What am I to believe?
From every quarter I am bombarded with information
How much of this is real news (Truth)?
and how much is propaganda?
What to believe?
The numbers that are provided by the UN, NATO, the US, the UK, or any of the other sources that suggest that this or that is so!
The role of those that proclaim that their version is the "truth" whether it be from this or that source.
Unless one has traveled to the places highlighted and lived the time spans that are reported on it is difficult to accept as truth what is spoken thereof.
The only way to come to grips with this issue is either to travel to foreign lands or to accept the accounts of those who have. And what is to say that the accounts are not biased in some way or another?
This presents us with a serious dilemma in my humbol opinion, what to believe???
Do we go with the mass media story or do we look to see what is behind the mass media story?
I have been of the opinion that whatever the story presented, it is worth while to question the story presented.
To ask the questions that are conjured up in the story to begin with.
This is not always obvious but is most necessary if we are to move forward as a civilization.
What is the purpose of war?
What is the purpose of reducing populations to poverty?
What is the purpose of destroying our environment?>
These questions need to be answered by the ELITE who run the world, because if they are not then we are truly doomed!!
How long can you live in a closed room full of poisonous gas???
That is what we are doing to our planet, in the guise of economic growth!
Michael
Friday, December 2, 2011
Saturday, November 5, 2011
Life in the garage
So the way I see it is this.
There is a bad guy (country, group, movement,) that is threatening the way it is in this world, make no mistake the way it is, is the way it is, because the people who are in positions of leadership( all heads of state, and their handlers, [the corporations]) wish it to remain so.
The problem with the corporation is that it has no moral compass, in other words we have abdicated our moral compass to the corporation which does not know what a moral compass is because it is not human! and that is the crux of the matter.
Let us imagine for a moment that the planet is reduced in size to the size of your average garage in the western world , well North American western world for starters.
The garage door is shut and we have a device that can emit CO2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
it does not matter what the device is!
It is cold so we fire up the device The existing balance of the atmosphere in the garage lets us keep this device running for a while, it uses a very small amount of oxygen and converts it to CO2, no problem the plants in the windowsill like the CO2 and return the oxygen to the air. A very simplistic view of what is happening I will admit. But let us move beyond the simplistic a bit.
This is a big garage, and we need to get to the other side to pick up the food to keep the plants growing, so we fire up a pretty clever bit of machinery that will move across the garage to pick up the food, this machine however uses some special fuel that is stored in the corner in a limited number of tanks (barrels)they take up a bit of room in the garage but not too much room.
Unfortunately this fuel when burned in the device produces a rather obnoxious gas called Carbon monoxide CO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide which is problematic for us in large quantities in the long run. But it is not a problem in the short term if there is enough fresh air.
Over time the fuel in the tanks is beginning to run low, but because there are no visual gauges on the tanks it is difficult to say how much is left. Also the food for the plants is beginning to show declining levels.
A side to this issue is that the people who are looking after the plants need to eat in order to keep up their energy, which they get from a different set of plants in another windowsill, this little garage is getting complicated isn’t it!
A couple of very simple questions
1 what happens when the food runs out for the plants converting the CO2?
2 What happens when the fuel that is used to move the food for the plants runs out? which means that the food for the people runs out.
Remember this is the planet reduced to the size of a large garage, This is a serious predicament because all the time this is happening the people keep multiplying, and there are no other inputs into the garage.
How do we solve this problem?
We don’t seem to be able to see that this will be very serious to our well being if we don’t recognize that we cannot grow our way out of this predicament.
Oh yes there are other garages but they are light years away!!!!
Worried about tomorrow
There is a bad guy (country, group, movement,) that is threatening the way it is in this world, make no mistake the way it is, is the way it is, because the people who are in positions of leadership( all heads of state, and their handlers, [the corporations]) wish it to remain so.
The problem with the corporation is that it has no moral compass, in other words we have abdicated our moral compass to the corporation which does not know what a moral compass is because it is not human! and that is the crux of the matter.
Let us imagine for a moment that the planet is reduced in size to the size of your average garage in the western world , well North American western world for starters.
The garage door is shut and we have a device that can emit CO2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_dioxide
it does not matter what the device is!
It is cold so we fire up the device The existing balance of the atmosphere in the garage lets us keep this device running for a while, it uses a very small amount of oxygen and converts it to CO2, no problem the plants in the windowsill like the CO2 and return the oxygen to the air. A very simplistic view of what is happening I will admit. But let us move beyond the simplistic a bit.
This is a big garage, and we need to get to the other side to pick up the food to keep the plants growing, so we fire up a pretty clever bit of machinery that will move across the garage to pick up the food, this machine however uses some special fuel that is stored in the corner in a limited number of tanks (barrels)they take up a bit of room in the garage but not too much room.
Unfortunately this fuel when burned in the device produces a rather obnoxious gas called Carbon monoxide CO http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_monoxide which is problematic for us in large quantities in the long run. But it is not a problem in the short term if there is enough fresh air.
Over time the fuel in the tanks is beginning to run low, but because there are no visual gauges on the tanks it is difficult to say how much is left. Also the food for the plants is beginning to show declining levels.
A side to this issue is that the people who are looking after the plants need to eat in order to keep up their energy, which they get from a different set of plants in another windowsill, this little garage is getting complicated isn’t it!
A couple of very simple questions
1 what happens when the food runs out for the plants converting the CO2?
2 What happens when the fuel that is used to move the food for the plants runs out? which means that the food for the people runs out.
Remember this is the planet reduced to the size of a large garage, This is a serious predicament because all the time this is happening the people keep multiplying, and there are no other inputs into the garage.
How do we solve this problem?
We don’t seem to be able to see that this will be very serious to our well being if we don’t recognize that we cannot grow our way out of this predicament.
Oh yes there are other garages but they are light years away!!!!
Worried about tomorrow
Sunday, September 25, 2011
It seems to me that all the teeth gnashing by the financial wizards is going to be a waste of time!
For these reasons
Most of the people that are in a position to purchase something are worried that the whole house of cards is about to topple. They probably don’t even realize this as such, it is the day to day issues of making ends meet, feeding the family, paying the electricity bill, buying the needed school supplies for “Johnny” and “Shirley” or fixing the broken car that needs a brake job or a set of new tires.
These are the realities of the folk in the western world, AKA North America or Canada or the E. U.
For those folk who live in the Maldives it might be will I be able to move to higher ground as the ocean keeps inching higher and higher, and where might that be?.
For those folk that live in Somalia it might be, will I get any food tomorrow? Or will someone tell me that there is no food and to go home!
For those folk who lost their job making a useful product who were given a pink slip because the company went offshore, the financial world of stocks and bonds means little more than some talking head spouting gobbledygook.
Try telling someone who is filing for bankruptcy that the economy is recovering!
I think that the people who are in charge, the people who are making the decisions are either stupid or ignorant of the facts! The fact is that continued growth in a finite system is impossible!
I would have thought that by now the people who are in charge of the globe, these are the folk who are sometimes elected and who are sometimes there because they “were in the right place at the right time”, this doesn’t mean that they are right or worthy of being there, would have realized that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results would have clued in that things are not working!
I keep hearing that this is a very complex problem. Bullshit!! It’s not complex at all! If you continue to spend more than you earn you WILL GO BROKE!!!
What do we all want? People I mean. From my limited experience a mere 63 years of life I suspect that most of us want to be healthy happy and able to do what we enjoy doing.
I wonder what a young child in Afghanistan thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Somalia thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Bolivia thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Fukushima thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Pakistan thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Yemen thinks.
Or what a child on the West Bank thinks?
I think that if we thought about what the children all over the world were feeling we might change our ways, and just think about doing things that would benefit them instead of us.
For these reasons
Most of the people that are in a position to purchase something are worried that the whole house of cards is about to topple. They probably don’t even realize this as such, it is the day to day issues of making ends meet, feeding the family, paying the electricity bill, buying the needed school supplies for “Johnny” and “Shirley” or fixing the broken car that needs a brake job or a set of new tires.
These are the realities of the folk in the western world, AKA North America or Canada or the E. U.
For those folk who live in the Maldives it might be will I be able to move to higher ground as the ocean keeps inching higher and higher, and where might that be?.
For those folk that live in Somalia it might be, will I get any food tomorrow? Or will someone tell me that there is no food and to go home!
For those folk who lost their job making a useful product who were given a pink slip because the company went offshore, the financial world of stocks and bonds means little more than some talking head spouting gobbledygook.
Try telling someone who is filing for bankruptcy that the economy is recovering!
I think that the people who are in charge, the people who are making the decisions are either stupid or ignorant of the facts! The fact is that continued growth in a finite system is impossible!
I would have thought that by now the people who are in charge of the globe, these are the folk who are sometimes elected and who are sometimes there because they “were in the right place at the right time”, this doesn’t mean that they are right or worthy of being there, would have realized that doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results would have clued in that things are not working!
I keep hearing that this is a very complex problem. Bullshit!! It’s not complex at all! If you continue to spend more than you earn you WILL GO BROKE!!!
What do we all want? People I mean. From my limited experience a mere 63 years of life I suspect that most of us want to be healthy happy and able to do what we enjoy doing.
I wonder what a young child in Afghanistan thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Somalia thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Bolivia thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Fukushima thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Pakistan thinks.
I wonder what a young child in Yemen thinks.
Or what a child on the West Bank thinks?
I think that if we thought about what the children all over the world were feeling we might change our ways, and just think about doing things that would benefit them instead of us.
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