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ARE YOU ONE OF THE MANIPULATED ?

22 Tuesday Apr 2014

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Privatisation of our world is turning Democracy into an empty form of Political ideology.

Don’t get me wrong, Democracy as a political system out guns all other forms of governance.

Because it is a political system for choosing and replacing the government through free and fair elections.

Because it allows the active participation of the people, as citizens, in politics and civic life.

Because it endeavors to protection of the human rights of all citizens.

Because it is a rule of law, in which the laws and procedures apply equally to all citizens.

However, competitive return on Investment Capital is eroding the very essence of the blood given by hundred of thousands of our forefathers sacrifice’s in both world wars.

Why do I say this?    Because it is being Privatised right in front of our eyes for Profit.

Let me give you an example.

It is my belief that our elected representatives in Government ( how manage our hard earned taxes) are being hoodwinked by the Economy into thinking that every service and national resource operates better under market forces rather than state control.

I have nothing against a fair Profit on Investment but I do object to what I call Eternal Profits.

Lets say you build a Toll Bridge, or a Toll road requiring X billion in investment.

I am sure you would agree that the investment should have a fair return but not an Eternal One. The bridge or Road should revert to the nation and be free to its citizens or at least begin to add revenue at a reduced rate to Government coffers for future projects.

This is not happening with Sovereign Wealth Funds investment.  No only does the profit on return not stay in the country to create jobs or whatever it disappears to enhance the profits of the Fund in whatever country the fund happens to be based in.

This does not seem very democratic to me.  It is the duty of our elected representatives to protect its citizens from exploitation.

By handing control of national resources and services to private enterprise it is achieving quite the opposite. Just look at anything that has been sold into the marketplace.  Energy, Health Care, Water, Public transportation, Education.

But there is no generally accepted definition of Democracy but Oscar Wild might have it right when he said,

” Democracy mean simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people”

We won’t be able to stop Sovereign Wealth Funds from Privatising our lives but surely as intelligent people s we should Cap their Investments.

 

 

AS IF WE DID NOT KNOW IT – CAPITALISM AND CLIMATE CHANGE ARE INCOMPATIBLE

21 Monday Apr 2014

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There is no economy without the environment.  For that matter there is no anything.

By this I mean there’s is no question about it, if we turn a blind eye that is what we will have –  Nothing.

There is no need for absolute knowledge for science to come to this truth.

Common Joe Soap can tell you.

There are no thresholds when it comes to Nature.

The Downwinders ( people who have been exposed to fallout from nuclear tests) found out that there is no such thing as teetering on a threshold.

We are being told that the two big ice sheets on the globe are melting.

So for crying out loud are we all sleepwalking.

Like when we obliged the Large global Oil companies by putting a Tiger in our tanks that turned out to be tetraethyl lead a nasty environmental toxin.

Science is about a gradual convergence on the truth. Capitalism is about Profits for profit sake.

At this point it is irrelevant what the scientists don’t know we must a new creationist strategy to tackle climate change. This change can not be achieved without removing poverty in all its forms along with all our other World problems caused by man’s Greed.

We must stop the privatisation of the planet by Sovereign Wealth Funds, and get capitalism to pay for what we value by placing a World Aid tax on all Stock Exchange transactions world-wide. ( see Previous Blogs)

SOON IT WILL BE TOO LATE

19 Saturday Apr 2014

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My last blog advocated that we must strike a blow forward into time.

WHY?   Because if we do not we are all going to end up as commodities.

There are thousands of World Organisations that I am sure are doing good work but if you look at the four bigger World Organisations you would be prompted to ask are they fit for purpose.

So let’s have a look.

The World Bank:

Established in 1945.  Now owned by 185 countries its primary goals were to eradicate poverty, fight disease, reduce corruption, and not making a profit which it has of $3 billion in the last three years.

In Fact big business indirectly owns the World Bank because it sell bonds to big business and in doing so secures contracts for these de facto business earning fees.  It has implemented policies such as Structural Adjustment, Deregulation, Privatization.

The question is has any country where it has operated risen to prosperity, or does its profit-making play a note or its big donors play a role.

The IMF:

Founded in 1945 to help operate a system of fixed exchange rates in which currencies were pegged to the dollar, in turn fixed with respect to gold in order to encourage International trade lasted till 1971 when it was forced to find a new raison d’être. This it did when Mexico and other Latin American countries announced they could not meet the Interest and principle payments on their large borrowings from oversea commercial Banks.

Along came the USA who dished out bridging loan to these countries and this is where the IMF stepped in to monitor these bridging loans arrangements and provide additional funds if they were satisfied with policy progress that the debtors were making.  However its big break came when the Soviet Union collapsed. It started to give advice how to move from communism to a market economy.  The countries who took its advice received big financial rewards.

Developing into what it is today a pawnbroker that imposes programs requiring Governments to reform their financial institutions ( state-owned to private)  making substantial changes to their economic structures and political behavior. For example Indonesia in exchange for a £40 billion package( more than 25% of Indonesia’s GDP) the IMF set fuel prices down to the manner of selling plywood.

It’s now seen by many as the imposer of painful contractions and radical reform.

It is my view that it needs to return to a narrower agenda. Rather than waiting for a country to get into trouble it should be seen more as a client focused and supportive organisation. This would require not just a refurbished IMF which by the way would be far to expensive but a complete new International Monetary System. The current global financial crises could not more strongly support this if we are all to enjoy the benefits of Globalization.

NATO:

Founded out of fear in 1949.

Original Goal to ensure a collective Security of the West against the Eastern bloc. Now its goal is to safeguard freedom and security of its members through political and military means.

It reinvented itself after the fall of the Iron Curtain and now has 28 Independent Member Countries.

A collective reluctant soldier as it like to call itself in a world with 15 tons of high explosives for every man woman and child in the world and where a nuclear war would prove to be an act of mutual suicide. A somewhat inept organisation as shown by Afghanistan Iraq and now the Ukraine.

THe United Nations:

Inception 1945.

193 members vetoed by five permanent members. Lovely known as a gossip shop its budget has doubled over the last decade. Understandable you could say ( Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria) but over its fifty years of existence the budget for 2012/2013 had a 5% reduction approved is one of the only reductions achieved to date.

It is a public Enterprise whose agencies spend more than $36 billion annually.  Yet there is no real transparency or accountability. Just try to get a financial or Audit information especially among the diverse UN Funds on its website.  It has over 10,000 mandates many of which are obsolete and redundant.   See list below. It is quite obvious that it must shrink or shed non-core functions and entities.

For example it has being counting eligible voters in the western Sahara since 1978.

It is incapable of change from the inside so we the citizens of the world must lodge a resolution demanding change.

Peacekeeping Fact Sheet

Fact Sheet as of 28 February 2014

[Note: statistical information on civilian personnel is as of 30 November 2013, unless otherwise specified]

  • Peacekeeping operations since 1948: 68*
  • Current peacekeeping operations: 15*
  • Current peace operations directed by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations: 16**

[*With the establishment of the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA) on 10 April 2014, as of that date the number peacekeeping operations since 1948 is 69; the number of current peacekeeping operations is 16 and the number of current peace operations led by DPKO is 17.]

[**In addition to peacekeeping operations, DPKO directs one political mission: the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA).]

Personnel

  • Uniformed personnel: 98,056
    • Troops: 83,154
    • Police: 13,056
    • Military observers: 1,846
  • Civilian personnel: 16,942 (as of 30 November 2013)
    • International: 5,233
    • Local: 11,709
  • UN Volunteers: 2,025
  • Total number of personnel serving in 15 peacekeeping operations: 117,023
  • Total number of personnel serving in 16 DPKO-led peace operations: 118,799
  • Countries contributing uniformed personnel: 122
  • Total fatalities: 1,441

Financial aspects

  • Approved resources for the period from 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014: about $7.83 billion
  • Outstanding contributions to peacekeeping 28 February 2014): about $2.36 billion

Current operations

United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)

In Western Sahara since April 1991
Strength: 508 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 229
    • Troops: 23
    • Military observers: 201
    • Police: 5
  • Civilian personnel: 264
    • International civilians: 96
    • Local civilians: 168
  • UN Volunteers: 15

Fatalities: 15

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $60,475,700
[A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA)

In the Central African Republic since April 2014
Authorized strength:

  • Uniformed personnel:  11,820*
    • Military personnel: 10,000 (including 240 military observers and 200 staff officers)
    • Police: 1,820 (including 1,400 formed units personnel, 400 individual police officers and 20 corrections officers)
  • Civilian personnel: N/A
    • An appropriate significant civilian component

*Scheduled for deployment starting 15 September 2014

Fatalities:  None

Approved budget: N/A

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)

In Mali since April 2013
Strength:  7,551 including:

  • Uniformed personnel:  7,093
    • Troops:  6,137
    • Military observers: 0
    • Police:  956
  • Civilian personnel:  400
    • International civilians:  287
    • Local civilians:  113
  • UN Volunteers: 58

Fatalities:  8

Approved budget: (07/2013 – 06/2014): $602,000,000 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

In Haiti since June 2004
Strength:  9,991 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 8,207
    • Troops:  5,794
    • Police:  2,413
  • Civilian personnel: 1,615
    • International civilians: 373
    • Local civilians: 1,242
  • UN Volunteers: 169

Fatalities: 176

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $576,619,000 [A/C.5/68/21PDF Document]

United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)

In Democratic Republic of the Congo since July 2010
Strength: 25,770 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 21,245
    • Troops: 19,558
    • Military observers: 502
    • Police: 1,185
  • Civilian personnel: 3,969
    • International civilians: 990
    • Local civilians: 2,979
  • UN Volunteers: 556

Fatalities: 70

Approved budget 07/2013 – 06/2014): $1,456,378,300 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)

In Darfur since July 2007
Strength: 23,613 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 19,192
    • Troops: 14,354
    • Military observers: 330
    • Police: 4,508
  • Civilian personnel: 4,017
    • International civilians: 1,060
    • Local civilians: 2,957
  • UN Volunteers: 404

Fatalities: 191

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $1,335,248,000 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)

In Syria since June 1974
Strength: 1,389 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 1,243
    • Troops: 1,243
  • Civilian personnel: 146
    • International civilians: 47
    • Local civilians: 99

Fatalities: 45

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): ): $60,654,500 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)

In Cyprus since March 1964
Strength: 1,073 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 924
    • Troops: 857
    • Police: 67
  • Civilian personnel: 149
    • International civilians: 39
    • Local civilians: 110

Fatalities: 181

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $56,604,300, including voluntary contributions from Cyprus and Greece [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

In Lebanon since March 1978
Strength: 11,149 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 10,200
    • Troops: 10,200
  • Civilian personnel: 949
    • International civilians: 315
    • Local civilians: 634

Fatalities:303

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $492,622,000 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA)

In Abyei, Sudan since June 2011
Strength: 4,293 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 4,111
    • Troops: 3,955
    • Military observers: 133
    • Police: 23
  • Civilian personnel: 163
    • International civilians: 104
    • Local civilians: 59
  • UN Volunteers: 19

Fatalities: 13

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $329,108,600 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS)

In South Sudan since July 2011
Strength: 11,102 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 8,494
    • Troops: 7,327
    • Military observers: 152
    • Police: 1,015
  • Civilian personnel: 2,202
    • International civilians: 869
    • Local civilians: 1,333
  • UN Volunteers: 406

Fatalities: 25

Approved budget(07/2013 – 06/2014): $924,426,000 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI)

In Côte d’Ivoire since April 2004
Strength: 10,767 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 9,455
    • Troops: 7,957
    • Military observers: 182
    • Police: 1, 316
  • Civilian personnel: 1,162
    • International civilians: 400
    • Local civilians: 762
  • UN Volunteers: 150

Fatalities: 118

Approved budget (07/2012 – 06/2013): $584,487,000 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)

In Kosovo since June 1999
Strength: 367 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 15
    • Military observers: 8
    • Police: 7
  • Civilian personnel: 325
    • International civilians: 114
    • Local civilians: 211
  • UN Volunteers: 27

Fatalities: 55

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $44,953,000 [A/C.5/68/21 PDF Document]

United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)

In Liberia since September 2003
Strength: 8,947 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 7,446
    • Troops: 5,749
    • Military observers: 136
    • Police: 1,561
  • Civilian personnel: 1,280
    • International civilians: 420
    • Local civilians: 860
  • UN Volunteers: 221

Fatalities: 181

Approved budget (07/2013 – 06/2014): $476,329,800 [A/C.5/68/21PDF Document]

United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)

In India and Pakistan since January 1949
Strength: 110 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 42
    • Military observers: 42
  • Civilian personnel: 68
    • International civilians: 24
    • Local civilians: 44

Fatalities: 11

Appropriation (biennium 2014-2015): $19,647,100

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)

In Middle East since May 1948
Strength: 393 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 160
    • Military observers: 160
  • Civilian personnel: 233
    • International civilians: 95
    • Local civilians: 138

Fatalities: 50

Appropriation (biennium 2014 – 2015): $74,291,900

 

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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.

 

 

 

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.)