March 16, 2010

Obama Israel war

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Israel marked the start of the Obama election ,to the day  , with a war on Gaza and finished it clinically on the day before his inauguration.Ballet.

Obama is a relativley  minor  leader when it comes to financial means…say as compared to Putin and Belessconi ( who has an out- sized ego…he has little respect for technocrats like Merkel or Obama ) and has few friends..actually has none amonsgt the leaders of the world.

Brown tried his best but alas.Sarkozy tried to belittle him behind his back and has an issue with anyone taller than him.Isreal did’nt even bother trying.Just smile and wait for him to leave office which they expect and hope  will be the next election.

But Obama is a Politician and he has a ruthlessly logical mind that makes him seem distant to the American public…he’s not a warm fuzzy feeling Reagan.But….as a corrollory.. he makes good decisons.

I think this problem with Bidens trip will be used by Obama to hang Isreal out to dry.

Two state solution is not on the cards ..that has been made loud and clear by the Isrealis and so has their hatred for Obama.

I think its time for some Chicago style hair dryer treatment for the Isrealis

Obama should use this moment to allow the Israelis to hang their own flowers on this dead horse peace process and walk away from them.he’s not going to get any traction from them…so lets stop pretending they are some kind of strategic ally.Becasue they are in it for themselves….( which may be the right thing for the Isrealis….but lets stop pretending that they have any good will for anyone else…least of all the current US president..whom they have wished only failure..)

 

March 15, 2010

Taliban & Nawaz Party are one

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Its soooo good to know that Nawaz has the same thinking as the Taliban.

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C03%5C15%5Cstory_15-3-2010_pg7_9

CM says like Taliban, provincial govt also opposed to foreign dictation

LAHORE: Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif has said the Taliban should not target Punjab, as the provincial government is opposed to foreign dictation

My facebook analysis:

 Taliban kill Lahoris.Shabby Sharif says the Taliban and them are one on foreign policy .People in Pakistan will vote these people into power and wonder why their country is a mess….. Punjabi ambivalence to Religious wackos is the ..(.such as Sharif plea to Taliban)…..is disgraceful……………..And Pakistan not …only has no problem with this….they will vote them freely into Government.

Pakistanis are motivated in Politics by what/who they hate the most

They hate Musharraf..they hate Zardari….so hence lets get Nawaz in now…

give that time and I think I know what happens next….

More lonely  Facebook ranting: ( by me)

Shabby Sharif is saying that Taliban should target elsewhere…maybe Sindh….or Afghanistan..but not us…
What great moral fibre this party has…
Cast iron guarantee that Pakistanis will vote him in……
As a country…you should sacrifice for the things you love and wish to see…
Pakistan has developed a mentality that prefers to wildly sacrifice for the things it hate.Hates rule.
 
Heres a deeply sensible voice fromPakistan but truly troubling look st the dysfunctionality of Pakistan.
 

March 12, 2010

West gets poorer…World gets smaller

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Bear in mind the Eastern nations don’t have pensions that will cripple them.But China does have many bust State corporations …so a run on the banks might come one day.Essentially the West is’nt as rich as we think it is and this financial crisis is about the balance  coming back…ie we go down the ladder and  have to work harder.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/business/global/12pension.html?ref=global-home

Other countries have obscured their total obligations as well. In France, where the official debt level is 76 percent of economic output, total debt rises to 549 percent once all of its current pension promises are taken into account. And in Germany, the current debt level of 69 percent would soar to 418 percent.

Comically good pensions in Greece..unsustainable..The Germans have said as much…that they are not going to subsidize the Greeks so that they can retire early….:

He is a full-throated proponent of a system that pays him a yearly pension of 30,000 euros, or $41,000, more than he was making when he retired 13 years ago at the age of 60. He has even written a book in defense of it, “The Guide to Granting Civil Service Pensions in Greece.”

Aging populations everywhere except the Islamic countires should be a simple equation except that everyones afraid that the Hijab will be the end of the West.

But its this financial re-orientation that is going to cause that..not the Hijab.Russia ( Prince Rus once considered  having an Islamic state )..has a Muslim federacy of sorts already but its Muslim Populations are small in numbers .

We might get a de-population point where anybody with a pair of hands will be begged to migrate .Migration is going to go from hot potato to hot sell.Europe , West , Russia are going to become bakwaters without it.

The Population prophets of doom will be dead by then ..as they tend to be elderly Western folks . 

Equation changers will be life expectancy…if we get a pill to extend life..then we get better finances everywhere..more productivity .The balance of wealth will be restored to those that can live longer.

But of for the moment ..the momentum is downhill for the West.The East to follow closely behind.

The ME and Africa grow by default as a result rather than by design.

 

March 11, 2010

Jokes of Israel

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Israeli Supermarket parodies a killing to promote food sales.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8561247.stm

This country is rapidly developing a singular lack of good taste in its humour.

I know this attempt to sell food from a supermarket involves only the death of one person ( that Dubai Hamas hit ) but  when you add in the comedy shows that blamed the image of Israel as bloodthirsty irrational killers on foreign news crews ( like the BBC) and  nothing  at all to do with  anything they themselves have conjured up ….you get a country fueled sky high on its own fantasies.

The only thing wrong with that satirists anger with the fictional and delusional idea of foreign news reporting….is that the Israelis are not irrational.Its all rational.Hit us , we hit you 10 times back.Get organised , we hit you.Need a provocation to justify something , we hit you.Not that Fatah was any better …just more inept.

Israelis have  humour to add to   their extensive  arsenal of self delusion.  In a world of their own.

Putting the Turkish Ambassador on a smaller chair was no doubt the  Government deciding that Comedy is the future .The application of humour and comedy to help humiliate an Ally is a new weapon….unleashed on a foreign power.

Who will be next?

Obama will get the full roast  ….but when he leaves Office.

Just like the US is dividing into two separate poles …one based on fear and singularly lacking in humour ( one element is the Tea Party , Fox news  ) and the other more liberal US that is not fear based and has a sense of humour ( Jewish people in the US like John Stewart ).

I think that the famous Jewish sense of humour is alive and kicking in the US because they are politically poles apart form the Jews in Israel who have a fear based society ( and thus have a singular lack of humour in their …humour )

Humour resides  in the right frontal lobes and fear in a pole ( or poles )  of the Amygdala ( fear centre of the brain ) and that  translates into two different types of political beings.

I have my theories on the Left Right divide.( based on personal  insecurity and how we deal with it  on a fine grained subconscious level ) ..heres a another piece of the jigsaw I need to add in somehow.

The Supermarket ad is important ..because an ad shows acceptable enough behaviours .

Is it the Russian influx? Israel has had tougher times before  than now…yet it seems to be sliding deeper  into its own right wing  bubble.

Netanyahu looks like a willing passenger rather than any leader …unlike Sharon.

He is like  right wing wallpaper , mood music.Something has to give and I think the flat jokes might be all that Israel has to offer.

 

March 10, 2010

India Pakistan ..cheeky outlook

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Future Of Pakistan post on Tom Barnetts Website

Security is the key.
The Army consumes all before it.
With secuirty ..it could all be trimmed down.

Pakistan has huge potential….it takes a nation of Pakistanis to keep it down.
Anything the army does’nt comsume….the beaurocracy consumes.
But the hyper sensitivty towards India ( not unwarranted…India gleefully  wished and expected to see Pakistan fail and Afghanistan refused to accept it at all ) could be the saving grace for Pakistan.

Don’t expect Pakistanis are going to allow India to get one over them by actually becoming DEVELOPED!!..
Where India treads…Pakistan will foillow.
Pakistan exists only to compete with India…the Jihadi’s are just a small part of that larger game..tools essentially that can be discarded…as is happening now..

 

March 10, 2010

Internet as human right

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Interesting angle.

I see the Government realising huge savings by putting itself online and making everyone go online .

I don’t see it a future human right…I see it as a future law..that we must be online …no choice.That is why the Government of the UK is trying to get a broadband tax to fund ever increasing connectivity.They will offer a base line free service that we will have to contract with.

The Government will go online just like the wars we are fighting ( drones ), the money ( electronic in the ether ) ,the work and social lives.

We will be little blobs of flesh at the end of a URL.

Goes back to my argument that countries will cease to exisit as geographical entities will become financial care funds that can be accessed anywhere.

 

March 10, 2010

Spiritualized Cancer , Liberal Parkinsons , Conservative Alzheimers disease

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Alzheimers come about from an aggressive body state…that essentially erodes itself with its high level of ‘readiness’ to attack .

The body is in a state of fear (so my stab in the dark guess that conservatives might suffer from it marginally more than anyone else ).

Parkinson’s is a disease where there is a balance of forces against each within the brain….each leaning heavily against each other…..like a tug of war….in balance…wearing out the brain.Reminds me of the liberal brain.Balanced.As they tug against each other ..they wear out the ‘doing’ juices ( dopamine).

Cancer is for people who are defenceless and open ..too open ..to all.Their defences are muted and they incur a cost for that.People with cancer will have an open spirituality.( Eva Cassidy..look at her voice….see is so defenceless and unguarded ..that voice was/is  heavenly …she had no defences /layers…sheer spirit )

OK..now ..I know alot of this is mostly non-sense…but I know there is a nugget of truth in here somewhere amongst this caricuture.I know rightwingers get Parkinsons  and cancer etc etc is a bit over the top…….but I think there will be a measurable yardstick with which the temperaments of different people are directly related to the diseases they get and the political eco-system of their thoughts.

Remember right and left wing party affiliations are not usually dependent on whether someone is a left winger or right winger.This is not about political parties…but political individuals.

In the US ..we have a purifying process where individuals are becoming more closely aligned to parties that represent the inner political poles of mind …but that is not a given in most societies….e.g You can be a conservative through culture/birth yet be a liberal inside quite easily in the UK or a rightwinger in the socialist party ..eg Blair and Labour.

Heres an article that presents the case for Alzeheimers being related to immune defence.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/health/09alzh.html?em

I know the disease I’m mostly likely to get is Parkinsons but not Cancer.I’m fairly certain of that.Maybe another 20 years and we shall see.

 

March 8, 2010

Somalia adrift

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Posted by me on the Economist website

AQ are like Venture Capitalists for any muslim grouping that has its back to the wall.
The bargain includes many freebies like foreign ‘ plug and play’ fighters and a Faustian pact that unfortunately includes an Ebola like political agenda in the small print.
In the short term though…in a very Darwian way….religious groups will always trump tribal groups as it always has done in human history.
So bets are on Shahab in the short run….other iterations of religious groups in the long run.Tribes and clans are never going to get above this unless they find another way of organising themselves and a bigger better sugar daddy .Very unlikely.
So the show goes on.

Another more salient point….

Globalization is like Jupiter (or  like giant  gear wheels ..I call Jupiter class powers…US USSR China Europe …and lesser but up and coming Jupiters..India and Brazil…..they crush and will crush any contra-rotating forces  ) ..crushing the nursery that is Religion.All religious start-ups are cranky ..it helps with discipline and loyalty in the uderclasses. But in this Globalized world…you can’t get away with making enemies ..

Tribal societies need the religious rung of the organisational ladder …to create stability..as a stepping stone upwards….

In this Globalized world..that is no longer possible…Hence the Taliban and the  Somali twin…would have worked 50  years ago…but not today.These baby tribal societies need to run quickly..because they ar’nt going to get a crawling stage in which to develop and strengthen.

So what kind of stage will there be…..Somalia and Afghanistan are the largest tribal societies probably in the world…..I think there is a clue here.This itself could be the cause of their failure.But how did they last so long ?

Are they the gaps between the Jupiter  wheels that could’nt mesh together  ( Russia and Brittania in the Great Game )  …but that do  mesh now?..Held previously in suspension between India and Pakistan in the recent past was  another version of the Great Game.

The only Game in town is now Globilization.You can’t go it alone .

My only guess is that Somalia and Afghanistan would benefit from being broken up and turned into geographical units that represent the unit ethnic groups…allowing them to compete under a security umbrella by outside powers.

One power patron per ethnic grouping.That way they can compete and learn from other without wasting time /money / lives on competing for resources.

 

March 6, 2010

Walk to your funeral

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Quick comment posted on Tom Barnetts site about the  right to assisted suicide

Pay as you go Life model

Not so distant Sci-Fi scenario

How about we get a pill that extends life to a useful 160.
Depending on your income…some can go as far as an elderly  180…most get to 140.
Government subsidies help you to 120.
Could we be burying healthy people one day….
You could walk to your own funeral.
If the treatment l was equivalent to a years average salary….we would quite an interesting scenario….
A financial crisis like the one the Bankers were invovled in could result in mass burials….( after the Government subsidy had gone )

 

March 5, 2010

Origin and mechanics of Fashion

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Posted by me on Ask Andy’s forum..
Fashion is about power structures/hierarchies.

( essentially ..that is )

Important for young people as a public statement of individual power …against the parental powers that have ruled their lives.
Hence the annoyance when the Parents dress like them…..THAT is against the dress code.

Important for workers to dress alike ..like soldiers..helps to stamp out the individuality that is important in the previous teen scenario.Helps large scaling of organisations.

Important to help outsiders assess the rung of the power ladder you are on, so that any converstion need not have to centre around establishing status….hence Purple for emperors….silks for nobleman ( and banned for uppity peasants as in England during the Medievil times ).

Once you’ve establised large scale order…economic benefits mean that individual will discover leisure time…time to just enjoy the clothes they wear …or others wear ..just for the sake of it…like in Andys Forums..

The teenage scenario also requires wealth and an essentially idle teen -class.( that is not working up a chimney ..but obessed with itself )

In the large scaled ‘orders’.. the idle wealthy thus created , can afford to live forever but can’t buy youth…so they pay youthful designers to help differentiate themselves from the masses that can buy cheaply and widely .( to keep the distance )….

 

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