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Will Stevens switches from Caterham to Marussia support
by Peter Allen 3 October 2014
written by Peter Allen 3 October 2014
Photo: Gregory Lenormand/DPPI
Formula Renault 3.5 driver Will Stevens has joined the Marussia Formula 1 team as a reserve driver, ending his previous deal with Caterham.
The British driver has previously tested F1 machinery with Caterham at the Silverstone mid-season tests in 2013 and 2014, but now follows Alexander Rossi in moving to rival outfit Marussia after Caterham's change of ownership.
He had been poised to make his Marussia debut in free practice ahead of the Japanese Grand Prix on Friday, but was unable to do so after paperwork was not completed in time.
Stevens was previously signed by the Honda F1 team in 2008 when he was a top international karter, and then spent three years racing Formula Renault 2.0 machinery – culminating with fourth place in the Eurocup in 2011.
He then moved up to FR3.5, finishing 12th in the standings in 2012 and fourth in 2013. He began the 2014 season with his maiden victory at Monza, but has since slipped to sixth in the standings.
"I?m really thrilled to be given this opportunity by the Marussia F1 Team," said 23-year-old Stevens.
"They are a great team, with enormous potential, and I?m so happy to be joining them at this exciting time in their development.
"Off the back of my F1 tests with Caterham, I can?t wait to get my first taste of the MR03. I?m looking forward to rewarding their faith in me and to making a positive contribution to our progress in the 2014 championship, and beyond."
Team principal John Booth commented: ?Will is a driver we have been watching since he arrived in Formula Renault. We have admired his ability to learn quickly and compete in the thick of the action, so we are very pleased to add him to our roster of Official Reserve Drivers, which is now looking very strong indeed.
"It is great to be able to take such promising talents as Will and Alexander under our wing and help them progress to the next level. We look forward to seeing Will perform in the MR03, when I am sure he will demonstrate some further signs of his obvious potential.?
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Some of the essays illuminating Penn's First Commandment (The highest ideal is human intelligence, creativity, and love. Respect those above all.) include Siegfried, Roy, Montecore, Penn, and Leather Pants, and You Can Be Bruce Springsteen Too!
As he says of Commandment #4 (Put aside some time to rest and think): "If you're religious, that might be the Sabbath; if you're a Vegas magician, that'll be the day with the lowest grosses." Commandment #5 (Be there for your family. Love your parents, your partner, and your children), includes an astoundingly funny and heartfelt essay about Penn's mother, a late-in-life Atheist herself, and Shirley, the local lesbian pastor.
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LONDON (Reuters) - WPP entered uncharted territory on Monday after the exit of founder Martin Sorrell left the world's biggest advertising company rudderless at a time of intense industry change.
Shares in WPP fell 6 percent after Sorrell, the driving force behind 33 years of dealmaking and relentless expansion, stepped down on Saturday after the board investigated an allegation of misconduct.
David Herro of Harris Associates, WPP's biggest shareholder according to Thomson Reuters data, said Sorrell would be missed.
"Sir Martin is a visionary, a legend in advertising and a skilful businessman," he said. "The circumstances surrounding this are regrettable as is a leadership transition without Sir Martin's involvement.
The sudden departure of Sorrell, the face of the company which he founded in 1985, has sparked questions as to whether the holding group can remain in its current form of employing 200,000 people in more than 400 agencies across 112 countries.
It has also prompted fears that without Sorrell's contacts it could lose clients and talent while it seeks a new CEO.
WPP said that chairman Roberto Quarta will become executive chairman while its digital boss Mark Read and Andrew Scott, the chief operating officer of WPP Europe who oversaw acquisitions, become joint chief operating officers.
The changing dynamics have meant the previous idea of building marketing groups up to offer advertising, branding, planning and research on a global scale - championed by Sorrell and followed by others - is now under threat as clients want more nimble relationships in a digital age.
Sorrell had argued that the insight provided from market research had set WPP apart from peers such as Omnicom, Publicis and IPG, enabling it to improve its decision making when planning and buying media space for ads.
The group also owns stakes in groups such as Chime Communications, Vice, AppNexus and Chime Communications which could be reviewed.
Names already in the frame include Jerry Buhlmann, who runs the Dentsu Aegis network, and Adam Crozier who previously ran broadcaster ITV and Royal Mail. Jeremy Darroch, the well regarded CEO of bid target Sky, and Andrew Robertson, boss of rival ad agency BBDO, have also been linked with the job.
From inside WPP Read, 51, is seen as the lead candidate.
While a common refrain heard about WPP is that no one knows the company like Sorrell, Read is the one man who comes close after he wrote to the WPP boss asking for a job in 1989.
From the company's office in Farm Street, Mayfair, he watched as Sorrell pulled off a string of takeovers before building his own profile by growing its digital operations.
He spent nearly 10 years on the WPP board, introducing him to investors, and is regarded by peers as a strategic thinker who can win corporate pitches to bring in work.
They will "report to and be supported" by Quarta. Read has already contacted senior executives within WPP to offer to speak to clients and reassure them that work will continue as normal.
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David Jones, the former CEO of WPP peer Havas and the founder of tech marketing group You and Mr Jones, predicted WPP would eventually end up missing Sorrell more than he would WPP.
"No one else can keep that company together the way he has been able to because he built it," he told Reuters.


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Vaccine Approval Race Gears Up as U.K. Asks for Emergency Review of AstraZeneca Shot
By Jenny Strasburg and Drew Hinshaw
LONDON -- The U.K. asked its medicines regulator to review AstraZeneca PLC's Covid-19 vaccine for emergency-use approval, while Europe's equivalent of the FDA said it could be more flexible in how it reviews a handful of promising candidates.
The two moves accelerate a regulatory race on both sides of the Atlantic, triggered by the recent publication of positive clinical data for three different vaccine candidates. Two shots -- one from Pfizer Inc. and Germany's BioNTech SE, and another from Moderna Inc. -- showed to be more than 90% effective at preventing symptomatic Covid-19 in large-scale human trials.
On Monday, AstraZeneca said the vaccine it has developed with the University of Oxford showed to be as much as 90% effective, but only among a small subset of subjects who received a lower first dose of the two-shot regimen. In the other group of trial subjects given two full doses, the vaccine showed 62% efficacy.
While that overall reading falls well short of the other two vaccines, AstraZeneca said the results showed its shot was still effective enough against the virus to provide protection and that the company hoped for regulatory approval in Europe in coming weeks, soon enough to potentially have the vaccine in use by year-end.
The U.K. on Friday formally requested that the country's Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency review the AstraZeneca vaccine for emergency use in the country. Such authorization depends on full safety and efficacy data that the vaccine partners have yet to submit, U.K. officials said. The MHRA hasn't provided a timeline for its review process.
Still, the British government said in a statement its request "would mean potentially faster access to the vaccine for U.K. patients," dependent on approval.
That sets up the U.S. and the U.K. as the two most likely markets to get at least one of the three vaccines first, should regulators ultimately approve any of them. Pfizer has already submitted an approval application to both the Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. and the British regulator.
European Union regulators, meanwhile, say they might need until next year to assess the candidates.
The U.K. is in a transition period, through Dec. 31, in its process to exit from the EU. That means medicine approvals are still in most cases handled by the European Medicines Agency, that bloc's top medicines regulator. But the U.K. retains the power to authorize medicines for emergency use, and the government has said it would do so if the MHRA signs off on a vaccine before the end of the year.
The EMA has yet to receive an application from any of the vaccine makers, officials there said, though it expects that in coming days. It said it was willing to be more flexible in speeding up its vaccine approval procedures. In a notice published Friday, it invited drugmakers to contact the agency to discuss strategies to quicken the review process.
The "EMA is ready to apply further flexibility, where it is established that shortening of any other procedural step could have an important public-health impact in dealing with the Covid-19 pandemic," the notice said.
An authorization of one of the front-runner candidates could come "towards the end of this year at the earliest," a spokeswoman at the agency said.
The FDA hasn't detailed an approval timeline, but executives and officials expect it to be in a position to grant emergency-use authorization for the Pfizer shot by the end of the year.
Moderna is expected to submit its vaccine for FDA review soon.
U.S. clinical trials of AstraZeneca's shot were paused earlier this year after a trial subject in Britain fell ill. Trials were resumed after the FDA didn't find the vaccine was responsible for that and another illness, though the agency couldn't rule out a link either, a person familiar with the matter said at the time.
That has set back the timeline for the U.S. trial, for which AstraZeneca is still recruiting volunteers, as well as any potential FDA review of the AstraZeneca vaccine.
The British request for regulatory review follows disclosure this week from AstraZeneca about its so-called Phase 3 trials that some analysts and health officials criticized as muddled and confusing.
AstraZeneca didn't immediately disclose that the dosing difference was the result of an early manufacturing mistake. The subset that received the lower, more effective dosing included only people under 55 years old -- a factor researchers said could have contributed to the higher effectiveness.
AstraZeneca and Oxford said a peer-reviewed version of Monday's results, with more data, will be published in the next week or so. AstraZeneca executives also said they are planning a new study of the half-dose regimen that would include people over 55.
AstraZeneca has also said it plans to discuss with the FDA the possibility of altering its large-scale trials in the U.S. to add a new segment of participants who would receive the half-dose-full-dose combination that proved 90% effective in the subset of trials reported this week.
Mene Pangalos, AstraZeneca's executive vice president for biopharmaceuticals research and development, said in an interview this week that a new study looking at over-55 subjects on the half-dose regimen would take some time.
"We've got to set up the study, we've got to start recruiting," he said. He said the 62% efficacy shown in the larger group of trial volunteers was enough to move forward with seeking authorization.
"We just look at the worst-case scenario, which is the vaccine is 62% effective -- it's still an effective vaccine," he said.
Write to Jenny Strasburg at jenny.strasburg@wsj.com and Drew Hinshaw at drew.hinshaw@wsj.com
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Yesterday the Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative held an event remembering Dr. King Jr. The theme was "Letter from a Birmingham Jail : its relevance for today." In the photo above Tamkanat Mohiuddin, a board member of the Muslim Coalition of Connecticut is being asked about the Qur'an and its history at the MCCT table. We would like to thank the Glastonbury MLK Community Initiative for their invitation and for a very enjoyable and educational program!


Jillian Godsil accidentally became the poster girl for bankruptcy and then while working her way out of the situation, she found herself embracing blockchain and cryptocurrency and becoming a key proponent of the technology.
She has previously held senior positions with global PR companies in Sydney, Singapore, London and Dublin. She was PRO of Iona Technologies (Ireland's first company to float on Nasdaq).
After her divorce and bankruptcy, she fought and changed the law in Ireland in 2014 to allow bankrupts to stand for election and is a former independent European Parliamentary candidate, although she wasn't elected.
In addition to her position as co-founder of Blockleaders, Jillian freelances for a number of publications and radio stations and is CEO of the blockchain startup Blocknubie.
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It is all about the intersection of the two. Louis Park became an accepting community in which people trusted each other and worked together in a number of areas, particularly in public education. The fact that we all need to understand our fear of the future, our fear of change, to get the best from it makes such perfect sense that it is embarrassing I had to read a book to get the concept! These accelerations are transforming five key realms: the workplace, politics, geopolitics, ethics, and community. There are 496 pages on my side as well. His elegiac portrayal of the town of his youth is more than nostalgic; he makes a strong case for why the society where he grew up can serve all of us well.
In the beginning of the book, author shares how he came up with the title of the book. And it's true, to the extent that any caricature is. The challenges brought by the confluence of these three factors are multiple. Missing inclusive innovative social systems approach to avoid leadership blind spots. In some respects it was a real eye opener on how interconnected everything is whether we want to admit it or not.
I felt the ideas introduced in this section were very real. The world continues to speed up. This inability to adjust is part of human nature and inherent in each one of us. Thomas Friedman is more than a brilliant journalist; he also happens to be a shape-shifter who is looking out for the good of the planet and his fellow man. A New York Times Bestseller A field guide to the twenty-first century, written by one of its most celebrated observers We all sense it—something big is going on.
Social media now play a critical role, perhaps even disproportionate role in politics, in business and finance and beyond. Friedman opens the novel by introducing the three main accelerations that the world is facing: technology, globalization, and climate change. In the crowded and increasingly noisy public square of the twenty-first century, reasonable, thoughtful, and generous are not adjectives applied to many: Thomas Friedman is all three, and Thank You for Being Late offers some of his best work to date. Meanwhile, Mother Nature is also seeing dramatic changes as carbon levels rise and species go extinct, with compounding results. The message is clear: America doesn't work from the top down anymore, and only by creating, building and enabling communities from the ground up to embrace all facets of those communities from business to e Friedman's premise here reminds me very much of the series of articles James Fallows wrote for The Atlantic magazine called Journeys Across America. But it is still an optomist's guide and that is another thing that I like about Friedman, he is still an optimist, not because he Short Review: I generally like Friedman's writing style very story focused and his world view tech obsessed, culturally aware and globally focused. I think this is the most important and thought provoking book I've read in a long time.
In a single chapter he might explore the potential of article intelligence, reflect on the political cataclysms of recent years, and offer policy recommendations based on lessons learned from Mother Nature. There is a small part of the book devoted to the policies he would suggest for America. Thomas Loren Friedman was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 20, 1953, and grew up in the middle-class Minneapolis suburb of St. The first part about technology is relatively informative. You may not agree with all that he says, but Friedman offers one path for us to productively control our own destinies. Values and culture don't transplant very well. It is extremely well researched, thought provoking and, hence, makes a lot of sense.
However, if you are not as familiar with technology products released from 2007 to 2016 how are you reading this from your cave? His reporting on the war in Lebanon won the George Polk Award, the Pulitzer Prize, and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists. Unfortunately, Friedman's intriguing facts and ideas are all but buried under too many autobiographical anecdotes and lengthy recollections about the circumstances of interviews he conducted and research he completed, giving readers the recipe and history of all the ingredients along with the meal. Turn Artificial Intelligence into Intelligent Assistance. Of course, not everyone will be able to succeed this way. He discusses revolution that is being caused by technology that is also making the world flat through globalization. How does Friedman know this? There is a large amount of information here but as a large work of cultural and political study there isn't much holding this together. Our lives are being transformed in so many realms all at once—and it is dizzying.
Label Thank you for being late : an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations Title Thank you for being late Title remainder an optimist's guide to thriving in the age of accelerations Statement of responsibility Thomas L. Friedman offers some sound advice for readers early in the book—drop the ideology and labels, already! After a quick tutorial on that subject, he proceeds to write what could only be called a giant column about the twenty-first century. Social media, while it has made human interaction seemingly faster, more convenient and information sharing more instantaneous, has also presented challenges that have profoundly impacted the political and economic environment and social dynamics around the world. Partisanship, prejudice, and impossible were not part of St. It is, instead, globalization through the electronic transmission of information, training, financial transactions, education, and the movement of mere chatter and talk. He is a liberal-progressive on most issues, he works for the liberal New York Times, and he is not a fan of Donald Trump. Today our social media experiences are designed in a way that favors broadcasting over engagements, posts over discussions, shallow comments over deep conversations.
I know we're supposed to hate on Friedman and he makes it so easy sometimes with his ridiculous optimism and warmongering etc, but this book was pretty good. Some of these ideas are not comfortable to think about and because I was pushed into that uncomfortable space I was able to take away a lot in terms of how I view the world, what is going on in my day to day life, as well as public policy. If I see that he is sloppy with facts in areas in which I know more than he does, how can I trust him to get them right in the areas in which he knows more than I? It is extremely well researched, thought provoking and, hence, makes a lot of sense. We tend to talk at each other instead of talking with each other. Internet tools will help people identify their interests and train them to be proficient in them e. This is perhaps a reaction to what is actually happening around him in his own country and also across the Atlantic. Friedman is a self-confessed 'explanatory journalist'—whose goal is to be a 'translator from English to English.
This is a brilliant book, filled with a great deal of trenchant analysis and thoughtful reflections on the problems bedeviling our society and our world today. Friedman begins by taking us into his own way of looking at the world--how he writes a column. It turned into some weird and long winded trip down Friedman's memory lane in Minnesota. I like to follow memorial-like journeys in the form of long books. Thank You for Being Late is Friedman's most ambitious book--and an essential guide to the present and the future. It is creating vast new opportunities for individuals and small groups to save the world--or to destroy it.
What you should do is paddle as fast or faster than the current to keep stability. This was a very ambitious book in describing the major trends of globalisation, climate change and technology- and the bravery comes up when he actually proposes solutions. Thank You for Being Late is an essential guide to the present and the future. The author's writing style comes across as really precious, and the chapters are bloated because he repeats himself a lot. I gave up on P. Each Friedman book that I've read has inspired me to think beyond life on a local level, and this book is no different. Thank You for Being Late is a work of contemporary history that serves as a field manual for how to write and think about this era of accelerations.


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Q: Android get layout parent id I would like to know what is the difference between View and ViewParent ? I am trying to get the Id of the parent of an ImageView but this I can't do :
myImageView.getParent().getId();

So is there another way to get this id ?

A: You have to cast your parent view to a View, so you can use getId() method, using ((View) myImageView.getParent()).getId()

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I would like to know what is the difference between View and ViewParent ?

A View is a class and a ViewParent is an interface.
Although many of the common layout classes implement the ViewParent interface it isn't guaranteed.
The problem you're having is that the myImageView.getParent() is returning a ViewParent which doesn't directly expose a getId() method.
As others have said, casting the ViewParent to a View  using...
((View) myImageView.getParent()).getId();

...should work at compile time but be aware of the following...

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*If the parent View doesn't implement the ViewParent interface then the cast will fail.

*The parent View must have a resource id defined in the layout file as (for example) android:id=@+id/myParentViewId or the call to getId will return null

A: Surrounding imageview returns the parent layout id.
android:id="@+id/returnid"

example :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/returnid"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent" >

    <iamageView
        android:id="@+id/image"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="24dp"
        android:text="test"
        android:background="@drawable/white"
        />

</RelativeLayout>

A: When you have a parent view with no id, but you do have a child with an id, the best option is to use parent:
val layoutWithId: FrameLayout = findViewById(R.id.withWithId)
val noIdLayout: RelativeLayout = (layoutWithId as FrameLayout).parent as RelativeLayout

A proper tool here to identify the view tree is the Layout Inspector from AS menu:
Tools > Layout Inspector
It will give you a better idea of how your views are display in the tree, then you can easily which one is parent of who


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(Firdaws outside Trellick Tower)
In this week's Meet the Maker we talk to ceramic artist Firdaws Clotaire of Luna's Pottery.
A true local, Firdaws grew up in and around Ladbroke Grove, spending time with her father on his Portobello market stall. She now calls Trellick Tower home, West London's Brutalist icon and home to Goldfinger HQ.
From her studio, she creates handcrafted ceramics inspired by her Algerian and and Guadeloupean heritage, celebrating beauty and functionality of form.
We caught up with Firdaws to find out about her influences and how she finds flow in her practice.
(Abstract Plate and White Porcelain Bowls)
Could you introduce your practice/ craft/ work...
I am a ceramic artist who is passionate about sustainability, usability and beauty in the pots I make.
The name Luna's Pottery is inspired by my Great Great Grandma who was a Kabyle village healer. Luna's Pottery takes pride in bringing you beautifully handcrafted ceramics with healing properties. Each vessel is carefully designed with love and care and is a celebration of all women. The colours I use are carefully chosen and inspired by my Kabyle and Guadeloupean heritage.
How long have you called Trellick Tower home?
For about a year now but Ladbroke Grove itself has always been a home to me. Living here brings back memories of my dad who used to run a stall in Portobello back in the day.
Fun fact. I am not the biggest fan of heights so found it daunting living in such a tall tower close to the top floor. It took some getting used to being so high up, but now I love it!
If you had to sum up Luna's Pottery in one, core purpose, what would it be?
Its core purpose is to inspire, to heal, and bring joy to others.
I like to think that my work brings joy to my customers because I make every product by hand. It warms my heart and brings me joy when I see people using my work, and I hope it does the same for them.
What is your vision for Luna's Pottery?
I aim to have a site up by the end of the year and continue to sell, grow and eventually be working on Luna's Pottery full time.
(Small Glazed Vase with Cut Out Neck Detail)
What's the best piece of advice you've been given?
Consistency is the key to success. I am still aiming to live by this!
What 3 things are always close at hand when you're creating in the studio?
Apart from clay, a jug of water, a sponge and a wire. They are the basis on creating anything out of clay.
What's playing in the studio when you're creating?
Because I share the space I work from, I work in silence most of the time. I like to really focus on what I make and just be present in the moment and I find silence/sounds of nature most of the time the best soundtrack as I connect with the clay more. Because I get so into it, I don't feel the need to listen to music; I kind of jam with the clay. That said, if I were to play a little something whilst making it would definitely be Kool and the gang or Earth, Wind and Fire.
What piece of work are you most proud of and why?
I am most proud of one of my sculpture pieces. I haven't yet named it but it was made during lockdown and I really poured my heart, soul and feelings into the piece. It truly represents what I was feeling at the time which was a mixture of bewilderment, uncertainty, curiosity, love and spirituality.
If you could learn a new craft, what would you choose?
There are so many things I want to learn; from Spanish to the violin. However, if I were to choose a craft, it would be jewellery making and also improve my sewing. I just want to get better at what I do, then we shall see.
What is an innovation, change or design which inspired/excited you most recently?
That's a tough one. I'm inspired by so many things. Because I'm into ceramics I have recently become obsessed with Taiwanese/Chinese teapots. They are hand built to an exceptional level and look absolutely beautiful. The teapot masters make it look so easy but a lot of thought goes into making it functional and beautiful. They require specific tools, I will eventually get round to making one!
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pp. 193-210 Berthold Eric Schwartz : "Human-Animal Events."
"V. and M. Gaddis (1970) have recently collected many provocative examples of this. Sanderson (1972), a well-known biologist, has also noted many such events between a variety of species and man."
V. & M. Gaddis : The Strange World of Animals and Pets. NY : Cowles Book Co, 1970.
I. T. Sanderson : Investigating the Unexplained. Englewood Cliffs (NJ) : Prentice-Hall, 1972.
"The scientist Milan Ryzl (1970) has summarized much of the animal parapsychological data."
Milan Ryzl : Parapsychology. NY : Hawthorn, 1970.
"Related psi occurrences have been observed (Schwarz 1965; 1968a; 1968b)."
B. E. Schwarz : Psychic-Dynamics. NY : Pageant Pr, 1965.
B. E. Schwarz : The Jacques Romano Story. NY : University Books, 1968.
B. E. Schwarz : A Psychiatrist Looks at ESP. NY : New American Library, 1968.
"How might man-beast paranormal events tie in with the many documented accounts (see e.g., Creighton 1970-71) of UFOs (including "flying saucers") whose presence has been heralded by animals such as barking dogs, clucking chickens, stampeding cattle? Keel (1970) has shown how UFO experiences often have associated paranormal activities, including telepathy, poltergeists, precognition, etc. Could a key to the understanding of psychic matters be found in the mystery of ufology, or vice versa?"
G. Creighton : "The Effects of UFOs on animals, birds, and smaller creatures." FLYING SAUCER REVIEW, Parts 1-10, 16  (1-6), 17  (1-4).
J. A. Keel : Strange Creatures from Time and Space. Greenwich (CT) : Fawcett Gold Medal Books, 1970.
"Eisenbud (1966-67) has posed an intriguing exploratory generalization which he terms the "principle of confluence, according to which psi ... is, like the other great process-abstractions in nature (e.g., electromagnetic, or ... 'the unconscious'), an integral component of all events ... and as such represented in some measure as a determinant of the final, common pathways of these events."
J. Eisenbud : "Why psi?" PSYCHOANALYTIC REVIEW vol. 53 [1966-7], pp. 647-63.
pp. 211-232 William S. Lyon : "Cognition, Primatology, and Psi Dimensions of Human Vision."
"eye contact enhances psi! ... eye contact and psi act synergistically. That is to say, ... pupil size (in combination with facial expression) and telepathy ... when they are combined, transmit a far stronger, more specific, and more consistent emotional message."
"... indigenous curing where paranormal and psychosomatic factors are intricately intertwined (Long [PhD diss, U of NC] 1973)."
"Considering the volume of literature on PK, might it not be logical for anthropologists to return to the dual concepts of mana (impersonal supernatural power) and taboo (negative or dangerous power) and reexamine their true significance?"
as a dynamic, real force in the laboratory, is it too much to expect anthropologists to examine it as a possible force among primitives within their field-laboratory?"
"The belief that an evil person can injure you merely by staring at you is referred to in writings from ancient Egypt, Babylonia, and other early civilizations (Elsworthy 1895)."
F. T. Elsworthy : The Evil Eye. London : John Murray, 1895.
"According to Reich (1942) what we call emotion is actually the different flow-patterns of orgone energy through different parts of the human body."
W. Reich : The Discovery of the Orgone. NY : Noonday Pr, 1942.
the left one to mathematics and analysis (or "science")."
"Hence we may expect, as some psychological studies have already suggested, that gifted psychics may have mental processes which greatly emphasize right hemisphere functions."
"Those who have studied the occult sciences have ... postulated that the pineal gland, or "third eye," in the center of the brain for us but actually functional in some primitive animals, is the "point of focus" in "seeing" .. of cognitive processes."
pp. 233-242 Joseph K. Long : "The Evolution of Psi."
"evidence in support of genetic predisposition comes from Aristide Esser's (1969 :11-12) work ... with identical twins who ... happened to exhibit simultaneous psi under laboratory conditions. This shows that identical twins get synchronized in alpha brain waves during stimulation of one individual ... when the two individuals are placed in different rooms ... But others who are emotionally close but without genetic bonds, such as husband and wife, demonstrate similar phenomena".
A. H. Esser : Activities of the Center for the Study of Psychic Phenomena. Orangeburg (NY), 1969.
"psi work on plants (see Rhine and Pratt 1957 : 117-18; Tompkins and Bird 1973 ...) ... leads to the impression that plants are susceptible to psi, ... and are in fact more susceptible than animals".
P. Tompkins & C. Bird : The Secret Life of Plants. NY : Avon, 1973.
"psi is most easily demonstrated with one-celled paramecium (Rhine and Pratt 1957 : 117; Richmond 1952). ... such results are from the experimenter's own PK effect on the organisms."
"The cases of dogs' or cats' walking hundreds of miles over unfamiliar terrain, reaching their owners in heavily populated urban areas after many months ..., are especially interesting phylogenetically."
its possibilities have increasingly been raised (Koestler 1971)".
A. Koestler : The Case of the Midwife Toad. London : Hutchinson, 1971.
Joseph K. Long (ed.) : Extrasensory Ecology. The Scarecrow Pr, Metuchen (NJ), 1977. pp. 193-242.


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Q: simple optimization with inequality restrictions Today I started learning optimization with restrictions and I would be interested in solving the next problem (both with equality and with inequality restrictions)
The problem comes from a well known problem related to artificial intelligence under the name of adversarial examples. Basically the problem I want to solve can be defined in terms of:
$\underset{\theta}{argmax}\,\, \{ {J(x) + \theta^T \cdot \nabla_xJ(x)}\}\,\, s.t\,\, ||\theta||_{\inf}\leq \epsilon$
I look many for many way of solving this problem, however I cannot get to the solution:
$\theta = \epsilon\cdot sgn{\nabla_xJ(x)}$
Where sgn is the sign function (-1 for negative and 1 for positive). I will appreciate also the solution when the restriction is $||\theta||_{\inf}= \epsilon$
I tried to solve both of them using lagrange multipliers. Moreover, $\epsilon$ is any real value (positive) number. Also remark that the variables are vectors.
Thanks in advance.

A: We can rewrite the problem as
$$\arg\max_\theta \theta^T \nabla_xJ(x)$$
subject to $$-\epsilon \le \theta_i \le \epsilon, \forall i \in \{1,\ldots, n\}$$
which is a linear programming problem, furthermore, the problem is separable in the sense that we  can optimize each variable separately.
By using the property that two numbers of the same sign multiplying together would give us a nonnegative number and since we want to maximize the quantity, we will choose $\theta_i$ to share the same sign as $\nabla_x J(x)$ and also we would want to maximize it's magnitude as well.
Hence, the solution is $\theta_i = \epsilon sgn(\nabla_x J(x)_i) .$
Remark: Even for the equality case, the solution remains the same.


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Unplanned: The True Story of Abby Johnson tells how the former Planned Parenthood director changed her view after assisting with the abortion of a 13-week-old fetus. After eight years in the abortion industry and earning the 2008 Employee of the Year Award, Johnson walked out and helped found And Then There Were None, an organization to help abortion workers exit the industry and find new employment. On March 29, audiences everywhere can see her story in theaters, even as one million abortions continue to take place nationwide.
Johnson, who facilitated twenty-two thousand abortions as the director of the Bryan, TX, facility, said, "I thought I was helping women. But I was doing more harm than good. It wasn't until I saw a child fight for its life that my world came crashing down and I understood the enormity of my actions. I had to leave. No one will be able to walk away after seeing this movie and say 'I didn't know.'"
During the March for Life Vigil Mass at the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception in Washington,Archbishop Joseph F. Naumann of Kansas City and the head of the U.S. Bishops Committee on Pro-Life Activities, gave the film a rousing endorsement during his homily, "If you see one film this year, see Unplanned ... I warn you, Unplanned is graphic, it's painful, but at the same time, inspiring ..."


Mountain View, Calif.-based Google Inc.'s recent Canadian launch of its Gadget Maker for iGoogle users should be of minimal concern to IT administrators who typically monitor what employees download on their individual systems, the company said.
Actually, he said the customizable application is akin to employees using other Web-based sharing platforms like photo-sharing sites.
The fact that employees can use Gadget Maker's consumer-facing version at work is part of a greater trend toward the "consumerization of IT within the business," said Kovacs. One driver behind this, he said, is the speed and ease of use of consumer technologies that very often trumps their enterprise counterparts.
Kovacs cites the adoption of Google Apps among enterprise users, specifically the more than half a million businesses which have signed up for the products in the course of a year.
However, Kovacs recognizes that IT administrators need to manage and control the actions of employees and said the company designs applications with users and IT administrators in mind. Case in point is the recently released Google Apps Team Edition that puts a "protective business wrapper around these consumer applications." The edition lets team members publish content only to user domains, while granting IT administrators control to upgrade and manage the application if required.
Customized corporate gadgets, created using Google's enterprise API (not the recently released consumer-facing version), which access corporate information from an enterprise resource application, for instance, would reside securely within the firewall, said Kovacs.
Hickernell said although the gadgets wouldn't function as an "enterprise portal solution," it does provide the capability to add third-party information to Google Apps for those companies using the platform. For instance, Salesforce.com could create gadgets presenting information to employees who use both Google Apps and Salesforce software.
He said while the gadgets won't make a "big splash" for enterprise developers, there could be a third-party market for gadget development for Google Apps, resulting in an "indirect impact on business" for Google Apps users.
Many businesses have taken advantage of gadgets to connect with customers, in particular media companies are very attracted to the format flexibility and user configurability that RSS feeds don't offer, said Jessica Ewing, senior product manager for iGoogle.
Besides the media industry, travel companies use gadgets to give would-be travelers quick access to travel booking tools and services on individual homepages. "With gadgets, businesses can reach their customers before they even do a search," said Ewing.
While building gadgets within the enterprise is not a novel concept, Hickernell said – citing the gadget framework from Plumtree Software – their function is now differently applied in light of the new trend towards sharing user-generated content.
He explained gadgets will be increasingly used in a social publishing manner to "keep tabs on each other", and that a user will no longer be subscribing to a centralized information source that feeds identical data to everyone.


Conation refers to the connection of knowledge and affect to behavior and is associated with the issue of "why." It is the personal, intentional, planful, deliberate, goal-oriented, or striving component of motivation, the proactive (as opposed to reactive or habitual) aspect of behavior (Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Muraven & Tice, 1998; Emmons, 1986). It is closely associated with the concept of volition, defined as the use of will, or the freedom to make choices about what to do (Kane, 1985; Mischel, 1996). It is absolutely critical if an individual is to successfully engage in self-direction and self-regulation.
• What is my life's purpose and are my actions congruent with that purpose?
• What are my aspirations, intentions, and goals?
• On what ideas, objects, events, etc. should I focus my attention?
• What am I going to do, what actions am I going to take, what investments am I going to make?
Now conative knowledge is also described as experiential knowledge and it was this that attracted me to the word; I was hoping to contrast cognitive with conative. However the motivational stuff doesn't sound too experiential to me.
Knowledge is not all "equal". When you have experienced something that knowledge is unshakeable. When ignorant sceptics want to tell me acupuncture doesn't work, then I know they are not scientists but promoting an agenda. When science fails to apply itself to consider chi as real, given that so many people accept its existence it is a failure of science. Now that I have found that my plant-based diet has developed increasing yin excess that affected my sleep, metabolism, lungs and heart, I have strong indicators that the existence of yin-yang is real (I accept the possibility that starting to eat meat has done something else to my body other than making my food more yang but I have not learnt of such an interpretation). When meditation as empirical knowledge can be repeated, then it is the failure of science to apply itself to recognising this truth. Experiential knowledge carries a conviction with it that goes beyond misplaced authority.
Science applied through academia is mostly cognitive. Academic justification comes from a reference source, and such sources have "respect" – and therefore weight – that allows cognitive development through analysis to develop new conclusions as knowledge. But what is the axiom that this knowledge has developed from? It has developed from a reference but that reference could be greatly distanced from the initial experiential knowledge that gave it justification. It is worth considering this distance a little more. An original thinker writes a book, and for some reason academia accepts the original thinking that is in the book. That thinking might merit the original thinker being given a professorship – if her/his face fits. Other academic without the experience of that original thinker start to write about what is in the book – NOT about the experience that was the original thinking. If these thoughts become widely accepted more and more people wrote about what is written, often such writings don't even source the original thinker especially of that thinker is not contemporary. Writing about the writings might give someone a professorship and her/his text might become the substance of a lecture course in which case a student is writing about a book that is about a book that is about a book that might not even reference the original thinking. As such cognitive knowledge does not have the conviction of the experiential because it is so distanced, it was this contrast that I wanted to make between cognitive and conative but am now unsure of the scope of the word "conative".
Experiential knowledge is not for me based on any volitional or motivational or better "internal" reaction prior to experiencing the knowledge. Experienced knowledge is real, it is open to misinterpretation but it cannot be refuted as a real experience. It is axiomatic, science only interprets. For scientific principle, cognitive "so-called" knowledge, to contradict experiential knowledge is principle misapplied. An experience cannot be contradicted, that knowledge inviolable. When a Christian has a vision – a religious experience, the facts of the description of that vision is real, the interpretation of that vision as coming from God or Jesus is open to doubt and enquiry, the vision itself is not. If a child remembers a past life the description of that memory is real, it has to be proven to be fake or not but the memory cannot be dismissed. For science to dismiss reincarnation and therefore to dismiss the memory is not valid science, because science has failed to accept what is real – the description that the child gave. This example is not given because I believe in reincarnation – I don't believe in anything, it is given because there is an important difference in types of knowledge. Conative knowledge based on experience cannot be refuted, only the interpretation or cognitive conclusions from it can be.
It is the approach of psychology, this "cognitive-affect-conative" approach that is flawed. It is evaluating knowledge by starting in the mind, to me this is a flaw. What is real is the experience, what is not real is any interpretation of that experience. However well-intentioned that interpretation is limiting. Consider an event such as a road accident. Accounts of that accident vary – whether by intention or not – because the knowledge that is accepted by the mind is not as full as the experience itself, the event, the accident. What is understood – recorded or accepted – in the mind is limited by the processes of mind.
Here is where mindfulness makes a hit. Consider the description of mindfulness as judgement-free awareness. If there is mindfulness then what is understood from the accident would be as close as possible to the actual event because it is simply awareness without any application of mental processes (judgement-free). As far I understand the language mindfulness is not cognitive but conative. Because it is based on the experience mindfulness has greater validity.
This brings me to something that is very important to understand at the moment. The 1% has recognised that the internet can be used to cause confusion, and with the ensuing confusion they are able to exploit the lack of resistance. Climate change was awareness, it was based on experience and backed up by scientific method. The Koch Brothers and their fakery financed climate denial, and because they were able to finance it to such an extent then the quantity of that financed denial impacted on the perceived knowledge. This is the confusion – financed confusion – to benefit the 1% who then continue to exploit the environment. In this case knowledge is being ignored by the 1% in order to create profit, and by promoting cognitive knowledge – in this case the cognitive knowledge is creating confusion – they are able to avoid paying for the consequences of their profit-making; they are able to avoid any concerns for the environment.
Fake News is not based on experience but cognitive approaches. The 1% pay for the repetition, and because of our education we do not discriminate between cognitive knowledge and experiential or conative knowledge. We do not have the convictions of our experience because we are conditioned to accept the cognitive and conative as equivalent. We cannot allow our experience to be undermined because we are not encouraged to accept a convicted approach. Conative knowledge has conviction because the experience is real. Educators need to recognise this especially in a world of fake news.
This brings me to insight, there is no greater conviction than insight. The only thing that should change a genuine insight is a new insight that demotes the older one to being that of clinging (to the old insight). Because many in academia do not experience insights they do not discuss its validity. Instead of insight being evaluated as conative or experiential knowledge it is passed off as simply another thought or idea that can come or go. But insight is not this it comes from the state of mind which enables pure truth to be accepted, this is why insight is so often associated with meditation.
And the khandas contain the cognitive and affect of the psychological model. Khandas – rupa – body, vedana – feelings, sanna – perceptions, sankhara – mental processes or proliferations, vinnana – consciousness that can attach to the khandas or move beyond and allow sunnata to connect to the mind. I am suggesting that the conative might best be considered as a description of the consciousness that moves beyond giving truth to sunnata.
I like where this has gone, conative as being that which goes beyond the khandas. Not sure how much this is the intention of the word.
Since my early retirement I have enjoyed learning from the internet. I got sucked into conspiracies and subscribed to what I assumed were left-wing newsletters that kept me informed. It is only with examining the rise of Trump that I have determined that many of these are right-wing intellectuals. This is understandable as I see their funding as being a knock-on effect of the 1%-manipulations.
However whilst I describe this right-wing intellectualism, it does not mean that this information is untrue – far from it. I consider these intellectuals the right-wing periphery, and have no wish to dissociate from them. Of course that does not mean I have any right-leanings.
For me the issue lies with the answer to this question, how do we overcome the 1%? And the answer for me is very clearly Collective Unity, and struggling as the United 99% against the 1%. It is never clear to me how the individualism of these good right-wing intellectuals will overcome something as powerful as the 1%. In my view they need to overcome their abhorrence of the liberals, an abhorrence I also feel, and somehow find a way of working in Unity against the 1%.
Government and taxation is of course very divisive. When I look at the neoliberal governments of Blair and Obama I understand why these intellectuals are against taxation and government. As a teacher I incline to defend the educational aspect of governance, but I know that the caring aspects are only a subterfuge for the main current purpose of taxation – accumulation of wealth to the 1% through taxation for defence spending on the wars-for-profit.
There needs to be some form of commitment to Unity, and I don't see these right-wing intellectuals wanting that; I must just accept the bonus of knowledge that the right-wing periphery funding provides. The egos that comes with individualism anywhere on the political spectrum has also to be recognised and defeated, ego is a major divisive factor.
I am old enough for truth to be easy, proletarian struggle. Occupy reinforced that with its simple 1% clarity. But these understandings are interspersed throughout a steady campaign of confusion. Politically for me this has shown itself clearly recently with the identification of the left with liberalism, when I think that people might identify my position with neoliberalism, its wars-for-profits and wage-slavery I shudder. But the clarity of my truth has to be tempered by the obvious failure of the genuine left to unite and be meaningful, hence the ease with which we have been labelled with the liberals.
This blog on truth was sparked by watching this video called "The Republic of Science" from Judith Curry, I absolutely do not recommend this video. In Mandtao I examine science – I am posting this in my main blog Zandtao as well. As a Buddhist I am firmly committed to 100% enquiry (4 Agreements as well). Science needs questioning because science is establishment. Now saying science is establishment for me means that science is controlled by the 1%, and when you listen to Judith she talks of the way science is controlled. She makes a very convincing case, that creative scientists (who she calls mavericks) are restricted by the science establishment and government direction. This is excellent, Mandtao would appear to say the same thing but the reality is the exact opposite.
Judith Curry is on the periphery of the Koch brothers campaign for climate denial. I suspect, although I don't know, that whatever funding she gets stems from the vast amounts the Koch brothers have used to dominate the internet. So-called independent media. I have no interest in her climate denial evaluation – she might have a genuine position; she does not appear to be a direct definitive climate denier. What concerns me is that her analysis of science is so close to the truth that it is so easy to fall for her line.
The problem is she does not see the source of the problem as the 1%. She talks mostly of the science establishment stifling mavericks, who can argue with that? Her position is then that the establishment is stifling the maverick who talks of climate denial. This is so plausible but oh so dangerous. The question is "when is science stifling maverick creativity?" as opposed to "when is scientific knowledge refuting politically and financially-inspired bogus claims of climate denial?" these are significantly different positions yet so subtle. On the level of daily science, the source of funding that creates such destructive scepticism cannot be traced to the 1%, and leaves blogposts such as this in the realms of lunatic conspiracy. This is the purpose of confusion. And with the current level of collective confusion there can be no Unity to fight.
How can I ask for all to see through such subtle manipulation?
I have a completely misguided acquaintance who can put "likes" on my 1%-posts, and yet can support Trump. How confused is he? He does not have a mass movement base to his understanding. An individualist will examine Judith Curry's individualist examination of science – the individualism that celebrates mavericks, and can see the partial truth of what she says as truth. The mass movement says "where is the hand of the 1%?", and immediately looks at finance. Once you apply that paradigm you see the Koch Brothers and climate denial – whether Judith believes what she says or not.
I can support her analysis of the scientific establishment, and I thank the funding that has powered that. I can thank the right wing for the Corbett Report that brings this and other useful information to light. But if I am unsure I ask the mass movement question "where is the hand of the 1%?" …. and there is clarity.
As Mandtao the maths/stats man I am a supporter of scientific knowledge and scientific method. I attack the science establishment for similar reasons to Judith Curry's video "the Republic of Science", but in the end she is supporting the 1%, the Corbett Report is supporting the 1% by promoting her. All the scepticism around climate change can only be seen in terms of 1%-industries, the Koch Brothers campaign, and how any doubts that arise enable this industrial establishment to continue with the environmental damage and pollution – whatever "scientific point" Judith or others raise.
It is sad in this world that the 1% are so sick, so detached from the species they are a part of, that they want to destroy the very Unity of who we are – the ONE planet. And they will finance and manipulate at any level to enact their sickness. It is so hard to understand how these people became so sick, I understand why Icke wants to separate them and call them lizards, but they are just sick humans. We have to face the understanding that humanity can become as sick as these people.
The Mandtao blog is concerned with science and knowledge, so it might be a strange place to find discussion about economics, but this is a clear example of how academia is being used. And academia is the western home of knowledge.
My knowledge of academia's delivery concerning economics is limited, but it is very clear to me that what is required to become qualified as an economics expert definitely has a strong application of blinkers. For most people in the world of work, understanding of economics is rooted in supply and demand. Because most peoples' transactions are limited this is a reasonable approach. Go to the farmers' market. You buy veg that is available, you don't buy what you don't want. The farmer is left with surplus of what people don't want so they change what is grown until eventually there is a balance between supply and demand. The study of economics then extends this supply and demand principle, embellishes it with additional theories, applies a few graphs, and we have a supposed understanding of economics. Competition is an essential aspect of supply and demand. At the farmers' market if someone sells cheaper more customers will buy, and competition is a means of keeping the prices down – supposedly at the control of the consumer.
Economics is of course a study of money. So we get a history lesson in which money was originally introduced as a means of easing transactions at the farmers' market from when it was barter. We did not have to bring huge items to exchange, we didn't have to decide that an hour of maths teaching is worth a pound of potatoes, gradually value was applied to various trades and their products and money was used as a means of trading at a farmers' market. It is assumed in academic economics that theories of money are based around this transaction theory.
Taxation is also an important aspect of the modern economy. We pay a proportion of our income to the government so that the government has sufficient money to run schools, hospitals and the like. I question this. When the British were colonising Africa they needed to build infrastructure (such as trains) to get the raw materials back to the motherland. At the time Africans had a barter economy so when the British required labour there was no incentive to work. The colonial authorities insisted that all individuals must pay a money tax forcing money as the means of transaction on the barter economy. In this case taxation was required to build the infrastructure for the companies importing raw materials. This monetary flow is an indicator as to the underlying function of taxation despite the schools and hospitals rhetoric.
It is assumed that all finance is expected to balance their books. This is clearly the case at an individual level when if we don't balance our own books and we owe money we can eventually be imprisoned. Debt is in fact encouraged both by the banks and the system. If we have debts we must try to pay them back, it is therefore necessary for us to work to pay them back and we are brought into the financial system. People who have marketable skills such as teachers are encouraged to get mortgages and other forms of credit, so that they become more concerned about losing their jobs and are willing to put up with injustice at work in order to repay their debts.
Economics as an academic subject is far more complicated than these five simple axioms, and it is this complexity that it is claimed people cannot understand. Experts are then required to interpret the business of economics so economics is an almost mystical understanding of transactions and finance. And people trust the experts. And experts become experts by accepting the above axioms, learning the mental contortions that get applied to our global economic dealings, and it is generally accepted that, although things look wrong because of the many injustices, there are experts guiding the economic system based on the axiomatic approach as described above.
I am going to describe the above as the 5 axioms of 99%-economics, and these are the axioms that the 99% are expected to follow. And this expectation in extreme circumstances is backed up by the law such as the case of repossessions and failure to make loan repayments.
Now I want to consider another set of economic practices. Let us examine the conduct of transnationals (multinationals) – huge companies (owned by the 1%) who as a rule buy the raw materials, own the means of importing the materials, own the means of production, own the distribution logistics and own the retail establishments. At all levels of the sale of a product the profits are made by the transnational.
At this stage one might argue big is not necessarily wrong, one might contend that transnationals compete with each other keeping the price down. I argue differently. Firstly in BigFood at a supermarket there might well be 7 or 8 different brands owned by the same transnational. No competition. The number of BigFood transnationals is limited so together they fix the prices, it is not the consumer demand described in 99%-economics. They have sufficient stocks and are sufficiently big that if consumers reduce their demand BigFood does not have to respond. Whilst mothers spend a long time on their family budget seeking bargains they are very much at the mercy of high level BigFood decisions rather than any consumer wisdom.
The word transnational came into usage because as such they are not subject to national tariffs and customs duties. Part of the murky mysticism of economics are organisations such as World bank, IMF, GATT, WTO and other Acronyms, actions of whom we are not meant to understand, yet whose actions directly impact on the way economics work. These organisations facilitate international finance and transnationals to the detriment of small businesses and local transactions. Small businesses do not control all the aspects of the economic life of their own product, and are often squeezed out by the monopolistic bullying practices of the transnationals aided by the Acronyms, often leading to takeovers and increasing "centralisation" on fewer and fewer transnationals.
The transnationals control production – what we buy, and finance through banks and Acronyms form an alliance that controls global economic life. It is this alliance I see as the 1% controlling the global economy using 1%-economics.
Transnational cartels and market mechanisms remove competition, and eliminate any vestige of supply and demand. The banking and insurance dynasties control money. Under their control that money has lost its transactional raison d'etre, and the accumulation of money is facilitated by the financial sector. Money moves away from the 99% to the owners of finance and the transnationals leaving our economies controlled by the whims of the superrich. With jobs and consumer-potential being controlled by the whims of their decisions, the backdoor governments offer tax breaks, incentives, loopholes and now in the US, the new tax laws, so that the burden of taxation is placed on the poor whilst transnationals are evading tax at will. Taxation has now become a means of transferring money (wages) from the poor to the rich. Because this 1%-alliance controls government they control the printing of money. The US tax bill makes no efforts to balance the books, but is simply a political manoeuvre to benefit the 1%. For 8 years the UK government has applied an austerity policy to the 99% following the crash with the supposed aims of balancing the books. But the only observable change in wealth has been an increase in the gap between rich and poor.
To understand 1%-economics you need only understand this, the actual economic system is designed to increase the accumulation of wealth to the 1%. Initially this began with real transactions but then they determined that there could be increased accumulation through "imaginary transactions". 1%-control of governments perpetuates this accumulation through fiat policies that become necessary when accumulation has depleted government coffers. The policy of 1%-economics is print more money when necessary.
It is also intended that we fail to comprehend the vast amounts of money appropriated by the 1%. Examine this. ****** I suspect that the wealth of just one family, such as Rothschilds, Rockefellers, Waltons, Gates, is equivalent to enough money for a billion people to live – certainly the poorest of us. Whilst population numbers concern me, it is not the lack of natural resources that leads to poverty and hunger but the accumulation of the few superrich.
The interaction of these two economic systems is on a knife edge. We are conditioned to accept the economy as described in 99%-economics whilst the actual system continues to accrue for the 1%. People see the systemic failure of economics but then experts continue to maintain the charade of the 99%-economics, and encourage people to have confidence in it. For most there is a failure to actually consider the economic realities because a breakdown in the economic system, which would follow from an actual examination of financial dealings and the ensuing lack of confidence (as demonstrated by the crash in 2008), can only lead to chaos – violent chaos. Aware of this the 1% already have private security in place. It is not if but when.
Governments will continue to maintain the charade of 99%-economics as per 1%-instruction. They understand the nature of the two economics, but manage the impending catastrophe through brinkmanship rather than economic strategies that could lead to 100% stable and sustainable economics. We survive by hope, hope that the sickness of the 1% doesn't demand such an accumulation that the delusion is broken, the conditioning is shattered, and chaos breaks out.
Hope is not enough. Constructive 100%-economics that can lead to stable transactions need to be introduced but this is unlikely as the only people who can introduce them are the 1% as they are in control. And that would be like saying to the mentally ill end your delusions, how can they end them when they don't know they are deluded?
I used to have faith that the 1% would maintain the system through brinkmanship, now that faith is gone. War is spreading, is on the increase, countries just hope they are not the next one to be targeted. Rather than brinkmanship the 1% are now turning to private security, and accepting that the future holds a protected apartheid existence in which they survive and the 99% fight amongst each other for the crumbs that trickle down.