living in extreme poverty.

Where to begin is the big question.

For me. We must begin with either Reforming the United Nations or replacing it.

The question is this.

For effective change to take place, does one first change the organizational structure and systems and then adapt a strategy (and human strategy as well) to fit the new structure and system, or does one start with the strategy and mindset changes and then adapt the systems and structure to fit it?

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There has to be a way of prioritising some issues politically, without leaving the unchosen issues neglected.

We all know that our problems revolve around governance, climate or sustainable consumption and production. By this I mean Improving Education World wide. Eliminating Racism. Resource Efficiency. Eliminating Hunger. Environmental awareness. Overcome Religion.

For change to work, leaders have to have open minds and hearts and be willing to understand that they don’t understand. We have to get away from believing that there is one way to either make change happen or even to describe the phenomenon that occurs during change within an organization.

The data revolution for public policy will be driven by those outside governments; with more data and more participation a more intense spotlight will be shone on the choices and behaviour of public and private sectors alike.

Everything depends, in the end, on the voters and their political leaders.

Willing voters and braver politicians will mean better policies. And better policies will enable mankind to make a big difference to the planet’s future at a surprisingly small cost. We need to open the doors to new exciting boundaries. We can change it.

The First step is Finance.

No Organisation that has to beg for funds is worth its weight in salt or gold.

It must be independent to have any clout.

It is time for Greed and Profit which is at the heart of Capitalism to contribute.

This can only be achieved by Placing a 0.05% Aid commission on all High Frequency Trading , on all Foreign Exchange Transactions ( Over $20,000) and on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions.   

Why do we need to change?

Everybody is in it together whether some countries are more responsible than others—is unreasonable.

Society is slowing our movement making it harder to our own existence.

Society is crucial to the well-being of all of us.

We should quit acting as if the “change process” is a unique and perhaps frequent stand alone event. In the current environment, change is not separate from leadership…IT IS LEADERSHIP.

We have become a complex environment and diverse perspectives will provide the framework for understanding what and how change will enable the new United Nations.

To Put simply we only have one planet and we are destroying it.

As Martin Luther King aid  “Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change.”

Let’s not make the grave mistake of ignoring patterns that are screaming at us upfront and center. Man has been, since the beginning, defying the natural order of things… literally.

You could say that Poverty is a perception – it is a status which is bestowed on people who have relatively little – even in societies of plenty. That’s why we probably can’t really ever “end” poverty.

The above says it all.

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” Selling out ” is a part of life.

05 Tuesday May 2015

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Imagine if the world map was redrawn not based on territories and treaties, but money and power.

This might be the best way to control the populations of the world.

It’s Not A ‘Law Of Capitalism’ That You Pay Your Employees As Little As Possible.

It is a choice.

Its a Fight Against Wage Slavery and Corporate Greed.

Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge has marked the upward surge of mankind.

One company’s “wages” are other companies’ revenues.

Once you understand that “wages” become “revenues,” you can begin to understand what has happened to our economy over the past 30 years.

“Wages” aren’t just an expense line on a single company’s income statement.

Why?

Because the employees who are paid those wages use the wages to buy things–houses, food, clothing, cars, vacations, you name it. And in buying those things, they create revenue for other companies.

So, when wages go down as a percent of the economy, companies may get more profitable, but the employees paid those wages (or not paid any wages worth while if they are on No Hours Contracts at the Minimum Wage) have less money to spend. And that lack of spending power eventually hurts the revenue growth of most companies in the economy.

You don’t have to be a Professor of Economics to understand that producing stuff that the majority of the population can not afford leads to discontent all around.

The more income becomes concentrated at the very top of the economy, the less money is spent on the goods and services produced by the economy.

Because the people who spend most of the money–the average English or American–have less to spend the economy becomes greedier.

We are all being royally screwed over by bureaucrats, with their luncheons, their hunting and fishing trips, their corporate jets and golden parachutes.

Our companies have become extraordinarily profitable. But they have become extraordinarily profitable at the expense of their rank-and-file-employees, who have not shared in this prosperity and do not have much money to spend.

Only the companies’ owners have benefited with their shareholders developing a warped consensus that the only value that companies create is financial (cash) and that the only thing managers and owners should ever worry about is making more of it.

As a result, although our companies are extraordinarily profitable they are growing slowly.

Why?

Because the middle class–which contributes most of the work and most of the spending in our economy–has not shared in our companies’ prosperity.

The trend reflects growing concerns about the disproportionate spread of low-wage jobs in the U.S. and English/European economy, creating millions of financially strained workers and putting too little money in consumers’ pockets to spur faster economic growth.

Now you might think that all of this is hog wash but lets return to opening remarks of this post .

If we were to take the World according to Monsanto.

Seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it – it’s strategic. It’s more powerful than bombs. It’s more powerful than guns.

If we take Google.

Every day that goes by Google becomes both more powerful.

Through G Mail Google stores and never deletes your email.

They catalog it and can do a LOT with that data. With time google can write robots to parse the data to find out every bit of data about you, who you know, what you talk about, etc.

G mail bundled with Orkut Google really has a solid grip on your social network with more detail and structure than email alone. Google knows who joebob62@aol.com really is, where he lives, what his pass times are, etc and can link it up with your email conversations. Now to get even further into your life they have the Google Desktop Search which has already been called on being invasive bypassing security on people’s PC’s and cataloging files that it shouldn’t.

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These are just two examples.

Certain industries dominate the global business landscape.

It is no surprise that banks and diversified financials still dominate thanks to their outsize revenues and massive total assets. The next three biggest industries are oil & gas (125 companies), insurance (114), and utilities (110). In terms of growth, the semiconductor industry leads all sectors in sales (up 11%); diversified financial companies in aggregate have an astounding 90% growth rate in profit; construction leads asset growth (up 18%).

Are we worried, not on you nanny.

Is the “commodity super cycle” nearing the end? All evidence seems to point to “yes.”

We have Governments elected to represent the people who are selling of your country assets for short-term profit to prop-up their shrinking economies. ( see previous posts)

We have world organisations that are total out of date, overburdened with bureaucrats, void of funds.

We have Media run by computers.

We have Sovereign Wealth Funds plundering the Earth for resources such as water, energy, land.

We have an English General Election in the next two days with the present Government that bailed out the Banks with Billions of tax payers money, now offering the share back to the tax payer at a discount. Somebody explain.

It’s no better across the pond.

In the USA they have turned war into profit. There are over 100,000 private contractors to run everything from security detail to weapons training to air surveillance of your enemies.

Normally, the military is accountable to the government.

Not so with private security companies. Private firms like Black Water and Dyn Corp have graciously offered to fill in the gaps.

Privatization is all the rage.

What we need is for the people of the earth to be represented, with sustainability, not greed.

This will never be achievable so why not make Greed contribute. ( See 0.05% WORLD AID COMMISSION)

Of course this in not the whole story.

There is the power of the Mobil Phone yet to be exploited by us not the other way around.  There is spending power probable more powerful than the vote.

“For the first time in many years, the people who put fuel in jets might just be able to buy a ticket on one.”

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The clock is ticking for: A new world DISASTER AID REACTION Organisation.

03 Sunday May 2015

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On January 12, 2010, a 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, affecting more than 3 million people — one of every three. The quake killed 222,570 people and injured more than 300,000. More than 1 million people were left homeless and vulnerable.

On August, 2005, Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf of Mexico and various Southern regions of the United States. A 100,000 people were displaced. 10,000 originally feared dead — revised down by government.

On March 11, 2011, a tsunami some 40 meters (133 feet) high hit northeast coast of Japan.15,000 people were killed, 300,000 were evacuated, and 3,100 people are still unaccounted for. A nuclear emergency was triggered in the Fukushima area.

On April 25,2015 a 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the south-central Asian country of Nepal. 8 million people have been affected by the quake. To date the death toll is above 6,000.

Extreme disasters catch the public eye, often resulting in massive infusions of aid that affect not just individual well-being but the fabric of societies.

What I want to address here is  (with the predicted effects of Climate Change we are going to witness a massive increase in natural disaster world-wide) how if any of our various UN organizations are in a position to meet the challenges that lie ahead: (World Food Program, World Health Organisation, Relief Web, UNICEF, Oxfam International, International Federation of Red Cross, Red Crescent Societies, International Rescue Committee, Medicins Sans Frontiers, Doctors Without Boards) to mention just a few.

And the question I want an answered to is:  How do we evaluate their efficacy.

Understanding and analyzing the organization of aid delivery is essential to evaluating aid efficacy. Disaster relief projects involve multiple parties in different organizational configurations delivering in-kind aid, where each party has distinct objectives.

The behavior of an aid agency that operates on the ground is a composite outcome of the organizational structure of the donating and implementing arms.

Depending on how that organization is set up, the quality of hard aid and the delivery of social agendas may vary considerably within the same disaster area. Donors face potential trade-offs between higher quality aid, pursuit of certain social agendas, and paying the cost to do their own implementation.

In a nutshell, industry and private donations are feel-good, short-term interventions and no substitute for the vastly larger, and essentially political, task of bringing aid to poor people in need.

It is the long-term Recovery phase of disaster which places the most severe financial strain on local or state.

The needs of the poor don’t get met because the poor have little money or political power with which to make their needs known and they cannot hold anyone accountable to meet those needs. They are stuck with Planners. The … tragedy [of failed foreign aid] continues.

A big part of the problem originates with the rich-country governments who set the mandates of the aid agencies. ( See previous post: Roughly half of global aid – is phantom aid or The Clock is ticking for a New World Aid Organisation)

I hardly think your/our measly donations to charity are worth talking about;

Media coverage of natural disasters seems to vary a lot depending on the disaster. Is it selective?

An Example is the Present Nepal Disaster lasted three days on the top of the BBC news.

It was replaced by a Royal princess presented to world. One new life against thousands lost.

If you compare what the new born Royal can expect from life to the 360,000 other children all born on the same day elsewhere in the world.

〈 While the Duke of Cambridge does not receive money directly from the Sovereign Grant ( that’s £35.7m the taxpayer gives to the Royal Family each year), he does receive from the Queens Grant-in-Aid fund and the Duchy of Cornwall (the tax-exempt estate valued at £763m in 2013 with an annual income of £19m, bestowed on the family in 1337) , the surplus of which traditionally goes to the eldest son ( i.e. Prince William). If you break that £19m down into a a weekly rate, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge can expect a share of £365,384.61, compared to the £34.40 ( combined Child Benefit for two babies) for the average family in the UK. 〉 

There is certainly no need for any Aid.

It does not take long in this days media world for Disasters to become Forgotten

 “Forgotten” disasters are often chronic and diffuse, changing little day by day. Unlikely to qualify as news, such crises may feature as current affairs stories – especially on the websites of news organizations.

It is more than obvious that if we are to manage the pending Disasters ( And there will be many).

We need one Organisation under one roof to handle all aspects.

Examine the whole process/system/operation of providing relief supplies in a disaster scenario. Think of total packaging re-use of all materials and containers from the shipping/air container onwards.

This can be achieved by all the world aid organisations assembling at a World Response Aid conference to form a One World Response/Reaction Team.

This conference should present the UNITED NATIONS WITH A RESOLUTION TO PLACE: a 0.05% AID COMMISSION ON ALL HIGH FREQUENCY STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS ON ALL FOREIGN EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS (OVER $20,000) AND ON ALL SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS ACQUISITIONS)

This resolution could be adopted by a its veto members without lost of power.

Instead of holding aid agencies individually responsible for what they own program achieve, we would have Instead of letting different agencies specialize in different areas we would have Capitalism for once WOULD contributing to the world by creating a perpetual fund, giving the reaction team total independence.

IT WOULD ONLY TAKE A COMPUTER PROGRAM TO COLLECT THE FUNDS.

We would have global goals. Instead of letting different agencies specialize in different areas we would have coordination.

Instead of wasting aid and relief to victims of natural disasters there would be a professional action PLAN IN PLACE THAT COULD BE ACTIVATED NOT TO SET UP BY A BEGGING BOWL.

  ‘How did the rich countries really become rich?’

The short answer to this question is that the developed countries did not get to where they are now through the policies and the institutions that they recommend to developing countries today.

  • In 1970, rich countries of the OECD agreed at the United Nations (Resolution 2626) to give 0.7% of their GNP (now GNI) as aid to the developing countries.
  • Known as ODA, this aid would be for long-term development.
  • Over 40 years on, most of the 20 or so rich OECD countries have never reached that figure, or come close.

Annually, the global foreign aid shortfall is high.

Although rich countries have given an enormous $3.62 trillion dollars in aid since 1970, the accumulated total shortfall in their aid since 1970 (when the target of 0.7% was set) amounts to $4.98 trillion (at 2012 prices).

Don’t tell me that it is not time for change INORDER to save lives when the next natural disaster strikes.

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Life goes on.

01 Friday May 2015

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While the scary numbers pile up.

The state of the Planet hit several remarkable records.Earth From Moon Wallpaper Hd Earth from moon hd crescent

The amount of carbon dioxide gas hits the highest level in at least the last 800,000 years.

The Arctic Ice since satellite records is at it lowest. 13.3% per decade.

We dump 19.4 billion pounds of plastic into our oceans every year.

An estimated 18 million acres of forest are lost each year.

We will be facing a 40% shortfall in water supply by 2030.

Climate change-related extreme events, plus population growth, could increase hunger by up to 20% by 2050.

What are we doing about it. Not much that will make a difference. Curbing emissions which is a joke wont be enough to halt a looming climate catastrophe.

When you take something out of the Earth, you need to put something back in.

The Selfish wasteful ways of Capitalism combined with modern humans is destroying the very planet we all have to live on.

Thoughtless mindless use of its limited resources for short-term profit, and the use of pesticides and there like is destroying life forms that took million of years to appear on our planet.

We all know the interconnectedness of all life. The we’re here, we’re powerful with nuclear weapons , we’ve got the technology, we therefore are entitled to every dame thing on this planet, is at the root of much of our problems.

Perhaps our current ecological crisis is telling us that something is wrong with our relationship with ourselves, with others, and earth.

The Dangers are clear.

We all want to live.

Without a reverence for all life that lives in the midst of other life we the brainy ones will be going no further than the moon, space station or not. 

If you are interested there are plenty of previous post covering a verity of subjects interconnected to this post.

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The English 2015 General Election. First past the post system; is in fact a legitimate way to govern as a dictatorship

30 Thursday Apr 2015

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The concept of “power in numbers” is omnipotent in every form within society.

It is my belief that this will be the last English Election using the First Past the Post system.

The biggest problem with plurality is the obvious problems with representation and regional conflict that it has plagued the English government with for many decades.

Although there is a great representation of the parties that receive the “majority” of the votes, there is hardly any representation for the minority parties; this then causes a large regional conflict. Resulting in the Scottish Referendum 2014 for Independence.

Plurality only increases the amount of tensions between regions.

The majority of the population that does not vote is probably no longer concerned with politics because of the discrimination of the plurality system. “…inequalities in the representation of the different political parties… are regarded by some commentators as factors leading to a loss of interest in politics, and even to disaffection.

This is a very substantial reason why proportional representation is the better electoral system than the first-past-the-post system.

It has been proven in other countries to increase voter turnout in local, provincial and national levels.

Proportional representation (PR) proves to the population that every vote counts it tightens the gap of women’s representation.

This is largely because of the knowledge of voters that their vote will count for more in the PR system than it would in the plurality system.

It is completely evident that proportional representation is the most reliable and feasible method for electing the Members of Parliament to the House of Commons. The reason for this is that with plurality, one can only count on the larger parties to win; therefore, instead of “throwing away” a vote for a smaller, less popular party, the voter would either vote for the larger party or not vote at all. “Because seats can be gained [in PR] with only a fraction of the total vote, voters have fewer incentives to abandon their most preferred candidates.Accordingly, the number of viable candidates increases with PR.

Democracy is often perceived as the ‘rule of the majority.’

In many mature democracies in the world, only those candidates are eligible to be elected who secure more than 50 percent of the polled vote in an election where more than 50 percent of the electorate has cast its vote.

People here vote for political parties and not individuals based on the policies and programmes of these parties. Every party submits a priority list to the election authorities prior to the elections. Depending on its vote share, the number of MPs is selected from this list.

This has an inbuilt mechanism whereby any government that is formed post-elections will necessarily have the support of more than 50 percent of those who have voted.

There are significant problems to a PR system as well. For one, in an apparent contradiction, the PR system could make all future governments inherently unstable as no party would ever be able to get a majority.

This in itself may not be a bad outcome, since stability is often a code word for suppressing marginal voices.

Second, a PR system would empower party leaders over local representatives if a list model is adopted and this will not give small parties, which now can win a seat or two in their region of influence and have a voice in Parliament, any national presence.

Third, even if a mixed-PR model is adopted, there is no guarantee that this complicated system would address the problem of instability and the need to provide representation to the small parties.

The State Opening of Parliament marks the formal start of the parliamentary year and the Queen’s Speech sets out the government’s agenda for the coming session, outlining proposed policies and legislation. It is the only regular occasion when the three constituent parts of Parliament – the Sovereign, the House of Lords and the House of Commons – meet.  Although the Queen reads the Speech, it is written by the government.

It contains an outline of its policies and proposed legislation for the new parliamentary session.

That leaves us with The Big Question:

Why doesn’t the UK have a written constitution, and does it matter?

( Nor is there a single statement of citizens’ rights and freedom.)

Is this because it is ruled by a heredity Monarch. Royalty Queen Crown The british royal jewel is aMost people might struggle to put their finger on where their rights are.

Britain’s entry into the European Economic Community in 1973, which brought the country for the first time under a degree of international judicial control.

After this election Britain could finally get a written constitution spelling out citizens’ rights and codifying this country’s political system.

Britain’s constitution has developed in haphazard fashion, building on common law, case-law, historical documents, Acts of Parliament and European legislation. It is not set out clearly in any one document.

It does have a  Bill of Rights dated 1689.

Ten years ago Britain came closer than before to codifying individuals’ rights when the Human Rights Act enshrined the European Convention on Human Rights into UK law.

What are the advantages of a written constitution?

It has become almost a truism that British politics, beset by cynicism about politicians and undermined by falling turn-outs at general elections, is in crisis.

If such a document could be drawn up.

Would it be wide-ranging and largely abstract or would it list individuals’ rights in detail and provide an exhaustive summary of Britain’s constitutional settlement? If the latter, it could prove beyond the grasp of most of the citizens it would be designed to protect.

Britain is not going to get the ground-breaking document any time in the near future. It would require a national referendum to be held to approve the document if it ushered in significant changes.

Do they need a written constitution?

Yes…

* Britain’s arcane hotch-potch of freedoms and rights cannot be defended in the 21st century

* It could help citizens clarify their rights and protect themselves against the state

* Most flourishing democracies base their institutions on a written constitution

No…

* The system should not be tampered with as it has served Britain well for centuries

* The practical problems over what to include and leave out would be a logistical nightmare

* It could undermine the power of Parliament to scrutinise ministers on behalf of the public.

What are your thoughts?

A written constitution is “a formal document defining the nature of the constitutional settlement, the rules that govern the political system and the rights of citizens and government in a codified form.

Written or unwritten, one thing is for sure: there is no such thing as a perfect constitution.

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General Election 2015 UK.

29 Wednesday Apr 2015

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Are you undecided about who to vote for on 7 May?

I have no intention here of addressing all the Election issues. There is more than enough verbal diarrhea out here.

Here are some of the issues that are not spot lighted.

Are you voting for an UK Government or the dismantlement of the UK.

One thing for sure this election will be it curtains for the plurality rule voting system for future general elections.

It’s appears that it is no longer racist to be worried about immigration.

Scotland could just decide the entire election.

An early re-election can only be held “if a motion of no confidence is passed and no alternative government is confirmed by the Commons within 14 days”, or “if a motion for an early general election is agreed either by at least two-thirds of the whole House”. So if, for example, a minority Conservative government failed to pass its Queen’s Speech and then lost a confidence vote, Labour would have two weeks in which to put together a coalition or pact, and could form a new government without going to the polls again.

While employment performance has been strong since the crisis and is now back to pre-crisis levels, this is largely due to a fall in real wages which has priced workers into jobs (wages are still 8-10% below pre-crises level.s

Productivity should be the no one issue.

You can’t have productivity with zero hour contracts.

GDP growth, underpinned by growing productivity, is essential for a robust recovery and long-run prosperity. Growth is clearly also an essential ingredient for reducing the deficit.

The Conservatives fear that mentioning productivity undermines their narrative of the UK as an unmitigated success story. It is an implicit admission that the economy is not as strong as they have claimed.

In the last 18 months, following a July 2013, newspaper exposé on a major retailer which was found to be employing 90% of their 23,000-workers in this way.

Insecure scheduling on people’s lives for profit does not make a country prosper, it leads to food banks and discontent.

In 2013 the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development estimated that 4% of the UK workforce might be on zero-hours contracts, which would equate to 1 million workers.

8% of workplaces now employ people on such contracts. This is the biggest increase in Western Europe and means that around 7 million people in the UK experience employer controlled alterations to their schedules! To make things worse, workers often have little notice of these changes. In fact analysis of the 2005 and 2010 waves of the European Working Conditions Survey shows that employer-controlled flexible scheduling has increased in the UK by seven percentage points to 24%.

100,000 zero-hours contracts are reported to be in use in the NHS.

A third of voluntary sector organisations used zero-hours contracts, along with a quarter of public sector employers and 17% of private sector firms.

The reality is that there is no accurate way to measure the number of people on zero-hours contracts. A living wage will not remove zero-hours contracts nor will Apprenticeships. Some employers may simply offer contracts with minimal fixed hours to limit its impact.

We are dealing with a phenomenon that is causing misery to individuals and families on an industrial scale.

As there is no legal definition of a zero hours contract, there is some understandable confusion as to what they are. As there is no clear definition of a zero-hours contract, and they can take many forms, there is an inevitable lack of clarity about the consequences of agreeing to work on a zero-hours contract as well as a lack of awareness about employment rights and routes for redress.

The arguments for and against polarised around the themes of flexibility versus
exploitation.

If a deeper structural change is taking place in the UK labour market, then it may be affecting young people most. The prevalence of zero-hours contracts appears to be highest among people aged between 16 and 24, with an estimated 37% of those employed on zero-hours contracts falling within this age group.

They are creating imbalance of power in the employment relationship’  ‘climate of fear’, often caused by an employer’s threat, explicit or implied, to ‘zero down’ a worker’s hours if they do not work when they are asked to.

However there is a roll for legitimate Zero Hour Contracts. employees using such contents would have to pay an hourly rate in excess of the National Minimum Wage, Limits Casual Working to 13 weeks, and (ii) Provides protection to employees to ensure they received the same protection as full-time employees.

Without adequate investment in the future generation, and first past the post system the United Kingdoms will be far from United in or out of the EU.

There is little point in a Nuclear Deterrent, and a high speed railway or new Nuclear Power that costs billions and it owned by a Sovereign Wealth Fund when you cant afford a home, while the wealthy apply suntan cream on some distant tropical beach.

 

With Proportional representation you vote counts.

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increasing the National Minimum wage to £8 an hour by 2019 and extend payment of the Living Wage.

 

It seems to happen at a disturbingly frequent rate.

28 Tuesday Apr 2015

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A 7.8-magnitude earthquake rocked the south-central Asian country of Nepal last Saturday, causing an estimated 5,000 deaths and widespread devastation.

More than 90 percent of natural disaster-related deaths occur in developing countries, where poverty and lack of resources exacerbate the suffering.

The biggest obstacles for charities working in Disaster areas is : Roads and other infrastructure are often destroyed, so charities can’t get supplies to those in need, even with your donations.

This is why you should not trash your old Mobile phone. Send them to ( See Below)

The power of mobile devices to coordinate is paramount.

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The media show heart-wrenching images of disaster beyond anything most people have seen or could even begin to imagine. People want to help; it is human nature to want to help. And many aid agencies offer just that opportunity as they fundraising for relief efforts. But if we give to them, does it actually make a difference?

The answer is yes, but disaster relief is notably less effective than many other forms of aid. ( See previous posts)

Are you not ashamed to see the head of the U.N. Disaster Relief Organization appealed for food, medical supplies every time there is a natural disaster.

Why not establish Swat life boat centers around the world. Fully equipped fully funded. Recent Disasters have shown the need for an international system to coordinate major rescue and relief efforts.

Whenever a disaster strikes, it seems that the job of relief and reconstruction goes to some agency run by someone well-connected politically and staffed by well-meaning people with little formal knowledge in the field of disaster relief.

Universities should have a discipline known as disaster relief and reconstruction.

Experts would teach courses in evacuation, emergency healthcare, debris removable, providing temporary shelter and other phases of disaster relief.

The emotional and sensationalized climate of disaster response has prevented the adoption of a cost-effectiveness approach in decision-making. It requires putting the needs of others ahead of your own emotional needs.

When catastrophe strikes, people rush to donate to help the victims. But disaster relief is rarely cost-effective.

What would be cost-effective is a 0.05% Aid Commission on all High Frequency Trading, on all Foreign Exchange Transactions (over $20,000) and on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions.

This would create a perpetual fund of billions.

It would be Capitalism biggest glorious moment in its history:  To assist man kind and the planet we all live on. ( See Previous Posts)

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