WE MUST STRIKE A BLOW FORWARD INTO TIME:

15 Tuesday Apr 2014

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I am the first to admit that there are more qualified to comment on Capitalism in the age of Globalization.

But here is what I see.

The age of Globalization and new technologies is profoundly reconfiguring Institutions fundamental to processes of governance and accountability ( for lack of a better words) in our modern States.

If you don’t believe me just look at  Crimea, the Ukraine, Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Sudan, Lebanon, Israel, Palestine, Somalia, Algeria,Tunisia, Chad, Burma, and on and on we go all being destabilized.

Why?

Because Economic globalization has transformed the territoriality and sovereignty of the nation-state.

The term Sovereignty, has a long history. From Aristotle to the UN Charter.

Globalization has had a short history as a ruthless corporate-driven extension of commodity production. Solidifying its hold over Institutions, labor, culture, and our very own lives. Now turning into a deadly cycle of terrorism and militarism.

The unbridled capital accumulation of Sovereign Wealth Funds will spread ecological devastation as they recognize no territorial or cultural boundaries.  Devoid of any meaningful social ethics or planning mechanisms they are rapidly becoming the new terror spreading toxic contamination of water, air ,soil, food with global warming with resource depletion, ravaging Nature.

There can no longer be any doubt that their short-term objects of profit for profit sake are in direct conflict with the long-range survival – as human beings – of everyone on Earth.

Representing what I call Corporate colonization they are close if not already totally out of control while the wretched of the earth continue to increase with Poverty turning to Inequality.

I have said in previous blogs that we are incapable of change and that the only way we will affect change is to make greed pay by taxing all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide. We must pay for what we value. The only way to achieve this is for a people’s resolution to reform OUR WORLD ORGANISATION  SUCH AS THE  UNITED NATIONS , THE WORLD BANK, THE IMF ALL NEED REFORM.

  

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Not a day goes by that we don’t hear or read of new technologies of the information age. 

 

 

 

 

 

IF WE WANT IT WE MUST PAY FOR IT.

13 Sunday Apr 2014

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For as long as I can remember I have being hearing FOUR words——

POVERTY
CONSERVATION
EXTINCTION
CORRUPTION

THEY HAVE NOT GONE AWAY, BUT ALL HAVE TAKEN ON EXTRA BAGGAGE AND BECOME ATTACHED TO EACH OTHER.

It is said that poverty is improving with a massive reduction mainly due to economic growth in China and India. $5 to $7 a day. It now being replaced in the middle classes by inequality.

We are told by Climate Change experts that Extinction is getting closer and closer.

Corruption in all its disguises is here to stay.

Conservation: plagued by the above is fighting a losing battle.

But the good news is that there are two new words on the block.

Data.

Privatisation.

The amount of data stored is doubling every eighteen months.

Privatisation. Has little interest in Poverty or Conservation, but has a self-interest in Corruption and Extinction.

So where do we stand?

The title to this blog states the position.

If we who are now connected by all don’t Pay for what we value we have a world not worthy of our technology advances.

We must make a Tree, a Tiger, Air, Water to valuable to be exploited for Profit.

By placing a Tax or World Aid Commission on all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide we can fund the changes needed to pass on a Globe of Beauty.

WE ARE ALL BECOMING INDIFFERENT AND APATHETIC.

06 Sunday Apr 2014

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J'aime beaucoup...

So what if the ice caps are melting no one is going to change their lifestyles because of that.

Apathy is the defining emotion of our times, and ignorance is bliss.

We are all net working, face booking, twittering, flip boarding, you name it till the birds fall out of the sky.

Capitalism inherently is a system of Injustice, Inequality, and War.

The real question however is not the degree to which humanity is screwed but what are we supposed to do with the information.

The idea of global environmental catastrophe is horrifying hard to grasp. The danger is that we will do nothing. We live in a world in which we are all to blame.

Our sense of identity is changing. Who you think you are is changing to who Am I.

Democracy for sure as we know it is being eroded at an alarming rate.

Our private lives are being willingly and unknowable Data processed to become a commodity to sell to the point that we no longer have a collective will to act just incase it upsets the Economy,or our life styles.

We are being collectively bamboozled by overload of choice and information.  WE ARE BEING MANIPULATED.

THE ONLY WAY TO COUNTER THESE TRENDS IS TO GET A COMMON WORLD VOICE BY WAY OF THE SMART PHONES /   I PADS TO PRESSURE WORLD LEADERS WHETHER THEY BE LOCAL POLITICIANS, PRIME MINISTERS, PRESIDENTS, LARGE CORPORATIONS, UNITED NATIONS OR RELIGIOUS LEADERS.

SO JOIN MY MOVEMENT TO GET A PEOPLES RESOLUTION PASSED IN THE UNITED NATIONS FOR REFORM AND THE PLACING OF A 0.007% AID TAX ON ALL WORLD STOCK EXCHANGE TRANSACTIONS.

 

 

 

THE UNITED NATIONS NEEDS URGENT REFORM

04 Friday Apr 2014

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The world has changed, but the five permanent members of the Security Council of the United Nations have not changed since it’s inception in 1945.

It now has 193 member states compare with the 50 in 1945.

The ability of the Five Permanent Members of the Security Council to block action is no longer credible with 193 members.

Surely we need a wider representation on the Security Council and get rid of the veto rights, that are abused on a regular basis.

THESE DAYS ITS REGULARLY DESCRIBED AS A CUMBROUS GOSSIP SHOP THAT HAS TO BEG FOR FUNDS.

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

ITS TIME WE THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD SUMMIT AN RESOLUTION TO MAKE THAT CHANGE  

HERE IS ITS PRESENT STRUCTURE.

 Main Committees

Subsidiary Bodies

Advisory Subsidiary Body

Programmes and Funds

Research and Training Institutes

Other UN Entities

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Security Council

The following bodies report directly to the Security Council.

Subsidiary Bodies

Advisory Subsidiary Body

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Economic and Social Council

The following bodies report directly to Economic and Social Council.

Functional Commissions

Regional Commissions

Standing Committees

Ad hoc bodies

  • Ad hoc Open-ended Working Group on Informatics

Expert Bodies composed of governmental experts

Expert Bodies composed of members serving in their personal capacity

Other related Bodies

  • Executive Board of the International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women
  • International Narcotics Control Board
  • Committee for the United Nations Population Award
  • Programme Coordinating Board of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS

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Trusteeship Council

International Court of Justice

Secretariat

Specialized Agencies, Related Organizations, Funds, and other UN Entities

Specialized Agencies

Related Organizations

Secretariats of Conventions

UN Trust Funds

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NOTES:

(1) The United Nations Peacebuilding Commission has a direct reporting relationship with the Security Council and the General Assembly, and non-subsidiary relationship with the Economic and Social Council and the Office of the Secretary-General.

(2) The IAEA reports to the Security Council and the General Assembly (GA).

(3) The CTBTO Preparatory Commission and OPCW report to the GA.

(4) UNDEF’s Advisory Board recommends funding proposals for approval by the Secretary-General.

(5) UNFIP is an autonomous trust fund operating under the leadership of the United Nations Deputy Secretary-General.

Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings.

01 Tuesday Apr 2014

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We wake up in the morning and live our own lives.  The life you have being born into.

But why not have an impact on how the future turns out.

So take the first step on to the pages of History and join a movement to get the United Nations to pass a world people resolution to fight inequality by placing a 0.007% world aid tax on all Transactions in all the stock exchanges of the world.

The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of an international Economic order, which has led to profound change in the balance of the Haves and the Have not’s of to-day.

The next century is well on the way to Privatizing all earths resources.

More than in any time on earth we are interacting. It is not surprising that the divergences of our life styles is causing problems. Around the clock news links us all and our every movement is monitored to see what we are up to.

Data trading to predict what we are up to is going to be big business.  Is big business – Twitter, Facebook, Google It.

Once upon a time before time was invented harmony existed until the Farmer arrived. Grow one for sustenance, two for gain, three for security,four for power, five for status, six for greed and so on.

More and more rich countries are now setting up Sovereign Wealth Funds to exploit for profit sake the resources that belong to all of us. If we turn a blind eye we’re all going to end up buying Bottled water, bottles fresh air, censored knowledge. In other words our right to live our diversified lives.

“Human rights are rights inherent to all human beings, whatever
our nationality, place of residence, sex, national or ethnic origin,
colour, religion, language, or any other status. We are all equally
entitled to our human rights without discrimination. These rights
are all interrelated, interdependent and indivisible.”

These rights are now being commoditized and are on a collision course with everyday life and data collection.

WHETHER YOU HAVE THE GOOD FORTUNE OR NOT ITS YOUR LIFE TO DO WHAT YOU PLEASE WITH IT.

A window is now open with the power of the smartphone, the web, social media, to change the balance of power, to voice our rights, and stop the world turning into one big shopping mall.

 

 

 

IF YOU DON’T WANT TO LIVE IN A PRIVATIZED WORLD

26 Wednesday Mar 2014

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Just keeping an eye on them. Sovereign Wealth Funds.

2013 as a milestone year of SWFs acquiring companies and assets.

According to the Sovereign Wealth Fund institute’s proprietary transaction database.

2012 Transactions amounted to US$65.09 billion a drop from 2011’s US$90,04 billion.

2013 has set a record of US$ 174.73 billion in direct sovereign Wealth Funds transactions.

They are well on the way to hit $ 7 trillion mark.

The investment strategies of SWFs is changing ,to a more direct Investment tactics from acquiring manufacturing companies to farmland in Australia.

 

See my blog;  OK LET’S ASK SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT SOVEREIGN WEALTH FUNDS.

OTHER NEWS.

 

Virtual reality has an unexpected new champion, as Facebook announces it has bought Oculus VR for $400 million cash and 23.1 million Facebook shares, plus another $300 million in potential bonuses. Not bad for a company that first shot to fame with a Kickstarter campaign for the Oculus Rift headset.

BIG DATA IS LEADING US TO CULTURAL DE-ACCELERATION.

24 Monday Mar 2014

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The most recent centuries have seen extraordinary accomplishments in improving quality of Life AND WE MUST ALL LEARN TO MANAGE WITHIN IT. 

For example: All those interested in Health will have to learn to keep up with advances in digital monitoring through wireless technologies of biological information. In doing so learn how personal feedback systems will apply to prevention rather than cure.

We hear that change is accelerating, while the pace of change is accelerating faster.

It appears to me that this is true of computational carrying capacity at a planetary level and that the two are connected, but we are also seeing cultural de-acceleration.

We are investing our energy in futuristic information technologies that are creating Big Data. Another words machines get smarter, we are getting stupider.

Breakneck development of personal technology is creating over choice, and surplus complexity. Just look at communication. We at the point of gluttony. Choosing take’s time and our time is not unlimited. Businesses are engineering complexity which produces additional revenue.

Just look at what you have to agreed to before hitting the “I agree”

Or put Cooking Pot into Google and up come 8.600,000 results.

These technologies are also the basis of NSA spying, flying robots killing people, the wholesale privatisation of biological life itself.

Now don’t get me wrong I am not against the world of technology, but Big Data is going to change our world in way we cannot image.

If the key problems facing our species were to be solved, you would have to jail most of us, and there would be less and less work.

I can hear you saying so what, what’s your point.

Sorry I can not be more specific as they are in a state of developing and need your input.

Business and technologies can be the great engines that lifts billions out of poverty but they both need a new kind of values driven ethos rather than profit for profit sake.

Technology is developing in rich countries while Tigers are disappearing.

Which of the two contributors above to you think are more important to life in regard to REWARDING us.

Is Technology creating technological deserts of inequality? Is it that is replace Poverty with Big Data which is owned by the rich?

Is Technology Privatizing the World through Sovereign Wealth Funds?

So my point is that we must bring fresh thinking to our world if we are going to avoid Inequality on a scale that is all ready out of control.

You will see from previous blogs I advocate that humans are incapable of developing a system to avoid this happening due to greed.  So before we are all writing with GOOGLE Pens that need no Education lets hear what you have to say.

 

 

HOW FRAGILE AND IMPERMANENT OUR ADVANCE CIVILIZATION REALLY IS.

21 Friday Mar 2014

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Thirty years from now the pressure on the planet’s resources will start to warning us all once again as to how fragile and impermanent our advanced civilization really is.

Why?

Because the ecological carrying capacity will be vastly DIMINISHED. The Have and the Have not’s will be on the verge of an revolution.

You don’t believe me ?  Well open your eyes and you will see that the current high levels of economic stratification are linked to the overconsumption of Resources.

You might think or say that Technological change can raise the efficiency of resources use. But it also raises both per capita resource consumption, and the scale of resource extraction. Just look at Agriculture and Industry over the past two centuries. Productivity increases in both has come from “Increased (rather the decreased) resource throughput,” despite dramatic efficiency gains, over the same period.

The Have’s who are based largely in Industrialised countries are controlled by an Elite that is paying less and less to the great unwashed who produce the wealth. ( (Called the minimum wage or living wage both of which are just above subsistence levels.)

The Haves are consuming too much in A disposable Societies, and will cause a famine among the have nots that will eventually cause the collapse of the world society. An Inequality – induced Famine that causes a loss of workers, rather than a collapse of Nature.

Of course we are told that this is not possible by the Elite, wealthy Monopolies who will be buffered from the most ‘ detrimental effects of the Environmental collapse, until to late. For them it is business as usual : just like the Roman Empire, Han, Mayan, Mauryan, Gupta Empires, not to mention the Mesopotamian Empires.

What is to be done?

We must reduce Economic inequality, so as to ensure fairer distribution of resources. To recognise that ” Business as usual” cannot be sustained. A convergence of food, water and energy crises will create the ” Perfect Storm”

Of course there are lots and lots of other problems like the growing global thirst for energy threatens water supplies. The change in population, Climate change, to mention just a few.  Any one never mind one combining with another will be a total disaster.

But the Haves have a vested interest in sustaining the current model – however doomed, for long as possible, regardless of the eventual negative outcome.

There is only one solution and that is to tap into Greed.

( see my post: A Tax at a very low rate- for example, a 0.007 percent tax/commission on all world stock transactions and stock options.)

Prioritise Your Existence.

14 Friday Mar 2014

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If you were asked to prioritise what is essential to you very existence I am sure we would get a very wide varying priority lists.

There is no proof that existence is primarily in the experience of humankind.

Would your list look like this?

Gravity.

The Earth Magnetic Field.

The Ozone.

Fresh Air.

Unpolluted drinking water.

Food.

Fuel/ Energy

Education.

Language.

Science.  ( It by the way keeps silent only when the question is raised whether life                   is worth living)

Civilization. ( It makes us poorer because it multiplies our wishes, does not soothe,                        but kindles desires.)

Freedom.

Good Health.

Wealth.

You will note on my list there is no mention Power, Poverty, Wars,Smart Phones,Internet, Love.  I would be interested in any comments. 

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HEADLINES FROM THE YEAR 2060

10 Monday Mar 2014

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White minorities still trying to have English recognize as World first language .

Baby conceived naturally! Scientists stumped.

Couple petitions court to reinstate heterosexual marriage.

Iran still closed off; physicists estimate it will take at least 10 more years before radioactivity decreases to safe levels.

France pleads for global help after being taken over by Jamaica. No other country comes forward to help the beleaguered nation!

85 – year $80.8 billion study : Diet and exercise is the key to weight loss.

Average weight of Americans drops to 250 lbs.

Spotted owl plague threatens northwestern United States crops and livestock.

Castro finally dies at age 112; Cuban cigars can now be exported legally but president Chelsea Clinton has banned all smoking.

George Z. Bush says he will run for President in 2060.

Global cooling blamed for citrus crop failure for a third consecutive year in Mexifornia and Floruba.

Abortion clinics ow available in every high school in the USA.

Fracking has polluted most of the UK drinking water.

THE UNITED NATIONS WORLD AID FUND ESTABLISHED IN 2018

TOPS TWO BILLION IN FUNDS DISTRIBUTED.