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How Steven Hawking's legacy points to a previous universe
ASTRONOMERS have found the ghosts of long-dead black holes, evidence of an extinct universe. And that universe may be our own.
Jamie Seidel
News Corp Australia NetworkSeptember 18, 201811:02am
New evidence suggests cosmologist Stephen Hawking's ideas about the origins of the universe may have been on the right track. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
ALL the evidence shows our universe emerged from a single event: an eruption commonly known as the Big Bang.
What preceded that point is a mystery.
But it has significant implications.
It's about the fate of our universe.
We know space is expanding. We can see that in the way all the galaxies around us are moving outward. But how far can it extend? What happens next?
Will the universe merely boil away into the void as its component parts get further and further apart?
Or will it reach some kind of tipping point, where space turns around and begins to contract on itself?
The late Stephen Hawking had his own ideas. Now astronomers may have discovered one of the critical telltales that could prove his notions to be true.
Physicist Stephen Hawking, 75, speaks to an audience by hologram in Hong Kong. Fresh evidence appears to support his theories about the origins — and end — of our universe. Picture: AFPSource:AFP
COSMIC INFLATION
The leading theory of the birth of our universe has a problem: the evidence doesn't back it up.
At its heart is the idea that a single quantum speck of infinite gravity and density — similar to the singularity at the core of a black hole — suddenly became energised. It then erupts, inflating into an infant universe in a split second.
It seems to fit. It's also a neat solution for most astronomical observations.
But such an event should have left behind visible signs.
The way the universe fizzed into existence could reveal something about where it came from.
There should be regular, predictable gravitational waves rippling through the cosmos.
We've not yet found them.
Then there is the question of entropy (a technical term for the way things tend towards messy disorder over time).
Why isn't the universe a bubbling cauldron of disorganised subatomic particles strewn about in a uniform layer? How did subatomic particles bind themselves into atoms, molecules, gas, dust — and stars?
Physics tells us that, for this to have happened, the early universe must have had even lower entropy than we do now. But how?
You can't unbreak an egg. Yet that's precisely what cosmic inflation proposes.
Black holes remain the centre of fascination for cosmologists. Whatever their role it, it appears central to the fate of our universe. Picture: From the movie InterstellarSource:Supplied
CYCLIC COSMOLOGY
Black holes are so immense and so infinitely strange that traces of them may survive the end of the universe.
At least, that's the proposal of a research team from Oxford University, the University of Warsaw and the New York Maritime College.
But such an extraordinary idea requires gargantuan evidence.
Something on a cosmological scale.
Enter supermassive black holes.
And an idea put forward by Hawking and Oxford mathematical physicist Sir Roger Penrose.
Their theory — conformal cyclic cosmology — argues our universe isn't the first. Nor is it the last.
"In cyclic cosmology," 87-year-old physics legend Penrose says, "there is no beginning, and nothing is lost."
Big Bangs still happen.
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They're followed by the creation of the cosmos as we know it.
Then, things eventually cool down. Galaxies fly apart. The stars die.
The universe becomes almost empty — dominated by energy and radiation, not matter.
Only black holes survive.
"If the universe goes on and on and the black holes gobble up everything, at a certain point, we're only going to have black holes," New York Maritime College mathematician Daniel An says. "Then what's going to happen is that these black holes will gradually, gradually shrink."
The black holes themselves evaporate.
That is Stephen Hawking's most significant discovery: that black holes actually bleed off mass and energy by emitting gravitons and photons. It's called Hawking radiation.
What's left behind is — nothing. And everything
"The thing about this period of time is that massless gravitons and photons don't really experience time or space," An says.
"And so it starts all over again."
Seeking shapes and patterns among the cosmic clouds is just as dangerous as looking at Earthly clouds … as Stephen Hawking pointed out after 'finding' his own initials imprinted upon the cosmic radiation background.Source:Supplied
LOOK TO THE SKIES
One clue left over from the quantum-soup that formed the opening moments of our universe is the radiation left over from the Big Bang — the cosmic microwave background.
It still contains the patterns imprinted on it at the moment time began.
And that may include influences from a preceding time — the universe before our own.
Bright imprints could be produced by the concentrated Hawking radiation of the last dying black holes.
They're called Hawking Points.
Now Penrose believes he's found some.
The cosmic radiation background (CMB) has been mapped. But it's a mess.
Studying it is like looking for patterns in the clouds.
It's a point Hawking himself wryly highlighted, pointing out what looked to be his initials imprinted in the universe itself!
So, just as seemingly random clouds form larger weather patterns, Penrose and his colleagues set about creating a model of the universe that would reveal the larger patterns within it.
Our images of the cosmic radiation background are faint. They're also often overexposed by nearby stars and galaxies.
But one-third of the night sky is relatively clear.
RELATED: Why Hawking was cosmology's brightest star
So, the researchers calculated what they would expect to find if Hawking Points were there — and attempt to match them with what we know. This was then compared with 8000 different simulated universes in an attempt to ensure they weren't simple illusions.
They found about 20 distinct 'bright' patches.
They're not the ancient black holes themselves.
Instead, they corresponded with the notion that vast clouds of Hawking radiation from dying black holes would carry over from one universe into the next.
Researchers propose that the black circled patches, above, represent Hawking Points — the ghosts of black holes from a previous universe.Source:Supplied
The apparent bubbles in the cosmic radiation background are enticing. But they're not yet definitively defined.
So they're not yet evidence.
Some physicists argue that they have not adequately eliminated the prospect they are merely the product of random scattering.
Others say that if cyclic cosmology was true, then there should be tens of thousands of Hawking Points evident in our skies.
And such 'flares' in the structure of our cosmos could actually indicate something else.
It could be the point at which some separate, concurrent, universe has 'bumped' into our own.
There's also one sizeable unexplained leap in the theory's logic: how does a cold, empty universe suddenly flare into a new, high-energy universe?
But Penrose — who admits his idea is radical — remains confident.
He even believes he knows will come next.
"The next universe will be just like ours — but only in overall appearance, not in detail, of course," Penrose says.
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Life gets pretty simple out here. There's the boat, the people, the food, the garden, and our work.
One thing you do is pay constant attention to what the boat needs, because if the boat get what she needs, you get to where you're going – as efficiently as possible. You also keep bad things from happening, by constantly checking for Enemy #1 – chafe – and anything else that might be improper.
You can tell what the boat needs just by the sounds. You quickly come to know what each sound means and what is making it. That creak over there is the block that holds the preventer, a line tied to the end of the boom. It prevents the boom from going too far in any direction (for any non-sailors, the boom is the horizontal tube at the bottom of the mainsail, perpendicular to the mast). When you're sailing in ocean swells, as we are, keeping the boom secure is a good thing. Otherwise the mainsail will start flapping around and fail to keep the wind flowing smoothly over its surface.
The water going past the boat also makes a distinctive noise. You can tell how fast the boat is going just by the sound of the water flow.
The GPS tells us how far we are from St Helena and where we are relative to the "rhumb line," the direct course from Cape Town to St Helena. The wind is basically behind us, and you can't really sail directly downwind in a cat, so we are sailing at an angle to the wind, first one side and then the other. Going from one side to the other, with the wind behind you, is called gybing. I did my first solo gybe today, early this morning while Philip was sleeping, and am proud to say it went fine – and I managed to do it so quietly that he never woke up.
With our current setup, you have to first bring the main to the center of the boat, then pull the thin, nylon sock down over the big sail (yes, all the way down from the top of the mast, pulling on a line attached to the large plastic hoop at the bottom of the sock), then pull the big sail to the other side of the boat, then set up all the lines on the new side, then pull the sock up and let that big sail loose.
If the wind is coming from one direction and the sails aren't set for it, Horizon starts to get "mushy." You can feel her slowing down, like she's walking through mud. The large jib starts to collapse, instead of being in its best state – all puffed up and ready to party.
If the sails are set right, and the wind increases just the tiniest bit, Horizon starts to surge. She accelerates in a way a monohull never does. This boat is much lighter and has very little surface in the water relative to the size of the boat – because everything is floating on two slim hulls. You can see just how thin the hulls are, in the shot of Horizon below, taken when we were in Elliot Basin. That's Semper Fi just to the right of us, a new catamaran owned by our friends Greg and Michelle.
Going back to Horizon's speed…if the wind increases from 4 to 8 knots, she goes from 3 knots to 6 knots, the speed steadily climbing about a third of a knot per second, until she is merrily surging forward. If the wind gets stronger, even up into the upper teens, she feels just like a car built for speed. She seems to be happiest running at 8 – 9 knots. The ride is smooth; you can barely tell you're moving. If she starts going faster than that, the noise alone makes you wonder how the boat is going to survive it. It is, of course; we're well within the design specifications. It's just the way it feels.
As she surges, she makes her own wind. "True" wind is what's blowing, and "apparent" wind is the combination of true wind and the wind made by the motion of the boat. The angle of the wind changes as the apparent wind speed rises. The wind direction swings around so it's coming more from the front of the boat.
Still no signs of other life, not a single ship, and only one small bird yesterday. "Land ho" – St Helena – is about 250 miles from here. This is the first 25% of our journey to New England, and it will have taken us two weeks to get to St Helena. So 6 weeks more is a safe assumption.
Our friends on Semper Fi didn't leave South Africa after all; they had to get a few more things fixed before they could leave. They have hired a delivery captain and taken on some experienced crew – a couple – and plan to set off for America in the next few days. Both Greg and Shelly are management consultants; Greg actually met with the top brass at the catamaran company for something like 4 hours, when they were in the States recently, detailing how he went from "delighted" to "disgusted" – because of all the things that went wrong with their "new – as in, "there shouldn't have been any problems" catamaran. We wish them the best as they begin their journey.
Here's a shot of Semper Fi leaving "the first time," out of Elliot Basin.
Greg is at the helm, on the left, Michelle is holding the fender, and Larry is on the bow, looking back toward Table Mountain. It was a rare, calm morning in Elliot Basin.
Speaking of friends, I've been thinking on this trip how much our lives are defined by our friends and family. My very essence is tied to the people I love. I see faces and smiles and hear laughter, in my mind's eye, as we move along on the open ocean. These memories and images are as much a part of me as the pure, clean air I'm breathing. I also admit I am missing the special people we met and befriended in Cape Town. Some people just become lifelong friends, from the moment you meet them. There is a shared understanding about what matters and what doesn't, and what is good – and what is not. You rapidly get to the point where you can joke about your character flaws, in a way that teaches and enriches, and you quickly develop a set of shared observations that become fodder for ongoing jokes. So special, those we love.
Well, Horizon is surging, after slugging along in 5 knots of wind. The wind is now 8 knots and rising, and she's found her feet.


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1991 ZX11 sat for two years. would start and run with choke lever only. Any throttle = motor dies.
I have disassembled and boiled in lemon juice. New float bowl gaskets, new main, pilot and needles. All passages cleared with 100psi.
Reassembled, replaced. Motor started and ran on first try. excellent throttle response, idle at 1000K, sync carbs with Carbtune. very smooth running now.
After sync, notice a fuel leak from the fuel tube between Carb 1 & 2. I did not break down the rack and replace these O rings.
Question: Is it difficult to remove each carb from the rack and replace all of the O rings in the connections between the carbs?
manual, but cannot find anything regarding this.
any help would be appreciated. (I ordered a complete set of O rings for the fuel tubes.. the dealer said it would take 12 O rings two per tube or fitting.
Yes, if it would start with the choke but died otherwise, then your pilot circuit was clogged.
Great to hear the carbs cleaned up well and the bike is running properly again!
If you have enough mechanical skill to pull the carbs apart and clean them then you can definitely tackle separating each carb to replace those o-rings.
The carbs will come apart pretty easily, you just need to be careful with the throttle linkages between each carb. I'm not sure what style your bike has, but they often have a small set screw or spring which can be easily lost. Just take your time breaking them apart and you'll be fine. Keep the parts organized!
It's very common for the o-rings on those fuel tubes to leak, thankfully it's an easy fix and they'll last another 20 years. 12 o-rings is correct.
btw..I have a pdf service manual for a ZX1100…how do I send it to you for posting?
You won't have any issue swapping out the o-rings. It's a fun little project. Nothing better then having a rack of carbs in tip top shape.
I'd love to have the manual to share on the site, thanks for offering. If it's under 100mb you can upload it to http://drop.io/ and link me to it. Cheers!
I will check the size of the manual…thanks again.
Correct – you don't need to open up the carbs in any way.
Evan, thanks for your help and encouragement. The instruction and advice was excellent.
with all the springs and adjustments. After I synced the carbs, the bike purrs and idles better than new.
I forgot what a pleasure it is to work on the bike and the satisfaction from having everything work the way it is supposed to.
Never again will I will be at the mercy of a shop that doesn't care about my motorcycle the way I do.
My reward is a ride on beautiful Oregon backroads to the beach. The weather is perfect.
Wow john – Those carbs look brand new! Great work! Glad to hear the bike is purring as it should. I'd love to see a photo of the whole bike. Looks like it's in real nice shape.


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The Terrorism of ASIO Laws
Wanda Fish asks Australian Senators to reject Howard's proposal to strengthen laws that already erode our basic legal rights. This legislation has the potential to turn ASIO agents into terrorists who can kidnap and detain innocent Australians simply because they "might know something".
[ And or simply because they might know nothing at all ie used as scapegoats for a call to arms and resource wars in the Middle East. ]
THE TERRORISM OF ASIO POWER
Will the Australian Senate Protect Australians?
As John Howard prepares to hold his 'secret' summit about the Terror Laws, Australians are once again praying that enough senators will see beyond the Prime Minister's fear-mongering and understand the consequences of further strengthening laws that already give too much power to ASIO.
'The Howard Government has shown a relentless drive towards greater executive control - from the public service to the ABC, the defence forces and (relentlessly) the judiciary – despite the danger this poses to our democratic fabric and to the rule of law.'
Terror Laws: ASIO, Counter-Terrorism and The Threat to Democracy by Jenny Hocking. Published by UNSW Press, 2003.
Since 'Terror Laws' was published in 2003 (and supported by an overwhelming majority of the Australian legal community), John Howard has hijacked a couple of other avenues of dissent. Industrial relations legislation has disempowered the unions and workers, and expulsion of student unionism will (or so the Prime Minister hopes) hinder the effectiveness of the student community as the 'protesting conscience' of society. Both of these grabs for more central power have generated angry responses from the electorate and massive demonstrations by workers, unionists, students and the millions of families to whom these protestors belong.
Shockingly, the Prime Minister's actions collectively have begun to resemble the megalomania of an infamous fascist dictator who also forced through legislation about surveillance and detention. Adolf Hitler was targeting the Jews while today John Howard seems determined to profile another ethnic group and religion. His frequent and loud protests that he 'cares' for the Muslim community and wants to 'protect' them does not ring true as Australians witness the events of ASIO raids on innocent Muslim households. The recent complaints from several leading members of the Muslim community and the 'exclusiveness' of John Howard's 'terror summit' lend weight to this suspicion.
Every Australian Senator, regardless of party line, needs to step back from the 'Bush-Howard-Blair' hype and to find the wisdom within themselves when contemplating these questions about both the existing and proposed amendments to our Terror Laws. These laws do not protect us from terrorism. These laws enable ASIO to terrorise innocent Australians and an entire ethnic group through their targeted discrimination.
1. Who precisely are we waging this 'war' against? Terrorism and terrorist are generic terms that can and probably will ultimately mean anyone who disagrees with John Howard, George Bush or Tony Blair. The writers of the existing legislation clearly had great difficulty wrestling with the definition (and therefore legal implications) of who is a terrorist or what is terrorism. Senators should study carefully sections 2 and 2(A) of Security Legislation Amendment (Terrorism) Act 2002, part 5.3 (definitions).
2. Does anyone really trust ASIO with these extended powers of domestic surveillance and detention without legal rights? Under this Act, even as amended by the former Senate, Australians may be detained for one week on the basis that they might be able to assist ASIO in its gathering of intelligence information. Liberal Senators should listen carefully to Malcolm Fraser's warnings about these draconian and dangerous laws. Who wins in the war against terror when innocent Australians who have committed no crime can be detained, are refused access to a lawyer, have no right to silence, and can be imprisoned for merely speaking out about their unfair detention?
3. Should we trust a Prime Minister who uses unfounded fear campaigns to grab more power? This of course leads to the other question many Australians are asking: why the sudden urgency for 'strengthened' terror laws when we have not had terrorist attack within Australia since this vague 'war on terror' began in 2001? Surely John Howard's fear mongering has attracted the unknown 'terrorists' whom he claims to 'protect' us from. Who therefore is the terrorist - some mythical and unknown extremist or a Prime Minister who wants to take away some our basic democratic freedoms and silence all disagreement (and therefore discussion) amongst his own Party and Coalition.
4. Are seeing disturbing signs of racial and ethnic profiling from the Howard Government? Last month, a senior public servant speaking on behalf of ASIO said on 'Australia Talks Back' (ABC Radio National): 'Not all Muslims are terrorists, but all terrorists are Muslims.' Not only is this statement factually incorrect (terrorism existed long before 9-11 and terrorists have come from every religion), it is also a clear case of racial vilification from a government spokesperson. John Howard spins a tale to the public about how he is not discriminating against the Muslim community, and at the same time invites ONLY Muslim representatives (no other religions or ethnic group has been targeted for this summit) to his closed door meeting on terror laws. Hitler similarly involved the Jews in their own genocide. Many Muslim communities and leaders have already complained publicly about the prejudicial treatment they are receiving from ASIO, the Government, and ignorant Australians who are victims of the Government's unfounded fear campaign.
5. How dangerous is John Howard's intention to follow the UK example in terms of how he will deal with 'terrorist suspects'? The sanctioned murder of an innocent Brazilian on his way to work in London is the ultimate example of what happens when racial profiling is boosted by shoot-to-kill powers. Surely we do not want to see this happen in Australia. Consider carefully the powers you give to a secret service agency with a checkered history of embarrassing mistakes. The Terror Laws have the potential to turn embarrassment into tragedy where innocent people can die and have their lives ruined.
6. Do Australians really believe that these Terror Laws will stop future terrorist attacks? John Howard says he believes this is the case, but by definition 'terrorism' will continue to exist as long as there is something fueling it. The long running war in Iraq has resulted in more than 100,000 civilian deaths where 80,000 have been caused by Coalition occupation and invasion, and 20,000 by insurgency reaction. As long as John Howard continues to publicly support President Bush (who is rapidly losing the support of his own people and Congress), Australia will be 'at risk'. Remember the brave statement from the young Australian woman who was injured in the London bombings. She courageously and firmly told John Howard to his face that she believes the London attacks were motivated by the continued occupation and devastation of Iraq.
7. Why does Australia need even greater powers that erode even more of our civil liberties than the United States where the 9-11 attacks actually occurred? Americans have a Bill of Rights (so do the English), but Australians lack the basic protection of a Bill of Rights. John Howard is the only Coalition leader who has been able to take away the right to speak and the right to silence because of this. The judicial system gave us those rights, but now the Prime Minister wants to create 'special circumstances' where innocent people who might attend the same Mosque as someone else, can be detained for more than a week and not be allowed to even explain why - if and when he/she is allowed free again. Hopefully Senators will think about that carefully before they vote away more of our basic rights.
8. John Howard, with advice from ASIO, has now listed seven organizations for banning without trial under the Terror Laws. What is the potential for that list to grow to include trade unions, activist groups, and indeed any organized group that dares to question western values or the government of the day? It is one thing for John Howard to exercise his authoritarian control within the Party Room. It is quite another terrorise all Australians with unnecessary laws that revoke the rights we have been given through the judiciary system.
Most Australians still have a strong sense of fair play and will not accept, support or obey this kind of totalitarian law. And why should we?
Do you agree with detention without charge, indefinitely?
Do you believe organizations should be banned without trial?
Do you support the kidnapping, strip-searching and interrogation of children without charge?
If you have answered a resounding NO to each question, I urge you to write to your Senator and your Member of Parliament. Or call them. You will find all the contact details you need on the Parliament website.
Terrorism laws take away your rights
More than 20 federal ASIO and "anti-terrorism" laws have been passed in Australia since September 11, 2001 when the World Trade Centre in New York was destroyed in a terrorist attack. A number of states in Australia have also passed "anti-terrorism" legislation. Dale Mills*, from the Community Legal Centre at the University of Technology in Sydney, said that "the government's case is that the laws apply to 'terrorists'. But the definition of terrorism is so wide, and the powers of ASIO so broad, that it is not just 'terrorists' who have to worry about the laws. It is every Muslim, every activist, and every person who is concerned about civil rights."
Questions about Terror Laws
Wanda Fish asks the Howard Government some insightful questions about the Terror Laws that hands a victory to the terrorists John Howard purports to fight.
AIJC Support of Anti-Terror Laws
Wanda reminds the Australia/Israel & Jewish Council that the last leader to introduce similar anti-terrorism legislation was Adolf Hitler.
Open Letter to the Editor of the Australia/Israel & Jewish Affairs Council
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Terrorgraph not quiet on 'Aussie militant' probe
AFP refuses to comment on investigation into militant video: hoWARd's abc.
Phillip Duddock's 'accent' heard in militant broadcast
Australian/Arab television has broadcast a video showing a masked militant with an apparent Australian accent criticising British Prime Minister tony bliar over Iraq.
HICKS: Not a Happy Birthday!
AUSTRALIA/CUBA/US :David Hicks, the Australian imprisoned at the US Base of Guantanamo Bay, will be 30 years old this coming Monday August 7, 2005.
GetUp! Stand Up! Stand Up For Your Rights!
Because of you, something exciting happened in our democracy last week. From every corner of the country, more than 20,000 emails were sent to the Coalition Senators. Our message was simple: now you have control of the Senate, we will be holding you to account. Thousands of you added personal messages to your representatives about the issues you care about.
All the alleged terrorists are Muslims
The Australian Federal Police (AFP) commissioner mick keelty, a well know propagandist and liar, now claims that 60 Islamic extremists are operating in Australia and they are not news to the police and intelligence agencies.
All the wicked witches in Pakistan?
Pakistani authorities say 800 suspected militants [scapegoates and patsies] have been arrested in raids following the deadly London [false flag operation] bombings, as Islamic groups protest a move to expel 1,400 foreign students.
Lawyer dismisses ASIO fishing raids as PR stunt
Fascist federal Police (AFP) and ASIO officers conducted more raids in Melbourne and Sydney yesterday but the publicity surrounding the raids has been dismissed as a public relations exercise by the Melbourne lawyer for an accused terrorist.
hoWARd, ruddock, ellison, keelty and news ltd plotted chaos
AUSTRALIA/CUBA: Government and corporate propaganda agencies 'believe' they have foiled an attack on the Melbourne Stock Exchange by a radical Islamic network linked to a covert group, which has carried out surveillance on key Sydney sites.
Houses raided over 'possible' political attack plans?
ASIO have raided a number of properties in Melbourne on a 'fishing expedition' in relation to a 'possible' political scare campaign by the hoWARd government, playing on the fears of all Australians... again!
HOSTAGES OF THE WAR ON TERROR
This forum will bring together legal representatives and victims of counter-terror, along with justice campaigners and organisations in order to share strategies for achieving justice for these men and the many other like them.
WAR ON TERROR, WAR ON HUMAN RIGHTS: AMNESTY
The Canterbury-Bankstown Peace Group & the Justice for Hicks & Habib Campaign welcome the statement by Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan, condemning the US Administration for condoning torture and the suppression of 'human rights' in their 'war on terror'.
Murdoch's war on truth in war reporting
People who remain to be convinced that cross-media laws are important to maintaining the fabric of our democracy need look no further than today's page one of The Daily Telegraph.
Chomsky signs on for justice
Noam Chomsky has signed the Justice for Jack campaign petition which calls on the Australian Attorney General Philip Ruddock and Director of Public Prosecutions to "drop any charges reliant on records of interviews conducted under duress without the presence of a lawyer."
If he'd been given his passport he'd be a free man
A Sydney man [scapegoat in the Coalition of the Killings resource wars in the Middle East] has been found not guilty of preparing for a terrorist attack on a Commonwealth building [ruling class propaganda.]
Trial by unrelated video clips
Should alleged terrorist suspects [scapegoats for the resource wars in the Middle East] be shown on television side-by side-'terrorist training camp film clips' gathered by the government and media archives to give the wrong impression of accused people facing trial?
Accused Australian Citizen 'denied passport in 2002'?
AN AUSTRALIAN CITIZEN who was refused a passport by DFAT in mid-2002 became frustrated at the government for treating him differently.
Court should be told Gov't using 'Jack'!
A Melbourne court should have been told a man accused of working for Al Qaeda is being used by the fascist Australian Government as a pawn in their leverage to win support for their illegal and degrading activities.
Noble Cause Torture?
AUSTRALIA: The Labor Party has decided not to support a Senate inquiry into new allegations made by Mamdouh Habib that the Australian Government cooperated with Egyptian intelligence authorities who he insists tortured him.
New account adds weight to interrogation claims
Australia/Cuba/Iraq: The fascist Federal Government is under further pressure today because Australians were involved in the interrogation of tortured Iraqi prisoners.
Australian senate accused govt of war crimes
Did you hear the one about David Hicks and Mamdouh Habib having a Barbeque in Afghanistan with Bin Laden? Yeah it was reported on Channel Seven's Sunrise this morning! But they don't know if it was a sheep or a goat, but sources say it was most likely a goat.
DPP to appeal innocent man's bail
The Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will seek to have an innocent Melbourne man Joseph 'Jack' Thomas, returned to isolation in custody?
Fascist Australian Govt torture exposed
The fascist Federal Government has been exposed for the torture of Australian Mamdouh Habib and the US Government's allegations against him (if they were true) would have been made under duress.
Innocent witch verballed by federal fascists!
Shame on the federal fascists. The wicked old witch is dead! A Melbourne Magistrates Court has heard that a 31-year-old innocent Victorian man was facing terrorism charges?
Lawyer blames police for Habib break-in
John HoWARd, Alexander Downer, Phillip Ruddock, Robert Hill, to name just a few....HOW DO YOU PLEAD?
No reason for Habib to sell story: Beazley?
Federal Agreement Leader Kim Beazley is a well-paid loser. A loser who supposed to be defending our democratic rights by standing up to the HoWARd Government's fascism.
Australia: a presumption of guilt......
KAREN PERCY: Two of Australia's leading barristers have seized on the return of Guantanamo Bay detainee, Mamdouh Habib, to launch an unprecedented attack on the Federal Attorney General, Philip Ruddock.
Aust Community criticises Govt for 'crimes'!
Australia: The Law Council of Australia is warning that the Federal Government must learn from its mistakes over Guantanamo Bay? Now that's a mistake!
Australian Govt Guilty of Crimes: Community
Australia: The community says federal fascists who allowed the torture of its citizenry including Mamdouh Habib may be arrested when the United Nations War Crimes Tribunal address the War Crimes Indictment set out by the community.
What they did to Habib
Mamdouh Habib was the victim of atrocities fit for a concentration camp, including being tied to the ground while a prostitute menstruated on him, his lawyer said yesterday.
Australian Federal Government complicity in war crimes
Complaint to Australian law officers about Australian Federal Government complicity in war crimes.
In the weeks since the abuses at Abu Ghraib prison were revealed, evidence continues to seep out of similar mistreatment of prisoners in other US military detention centers in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Guantanamo Bay.
Howard rejects spy agency overhaul
Prime Minister John Howard has played down the need for a major overhaul of Australia's spy agencies as a result of an inquiry by former intelligence officer Phillip Flood.
Innocent Victorian man held in custody for Xmas?!
Lawyers have argued the case against Mr Thomas was weak and based on a statement he made in Pakistan without a lawyer present and therefore unlawful.
Innocent Melbourne man makes second bail bid
Rubish, just plain propaganda, fear-mongering, draconian nonsence from the HoWARd goverment's war agenda stink tank.
MPs to review spy agency powers
Australian spy agency ASIO'S controversial powers to detain and question suspected terrorists [scapegoats for HoWARd's resource wars] will be re-examined by a parliamentary committee. Parliament passed the new counter-terrorism powers in July last year.
Goulburn Jail breaches UN standards
NSW: Greens MP Lee Rhiannon has called on Justice Minister John Hatzistergos to bring Goulburn Jail's Maximum Security Wing into line with United Nations standards, after a prison inmate's covert survey of his fellow inmates revealed problems with rehabilitation programs and basic amenities.
Lodhi toilet paper: crap!
He is facing nine charges and is accused of planning a major terrorist attack on Sydney defence sites and the electricity grid using downloads off the internet and having 100 rolls of toilet paper to wipe his arse after low level bombs and farts.
Daily Terror rolled-over for Howard's war games
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2nd Renaissance -10 The War on Witches [150]
In 1484, Pope Innocent VIII issued a Papal Bull that became the rationale for establishing the Inquisition in Germany. The following excerpt from the Bull sets out the official view of the danger of witches to the community. The Bull and this this passage provided the sole excuse for the torture and cruel executions that were, ultimately, to be the fate of up to fifty percent of the population of some villages.
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The song talks about having "high hopes" and that with those high hopes a great deal can be accomplished that does not, from appearances, seem to be possible. Much of life revolves around confronting the impossible and often what is labeled impossible has as much to do with lack of confidence as it does with lack of ability. Of course there are probably many things we do not have the skills or abilities to accomplish, but why begin by assuming that a beguiling challenge is beyond us; why do we not first try to prove to ourselves we cannot do a thing rather than assume we cannot?
The Norns in the painting above represent fate or destiny. These are familiar figures in the myth and folklore of many parts of the world. In the German myths the Norns were, as were the Fates in the myths of Greece and Rome, weavers who wove the tapestries of individual lives and when a life was done, they cut the thread and the tapestry that was that individual life was finished. But how was the tapestry created. Did the Norns weave into the tapestry what an individual accomplished or did the tapestry come first, preordaining what that individual would accomplish? It probably does not make much difference which came first, the tapestry or the acts that were woven into it, what is important is that the action is done, that the attempt is made. We will find out soon enough if it is our "destiny" or not and if it is not there are other "destinies" to pursue.
Succeeding at most things involves taking something we hope for or dream of and making it real, bringing it to pass. Often the difference between something hoped for and a goal is planning, figuring out how to get to where we want to go, or at least planning out the first few steps on the journey, perhaps its just figuring out where to start. Hope often has more to do with yearning than with planning, but perhaps often hope is where goal setting begins. It is after all one of the "Seven Virtues." There was an article in The Boston Globe a few weeks ago, "The bright side of wrong" about the importance of making mistakes, of being willing to get it wrong. The article suggests that a great deal of success is the product of intuition, of insight into a problem or a project that is instantaneous and does not appear to be the product of careful thought. Sometimes decisions have to be made quickly and there is no time to "think things through." We know many things and our minds can process the many things we know quickly and often what seems the product of intuition is the result of a kind of sorting process our minds can complete with speed and efficiency.
"To change how we think about wrongness, we must start by understanding how we get things right.
This reasoning process, even when it is applied to much more complicated problems than the neck of a giraffe, is a reliable one more often than not for most of us. The more one has learned the more this is probably true. We have to be willing to live with the embarrassment that comes from getting it wrong from time to time if we are to enjoy the success that comes from getting it right at some crucial moment. It also means running the risk of getting it wrong in one of those crucial moments.
The paintings above and below depict The Garden of Eden, the one above of Adam and Eve enjoying the garden and the one below of them being sent out of the garden, after getting it wrong in what was for them a crucial moment. Cole's vision of paradise may not be your vision of paradise but most of us know what it is to have attained and lost something beautiful, something secure and life sustaining. There is a sense that every major disappointment is a lose of paradise, something we have hung our hopes on has been denied, maybe it is losing an important game, getting a poor grade on a test we thought we were ready for. Maybe it is losing a job or failing to achieve a goal. Unlike Adam and Eve's loss, though, most of our disappointments lose a bit of their significance with time and reflection. If we are wise we realize we must reassess if we are to be happy, it is important to feel the disappointment as a part of the healing process, but it is also important to grow beyond it.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky was celebrated as Russia's greatest author upon the publication of his first novel. His second novel was published two weeks later and he was labeled among one of Russia's worst writers, the praise had turned to scorn. He became insufferably cocky after his first book was published and well received. After his fall from grace fifteen days later he never recovered his confidence, though he did indeed go on to become one of Russia's greatest novelists. His first book wasn't as good as everyone said it was and his second book may not have been as bad, but the work of his maturity is recognized by most as truly great and part of what made it great probably lies somewhere in that earlier success and failure.
When Adam and Eve lost paradise it was for them truly lost. For us, though, it is often a bit different. It is not unusual for people to set their sights too low, to settle for something less because it appears to be easily achievable. We, often, must lose an inadequate conception of paradise, through disappointment perhaps, to wake up to a truer more worthy view of paradise. Of course it could as easily happen that the fruit of our disappointment is to give up on paradise altogether. Still, I think there is a place for looking at failure as a kind of gift that puts us on a more rewarding path; a path more in keeping with our gifts and temperament.
The video is a TED Talk about the Hurdy-gurdy. As the clip suggests it is an odd instrument. My first exposure to the hurdy-gurdy was in the film Captains Courageous. Manuel, a Portugese fisherman played by Spencer Tracy in the film, plays the hurdy-gurdy to pass the long times of inactivity at sea. When I saw the instrument being played in the film I thought it could only play one tune; that it worked like a music box playing a pre-programmed song. From the video I learned that it is in fact an instrument that can play any tune, though its inner workings are odd and unlike any other instrument I know of. Learning is often like this, it surprises us, it draws us out of preconceptions and introduces us to new ways the world, or those things in it, work. Learning often opens the mind by teaching us something new about those things we believed we already knew, if not all there was to be known, at least all that was worth knowing. This is another way that hope is kept alive and "high hopes" are reawakened. The closer we get to learning all that is worth learning, the less interesting life becomes. It is often the surprises in life that keep it from becoming mundane and when we reach a place where we think we know all that is worth knowing we begin to believe there are no more surprises and this can be disheartening.
The painting below is of Ra setting forth on his nightly cruise of the underworld. This journey takes Ra through night and the land of the dead to the next morning and the world's recreation. Each day the world is made anew and brings with it new possibilities. There is a sense that the failures of the previous day have been put behind us and we start the new day with not just renewed energy, but perhaps with new abilities or beliefs in existing abilities we did not possess the day before.
There was a review recently in The Guardian, "On Evil by Terry Eagleton," of a book on evil by Terry Eagleton. The book is something of a paradox. Eagleton a Marxist, and one would assume, perhaps incorrectly, an atheist, has written a book on preserving the idea of evil as it is understood from, if not a Christian, at least a religions perspective. But the issue here is not evil, but a reminder that we can never quite know who all of our friends are and that sometimes discovering a friend can come as something of a surprise. Insights of this sort, too, recreate the world for us, because they make it a bit less hostile. Of course these insights can also go in the other direction and expose enemies we once believed were friends.
Still, the knowledge does us good and is probably worth having. It is a good thing to learn stuff, the good stuff and the bad. Learning can renew hope, and it can make us wiser if we use that learning to pursue wisdom. In the drawing below St. Anthony is reading a book. Reading is one of the conventional means by which learning is attained, though it is certainly not the only means. Still, if we are to read well when we open a book, it helps to open our minds first.
i completely agree with this topic, seeing as how if you believe you can do something, you should try as best as you can to achieve your goal. if you don't believe you can achieve than you're only setting yourself up for failure, but if you believe, you will do so much better at whatever you are trying to do. like they say, "failure to plan, planning to fail." that being said, never give up on yourself, never look less upon yourself, and always pick out the good things in life, especially such things as how you can achieve, what you can do to make your achieving better, and how to learn form your mistakes.
There is a lot of things that you talked about here in this blog that are very intriguing. The one thing I would like to comment on, is where you talk about getting things wrong. I compleely agree with you. Sometimes the best way to learn something is by getting it wrong. I know that when applying this to school its completely true. If i get something right away and don't get it wrong, I don't put close to the amount of time I do if i'm not understanding something and getting it wrong. In putting this time and effort in improving my mistakes I now know that subject more than any other one.
I very much agree with everything that was said in this blog. Having confidence in what you want to do is half the battle. If you truly believe that you can do something, then you will have a much better chance at succeeding. Without confidence, and without belief in yourself, your chances of succeeding in the things that you want to do are severely lower than if you do. It is true that no matter, how hard something is to achieve, it is much easier if you think you can do it. If you go into something with a mindset that you will fail, then of course, you probably will fail. A sincere belief in yourself and your abilities makes a huge difference in the long run.
I firmly believe that our destiny in life is written by ourselves and was not predetermined when we were born. I do agree that what holds us back from achieving great things in life is our confidence or lack of. It is the fear of failure and persecution that keeps us from doing great things in our lives as said by Maryanne Williamson "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most." We fear what we can really do because no one wants to become and outsider because of their gift whatever that might.So to protect ourselves we hide our gift. There are instances in life that we are afraid to try because we are afraid to fail but to do nothing is failure to try and fail is progress. If we choose to live our lives in mediocrity we will just "get through life" but who in their right mind just wants to get through it? Is it a chore to live? For some it might be but still we must enjoy life and not be afraid of the light we have in ourselves because it is that light that will make us remembered long after we are gone.
I agree with the above comment from Zach about how our fear of failure prevents us from doing a lot of the things we are capable of. There is nothing to fear about most things, especially failure. That fear of failing is actually our lack of confidence in ourselves. Having confidence in yourself, enough to do whats needed but not too much as to not seem cocky, is a necessity to get things done in life. Also, I must add, it is comical when you are signing this song in class.
I agree with this blog for many reasons. In being a teenager, I learned how to correct some of my mistakes and how to make a better decision next time. I would not of been able to do this if I did not make the mistake in the first place. Life is all about trial and error. You sometimes do things that you think is right but in the end you realize it was not helping you to succeed. In order to succeed, you have to try and that is what this blog is about. The blog definatly reaches out to me expecially the part about "high hopes." I agree with this because people who do have high hopes and great out looks on life are more likely to succeed rather than people who do not have high hopes.
Having made many mistakes in my childhood I'm brought to the conclusion that this blog is very true. When you are younger you make the mistake of putting your hand on a hot stove. When you are a little bit older you make the mistake of shifting your weight too much on a two wheeler and falling over. When we make it to our teenage years we make the mistake of running over the curb a few times when learning how to drive, we also make mistakes of taking on a little too much then we can handle. Speaking from this point in my life I don't regret those mistakes, I learned to be careful around hot things in the kitchen, I learned to ride a two wheel bike, I learned to drive without hitting too many things 🙂 but most importantly all of these mistakes have shaped me into who I am today. If I had not taken the risk to learn to drive I would still be on the two wheeler and if I had not taken the risk to ride without training wheels I would still be on the tricycle. All of these risks had to be taken to get where I am today and more risks will be encountered as I apply to colleges as well as make a family and a career for myself, because every step of life has risks that we must take.


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Europe in the Shadows
Mar 8, 2019 Sigmar Gabriel
With the world increasingly dominated by the US and China, Europe must develop a much stronger common voice on economics, defense, and trade. But this will require Germany, in particular, to rethink some of its long-held positions.
BERLIN – Recently, I met up with an ambassador of a Southeast Asian country. We started discussing the current trade dispute between the United States and China, as well as the arrest, on a US warrant, of a senior executive of the Chinese telecoms giant Huawei. My interlocutor then summed up the dilemma facing Germany and Europe.
"The Chinese train left the station years ago. You will not bring it back. But you can't leap on to it, either, because if you did, you would take a stand against the US," the ambassador said. "We small countries know the feeling of sitting between stools, and we have learned to keep the balance. For you Europeans, this is new. You'd better learn to keep the balance quickly."
The United States has long been Europe's most important ally. But with China now its main competitor, the US is bound to continue shifting its attention to the Pacific. The world's political and strategic center of gravity will move with it. If Europeans don't wake up soon, a "G2" world, dominated by the US and China, will become a reality.
Sigmar Gabriel
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Sigmar Gabriel, former German Minister of Foreign Affairs, is a member of the Bundestag.
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Sigmar Gabriel laments the demise of a nuclear-disarmament treaty that gave Europe security for three decades.
B Wilds Mar 25, 2019
A great deal rest on economic strength and the Euro-zone banking system is rapidly failing. To say the deception is continuing understates the size of the fraud occurring before our eyes. In many ways, what has occurred has been allowed to continue only because other central banks and financial institutions fear that shining a spotlight upon it would undermine world currency markets and bring about a collapse in confidence. The article below highlights several reasons the euro may rapidly slip in value.
https://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2019/03/euro-zone-banking-deception-continues.html
John Kornblum Mar 15, 2019
Interesting that both Gabriel and the new CDU Chairman Annegret Kamp Karrenbauer both have the same apocolyptic vision of Europe being ground to dust between the US and China, During the Cold War, it was the US and the USSR. in other words, Gabriel'sa plea is the same cry for relevance made for decades by Europeans in the Cold War. There is no sense of responsibiity or loyalty to the West in either demand. Did it ever occur to Gabriel that the US and Europe are on the same side? The way to succeed in China is not to "balance" relations with the US, but to influence the US. The way to do this is to become more responsible and self confident in one's commitment to Wetern values. Hardly a mention of this in Gabriel's piece. Instead, he delivers the i traditional cry of the person trampped in the middle. He won't succeed any more than his predecessors have. But since he is trying now to take over the biggest German-American firendship organization, he might start by learning a bit more about the US.
Eustaquio Vera Mar 15, 2019
Christine Constable Mar 15, 2019
The EU needs to walk before it can run.
After 40 odd years it is in a parlous state. Financially; Economically; Politically and Influentially.
For many in the UK we can see no point in NOT joining forces with the USA/Canada/Australia/and Europe. Landmass wise we would have been the larger part of the world if we did. The complete lack of vision of the EU and the terrible leadership from the EU has been pathetic.
If the EU cannot even resolve Brexit adequately, what possible hope can it manage the EU as a cohesive organisation going forward, with the chasm of democratic accountability widening and widening.
The EU needed to get its house in order years ago. If it was to become a country it should have ensured everyone in the club was aware of this intention and got the buy in it needed to move to the next stage. Now we find the direction of the EU is at severe divergence to the vision of most countries now trapped in an expensive protectionist bubble.
The behaviour of the EU in dealing with the UK was a massive missed opportunity to reform the EU into concentric circles of European geopolitical influence, now all that has happened is the prospect of massive fractures will be a likely end point, precipitated by a financial meltdown of the Euro and a lethargy and despair from the peoples of Europe who all feel their voices count for nothing. See the results of the next EU Parliament to see how the masses are revolting.
Germany has not had a glowing reputation for leadership or power (without severely negative aspects trailing after it ) and that position has not changed and has been demonstrably awful throughout the Brexit debacle. The role of Selmayr and how one unelected Anglophobe can destroy so much goodwill has to be seen to be believed. The mess Junker has made will be left behind when he leaves, what does he care??
If the EU wants to lead anything, it first needs to sort itself out, at that point it stands half a chance of being taken seriously. With the economies of Europe and the USA
and the Anglosphere - China will always be smaller, the EU's mistake is to alienate the USA because of arrogance and complacency and to alienate the UK because of jealousy and revenge.
Just remember who rescued Europe from itself and don't insult those who paid the ultimate price so Europe could live in peace. Europe has a short memory and the Germans an even shorter one, I am sorry but it has to be said. More humility from the EU, it has a lot to be humble about.
There are several possibilities for the EU to strengthen itself.
- Longterm, it should increase it's birthrate. For several EU members ( incl. Germany ) that is now 1,3 child per woman. A birthrate of 2,1 is required for a stable population.
- Increased leadership. The question is how some more leadership can achieved in a continent with tremendous diversity.
- Big and small. Of the 27 EU members, Germany has 19 % of the population, France 22 %. In the Eurozone Germany, France, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands combined consume 87 % of the Gross National Income.
- Superstate or Confederation. France and the EU Commission are continuosly attempting to make the EU a Superstate. This is characterised by transferring power from the members to either Paris or Brussels. At a loss of the sovereignity and identity of the other 25 member states. France, by cooperating in the Franco-German axis, aims to gain control over Europe. Secondly, by permanently transferring money from the West to the East and South.
However Germany and many other EU members oppose these strategies.
- Germany because of it's seize and it's history hesitates to assume the role she should play. Their guilt feeling also leads them to such unsustainable adventures like mass-immigration.
- Many members in Eastern and Southern EU have not developed the economic standard of living they desire. Improving that may take many decades.
This is a huge challenge. Some suggestions to tackle that.
- An EU management team should be formed, around the EU president. Members from Germany, France, and half a dozen representatives of other ( groups, such as the Hanseatic ) members.
- The French/ EU Commission strategies should be brought in line with the strategy of the entire EU.
- The less competitive members should be placed in a EU development zone. For each member a program will be developed to make them more competitive.
( Example: on the Global Competitiveness Index 2018, rankings are: Germany 3, Denmark 10, France 17, Italy 31, Romania 52, Greece 57 ).
Correction: France has 15 % of the 27 member EU population.
Rob, Emanuel
I think your comments are pretty sick. We are 74 years after WW2 ended. How can you blame people for what their fathers and grandfathers did ? In this way we never put an end to that war. Germany is the most important member in the EU and it should assume the responsibilty that comes with it. The neigbours should accept that reality. We have to address the many challenges of the future. ( FYI: I am not German, but studied the history of the past century).
Christine Constable Apr 15, 2019
The very attitude of saying Germany is the most important member is insulting to everyone else. I would remind you that the UK would have taken that role had we not bankrupted ourselves staving of fascism and little thanks we had from that!
Henk Crop Apr 15, 2019
Christine. I do not want to insult anyone. I just base my judgement on GDP, number of citizen. Everyone is important and in the EU the importance of a single Nation is basic. But you cannot deny the facts. The UK did great things in the past, but we also have the address the challenges of to-morrow.
Emanuel Müller Mar 13, 2019
Sigmar Gabriel in my opinion is a great person, seemingly he is not a racial and even not a cultural supremacist which is alas quite rare in the West in my opinion. It is not clear though how and why he wants to keep the E. U. relevant if not for the sake of it, which seems somewhat vain.
Rob Landry Mar 11, 2019
"Wake up, Germany?" I never thought I'd see those words in a modern article about Europe; wasn't "Deutschland erwache" the slogan of the Nazi Party?
Gabriel's father was a nazi, as reported by Gabriel himself (Sigmar Gabriel im Gespräch mit Alfred Schier), so some notions might unintentionally re-emerge, hopefully more in form than in substance.
Dirk Lau Mar 10, 2019
The merger would not have created a deeper value chain but simply a larger enterprise on the same product. This would have harmed competition, since learning effects do not exist in rail industry as it is the case in aviation (the airbus case). EU Competition law is possibly one of the strongest reasons for competitiveness.
Wow joint liability if the € wants to go no where.. it is defintey about time we hear this from a first rank German politician...
John Edge Mar 9, 2019
Europe needs to unite itself properly before it can get its act together against the rest of the world. For one, such things as Brexit need to be cleaned up and stamped out "we tried, it wasn't going to work", German financial hegemony needs to be urgently addressed before the southern EU countries lose all faith - once these things are done, the EU can start to face the future with confidence. One more main point: the news media of each country needs to start letting the populace know just what good the EU really does stand for, rather than today's "the EU is the root of all evil" rubbish they all spout - gullible fools still believe this nonsense.
Manu Oquendo Mar 9, 2019
Europe should start by revising its Vision and Strategic Goals and by recognizing its highly subordinate relationship with real Global Power Centers.
Denial is deeply ingrained in today's EU and this is a very weak start for strategy development.
Probably the best and most viable strategic behavior for Europe is one that carefully moves towards multilateralism and away from the imperial "agreements" --many of them dictated-- and institutions born from the 2nd WW which, so far, have resulted in decreasing levels of sovereignty and freedom of action. Today EU cannot even use SWIFT without asking for permission.
This move will also result in better access to much needed high-er moral ground.
Roger Lewis Mar 9, 2019
The article is predicated on a singular world view, that is the view that 'Might is Right'.
In an information age, where distributed systems allow for maximum subsidiarity the opposite is one possible heuristic, and Small may become beautiful.
As ever in this beautiful world if one puts aside one's own biases just for a moment one can see that many and diverse combinations work.
Martin Novack is a Mathematical Research Biologist, he makes an appearance in a recent documentary series available on Curiosity Stream called why are we here.
'Mathematical biologist, Martin Nowak, explains the mathematical rules underlying evolution which point to cooperation. Part of a conversation with Ard Louis and David Malone for the 'Why Are We Here?' documentary series.'
For the full interview with transcripts and other resources go to whyarewehere.tv/people/martin-nowak/ '
For the EU to rediscover its purpose, its Metier if you will, what is required is the discovery of Subsidiarity and the Mathematics of cooperation, The EU must in fact make 1984 fiction again and turn away from its persistent obsession with becoming Eurasia.
Brexit and a whole alphabet soup of 27 prefixes "getting"" it""", is for most people labouring under the mistake that the EU and their individual states are Democracies instead of Corporate Oligarchies. The UK Oligarchy faction supporting Brexit wishes to become part of Oceana and not remain hitched to Eurasia.
The people as Burke pointed out in These present discontents following Henry the ivs
able advisor Maximilien de Béthune, 1st Duke of Sully, Marquis of Rosny and Nogent, Count of Muret and Villebon, Viscount of Meaux (13 December 1560 – 22 December 1641) was a nobleman, soldier, statesman, and faithful right-hand man who assisted king Henry IV of France in.
"The people have no interest in disorder. When they do wrong, it is their error, and not their crime. But with the governing part of the State it is far otherwise. They certainly may act ill by design, as well as by mistake. "Les révolutions qui arrivent dans les grands états ne sont point un effect du hasard, ni du caprice des peuples. Rien ne révolte les grands d'un royaume comme un Gouvernoment foible et dérangé. Pour la populace, ce n'est jamais par envie d'attaquer qu'elle se soulève, mais par impatience de souffrir." These are the words of a great man, of a Minister of State, and a zealous assertor of Monarchy. They are applied to the system of favouritism which was adopted by Henry the Third of France, and to the dreadful consequences it produced. What he says of revolutions is equally true of all great disturbances. If this presumption in favour of the subjects against the trustees of power be not the more probable, I am sure it is the more comfortable speculation, because it is more easy to change an Administration than to reform a people. Edmund Burke, These present discontents.
1769, "
Regarding the obscenity of choosing Swords over ploughshares, and the present obsession with matters of Marshall conflict is unforgivable. Burke had these words to say.
"A great deal of the furniture of ancient tyranny is worn to rags; the rest is entirely out of fashion. Besides, there are few statesmen so very clumsy and awkward in their business as to fall into the identical snare which has proved fatal to their predecessors. When an arbitrary imposition is attempted upon the subject, undoubtedly it will not bear on its forehead the name of Ship-money. There is no danger that an extension of the Forest laws should be the chosen mode of oppression in this age. And when we hear any instance of ministerial rapacity to the prejudice of the rights of private life, it will certainly not be the exaction of two hundred pullets, from a woman of fashion, for leave to lie with her own husband."
In the article we hear from the Hawks, now is a time for we doves to assert our own wisdoms.
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2019/03/08/brexit-unentangled/
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2019/03/07/brexit-oceana-or-eurasia-the-true-choice-all-along-and-still-the-distractions-cod-pieces-and-all/
´´IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING, SET IT FREE; IF IT COMES BACKS IT'S YOURS, IF IT DOESN'T, IT NEVER WAS ´´.
Richard Bach.
now meet the Fuggers.
https://longhairedmusings.wordpress.com/2017/02/19/meet-the-fuggers-brexit-the-euro-and-clueless-elites/
Michael Gilbert Mar 9, 2019
"If Europeans don't wake up soon, a "G2" world, dominated by the US and China, will become a reality.
This emerging world order presents Europe, and Germany in particular, with two big strategic challenges. Europe must balance its relations with the US and China, as the ambassador said. At the same time, it must advance its common interests much more strongly, so that G2 becomes G3. "
Sigmar, I am going to let you into a secret. well, something that is only secret in continental Europe, not to the rest of the world. The future number 3 in the future G3 is India. Not Europe, not any sub Saharan nation or group of nations, not a Latin american regional grouping. It is India.
Quite right!
India is or will soon be No.3 followed by Russia at No.4 and Brazil is not too far behind either.
Maybe 10 years from now. Give or take a few. The Chinese have caught up with Europe in all areas of technology. Add to this, the Chinese manufacturing power. Why would the Chinese treat Europe any different than Africa or Latin America ie another market to dominate.
Konstanzhoglo Konstanzhoglo Mar 9, 2019
Because European market is one of the richest in the world. The second reason, your presumption of caughting up Europe by China in all areas is wrong.
Anne O. Krueger Mar 8, 2019
I agree with most of the analysis. I am puzzled, though, by one thing: for fifteen hundred years, China was centrally run and except for a short period virtually stagnated; Europe was divided into many countries and leaped ahead. I thought that competition among European countries meant that they could compete in ways that the Chinese could or did not and if one European country found a better way, others followed. Doesn't the EU to some extent stifle that? Anne Krueger
Prashant Kotak Mar 11, 2019
Perhaps the answer lies in Anthropology rather than Politics or Economics. Is it possible that China's astonishing rise could have been an unintended consequence of the one child policy? A nation with a huge population, with generations of children without siblings is unique in history. Could this have engendered an uncharted psychology in the populace, that aggregated to national level, led to a China that literally jumped several rungs in under two generations?
Very good reference to Hayek's "The Constitution of Liberty", Chapter 2. Congratulations.
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Arsenal vs. Manchester City: Referee Stuart Atwell shows a red card to Arsenal's Gabriel
by GF Sports Desk
Manchester City went 11 points clear of Chelsea in the Premier League with a 2-1 win against 10-man Arsenal in a game full of drama and controversy.
The home side truly worried City on Saturday, with Arsenal boss Arteta isolating after a positive Covid-19 test, but the second-half sending off of Gunners defender Gabriel completely shifted the game's flow, and the visitors went on to win their 11th league game in a row.
Arsenal had claimed a penalty in the first half after Martin degaard was brought down in the box by City goalkeeper Ederson, but VAR judged that referee Stuart Attwell had not made a clear and apparent error, and play continued.
Following a fluid move, the home team gained a merited lead, which was Bukayo Saka later finished off in style.
In a hectic three minutes just before the hour, City equalised, Arsenal missed a wonderful opportunity to reclaim the lead, and Gabriel was sent off.
City's equaliser came from a penalty, and after Granit Xhaka grabbed Bernardo Silva's shirt, VAR requested Attwell to reconsider his judgement not to award a penalty.
This time, Attwell awarded the penalty, which Riyad Mahrez converted, though the referee booked Gabriel for attempting to scuff up the spot before the kick.
After Nathan Aké cleared the ball off the line, Gabriel Martinelli strangely missed with the goal gaping, before Arsenal's Brazilian defender was sent for a second yellow card for a tackle on Gabriel Jesus.
"Confusing is the right word [on the penalties], Arsenal assistant manager Albert Stuivenberg told BT Sport. "We are looking for consistency.
"For me, the Ødegaard penalty is clear … but if there is any consistency there the referee also comes to check."
In stoppage time, City made its numerical advantage pay as Rodri scored from close range.
"Eleven games in a row is great in this period," City manager Pep Guardiola told BT Sport. "Look at our bench. We have four academy players. We had many cases of Covid this season and injuries.
"Today with Kyle Walker was first time on the bench since Covid testing. We were incredibly tired and they were better. But football has happened. Sometimes it comes in our side."
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____________ will she hire to move her furniture?
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____________ decided what colors the newborns' ward should be painted?
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____________ do you recommend we hire for this position?
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