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February 28 BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Earliest 'human footprints' foundhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7913375.stmThe Prehistoric Mind. How did Prehistoric Man Think? The Primitive Mind. http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!1520.entry
Or - 'Lucy' 'The Beginnings Of Humankind' Donald C.Johanson and Maitland A.Edey. ISBN 0586084371
Homo sapien (today) "The industrial nations of the world and their governments have been swept forward by the pressure of invention, through a barrier they did not see, into a world they have not yet understood. As the resources of the earth become more depleted, populations more crowded and more deprived, the greater will be their effort to pass the problem on to the next generation. Self-deception will become more persuasive: optimism will take hold"! Prof C.D.Darlington.
BBC Any Questions? How interesting all their answers are: showing how very little we have progressed socially, and why? Missing the 'point' in/our 'The Fear of Freedom' Erich Fromm. (fear of being labelled to the 20th century-isms of capitalism, socialism, communism, so on...
Regime and 'Cultural Attitude Change' USA and UK' - 'Barack Obama' in the 21st Century! Who has got the responsibility? "I was reminded of something Justice Louis Brandeis once said: that in a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen. Barack Obama 'The Audacity Of Hope'.
Notes: (our money 'Taxpayers') Money everything i.e., education, infrastructure... - going to the 'wrong place' - 'in the wrong circle' - first?
The only way to sort out a depression quickly is to throw cash directly at all the 'ordinary' people (Keynesian Economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics USA's 3% of annual GDP not nearly enough: $1 given to - unemployed / poor / social security is spent - not saved, and is worth + or - $1.60 to the countries overall economy: less than a return of 0.50 in the $, to rescue a 'Bank' or 'Other Institution', but without a Bank or some other institutions you are a bit stuck! This lesson to eradicate poverty and deprivation, obviously has not been learnt by the greedy or our governments (holding interest rates too high for too long example ECB), UK and USA, with their worst records on... USA and UK having the worst inequality record, poverty (children) and deprivation - childhood pregnancies, so on...When it costs nothing to sort this out, like some of the more advanced countries in the west - how appalling: the ones who think, or even worse know, they are the best and the most powerful - are actually, the worst! Ref, 'The Certainty Of Carl Jung And Others' http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!676.entry Amateurs in the Money Markets - Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling :- http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/3269234/Hugh-Hendry-blames-short-selling-ban-for-stock-market-fall.html
(Industrialized nations of the west, and may cost at present 7,000$ extra per US household for the payout of the few 'greedy bankers' and 'bad banks' - This is what the average household has lost on top, of what they already may have lost - on pensions, savings, so on...! Ref, BofE, FSA, and ECB - 'social and financial collapse of Europe' 2009. "I don't know what the bank was thinking about" a top banker - I know, 'it was only "profit and bonus'''. "Legacy Debt"!)
Channel4 Dispatches
Journalist and broadcaster Jane Moore investigates how the government is squandering billions of pounds of taxpayers' money. http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches - The Taxpayers Alliance http://www.taxpayersalliance.com/
"History abounds with examples of really sick societies lasting for hundreds of years, but we do not wish to know about them, as it makes us feel uncomfortable".
February 26 BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Fish fossil clue to origin of sexhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7909984.stmEvolution. Fish to Man. Man's Debt To The Past. (debt = [2] 'a feeling of gratitude for a favour')
February 24 BBC Radio 4 Programmes - Islam and ScienceIslam and Science23 February 20092/3: Ehsan Masood explores the status of science in the modern Islamic world, and asks whether measures taken to promote science are having an impact on Muslim scientists. So very sad, bl..dy, 'Fundamentalists and Bankers': setting us back years - maybe, 30 or 40 years of great toil and massive endeavour! (science and technology has done more than the religionists have ever done for humankind in less than one minute - makes you so very cross, with certain aspects, about our current and appallingly gross 'human nature' - they know who they are) http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00hj0kd War Crimes - The Axis of Revolting (Evil - Governments) - not mine, surely? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7904929.stm Not mine, surely? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7883073.stm Who has got the responsibility? "I was reminded of something Justice Louis Brandeis once said: that in a democracy, the most important office is the office of citizen". Barack Obama 'The Audacity Of Hope'. "Respect for authority is always wrong, and violence is sometimes right". Notes of Dads - WW11 Veteran RNVR. "There's been a rising chorus of alarm from church leaders at what they regard as the "aggressive secularism" marginalising Christianity, the religion whose precepts - such as "do as you would be done by", and upholding the sanctity of human life - once underpinned British laws". Ref, 'Stuck In The Gutter' or 'The Long Childhood' Bronowski http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7783563.stm And, Ref, Church Schools and Faith Schools, "Why we don't like some of you 'Church Leaders' in our Schools - They are intolerant and 'not fit for purpose'" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAKRvBe_-EA&feature=PlayList&p=6F9316A9369901B9&index=0 "Civilization, we may say, has advanced only at the cost of a struggle between science and superstition, working on the intelligence of the participants, a struggle of whose progress the legal status of torture and the social status of astrology: might serve as indicators.
Advanced societies, therefore, are so stratified as to keep the primitive mind in a subordinate position. In this way individual responsibility and the rules of evidence, allow with fluctuating success, the development of law and the organisation of knowledge and all that follows from these practises". 'The Little Universe of Man' Professor C.D.Darlington.
'A Saucerful Of Secrets' - Justice Secretary Jack Straw has vetoed the publication of minutes of key Cabinet meetings held in the run-up to the Iraq war in 2003. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/7907991.stm
'The Dark Ages' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7855198.stm Did the Russians do better? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7855198.stm The Big Questions: Is Islam an intolerant religion? (Part 1 of 2)The Big Questions: Is Islam an intolerant religion? (Part 2 of 2)
'Intolerant' and 'Two Faced' - Religion in the Theocratic States, and Monarchies, and 'Other' Rich Nations!
The Scourge of Gold (hoarding bullion). "Becoming human is a process and not some event". Ref, Notes of Dad's, "Admiration" in photos. "Certain - 'indices' become attached to the individual (or State - examples: Middle and Far East, World - 'tribal' status) as a permanent, ongoing, visible aspect of his status, because their presence draws from others admiration and hence prestige! P.J.Wilson 'The Domestication Of The Human Species' http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/photos/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!1613/?startingImageIndex=0&commentsExpand=0&addCommentExpand=0&addCommentFocus=0&pauseSlideshow=0 & Wealthy investors hoard bullion http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bf8246aa-8f13-11dd-946c-0000779fd18c.html Many of those who most earnestly propagate the need for spiritual values, and denounce secularism and materialism, are the very same people who in their personal lives are crassly materialistic, and morally and politically corrupt. Who, but a religious guru would feel the need to go around in a gold-plated limousine? See, New Humanist Magazine -1987. Ref, Notes of Dad's. Credit Crunch - Credit Crisis - The First Great Test of Globalization - Banking Leverage Sovereign Funds (Massive). City & CEO Bonuses. Muslims believed that gold and silver must circulate, and this circulation, called rawaj, was a social and religious duty. Hoarding gold and silver was forbidden by the Qur’an: “Those who store up gold and silver and do not spend them in the way of God, tell them of a painful chastisement!” The cosmographer al-Qawini, writing only a decade or so after the minting of the first florin, says: "Gold is the noblest of the blessings of Almighty God upon his servants, for it is the foundation of the affairs of this world and brings order to the affairs of mankind…. With silver and gold coins, everything can be bought and sold. They must circulate, unlike other forms of wealth, for it is not desirable for anyone to accumulate silver and gold…. Anyone who stores them up destroys the wisdom created by God, just as if one imprisoned the qadi of a town and prevented him from carrying out his duties toward the people.” Wreck the Western Economies! Bullion sales hit record in rush to safety: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/359da604-f6d4-11dd-8a1f-0000779fd2ac.html And, 'Peak Oil'!
"The industrial nations of the world and their governments have been swept forward by the pressure of invention, through a barrier they did not see, into a world they have not yet understood. As the resources of the earth become more depleted, populations more crowded and more deprived, the greater will be their effort to pass the problem on to the next generation. Self-deception will become more persuasive: optimism will take hold"! Prof C.Darlington. Compare Lords debate human rights of humanistshttp://www.humanism.org.uk/news/view/230So much for their abusive term for the humanists, as in: the appallingly demeaning terms of 'aggressive secularism': secularists are very stupidly portrayed or defined by many (intolerant and discriminating) leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. Ref, preposterous (we don't happen to believe in, or have any faith in, a single word that you say - the 'leaders') and a reprehensible mixture of, 'religions, politics, and a heavily discriminating education system (Church Schools and Faith Schools) UK. We all know, in our very proud - 'knowledge based culture' who the particular aggressor's are, but we are far too sensitive, caring, and loving, to even say it! Nobody has the right, or there is, no such right - not to be offended, so I do wonder: who now, and by many, many, miles, has the 'moral high ground'?
Satanic Verses Affair - Sir Salman Rushdie.
Twenty years ago, novelist Salman Rushdie was a wanted man with a million pound bounty on his head. His novel, The Satanic Verses, had sparked riots across the Muslim world. The ailing religious leader of Iran, the Ayatollah Khomeini, had invoked a little-known religious opinion - a fatwa - and effectively sentenced Rushdie to death. Never before had a novel created an international diplomatic crisis on such a scale, and never before had a foreign Government publicly called for the killing of a private citizen of another country. This film looks back on the extraordinary events which followed the publication of the book and the ten year campaign to get the fatwa lifted. Interviews with Rushdie's friends and family and testimony from leaders of Britain's Muslim community and the Government reveal the inside story of the affair. Rushdie himself was forced into hiding for nearly ten years. Arguably this was the moment when religious identities, in Britain and abroad, became more important than ethnic and cultural belonging. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00j6bnt
February 23 The Big E ! The Big Extinction of Humans.Don't forget - The Big E ! The Big Extinction Of Humans. > 99% of all species that have ever lived have become extinct! Therefore, our species - HOMO - has more than > 99% of becoming extinct (< 1% survival). Evolution is the theory of natural selection and (occasional/some) random mutation! What can we do : NEO http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/neo/ And, 'Climate Control'. And : 'Behaviour Moderation'.
A Humanist Credo: Where shall the human spirit turn
when ancient creeds are dead?
What shall our faith as fuel burn
when all our Faiths have fled?
We trust the human spirit still,
the tide that brought us here;
the sense of good, the human will,
to learn the way of care.
The way is hard and wrong is strong,
but we shall triumph yet,
as more will join the human song
to give, as much as get.
To seek the best in you and me,
to share and care for the earth,
to serve a new humanity
and bring world peace to birth.
Anonymous. 'The Seasons Of Life' ISBN 0-301-00001-8
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers: Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our hearts away, a sordid boon! The sea that bares her bosom to the moon; The winds that will be howling at all hours, And are up-gathered now like sleeping flowers; For this, for everything, we are out of tune; It moves us not; Great God! I'd rather be A Pagan suckled in a creed outworn, So might I, standing on this pleasant lea, Have glimpses that would make me less forlorn; Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea, Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn. William Wordsworth (1770-1850) February 21 BBC NEWS | World | Europe | Huge protest over Irish economyEuropean Central Bank (ECB) - 'history of interest rate policy' - Greedy Bankers - inc, Bank of England (BoE)
"Give them cake"!
Up to 100,000 people have gathered in Dublin city centre to protest at the Irish government's handling of the country's recession.
BBC Radio 4. The Choice. 05/02/09. Geert Wilders.Ideology (culture, race or nationality) + > or < - Religion (sect, creed or dogma)
Right - 'on the front line' - brilliant, BBC Radio 4!
Ref, 'Evil and Ideology' : 'Power of the Sub-group' (quite irresistible and by all people, 'no way out' - happens, when socially confined into the room/indoctrination area, religious place, center or chamber, of the sub-group; a 1960's group torture - within a group psychological experiment) Abu Qatada http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7459773.stm - very familiar and terrifying combination, with a massively destructive force that is in all our human behaviour and has no specific cure (possibly, a special drug ..., or an equivalent: an instant cure). Excepting for mass education, not indoctrination, as in the UK, and many to a particular sectarian sub-group - and that education of the 'correct type' - we find this: a quite impossible task to achieve or for many of us to fully contemplate, it is a project that is far too 'long in term' and we all are, on mass : very short term - selfish, comfort seeking creatures (members of our own irrational sub-group) - so all the horrors and tragedies will continue. http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16312-shocking-study-reveals-people-still-willing-to-torture.html 'Barbara Ward' who was an advisor/mentor to Presidents and Prime Ministers, 'The overgrown ape with only a vicinal fossilised intelligence', so on...Desmond Morris 'The Naked Ape'. Scientists point of view is 'The species that we belong to, and often forget, called Homo sapien', so on... Sir David Attenborough 'Man's Biblical dominion or domination over the Earth is a dangerous fallacy', so on... J.Bronowski 'The Ascent of Man' DVD 'The Long Childhood' http://www.bbcshop.com/History/Ascent-Of-Man-DVD/invt/bbcdvd1608 And, "There is no right:'to not be':offended"! Ref, Stanley Milgram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Michael Buerk interviews people who have made life-altering decisions and talks them through the whole process, from the original dilemma to living with the consequences. Dutch politician Geert Wilders (popularised by the British Government, by his denial of access to the UK) discusses his decision to make a provocative anti-Islamic film. Fear of 'terror' and 'freedom of speech' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7893890.stm In the 'playground for faith or belief' in the Uk. Quangoes of Religiosity. Religion in Schools REBT and Disconnection. The Citadel of Self - The Nuclear Self. College staff are being urged to be vigilant for students who access extremist material on the internet or use extremist graffiti symbols. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7895601.stm The Extreemist Toolkit - also alerts school leaders to the dangers of external groups seeking to use school premises or facilities to further their cause. http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/85553/Muslim-schools-ban-our-culture As most parents know, perfectly well - 'their children from the Nursery School and upwards will be educated principally, and as captive audiences, in a 'fundamentalist - Christian' and Biblical form of pernicious Creationism'. The Church Leaders (Pope and Archbishop) and all our 'government - education authorities' (Ofsted) have constantly, and repeatedly, and over a very long period of time, given assurances to all - 'that this is not so': when our parental experiance is, exactly, the opposite! It is so difficult to educate our children out of this insideous, pervasive, and lazy ignorance, which is in repetitive indoctrination, and halts their insentive and encouragement to any future inquiry into all the slightly more difficult (analytical) 'real facts of the evolutionionary process'. Children, and most parents, are further disconnected from relying on any particular authority for their guidance, and that this authority, with the many others, has become seriously foolish! Ref, animal / human compliant behaviour control - "carrot and stick" method the major religions, Father Christmas, Pavlof Dog method, so on... "When God's word... is neglected, and when God's law is ridiculed, despised, laughed at, the result can only be destruction and injustice." Pope Benedict XV1. Think like a 'suicide bomber' - UK, Education Pack, withdrawn! http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/4734272/Ministers-in-U-turn-over-guidance-that-urges-children-to-think-like-suicide-bomber.html February 18 Live dangerously, it's safer - Times OnlineFree Range Kids
Parents with attitude
"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
The biggest world financial collapse ever - what caused it? We are mostly ignorant of the basics of our 'human group behaviour'! February 17 Talking about BBC - BBC Two Programmes - Horizon, 2008-2009, Can We Make a Star on Earth?Unlimited Energy by 2050 (at the outside)? Professor Brian Cox takes a global journey in search of the energy source of the future. Called nuclear fusion, it is the process that fuels the sun and every other star in the universe. Yet despite over five decades of effort, scientists have been unable to get even a single watt of fusion electricity onto the grid. Brian returns to Horizon to find out why. Granted extraordinary access to the biggest and most ambitious fusion experiments on the planet, Brian travels to the USA to see a high security fusion bomb testing facility in action and is given a tour of the world's most powerful laser. In South Korea, he clambers inside the reaction chamber of K-Star, the world's first super-cooled, super-conducting fusion reactor where the fate of future fusion research will be decided. February 15 Darwin 'was wrong'. 'The Tree of Life' will do, but we should move on!Image - Tree of Life
"The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree... As buds give rise by growth to fresh buds, and these if vigorous, branch out and overtop on all sides many a feebler branch, so by generation I believe it has been with the great Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications." Charles Darwin, 1859 http://tolweb.org/tree/
February 14 Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor: 'Children are victims of our greedy society' -Times OnlineA 'Valentine Message' to all us parents and children (the soft target) from the Catholic Church. Whilst we (parents) all await his sincere public apology; with all the other know-all parent-bashers and smutt-hounds that tend to come out of the woodwork, cashing in on the public's/media hysteria in all types of difficult times. Who is the rubbish? Boycott them (and - CofE) in our Schools http://www.parentswithattitude.com/index.php/site/updates/482/
A 'Valentine Message' to you, with love, from the silliest, stupidest, and most disconnected and ignorant old man: who is head of the most preposterous and irresponsible (indoctrination of children and vulnerable) business that could possibly ever exist in England! Ref, (retreat of religion to the C of S) Hierarchy in the 'Citadel of Self' or 'Nuclear Self'.
More than half the population believe (most would rather believe than know - a fact, the above person) UK children behave like animals, a survey has suggested.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7732290.stmPrimitive culture in Britain: 'primitive science' and 'savage science', all in the state of 'Anthropological Anomy' - some adults, many educationalists, few parents, and a lot of sensationalist seeking smut-hounds within the media: combined with a few noisy purity-leaguers and a lot of Parliamentarians. Not to mention of some Bankers, CEO's, Parliamentarians and Government Ministers or the Clergy - Their chickens (the most respected and good examples for our children) come home to roost, so to speak, with so few to look up to, but - the amazing wonderful majority of their very own (families) and loving parents, who are quite amazed at the size, depth and appallingness of the crimes of those in any sort of power - can commit! Getting it so wrong about the recession http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7893416.stm And 53 million extra children worldwide may end up 'dead or in poverty'. Children worry about 'credit crunch' http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7895102.stm
Darling, show a little love in the budget
 David Bull, Executive Director of UNICEF UK, showed his romantic side and joined over 150 other organisations in sending Chancellor Alistair Darling a Valentine’s card. The card, organised by the End Child Poverty coalition, asked the Chancellor to 'show a little love in the Budget', by investing £3 billion in tax credits and benefits for families living in poverty. According to the coalition, this sum is needed for the Government to keep its promise to lift 3.9 million UK children out of poverty. Read more about our budget demands No fun to be had in the so called credit crunch, recession or depression; especially coming from the Roman Catholics unhealthy celibates. Who have, and by their quite appalling long term reputation - a strong tendency towards sexual deviancy, which has often been aimed at younger citizens on a worldwide scale. I suggest that he should keep his mouth firmly shut, and very much so, on this fine day for great 'love and caring' amongst most of England's wonderful parents, who are desperately trying to keep their heads above water and in the most terribly difficult circumstances - mostly through no fault of their own, but a lot of fault in the State - that does very much include the 'fat cats' in the Churches. UK! Ref, "Of course, any form of humility would be the last thing that is on their minds".
"This war was wholly a gain for the churches everywhere, opposed as long as they could; practically every innovation that made for the increase of happiness or knowledge - here on earth".
"War Never Changes And Young Gentlemen Forget"
In that cavalry mess I heard queer conversations. Those officers belonged to the old families of England, the old caste of aristocracy, but the foul outrage of the war, the courage against all ideals of civilization had made them think; some of them for the first time, about the structure of social life and of the human family. They hated Germany, as the direct cause of war, but they looked deeper than that and saw how the leaders of all great nations in Europe had maintained the philosophy of force, and had built up hatreds and fears, and alliances, over the heads of the peoples whom they inflamed with passion or duped lies.
"The politicians are the guilty ones", said one cavalry officer.
"I am all for revolution after the bloody massacre. I would hang all politicians, diplomats, and so-called statesmen with strict impartiality".
"I'm for the people", said another.
"The poor bloody people who are kept in ignorance and then driven into the shambles, when their rulers desire to grab some new part of the earth's surface or to get their armies going because they are bored with peace".
"What price Christianity?" Asked another, inevitably. "What have the Churches done to stop war or preach the Gospel of Christ? The Bishop of London, the Archbishop of Canterbury, all those conventional, patriotic, cannon-blessing, banner baptising humbugs. God! They make me tired"!
The Same Words - "Strong words to hear in a cavalry mess! Strange turmoil in the souls of men! They were the same words I heard from London Boys in Ypres ("Wipers" 1914-18 World War 1) spoken just as crudely.
But, many young gentlemen who spoke those words have already forgotten them or would deny them!" 'Realities of War' Philip Gibbs. Vol.1. P.244. Lords debate human rights of humanistshttp://www.humanism.org.uk/news/view/230So much for their abusive term for the humanists, as in: the appallingly demeaning terms of 'aggressive secularism': secularists are very stupidly portrayed or defined by many (intolerant and discriminating) leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. Ref, preposterous (we don't happen to believe in, or have any faith in, a single word that you say - the 'leaders') and a reprehensible mixture of, 'religions, politics, and a heavily discriminating education system (Church Schools and Faith Schools) UK. We all know, in our very proud - 'knowledge based culture' who the particular aggressor's are, but we are far too sensitive, caring, and loving, to even say it! Nobody has the right, or there is no such right - not to be offended, so I do wonder: who now, and by many, many, miles, has the 'moral high ground'? February 13 Uganda Humanist Schools Trusthttp://www.ugandahumanistschoolstrust.org/ Ref, Church Schools and Faith Schools UK
"We don't think that your child can keep within the ethos of our School" - The UK learning a palatable school 'Ethos' from Africa.Amsterdam Declaration 2002 http://www.iheu.org/amsterdamdeclaration
"Ordinary people, simply doing their jobs, and without any particular hostility on their part, can become agents in a terrible destructive process. Moreover, even when the destructive effects of their work become patently clear, and they are asked to carry out actions incompatible with fundamental standards of morality, relatively few people have the resources needed to resist authority". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment
Medieval-ness For Children http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/06/faith-leaders-condemn-plan-to-ban-selection-in-schools February 12 Talking about BBC NEWS | Nick Robinson's NewslogFinancial and social impact on ordinary people (financial crisis - no payout/cash for ordinary people : only the already wealthy - the bailout should start at the very bottom and not from the top down - if government's don't change fast, 'beware of the peoples wrath') would be worse than that in the Great Depression of the 1930s.
Regime and 'Cultural Attitude Change' USA and UK' - 'Barack Obama'
The only way to sort out a depression quickly is to throw cash directly at all the ordinary people (Keynesian Economics http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keynesian_economics) USA's 3% of annual GDP not nearly enough: $1 to unemployed / poor / social security is spent - not saved, and worth + or - $1.60 to the countries overall economy: less than a return of 0.50 in the $ to rescue a Bank, but without a Bank you are a bit stuck! This lesson to eradicate poverty and deprivation), obviously has not been learnt by the greedy or governments, UK and USA, with their worst records (industrialized nations of the west, and may cost at present 7,000$ extra per US household for payout of the few 'greedy bankers' and 'bad banks' - This is what the average household has lost on top, of what they already may have lost - on pensions, savings, so on...! Ref, BofE, FSA, and ECB - 'social and financial collapse of Europe' 2009. "I don't know what the bank was thinking about" a top banker - I know, 'it was only "profit and bonus'''. "Legacy Debt"! USA and UK having the worst inequality record, poverty (children) and deprivation - childhood pregnancies, so on...When it costs nothing to sort this out, like the more advanced countries in the west - how appalling: the ones who think, or even worse know that they are the best and the most powerful - are actually, the worst! Ref, 'The Certainty Of Carl Jung And Others' http://luckyme0.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!A18BF3FCC5E126A2!676.entry
"History abounds with examples of really sick societies lasting for hundreds of years, but we do not wish to know about them, as it makes us feel uncomfortable".
Viral http://tinyurl.com/dlclxh pass it on! From, MP John Prescott.
Genes fuel financial risk-taking http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7880860.stm
The Countryside - 60% at least of the population live in the Cities:-
In 2002 we marched for Liberty but, as our then Chairman John Jackson reminds us in his new article on Our Kingdom ,we also marched for Livelihoods. We will continue to campaign for the liberty of the rural minority, but without livelihood liberty is bitter sweet. Rural people could not be less culpable for the credit crunch. They never rode the wave of corporate greed, brought second homes or expected bonuses. They have transformed the rural economy in the last 10 years through hard work and determination, but many now face an uncertain future through no fault of their own. If the country can spend billions of pounds to prop up the banks, it can afford to look after the livelihoods of the countryside as well. BBC Robert Peston "Authoritative sources have told me that Sir Fred Goodwin, the former chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland - who is widely blamed for the colossal mess it's in - is already drawing a pension of £650,000 a year". http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/thereporters/robertpeston/2009/02/fred_goodwin_to_receive_650000.html How To Create a (Primary) Classroom Blog: Teachers Use Google’s Blogger to Increase Parent Communication.Good Idea?
Wii - in the classroom?
'DNA eruptions hold evolution key' - MSN Tech & Gadgets UK.Genetic "volcanoes"!
"Evolution is the theory of natural selection and some random mutations". Prof Richard Dawkins. February 10 Talking about BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | Hadron Collider relaunch delayed'Silver sensation' seeks cold cosmos
Stare into the curve of Herschel's mirror too long and you get a slightly giddy feeling that comes from not being able to judge where its surface really starts.
February 09 200th Birthday Anniversary of Charles Darwin. 12 February 2008.
(For myself/personally - a good example : the 'best' and the 'most sensitive' that I have come across : 'multicultural, or the more palatable (tolerance of) 'multi-racialism', and an example of the most modern, and less tribal, of some of our particularly - current - 'School Ethos's' in the UK. Ref, some/many Childcare - Nurseries UK, and some: Church Schools and Faith Schools, UK) Only Five Men
"Charles Darwin, Sir Charles Lyell, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley, and Alfred Wallace, had evolved into the most creative and productive group in the wide area of Natural History in Great Britain. Without the others Charles Darwin knew his life would have been narrow and restrictive. Minus, the life giving fluids of friendship, constructive criticism, encouragement and acceptance.
Everything they thought and projected came partly from each other's brain. Their hailstorm of letters, articles, monographs, and books; travelling all over the world, affording insights and knowledge; educated an entire generation.
(Educated an entire generation: it has, or seemed to have been, rather forgotten and since I was at school {why? An 'easy' drift towards a superstitious answer to all the - slightly more difficult big questions!?}, even though: there was little knowledge of the final proof of evolutionary theory in our DNA, or that species did not necessarily have to travel across continents, but got to - now - very distant lands by the massively great shifts of the land masses - Pangea or Gondwana, as one giant continent, was only just being thought about, and was only considered as a somewhat, and quite - 'outlandish theory')
Together they had "turned the world around". Had changed the patterns of man's thoughts about himself and the world he lived in, wiped out prejudice against those who were unorthodox in their religious beliefs, provided release from the rigid dogma of the Church, as well as escape from the power of the Clergy, Rabbi, or Imam. And not only the hierarchy's interlocking control of the schools, press, government, but the mass of the of the people who did not have the right (any right on pain of death - in many cases) to determine their (own, esp, the children and vulnerable, as in some of today's schooling - throughout all lands) daily lives.
Now there was hope for intellectual independence, the individuals freedom from the shackles of dictatorial restraint. With man's brain no longer encased in the iron chains of mythical belief, what wonders would he not accomplish. Becoming his own master, men would have freedom, which causes greatness". Irving Stone 'The Origin' |
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