The world is going silent but not empty however it is getting freaking louder about the real crimes against humanity.

Rachel Carson, she said, shortly before dying of breast cancer in 1964.

“Man’s attitude toward nature is today critically important simply because we have now acquired a fateful power to alter and destroy nature. But man is a part of nature, and his war against nature is inevitably a war against himself? We are challenged as mankind has never been challenged before to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.”

Fifty years on, the impacts of what she said have become a reality. We are living in: the contamination of the food chain, cancer, genetic damage, the deaths of entire species.

Why? Because of Profit for Profit sake. 

Whether we are documenting the crisis or not, it is happening at an accelerating rate.

“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more than a moment. And sound stopped and movement stopped for much, much more than a moment.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence.”
― Leonardo da Vinci 

In the final analysis, words mean nothing.

They are labels we give things in an effort to wrap our puny little brains around their underlying natures when ninety-nine per cent of the time the totality of the reality is an entirely different beast. 

When images become inadequate what we are seeing as “nature” is vastly impoverished compared to what people saw just a generation years ago, even if we are only dimly aware of it,

There was no debate. Silence. 

We have allowed the material cares of this world to plug our ears. Can you imagine if any leader went on TV and announced the economy is going to completely collapse for 2 years?  People would panic.

The prevailing belief is that even in the face of collapse, you must always point in the other direction.

The vast majority of us are born into debt and die in debt.

Hopefully, now we are in the downtrend of that cycle and the world will start to value when is common to all on this Earth. Clean Air, Water and Energy. 

So on the eleventh hour, of the eleventh day, of the eleventh month the guns fell silent. Where are those who will shatter the silence?

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There is no doubt that we are all in this together.

Neil Armstrong wrote a letter to the folks at the Johnson Space Center, to thank them for their part in sending him safely to the moon. 

We all know, there is a large measure of calculation in what public figures do. 

We are all under duress so your influence on us all at this time is of paramount importance.

So let me tell you that I felt a very unusual sensation listing to you all, if it was not indigestion, I think it must be gratitude.

And by the way, I’m wearing the smile that you gave me.

Go raibh maith agat.

Ten-minute read.

Pandemic is used to describe a serious disease that is spreading in an uncontrolled way around the world.

Whether we are in the grips of a Pandemic or not over the past three years in the real world we have seen national polarisation serve as the midwife of political paralysis countries. 

With the outbreak of this virus, this is the time for all political parties across the world to realize that their true allegiance is to the people who elected them and not to the special interests that have them in their grip.  GDP at all costs. 

Hence, the overarching theme in this post is that it is time for the political class to shed their differences and ensure that democracy works in practice and not only in theory.

We are all aware that the Coronavirus has no political preferences, no respects for borders, leaving us to tackle seemingly overwhelming issues by contrasting “political paralysis”

This virus will redefine the world “from a place where nobody sees and nobody cares, into a place where compassion is a possibility and change something that has been hoping for centuries – Equality – and not insulated connectivity.  

Unfortunately, our smartphones tell us what you feel does not matter; what you believe is ridiculous; what you envision is worthless; just sit back and let profit-seeking algorithm or your own fear take over. 

Such self-numbed people will see themselves as perpetual victims of the Coronavirus.

Their sense of victimization does not allow them to see that they are in charge—of their own choices.

But you know what?

We now see governments using the Pontius Pilate tactic of claiming that just one person, one average person, can do the right thing to make the world better by washing their hands before and after stripping the supermarket shelves clean. 

The only logical option is passivity, surrender, and despair as we watch the capitalist system but profit before the health of a nation.  

Of course, this is not quite true but it won’t be long before the virus if not controlled will show us the power of consumerism.

It will show us the worthlessness of selfishness, of passing up every opportunity to actually address inequality. The value low-paid work.

Believe me, it will turn invisible activism into the kind of wedge that can topple a giant.

So this one historical moment might propel inequality to centre stage.

We don’t have to be perfect saints or know every answer to every question to begin working for a more just world.

Remember the words take back sovereignty, America first, were confused until they became synonymous with I am all right Jack.

Luckily the EU and Britain are now preoccupied with the Corona Virus so the Brexit deadline will most likely be extended again.

Perhaps limbo is not such a terrible place when the alternative is hell.

While excepting that Britain voted by a slim margin to leave the EU it now has what can only be called a complete rupture with reality, rushing towards its expulsion of the EU with no deal while Rishi Sunak turns on taps with £30bn splurge that could and more than likely tip the nation into such unbridled chaos it won’t be long before to hear a human voice say my name; to be touched: that would mean the world to me.

The problem is not that we have so little power. The problem is that we don’t use the power that we have.

I go to a food bank every two weeks to get my food. I have no car. I can’t carry two weeks worth of food the three miles back to my house.

Though these points might sound cynical and gloomy, the key aspect here is that the political systems around the world have become immune to change and instead, have fallen prey to gridlock and policy paralysis leading to indifference and apathy.

And then what?

Hang on! What about debt? 

Pawnshop of treasury bonds loans might seem like a good option for fast cash when you need it, but they could end up costing much more than anticipated.

The UK has the sixth-largest government debt of advanced economies.

If you were doing it right, you’d know, because camera crews will appear at your front door.

So don’t look around to make sure someone is watching do the right thing. 

Take the Climate change crisis. Tomorrow’s emergencies today. Syria: It’s not over ‘til it’s over. Yemen 

It’s not enough to recycle our bottles. We Must Stop Global Warming Now and bring a halt to wars that are displacing millions. 

Viruses are not just bacteria but unregulated AI, Wars, Greed, Sovereign Wealth Funds, High-Frequency trading, Inequality. 

This post is also intended as a fact-checking against potentially false pictures, videos and stories. 

You can report false Facebook content—here.

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There’s no unending cycle of debt

(Three-minute read) 

The World Health Organization (WHO) has just declared the Corona Virus a Pandemic.

Should we be concerned?

You bet we should Pandemic is just not a word from the Greek pan (“all”) and demos (“people”), they have killed billions.

In modern-day terms, it refers to the spread of a disease, not its potency or deadliness but to its self-sustaining lines of infection. 

What does that mean?

Never mind the annual global cost to the world economy are we now to witness’s the uncontained global spread of this virus has obvious serious consequences.

It’s important to know the differences between these two terms.

Pandemic refers to an epidemic that has spread over several countries or continents, usually affecting a large number of people.

The term Epidemic is often broadly used to describe any problem that has grown out of control.

From an epidemiologic standpoint, terms like these direct the public health response to better control and prevent disease.

Their usages are not inappropriate in the modern context, however, they can cause confusion.

While the level of disease occurrence can be described in many ways, it is primarily defined by the below measurable factors:

• The pattern and speed by which a disease moves (known as the reproduction rate
• the virus’s incubation period)
• The size of the susceptible population (known as the critical community size)

• While the terms may suggest that there is a specific threshold by which an event is declared an outbreak, epidemic, or pandemic, the distinction is often blurred.
• Epidemic suggests a disease that is out of control. 
• Pandemic is the need for international cooperation.

By contrast, a plague is not an epidemiologic term but one that refers specifically to a contagious bacterial disease characterized by fever and delirium, such as the bubonic plague.

Smallpox is the only human disease that has been eradicated to date.

We now need to to know region by region with total transparency.

There are four coronaviruses that already circulate in human beings. They cause the common cold, and we don’t have vaccines for any of them.

All bullshit must be removed from social media.

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The continuing exponential deterioration of the world environment — the greenhouse effect, ozone layer depletion, desertification, exponential human population growth, air and water pollution, the pollution of the world’s oceans, loss of topsoil, the continuing loss of ancient forests throughout the world, and the rate of species extinction.

The violence already done to the earth is on a scale beyond all understanding….  how the industrial media have been able to convince so many people that if they just recycle they are “doing their part” for the environment, while they continue with their high-consumption lifestyles and all the other environmentally destructive practices that take place in industrial growth societies.

The wild ecosystems and species on the earth have intrinsic value and the right to exist and flourish and are also necessary for the ecological health of the planet and the ultimate well-being of humans.

Humanity must drastically scale down its industrial activities on Earth, change its consumption lifestyles, stabilize and then reduce the size of the human population by humane means, and protect and restore wild ecosystems and the remaining wildlife on the planet.

IN THIS NEW AGE OF visions promote mega technology solutions to economic and environmental ills and propose massive high-tech global management and development schemes for the biosphere.

We just don’t get it with piecemeal political/economic/legal/technological approaches to protecting the environment.

Depressing, isn’t it?

So to cheer you up here is my Christmas greeting.

THEY SAY THAT THE FIRST ATOM WAS CREATED BY THE BIG BANG.

This photograph shows a single positively-charged strontium atom (An alkaline earth metal, strontium is a soft silver-white yellowish metallic element that is highly chemically reactive) suspended in an electric field between two metal electrodes.

What is amazing here is that we’re looking at is actually the particle emitting light.

To my feeble scientific mind, an electric field is a vector field that shows the direction that a positively charged particle will move when placed in the field.

Vector fields are useful for describing things that we cannot see, such as magnetic attraction and gravity but not time.

My feeble scientific mind again.

As it is impossible to create energy out of nothing (Energy can’t be created or destroyed) it had to be present or introduced before the big bang, therefore time had to have had a power that converted into light.

But there is no evidence for or against the universe having an infinitely long past.

Unfortunately, the Big bang cannot give any direct information about the actual origins of the universe. It only supplies evidence of the start of the expansion which is still visibly in progress because of its light “signature.”

If the universe is or was expanding, then the natural conclusion is that if you were to rewind the universe, you’d see that it must have begun in a tiny, dense clump of matter. A singularity a hypothetical moment in time. 

The problem with this line of thinking however, is that the theory of general relativity can’t describe what came before the singularity, which should exist at the point in time just before the Big Bang.

So what we see as time also started with the Big bang, so there is nothing before it.

There is nothing for the big bang to grab hold of in nothing, therefore the Big Bang was nothing blowing up.

The quandary is:

Nothing can create Something and Something cannot turn into Nothing. 

So, the universe is just time in an amagnetic field called space, (which is an absence of mass or vacuum) but it is not static because of time.

Space can’t move with respect to time—the time is time governing all existence however there isn’t in my mind even a common time in the entire universe.

Each universe comes with its own time.

A narrative that’s recreated after the event but does not have any boundary or edge as it is incapable of going backwards.

Even space-time itself is a product of the special early stage of the universe.

The ultimate origin of the arrow of time, which is the asymmetry of the world in time, is still a bit contentious.

Is time an emergent property or a fundamental property?

Enter Quantum Mechanics.

Even if you have empty space—no matter, no light—quantum mechanics says it cannot be truly empty.

Here is a picture of time.

Holt disagreed.

“Is that really nothing?” he asked.”There’s no space and there’s no time. But what about physical laws, what about mathematical entities? What about consciousness? All the things that are non-spatial and non-temporal.

“Charles Seife, author of “Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea” (Penguin Books, 2000). He proposed starting with a set of numbers that included only the number zero, and then removing zero, leaving what’s called a null set. “It’s almost a Platonic nothing,” Seife said.

Ultimately, the definition of nothing may just be an ever-moving target, shifting with every scientific revolution as new insights show us what we thought was nothing is really something.

“Maybe nothing will never be resolved,” Tyson said.

But something is moving. “It has a topology, it has a shape, it’s a physical object.”

If there were a true “nothing”, no matter, no energy, no spacetime, then that nothing would be unstable and would begin generating matter, energy, and an expanding spacetime. This is the central thesis of books such as The Grand Design and A Universe From Nothing, which posits that the universe can be explained without reference to a supernatural creator deity.

Saying it was a god doesn’t help.

The same question exists, but now you add a whole new set about where the god came from.

The very first particles of light had to come from somewhere.

The fact is, it is not possible to know exactly what the initial light-source was. It came from in some hidden sector of the universe that we can’t see or touch.

Confused!

This is where it becomes even more than wired.

What time is it?

So if the universe shouldn’t exist, why is it here?

The creation of virtual particles. These are the tiny particles that leave even physicists drooling.

In the field of quantum mechanics, all fundamental forces are carried by particles.

The universe as being filled with a quantum fluid. This fluid might be composed of gravitons—hypothetical massless particles that mediate the force of gravity.

For instance, light is made up of massless particles called photons that carry the electromagnetic force. Likewise, the graviton is the theoretical particle that would carry the force of gravity.

And so God created the universe by creating the quantum field, therefore, atheists have merely moved the question from who created matter, to who created the quantum field?

The fact remains something can not come from nothing.

Even the subatomic particle called the Higgs boson is the product of something.

It is a superpartner particle for all the currently known particles.

They are all involved in chemical bonding which needs a motion in the form of a vibration.

Where did this vibration come from?  Time.

Within the emptiness of this vibration, over time temperatures came into existence with one vibration rubbing up against another creating an electric field, in which magnetic forces are observable. As superpartner particles destroy each other, we get packets of pure energy or particles of light known as photons. A phonon is a quantity of energy found within a vibration.

There is nothing at all strange about the reality of light existing independent of the heavenly bodies.

So, in reality, it is quite beyond Empirical Science (i.e. observable by the scientific method) to claim that they can happen without space or time.

There doesn’t have to be a reason for things existing, nor is there any need for supernatural beings of any kind, Space, matter, energy and forces behave the way they do on their own.

Or is everything happening in your head, the world around you is in your brain?

It’s based upon data created by your sensory organs but it’s still just a sensory construct in your brain and you don’t see reality as it truly is.

First, the universe had to expand and cool down sufficiently for the matter to condense out of the energy following the rule E=mc^2 while the Quantum equation predicts the universe has no beginning it existed forever.

Quantum Matmatice now seems to tell us that it is possible to exist in two places at once.

The universe finally became cool enough for true matter to form; this was when the universe also became transparent, allowing photons to travel, which is what you and I are made of today…trillions of neutrinos stream through your body at any given moment.

So God is outside of time and space, outside the universe and does not have a beginning, but we know the universe has a beginning and will have an end.

Are we look for a new messiah in technology?

Does this mean that we will know the truth for sure?

Absolutely not.

Quantum mechanics can give you the probability to go from one state to another state, in a way that involves summing over possible intermediate states.

The probability sum which tells you the odds of starting with “nothing” and arriving at “a universe like the present”, is then something like a sum over all those possible universes that start at a point and expand to become like the universe we see.

The Big Bounce.

There might never have been such a thing as nothing.

If the environment were different, the probability is that we just wouldn’t be here.

If something falls into a black hole and is eventually squeezed to a singularity, what happens to the information it contained?

Without this information, the reality you see is an illusion. Time will tell.

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( A twenty-minute read before you vote)

This post is COMPLEMENTS to a list compiled by MATT TURNBULL.

His list may shock you, but it does not shock me as there is plenty of evidence of a deeper problem. in the UK. His list, in fact, confirms that the referendum to leave the EU has little to do with with the Eu in the first place.

Anyway, before we see England elect the mother of all hung parliaments.

No amount of lever pulling, within the current paradigm, will get England anywhere but back to where it was. England has hocked most of the economy to save a broken and out of date system of governance.

Even before approaching the management of its miserable plight it needs a written constitution.

It is clear to me there are two big things happening in the world:

A tech revolution that started with the internet, but has now spread to everything from materials science to medicine to robotics; and a green revolution, that started with carbon reduction and is now changing the way people run businesses and live their lives.

Bigger structural changes on the horizon because society as a whole has barely yet to recognise the symptoms of climate change.

We are the only species that ROUTINELY overrule natural imperatives.

The tragedy of Brexit in waiting is that the process may be irreversible while it sheds the need to playing world superpower and gain a modest outlook on its position in a world of change.

It needs to create its own value and reinvest that value not in isolation but within the European community to which it belongs.

In fairness to MATT TURNBULL (I have added below the top motivations of the leave vote) which he will be sharing every day until 12th December supported by his headline comment.

“Nothing else really explains it better. Ignore the bluff, the lies, the spin, the opinion and the outright ridiculous and stick to the facts. This is where we are. Do we let it continue?”

Here is his list: 2010-2019, in case you missed it…

1,000 sure start centres closed.
780 libraries closed.
700 football pitches closed.
Foodbank use up 2,400%.
Homelessness up 1,000%.
Rough sleeping up 1,200%
Bedroom tax caused mass evictions.
Evictions are running at record highs.
35% of U.K. kids live in poverty.
Student fees up 300%.
Student debt has risen by 150%.
Eradication of EMA (education maintenance allowance).
The national debt has risen from £850billion to £2.25trillion.
Emergency Brexit stimulus from BoE in June 2016 of £175b.
Brexit related fall in national revenue of £500b.
GDP has fallen to -0.1%.
GBP fell by circa 15% versus EUR and USD.
Manufacturing in recession.
Construction in recession.
Services close to recession.
25-30% cuts to all govt departments.
25-30% cuts to all councils, mainly centred on Labour councils.
Half of the councils facing effective bankruptcy.
185k extra deaths attached to the political ideology of austerity.
25,000 less police.
20,000 fewer prison officers.
10,000 fewer border officials.
10,000 fewer firefighters.
10,000 less medical professionals.
25,000 fewer bed spaces for mental illness.
OECD calculate 3 million hidden unemployed, the rate is really 13%.
Creation of 1.3m jobs, mainly temporary, the self-employed, gig economy and ZHC.
Only 30k full-time work positions created.
Close on 50% of workers are self-employed, ZHC, or part-time precariat.
80% of the 5.3 million self-employed live below the poverty line.
35% of self-employed only earn £100 a month.
25% cuts for our disabled community.
80% cuts to Mobility allowance.
Closing Remploy.
40% of working households have practically no savings.
70% of households have less than 10k savings.
60% of households can only survive 2 months without a wage.
Household debt reaches a new peak, despite emergency base rates.
Increase of 50% in hate crimes.
Increase of knife crime by 150% to 22,000 per year.
Increase in teenage suicide by 70%.
Suicide up 12% in the year 2018.
Self-harm among young women up 70%.
Life expectancy down 3 years.
NHS satisfaction level at lowest recorded rate.
Council home building down 90%.
200k social homes lost since 2010.
Zero starter homes built, despite Tory flagship programme.
Council home building down 90%.
200k social homes lost since 2010.
One million families on council home waiting list.
100,000 increase on the council home waiting list since 2010.
36,000 teachers have left the profession.

….. and we now have MORE BILLIONAIRES IN THE UK THAN EVER BEFORE!!!!

Why England should leave the EU.

Brexit, in all scenarios, means a departure from the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and its subsidy and regulatory regime.

The UK will be obtaining exclusive national fishing rights over its Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) up to 200 miles from the coast.

Depending on the terms of Brexit, it may be easier for future UK governments to change environmental standards.

It is uncertain how Brexit will affect UK energy policy.

It is far too early to say what impact Brexit will have on aviation, shipping, public transport including rail and bus, and road haulage.

The UK already maintains its own border controls. It is not part of the internal border-free Schengen Area, so free movement is a myth. Entitlement to welfare benefits for people moving between the EU Member States is closely linked to free movement rights.

The UK currently has an opt-out arrangement with the EU on policing and criminal justice measures, whereby it can choose which measures to opt in to.

A UK withdrawal from the EU would mean that the UK no longer has to comply with the human rights obligations of the EU Treaties.

Reciprocal access to healthcare through the European Health Insurance Card could be jeopardised.

Brexit could mean the Government will not have to provide student loans or maintenance funding for EU students, which would save money.

Consumer protection in the UK is currently a complex combination of EU and national law. A huge amount of UK consumer protection regulation is derived from the EU.

Foreign and defence policy; Acting through the EU means a larger aid budget, the promise of access to the largest consumer market in the world and a louder political voice. All of these can be significant ‘soft power’ tools in the pursuit of European interests. If the UK no longer co-ordinates its policy with the Member States, it will lose access to these shared tools.

International development; The UK channels funds for development cooperation and humanitarian aid through two budget lines, both of them managed by the European Commission:

The devolved legislatures: With Brexit, there could be further policy and legislative divergence in areas of devolved competence, as the UK Government and Devolved Administrations will no longer be required to implement the common requirements of EU Directives.

AND:

The EU threatens British sovereignty.

The EU is strangling the UK in burdensome regulations.

The EU entrenches corporate interests and prevents radical reforms.

The EU was a good idea, but the euro is a disaster.

The EU allows too many immigrants.

The UK could have a more rational immigration system outside the EU

The UK could keep the money it currently sends to the EU.

All human comments appreciated. All like clicks and abuse chucked in the bin.