"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Scratches to Sketches
Wednesday 28 December 2016
Donald Trump's attempt to court mobster's daughter didn't go well - NY Daily News
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Trump and mobster Robert LiButti captured on video at 1988 WWE event.
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Former Mafia-linked figure describes association with Trump - The Washington Post
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Just What Were Donald Trump's Ties to the Mob? - POLITICO Magazine
Overlooked ...
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Monday 19 December 2016
Thoughts on corporation power and billionaires.
Corporate issues ...
I posted these thoughts elsewhere, but thought it might be reasonable to share them:
The United Nations concept of what is acceptable may have to evolve, but it lacks adequate funding with America often late or refusing to pay its way. The UN financing needs to change into something more effective because of the persistent dictatorships. The costs of reversing or eliminating dictatorships are enormous.
I am thankful that countries protect the interests of representative government, but it really is a shame to see a dictatorial class of people seek to dominate politics in the world's powerhouse against dictatorial rule. Austerity under dictatorships is at the root of so many decades of human suffering.
When democracies behave like dictatorships we have decades of misery from unnecessary austerity. Rather than growing the pie, they try to increase their share of neighbourhood pies and retreat into beggar thy neighbour policies stealing from the weakest participants and states in the community.
Thus, America preys on its neighbours in Europe after stealing from its own citizens. In the process of transforming American politics the billionaire Trump and his selected list of dictatorial billionaires has unleashed the uncomfortable truths of the recent administrations that neglected to reivigorate dying and struggling communities across the aged industrial regions.
It's not enough for Trump to say dictatorial corporate leaders can make people under them better off. Contrarily, people would rather have a modest income and modest control over their lives. The essense of most corporation structures is the persistent drive to raise share values above competitive averages.
This desire to manipulate stock values has its own moral code, which establishes the notion that shareholders are more worthy of attention than corporate employess doing the drudge work.
The fact is that share values rise as a consequence of shared money supply growth arising from banking sector money club decisions substituting for the periodic gold rushes of yore. Without artificial support of the banking industry the stock values would be dependent on real corporate savings and 'permanent incomes' of companies. But, many company profits are made at expense of employees weakened by the ethic that rich people know best. Why should they? Business leaders are not elected. They are imposed by share holders.
Independence of central banks is desirable, but this does not happen as corporations drive demand for finance to fund competitive postures using bank finance easily obtained at low rates. Our reality is that of a banking system serving powerful corporations while draining consumers of their incomes. Who saves in banks these days.
This model applies as universities are funded by the banks loaning to students. The greed of corporate universities accelerates as they export their capacity in search of savings to foreign students neglecting the cost restraints of local kids who resort to credit card debt to get acdecent higher education. Thus, America on average educates the world while its potential youth remains mired in debt burden, unhoused, fragily employed, lacking solid entry into the property market and its talent untapped.
as the health of the nation is eaten away more and more become mired in illegal consumption the drugs that serve to help them firget how exploited they are. Meanwhile, many are thrown into prison and receive long sentences that are a consequence of not having a good job and the wherewithall to finance a stable family home.
Sometime capitalism works, but the free flow of capital model adopted after WWII will come under attack seeing it weakens source countries that can't recognise corporations adopting no nationality in order to have unambiguous control over their corporate futures at the expense of nations.
What we are faced with is underfunded states and rich corporations sitting on mountains of capital they use to create monopolies. Needless to say the creation of responsible public corporations needs to replace the world of irresponsible private corporations refusing to finance change because it threatens the capital mountains and dominant positions."
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Friday 16 December 2016
John Podesta: Something is deeply broken at the FBI - The Washington Post
Too lax?
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Sunday 11 December 2016
The Color of Consciousness | by Riccardo Manzotti | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Tuesday 22 November 2016
Judges Find Wisconsin Redistricting Unfairly Favored Republicans - The New York Times
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
—Richard Feynman
—Richard Feynman
Wednesday 16 November 2016
Tuesday 15 November 2016
Ouch ...
"Rather than continuing the current path to undermine and block America's fossil fuel producers, the Trump Administration will encourage the production of these resources by opening onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands and waters. We will streamline the permitting process for all energy projects, including the billions of dollars in projects held up by President Obama, and rescind the job-destroying executive actions under his Administration. We will end the war on coal, and rescind the coal mining lease moratorium, the excessive Interior Department stream rule, and conduct a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration. We will eliminate the highly invasive "Waters of the US" rule, and scrap the $5 trillion dollar Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth's climate.Rather than continuing the current path to undermine and block America's fossil fuel producers, the Trump Administration will encourage the production of these resources by opening onshore and offshore leasing on federal lands and waters. We will streamline the permitting process for all energy projects, including the billions of dollars in projects held up by President Obama, and rescind the job-destroying executive actions under his Administration. We will end the war on coal, and rescind the coal mining lease moratorium, the excessive Interior Department stream rule, and conduct a top-down review of all anti-coal regulations issued by the Obama Administration. We will eliminate the highly invasive "Waters of the US" rule, and scrap the $5 trillion dollar Obama-Clinton Climate Action Plan and the Clean Power Plan and prevent these unilateral plans from increasing monthly electric bills by double-digits without any measurable effect on Earth's climate."
Sunday 13 November 2016
Saturday 12 November 2016
NYTimes: ‘We Couldn’t Believe Our Eyes’: A Lost World of Shipwrecks Is Found
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/12/science/shipwrecks-black-sea-archaeology.html?smprod=nytcore-ipad&smid=nytcore-ipad-share
Archaeologists have found more than 40 vessels in the Black Sea, some more than a millennium old, shedding light on early empires and trade routes.
Archaeologists have found more than 40 vessels in the Black Sea, some more than a millennium old, shedding light on early empires and trade routes.
Wednesday 9 November 2016
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Tuesday 4 October 2016
Pearly dream ....
A story composed after a dream of Pearly gates
So Donald Trump finally dies after a long successful life as President of the United States serving two terms and handing off his throne to his sons, who both serve two terms. Nevertheless, age catches up with him and the singularity has not occurred so he journeys to the Pearly Gates where he is met by a gate keeper white soul with a long white beard and a meta-iPad version 36. "I would like to be considered for a place in Heaven" says the Donald.
The white soul looks down at his ledger, "We have been monitoring your progress Donald. It has been outstanding long since you defeated Hillary Clinton in the 2016 election. Let's see what your overall numbers say. The demand for Heavenly places has risen sharply with many claiming to have lived saintly lives based on principles espoused by Bernie Sanders. You are missing from that list. So what principles have you lived by Donald?"
The Donald with a long wide grin responds in a confident voice, "I love beauty, wonder, wealth and being very smart. I have followed the principles espoused by President Vladimir Putin of Russia. They served me very well during my Presidency of the United States. I understand Vladimir was admitted to heaven after he took Bernie Sanders as his patron and followed in true socialist principles. I am thinking that by adopting Putin's earlier philosophy I would meet your entry requirements." The white gatekeeper soul looked at Donald and said, "You, indeed, have an impressive record. Your numbers are really off the chart on the debit side by trillions through your total disregard and contempt for the Ten Commandments. You also totally disregarded Jesus Christ's new Covenant.
This poses a major problem for you. Have you considered making the journey on the downwards leading path to 'you know where'. I understand that you might be considered. We could put in a good word for you.
The Donald smiled meekly, "Thank you for your time. I was hoping that I would not have to go where all those Mexican criminals, rapists and Junkees would end up." The white gate keeper soul looked at his ethereal iPad and noted that Hades was completely devoid of nasty Mexicans. He looked to see why. "Donald, we have a wonderfully strange thing in our records. Apparently, Jesus Christ forgave all those Mexicans for their sins on the basis that their many problems stemmed from guns manufactured in America used by the drug lords to enforce drug addictions around the world and in America."
The white gate keeper then explained that that program had ended because Donald Trump has built a wall across North America to keep the Mexicans from entering America. Well, it had worked and had stopped American guns and bullets from reaching Mexico as well. The people all across the America's were so bolstered by this effect of the wall that they banned guns and legalised drugs and collected the guns all for recycling and used them to make barbed wire to keep American guns out.
The Donald reluctantly made his way to the fiery gates of Hades where he was met by a red bearded soul with a red ledger. The Donald asks the gate keeper to open the gates for him. The red soul says, "Wait a minute, I will consult with my boss as son as he ends his 'tissy' fit. He is in argument with Adolph Hitler, who does not want you to be admitted. Hitler's argument is that you became a friend of Vladimir Putin. So just wait!"
The red soul departs into Hades and returns after a very long hour. The Donald is waiting patiently. The red soul says, "I am sorry Donald but your application to Hades has been rejected by the Devil himself on the recommendation of Mao Tse Tung. Apparently, you have upset all the red souls in Hades because of your mischievous history, particularly, where you bear false witness against Hillary. I am sorry, but here in Hades, Hillary has become sort of a hero because of her stand on guns, even though you overruled it and jailed her and Bernie Sanders."
The Donald was heart broken once he realised that he had been rejected by both Heaven and Hell. He thought a while then decided that he would convert to the teachings of Bernie Sanders. As soon as he had done that a golden halo appeared over his head and Jesus Christ forgave him all his transgressions. The Donald now lives in Heaven in Trump Towers dedicated to converting white souls to the truths of Bernie Sanders. He even converted Hillary Clinton.
I am so happy this story has a happy ending!
Arthur
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The most shocking part of Donald Trump’s tax records isn’t the $916 million loss everyone’s talking about - The Washington Post
Blame the monetary and tax systems for Trump's arrogance ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/02/the-most-shocking-part-of-donald-trumps-tax-records-isnt-the-916-million-loss-everyones-talking-about/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw8&wpmm=1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/10/02/the-most-shocking-part-of-donald-trumps-tax-records-isnt-the-916-million-loss-everyones-talking-about/?wpisrc=nl_most-draw8&wpmm=1
Wednesday 28 September 2016
Sport stuff by Rob ...
Tuesday 27 September 2016
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Friday 26 August 2016
Hillary Clinton Says ‘Radical Fringe’ Is Taking Over G.O.P. Under Donald Trump - The New York Times
Well he comes across as a racist and horrible person ... mixing his leadership and good people with the worse segments of American society with the least of value systems beyond hate and dissimulation. The aweful truth is that Anarcha will probably elect the Trump monster ..."left out the i in Anaricha". What is the latin plural for anarchy?
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speech.html?WT.nav=top-news&action=click&&clickSource=story-heading&em_pos=large&emc=edit_nn_20160826&hp&module=first-column-region&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=60644272&pgtype=Homepage®ion=top-news&_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/us/politics/hillary-clinton-speech.html?WT.nav=top-news&action=click&&clickSource=story-heading&em_pos=large&emc=edit_nn_20160826&hp&module=first-column-region&nl=morning-briefing&nlid=60644272&pgtype=Homepage®ion=top-news&_r=0
Tuesday 23 August 2016
Sunday 21 August 2016
Saturday 20 August 2016
Electromagnetic Radiation
Remember that this really does affect you and your progeny ... Canada should have the highest protection standards because of the enormous untold health RISKS.
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=612477b8f06f01a976e6fc667&id=a39f4db40b&e=cff5cfa8ab
http://us6.campaign-archive1.com/?u=612477b8f06f01a976e6fc667&id=a39f4db40b&e=cff5cfa8ab
Friday 19 August 2016
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Wednesday 3 August 2016
THE REAL ECONOMICS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
THE REAL ECONOMICS OF GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT
By Arthur Lake
Politics interferes with growth and development more than people like to admit. Japan has always had thousands of very small firms that actively develop to the needs of a few very large firms. Japan can infinitely produce more than it can sell. For Japan to grow it needs to negotiate trade arrangements that allow its surpluses a market elsewhere.
Economies of scale and a multiplicity of downward cost curves yet in a world that is growing more protectionist means that for Japan to grow it needs to expand its domestic demand.
The best thing would be a significant shift in the mix of what the Japanese buy. By having the government do more, households have more to spend and can trade up on quality. Thus, expansion of government spending while lowering taxes would spur growth.
This means running a significant deficit and potentially inflation as consumers shift to higher priced better quality items, which incidently would be easier to export.
Trading up consumption, trading up government participation in R and D. Paying higher wages and raising interest rates for savings through the issuance of high return Government bonds available ONLY to lower income households would change the mix of financial returns away from the stock market to government backed pension savings.
Higher government debt works in the correct direction weakening the exchange rate and discouraging external borrowing. By having wage inflation and higher disposable incomes the internal demand would grow while commerce makes bigger profits on downward sloping cost curves.
The stock market would grow on real returns. The pressure on domestic demand and higher incomes would pay down government debt sooner while the public sector expands and expands.
Everyone would be better off including the rest of the world.
Now vary the country name from Japan to Great Britain, United States, China, etc and ask why the world is not growing ...
Arthur
Tuesday 2 August 2016
GHOST WORDS AND RESULTING SELECTION OF POETRY
GHOST WORDS AND RESULTING SELECTION OF POETRY
Friday, I turned on my ghost machine for 'random' words to stir imaginings, then put some of those words into a Google search to see what would happen. The results are the discovery of a poem and one ghost recommended, and it is about how nature fills our emotions and makes life meaningful in wonderful ways.
I share the source and the poem with you for your quiet enjoyment in a lull of your very busy day. Enjoy!
I would remind that a single effect has many causes. Some are hard to discover!
From: Friday, Jul 29, 2016, 4:00 pm
To: Friday, Jul 29, 2016, 4:41 pm
At Starbucks in London, Ontario
Sensitivity:
Medium Sensitivity
Words Spoken:
4:40:48 pm : poetry
4:40:32 pm : coach
4:33:20 pm : gentle
4:32:48 pm : deep
4:32:00 pm : wild
4:31:44 pm : shut
4:31:44 pm : thy
4:31:12 pm : blow
Signals Detected:
4:41:51 pm : GREEN
4:41:52 pm : GREEN
4:41:53 pm : GREEN
4:42:19 pm : GREEN
Poem, some 218 years old, for your enjoyment ...
COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
FIVE years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.--Once again Do I behold these steep and lofty cliffs, That on a wild secluded scene impress Thoughts of more deep seclusion; and connect The landscape with the quiet of the sky. The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view
10 These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard-tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves 'Mid groves and copses. Once again I see These hedge-rows, hardly hedge-rows, little lines Of sportive wood run wild: these pastoral farms, Green to the very door; and wreaths of smoke Sent up, in silence, from among the trees! With some uncertain notice, as might seem Of vagrant dwellers in the houseless woods,
20 Or of some Hermit's cave, where by his fire The Hermit sits alone. These beauteous forms, Through a long absence, have not been to me As is a landscape to a blind man's eye: But oft, in lonely rooms, and 'mid the din Of towns and cities, I have owed to them In hours of weariness, sensations sweet, Felt in the blood, and felt along the heart; And passing even into my purer mind, With tranquil restoration:--feelings too
30 Of unremembered pleasure: such, perhaps, As have no slight or trivial influence On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered, acts Of kindness and of love. Nor less, I trust, To them I may have owed another gift, Of aspect more sublime; that blessed mood, In which the burthen of the mystery, In which the heavy and the weary weight Of all this unintelligible world,
40 Is lightened:--that serene and blessed mood, In which the affections gently lead us on,-- Until, the breath of this corporeal frame And even the motion of our human blood Almost suspended, we are laid asleep In body, and become a living soul: While with an eye made quiet by the power Of harmony, and the deep power of joy, We see into the life of things. If this Be but a vain belief, yet, oh! how oft--
50 In darkness and amid the many shapes Of joyless daylight; when the fretful stir Unprofitable, and the fever of the world, Have hung upon the beatings of my heart-- How oft, in spirit, have I turned to thee, O sylvan Wye! thou wanderer thro' the woods, How often has my spirit turned to thee! And now, with gleams of half-extinguished thought, With many recognitions dim and faint, And somewhat of a sad perplexity,
60 The picture of the mind revives again: While here I stand, not only with the sense Of present pleasure, but with pleasing thoughts That in this moment there is life and food For future years. And so I dare to hope, Though changed, no doubt, from what I was when first I came among these hills; when like a roe I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides Of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, Wherever nature led: more like a man
70 Flying from something that he dreads, than one Who sought the thing he loved. For nature then (The coarser pleasures of my boyish days, And their glad animal movements all gone by) To me was all in all.--I cannot paint What then I was. The sounding cataract Haunted me like a passion: the tall rock, The mountain, and the deep and gloomy wood, Their colours and their forms, were then to me An appetite; a feeling and a love,
80 That had no need of a remoter charm, By thought supplied, nor any interest Unborrowed from the eye.--That time is past, And all its aching joys are now no more, And all its dizzy raptures. Not for this Faint I, nor mourn nor murmur, other gifts Have followed; for such loss, I would believe, Abundant recompence. For I have learned To look on nature, not as in the hour Of thoughtless youth; but hearing oftentimes
90 The still, sad music of humanity, Nor harsh nor grating, though of ample power To chasten and subdue. And I have felt A presence that disturbs me with the joy Of elevated thoughts; a sense sublime Of something far more deeply interfused, Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns, And the round ocean and the living air, And the blue sky, and in the mind of man; A motion and a spirit, that impels
100 All thinking things, all objects of all thought, And rolls through all things. Therefore am I still A lover of the meadows and the woods, And mountains; and of all that we behold From this green earth; of all the mighty world Of eye, and ear,--both what they half create, And what perceive; well pleased to recognise In nature and the language of the sense, The anchor of my purest thoughts, the nurse, The guide, the guardian of my heart, and soul
110 Of all my moral being. Nor perchance, If I were not thus taught, should I the more Suffer my genial spirits to decay: For thou art with me here upon the banks Of this fair river; thou my dearest Friend, My dear, dear Friend; and in thy voice I catch The language of my former heart, and read My former pleasures in the shooting lights Of thy wild eyes. Oh! yet a little while May I behold in thee what I was once,
120 My dear, dear Sister! and this prayer I make, Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her; 'tis her privilege, Through all the years of this our life, to lead From joy to joy: for she can so inform The mind that is within us, so impress With quietness and beauty, and so feed With lofty thoughts, that neither evil tongues, Rash judgments, nor the sneers of selfish men, Nor greetings where no kindness is, nor all
130 The dreary intercourse of daily life, Shall e'er prevail against us, or disturb Our cheerful faith, that all which we behold Is full of blessings. Therefore let the moon Shine on thee in thy solitary walk; And let the misty mountain-winds be free To blow against thee: and, in after years, When these wild ecstasies shall be matured Into a sober pleasure; when thy mind Shall be a mansion for all lovely forms,
140 Thy memory be as a dwelling-place For all sweet sounds and harmonies; oh! then, If solitude, or fear, or pain, or grief, Should be thy portion, with what healing thoughts Of tender joy wilt thou remember me, And these my exhortations! Nor, perchance-- If I should be where I no more can hear Thy voice, nor catch from thy wild eyes these gleams Of past existence--wilt thou then forget That on the banks of this delightful stream
150 We stood together; and that I, so long A worshipper of Nature, hither came Unwearied in that service: rather say With warmer love--oh! with far deeper zeal Of holier love. Nor wilt thou then forget, That after many wanderings, many years Of absence, these steep woods and lofty cliffs, And this green pastoral landscape, were to me More dear, both for themselves and for thy sake!
1798.
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