THE BEADY EYE HAS A LOOK AT DARK MATTER.

 

We live in a dramatic epoch of astrophysics.

Breakthrough discoveries like exoplanets, gravitational waves from merging black holes, or cosmic acceleration seem to arrive every decade, or even more often.

It is not often you are offered a chance to become    E=mc²

Dark matter is thought to represent 80% of the matter of the universe, but its nature remains unknown.

Here is a helping hand.

Regular’ matter – the stuff we can see and that makes up stars, planets, rocks, gas clouds and dust – only accounts for a small fraction of the total mass in our Universe. Scientists call this ‘regular’ matter baryonic matter, so-called because it is made up of particles called baryons.

Carl Sagan popularized the notion that we are all made of star stuff.

While dark energy is a hypothetical form of energy that permeates all of space and tends to increase the rate of expansion of the universe. Dark energy is the most popular way to explain recent observations that the universe appears to be expanding at an accelerating rate.

The Universe is constantly expanding with neutron star merging forming Galaxies consisted predominantly of matter. It changes, creating new structures that merge while space itself does not change, it is said to be static, while time goes on.

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Dark matter is all around us but no one knows what dark matter actually is.

For decades, physicists have been working on the theory that dark matter is light and therefore interacts weakly with ordinary matter. It might come in two flavors, matter and anti-matter, that annihilate and emit high energy radiation when coming into contact.

Dark matter is thought to be the gravitational “glue” that binds the galaxies together.

5% the universe consists of known material such as atoms and subatomic particles.

The rest of the universe is believed to consist of dark energy.

The vast majority of the dark matter in the universe is believed to be non baryonic, which means that it contains no atoms and that it does not interact with ordinary matter via electromagnetic forces.

In astronomy and cosmology, dark matter is hypothetical matter that is undetectable by its emitted radiation, but whose presence can be inferred from gravitational effects on visible matter.

Dark energy is believed to be responsible for the current rate of the expansion of the Universe.

Despite all their initiatives no dark particle has yet been detected.

It could be that we are looking in the wrong place.

Now I am no physicist but maybe dark matter is of a different character and needs to be looked for in a different way.

This is where you come in as the philosophy of physics needs to change.

The universe may have existed forever long before the Big Bang.

However in general relativity, one possible fate of the universe is that it starts to shrink until it collapses in on itself in a big crunch and becomes an infinitely dense point once again.

This to my simple mind seems (as with the infinite expansion of the Universe) this is codswallop.  Even if the universe is filled with a quantum fluid it must have come from somewhere.  ( Quantum Physics is probabilistic and for the most part confined to the scale of atoms.) You have to ask where did the fluid come from. Not to mention that Maths can explain only what happened immediately after—not at or before—the singularity or the Big Bang.

The nature of the dark matter predicted by inflation is a profound and unresolved puzzle.

The problem appears to be that the further you go into Space there are no longer any gravitationally bound objects and that all that is expanding is being held together by Dark Matter.

There are currently two choices.

Either the dark matter consists of ordinary, baryonic matter, or else it consists of some more exotic form of matter.

But most dark matter could not be baryonic, what other forms could it take?

It’s not a Vibration of one Universe rubbing against another. This could be measures.

It’s not a MACHO which is a body composed of normal baryonic matter that emits little or no radiation and drifts through interstellar space unassociated with any planetary system.

It’s not a Magnetic field. This can be measures.

It is invisible. This is actually why we can’t see it.

Is it a weak nuclear force. There must be many dark matter particles passing through the Earth all the time.

The neutrino is assumed to be practically massless, but a finite mass is not implausible.

There are so many neutrinos left over from the big bang.

We know how much dark energy there is because we know how it affects the Universe’s expansion.

This diagram reveals changes in the rate of expansion since the universe’s birth 15 billion years ago. The more shallow the curve, the faster the rate of expansion. The curve changes noticeably about 7.5 billion years ago, when objects in the universe began flying apart as a faster rate. Astronomers theorize that the faster expansion rate is due to a mysterious, dark force that is pulling galaxies apart.Universe Dark Energy-1 Expanding Universe

More is unknown than is known.  Other than that, it is a complete mystery.

What could the dark matter be?

Important as dark matter is believed to be in the universe, direct evidence of its existence and a concrete understanding of its nature have remained elusive.

Hot Dark Matter (HDM), Warm Dark Matter (WDM), and Cold Dark Matter (CDM); some combination of these is also possible.

All suggestions as the where or what to look for at welcome.

I would mention that we are all aware of the God Particle.

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THE BEADY EYE WONDERS WHAT SORT OF DEMOCRACY DO YOU THINK WE HAVE.

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We all know that democracy comes in many forms.Afficher l'image d'origine

The question however is, what (if any) form is worthwhile having or is what we have worth keeping.

I ask this because we are now traveling in some of the Earth,s most unforgiving environments where consensus democracy is just beginning to take hold.

We are entering a period in the world thanks to Social Media where old grudges are arising to the surface and are now threatening to destabilize world peace.

We are also entering a biomedical and silicon society with the recombinant DNA enabling the manipulation of life as its genetic essence.

Physics and Math with the help of computer power is not only revealing how the world works but how the Universe was formed with magnificent and dangerous ways to exploit it.

Perhaps because we are the invasive species of all it’s time we have to ask ourselves is Science and the game changing technology collaborating to destroy democracy or enhance it.  

Is it still true to say:

Compared to dictatorships, oligarchies, monarchies and aristocracies, in which the people have little or no say in who is elected and how the government is run, a democracy is often said to be the most challenging form of government, as input from those representing citizens determines the direction of the country. The basic definition of democracy in its purest form comes from the Greek language: The term means “rule by the people.” But democracy is defined in many ways — a fact that has caused much disagreement among those leading various democracies as to how best to run one.

Our governments have made education a chain and ball of debt that locks the mind into materialism.

Instead of looking after their citizens they put ( under the miss comprehension that growth will cure-all ) the Economy first when they should be hanging their heads in shame when one citizen through no fault of his or her own lives life and died in poverty.

There is little point in maintaining a nuclear deterrent if you have to live out you life on the bread line. What’s the point if you all but wiped out before the button is pressed.

I recently visited Singapore Zoo.  The youngest zoo in the world.

It sported a simulated Rainforest, a tropical Polar Bear and hundred of school children which will never see any of the Zoo residents in the wild. I could not shake the feeling that I was looking at our feeble attempts to show what was left of values. Perhaps it is because I was seeing a generation becoming bereft of connection to nature.

The caused of our separation from all these things pervade every aspect of our lives.

The rise of personal computer in the form of smart phones solely promoting free-market capitalism rather than equality, and values that count.

Most of us in the west are crying to have our needs met, and eventually adapting to them not being met. Perhaps such an upbringing is necessary in our cultural democracy contex. We are prepared from birth for a competitive dog-eat-dog economy. That expresses itself in greed by the continuing the imperative need to convert all natural and social into money.

All aspects of our present day democratic culture conspire to strip us of our connection and belongingness.

Property rights, Surveillance, Debt based financial systems where money is scarce, religious indoctrination, a legal culture of liability, Racial, ethnic, national chauvinism, deskilling jobs hat leave us as passive helpless consumers of experiences.

An Internet of everything that most impertantly is a metaphysics that tells us that we are discrete, separate selves in a universe of others.

As this world of separation crumbles so will Democracy.

Because of the atmosphere of scarcity is everywhere everything must change.

To appreciate the sweep of change and magnitude you only have to look at Climate change (perhaps its time to put a monetary value on the sky and people will not treat it like a free dump.) and the billions being spent by the Candidates for the President of the USA.

Ted Cruz $65 million

Mareo Rubio $ 17 million

Jeb Bush $104 million

Ben Carson $39 million

Chris Christie $19 million

Donal Trump $6 Million

Hillary Clinton $100 million

Bernie Sanders $42 million

They are transforming modern-day American democracy into a form of theater and television ads.  The correlation between big money has condensed democracy into buzzwords, glitz, the main currencies attracting attention on our television screens.

With the wealth of the 62 richest people in the word now standing at over $2 trillion which is the cumulative worth of the poor half of the world population we have Google, Facebook, Twitter and other Corporate giants building technologies with artificial neurons that can learn on their own.

These may in time exhibit intelligent behaviours virtually indistinguishable from those of its human masters.

The question is longer what phone should I get? It’s what ecosystem should I join if any as they could all become the same.

Privacy is going out the window.

There are vats of coli bacteria churning out medical insulin, plastic polymers and food additives that might go where they are not wanted.

Limited world resources and being snapped up by sovereign wealth funds and hedge funds.

Algorithms buy and sell share and currencies making a mockery of the stock exchange.

Fusion power is light years away.

Not everybody is happy with the high-tech changes.

The Web is weakened the foundation principles of Democracy or if not reshaping them.

Our World Organisation are out of date, setting in motion a sequence of events that will change the history of life which is one contingent tale, liable to be rerouted at anytime. ( See previous posts)

We left with the question can capitalism Democracy deliver change.

Not on its own as it is based on greed, power, corruption, non transparency, taxies, to name just a few of its ticking cogs. God forbid its is left down to this man.donald Trump

There is only one way we can achieve a better world.

Scrap the United Nations which has become a begging Organisation of worthless resolutions.

Replace it with a World Aid Organisation that is financed by Capitalism with a 0.05% world 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 an Organisation with genuine clout and save Democracy.   

I hope this blog will awaken those who are not already conscious. All comments welcome.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S TEN OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE DON’T SUFFER A COLLAPSE IN VALUES FOR NO REASON.

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A one minute Easter Read.

Is it because we can’t handle the truth or is it because religious beliefs are dying in a world driven by materialism.

Most people would have a difficult time telling you, specifically, what the values are that they live by.

They have never given the matter much thought.They would probably, in the end, decide not to answer in terms of a definitive list of values.

The reason for this decision is itself one very modern-day value—their belief that every individual is so unique that the same list of values could never be applied to all, or even most, of their fellow citizens.

“I personally chose which values I want to live my own life by.”

Wrong!  Because the different behaviors of a people or a culture make sense only when seen through the basic beliefs, assumptions and values of that particular group.

For example Americans firmly believe that no adult would ever want, even temporarily, to be dependent on another.

There is no arguing that values in society, has dramatically dropped over the past 20 to 30 years. If you look around it is obvious why it is happening.

Technology is reshaping our values.

All worthy things are under attack.

When you look at our current world it seems that the lessons of history count for sweet f .. k all.

Donald Trump peddling another fantasy other than the decline of the United States. ( He appears to think that the solution to everything is a deal.)  Money helps but better quality of life is critical if we are to have a peaceful equitable world.  Just imagine a self-made US president, a self-appointed Putin, and North Korean Dictator and ISIS making a deal.

It’s no wonder that the values in society, have dramatically dropped over the past 20 to 30 years.

It’s been proven for a long time now that you get what you give.

The world to-day has about 25% connected people. The rest are not so connected but Google Fied, Apple strapped, Facebooked with Twittered with the Internet of Everything.  I am Nnot saying that the unconnected are bad or otherwise but they just do not get it through the values they were taught in Schools and Universities who educate for the sake of the Free Market, rather than managing a World that is running out of resources such as fresh water, clean air.

They will never see through the veil of smart phone and selfies to what their possibilities in life are.

It’s a really powerful time, but no one seems to know where we’re at. The majority of the media feed us unadulterated crap, sensualization, while governments pay homage to trade deals and GDP with people sleeping on the streets.

People walk around whining into their smart phones, like relentless strivers living in a gray zone of reality. While the devastation of our world continues for profit at any cost, driving us all to extremes.

This is why we must place an World Aid commission of 0.05% on all High Frequency Trading, on all Foreign Exchange transactions over 20,000$ on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions if we have any chance of changing direction. ( See previous posts)

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Planting a seed today may make many benefits in the future for someone.

The values of giving, sharing, loving, are the values that should be reflected in all you say, do or speak.

Its time to get smart.

To create a new world Organisation that has survival at its heart funded by Capitalism.

All comments welcome.

Happy Easter.

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THE BEAD EYE SAY’S IT TIME TO REPLACE THE OUT OF DATE UNITED NATIONS

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The World faces a range of terrifying crises from the threat of climate change to terrorist breeding grounds.Afficher l'image d'origine

The question is what if anything is our world organisation the United Nations doing about it other than showing its true colour as a failed Organisation which is in need of radical reform or total replacement.Afficher l'image d'origine

The organisation is now a black hole into which thousands of taxpayers money along with human aspirations disappear to be never seen again.

We all know that it has turned into a farce with no accountability and manifestly incompetent in the light of new technology the current situation it finds its self in is in dire need of fresh thinking.

If you look closely there are few countries willing to commit troop to peacekeeping duties. these days the deployment of troops only adds to the problems of a country and do not address the creation of stable and democratic institutions.

Example are abundant in recent years – Mali, Haiti,

United nations troops know nothing about counterterrorism and are under explicit instructions not to engage in it. They lumber along without any clear goals or exit plan diverting attention from deeper socioeconomic problems, crowding out governments, costing billions, with the unnecessary lost of lives.

Soon there is be the election of a new Secretary General.

Its time for all its members not just the permanent members of the security council to evaluate just what they want out of the United Nations.

The organisation is a Remington typewriter in a smart phone world.

If it is going to advance the cause of peace, human rights, development, and climate it needs a leader genuinely committed to reform.

Perhaps it is time for it to merge with Nato. One way or the other we need more than ever a World Organisation that is led by people for ” whom doing the right thing is normal and expected.Rohingya migrants sit on a boat drifting in Thai waters off the southern island of Koh Lipe in the Andaman sea on May 14, 2015. ( AFP PHOTO / Christophe ARCHAMBAULT)

IF THE WORLD IS TO HAVE ANY HOPE AND WE THAT LIVE IN IT ARE TO PASS THE MANTLE OF EQUALITY OF LIFE BEFORE GREED DEVOURS US ALL WE HAVE TO STOP EVOLVING DEMOCRACY BECAUSE OTHER PEOPLE SHARE THE BLAME AND MAKE CAPITALISM PAY RATHER THAN EXPLOITING. (SEE PREVIOUS POSTS)

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THE BEADY EYE IS BACK FROM NEW ZEALAND

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Just back from a month’s visit to the Land of the Long white Cloud- New Zealand.

It has been over a quarter of a century since my last visit which then included South Island unlike this trip spent exclusively in North Island.Afficher l'image d'origine

Over four hundred years before Christopher Columbus and the rest of Europe worried about falling off the edge of the world; Maori people voyaged thousands of miles across the vast unknown Pacific Ocean in small ocean-going canoes and became the first inhabitants of Aotearoa New Zealand.

Unfortunately they sold it for a few glass beads.

To this day, even though there is not one true Maori left their culture is a core part of New Zealand’s national identity.

New Zealand has become a melting-pot population, all living within a Maori Reservation as New Zealand’s coast line is now claimed by the Maori along with all the air above.

Since before Sir Ernest Rutherford ‘split’ the atom early in the twentieth century, Kiwis have been discovering and inventing things.

While frozen meat, the Hamilton Jet boat, and the bungy jump are probably the most famous Kiwi inventions, there are many others. New Zealanders are also responsible for the tranquilliser gun, seismic ‘base’ isolators (rubber and lead blocks which minimise earthquake damage), electric fences, the fastest motorbike in the world, freezer vacuum pumps, stamp vending machines, wide-toothed shearing combs, and the electronic petrol pump – to name a few!

Not to mention the All Blacks the scourge of Northern hemisphere rugby with their secret line out call of throw it in Bro. Afficher l'image d'origine

They also continue to dominate on the world yachting, kayaking, windsurfing and rowing scene.

 Mateship’ — become a prized social value.

To New Zealanders, their big brother across the Tasman Sea in Australia was always brash and exciting. The Kiwis have traditionally flocked west in vast numbers lured by well-paid jobs not so these days. New Zealand has the second-largest diaspora in the world, with well over a  million Kiwis living offshore.

For those of you who might be thinking of dropping in on New Zealand there are a few of my unscientific observations.

You’ll get an idea of how carefully they protect their environment from the strict biosecurity restrictions on what you can bring in to New Zealand when you land at the airport.

So, what can you expect?

Well, if you’ve seen The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit, The Narnia Chronicles or The Piano, you’ll have an idea: soaring mountainscapes, mysterious lakes and rivers, dramatic volcanic plateaus, vast open plains, braided rivers, thermal wonderlands, fiords, native forests, glaciers, miles of farmland and even more miles of glorious coastline with gorgeous sandy beaches…. all that sort of thing.

However driving around the North Island at a speed limit of 100k it is polluted by unnecessary traffic signs and billboards by the thousands with Fast food outlets every 50k.

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Has much changed ?

After two years, $17 million, and more than 10,000 design submissions, voters kept the old flag.

Here above were a few of the contenders.  My favorite is the Kiwi with the rainbow out of its arse which perhaps on reflection should be a sheep.

New Zealand remains a country where you are asked a thousand times a day if you like the country. Why? because it’s a form of reassurance or if you like a frantic exercise of national belly- button studying.

When I say not much has changed  I am overlooking the fact that Auckland is in the process of expansion not upwards but along the coast causing massive tailbacks in and out of the city due to long overdue road works.

Geographically, over three-quarters of the population live in the North Island, with one-third of the total population living in Auckland. At the heart of the Kiwi recovery is the construction boom in Auckland and post-earthquake in Christchurch.

As a result for the moment it is some what hypocritical of New Zealand to present itself as a pristine country that sprays its arrivals with an unknown substance before landing.

Not to worry as New Zealand to-day is a land without the true sense of leisure or sense of the ridiculous.

Show biz hardly exist outside a few pop groups. Restaurants are poor by oversee standards, bars and pubs have lost their pioneering ambiance and are now lost as social centers.

The home is the focus of the nation’s life. They’re so expensive they don’t want to leave them.  They are the Kiwi Mistress not his Castle. The price of housing (which remains for the best part a version of upmarket chantie houses constructed of wood with galvanized roofs) is outrageous.

The country is a vast network of obligations and owed visits.

An x Vietnam veteran summed up the process of assimilation into the New Zealand culture when he informed me it was as simple as studying the phone book for five days.

Verbal communication is still some what a luxury. This is a physical country and words neither do things or mend cars.  The good New Zilder speaks like a ventriloquist with out a dummy. They never use two syllables where one will do.

Kiwis that is young one seem to be in a state of relentless movement.  They are hard works for themselves but spend the rest of the week recovering while in the office. Indeed if there were holdings pins at the entrance to heaven the Kiwi pin would be full of on the spot Joggers.

In the five and a half week of extensively exploring north Island world politics or for that matter home politics was rarely discussed.

It seems that politics is best compared with the septic tank. Septic tanks have an tradition: they are plumbed in with the house. They have no elegance and on wit, thought you may get the occasional gurgle. You don’t talk much about septic tanks. They burble along nicely with a triennial overhaul. Yet they do serve a certain purpose.

With the Mäori population projected to grow to 810,000 or 16.2 per cent of the population by 2026,a nation is not a true nation if it is not accepted and realised as one.

The Treaty of Waitangi is the founding document of New Zealand and there are legislative mechanisms in place to protect the principles of the Treaty and the rights of Mäori as Indigenous people. New Zealand’s history since the signing of the Treaty has been marked by repeated failures to honour these founding promises.

In practice, the level of recognition and protection varies. In my view it is vitally important to the future of New Zealand that all groups in the community engage with the Treaty.

Watch this Space.

Not to be disingenuous New Zealand still remain the closest to paradise as any non Catholic nation is allowed to go. A multitude of minor pleasures if only they could stop the rush to change New Zealand. The trinity of the Dairy Board, the Meat Board and the Wool Board is long dead.

There is no doubt we leave something of ourselves behind when you visit new Zealand. We stay there even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

Selfies is not the way to build a nation.

New Zealand is still as near to a people’s paradise as fallible humanity. It is likely to get even more some if its Air hostess are given early retirement.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS : WILL ENGLAND IN THE FORTHCOMING REFERENDUM ON IN OR OUT OF THE EU SHOOT ITSELF IN THE FOOT

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We all know that there is going to be untold verbal and written diarrhea before the forthcoming Uk Referendum on the question of England staying or leaving the EU.

The debate has gone on so far as if there is a clear vision for what a “leave” vote might mean, which is total hogwash as there is no clear vision of what an EU exit would mean.

The outcome is highly uncertain as there are many unknowns including the timing of the vote and the outcome of the renegotiation.

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There is one thing for sure it will be a long and protracted process.

Quantifying the precise effects of leaving the EU is difficult but here are a few indisputable hard facts whether the vote goes one way or the other.

If there is a vote to exit the UK government has two years to negotiate the terms of withdrawal under Article 50 of the EU Treaty.

So if the referendum is in 2017 it will not be till 2019 that the UK formally exits the EU, but this is not the end of the process.

The UK must pursue a number of third-party negotiations to replace treaties that no longer apply, such as FTAs.

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An exit would mean recasting not only future trade relations with the remaining members of the EU, but also those with the rest of the world, many of which are the result of the EU negotiating as a bloc.

Regulatory divergence would increase over time, affecting trade volumes and reducing the attractiveness of the UK for investment.

The EU is currently negotiating a major new FTA with the United States (the TTIP) – as well as an ‘economic partnership agreement’ (EPA) with Japan. If the UK leaves the EU, it will not benefit from these and other free trade agreements negotiated by the EU in future.

Non-EU members like Norway and Switzerland pay to be part of the European single market.

So retaining access to the single market means accepting all the rules decided by ‘Brussels’ and voted on by full members of the EU.

Those countries, like Norway, Switzerland and Iceland, who want the market access, but stop short of seeking full membership, just have to accept whatever the EU decides.

A British exit from the EU would diminish rather than enhance the country’s standing and influence.

Reduced integration with EU countries is likely to cost the UK economy far more than is gained from lower contributions to the EU budget, the value of pound will fall worldwide.

The EU is seen as a major power in the world.

To say that Britain would somehow regain a unique and resonant voice in world affairs once it breaks away from a collective European identity is somewhat naive.

On the other hand the lost of the Uk to the EU would diminish its power standing in the world as a military power.

Britain’s exit would have far-reaching political ramifications for the rest of Europe. The ‘proof of concept’ of leaving the EU could liberate disintegrative, centrifugal forces elsewhere. Member states most exposed to Brexit are the Netherlands, Ireland and Cyprus. Each has very strong trade, investment and financial links with the UK and in the cases of the Netherlands and Ireland are closely aligned in policy terms.

The economic consequences for the UK from leaving the EU are complex.

However both the break with the EU and the uncertainty associated with it would be bad for business and damaging to the UK economy.

Being part of the EU does not restrict UK companies’ ability to trade with the rest of the world.

Beyond all the simple choice of ‘stay or leave’ there is a broader question that has, hitherto, been curiously neglected.

This is what not being a member of the EU would really mean: what, in short, is the most likely alternative to EU membership?

What is the reason after 43-year membership in the European Union the question is:  Why is the Uk is holding a referendum.

Is it because the population was never given an opportunity to say Yes or No.

Or is it because David Cameron won the 2015 general election on a pledge to hold an in-out vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union no later than the end of 2017.

Is it because the English Political phych is still stuck in its history of Empire.

Is U.K. ‘now holding a Gun’ to EU.

Should the EU be allowing Britain to set the terms of the future direction of the EU.

Britain’s relationship with the EU, troubled by decades of anxiety over waning national power, the euro area’s threat to London’s financial clout, subsidies to French farmers and, more recently, mass migration which is spiraling out of control.

Is it to secure a better deal for Britain’s relationship with the EU? while it has refused to go along with more integrationist policies like the single currency and the removal of border checks. Abolishing the U.K.’s obligation to “ever closer union.

Is it because it wants to limit access to welfare payments for non-British EU citizens in the U.K.

That has proved most contentious with governments in countries such as Poland and Hungary. They have sent thousands of people to set up home in the U.K. and say the move would make their countrymen and women second-class citizens in a club where everyone is supposed to be equal.Afficher l'image d'origine

The vital question is whether the U.K. will continue to have access to the single market.

There is little point howling from a distance.

In my opinion the European Union will not be shaped by England or for that matter any of its existing members. Current world events will shape its future.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S THE EUROPEAN UNION IS ON THE BRINK.

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We all know that the present crisis in European Union has freighting potential to undermine all our lives?

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The problem is that- despite all the rhetoric Wall Street and World Stock Markets underpin the hard nose of business with the priesthood of economists, financial experts and commentators worshiping it worldwide as a God.

Leaving us incapable of grasping that at one point in human history the Laws of the market can only be a human construction which now seen as absolute – even when they clearly do not work.

The high priests of today oblivious to the anti-market nature of their behaviour do not hesitate to intervene to fix it on a colossal scale in contravention of the market’s own precepts.

The idea that money-making is the primary Goal of the most admired people in Society, the Goal of our Nations economic philosophies, the G 20, the European Union, our education, combined with our central defining consumerism greed is back firing.
What we got is the results we see today:

Quantitative Easing, Money Printing /Austerity/ /Germany bailouts /Guarantees/ Banks before people Interest fixing /Elections/ Unemployment/ Bonuses/Tax confusion/ all served up with large daily doses of verbal Diarrhoea by every expert that has written a book.

I have not written any book on the subject and I am no expert but I am beginning to wake up to the need for our Captains of Industry, our political leaders and business to realise that competitiveness is not all that it is dressed up to be.

It can severely impair a given country’s ability to choose its own social and economic destiny and our individuality.

No currency can set the BOUNDARIES/SOVEREIGNTY of a nation.

So it is worth reminding ourselves how grandiose the dreams of the European Union founders were.

Our present world can be seen as full of conflict, pain, misery, wars, while across the world ecological, economic and political spaces are being enclosed through privation, liberalization and globalization and the hidden purchasing power of Sovereign Funds – All breeding new insecurities anxieties and stresses.

In this world Europe was renamed the European Common Market with its inhabitants viewed chiefly in economic terms, as producers or consumers, not countries with vastly different histories, problems, and circumstances.

The notion that trade and wealth creation would create a Europe laisser-faire was not bases on its history but on a vague notion that togetherness would make us less likely to repeat World War One /Two.

Reducing our society to markets and us humans to consumers?

Those that are rich have status and those who are poor do not.

You only have to read a newspaper to see how the overpaid footballers, film and soap star, businesspeople are held up to be admired.

While we the people fooled by capitalism that has made work the centre of our lives and are now in the process of destroying it as a satisfying meaningful activity through the world stock exchanges that are driven by computer programs that determine whether we should retire at 63, 65, and 68 remain voiceless.

As a Species we have basis needs for meaning of identity, for community, and security, for food water and freedom.

So it stands to reason to prevent our collectively insane political leaders terminating life in Europe never mind the earth that we need to do something.
We all know that banks can’t stop themselves. Bail them out by all means but only under strict regulations.

If we in Europe want to avoid a repeat of the wars that devastated the Continent in the past all that is required (a saving of trillions) is a united military European Army? This will provide Europe with reasonably secure environment, safe from the threat of major war with its countries being let find their own versions of modernity or not to modernize at all.

Europe does not need a free market to thrive How can we achieve this?

There is only one solution scrap the Euro and let each country set its own exchange rates according to its own GDP (without the tanks, planes, nuclear weapons) set against the value of human resources, social capital, and ecological assets.

The present melt down of the Euro could not have come at a better time.

If we do not preserve the Capital of Europe its different cultures /languages/ history and the like there will be no Economics.

We all know that economic is not a science.

Each time History repeats its self the price goes up.

The Euro is fundamental flawed and please god will remain so to protect what is the very essence of living or being born in Europe.

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How cares if the UK votes on staying or leaving.

The largest population of immigrants in the UK is of Indian descent.

There is no military solution to problems posed by illegal migration.

The result one way or the other will in the long run have little effect.

Leave –  expensive renegotiation, stay not so expensive.

So let’s start in Europe with some common European aspirations.

Self sufficiency in Power-creates a common European kilowatt price: Abolish road tolls: Proper Periphery border controls: Freedom of movement of currencies within the market – abolish commission charges: European Youth employment programmes: European Health / Refugees/ Pension Euro bonds backed by all countries – to mention a few.

God knows it not difficult to identify what is needed just attached the words total transparency to any common Goal and it will be achieved without Greed.

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THE BEADY EYE LOOKS AT THE FORTHCOMING IRISH CELEBRATION OF THE 1916 EASTER RISING.

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This could be a tricky post in so far that there is no intention or wish on my part to offend any reader.

I must declare my self as a nationalist married to the most exquisite English Lady.

I also wish to state that I do not and never will condone violence as a means to an end.

Indeed those that planted explosive devices and walked away not knowing who was going to die were and are more repugnant than the Jihadis who at least blow themselves up.
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It seems appropriate because this will be the last post for a month or so that I return to my roots and aspiration to see my country united.

There is no need here to lament the long and painful history of Ireland.

As a myth, the Easter Rising no longer exerts power over the collective Irish psyche in the way it once did.

Now, as the Troubles are fading into history, the tumultuous events of Easter 1916 are about to be remembered.

The ashes of the past will certainly be raked over again this Easter in Ireland and, no doubt, greeted with bemused indifference in the UK, where there seems to be little public interest in Britain’s long and often brutal role in shaping its neighbour’s contested history and divided culture.

For me it is not whether or not Ireland will be united, only a case of when.

We have waited about 8 centuries so another few generations is a dawdle.

As a military adventure the Rising was, of course, a dismal failure but it was the first major armed uprising against the British empire in the 20th century.

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It may well take another centenary to come and go before the turbulent spirit of the “unquiet founders” is stilled by history and for their heirs to accept that, as Yeats put it, it is “enough to know they dreamed and are dead”.

So why is this relatively minor disturbance so potent?

Precisely because it is so hard to say what it means.

It is one of those events that has a protean quality – it continually changes its shape.

The most famous lines about the Rising are WB Yeats’s from Easter 1916: All changed, changed utterly / A Terrible beauty is born.

But in fact the terrible beauty was not just born: it remains alive. And, like any living thing, it alters over time.

Among the things that change utterly and constantly is the meaning of the Rising itself.

It was a little sideshow to the cataclysmic main event: the first world war.

Even in Irish terms, it was, objectively, quite marginal.

As a historical fact, the Rising seems quite small and self-contained.

About 1,600 men and women took some part in the rebellion during Easter week of 1916. By contrast, about a quarter of a million Irishmen fought in the Great War.

The 1916 rebellion, was organised by a band of poets, Irish language enthusiasts, former British soldiers and a revolutionary Marxist, capturing international headlines when it took place while Britain’s armed forces, including tens of thousands of Irishmen, were still mired in the first world war.

During the Rising 485 men, women and children (mostly civilians) died in Dublin.

In the same week 570 Irish soldiers were killed in a single horrific German gas attack at Hulluch on the western front – an event that is scarcely remembered.

1916 was not just about the Easter Rising, but also landmarks such as the Battle of the Somme in July – an event sacred to unionists, given the large number of casualties suffered by the 36th Ulster Division.

The Rising is just a drop in an ocean of blood.

Drop or not it can be seen as a foundational event for three political entities:

The Republic of Ireland, Northern Ireland and (though this is conveniently ignored) the current United Kingdom, which changed radically when most of Ireland won its independence.

Yet the struggle has always been to decide whether it is history or current affairs, something that has happened or a harbinger of something yet to happen, done and dusted or unfinished business.

Most unionists look back at the Easter Rising as a stab in the back, given that Britain was embroiled in the first world war and the rebels were backed by the Germans.

It has often been said that every Englishman should know about Irish history and every Irishman should ignore it.

I don’t know about the latter, but I certainly agree with the former.

The Brits made the mistake of murdering the leaders in 1916 and thus provoked the Irish people to join the republican cause.

The executions of the rebel leaders, the imposition of conscription and British military actions – including the deployment of the semi-irregular Black and Tans – pushed the majority of the population in the 26 counties of what is now the Irish Republic into the arms of the IRA and Sinn Féin.

When the British authorities executed 15 rebel leaders during May 1916 (a 16th, Sir Roger Casement, was hanged in London in August) the public mood began to change.

The rebels, instead of being dangerous lunatics, became martyrs.

England  tried a similar tactic of repression in 1971 by imprisoning people without trial and then murdering 13 people in Derry.

Again, what this did was swell the ranks of the nascent IRA.

On Easter Sunday 1966 Paisley organised a counter-demonstration against the 50th anniversary of the Rising and this time 5,000 people turned up.

It was Paisley’s first major protest and from then on he built his power base.

Without the jingoism of Easter 1966, Paisley might have been relegated to the sidelines and, as I have always argued, without the rise of Paisley and his opposition to reforms inside Northern Ireland there would have been no Troubles.

The 50th anniversary provided a major step up for Paisley and Paisleyism.

The events of 1968 and all that flowed from them are a reminder of how potent that moment was and how quickly its cause can be reinvigorated.

August 1969 was the most sustained period of political violence in Ireland since the 1920s, and it changed everything, not least because it left many fearful Northern Irish Catholics asking a question that reverberated back though Irish history: who will protect us if the state will not?

When the war of independence ended, Ireland was partitioned, the province of Northern Ireland established and an even more bloody civil war was fought between the majority of those who backed that Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 and the diehards who opposed it.

The sacrifice of Easter, 1916, which WB Yeats called “a terrible beauty”, again became the defining symbol for a new generation of young people prepared to die – and kill – in pursuit of a united Ireland. Their deaths, in turn, inspired other young volunteers throughout the 30 years of violence that followed

”Ireland did not achieve its independence in 1916.”

To day Northern Ireland is officially British, instinctively Irish.

There is another potential twist in the long grass and that is if England votes to leave the EU and Scotland then ask for a second independence referendum. NI will then be in a quandary of allegiance and identity it has not had to make for a long time

Enda Kenny, the current taoiseach, will take the salute as thousands of troops file past the GPO. His party Fine Gael is directly descended from Michael Collins and his faction of the IRA, which accepted the 1921 treaty and which, ironically, for decades since, has been accused by generations of republicans of betraying the legacy of 1916.Afficher l'image d'origine

I am sure that the Nation will like it did when England played on the Green in Croke Park show the World that there is dignity in a Deeply rooted History.

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THE BEADY EYE ASK’S : WHO IS THE REAL DONALD TRUMP.

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It goes without saying that before the Nov 8th US Presidential Elections are over there will be billions of Tweets, Media, News/ Mags Articles written on a man called Donald Trump.  Afficher l'image d'origine

But what is known about him other than he imagine himself as a spectacular success in every arena he enters.

He is unquestionably one of the biggest show-off on planet earth. An irrational, ego-driven tyrant that is living the life of a modern-day Gatsby and is only too happy to tell you all about it.

He’s the brash, 69 years Zodiac: Gemini  billionaire real estate mogul and television personality who has already shaken up the 2016 presidential race.

While this is true, the motivation behind his ostentatious public persona is primarily to further his brand.

Life is merely a giant game for Trump. A game in which the winners collect lots of fame and money, and the losers don’t.

He is a child of New York who inherited a real-estate business and turned it into an empire and then some, with a brand that is unequaled in America.

The problem arises when it comes to Trump’s definition of greatness.

Without any obvious respect for the Constitution or Bill of Rights, a President Trump could very quickly transform himself into a very dangerous strongman, all the while believing that he is merely doing what is necessary to make America great.

No matter it is extremely crucial to understand that the traits that make someone an incredible showman and billionaire are not the same traits needed in a President to restore a Constitutional Republic.

He instinctively mistrust many people.  He thinks that the USA is being ripped off so badly by our so-called allies; i.e., Japan, West Germany, Saudi Arabia, South Korea, etc.

He holds journalists in low regard – he thinks journalists are less reputable than members of every other profession, including politicians.

He intentionally stir up anger and hate by demonizing minorities such as Muslims and Mexicans or is merely telling groups of frustrated people what they want to hear to get elected?

With foreign leaders he simply thinks that he will outsmart them. “you are either with me, or you hate America.”

He is the only Republican candidate who can claim the “Triple Crown” in American life, having become one of the foremost leaders in business, politics, and entertainment.

He likes hamburgers and fries and there’s a part of him that is unfulfilled because he is not easily capable of being vulnerable.

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With German ancestry from his father and Scottish ancestry from his mother, millionaire real estate developer Donald Trump epitomizes the American immigrant experience.

Born to Frederick and Mary MacLeod Trump in Queens, New York on June 14, 1946, Donald John Trump learned the real-estate business firsthand from his father who, himself, began in the family construction business at the age of 13 when his own father (Donald’s grandfather) died in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Frederick Christ Trump, grandfather of Donald Trump, was also a true American entrepreneur. Immigrating to America in 1885, he began his fortune running the Arctic Restaurant and Hotel in Bennett, British Columbia, during the Klondike Gold Rush. Christine, who would later become his wife, was only 5 when he left Germany, but they kept in touch by mail and eventually married.

When he was thirteen, his parents sent him to the military academy in New York, hoping to channel his energy. Subsequently, he joined the Fordham university  before obtaining his degree in economics at the University of Pennsylvania.

Trump’s grandparents anglicized their name from Drumpf. His grandfather Friedrich and grandmother Elisabeth were born in Germany and emigrated to the United States. Their son Fred Trump married Donald Trump’s mother Mary Ann MacLeod, who was born in Scotland and met Donald Trump’s father during a vacation trip to New York.
In 1971 Donald Trump was given control of the company, which he later renamed the Trump Organization.

In 1977, Trump married Ivana Zelnickova Winklmayr, a New York fashion model who had been an alternate on the 1972 Czech Olympic Ski Team.

After the 1978 birth of the couple’s first of three children, Donald John Trump Jr., Ivana Trump was named vice president in charge of design in the Trump Organization and played a major role in supervising the renovation of the Commodore.

1991 divorce from his wife Ivana.

But in 1993 he married again, this time to Marla Maples, a fledgling actress with whom he had been involved for some time and already had a child. Trump filed for a highly publicized divorce from Maples in 1997, which became final in June 1999. A prenuptial agreement allotted $2 million to Maples.

In January 2005, Trump married for a third time in a highly publicized wedding to model Melania Knauss, who gave birth to a son, Barron William Trump, in March 2006; it was her first child and Trump’s fifth.

He supports the death penalty.

He thinks that Russia is out of control.

Donald Trump boasted Saturday that support for his presidential campaign would not decline even if he shot someone in the middle of a crowded street. “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Trump said at a campaign rally here.

The scary part is, I think he’s right.

But can you separate the real policies of the man from those of our warped imaginations?

Abolish the position of secretary of state.  Not true.

Stop the president chewing gum on overseas trips.  True

Ban windmills.  True

Ban the national curriculum.  True

Become besties with Vladimir Putin.  True

Re-invade Iraq and take all its oil.  True

Ban handshakes.  True

Start a trade war with China.   True

Build a giant wall around Mexico and make Mexico pay for it.  True

Stop Japan selling so many cars to the US.  True

Enforce a top-secret, “foolproof” plan that will defeat Isis “quickly and effectively” but not tell anyone what it is.  True

Ban ‘perverts’ from public office.  True

By this time next year this could be the Front Row of World Politics.

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The 2016 presidential election could cost as much as $5 billion, according to top fundraisers and bundlers who are already predicting it will more than double the 2012 campaign’s price tag.

The big concern as relates to Trump as President would be his strongman type of personality coupled with a cult of personality worship amongst his followers. This worship is something that Trump himself is well aware of, and it makes him all the more dangerous.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS: Is François Hollande Re-Electable?

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At the moment, it seems as if he had only one overriding goal:

The most unpopular French leader in postwar history.

To run for re-election in 2017 — despite everything.

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When government spending accounts for nearly 60% of the economy, the private sector goes about business in a straight jacket faithfully following rules, regulations and edicts handed down from socialist leaning politicians and professional bureaucrats.

The idea that France will crawl out of its economic coma is sheer fantasy– a virtually impossible mission.

The elite of the bureaucrats and politicians, including Mr Hollande attended the Ecole Nationale d’Administration which manufactures a ruling class with a firm political grip on the country.

About 5 million Frenchmen are now out of work,a figure that would have been much higher had the French statistics office not revised its method of calculation.

His achievement that Le Pen has managed to turn the Front from a protest party into a real political force. Instead of opposing Le Pen’s nationalism, he has continued the policies of his predecessor, Sarkozy, a policy of empty promises and hollow words.

The Front National now has twice as many seats in the European Parliament as his own Socialist Party.

In a perfect world both Hollande and Cameron will be prosecuted by the ICC for destabilizing Libya and Syria, killing 300,000 Syrians, making millions refugees, and causing the terrible refugee/migrant crisis in Europe.

By tying his reelection bid so clearly to the unemployment rate, which has risen almost uninterrupted for the past 33 months, Hollande has given himself an exit.

HERE ARE A FEW HARD FACTS WHY FRANCE IS IN SUCH A MESS.

Every year thousands of foreigners are tempted to set up a business in France. Unfortunately, what were dreams often turn into nightmares and the number of foreigners who have succeeded in business is remarkably low.

Even for the French, setting up a business is renowned to be incredibly tough.

Compared to the U.K. and the U.S. there is an enormous amount of complicated paperwork, not just to set up the company, but also to run it afterwards, never mind to close it.

The only solution is to “waste” money on lawyers and accountants in the hope that they do a good job, or do the best you can yourself.

Apart from the natural drawbacks of cultural and language differences, foreigners have an enormous disadvantage when it comes to the limited extent of their contacts:

French business thrives on personal contacts. “Most deals are done as a result of friendship rather than the quality or price of a product.”

Unfortunately, foreigners are unlikely to have networks here, so unless you have the means to recruit someone with hundreds of pals in high up places you may find it very difficult to expand the scope of your business beyond the Anglophone community.

Something else to bear in mind is that successful businessmen in France are regarded by the public with a mixture of awe, jealousy and suspicion.

This might explain why France is so short of people raring to create their own companies and so full of people dying to get careers in the civil service.

Unfortunately it also means that as an employer you’re never right. Employees who are sacked are always right, as is the “fisc” (or tax office).

If your company eventually fails, you may well end up being responsible for the liabilities, even though the structure of the company appeared to offer “limited liability.”

In spite of all this, LIVING IN FRANCE unearthed a few survivors.

“I think it’s extremely important to know French people, to have French friends who can help you to approach the system with the right attitude.” It is all about understanding the system, trying to cooperate with the authorities and filling out the forms correctly.

In France paperwork is much more important THAN EARNING A LIVING.

Without serious labor reforms and easier entry into the marketplace by French entrepreneurs and policies that make it better for them to be in France and not emigrate elsewhere for better business tax climate, he is wasting his time and the French public’s as well.

I would describe him as tactician president so well suited for internal party politics and so inadequate as a leader will avoid any meaningful reform and claim that success as his own.

He has become a joke.

He keeps making promises which have no chance of ever materializing, refuses to see reality even when it hits him in the face and his administration is the most incompetent since World War II. Piketty, the famous economist, is so disgusted with him (the way we all are here in France) that he turned down the Legion of Honor.

Pathetic president, government. The country slides further towards Greece.

France needs a President without tunnel vision.

Hell will freeze over before the French established order cedes real support to its home-grown, fledgling commercial talent/wealth creators. That’s why most leave.

Tow the line i.e. ‘do as you’re told and work for the government (social elite), or we’ll have ya’ is the French way of things. Great, if you’re one of them.

France tolerates no-one that sits outside the narrow confines of centrist power. No Second Chamber, no Religion, increasingly no EU and definitively not the lowest of the low, some maverick start up businessman with big ideas.

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Polls show that there is now a general “ras l’bol” (fed-upness) in France with successive governments’ inability to solve France’s massive problems.

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France won’t be saved by bureaucracy nor by Le Pen (The Front National created by Jean-Marie Le Pen), which used Vichy legislation as a blueprint for its own anti-immigration programme.

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