To days politics is plagued by money, It is producing the worst political landscape we have and are witnessing to day.
I’m not offering any solution, because that’s an extremely complex problem.
However, there surely is a solution.
The goal is to remove the need to get money from interest groups, lobbyists, and anyone else with money looking to control the government as well as to make the role one about public servicerather than a stepping stone to power and prestige.
This can done by putting hard limits on campaign funding with severe consequences if they are surpassed.
By putting campaign funding as part of the national budget, with minimum amount for each party and removing the cost hurdles needed by candidates.
Of course you have to get the corrupt politicians to actually vote this into law.
People will act in a way that gains them more money or power, no matter what.
No one knows what the minimum amount is needed to run a campaign, and there’s no concept of sufficiency.
When a candidate appeals to donors, they aren’t spending time connecting to voters and lose voters due to unpopular positions they’re forced to take.
The fear is that being outspent will lead to defeat so politicians spend more time, acquiring bigger war chests and more rich allies.
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I believe we can find a large number of people who seek positions of power and influence not for their own sake but to genuinely do something for society.
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≈ Comments Off on THE BEADY EYE SAYS. IF WE REALLY WANT TO REDUCE POVERTY AND INEQUALITY – POVERTY IS GETTING WORSE, WE NEED TO ADOPTED A BASIC LIVING WAGE.
Just like climate change , this is an area where we have built an industry around the problem rather than a cure.
The results of Aid given to non rich countries shows that this kind of aids has little or no impact in tackling the growing inequality gap or poverty for that matter.
With the coming loss of thousands of jobs to AI,
Now is the time to introduce a Basic Living
Wage.
Direct Aid ensure dignity.
It acts as a stimulant to weak economy and encourage imagination.
Now we all know the arguments against a Basic Wage. Inflation! Just think what Donal Trump tariffs are doing.
It’s time to get rid of social welfare and equip people with the means to look after themselves.
To manage their own medical /educational and daily needs.
We try all other routes so on the pre-text that the establishment of a BASIC WAGE has been try with small groups and found to have positive results why not explore it.
We can say poverty in all the languages under the sun and have done so since time memorial till AID foundation are blue in the face.
There is nothing to be lost to let people find their own footing within society,
Affect centuries of giving Aid that had not turned into happiness but into corruption.
This is not Wealth distribution. This is equipping individuals with the means to improve their lives.
Let’s be creative.
Happiest comes from self respect and self respect is obtained through pride.
There is often quite appalling disparity in social conditions and a hostility born of fear between against the privileged and the deprived, the exploiters and the exploited.
The privilege always use any surpluses to either improve or protect their position.
We can only try to reverse that position with taxes., or with what is called the triangle down capitalism, which we knew has not worked and will never work.
I know that there have been places where a basic wage has been tried, with some considerable success.
Let’s give back some pride.
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Many a man has walked on the blood soaking ground of EUROPE and the MIDDLE EAST, even a man claiming to be the son of GOD walked on this part of the Earth.
With over 8 billions of us there is no realistic way we can all live on one planet without war, but we can recognise when to stop them.
As you know the history of the twenty and the early twenty first centuries is the story how courage we all were ( a lot of it Russia) in defeating barbarism.
You also know as well as I do that the peace that spares evil like NAZISM is merely the prelude to the next war.
To day peace is won by the brave but continues to be squandered by the cautious.
The world doesn’t need false appeasements called peace accords, agreements, treaties, iron domes, trade deals, all of which can be broken whenever anyone dispute there contents.,
To have real consequences peace must be built on trust, and trust can only be obtained by intermingling with each other.
I am writing to you in the belief that ever one has the right to live their life in security and peace, alongside their fellow humans on Earth.
I therefore wish to put this proposal to you as a honourable way to end the war that your current in.
What I am suggesting is the following.
The EUROPEAN UNION offers RUSSIA full membership in exchange for peace.
Russia would keep its glorious history and the UKRAINE its wish to be a member of the EU and not NATO.
If you were to do this, it would go down as a historical moment in the evolution of man, putting more than TRUMP nose out of joint because he as a convicted felon did not win the Nobel PRIZE for peace.
This would create a trading block to be able to tell MR TRUMP where to stuff his tariffs and enhance the block relations with a peaceful CHINA the world’s growing power, which you saw marching by your feet not so long ago.
Over a million young Russia have already given their lives in a war, which is for what really when you look at the world to come.
You know that it going to require a massive combination of world powers to fight climate change which won’t give two hoots whether you’re RUSSIA or UKRAINE OR WHATEVER.
The Climate has no preference or treaties to abide to.
Its a win win for everyone.
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≈ Comments Off on THE BEADY EYE SAYS THE PEACE Treaties and all other types of ALLIANCES whether they are carved in stone or the blood of kin, whether THEY arc week old or thousand years old can be broken when anybody feels the time is right.
You could wall paper the world with peace treaties. However most wars don’t last a yea with most ending with out solutions. Modern wars go on and on.
Right down the centuries we have been making treaties – from the Vikings to the English Kingdoms – to Spartiens – to the Persians – Spanish Moors – Portugal a- Jews – Arabians – Romans- Hitler- and now the Donald Trump – Putin- Xi Jinping – and Mr Kim Jong.
All of these treaties have an element of I hand over something of value in exchange for loyalty- trade. – protection, or access to something else of importance like water, or mountain pass.
Of course their wording ca be distorted as they come under pressure. And they can be themselves weaponised to produce better outcomes or terms .
Normally they don’t have expiry dates. They usually last for several hundred year.
Some of the Colonists still have Indian treaties in force to the present day.
Normally a ceasefire is established prior to a truce.
One thing that has change as Mr Putin is discovering with his invasion of the Ukraine is that no longer the size of your army that decides the outcome of a war or they negotiations which must follow to stop the war but the ability of your drones in inflicting damages, that will influence any treaty negotiations.,
The Danger man to world peace is Donald Trump who does not know or seems not to understand just how fragile peace can be.
The treaty of Versailles caused the second world war .
Annexing county because one is bigger is and remains a problem.
The question is what can be done to make peace treaties between countries more effective.
For me this has to be achieved as soon as possible.
Let’s start with a constitutions for the earth that has to be contained within all peace deals.
Without the earth there can be no peace deal big or small.
Within this constitution all peace deal big or small must be constructed within these boundaries.
No slavery, no contamination of land water or air, no persecution of religious beliefs, no mass killings.
Of course the question is how or who would one enforce the above
The options are limited to forming a new peace keeping force.
This force could be stationed in the western Sahara where the UN spent years .
This would boost the economics of the surrounding countries. but this time it replaces the United Nations and NATO with an Ukraine Cyber style Drone Technology Force.
The force should be around Five Thousand men and women in five units of a thousand per unit – one Europe one American one Chinese one Russia one Canada one South American unit.
They could serve on a yearly duty basses.
Perhaps knowing in advance what damage a war will do might discourage that war .,
Who would command such a force.
He would be appointed at the UN general assembly on a voting platform.
Once activated it cannot be stopped.
Any one got a better idea?
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≈ Comments Off on THE BEADY EYE SAYS. IN ORDER TO TURN THE WORLD AROUND FROM SELF DESTRUCTION WE MUST BUILD A WORLD ON TRUSTING EACH OTHER NOT ON POWER.
We can all see that we must change the direction we are presently persuading our lives before it’s too late. There is no point in living in a world looking over one’s shoulders afraid of being attacked just because we have not the ability to share our lives.
To achieve a peaceful world we must share its resources.
Build shared prosperity by extending the hand of friendship, building hospitals, health systems centres, retirement homes, rehabilitation facilities, schools, with grants free of charge or repayment.
We must make richer societies provide a bigger portion of its wealth to building trust between communities, cultures, countries, tying the world together, not pushing it apart for the sake of I am all right JACK.
The old proverb is true “ YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY “ but you can eat-away trust, which is exactly what Mr TRUMP & Mr PUTIN are doing for no reason other than self glorification.
WHO WANTS TO LIVE ON A WORLD RUN BY MACHINES FOR MACHINES.
NOT ME.
STOP THESE WARS AND START BUILDING TRUST. THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE LEAVE SOMETHING WORTH WHILE BEHIND.
THESE ARE THE WORDS OF FELLOW HUMAN, WHO IS RECOVERING FROM A TRIPLE BYPASS NOT A ARTIFICIAL GENERATED ASSHOLE ALGORITHMIC PLATFORM.
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≈ Comments Off on THE BEADY EYE SAYS. HITLER SOLVED GERMANY UNEMPLOYMENT PROBLEM AFTER WORLD WAR ONE BY INCREASING SPENDING ON MANUFACTURING ARMS. UNLIKE HITLER TRUMP HAS NO IDEA THAT HE IS LIGHTING THE FUSE FOR WORLD WAR III.
Of course in German this worked till all the warehouses were full to the roof with bullets, tanks, booms.
They are of no use unless you have a war.
To day increasing military spending might not fill all the warehouses with the same equipment, but the result will be the same.
You would think that after two world wars, Vietnam, Afghanistan, the USA would have learned its lessons by now and do its utmost to avoid engaging in a war with IRAN
However with social media politics there is no diplomacy in our world to day. Rather we will kill you, unless you agree to our negotiations.
You would have thought that the united nations security council would not be silent.
Where are we with this new Israel attack?
Israel is well on the way to a unravelling state.
The very idea of what Israel is or should be is divide at its core.
The myths of military invincibility has been pierced by Iran.
Its once loyal allies are showing discomfort with its genocide in Gaza.
At long last we are beginning to see global opinions of Israel claim to self defence turning sour.
Its educated population is looking to get out and inward investment is coming to a halt.
Co existing with in is cracking.
God only knows that to be a secured nation, religious beliefs must have freedom of practice, privately, to be protected under a written constitution, but not have any privilege position within a nation government.
Donald Trump America first is a joke.
All of those that lick his behind for the sake of reduced tariffs are doing so in the blood of innocent children and women looking for food.
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Yes he is the elected president of the USA not of the World.
It is disgraceful, disgusting, to see Davies EU leaders cow tailing to a man facing more than 80 criminal charges and lying through his teeth, while threatening the world with economic and environmental disaster.
I am done with his retro of American First.
It’s time Europe told the loud mouthing ass hole to get stuffed.
There is no such thing as American First without a cost.
The world has more problems than profits seeking algorithms, going to Mars, electric cars, drilling for oil, renaming Gulf, or threatening tariffs ( which will be payed not by foreign companies, but by Americans)
Just one person living on the street is evidence of the unpalatable politics of capitalism, flipping heck give us some hope than wall to wall misery.
With or without a nazi saluting Elon Musk Europe must after two world wars make it clear in no uncertain terms to Mr Dump to stick his ego driven verbal diarrhoea diplomacy back up his ass where the sun does not shine. ( By the way Mr Musk is not an American citizen)
As Demosthenes ( c 384 -322bc) said
“ There is one safeguard, which is an advantage and security for all, especially to democracies against despots. “
What is it?
Distrust.
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With Artificial Intelligence this is a question that all countries are going to have to address within the next ten to twenty years.
For New Zealand this question is arriving in more ways than one simply question.
Grappling to this day with an agreement that dates back to 1840 (which was ment to be a partnership between the British crown and the indigenous Maori, not the other way around) New Zealand find itself politically in no man’s land.
The Maori signed a treaty written in both English and the Maori language called the Waitangi.
The current Treaty Principles Bill debate reveals a fundamental constitutional reality:
NEW ZEALAND existence is based on an imperial treaty and this treaty predates the emergence of its parliamentary democracy.
The treaty needs to be understood in the context of the age of revolution and an emerging imperial era in which European empires negotiated many treaties with each other and indigenous peoples.
So the treaty to day needs to be read in its immediate New Zealand context and British constitution history, which is based on the Magna Carta dated 1215. ( The English constitution has never been written in a single document.)
The Waitangi treaty like all British treaties points to the English notions of empire, with imbedded privilege in a graduated social hierarchy of mutual obligations- noblesse obliged.
Therefore it cannot be squashed into a later democratic paradigm of individuals with equal citizenship as the Act Party’s Bill might prefer it was.
The truth if faced, is that the treaty arose in a completely different context from the present, but still is the foundation to New Zealand constitutional arrangements with the crown. This is the position and will remain so till New Zealand stand on its own two feet and its people are no longer surf to an unelected monarchy.
This means that the treaty principles are tied to their historical foundations.
You could say that treaty settlement have done much to re-establish tribal collective identities but they do not have the right to exhaust the ongoing treaty based rights of the indigenous people- Maori who were a free people.
(Democracy itself is a Johnny come lately on the global stage, not more than a few centuries back old.) It remains the best way to co- ordinate a multi- ethnic society, but it must reflect local agreement and histories.
While New Zealand retains King Charles as head of state the British government has ongoing obligations to the indigenous peoples on which its authority is based.
Edmund Burke’s 1790 conservative policies sum up the position New Zealand finds itself in.
Society is indeed a contract… it becomes a partnership not only between those who are alive, but between those who are living and those who are dead and those who are yet to be born.
Of course New Zealand has moved on since 1840. However we all know forget the past and the present makes on sense.
We all know that stupidity is more dangerous than malice treaties. They cause civil wars, apartheid, and genocides.
Because of the very nature of treaties they lead to race politics.
Millions have died because of treaties, millions have lived because of treaties.
New Zealand problem is not who owns what land, rather race politics is and continues to divide the country.
This is also the problem with North Ireland.
A land that was taken forcibly by the English in return for a peace treaty that caused a civil war, the establishment of a apartheid state with years of killings and a new recent treaty call Good Friday. (Written in English and not Gaelic the language of the original inhabitants.)
If there’s no written constitution that enshrined equality, every decade that passes the meaning of treaties change.
This is why the need for a written constitution is paramount to interpreting any agreement/treaty.
We have and are entering a new era of digital information and Laws and the way we use them with Artificial Intelligence are developing a style of their own.
People have to be with in hearing range of each other firstly to have any agreements.
In order to unify any people/nation in the world of artificial intelligence’s there will have to be a citizen equal act against any platform, digital citizenship, algorithms greed/ profit and climate change mitigation taking precedence over the vote.
The only way to have a large-scale political conversation among diverse groups of people is to set out the terms and conditions in an agreed constitution.
The key misconception here is that we equate elections to democratic outcomes but a liberal democratic citizenship with Artificial Intelligence can only be achieved with an Equal Citizenship Act that is enshrined in a written constitution.
It could be said that Democracy is at a tipping points. Yes democracy governments are messy. They have so many demands on them that their elected members are not in touch with reality.
Whether his is true or not social media is distracting and distancing us from the real problems, giving rise to populism.
History is full of examples as to what happens when the Democratic process brakes down.
New Zealand with all its faults / beauty / expenses remains one of the best countries to settle in, and it must do everything possible to remain so by not becoming another Hong Kong abandon by the British Empire it must establish its independence internationally.
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As an independent institution the life mission of a parliamentarian within in government is to stay relevant within a parliament.
This is not the problem it is the first issue to solving the problems with democracy.
If we don’t wake up to what is happening with elections we will get nothing from democratic elected government.
It is time we all stand up together for equality, accountability, and transparency not wealth, and definitely not Democracy by self learning self correcting algorithms that have and are penetrated all of democracies institutions.
If we don’t take actions now it’s going to be a nightmare with parasitic profits seeking algorithms feeding on the bodies of our nations.
For an Algorithm to operate efficiently it must update its data /input constantly and have everything specify for its object.
If not it will make out of date decisions. Even if it is self learning or uses reinforcing learning, it will end up as a narrow Algorithm if it doesn’t have up to date data.
This is why it won’t be long before algorithms will be writing their own syntactic data and code, creating other algorithms, with tailored recommendations and content curation.
This is perhaps the main difference between democratic authoritarianism algorithms and self correcting elections.
( Both are run by wealth, rather than any real choice that is free of contamination by either data or money)
This is why governments are incapable of achieve anything the electorate wants – ie reducing inequalities -climate change- wars – cheap housing etc,
Why?
Because only 2% of the population is represented in elections, which are decided and rigged by wealth, not wisdom, selecting the candidates for elections in the first place in safe seats constitutional voting.
Our problem in solving problems is that our only guidance is the past.
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The past shows that with each and every invention of technology inequality increases.
Except perhaps the smartphone which changed a great deal of what was wrong within the free marketplace- ie curbing corruption.
Unfortunately all of these profits seeking algorithms are and will continue to widen the inequality gaps.
In fact inequality is at its greatest since World War Two because the free market is no longer free but governable by algorithms trading.
Everything you see and do on the Web is a product of Algorithms exploiting data that we feed them for free.
Perpetuating social bias, optimising everything, putting control into the hands of a few, to predict market movements, portfolios performance, credit risk etc.
AI is naught but algorithms but as to how or whom should own/ control these algorithms is very much a pending question.
If that data is slightly changed the results could be small or catastrophic.
Luckily to days AI ( even with all the hype surrounded its future ) can’t actually think for itself.
We don’t have and are very unlikely to have in the short term to have anything like that.
However as with most things that threaten us we are in a caught up situation.
It is too late to close the gate on AI as the world would not be able to function. This of course is an absolute lie.
We must preserve our innate cognitive abilities by critically assess the role of technology in our lives.
What would happen if the technology world collapsed?
Would we be back to square one?
Yes.
Our vote had no relationship with the candidates standing for election they are selected by money donors.
Yes– the roads would turn into chaotic parking lots .
Yes – our hospital without AI powered tools, would collapse.
Yes – the economy would tank.
Yes – If it existed there would be long queues at the gates of heaven.
Yes – there would be a world war.
Yes – no one would remember the internet.
Yes – religiousindoctrination would increase.
Yes – we would release that we were too reliant on outsourcing our brains to machines.
Yes- Not even would AI be relevant.
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This is and has always been a fantasy, even with Artificial Intelligence it will remain so.
Why?
Because truth is always believed by fallible humans and Ai no matter what form it takes will never be sentient to become infallible. The world will be gone apeshit long before that will happen.
However caution had been throw to the wind when it comes to AI. All that is now need is infinite more computing power and infinite more data and hold and below we have a self learning Algorithm that will be Pope.
This is where we become unhinged.
As we are all taking the AI advancements for granted why not take this fantastic fantasise at face value.
Because when a rapid downfall in the use of Artificial Intelligence starts to bit the profit of profit seeking algorithms, governments and us will begin to see the environmental disaster ( that predictive algorithms economic manipulation is doing for short term gain)
Nothing grows exponentially for ever.
The planet cannot be paved with datacenter.
Is the Pope a Catholic.
It’s now or never we take back control and stuff all unsustainable Ai back in its box.
Before we are ruled by megalomaniacs that are unaccountable to any democratic transparency other than wealth.
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