the good old days

save the planet!

G'day jo,

I will try to answer your Q: "how are we ... going to change the world;" but it's a BIG topic so I'll just do a quick outline here and follow it up on my blog - if thought necessary, and as time permits.

Asimov outlined his 'three laws of robotics,' then had to come back and add his 0th[1]. Following that example (and programmers often begin at zero), here is the outline:

0. Zero. Null. Nothing. Just for the idiots (those whom we do not shrink from insulting), get this: doing nothing is not an option. Also as part of 'null,' yes, jo, we are alone - there is no 'other' to appeal to; we (humans) have to do it all 'alone.' And that implies the next part of 'zero,' dump all religion. Which means, specifically, not telling any lies to the 'littlies,' aka no g*d stories anymore, contrary to the wishes of another idiot, a self-confessed children's-minds-abuser.

1. Get a proper morality. See my attempted formalisation, the chezPhil morality, which is based on reflexive altruism and includes the Golden Rule "Do unto others ..." and a corollary, "Do no harm." Contrary to the ravings of yet another idiot, the Golden Rule can be traced back at least to around 400BC[2], meaning anyone after that should have attributed the usage, not claiming it for him/her/itself. A 'small' point here, and that is that altruism works in small groups but (usually) breaks down in larger groups - absent proper sanction mechanisms[3,4,5]. This is a doubly fundamental flaw; one: that sanctions are needed at all (cf. police), and two: that sanction mechanisms for our so-called leaders have been ignored or disabled - more the latter, I'd say (cf. UN), and deliberately. Which leads directly to the next item:

2. Make the morality 'scalable,' I do not assess all humans as hopelessly corrupt. The wo/man in the street would probably wholeheartedly agree with my proposed morality (show me a single valid objection); the problem comes when so-called leaders free themselves from normal morality and embark on crime, and here I mean two 'streams,' the business community (strongest example the mining/oil rip-offs), and the political community as linked into the M/I-plex, strongest (actually weakest) examples being the illegal invasion of Iraq (now a 5+ year brutal occupation; murder for oil), and the criminal IDF's deadly 60+ year spree, murdering for land & water.

In our so-called (defective! Dysfunctional!) democracies we have only a single lever (attached to our so-called representatives): these representatives must be called to account, to respect our common morality (see (1)), and to properly represent us, we the people - and not represent any M/I-plex, not the I/J/Z-plex, nor developers, nor any other such sheople®-enemies.

If/when we reform our representatives, they will get to work - honestly - on defeating our number-2 enemy, aka the greedastrophe®. (This assumes that our number-1 enemy is the corruption of our so-called leaders.) To round this off, the normal morality must be scaled; the same rules for all, from the normal sheople all the way to the so-called rulers, aka our leaders.

The 'last word' on democracy is the sheople alone are sovereign, not any putative 'representative.'

3. If we get here - and we must, or perish under the corrupt 'business as usual' scenario leading directly to our currently anticipated greedastrophe demise - we can then at leisure reform our democracies, to replace the current 'representatives rip-off' with a better system, namely fully open debate and a fully engaged electorate operating via single-issue referendums.

A final note on this last, namely single-issue referendums: in 'debate' in the past, opponents - basically, more idiots, aka supporters of the (corrupt!) status quo, have claimed that referendums may be vulnerable to abuse by some minority or other. Note that this is 'special pleading' - just as support for USrael (the combination of the US and its M/I-plex, Israel and its I/J/Z-plex all melded via M-W's Lobby) is 'special pleading,' so get this: supporting corruption is itself corrupt; no more of the same!

Our current world is quite obviously 'off the tracks,' and a major negative influence enabling this dastardly state of affairs is the flood of (lying!) propaganda supporting the above-mentioned corruption, this propaganda delivered via the (venal!) MSM. See (1) again; the peoples' morality I suggest says "No lies, no cheating, no theft and no murder." Jo, you mentioned a species "that love more than they hate," we the sheople are not haters - we (generally) don't hate people, rather what we do hate is some people's criminal acts; it's the criminal psychopaths ripping us off that's the really big problem, and once again: doing nothing is not an option!

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Ref(s):

[1] the "Zeroth Law", which is:

«a robot may not injure humanity or, through inaction, allow humanity to come to harm.»

Comment: What's valid for robots ort'a be doubly so for allegedly sentient so-called leaders.

[2] The circa 400BC formulation:

«Do not do to others that which angers you when they do it to you.»

[Isocrates, Speeches and Letters]

[3] Fair punishment supports human altruism
19:00 12 March 2003
James Randerson
[NewScientist.com]

[4] Why altruism paid off for our ancestors
19:00 07 December 2006
Richard Fisher
[NewScientist.com]

[5] Dangerous games: selfishness v altruism on climate change
Tuesday, February 19, 2008

«So the ... message is: if it's clear that the risk is high, people will work together to reach a common goal. But if it's in the balance (ie, if there's a perceived 50-50 chance of dangerous climate change), then selfishness takes over.»

[NewScientist.com]

Comment: Who is manipulating perceptions? Why? Cui bono? What's the real chance of a terminal CO2-caused greedastrophe? What's the penalty of getting it wrong, cf. the precautionary principle?

Once more and finally: doing nothing is not an option!

[cross-posted]

a conspiracy theory

 Subtitle: theory vs. practice[1]

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[This article in response to another here.]

The theory that we are interested in here is a "Theory of Everything" (aka ToE), where 'everything' is the people-space of our once jewel-like planet. This people-space is differentiated into complementary components, the conjured psycho-environment part (theory), to be contrasted with the real-world part (practise).

I call the psycho-environment[2] the pushed-paradigm, which is 'relayed' to us via the (venal!) MSM, whose major presence is now via the one-eyed monster ubiquitous among so-called 'developed-world' households - I refer of course to 'broadcast' TV (now 'optionally' augmented by wide- and/or flat-panel screens, 5.1ch surround sound + DVDs etc.) That TV has become dominant/desirable and why is another story, but it suffices here to say: "Wow! Look at the pretty pictures!"

The reason why I qualify the MSM (Main-Stream Media) as 'venal' is because they, as an aberration, as a violation of their remit and since long ago now, corruptly transmit lies, going so far as to augment same, within their so-called 'news' broadcasts. These lies are in turn the various bits of propaganda employed in an attempt to disguise some very nasty real-world happenings - such as the illegal invasion of Iraq, now a 5+ year brutal occupation (aka murder for oil), and the 60+ year, almost continuous attacks on the former legitimate owner/occupiers in and around (sadly now mostly ex-) Palestine (aka murder for land and/or water). That the attempted disguise is exposed (to/by some) is thanks mostly to the internet, whereby the venal MSM may be bypassed.

This propaganda-disguise pushed-paradigm consists of retailing, amongst other vicious lies like the known beforehand to be false allegations surrounding Saddam's (non-existent!) WMDs, the (phantom!) vision of the 'democratic' US as the (g*d-chosen!) leader of the free-world, professedly interested only in "Truth, Justice & the American Way," and Israel as the only 'democracy' in the Middle-East; a David battling the Goliath Arab and/or Islamic (aka heathen!) hordes, these rotten heathen hordes having allegedly usurped the (g*d-promised!) so-called holy-lands and further, these alleged usurpers incidentally having pitched their tents on the very sands under which g*d placed lots of the US of A's oil. Democratic and democracy are put in quotes above, because the concerned so-called democracies, as the UK's, Aus' and others, are more sham than proper.

Now, in the run-up to the illegal invasion of Iraq (charmingly referred to as "Shockin' Whore") perpetrated by the US plus the rest of the criminal and/or coerced CoW; mainly UK + Aus and a miserable handful of other quisling countries, I, among many others, found the webdiary forum useful to discuss/deplore such horrid goings-on. It was, back in those days, a life-saver - metaphorically only of course; nothing either we as wediarists, or we the sheople® almost everywhere said (e.g. "Leave it to Blix!" or "No War!") - made any visible impact: the genocide in Iraq was started, and it has not stopped. Indeed, one of the current candidates for the US presidency (all of whom shriek the filthy "All options!" threats at Iran), one of those candidates has said that the US could occupy Iraq for 100 years.

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That the US and Israel are engaged in criminal acts, namely war on mostly innocents in order to steal resources, has been documented by myself and many others far better qualified to do so. That there is a virulent lobby tying the US and Israel together was famously pointed out by M-W; I term the combination so formed as USrael, the wannabe hegemon parent/retarded illegitimate sprog partners-in-crime. The pushed-paradigm cloak of lies is prepared variously in Madison Ave., the Harvard Business School (for sharks) and Hollywood. Plus, of course, and as prime originators, the US Whitehouse, Congress, Pentagon, CIA and other agencies.

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Things started going wrong (for me) in webdiary when in response to an almost chance-remark, I received what I regard as an undeserved - even unhinged - rebuke from one Hamish Alcorn.

To my this: "Most of the neoCon cabal are either actual Israelis (i.e. Jewish, but we try not to use such words) or sympathisers." Alcorn as moderator(!) wrote: "you have a race-based theory of domination, and to me it appears not just as a conspiracy theory, but a really silly one."

Blow me down with a feather.

My terminal exit - permanent banning - came after a series of exchanges with a lying troll, aka Paul Morrella (thought to be an apparition/construct associated with some HH-denizens, any perceived opacity intended.)

All appeals by me for support or reasonableness from webdiary management went unsatisfactorily answered, if they answered at all (inscrutable sphinxes? Possibly, as distinct from sphincters.) I allowed myself to get agitated (poor strategy.)

In addition to trolls - another is the C Parsons/Eliot Ramsey 'creation' (disputed noms de plume being another curious webdiary peccadillo), there are other serial offenders of the apologist/accessory, paradigm-pusher class - and then, outright pro-Zionists.

In contrast to the previous (from the As to pro-Zs, aka 'black-hats'), there are other posters of different, i.e. the honest variety (aka 'white hats'), some of whom being referred to as 'the left' by the hyper-hyena-hypocrite[3] who has other-where self-coded herself as hyacinth, some white hats have left or been banned, the latest such banning being that of Bob Wall.

Bob (G'day!) is one of if not the best, both in truth-research and deconstruction of the offerings of the black-hats. (The best reason why some black-hats might wish him nobbled.)

Synthesizing: Bob (as other white-hats) fights for truth, against the black-hats' pushed-paradigm supporting efforts, often outright lies. That the white hats are under attack is only natural, the black-hats being ascendant, cf. the on-going (illegal!) wars, murder for spoil. That the murdering thieves concerned are mostly of USrael, the darkest component of which being Zionist, and when the WD black-hat murder-supporters are aided and abetted by WD management itself, as currently appears to be, the circumstances may or may not be coincidence, but one could be led to the thought that perhaps WD may have 'fallen' - under some evil spell, that is. (And IF fallen, THEN pushed - or jumped?)

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Therefore perfectly understandable, Bob's "Have representations been made to [WD] management from people who could be termed from the right, or more specifically, pro-Zionist?"

And just in case you, dear reader, think I'm making any of this up, you could try looking here.

It was Alcorn who first alleged race-based conspiracy, amongst his other indiscretions. Alcorn (aka the dialectic dilettante) went silent for a while.

Fazit: I claim that if one deploys WYSIWYG, if one looks closely enough, if one detects the lies, if one sees through the deployed propaganda screen, a screen designed to obscure some nasty underlying realities, then what one can see is truly crook, namely murder for spoil, and that by and on behalf of USrael. If that is so, dear reader, if you see what I see, you may decide who is running what conspiracy.

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Ref(s):

[1] The distance between theory and practice is always so much smaller in theory than in practice. [Found on the net.]

[2] Contrast the following two entries:

psychology n. (pl. -ies) 1 the study of the human mind. 2 treatise on or theory of this. 3 a mental characteristics etc. of a person or group. b mental aspects of an activity, situation, etc. (psychology of crime).  psychologist n. [POD]

psychopath n. 1 mentally deranged person, esp. showing abnormal or violent social behaviour. 2 mentally or emotionally unstable person.  psychopathic adj. [ibid.]

[3] a typical hy-hy-hy quote: «... the constant anti US slanging that goes on here by the predominantly left ...»

murder for spoil ...

.. as seen (or not) via Webdiary[1]

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If you can't generate a reasoned response ...

Submitted by Craig Rowley on April 2, 2008 - 7:24pm.

... blame the victims, eh Dylan?

Richard: A warning. Craig's link is to many horrific pictures of dead, wounded and crippled. If you are of a sensitive nature I would suggest not going there. Craig, I would have preferred such a warning myself Next time you want to go for shock value, a little more sensitivity please.

2 a.m. Update: I've just gotten out of bed to remove the link... couldn't sleep with it there.

Tonkin talks about shock value - of a few pictures.

But what about the shock value of the 5+ year "Shockin' Whore" treatment inflicted on the 25mio people of Iraq by the (criminal!) US (plus CoW), or the 60+ year treatment inflicted on the neighbours of the (illegal!) state of Israel by the grisly mis-named IDF (not defence so much as offence)?

Tonkin censors the link to 'protect' the CWA 'debating' club.

Good on yer, matey.

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The Dylan mentioned is a known I/J/Z-plex apologist/agitator.

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Then, the Morrella-troll chimes in, the latest in his/her/its futile attempts to defend the indefensible.

Absent Craig's photos, here is a link of my own:

«A Third American War Crime in the Making
By Paul Craig Roberts
31/03/08

...
And Admiral William "there will be no attack on Iran on my watch" Fallon has been removed as US chief of Central Command, thus clearing the way for Cheney’s planned attack on Iran.
...
Two massive failures by the American media, the Democratic Party, and the American people have paved the way for Cheney’s long planned attack on Iran. ...

If an American president can start a war exactly as Adolf Hitler did with pure lies and not be held accountable, he can get away with anything. And Bush and his evil regime have. ...»

[ICH]

Of course the US is indefensible, they have switched just about their entire economy onto a war footing since 1945. In fact, one could say that they never took any peace dividend at all, they just went/continued military-mad. In the absence of any 'enemy' (presuming that the Cold War was necessary - it may have been created largely by US actions, starting with the (vile!) A-bombing of innocents, say) - they have 'capitalised' (Haw!) on 9/11 (whatever its (questionable!) origins), have 'chosen' (aka largely manufactured) Islam-o-fascism as their 'stalking horse.'

But see the title of this piece.

We know what the US is up to.

I say it again: murder for oil!

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Ref(s):

[1] Webdiary - Independent, Ethical, Accountable and Transparent

Oh, really? 'Prey' tell... Haw! Again. Still.

AusBC bias (bis)

G'day Xxx!?

One thing: I am not your enemy, Xxx.

And I'm not a hater; I recently said the following to a mate.

«As for any "anti US bias and hate:"

1. We don't hate US-citizens (although we hold them *responsible* (actually, they're utterly *irresponsible*,)) and

2. We condemn crime absolutely. And the US is one, if not the biggest, of criminals.»

As for the US, so for Howard in particular and Lib/supporters in general: don't hate 'em, just what they do (when they stuff-up, which is often. Far too often. Example: invade Iraq. It's a crime, Xxx.)

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Now, we talked about the AusBC, and its bias. You claim 'left,' I claim 'right,' and here we're talking about any AusBC bias (as opposed to ourselves, selbverständlich). It recently occurred to me that I could do a proof of my assertion for you, without resorting to one'a your anathemas, namely links:

1. I start with a handy quote: «On the world stage, Israel has been traditionally cast as David in a battle against Goliath. ...»

2. In actual fact, I once argued exactly that: that "Israel has been traditionally cast as David..." - i.e. poor little Israel had to defend itself against the nasty Arab Goliath. But I was wrong. At this point, you may or may not agree, but there's method 'at work' here.

3. Up until the moment of the argument described in (2), I had absorbed nearly *all* my info - Ta-Ra! - from the AusBC.

The above quote continues «... But this is too simplistic, for Israel is not without its sins, write [some Yyy & Zzz].»

Again, you may or may not agree, but on the balance of my observations, I think that Israel, as the US, are murdering for spoil. And one'a the ways they try to camouflage what they're up to (aka criminal acts), is to flood the world with (lying!) propaganda. Which the AusBC passes on, almost entirely sans comment.

My comment/argument: you, Xxx, think that the AusBC is left-biased, because occasionally they say something which aggravates you. You (and lots'a other Lib/supporters, your assertion), listen to the AusBC, you say "despite the left-bias." I say "poppycock;" the AusBC broadcasts stuff of both biases, possibly as an attempt at transparency and/or balance. The "Ah Ha!" will come if/when you understand all this. But my ultimate proof of bias and its direction is that the AusBC - and now SBS - consciously pass on the lying US/Israeli propaganda. They are public broadcasters, Xxx, and have absolutely no business lying to us - but they do, and on behalf of criminals.

QED (again), and over to you.

greedastrophe, extended

greedastrophe®; greed[1] + catastrophe[2].

Greed is not, never was, nor ever will be - any 'good.'

A greedy person who eats too much food may become ill/obese.

A greedy person who seeks/has more wealth than they may (reasonably) use is said to be rich beyond avarice.

In an infinitely resourced world with equal access, no damage may accrue from greed (except possibly to the greedy themselves, cf. obesity.)

But our once jewel-like planet is resource-limited.

A greedastrophe occurs whenever greed causes a catastrophe.

These greedastrophes may be seen all around us, look at almost any form of resource 'harvesting;' mining/oil (grossly inadequate compensation[3], land/scenery degradation), farming (soil degradation, water over-extraction), forestry (habitat destruction, soil-erosion, scenery degradation), fishing (over-extraction, possible extinction). Some resource harvesting (mining/oil) automatically leads to resource depletion, some 'renewable' harvesting (farming, forestry, fishing) could be sustainable but often isn't.

Catastrophes ensue when any resource collapses, such as by damage or depletion. It is thought that in-ground reserves of coal & iron are sufficiently massive for (we, here and now!) not to have to worry about, but they are finite & so eventually exhaustible. Oil reserves are thought (by some) to be in terminal decline. Many experts assess ocean fishing to be threatening to pass, if not actually having passed, the sustainability point. Forestry is almost everywhere a disaster.

A peculiar catastrophe is occurring in the US, mirrored somewhat in Israel, whereby the so-called élites are running the country on an horribly immoral basis. (And some would say 'illegal,' but illegal is basically only a definition thing - especially with the UN having been corrupted - largely by US + the M-W Lobby + Israel = Usrael.) What sort'a immoral basis, I hear someone ask? Well, try 'murder for spoil.' As in the illegal invasion of Iraq by GWBush&Co, now turned brutal occupation; murder for oil. And likewise invasion/occupation by Israel of the now largely ex-Palestine; murder for land & water. All sorts of US entities - read: corporations & their hangers-on, defense (= offence(!)), oil - are getting filthy-rich from these various 'murder for spoil' operations; what's that if not avarice in action?

Then, there's the US tax and social policies, on the one hand benefiting the (already filthy) rich, on the other leaving squillions in the lurch - miserable health care, declining education & reducing other services. IMHO that's not just a greedastrophe but a total disgrace as well. The so-called democratically elected government of the so-called richest nation on Earth can't/won't honor their responsibilities. Such tax and social policies may go beyond greed to criminal negligence.

Finally, a very special resource (= unique!), namely our once jewel-like planet's ecosphere is thought (by many) to be in immediate & immense danger from CO2 accumulation, caused primarily by the burning of (carbon-based) fossil fuels plus deforestation - and perhaps even cows' farts, et cetera(!??) If (when!!?) this catastrophe occurs, it may well be the ultimate one, and since the forces 'driving' us towards this catastrophe, hindering/restraining almost all efforts to avoid this catastrophe are the (venal!) so-called élites (driven, observably, primarily by greed...) well, that'd be it:

  the 'perfect,' or ultimate greedastrophe.

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PS How will the so-called élites survive?

Ref(s):

[1] greed n. excessive desire, esp. for food or wealth. [from *greedy] [POD]

greedy adj. (-ier, -iest) 1 having or showing greed. 2 (foll. by for, or to + infin.) very eager.  greedily adv. greediness n. [Old English] [ibid.]

[2] catastrophe n. 1 great and usu. sudden disaster. 2 denouement of a drama.  catastrophic adj. catastrophically adv. [Greek strepho turn] [ibid.]

[3] The 'sovereign' owners of any resource are, in order, the owner of the land (farming, 'private' forestry), the people of the country (mining/oil, 'public' forestry, local ocean fishing), or the world's population as a whole (open ocean fishing), all only indicatively.

On the 'fair exchange is no robbery' principle, any harvester should be on a 'cost plus fair profit' basis (i.e. the bulk of the benefit going to the 'sovereign' owners), as opposed to the 'what the market will bear' basis (with the bulk of the benefit going to some nebulous shareholders, after obscene CEO payouts, that is), which is *exactly* the case with most mining/oil - as in Aus, say. We, the sheople, are lucky to get the company tax-rate (30%) of any 'taxable' profit (i.e. after all expenses, however profligate). This is usually a piddlingly small amount in comparison, and amounts to a massive rip-off. When it comes to oil, some countries have managed to nationalise their oil resources (Iran, say; Iraq before 2003) and benefit proportionally better than other oil-possessing regions not so nationalised. But on top of the oil-producers' 'take' come further massive (rip-off) profits, cf. the record 'earnings' of the US oil-majors.

Equity and justice *demand* fair revenue sharing, *reject* all rip-offs. But rip-offs are not one-offs, they seem to be an essential part of the "Harvard Business School (for sharks)," mainly US corporations' modus operandi. These filthy rip-offs must be stopped, just as the ultimate greedastrophe itself must be stopped.

greedastrophe®

[definition]
noun, greed + catastrophe.

1. General, where greed on the part of one party causes a catastrophe to some other party. Example: some resource harvester (mining, forestry, fishing) rips-off the putative resource owners without adequate compensation, usually with wider negative effects such as pollution (mining, forestry) and/or resource depletion (all, but especially fishing; no fish no eat.)

2. Specific, where the catastrophe referred to is the possible - going most probable - negative effect on our environment, thought to result from ever-increasing CO2 build-up in the atmosphere, this CO2 build-up in turn being one result of fossil-fuel burning, mature forest clearing etc.

This catastrophe is also referred to as climate change, aka global warming, aka greenhouse-effect.

The term greedastrophe indicates the prime cause of, and major hindrance to effective action against, this CO2 build-up, much feared by compassionate realists - and much dismissed by pushed-paradigm apologists, spruikers and/or lying (criminal!) propagandists.

Note: greed is *not* good; never was and certainly not now. Wo/mankind has made great progress - by cooperating; now our very world is threatened by the greedy acts of a dastardly few. The name of the game is not 'rip-off your neighbour,' but enlightened altruism; do no harm.

[examples]
The greedastrophe may be the greatest crisis ever to be faced, and if not avoided, may be our last crisis.

Avoiding the greedastrophe will require we the people to deploy countervailing power against (venal!) vested interests. In our so-called democracies (US, UK, Aus & Israel, say) the only lever we possess is our so-called representatives, they must now change to *properly* representing us.

The greedastrophe is *everyone's* business: gotta stop it!

[tags]
greedastrophe; greed, climate catastrophe, existential threat, proper representation.