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Oy a broch. After reading what claimed to be a science supplement in The Times which was only about renewable energy I said I should write a piece about all the fraud in global warming. Two days and about 12 hours typing later I have 12 pages of A4 ready to be edited and sent out. Let's hope someone will print it for me as it needs a major audience to be effective.
So I've been on indoor duties a week now but pretty well occupied, and must get used to not taking many photos after a whole year adding to the map. Apart from finishing the article that's about it, fixing the car cost me a couple of fingers but the service to follow will be the remainder of the arm. The parts themselves were only £80 but all the extras came to over three times that. The buggers actually gross more than I do per hour and more on profit selling the parts on top. If I'd been a mechanic then there would be abandoned cars around the area just like I remember in the 60s. I can paint by pure copying what I see, and scuplt naturally but can't build anything from parts.
I will just be happy I have the freedom ahead and hope I find the usual things to do next week and don't waste too much time. My old A level science colleague has not replied, and after so many years have almost used up the names on my 50 year list, and although maybe a quarter did reply I've only met one altogether from my past since beginning in 2000. Many are abroad or miles away, but a few locally hadn't been motivated to do so either. I'm in touch with someone from the school reunions a year above me who didn't remember me, he lives too far east (Londoners will understand) to see more than once a year or so, but am in touch and is a very nice bloke. But I didn't catch up with him online so can't be on that list. No doubt the world has plans for me ahead, housework or otherwise, and if I can get a publisher for this article will be very happy indeed. |
Reply #761. Nov 13 11, 12:45 PM
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The withdrawal symptoms are coming and going, I've taken photos nearly every day for almost a year but have had to diversify now and accept that map will not change for a few months ahead as nature said so. I've finished tidying the article and sending it as far and wide as possible. Like any product you have to get one single interested party, and like police knocking on every door for miles, one person may have something. At least I can knock on the doors from right here and it doesn't cost me anything.
The purpose of the article is to inform, and if I get another tick on the CV all the better. Oddly, like a TV programme, the government debate on high fuel prices is tonight, led by my friend's brother who I have never met. Of all the people who could have fought the three main parties alone it's someone I almost know. It's a shame my claustrophobia keeps me out of half of London as there's a meeting in parliament at the end of the month I could have gone to, but may as well expect me to fly to the moon in the next Apollo mission. Actually meeting these guys is nice if you can, but as long as you can communicate with them and they do listen then the job gets done.
So, I've sent one more item to the universe to see if anything comes back, it all works this way, whatever the claims I know of no way you can influence what happens to our attempts, whether for dates, jobs or sales. You do your part and other people decide. Apart from continuing to look for names to send it to that job is done and I have to think of other things to do on days which are mostly dark. Tomorrow will tell me what the next item on the agenda is one way or another. |
Reply #762. Nov 15 11, 1:44 PM
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Who needs plans when the world makes its own whatever? I had just left the house for an hour in the daylight when I got a message from the cleaner wanting to come today, I returned home and waited, and then as I replied after a short delay an hour later (ie it was dark) said it was too late. It was of course dark so another day lost to nature/the government (they steal another hour), so went for a walk in the dark, fiddled about, watched TV, missed the Big Brother roundup as didn't remember to record it on the other channel (it'll be on cable in a day or so with any luck) and been finding more photos to upload on the archives. Good enough really, maybe I can get out tomorrow.
I've also been on stage two, sending my article far and wide, with thousands informed it just needs one to do the job. It covers every single known area of climate change and the doors in them, and when people read it on the fence, will pick up on one of them, feel absolutely cheated, and join the fight with justified anger. It covers the science, politics, psychology and business sides, and although those deeply involved are subject so strongly to the psychological they'll still be bleating about the runaway climate chaos long after London is under a glacier. But if just enough people realise they may be innocent victims of a very guilty campaign against everyone on this planet, they will not be at all happy. If I could post a copy through every door in the world I would, as people have to have a chance to make their mind up based on adequate information. This took ten years to put together and seems to cover everything.
So I have a couple more days (unless the cleaner turns up again and means staying in to wait) I could take photos somewhere if I can get anywhere in time, although I've done everywhere for miles around and anywhere new couldn't really be done in time realistically- even if I got a few it would be dark long before I finished. I had no plans at the start of the week but have done OK considering so far even when I thought I'd made some. |
Reply #763. Nov 16 11, 7:55 PM
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I got my delayed walk and photos today, two weeks is the longest I've gone without new photos for years and although the local stuff is well covered as you'd expect, if that's all I can get to I try and find something. The news is pretty much as I expected and did say on some thread about the Euro that it is pretty well guaranteed to be held together by the mafiosi as it's the most important thing in their worlds. It was fun for a few days while it lasted but time to move on and leave the buggers to it.
Looking around the need for my new article isn't a day too late. The hype and nonsense talked about the climate in every circle will destroy the world through taxes and restrictions while we still have weather, and almost certainly in the same places and amounts. It's just what it does and never given problems to be concerned about except in the regular extremes which happen somewhere every month or so, always have, always will, and some in areas which get them the whole time like Bangladesh, which is sadly an indictment on humanity for having such vast populations many occupy dangerous flood plains.
I've been accused as being a bringer of bad news, I just mention whatever's around and may have been missed, and like the papers if that's bad then it's not my doing. If there was something else, as I've hoped for maybe 40 years plus, I'd mention it, although if something like that happened everyone would probably know already. I am a journalist in the making and until I am employed officially then this is a good place to get going. Of course if I could weave incontinence jokes, playground insults and references to my late grandma in articles I'd maybe take the edge off any of the miserable stuff. Like energy taxes are going up, but my grandma didn't get up all last night to use the toilet (we all heard about it). A new approach to news reporting, anecdotalism. Journalism with added anecdotes. After all, when anyone else besides a journalist talks about the news they always weave a bit of their own lives in it. Even when totally unrelated. It could certainly provide a different angle to pick me out from the rest... |
Reply #764. Nov 17 11, 2:07 PM
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It's gone a bit quiet here recently- having increased my photographic activity being stopped in my tracks by nature have been walking in either sunset or complete darkness every day in the park, and promoting my new article. I've discovered another road sign I hope to get tomorrow, so something to look forward to, and otherwise just piddling around in between.
So I keep going, avoiding the piles on the pavement where possible, treading in the odd one as we all do, and having to become an expert in shoe cleaning. But if you keep going and making starts some have to finish sooner or later. Working from your own interests is always the best way, like my grandpa's lifetime love affair with the guitar, and mine with art, the suprtnatural, investigative research and therapy. I've actually ended up spending half my life working in retail (as did my grandpa, who had a shop as well as playing and writing) to actually pay the bills as well as teaching, as besides a few clients a year none of my interests have as yet earned me anything but collecting more and more material as writing is usually published and a few bits and pieces have been sold albeit mainly at a loss. As I'm not bothered about the money what I want is the publication as if you produce things you want people to see them. That has been happening, and as my past work so far has been accepted then there's nothing to stop me making more.
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Reply #765. Nov 20 11, 2:16 PM
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Well, good news on the road sign, although its clearer partner had been removed (there was no tree or other sign in its way) the other was there and although I knew the sign below would make my flash almost useless (it gets dark at 4pm and a lot quicker to go there at night) I did manage an angle where the tree only covered one letter and brightened it on the computer. That was a very rare one and now in my collection. It was dark today and started raining as soon as I would have gone for a walk, and am now pottering around indoors with whatever can be thought of.
There are a couple of shops that beckon but not today, the card reader cable appears to have had it as I connected it directly last night once I found I could, and now it works, sometimes so far. Except the cards I transferred pictures to aren't now being read by my printer so a new glitch to unfathom. But that sign shows the system still works, or exists at all really. I was at a loose end and it just turned up when I needed it. And guess what, I thought the Climategate emails were complete- more were released today and say 220,000 to follow. It's a start and a good one I'd guess. |
Reply #766. Nov 22 11, 11:45 AM
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Time for a well earned rest today. Not that there was much daylight for anything else, my little amount of work mopped that time up and then sat back continuing to read yesterday's Climategate2 emails (just stopped at midnight with a few breaks). I'm also listening to a new spiritual development course I bought yesterday, I've found a teacher who does exactly what I want and seems to actually have something.
I've no idea what to do tomorrow, there's a 5% chance I'm up in time to take photos, otherwise things like washing, other housework and my daily walk if not raining (today was food shopping). When I've done a long photo trip (long days only) or found another old road sign I can relax for a while, as they are my two main pastimes at the moment, and the climategate 2 revelations are so major that it's been essential to learn them all so I am on the case.
It now seems without any doubts they are working to promote a cause (their words) and raises the question what possible difference would it make to scientists to have one result over another unless they're trying to cure a disease? But of course they have, and mentions of millions in grants aren't really necessary to look beyond as the only reason driving their engine, rather than fossil fuel, theirs runs on pure cash with a small additive of power. Technically betraying people's trust in professionals is one of the most evil and worst transgressions i can think of. Besides family members, few murderers ever claim to be anything better, or career criminals. At best they seem like ordinary people, but not putting themselves above everyone else. If a doctor didn't give you a treatment as they were paid not to, or vice versa, they'd be struck off and imprisoned. No difference here. None. |
Reply #767. Nov 23 11, 7:34 PM
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It's been an odd day but relaxing. I lost a few hours sleep with a recurrent occasional problem (plumbing is involved, 'nuff said), and meant I had to stay in bed most of the day to catch up. I hadn't got any jobs to do out anyway, and have bought three meditation MP3s so used the two days off to continue listening, except the third one cut off half way through, I have the guide page so can still do it but would rather go along with the teacher's direct instructions. I've got about 5 or more from this place already and this is the first glitch, go figure.
I also found two more of the railway crossing signs like the one on Sunday, but so far into Essex they are unlikely to get me there. But at least they still persist besides the one. But I've seen for a couple of years now, however painfully slow it usually is, my life has been guided towards some sort of ambitions. At past the mid point it had damn well better hurry up, as you can't be a student till the point your faculties have dropped off when you finally complete the course. Examples recently were the sign turning up on Saturday night when I had nothing to do the next day, and then after I'd written a 15 page article on climate fraud they released more examples in a day than even I'd suggested. They did the whole megillah, admitting the models don't work, hiding missing warmth, creating a message at the expense of the truth, pretty much every possible way a professional could break their terms of qualification.
Seriously, this is like a therapist raping a client, no less. They have worked together (the names mean each organisation worldwide is involved) to deceive and steal money from their donors which is then in turn stolen from us to pay for it, policies put in place that make energy unaffordable, and killing old and poor people every winter. The confessions from the leader alone broke the Freedom of Information Act a few times over, and had these been in a police station instead of to their own colleagues they'd all be breaking rocks now. Who knows, the admissions this time are so explicit they'd need the whole world's courts to be bribed to get out of this one.
I'd personally avoid the UEA altogether as they employ this shower and allow them to work, proving they allow a gang of thieves to work and get paid while advertising their university. That's like Ronald Biggs and Bernie Madoff running the London School of Economics and entertaining all their colleagues from Wormwood Scrubs by making them professors when they get released. If they don't sack these shysters now and close down the department the university will be no different from those who have been caught allowing in bogus students for huge bribes and allowing terrorists to speak to the Student Union.
I don't expect anything to happen, besides a few more people who weren't certain to now realise they can't be trusted. Each has a vote, and although many countries don't allow a vote against these policies (mine included) along with EU membership (I don't know a single elected party in the EU countries who want to leave), but disapproval alone will change policies when parties realise they've lost the people's confidence. In the end it isn't up to the police or courts as they're part of the illness, but the people at the bottom to decide they are wrong, and enough do that and their stings will be gone. |
Reply #768. Nov 24 11, 7:28 PM
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Although I wasn't expecting it, despite being dark most of the day I've managed to find plenty to do, mainly through outside causes. So despite photo withdrawal I've still taken some, albeit at night, but my top category is old road signs (all abolished in 1964) so pretty good to keep finding more.
Climategate 2 alone isn't yet enough to give up the fight, I've checked every area and the conclusion is the longer they look the closer they come to my original view. It's too complicated to measure, impossible to predict, and barely affected by CO2. I will keep sending my article out as the first set hasn't had a single reply (should I be surprised, no), so as expected will have to pass to every single possible outlet just in case one delivers. Free goes on a fruit machine and only one possible jackpot, and maybe not among the goes I have.
There are two types of good news, the same as getting things done by ourselves, starts and finishes. Climategate, however much it satisfies the doubts the whole thing is being set up behind the scenes (it seems the main aim is to distribute money to Africa, no idea why) nothing yet has happened and no one has been charged with anything or suspended even. And the finishes are divided in two, those that add to our collections like another road sign but don't change our lives, and those which give us something lasting (like not a lot for ages). I analyse everything as it's the only way to survive if you write a map from everything you learn. Otherwise everything's the same but you get lost.
The spiritual work is designed to expand our own abilities so we are changed permanently- like the gym for the body. Lifting 30kg dumbells doesn't actually change my life when I've put them down though, but if you change inside you do see a difference. That will carry on the rest of my life, even though the latest MP3 is buggered. |
Reply #769. Nov 25 11, 11:49 AM
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Despite the dark, I seem to have got quite a bit done this week, half not due to my own efforts thanks to the second load of climate emails, still turning up and now includes one admitting recruiting naive youths to demonstrate on their behalf. Who'd have guessed it? My new spiritual lessons seem interesting, although unless I can get the one to work it won't be as easy to do on paper alone. No reply there yet.
Grand prix tomorrow so can't go anywhere, although it was all decided weeks ago and just for show in the final one. There are some photos I'd like to take on Monday but need to be up in time. Apparently there's been hardly any reaction to the new set of emails according to search engine figures, but then again unless someone is actually put on trial properly over them public interest won't make a lot of difference. No plans beyond that, I'll keep asking people to look at my article for the rest of my life if necessary, my UFO article was published about four years after I wrote it so tends to go that way. But as I said yesterday, starts are interesting but only finishes are useful, and apart from another road sign there have been precious few of those... |
Reply #770. Nov 26 11, 5:48 PM
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It's funny, a couple of weeks ago I got to bed almost when the sun was coming up yet woke up in time to drive over 20 miles to take photos, and I did the same today and covered a well used route to the North Downs in Surrey but took photos where I never usually bothered to on the way to fill the map. I also found a photo of two girls looking exactly like my mother did in the 30s for her birthday, she has a box full like that so will definitely appreciate it. I finished the photos when I went in the shop and it was dark when I came out, which was pretty good timing really.
Thank goodness the papers are now all over Climategate 2 and two MPs (one of each, the Liberals no longer count as they've got Chris Huhne) want an investigation. How anyone can get away with blatant dishonesty, however powerful and qualified, is an absolute disgrace. You don't see other organisations being excused of all wrongdoings as they are working for the government's interests, and if they aren't apprehended this time then it just shows the government were responsible for it in the first place.
No plans now besides sending more messages about my article (a lifetime's mission potentially), but since the two things coincided maybe there's a little more reason to show an interest at the moment, although a lot more competition as well. There's a sign now lurking in the shadows on what is a network of roads equivalent of a treasure hunt or orienteering. I'll see how things go as although I am able to take it in the dark I won't score any map points without stuff along the way, and if it wasn't even there it would have been a very long journey for absolutely nothing.
Hopefully other things will turn up and keep me occupied, although all this speculation over the Euro is doing my head in. If something happens it doesn't either need an introduction or can be predicted unless the result's inevitable. Otherwise they should just shut the (hold on, my keyboard's not able to type a certain letter, probably for the best...). |
Reply #771. Nov 27 11, 6:06 PM
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The week ahead:
Plan to get to Essex please god, either get up early enough to do the lot and have the energy to do so (it's a lousy route) or plan b go in the dark and get the road sign and squeeze in a few night shots as well and at least have less traffic.
That's the main one and if successful then sod the rest (can I say that?) apologies to Joan Rivers who created the catchphrase, plus a trip to the camera shop as my card reader's had it (extension cable probably, no great loss to them if so), see if I can get the new cheap mobile phone with a keyboard and get it unlocked if so, and no idea what else.
All this talk about the Euro, Greece defaulting and Italy following is not based on a linear projection, but people paid to guess. If anyone defaults we'll know about it, till then shut the whatsit up. The papers are covered with it and replaces genuine news, if there had been any. If not, speculate. Speculate, expectorate, what's the difference- both involve ejection of noxious material you don't want in you and no one else does on them either. I didn't spend my early and later years reading the cartoons for nothing, they are the most readable parts of newspapers except for the odd time something interesting happens by random chance. Is there really nothing better than the daily dross we have to read about? Like this blog I hear some people thinking... |
Reply #772. Nov 28 11, 6:52 PM
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There's a small strip of the local map I could still get to in half an hour, and managed to get there on the darkest possible day due to heavy clouds. The results were as marginal as they could get and still be used, and added four new map squares at least. There's nowhere less than an hour away now so may be waiting some time. The ex is coming later as every Tuesday, and just hope she goes before 3am this week as it's impossible to shift her any sooner. Otherwise any hopes of going out tomorrow will be down the drain.
So done better than expected so far, a magazine is actually reading my article and whatever else will get my first professional opinion on it. There's going to be a general strike tomorrow, but could actually mean the roads are clearer as most of the traffic when I go out is for the schools and they'll nearly all be closed. Our government will take no notice and may even punish them for it, all over a few percent on their pensions. The recession affects most people and if the money's not there then can't get it by complaining. Raising interest rates at least could be done as doesn't cost anything, but they refuse to as companies can borrow and speculate on commodities etc, buy millions and make just enough profit to cover the loan rate when rock bottom, and they are making the policies. That raises all prices so basically the government have deliberately created inflation. I'm not sure how anyone besides the few commodity companies benefit from that, and suppose I've just answered my own question.
As long as society thinks it's divided into them and us then people will be too focused fighting each other to join together and fight the real enemy, our governments. It's a simple lesson and one few will ever learn. |
Reply #773. Nov 29 11, 1:26 PM
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I've had loads of advice about getting a new camera, but I think the moral is take photos in the light. That'll save wasting the old one, my SLR was bought in 1979 and will last longer than me, why should electronics be any different? The ex stayed late as usual so missed the daylight altogether today, had my usual work client and then TV to catch up on. I must assume (as the teaching goes) every element here is guided- if you can't see it then look for it, and however much I'd have liked more photos today when the conditions make it impossible then I'll do something else instead. I didn't expect to yesterday and did so seems to work.
I am, especially at this point in life, expecting more though. There is a line we are all aware of which we can cross to something major, whether a passing event or one which changes life itself. I have rarely done those, but have my ambitions, and for example getting on TV was one as long as I remember, I first spoke on it in 2006 but on satellite, with a wide but very small audience, and although I've built up a small career with three more have not yet crossed the line getting on real TV where people would actually see me. The same goes for meditation and similar results, after 20 years, and of course women.
If I hadn't worked hard for all these I'd expect no more than anyone else, and considering 90% or so of people are married, most apparently happily at least to begin with, that shouldn't be too difficult to sort out, while the career and personal development areas are higher ambitions but not any others haven't reached. There's no point gaining huge rewards when you're too old and worn out to do much with them, much like retiring on a full pension and then dying. You need it when you have the time to use it for a bit. |
Reply #774. Nov 30 11, 11:16 AM
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I've still been quite busy this week despite a total absence of plans. I had a call from Grace yesterday to come and see her new computer, which actually meant 'come and check my old and new computers as they aren't working properly'. I would have gone anyway had she asked, but never mind. Unfortunately I managed to reset the printer to wireless, connect the old computer to her router, but not the printer to either computer she needs for her exams, or get the internet on the old computer without a cable. As I haven't got wireless I couldn't do something I knew so worked it out as I went along. The internet may have needed setting up while cabled up I found later, something best done by someone who's done it already. It has a signal, a password and an IP address but won't connect.
I did show her how to use her interactive DVD for homework though and found her father is as good a cook as her mother as he made dinner for us afterwards. I hoped to take photos today but the cleaner came meaning I had to stay in and wait to let her in. I walked to the shops in the rain and dark and then still managed to find more old photos to upload, a year after I started doing the archives. Maybe I'll manage tomorrow. Otherwise I keep sending my article out as planned, it's complete and edited now and that was the real hard work. So it's been a pretty productive week after all, one photo trip and a bit of a social life, something I always took for granted till my 40s. |
Reply #775. Dec 01 11, 6:03 PM
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Oh well, who needs plans. Besides Tuesday nothing I did this week was planned, and my other plans didn't happen. I couldn't take photos yesterday as the cleaner changed days, and today I had me weekly evening at my mother's and never got round to more than a walk round the park beforehand. And the woman who was coming Wednesday or Thursday didn't, and called today but I was on the other line so never found out the reason but as it went I was out Wednesday anyway.
As with every other time except one my article has had no response as yet. One magazine asked for a copy to read (I don't send it out just in case) and nothing, and no one else has asked to see it. Various people I know wanted to read it and as yet hadn't had a response after getting it, but it's a comprehensive summary and far more concerned with being seen than how, and if I have to send it to everyone individually in the end I will. The climategate 2 emails have had time to be organised, and sorted into whole pages of conversation, basically 'this is how we cheated' punctuated by the odd moderate with 'isn't this a bit too far' or 'won't people see it?', time after time they fabricate information and discuss it in great detail.
If it had been any other crime (it is a crime, trust a lawyer on that) they'd be on bail already, but this was under government and actually UN orders, so who could prosecute them? Now we know 220,000 emails are held back, someone pointed the obvious missing part. So far everyone involved has been academics and the media, and none giving the actual orders from the government. As the volume seems pretty complete, they must contain everything including the ones telling them what to do, although how they do it was probably pretty well up to them. Once they come out god help the system, who will ever trust a politician then?
I've got at least one trip planned for the weekend if the light is there, and like this week the rest is left to providence. The media are divided 50-50 over the Euro, but technically nothing happens with warning, and the status quo is always the default position. The Euro is supported by the most powerful people on the planet and they can easily cheat, I mean negotiate their way out of trouble and change the rules to strengthen the union further as already planned. Exactly what they wanted before but now they have a good reason to do it. Good equation there, pretty well planned if you work it out. |
Reply #776. Dec 02 11, 10:17 PM
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I was very naughty and stayed up too late to do much today, and aim to compensate tomorrow if possible. You can go to bed earlier but can't guarantee the result. Other than the recent activities I'm doing new spiritual practices I've tried online. They have just showed me a few things to see they must work, and now have to keep on and hope I get usable results. 20 years on and I'd really like more than the basics which took me five minutes of day one at the development group. I got better at clairvoyance with training but haven't increased my actual abilities.
All the talk is still on the Euro. I would put my money (80% odds) on the planned next step to a federal Europe from the new treaty to be signed very soon, the French and Germans will take power from the rest of the Eurozone and basically run their economies remotely. No doubt places like Portugal and Ireland will be on the list, basically anyone with a high enough debt. It's what they wanted from the start, they created a reason by allowing Greece in knowing it was ineligible, and waited for the inevitable. Look at these situations backwards from the solution to the problem and you will see most are fully set up from the start.
I am pretty determined to get more material published, mainly as people need to be informed, and of course because once you've actually started a media career (exactly a year ago for me publishing wise) you want it to carry on and grow. Unlike past efforts my usual proof readers reacted with awe to the latest article, and one suggested a PhD based on it. I like learning things, and the difference between intelligence and genius is intelligence can learn everything about a subject or two, but only a genius can see how every subject fits together however much they know about it. I don't see many examples of this and the resistance in return when pointing things out people don't see like you do means simple direct communication to individuals tends to have no effect. People can't see that big, it's as if you're presenting a four dimensional picture and they can only see three.
There are a handful of formulas I learnt, and really once you know the people who try and make the rules use them you see them all working like the EU easily. I did say this in 1975 when we had the vote to stay in, to me it was obvious and of course no one listened then and as we've had 35 years to see I was 100% as described. The laws now possible to make outside countries by the Commission are pages more than in 1975, each arriving with every new treaty. People don't care as it seems if things happen too slowly it's like they can't be seen to have moved at all. Like David Copperfield shifts the statue of Liberty (he moved the camera but not if you look at the film) people see that but if it crept to the left an inch a day who would realise it had shifted a yard or two after a couple of months? Very few I suspect.
Can I wake anyone up? One, they say, is a miracle so as I have information to share free then I share it, people either agree as they already know or call me names. At least if I was published I'd be famous and unpopular, I could live with that. |
Reply #777. Dec 03 11, 7:15 PM
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Nature worked against me today, if you sleep late you tend to sleep at a similar time whenever you go to bed. But the sport on TV were people I really wanted to see and would have missed them had I gone out. The places aren't going anywhere but I can't watch live sport the next day or week.
The nonsense in today's papers about the Euro fails to notice one crucial point. If Greece and similar countries were deliberately allowed into the Euro knowing they would fail, then keeping the solution, fiscal union, in the wings, until the time it is ready in which case when the inevitable happens and everyone panics, salvation is offered with a greater and deeper union, what they always wanted but couldn't get through easily. It will now.
I am not in the least bit interested in the news if it hasn't happened. Greece has defaulted 50% under negotiation. That money is gone. Actually it's gone nowhere. Greece has spent it. Like peeing in a swimming pool, it's still there but you can't really get it back afterwards. It actually means the money they borrowed from everyone else will now not be paid back by 50%. No actual money has been lost in this exercise. Otherwise it's business as usual, greater integration continuously since the Common Market became the European Economic Union, and may eventually become the Democratic Republic of Europe. Fine if you want it but as the laws are made by unelected commissioners it wouldn't ever be able to be democratic.
I really want some good news for a change. Anything. Marx sees pride come before a fall, nature and politics always balancing out in the end, meaning the current totalitarianism and corruption based politics of the 21st century has to blow itself out as it grows bigger than it can sustain itself. These lies and cheats do cost me personally as my energy and petrol bills are far higher than they would be without renewable subsidies and carbon credits, I may be able to afford them but that's money I won't have in the future when I may need it for something else. Like the Greek debt it's gone, not to nothing but elsewhere. I'm personally fed up with seeing my world run like the mafia while few know and even fewer complain, I do both and look where it's got me... |
Reply #778. Dec 04 11, 12:47 PM
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I am giving up plans for now. If I can't sleep I can't wake up and if I can't wake up I can't take photos. There's always stuff to do locally in the dark but not exactly that interesting. The news is following its usual pattern, the EU are almost agreed at fixing the Euro as predicted weeks ago (these aren't guesses but based on known situations and how they have been dealt with in the past) and the one light in the murkiness is the continuing climategate emails, the latest pages showing how many colleagues found the hockey stick diagram was pretty much full of string and sticky tape with a few bogies and bugs stuck to it. This sack of excreta has been the basis of world policies for 20 years. No one will get into trouble, as it was the governments who ordered him to do it in the first place. A perfect circle of protection.
Only a miracle will derail the Euro now as I fully expected, all the media and politicians talked it down for their own reasons but technically my late cats knew as much about the future of it than they did. But it's not good news, and if the climategate scams aren't dealt with by the authorities more people will know the score but won't look good when no one has got into trouble as it gives them false credibility. Any police constable will know the signs of a liar, and so do lawyers, the indications are universal and when you've learnt them once you can spot them anywhere. I am paying these a-holes to get rich on our taxes, and do not like having everyone's money removed for something which clearly isn't happening. |
Reply #779. Dec 05 11, 12:37 PM
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satguru
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The system seems to still be working for me, last night someone turned up a pre-national system red triangle sign in England (they'd only surfaced in Scotland till then) and I explained what it was, and someone added another outside Heathrow airport including the Gilbert Scott pre 1933 pole. I got there easily after lunch well before it got dark as it was bright and sunny, and got lots of new places for my map as well. The Euro stuff doesn't change my life as it's not changing what we've got already, so can't make it much worse, only the climate regulations will as they will make everything cost so much everyone with less than a million or so will spend nearly all their income after the mortgage on energy. Plus they are planning to ban cars in Europe and I may as well form a commune if they do as I'll never go more than two miles from home ever again in my life. So they can turn Europe into the fourth Reich and it won't really affect me directly as we're already mainly run by them now, but if they stop me travelling I will have my life wrecked entirely.
I can relax tomorrow and have a friend over in the evening so no need to shlep my kishkes out, and if I can manage it again am really hoping to get out east again if possible as that's the area that needs more coverage as the roadworks and general problems add an hour to the usual journey at the moment. The Euro summit this week may not be totally predictable, I suppose the odds are a new treaty 90%, a plan for a new treaty with referendums where they apply 3%, and no agreement 2%. There's a tiny window of hope but I'd say the plans had been drawn up years ago and only a matter of adoption rather than arranging.
So there are still a few surprises, but really hoping for some big stuff to happen as it's all going on around me like a film, but with all the boring and slow stuff kept in as well as the action so in real time rather than squeezed into a couple of hours. But in the real world truth has to win as there's nothing else. |
Reply #780. Dec 07 11, 7:27 PM
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