has said in his article for The Telegraph-
"A good society seeks and achieves a balance between individual and social action. The excesses of the money markets show the dangers of rampant individualism and of the belief that greed is good; the somnolence of an unenterprising culture is the consequence of relying too heavily on the state and the public sector, and lands people and communities in the dependency trap. Ruth Davidson exaggerates, but she is right to draw attention to the absence of vigour and self-belief in much of Scotland, where the balance between individual and social action has been tilted away from the former."
AS Europe and Britain are sinking under the weight of welfare costs - and "Recent projections aired by Fabio Pammolli, professor of economics at the IMT Institute for Advanced Studies, show quite shocking levels of exposure." - Jeremy Warner goes on to say "If there wasn’t already enough to worry about in Europe’s fiscal meltdown, these forecasts point to destruction of the very foundations of the European social market economy. Taking into account the expected decrease in fertility and mortality rates, the burden on active workers of healthcare and pensions spending is expected to grow over the next 20 years to 63.5pc of GDP per capita in Italy, 61.6pc in France, and 53.3pc in Germany.
Favourable demographics mean that by comparison, the projected UK burden is relatively small at just 38.7pc. Yet it is still quite high enough.
As is only too apparent, much of Europe is incapable of supporting its present pensions and healthcare promise. Herb Stein, one time economic adviser to President Nixon, famously remarked that if something cannot go on for ever, it will stop.
In Europe, stopping is going to make the present outbreak of economic, social and political instability over deficit reduction look like a stroll in the park. We are only in the very early stages of Europe’s wider fiscal crisis. There is still much worse to come, regardless of whether the euro survives or not."…
across America are reclaiming the ability to feed themselves. It's inspiring as well as informative. If you eat, you really should read it."
Richard Heinberg - The End of Growth and Peak Everything
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sophisticated peace room would be a place on the Internet as well as in towns, cities, and nations, where the best practices and organizations for around the world that are involved in developing a new paradigm for peace converge. The peace room would scan for projects and experiments that are working to create a better world, map out these places, and communicate and network with people and organizations who are working on the cutting edge of evolution in building a peaceful model of 21 st Century life.
The "Peace Room" has been expanded by Hubbard and Congressman Dennis Kucinich to become the "Department of Peace," a cabinet-level department in the executive branch of the Federal Government which would be responsible for studying and developing conditions that are conductive to both domestic and international peace.
My feeling is that the Department of Peace should make human beings' relationship to nature as a top priority. To take a serious look at the way we have exploited nature and to understand what the consequences are from this abuse, one feels the urgency in our need to shift development from a car-centered urban sprawl culture to a car-free compact urban culture. To do so, means to build arcology.
Arcology is a metaphor for peace, in all its forms.
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late and preview plausible outcomes of inventions or various courses of action.
It is especially valuable in situations where all the relevant variables are incompletely known, changing or ambiguous.
Its particular power lies in the fact that it is based on matching patterns that are similar in form to the original observations, rather than on abstract generalisations.
Often employs insight-based processing, which is powerful but often slow, can appear passive, and may result in difficulty explaining intervening steps.
Individuals with dyslexia who possess prominent D-Strengths often thrive in precisely the kinds of rapidly changing and ambiguous settings that others find the most difficult and confusing.
Occupations and fields
Entrepreneur, Chief Executive, finance, small business owner, business consultants, logistics, accounting, economics, medicine, farmer.
What to include and leave out of writing
I, N, or D-strengths may include excessive or irrelevant details because they often see so many connections and levels of meaning between ideas. For students who have difficulty narrowing down their ideas, it often helps to decide in advance what the focus of their writing will be. One useful strategy for limiting focus is to use the " 5 W/H " approach, where the student decides which of the potential questions (i.e., who, what, when, where, why or how) to answer and which to ignore.
People with strong verbal imagery and or particular weaknesses in word retrieval or verbal output often include too few details. This can be either because they “see” so much detail in their heads that they forget how little they have communicated to the audience or because it takes so much effort for them to put their thoughts into words that they experience working memory overload before they can get everything down on paper. Students with problems of this kind often benefit from reading their work aloud or being asked to form a mental picture of their subject using only the words on the page.
Information taken from: Eide, B & Eide, F. (2011) The Dyslexic Advantage. London: Hay House UK Ltd.
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r, while for
other sense perceptions no such correspondence can be established.
We are accustomed to regard as real those sense perceptions which
are common to different individuals, and which therefore are, in a
measure, impersonal. The natural sciences, and in particular, the most
fundamental of them, physics, deal with such sense perceptions. The conception of physical bodies, in particular of rigid bodies, is a
relatively constant complex of such sense perceptions. A clock is also
a body, or a system, in the same sense, with the additional property
that the series of events which it counts is formed of elements all of
which can be regarded as equal.
The only justification for our concepts and system of concepts is that
they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this
they have no legitimacy. I am convinced that the philosophers have
had a harmful effect upon the progress of scientific thinking in
removing certain fundamental concepts from the domain of
empiricism, where they are under our control, to the intangible
heights of the a priori. For even if it should appear that the universe
of ideas cannot be deduced from experience by logical means, but is,
in a sense, a creation of the human mind, without which no science is
possible, nevertheless this universe of ideas is just as little independent
of the nature of our experiences as clothes are of the form of the
human body.
This is particularly true of our concepts of time and space, which
physicists have been obliged by the facts to bring down from the
Olympus of the a priori in order to adjust them and put them in
a serviceable condition. Albert Einstein
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alculations per second and is capable of taking in 215 billion weather observations from all over the world every day. But despite its impressive computational power, and ability to give advanced warning, accurate long-range forecasts on a local level remain out of reach.
"It's the regional details that are important, about where the risks will be, where the rain will fall and getting that information to first responders as fast as we can," says Andy Kirkman, head of government services at the Met Office. That regional data could be provided in the future by the Met’s new supercomputer, which was announced on Monday and will be the most powerful climate supercomputer in the world. The government said that it will invest £1.2bn into the project. The supercomputer itself is expected to cost £854m, with the remaining funds set to go towards investment in the Observations network and programme offices over a 10-year period from 2022 to 2032. The machine will increase the Met Office computing capacity six-fold allowing it to better forecast for airports so they can plan for potential disruption.
The Met's new supercomputer will look to deliver at least a further three times supercomputing capacity in the last four years of the programme. But, aside from the extra processing power, the Met Office is also hoping the machine will make it easier to deal with the data coming out. “It's valued not just in the accuracy but making that data more available to people to work on,” Kirkman says.
Being able to do this will only become more urgent as global warming starts to change the environment. The computer will use all the data available to allow it to predict everything from reasonable scenarios, to what are termed “black swan events”, ones which are unpredictable and potentially catastrophic.
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Added by Michael Grove at 14:57 on September 5, 2020
ion miles and yet we still see no New Stars in[DEED]. Having been born a left-handed mirror-writing, right-brained visual thinker, I have been particularly fortunate to have had an educationally stimulated journey of life, which has resulted in my own personal development of being able to manipulate multidimensional space/time in my head and having long-since promoted the Art of the Possible of so-called Dyslexic Artists, whilst practising the art of Taichiquan, I am now a great supporter of Daniel Keown's very own concept of the Spark in the Machine, which [IT]self refers to the
Art of Acupuncture and it's very connection to the gravitational field, which prevents us flying off into space, as we've travelled that 240 trillion miles.
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https://www.facebook.com/michael.grove.98/posts/4089687177726169
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king for himself and traveling on the bus - Francis, an Argentine who was elected on Wednesday, replaces Benedict XVI, whose papacy was plagued by a series of public relations blunders at the start of his reign that offended many. Benedict angered the Muslim world with a speech in 2006 in which he appeared to endorse the view that Islam is inherently violent, sparking deadly protests in several countries as well as attacks on Christians. After being revealed to the world, Pope Francis dined with the cardinals in a Vatican residence where he thanked them for electing him but then quipped:-
"God forgive you for what you've done!"
As Damian Thompson concludes in today's Telegraph editorial page article -
"It's a shame that Cardinal Bergoglio never had the opportunity to mingle incognito in the bars of modern Dublin, where he would have found an intensity of hatred for the Catholic Church that the Gordon rioters might have recognised. Young Irish people especially can hardly mention the Church without a curl of the lip. Older folk, meanwhile, feel miserably betrayed. It's the same story in, say, Boston or Quebec. How telling that the siblings of Cardinal Ouellet, Prefect of the Congregation for Bishops, no longer go to Mass regularly.
I know this is a downbeat response to what, for Catholics, is a joyful and hopeful event. But savage reform to the curia is required so that Pope Francis can (should he wish) take advantage of the successful Benedictine reforms: for example, the formation of a breed of bishop who – as the new Bishop Philip Egan of Portsmouth is demonstrating – are reclaiming their spiritual authority from hippy-generation bureaucrats and using it to promote the so-called "new evangelisation". To put it bluntly, a Church associated in the public mind with child abuse isn't likely to be good at any sort of evangelisation, new or otherwise. Nor can it face down its angry, condescending and well-informed enemies. So welcome, Holy Father. You know what needs to be done; do not stay your hand." (which has been changed to 'and let the sackings begin' in the online version)
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