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THE BEADY EYE SAYS INEQUALITY IS THE CORROSIVE PAINT OF THE FUTURE.

09 Monday May 2016

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The world we live in and on has and will continue to face many threats from extinction to survival till its demise in 6.5 billion years from now.Résultat de recherche d'images pour "pictures of inequality eyes"

We all know that most of its present day problems have being created and propagated by us humans.

Some are easy to eradicate others not so.

WHY? Because global wealth concentrates is now in fewer hands resulting in inequality destroying our attitudes to world problems.

There is little need to state that there are many form of Inequality.

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But one form for me leads to many of the others and that is Income Inequality.

(The income from capital continues growing faster than the income from labor.)

While Economists are conditioned to believe in the optimality of the market the newest economic inequality numbers, which ran counter to the expectations of almost all experts, are frightening.

.That’s why they have been in denial for so long that change is not likely in the short run.

But we have to try, because getting this wrong means that economists promote machine-like models that suggest that it is simply some invisible mechanism (or maybe an invisible hand) that ensures that workers don’t get paid very much, that owners make high profit rates, and that the economy will be just fine under these conditions.

Market forces alone cannot determine who gets wealthy and who doesn’t.

Owners of capital seek higher returns through speculation in financial assets, in effect bidding up prices in an eternal quest for ever higher returns, returns that can’t be matched by investments in productive capital (the returns from which have been declining for decades).

Economics can no longer be accepted as a discrete, coherent discipline. It through inequality has left millions impoverished laying in its wake.

As a result there is tremendous anger, disillusionment and fear. All of which are corrosive to democracy.

Just look at the unfolding elections in the USA.

Nearly total disillusionment with established politics due to a dysfunctional government, with the Republican party now barely a political party with a candidate that has risen out of the poplar base called Trump that the establishment could not squash. The main stream spectrum of world politics is moving to the right. Neoliberal policies have led to declines and near stagnation.

You can rest assured that we are going to see a very ugly scene.

Their solutions are the same old failed tactics.

When both parties kowtow to money, the people’s needs are ignored, and

politics becomes illegitimate.

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You might say that redistribution of wealth is theft. But Redistribution of investment Profit for Profit’s sake is not.

You might think that  21st century technology such as the internet is going to change everything.  But it is money that is writing the laws, the behind the door trade agreements, through lobbyist undermining democracy. This is happening all over the world.

There is no clear relationship between the total value of capital and profitability.

Whether distributions of income and wealth are partly shaped by social and political relationships – class conflict if you will – or mostly by “market forces.”

The forces of technology are what they are.

Take the contemporary communication technologies it can be used for various purposes, to increase surveillance, to increase power, control or it can be used for to empower people.  Technology does not care you can use it both ways.

The technological connectedness is a myth.

If there is to be a rebalancing.  The current trade agreements could be designed for the people.  They are not.

They are however designed for the benefits of investors. They are not trade agreements except very marginally. That is the reason that they are keep secret, not quite totally as the details are being written by corporate lawyers and lobbyist.

They are however up to now effectively secret from the population.

We can fix the problem, but it will take bold steps. It will take a combined movement not splintered movements to force change. This is highly unlikely.

There is hatred and anger about just about all institutions.

There is only one way to effect redistribution.

Place a World Aid commission on all financial and acquisition activity that are made for the sake of profit. ( See previous Posts)

It is us the tax payer that bailed out the Banks, that paid for the research to create the internet. Are we getting any return on the investment. No.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS: WE ARE LIVING IN A SORT OF DELIRIUM–NOT REALLY KNOWING THE FACTS ABOUT ANYTHING-

02 Monday May 2016

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As soon as we really know the facts you would think that we would all begin to behave very differently, of course.

If we could, would not your heart swell with something far from anger. We might see our power of duty as custodians to the world that we all live in.Afficher l'image d'origine

Instead nothing much happens, except swallow high words on what needs to be done to achieve change in order to see the real power, the real dignity, our real responsibility in the world.

Over the next couple of decades the world will be facing new problems (in addition to the well-known challenges of creating economic growth and maintaining social stability), some of which cannot be easily solved by the market.

Forty years from now, how much will energy cost? What will happen with the climate?  Most importantly, will you be richer?

Let me tell you it is more important that you are satisfied with life than whether you are somewhat richer or poorer.

Empirically, for some, income is the sole determinant of life satisfaction. But for the majority, a whole host of factors influence our well-being—job, health, family, community, prospects for the future—in addition to income.

It is the sum total of all aspects of life that determine your wellbeing, both now and in the future.

If humanity rose to the occasion and ran a rational world how much better life would be for all of us and the generation to come.

Many argue that this does not matter because we are leaving for future generations a whole lot of capital, infrastructure, and technology. But to paraphrase the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, “People cannot succeed in ecosystems that fail.”

The prime example is the climate challenge.

It is a truly global problem:

The forecast maximum in 2080 is above the threshold that world leaders agreed would place us in the danger zone for runaway climate change; but it is important to realize this is a politically negotiated goal. Views differed, and still differ, on what will be safe. Or in other words, what will hurt us.

Does it matter?

Will the world of 2052 be a better world?

From a psychological perspective, probably no, because the future prospects in 2052 will be grim because of the increasingly uneven distribution of income and wealth that has built up over time as a natural consequence of the free market.

In my opinion there will be huge differences between people. But on average the world will be a better place.

It’s important to note that people 40 years from now will judge their circumstance more on how it has changed from their own recent past than from our vantage point of today.

Even the most diehard liberalists appear to agree that redistribution is something that is not automatically undertaken by the market by itself, but needs to be done via political action

In order to reduce some of the tension implicit in the rapid increase in inequity in the capitalist world.

It’s time to commence down the road of re thinking how or world works and reconsider what kind of world we want to live in.

Although we refer to most of it as civilization it is anything but civilized.

We have being killing each other and everything around us since time millennium.

It’s no wonder that the social arrangements up to the present have largely failed to produce a peaceful and productive world.

While we appear to be technically advanced our values and behaviours are not.

The possibility of an optimistic future is in stark contrast to our current social,economic,and environmental dilemmas.

If we stay the present course, the familiar cycles of crime, economic booms and busts, wars, and further environmental destruction are inevitable.

Will the young generation calmly accept the Debt and pension burden of the old.

No. The simplest reason is they don’t have to. In the rich world, particularly, the first generation that has rung up a huge national debt and established a huge unfunded pension scheme is about to retire.

The interesting, to say the least, question is whether the next generation will be willing to carry this burden and peacefully pay the debt and peacefully pay the pensions. I repeat my answer: I think not.

At the moment we have an unsustainable world, where the environment is going to have a bigger than ever say in shape our behavior.

Where our global monetary system is going to become obsolete, and increasingly insufficient to meet the needs of most people.

Where the banking , media, criminal justice systems, and world Organisations are tools of social control managed by the established political and economic elite.

 

We need a redesign of all our cultures. We need to up date to the new era of technological revolution.

Our problems are mostly of our own making and now it is the time to come together under a new World Organisation to resolve them.

In 2052 a full 60% of the energy used will still be fossil. As a result climate damage will be growing fast, as will the unavoidable costs for repair of that damage. Paradoxically this means that humanity will choose to pay bills for repair after the crises, rather than paying the same amount of money for renewable energy ahead of time and avoiding the damage.

 

We all know that if we continued willy nilly with the I am all right jack scenario we are heading for a cesspool of troubles that will put our very existence in question.

There are numerous solutions but the hard fact is man is incapable of acting as one.  Furthermore no one wants to pay for change. Not a Country , not a Government, not a social system.

It’s true that all the money in the world will make no difference if we don’t change.

It is also true that any change will have to just and fair to all.

If you have not looked at the below video you should do so.

 

 

You might think that the only thing that matter is a  Job.

It is the only way in which the individual can get part of the societal pie—without engaging in theft. Society—at least in the long run—will do its utmost to ensure there are jobs, typically by seeking rapid economic growth. But we know from recent history that this is a taxing task, and that politicians often fail.

This video misses the big question. Who is going to pay.

Here is the answer:  Profit for Profit’s Sake.  We must place a world Aid commission on all High Frequency Trading, on all Foreign Exchange transactions (over $20,000), on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions, on all Hedge Funds, on all Lotto Wins. Curbing greed is a first and very important step in that direction.

(see previous posts) —— 0.005% will do the trick. A perpetual Fund to address all our problems fairly spread over what is causing our problem in the first place.

Technologies will not save us.

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THE BEADY EYE: GIVES THE YOUTH OF THE WORLD SOME ADVICE.

29 Friday Apr 2016

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With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.Afficher l'image d'origine

It is your world so as far as possible without surrender be on good terms with all persons.

Speak your truth quietly and clearly and listen to others, even the dull and the ignorant, they too have their story.

Avoid loud and aggressive persons they are vexations to the spirit.

If you compare yourself to others, you may become vain or bitter: for there will always be greater and less persons than yourself.

Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.

Keep interested in your own career how ever humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.

Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is, many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.

Be yourself.

Especially, do not freig affection.

Neither be cynical about love for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.

Take kindly the council of the years gracefully surrendering the things of youth.

Nurture strength of spit to nature you in sudden misfortune.

But do not distress yourself with imaginings.

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.

And whether or not it is clear to you,on doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.

Therefore be at peace with god, whatever you conceive him to be, and whatever your labours or aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace with your soul.

Travel with knowledge. Life is a cup to be filled, not a measure to be drained.

No one else can make you feel inferior. Only you yourself do that.

Beauty fades,dumb is forever.

Never assume anything; assumption is the mother of mistakes. The only constant is change.

It’s what you learn after you know it all that counts.

If you were to ask me what is the greatest thing in the world?

I will answer it is people, it is people, it is people.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S: HERE WE GO AGAIN. THE COTTON WOOL BEING PULLED OVER OUR EYES.

24 Sunday Apr 2016

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Yesterday we told that 175 leaders signed an agreement to limit future global warming be least 2%

Ban Kimoon says this is a moment in history, which I agree but signing the Paris Agreement doesn’t mean emissions will go down. Afficher l'image d'origine

Are we being hoodwinked or Shakespeare by worthless words on paper that don’t come into effect till the year 2020.

By then the great barrier reef in Australia will be a bleached dead sheet.

THE FIFTY FIVE COUNTRIES THAT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR 55% OF THE WORLDS GREENHOUSE EMISSIONS WILL HAVE BY THEN PUMPED ENOUGH CO2 INTO THE ATMOSPHERE TO NULLIFY ANY REDUCTIONS. 

NOT FORGETTING THE AMOUNT OF METAIN THAT THE OCEANS AND THE ARCTIC ARE GOING TO RELEASE.

HERE ARE A FEW HARD FACTS:

No country has shared a detailed, credible strategy to achieve what scientists think is necessary: Ending the era of fossil-fuel emissions and converting entirely to clean energy no later than the middle of this century.

Not one country has said where is the Money coming from. If we want change we have to pay for it and there is only one fair way of doing this. (SEE previous posts)

There are 195 countries in existence. This does not include Kosovo (disclaimer), or  Palestine or Western Sahara or Taiwan or  Greenland or many other partly recognized states .

UN Members: 193
UN Observer States: 2
Total: 195

Whether they make good on their pledges to slow dangerous greenhouse gas emissions will depend in large part on the actions in the years ahead by the world’s largest polluters.

The United States, pledged was thrown into question in February, when the Supreme Court unexpectedly put a hold on implementing a major environmental regulation aimed at curbing greenhouse gas emissions from coal-fired power plants. Now it remains in limbo until all legal challenges have been resolved, which is likely to take at least another year.

China, has pledged to have its emissions of carbon dioxide reach a plateau or decline “around 2030,”

The European Union’s, pledge to cut emissions by at least 40 percent by 2030. Member states still must reach consensus in important areas on climate policies.

Perhaps the most significant pledge by India has been to increase solar power generation to 100 gigawatts by 2022, up from about three gigawatts generated in India last year. “That’s an earthshaking commitment,”

Russia has yet to make any binding pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

Brazil, President Dilma Rousseff committed to an ambitious plan to reduce her country’s emissions 43 percent from 2005 levels by 2030.

Indonesia, one of the world’s largest greenhouse gas polluters due to mass deforestation, pledged under the Paris Agreement to cut its emissions 29 percent from a business-as-usual scenario by 2030, or by 41 percent if it receives substantial assistance from the developed world.  But even with those pledged reductions, Indonesia’s emissions would still soar, nearly doubling from 2010 levels.

After a quarter-century of failed diplomatic efforts, big uncertainties hang over the climate deal even as the wording oil and gas companies continue to invest billions of dollars a year searching for new reserves of fossil fuels.

The announcement of 175 countries signing the Agreement hide’s the true position and gives the impression that the problem is being tackled.

It is already too late to eliminate the risks entirely.

We are looking at climate effects so severe that they might destabilize governments, produce waves of refugees, precipitate the sixth mass extinction of plants and animals in Earth’s history, and melt the polar ice caps, causing the seas to rise high enough to flood most of the world’s coastal cities.

So speaking up and exercising your rights as a citizen matters as much as anything else you can do.

The signing ceremony on Friday is only an intermediate step. After, countries will still have to present formal ratification documents, and the Paris Agreement will not take effect until 55 countries representing 55 percent of global greenhouse-gas emissions have done so.

All the World’s a stage– and some people are desperately unrehearsed. The US secretary of state, John Kerry, holds his granddaughter for the signing of the accord at the United Nations Signing Ceremony for the Paris Agreement climate change accord in New York.

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THE BEADY EYE SAYS ITS NOW OR NEVER FOR THE UNITED NATIONS.

19 Tuesday Apr 2016

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There is plenty of blame to go around for the state of the world we live in.

But to many decisions are now driven by political expediency instead of values.

Its is a sign of how perversely twisted the bureaucracy we have now in all our out of date World organisations that once had principles.

Personnel decisions are considered more dangerous than the responsibility to tackle a range of terrifying crises facing us all.

Terrorist breeding grounds in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, Libya,

Not to mention Climate Change and all its consequences.

I mean all of us the Rich, Poor, White, Black, Christian, Muslim, and the unborn.

The United Nations is failing and in desperate need of reform which can only be achieved by an outside examination that is Independent.

If this is not undertaken the UN should be scrapped and replaced with a new World Board that has the health of the earth and its people at its core.

Since the United Nations established its first peacekeeping operation—almost 70 years ago—more than 3300 people have died serving the UN in the pursuit of peace.

  • Peacekeeping operations since 1948: 71
  • Current peacekeeping operations:      16
    • Uniformed personnel: 104,503 (as of 29 February 2016)
      • Troops: 89,406
      • Police: 13,261
      • Military observers: 1,836
    • Civilian personnel: 16,471 (as of 31 July 2015)
      • International: 5,256
      • Local: 11,215
    • UN Volunteers: 1,804 (as of 29 February 2016)
    • Total number of personnel serving in 16 peacekeeping operations: 122,778
    • Countries contributing uniformed personnel: 124
    • Total fatalities in current operations: 1,679
    • Total fatalities in all peace operations since 1948: 3,454.
      • Approved resources for the period from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2016: about $8.27 billion
      • Outstanding contributions to peacekeeping (30 June 2015): about $1.6 billion

 

Current operations Afficher l'image d'origine

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

In Western Sahara since April 1991
Strength: 495 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 242
    • Troops: 26
    • Military observers: 216
  • Civilian personnel: 241
    • International civilians: 84
    • Local civilians: 157
  • UN Volunteers: 12

Fatalities: 15

Approved budget (07/2015– 06/2016): $53,190,000

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

In the Central African Republic since April 2014
Strength: 12,627 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 11,686
    • Troops: 9,639
    • Military observers: 164
    • Police: 1,883
  • Civilian personnel: 760
    • International civilians: 518
    • Local civilians: 242
  • UN Volunteers: 181

Fatalities:  19

Approved budget (07/2015– 06/2016): $814,066,800

United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA)

In Mali since April 2013
Strength: 13,170 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 11,781
    • Troops: 10,645
    • Military observers: 39
    • Police:  1,097
  • Civilian personnel: 1,246
    • International civilians:  585
    • Local civilians:  661
  • UN Volunteers: 143

Fatalities:  81

Approved budget: (07/2015– 06/2016):  $923,305,800

United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

In Haiti since June 2004
Strength: 6,092 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 4,750
    • Troops:  2,368
    • Police:  2,382
  • Civilian personnel: 1,245
    • International civilians: 304
    • Local civilians: 941
  • UN Volunteers: 97

Fatalities: 183

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $380,355,700

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

In the Democratic Republic of the Congo since July 2010
Strength: 22,492 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 18,618
    • Troops: 16,938
    • Military observers: 454
    • Police: 1,226
  • Civilian personnel: 3,470
    • International civilians: 816
    • Local civilians: 2,654
  • UN Volunteers: 404

Fatalities: 100

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $1,332,178,600

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

In Darfur since July 2007
Strength: 21,022 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 17,453
    • Troops: 14,345
    • Military observers: 179
    • Police: 2,929
  • Civilian personnel: 3,412
    • International civilians: 811
    • Local civilians: 2,601
  • UN Volunteers: 157

Fatalities: 230

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $1,102,164,700

United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)

In Syria since June 1974
Strength: 928 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 788
    • Troops: 788
  • Civilian personnel: 140
    • International civilians: 50
    • Local civilians: 90

Fatalities: 46

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $51,706,200

United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)

In Cyprus since March 1964
Strength: 1,067 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 916
    • Troops: 861
    • Police: 55
  • Civilian personnel: 151
    • International civilians: 33
    • Local civilians: 118

Fatalities: 183

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $52,538,500

United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)

In Lebanon since March 1978
Strength: 11,369 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 10,521
    • Troops: 10,521
  • Civilian personnel: 848
    • International civilians: 257
    • Local civilians: 591

Fatalities: 309

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $506,346,400

United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA)

In Abyei, Sudan since June 2011
Strength: 4,795 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 4,497
    • Troops: 4,410
    • Military observers: 135
    • Police: 17
  • Civilian personnel: 202
    • International civilians: 130
    • Local civilians: 72
  • UN Volunteers: 31

Fatalities: 20

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $268,256,700

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

In South Sudan since July 2011
Strength: 15,509 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel:  12,733
    • Troops: 11,782
    • Military observers: 185
    • Police: 1,105
  • Civilian personnel:  1,973
    • International civilians: 787
    • Local civilians: 1,215
  • UN Volunteers: 435

Fatalities: 42

Approved budget(07/2015 – 06/2016): $1,085,769,200

United Nations Operation in Côte d’Ivoire (UNOCI)

In Côte d’Ivoire since April 2004
Strength: 7,120 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 6,022
    • Troops: 4,457
    • Military observers: 185
    • Police: 1,380
  • Civilian personnel: 961
    • International civilians: 301
    • Local civilians: 660
  • UN Volunteers: 137

Fatalities: 137

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $402,794,300

United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)

In Kosovo since June 1999
Strength: 366 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 16
    • Military observers: 8
    • Police: 8
  • Civilian personnel: 328
    • International civilians: 109
    • Local civilians: 219
  • UN Volunteers: 24

Fatalities: 55

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $40,031,000

United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)

In Liberia since September 2003
Strength: 5,224 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel:  3,882
    • Troops: 2,626
    • Military observers: 77
    • Police: 1,179
  • Civilian personnel: 1,159
    • International civilians: 358
    • Local civilians: 801
  • UN Volunteers: 183

Fatalities: 196

Approved budget (07/2015 – 06/2016): $344,712,200

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

In India and Pakistan since January 1949
Strength: 116 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 44
    • Military observers: 44
  • Civilian personnel:  72
    • International civilians: 25
    • Local civilians: 47

Fatalities: 11

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

United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)

In Middle East since May 1948
Strength: 384 total, including:

  • Uniformed personnel: 150
    • Military observers: 150
  • Civilian personnel: 234
    • International civilians: 88
    • Local civilians: 146

Fatalities: 50

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

Value for money in a smart phone world.  You tell me.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S GOVERNMENTS ARE FAILING US.

18 Monday Apr 2016

Posted by in Capitalism, Climate Change., European Union., Humanity., Modern Day Democracy., Paris Climate Change Conference 2015, Sustaniability, The Future, The world to day., Unanswered Questions., What Needs to change in the World, Where's the Global Outrage., World Organisations., World Politics

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WHY?

Because they no longer guarantee life and the pursuit of happiness.

I am not talking about you can’t please all the people all of the time.Afficher l'image d'origine

I am talking about when they come together in the United Nations an out of date organisation with no secure means of funding other than begging. Only when signatory nations are prepared to follow suit with firm domestic policies is a UN aspiration somewhat effective. This never happens on global issues as they are afraid of paying the political price.

On something as fundamental as changing the source of energy which is going to cost trillions. Only governments coming together will there be any effect.  They are supposed to be a trustee of the natural resources that citizens depend on for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

In modern society, of course, much of the complexity in our lives is placed there by governments, supposedly acting to “help” us avoid failure or to “protect” us from failure.

Instead they are eroding our liberties by collecting reams of information from your digital footprint. Our societies where you’re free to be whatever you want, feels less and less so each year.

They are selling climate dispensations, flogging off natural resources and revenue earning industries to sovereign wealth funds for short gain profits.

Some failures were obviously. They are failing to adequately address global warming.  It seems to me that Politicians seem to think that the Marketplace will take care of it.

More visible recently were the bailing out of  high-profile banking institutions which are still considered by the government to be too big to fail without threatening the long-term well-being of consumers and the broader economy.

They have created confusing missions that are not be communicated and embraced, and are were easily undermined by rank corruption and unethical conduct, or are beyond careful monitoring through performance measurement and management. They don’t  ‘know’ enough to enable them to make effective decisions about the best way to allocate scarce resources with the top appointees unqualified to lead.

The days are gone when many economists believe in the efficient market hypothesis, which assumes that the market will always contain more information than any individual or government.

The implication is that market prices and market movements should be free from interference because markets cannot be improved upon by individuals or governments. However we all know that the invisible hand of the market place will not bring about the changes necessary.

Which brings us back to the United nations. An organisation so infiltrated by lobbying groups that it is danger onto itself.

The world is in a mess due to greed, and democracy as we know it is under attack from unbridled consumerism and Social Media. We have to accept the reality that markets are not motivated by the priority of care. Nor is it the United nations.

Why don’t we the voters demand better representation?

We must demand that the United Nations pass  binding people resolution placing a World Aid Commission on all High Frequency Trading, on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions , on all Foreign exchange transaction over $20,000 on all other form of Capitalist Activities that function for profit for profit’s sake.( see previous posts)

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S IT’S TIME TO CUT OUT THE BULL SHIT RE CLIMATE CHANGE.

12 Tuesday Apr 2016

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An academic feud swirls around how best or even whether to express the scientific consensus around climate change.Afficher l'image d'origine

Ever time I open the internet there are more and more articles on the subject.

It all boils down in the popular media to a much simpler message: that 97 percent of scientists believe climate change is caused by humans.Afficher l'image d'origine

This is correct in as much that we live in a world of greed created by unbridled Capitalism.

We have a world meeting after a world meeting, targets after targets, without any means of financial support.  Indeed we see governments issuing exempt green certificates to polluters rather than saying enough is enough before we hit the point of no return.

Lately, the Skeptical Science researchers have been battling a rear guard attack from within the climate science community itself. Some social scientists, political scientists, climate change communicators—question whether informing people of a scientific consensus serves any purpose.

To them, climate change is no longer a debate over science.

Rather, the climate debate is now ethical and political; it comes down to what we are willing to do today to address a problem that will largely affect our grandchildren.

As a father, ” I realized that we are handing over a world to our children that is worse than the world we were given,”

We can’t wait till we get a consensus. “How do you determine who qualifies to be surveyed and who doesn’t qualify?”

Its time to cut out the bull shit.  In fact, most people are already broadly aware of the scientific consensus on climate change, but remain silent. Even assuming the consensus message does work, it will not necessarily lead to climate action by policymakers.

Our out of date Skint World Organisation the United Nations can only aspire.

Its time it had the balls to pass a world people resolution to put a World Aid Commission of 0.05% on all High Frequency Trading, on all Sovereign Wealth Funds Acquisitions on all Foreign Exchange transactions over $20,000 and on any other Capitalist or other World activity whose sole purpose is to make profit for profit sake. 

Then we would have the means to reverse Climate change, which is is already causing wars over water whether it be rising or vanishing.

There are billions of tons of methane awaiting to escape which we cannot escape.

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THE BEADY EYE SAY’S: EDUCATION IS NOT KNOWLEDGE

11 Monday Apr 2016

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Quite recently I wrote a Post under the heading  : Are we all being Dumbed down. Have a look.

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But what does it mean these days to be educated?

Once upon a time a long time ago it was the ability to read ,write, add subtract and divide and multiply. Know the highest mountain the longest river in what country where. Who said what, in which play and who were your mother and father. All tested to see if you could go to University.

These days being educated cannot be determined by any means of standardized tests. Being graded in school can actually be quite degrading. Assigning a quality value to a young human being is simply not humanistic.

We should get rid of it as soon as possible and start building a system that would foster individuals who know how to push the progress of humanity forward. Because progress and innovation starts with embracing mistakes and failure and taking a risk in order to get to a greater good.

Education is not knowledge, although commonly confused as such.

A huge part of education is the consumption of knowledge.

The ability to listen carefully is the most effective way to absorb information on a subject.

Knowledge is being learned of many things, where as education is having an understanding of many things.

To be educated is having the ability to listen carefully, think critically, and explore viewpoints different from one’s own.

A listener must adamantly listen to each sentence, extract the idea within, ponder it, and chose to believe it or not.

The more one learns, the more one will realize that they know nothing.

The first step to becoming educated is to humble oneself to learn that they do not know.

The foundation of the society is based on education since it brings economic and social prosperity. It is through education that Technological advancement has been realized enabling communication and production of cost effective products and services to the society at large.

Google does not educate with its thoughtless accumulation of knowledge.

Twitter is trying to do so with iPads in Africa. Facebook is self-gratification. Social Media and the Internet is disconnecting us from what matters by overload of information and confusion.

This being said, the majority of the men and women who run the government that sets laws and restrictions on its people are not educated. Not to say that government officials are not qualified to hold their positions, but a majority of these men and women do not meet the criteria to be categorized as educated. Many politicians are controlled by their parties and do not make decisions on their own.

Because of these reasons, one will never know if a political figure is faking it and not living by his or her own ideas, or if they are one of the very few who truly speak what they believe. This is why the uneducated love the Donald Trumps of this world.

One cannot form opinions on a matter with a smart phone if that person does not know about that matter.

Dialogue is importance to the process of education. A society filled with people who understand themselves in relation to the others around them is a much better place to live.

Although an education can be paid for, no one can physically give you an education.

Experience and emotion are our real teachers.

I would like to see an educational system that embraces independent thought, personal talents, making mistakes along the way, humanistic values and fostering creativity and uniqueness.

I believe that education helps us achieve what we want to do but it’s actually up to each and every one of us to carry through.

I will argue that the primary long-term moral obligation of the world’s over-privileged have to the underprivileged is to provide those in need with the means necessary to develop a foundation for fair future interactions.

This will lead to the idea that a necessary part of the long-term obligation to the underprivileged, in addition to the redistribution of economic and material resources, is the redistribution of ideas and knowledge through educational programs.

I believe taking this argument seriously we could build a foundation for the creation of new kinds of international cooperation and understanding.

History has been traditionally told from the point of view of those with wealth and education.

But to truly understand history one must understand the history of the people who were not writing the history which includes the nation’s minorities, working class and those without a high level of education. Society is made up of a variety of people and history is not complete without telling all of their stories.

Our educational system is archaic.

It emerged in the time of the Industrial Revolution and it is designed to cater to that time of history and not current social reality. Education is still trying to grind children down to the size that would fit the needs of the industrial revolution. We can see this in the way we assign importance to different subjects.

It is inexcusable that we have so little useful life knowledge and skills. We should be spending much more time thinking critically, analyzing information instead of just learning it.

Let’s put the emphasis on the really fascinating stuff like the beauty, complexity and diversity of life instead of knowing each and every chemical reaction that is part of the Krebs cycle for Biology.

Let’s put the emphasis of Physics on the miseries of the universe and the mindbogglingly paradoxes of the quantum world instead of solving interchangeable mathematical problems and learning formulas by heart.

Let’s use Math class to talk about statistics and use it to analyze our own schools, lives and communities striving to understand things that matter to us and learning to do the math that goes with the analysis along the way. When there’s a will, there’s a way. We just need to recognize the deficiencies and start addressing them.

Our education is based on stereotyping people and so is our society, which is now desperately in need of free education. Not education with massive debt.

To my mind if we really want to get rid of inequality in the world and promote peace there is no better way than investing in Education.

So go now, and look with your newly educated eyes at this world and be sure to call me as soon as you hear about anywhere that’s looking into cyber-eye implants.

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THE BEADY EYE ASKS. ARE WE ALL BEING DUMBED DOWN?

09 Saturday Apr 2016

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Some time ago I posted are we all being Googlified.  

We use the internet and social media is not so much to expand our minds as to lose them.

Social media does not democratise debate. It limits it to the resilient, offering tweet-size solutions.

We tend to validate what we already believe, wish or suspect is true as opposed to challenging our way of thinking.

In this overheated world fulled by attack ads, and social media frenzies, the only think that matter is how an individual feels about something. Feeling validates itself and anything else is an establishment conspiracy.

It is well-known that if you want to rule a people keep them ignorant.

Take the USA for instance.

One has only to look at the rise of Donald Trump, the Tea Party, Climate change deniers, Creationists, and the hold these have and the lengths believers go to push their agendas, contrary to tangible, scientific proof, to understand that ignorance is something people invest in heavily.

In a country that was founded on Immigration the USA that has built some 650 miles of wall along the 1,954-mile US-Mexico boundary. There are around 16,238 murders per year in the United States; this averages out to around 44 murders per day. There were 2.24 million prisoners in the United States as of Dec. 31, 2011. That accounted for about 22 percent of the global prison population.

“It’s a stark fact that the United States has less than five percent of the world’s population, yet we have almost 25 percent of the world’s total prison population.” 

America is killing itself through its embrace and exaltation of ignorance.

Here as elsewhere we see politicians more concerned with appearing approachable than smart or engaging in genuine political discourse.

Celebrity gossip dominates news feeds and cycles.

We have a generation that have not read a book since leaving school. How take selfies posted on Facebook to say look at me I did this or I am here, got the t-shirt. Who cares. Almost all of us have been there before you.

Topical TV discussion ( on this side of the pond Question Time, Hard Talk, News Night and the like) shows use celebrities, sportspeople, or some one from the station’s stable of stars to discuss controversial issues eschewing experts and reducing complex subjects to clickbait.

Shrinking government funding for Education, and other artistic, creative, literary and scientific endeavors, works to erode the significance of scholarship and creativity and all they entail as respectable and seriously useful occupations or pastimes.

Universities are changing as a consequence of fee charging and anti-intellectualism. Instead of teaching students the joy of learning and critical thinking, we train them for jobs.

Ignorance should never be held up as inspirational, convenient fictions, don’t replace facts, and aggressive cyber trolls never silence the truth.

A clever country is where intellectuals are not scorned as elite, but recognised as essential.

If we want inequality to disappear our Leaders must educate for free and capitalism with its unrelenting greed must pay. ( see World Aid commission of 0.05%)

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

30 Wednesday Mar 2016

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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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