Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Swine Flu

It looks like an epidemic of one of the more dangerous viruses to face our medical science. It is not as though we did not know about Swine Flu, but is the UK ready for it?

In a land obsessed by the snow and the Prime Minister speaking about the terrible state of delays and cancellations at Heathrow (which is a failure of privatisation and necessary Government action), thousands of stranded passengers sleeping rough at the airport provides the perfect incubator by collecting together people from all over the UK in one unhealthy environment who are then going to fly all over the world.

More than 300 people lie in critical care beds and at this writing, 17 people have lost their lives. Lost their ability to breathe.

And the Government worries about what a minister says. David Cameron has failed to govern and if his Government holds together it will not be due to his taking courageous or necessary action to prevent disaster.

What is the Government going to do? They are going to take apart the National Health system by the looks of what they are doing to schools and universities. It is back to tooth and claw. Do not sneeze.

Guardian article

Dec 24th update: the situation worsens Telegraph 460 now in intensive care, 27 deaths

Dec 31st update: Government immunisation efforts - the Government has left the immunisation campaign a little late, but is mass immunisation the answer? Is it necessary for people to suffer a new flu variety or is protection better in that it does not provide continued opportunities for the virus to mutate?

Dec 31st update: The Department of Health says 738 people with confirmed or suspected flu are in intensive care, up 60% on last week's figure of 460. They include 42 children under five.

Sunday, December 12, 2010

WIkileaks

Ron Paul on Wikileaks.


Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Pakistan

Disturbing Trends warned about the danger of Pakistan about 5 years ago and it seems that we were not alone in the glaringly obvious analysis.  A country with nuclear weapons and assassinated leaders, terrorists and religious friction, a huge population, 170 million people sandwiched between two world powers, two wars, disputed territory, high inflation and a passing economic crisis - is a country that holds significant pressures and risks.  Now Wikileaks has released documents and communications by the US government that echo this great concern, exposure of Pakistan's nuclear weapons to terrorist organisations or terrorists.

They are very concerned about this, and kept it away from the general public.  One must consider the question as to why Governments should want to keep this secret.   The prospect of mass panic does not seem to apply, the public has lived under the yoke of nuclear threat for so long and it would seem important to raise public awareness rather than to hide the obvious.

Tuesday, November 30, 2010

China

China does not want any more trouble.  North Korea should be absorbed by the vastly more successful South in the private views of the Chinese government.  It would make a lot of sense, but a peace treaty between Korea and China, and another one with Japan does not guarantee stability, but 1,000,000 soldiers burning all the oxygen is disproportionate to the potential for goodwill in the world for a resurgent, united Korea.

It would mean the end of fear.  It would be the end of poverty for the population of the North.  Gradually, things would improve because the North would be able to produce something to exchange with the rest of the world.  At the moment all it produces is fear.  China may isolate it, but will it change or will it now start to threaten China also?

Wednesday, November 24, 2010

Aspirin

Salicylic acid, or Aspirin may be a health food - a naturally occurring plant defense that helps dispose of rubbish (old cells) in the body.  A daily intake of about 75mg has been considered medically a good idea for most although the side effect of intestinal bleeding for 0.1% of the population deters general use.  But for most a daily small dose of Aspirin is an inexpensive way to ward off heart disease, various cancers and dementia.

See: http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Salicylic:acid.html

Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Sarah Palin gets personal

Sarah Palin's new book explores Obama's background.  Early shots in a nasty campaign to come.

Who is a trusted enemy?

A Taleban "leader" sent to negotiate with Hamid Karzai turns out to be a shopkeeper.

Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM19920101123

Sunday, November 14, 2010

Happiness defined as "Being in the Moment"

If you define happiness as being in the moment, then the corollary sounds logical.

To say that the wandering mind causes depression is to tell every parent to be concerned when their child is introspective. Most intellectual behaviour may be like that.

Dreaming does not result in depression. However, addiction to external stimuli do create patterns in modes of thinking and when the stimuli is removed bad feelings logically follow.

Creativity often involves introspection and the mind wandering. Creativity is being in the moment of thought.

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Saturday, November 13, 2010

The Drug War

From the village folk in the Peruvian jungle product pickups to the corrupt cops and the culture and guns of New York, the drug trade forms a commercial interaction between certain counties. Hardly "fair trade" because of the level of violence and stealth required to achieve such profit levels. There is talk of changing laws, however a recent vote in California that supported continued prohibition of cannabis.

With thugs and guns what otherwise looks exactly like a fertilizer shipping business, the distribution of cocaine or heroin, becomes criminal. Is it so because it is harmful or because there is an untaxed profit? Or is the Afghanistan war part of the war on drugs? What does "winning" mean? Will it change anything?

That the Taleban seem to survive on the export of drugs to a snorting army of customers is the war against the rest of the world. It is as though one country had the one weapon that could destroy whole cities. It wealds power over the part of the world affected by its deadly threat. Nuclear weapons will not return a sustainable profit but the drug trade does.

Edited rap lyrics and music

Sunday, November 7, 2010

Political Science

I suspect that politics is not a science. It may be the art of pinching the nose of society while forcing down the wrong medicine. It may seem to be the art of finding an equilibrium by polarising opinion. A bit like saying the art of boiling water by freezing it. And that can be done - as you may find out in the rare air of the tops of mountains. The economics of mountain climbing, if you miscalculate and get it wrong, you run out of breath, not due to a crisis of competition but through engine failure. A traffic jam is made worse by more powerful vehicles spewing their fumes into the air until the drivers are stupefied. The same model of self defeat exists across the political spectrum.

Prince Charles believes in the politics of harmony - being in tune with the direction of nature. The Green movement in varying degrees believe humans to be part of something far greater that affords our respect, our humility. Objectivism at the other extreme believes in the power of individual achievement. When the objective is achieved the result looks tastes and smells like fascism. The rights of ownership and control of assets become the rights of ownership and control of people.

The politics of the "Liberal Democrats" is fundamentally two faced. It is the convenience of truth that informs it. If Liberal means more freedom to exploit and democrat means in the hands of the people, the amalgam of these two ideas is everyone screwing everyone else. No wonder Clegg won so much power.

Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Strange Events

While cosmic rays hit the earth, we look inside the actions of viruses, how they infect cells by injecting the cell with itself and changing the cell's DNA. But meantime the body has been able to fight viruses by attaching immune cells to the protein well of the virus, and thus being injected with it, attracting special virual cell deconstruction factories that tear the virus cell to pieces. The goings on at the cellular level follow very severe war policies, take no prisoners, in fact, evaporate them!

So research is going on for anti-virals that work in a similar fashion.

"The discovery, which is reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could pave the way for a new generation of antiviral drugs that fight infections by supercharging the body's own defences.

"Future treatments based on James's work are only expected to work against a class of viruses that do not shed their protein coats when they invade healthy cells. Those that do would leave the attached antibodies outside the cells, and so not trigger the cell's own immune attack."

Guardian, Nov 1, 2010

The idea of a virus that sheds its protein coat and thus defeat the virus defences sounds like a virus that would cause a cell to mutate, and as cells become virus factories, effectively grow - a hybrid semi foreign version of the cell. If antivirals can defeat this type of virus, it seems quite possible that there may be hope of attacking the many cancers will may be caused in this way.

Saturday, October 30, 2010

Mind Reading

Machines that read our minds have been the subject of experientation. By finding the location of certain receptors and providing feedback that resonds to it, images can be faded. This is research into how our brains focus predominantly on one thing (while containing other ideas which are put into the "background".

Friday, October 29, 2010

Explosives Found on Planes

How will Obama deal with the credible terrorist threat from Yemen? He shows confidence that the measures in place will work. Gone are the air of automatic false reassurance. Obama calmly and swiftly relays the finding of smuggled explosives (in printer toner cartridges) is indeed a matter of concern.

FULL article

Wednesday, October 20, 2010

The Celebrity of Politicians

What does she do all day? Shake hands and sign books? To ensure she is understood that she and her tea party members are definately not racist? To blame the media reporting it? To decry her enemies for any reason at all? What does she stand for? One suspects that reading her book will not make you wiser. She signs and agrees and shakes hands. All day. Most days on the campaign trail. High hopes for this candidate. High hopes inherited from the incumbent? Obama swept into office on a tide of a hope. A mandate of hope is a fear of hopelessness. No matter what he does, his actions are compared to the hope raised. And that could never be beat.

I suspect it is the same for Sarah Palin. Unless she saves the world, or actually does bring Armageddon down from the heavens, which seems oddly unlikely, she is destined to be less spectacular in office than she is under the floodlights of admiration.

Watch the video on this link to the Guardian, if you have not found it already. The fan who has been there from the very first tea party is attached and probably has attended every appearance of her star performer, Palin. Does she want a ruthless Diva who will toss out any vestige of liberalism? She certainly wants Palin to be President and believes it will be.

What are her policies? We will get to that, when she is in office, then you will find out. Until then we can listen to the same generalised platitudes and insistent accusative denials.

One can only hope as Obama's popularity wanes, he starts to use his brain and inspires the population by winning the war in Afghanistan. He had better.

Friday, October 15, 2010

Government Cut Backs

The Government of the UK, the Conservative/LibDem coalition is about to embark upon a withering reduction in funding public services. Included in the list of targets is the Police. Included in this list of targets is defence. This does not bode well for bastions of the left: education and health.

The duty of a government is to protect the vulnerable. This government appears to distrust the public service, and distrust the public. It distrusts those who are employed to administer its laws. A state of seige exists with the government threatening economic mayhem on any and all but the bankers. A state of distruct exists. The agenda has been hidden from view. Once they have finished cutting away their control of the state, there will be little for Government to do. Is that their aim?

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The Food Chain

The food chain has been attacked by pollution since the start of the industrial age and human denial is not going to change that. Poisons being added to the vast oceans do not just go away they are absorbed by the plankton - the tiny sea creatures that form the base of the food chain. And if we continue to reduce their habitats through pollution we endanger every form of life on the planet. Most of all ourselves.

LA Times story

Thursday, July 22, 2010

The Failure of War

Tony Blair's Britain entered the fray with GW Bush's America. The invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan were justified by distorted facts, plain old lies and inaccurate intelligence. Does this make the citizens of either country any safer?

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Saturday, June 19, 2010

A wound in the Earth

Gulf oil spill: A hole in the world

The Deepwater Horizon disaster is not just an industrial accident – it is a violent wound inflicted on the Earth itself. In this special report from the Gulf coast, a leading author and activist shows how it lays bare the hubris at the heart of capitalism...


Read the article by Naomi Klein published in The Guardian

Saturday, May 22, 2010

Biodiversity Threat

The threat to human existence by our waton destruction and pollution of natural environments is more severe than the effects of climate change, says a UN economic report.

Economic exploitation is already leading us to ruin. What we are doing to nature is so much worse. As we cheer on the destruction of retirement funds by corporate speculation, do we fund the destruction of the world that we rely upon?

There is no certainty in a future when greed dictates. Nature will overgrow our paltry efforts at self organisation and impose a far more brutal environment that no longer supports human viability.

We either act within the laws of nature or continue to believe in our fictions that make it seem logical to overpopulate, destroy species and burn resources. Nature is blinking in our brightness, but we are so very doomed if we think we can exist without mother Earth.

Guardian

Sunday, May 16, 2010

The consequences of global warming

What happens if we continue to pollute the atmophere?



The Great Energy Challenge

Friday, May 14, 2010

"The Exxon-Valez every four days"

The scale of the unnatural disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is a horror. The responsibility of BP in drilling this hole in the seabed and then not managing the risk so as to prevent destruction of sea life for generations and use excuses like "the sea is very large" when they made record profits last year in a time of international recession deserves more scrutiny.

Click to read article

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Is the UK Democratic?

The world's most democratic countries are not the United Kingdom or the United States of America. Both use outdated systems for democratic choice that do not grant equality to each vote, and allow entrenchment of a sitting government via the drawing of electoral boundaries.

FULL Article

Monday, May 3, 2010

The Environment

The most serious issue facing the world today is more far reaching than the financial crises and worse than war. It is the serious threat we pose to ourselves through over-population and pollution of our environment.

The end days of the oil industry are brought into stark reality by the risk taken and inability to repair an oil well off the coast of America that threatens all sea life in the Gulf of Mexico. Rampant capitalism and growth entail mistakes and this one is huge. Failure to build into the cost of oil the risk it presents when drilling for it offshore results in "unexpected disaster".

The entire problem of messing with nature without taking adequate measures to protect the environment are illustrated in this catastrophe. It brings the viability of the entire oil industry with its wars and pollution, also un-costed, into question.

Possibly more severe is the mysterious disappearance of honey bees. Why are they abandoning their hives? Instead of coming up with answers, there seems to be a hope the problem is temporary and will resolve itself, but it is not. It is getting more severe with each passing year and it threatens the crops of the world. Our trusted little friends who pollenate flowers are dying and it is being caused by something we have not noticed?

The "most likely" theory is some disease or parasite is at work, but logic indicates that it is just as likely that we are to blame. If for example, it is our genetic modification of crops causing the bees to stop recognising them, and they therefore simply end up starving themselves as they can no longer gather the right ingredients or are unable to produce enough royal jelly to make queens, then they would die externally to the hive. In fact the genetic modification of plant may be messing with the bees ability to navigate home as ancient reliable signals now appear like a colour blindness test with flashing lights.

Suddenly their life cycle, interrupted, no longer works. Our failure since 2006 to properly establish what is causing this may cause the most horrible food crisis in much of the world, and is therefore a horror far worse than oil wars or even marine pollution.

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Sunday, May 2, 2010

Capitalism

The system we have lacks a genuine human philosophy. Capitalism is more of a mechanism to fund ventures than the best way for humanity to prosper. We ignore its horrible side effects.

We would do far better if banking was not such a highly rewarded pyramid scheme. Banks produce security. Politicians are remiss for backing fat horses.

Our present society lacks the heroic altruism and cooperation that carried us out of the wars, terrible epidemics and human crimes such as slavery.

Wealth is a pretence without genuine value. It is merely good fortune and it is a sadness that those who have it believe it motivates those who do not.

Thursday, April 15, 2010

First UK Leadership Debate

The leaders of each political party gave their views on a leadership debate.

My reading is that David Cameron is not appealing to the Centre as well as he hopes, Gordon Brown only seems to appeal to the Centre, whereas Nick Clegg's appeals to the Left and Centre. Ring wing voters may have already made up their minds. But the Liberal Democrats may have secured their position as holding the balance of power.

The Guardian picked Nick Clegg as the winner of the debate. His theme of the old duality making and breaking the same old promises rang true.

Sunday, April 11, 2010

UK Election: The Tory Trouble

Speaking during a visit to Cheam, in south London, Tory leader David Cameron said: "We should have a society where we back commitment and where we recognise marriage and civil partnerships in the tax system. Would it be a good thing if more people came together and stayed together and showed commitment? I think it would."

Brown said Labour's offer to voters would be credible rather than exciting. "It is about substance in the end," he said.

Clegg said he was "not campaigning for a hung parliament" but it would be preferable to rule by a party with a tiny majority based on a minority of votes. "Do I think politicians working together can be a good thing? Of course it can."

Quotes from Guardian.co.uk

The UK election offers several "choices". None of these seem at all democratic except for the dreaded "hung parliament". In the case of no absolute majority, the outdated First Past the Post system offers governments formed with less than a majority of the votes. With an electorate where not everyone votes and of those who do, the prospect of every Government based on a minority of voters is plainly undemocratic and Nick Cleggs forecast of social unrest is not only inevitable in this but in every election.

The current "government" is only based on 22% of the eligible vote. When you have two main parties who gravitate at the "centre" and a third party that is actually a centrist party - there is no real choice except the personalities involved. The policies and policy reputations of the parties are not to be relied upon. Whomever "wins" this election will have to take actions that make their political future very dim. A coalition is almost necessary to avoid any individual party being tainted, but that is certainly the wrong reason to go into coalition.

Democratic politics is not about the winning. It is about the representation. If all three parties went into coalition to implement their austerity measures, they would still be doing so with less than 50% actual support. Only the Lib Dems are coming out to say it and only because they have little hope of winning enough seats for the "absolute majority" that the first past the post system appears to offer. Based on less than a quarter of the will of the people it is bound to leave a bad taste in the mouths of the majority.

Proportional representation with all its problems is a far better way to evolve good government.

Saturday, April 3, 2010

Give a damn

One of the last frontiers of equality is sexual preference. Those human beings who are differentiated by being gay, lesbian or bisexual are routinely discriminated against. Whether you are gay or not, this is as unacceptable as racist hatred and gender inequality.

Discrimination against homosexuality was outlawed in New Zealand in 1994 ten years after homosexual acts were no longer criminal. New Zealand has a healthy respect of racial, gender and sexual equality and this strengthens it as a society.

America still discriminates against "gays in the military". It is a violation of human rights to make people lie about those they love, their families and their choices. There is no longer any excuse for it.

Disturbing Trends gives a damn and supports the campaign to Give A Damn

Monday, March 22, 2010

Health Care

Barack Obama achieves the impossible and gets Health Care passed. This may signal the start of an America that is not only there to help those who help themselves. Indeed it may signal the beginning of the end of the age of greed.

Sunday, March 14, 2010

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Unbelievable Malice

The Right Wing strikes back! In memoirs published by Karl Rove and reflecting attack dog Dick Cheney and his daughter, truth is not respected but the myth that Bush did everything to contain terrorism and that "no attacks happened in America during his term of office" would be a joke if it were not for a sizeable slice of American that actually buy this twist on reality.

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Sunday, March 7, 2010

More on "Broken Britain"

The trouble with negative campaigning is the feeling that it is all mouth and no head. That is what we can see in David Cameron's harping on about "Broken Britain" - the social disorder he disingenuously ties to the Labour Government due to a few isolated incidents of teenager violence - which were hardly representative of all teenagers. His remedies were insipid as his understanding of the root causes of social disorder seem to be. As has been the case with Labour. Giving freedom to gambling and too much leash to the banking community while allowing so many to fall below the irretrievable line demarking endemic poverty and persistent unemployment.

A credible conservative solution would be to encourage investment in enterprise. Instead its volunteer groups and marriage. How is that going to fix things, exactly? "Look your kids have been robbing the local pensioners, so anyone going to volunteer to give them a bollocking?". Or, perhaps - "your teenage daughters are getting pregnant to get on welfare. So we have changed the law so they have to get married to get on welfare."

Victorian times were wealthy times due to the British imperial expansion. Face it, conservation of those values is hardly a 21st century recipe for progress.

The intellectual poverty of British politics is what is broken. There is no credible solution from either side due in part to weak leadership and mouthing of solutions without much brain behind them. It becomes a matter of who we trust the most not to continue to ruin people's lives with their hollow greed rather than which party has the highest quality ideas.

The expenses crisis was not a financial crisis. It was a catastropie of trust. The sheer embarrassment of the Lord Aahcroft affair is evidence of just how little the Conservatives really care about due process and respect for the average man on the street and his progress in life. Conservatives will not just slash public services, but now it seems they feel they have to raise taxes in order to reduce the deficit.

The lack of inspired confidence shown in the people of Britain by both sides of the house is the problem. It is us, not they, who will pull the country out of the mess that has erupted after both parties went mad for the fruits of capitalism without regard for education.

Wednesday, March 3, 2010

Is Cameron the problem?

The Conservatives, rattling on about black clouds and being generally negative about future prospects are creating a bleak outlook with an up to now near certainty that they will form the next government. The UK economy is reliant upon Government spending and this is what Cameron sees as the "real" problem. The Ashcroft affair (his non-dom tax status has just been revealed, and he is high in the ranks of the Conservatives) threatens to derail the very sincerity that Cameron so relies upon so his negative electioneering not only seems mean on the surface as he talks of cutting basic public services - a response to the structural debt arrived at after the public bought loss making banks - but it is also shaking the pound into devaluation.

Is that such a bad thing? Well, it increases the level of the deficit in pound terms. It makes it harder for the Government to reduce debt and instantly increases it.

So is Cameron and his razor gang of the greedy not in fact the problem?

Sunday, February 28, 2010

The Conservatives and the Social Fabric

The Conservatives have a difficult job convincing the electorate that it is not their fault when they complain of a "Broken Britain". It was after all they who exposed the manufacturing sector to world competition, not necessarily a bad thing, but the legacy of millions of unemployed left festering has led to a generation of people conditioned to rely upon Government spending, not by choice, more by circumstance and an inability to change that.

Reliance on private investment largely failed due to the "bling economy", the Yuppies of the 80s who invested their gains into fast cars and property contributing to the huge bubbles of that burst through the last decade. The most severe being the credit crunch recession that has seen a reduction in available capital that no political party seems to have confronted and said: "we need to rebuild by causing investment in the people of Britain by the people and Government working together" which seems now the path back from evaporation of supposed capital?

Vote, damn you Vote

Democracy depends on people casting votes that are meaningful to their lives.

In this article voters are being encouraged to "vote strategically", basically to encourage voters to prevent a change of government to Conservative by not "wasting" a vote on the Liberal Democrats but going for more of the same (Labour) as a change to the right-wing Conservatives is "untenable".

What utter nonsense.

If everyone examines the actual policy of each party and casts their vote for that, then a government can be formed that reflects the democratic wishes of the majority, not manipulate the vote according to fears of what may happen if "we let the Tories take power".

Democratic choice is about evolution, not fear.

The change mechanism that depends upon fear is called War. Revolution results from massive disapproval following a failure of democratic choice.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Corporate Pollution

Freedom means many things to many people. One of the supposed freedoms we are born with is to exist in nature. This is not a right bestowed by Government or God, but is part of what and who we are. One of the greatest crimes against humanity is the pursuit of profits to line the pockets of the wealthy with scant regard for natural consequences.

Read the full article

Sunday, February 14, 2010

New Economics

350 economists agree, it is time to change the parameters of finance. A suggested tax on the transactions between banks of 0.05% and a suggestion of a tax on speculation to alleviate poverty in this unbalanced world are two ideas which may take hold.

Full Article

Monday, February 8, 2010

What is Conservatism

If we look after our children, give them the best opportunities that we can to get educated and get ahead, make sure they are given the best chance of healthy living, we are doing the right thing. So why do conservatives rail against medical care for all? What is the point of denial of human rights for the sake of the choice of the few?

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Why Terrorism is a Failure

Terrorism fails to exert political pressure on governments, as nobody in the world wants random acts of violence to take the lives of their children, or indeed themselves.

Full article

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Freedom

UK Police have had an EEC ruling against stop and search activities.

In the meantime, a Muslim group has been denied their right of protest and have been labelled a terrorist group. This seems a popularist measure by the Brown Government increasingly clutching at straws to find votes in the upcoming election Labour seems destined to lose. Having moved too far right, they will almost certainly lose as the Conservatives seem to put on a more moderate face. I have seen this sort of political reversal happen in New Zealand.

And enquiries into Britain's role in starting the Iraq war with George Bush is being defended by Alistair Campbell, Tony Blair's master of spin.

Politics is the art of finding the middle ground. The war with Al Qaeda has been detrimental to the life of Great Britain but hardly as devastating as it has been to Iraq civilian life. Similarly, the war in Afghanistan seems, from the outside, to be a war against the poppy and criminal ideals. Terrorism is a political act when it creates a threat to everyday life. But Britain lived through its own Blitz in WWII and the threat of terror attacks is not going to stop this once world ruling nation from defending itself.

Freedom is too important to ignore. But is the medicine proscribed by Bush, Blair and now Brown any good for freedom? Not if the laws they enact reduce individual freedom. I returned to the UK expecting stop and search and intrusions by the law to be hard to deal with, but so far, I see people being indoctrinated behind their brick walls into being frightened of each other. The police presence is extreme but accepted. Most of the coppers go about their guardianship of civilised behaviour with good will and life goes on.

Google is concerned that Chinese hacking of freedom activists' gmail accounts has raised question by the US Government and a threat by Google of pulling out of google.cn completely. This will mean less freedom for the most populated country in the world.

Meantime, earthquakes destroy Haiti and millions die the world over from disease and starvation. Is this emphasis on terrorism all that wise? Are the acts of Osama bin Laden really going to make any difference in terms of Islam? Probably not. It is just a dirty war that will be over in another 2000 years or so.

Or both sides could signal an end to hostilities and the start of toleration and freedom.

Yeah, right.

Monday, January 11, 2010

What are we feeding our children

Read the effects of drinking a can of Coke or other soda drinks, within one hour it has as much potential to promote disease as smoking a cigarette or consuming heroin. And due to the "sugar crash" the physical addiction is fairly instant, requiring "refuelling" within an hour. One of the most successful companies of the twentieth century is in essence a drug pusher? Read the link and judge for yourself!

A comment about the high fructose corn syrup used as a sweetener is truly alarming:

and this doesn't even touch on the negative impact of the sweetener used in most soft drinks now, high fructose corn syrup. To make a long story short, high fructose corn syrup causes your body to deposit fat around your major organs (liver, kidneys, heart, etc.) and slowly chokes out their function.

I find it very intriguing that the slave trade of the nineteenth century supported the sugar plantations and the war on the health of humanity continues with misleading advertising that relies upon the same symbols that the tobacco industry falsely used.

To be healthy, turn to nature. Evolution has ensured we are designed for raw unprocessed foods and not addictive chemicals and sugar.

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Obama's Response

When a flaw in the protective shield that makes airflight possible (without holding your breath) exposed American flights a new kind of designer suicide bomber with a chemistry set to be set off by an "emergency injection", the media in the UK highlighted how detailed scanners would fail to show such a kit but would expose people's nakedness to the security police, as if that exposure was indeed sinful. Making people the "apparent victims" of the potential they they exist as a parade of pornographic images is what the purient are most concerned about? Is that their response?

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Saturday, January 2, 2010

Happy new decade

The year 2000 was a fine boundary, because of the mathematics of dates. 2010 seems a little more mathematical, in that the century count is double that of the year count. 2000 however exposed a hole in thinking shared by everyone who entered a two figure date into their computers. Time marches on, and it is necessary to record the details.

The 2000 decade was the decade that Tony Blair and GW Bush decided that the Geneva Convention prevented them from dealing with the threat of Iraq. There is a movement to bring them to justice as their actions were not legal or desirable.

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