Comments - Community on the Bottom Line - Gaia Community2024-03-28T09:11:53Zhttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/comment/feed?attachedTo=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A485&xn_auth=noThe best and the most beaut…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2013-12-12:5313775:Comment:160722013-12-12T07:59:11.915ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The <em>best and the most beautiful things in the</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>world </em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>cannot be seen nor even touched</em>, <em>but</em><strong> just </strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>The <em>best and the most beautiful things in the</em></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><em>world </em></strong></span><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><em>cannot be seen nor even touched</em>, <em>but</em><strong> just </strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong>felt in the heart.</strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 18pt;"> - <strong><a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=5313775%3ABlogPost%3A442&commentId=5313775%3AComment%3A16244&fbclid=IwAR3upbt4AYcsN980K_sSCloygInDZLjEr5a5Lk67QWrrR5obJ-4k-2S4dMg" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Helen Keller</a></strong></span></p>
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<p></p> But the real issue goes deepe…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-26:5313775:Comment:116132012-06-26T06:42:58.458ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<div class="thirdPar"><p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/rogerbootle/9352560/All-the-bail-out-systems-under-the-sun-cannot-make-the-eurozone-work.html" target="_blank">But the real issue goes deeper</a>.</strong> All the bailout mechanisms under the sun cannot make the euro-zone work (- <em>or indeed any other example of printing money for the purpose of making loans to pay off previous loans - which then have to be ALL paid back with interest</em>.) <br></br><br></br>Such…</p>
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<div class="thirdPar"><p><strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/comment/rogerbootle/9352560/All-the-bail-out-systems-under-the-sun-cannot-make-the-eurozone-work.html" target="_blank">But the real issue goes deeper</a>.</strong> All the bailout mechanisms under the sun cannot make the euro-zone work (- <em>or indeed any other example of printing money for the purpose of making loans to pay off previous loans - which then have to be ALL paid back with interest</em>.) <br/><br/>Such bailouts are still, in the end, loans. Even if the interest rates are set very low, interest is due to be paid and the debt eventually to be repaid.</p>
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<div class="fourthPar"><p>What would make some difference is if the money provided were not some sort of loan but rather an outright gift. Such gifts can be made in advance (although they rarely are) or after the event, when they are called write-offs. Sometimes a recipient itself turns what was once a loan into a gift.</p>
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<div class="fifthPar"><p>This is called a default. But northern countries understandably don't want their past loans turned into gifts, and they don't want to be forced to make new gifts until the crack of doom.</p>
</div> It's only a new financial sys…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-06-20:5313775:Comment:115202012-06-20T15:49:34.981ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p>It's only a new financial system that will potentially be able to bring back those lost jobs at Motorola, having accepted that the end of sustainable growth is here to stay.</p>
<p>To quote <strong>BIG RON <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9342810/Prepare-for-Lehmans-re-run-Bank-official-warns.html" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><em>commenting at the</em> Telegraph</a></strong> -</p>
<p>"<strong>The banking system in the western world is a criminal ponzi scheme which…</strong></p>
<p>It's only a new financial system that will potentially be able to bring back those lost jobs at Motorola, having accepted that the end of sustainable growth is here to stay.</p>
<p>To quote <strong>BIG RON <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9342810/Prepare-for-Lehmans-re-run-Bank-official-warns.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><em>commenting at the</em> Telegraph</a></strong> -</p>
<p>"<strong>The banking system in the western world is a criminal ponzi scheme which has </strong><strong><em>undermined both capitalism and democracy</em>. Those who have looted our world may </strong><strong>now wish to abandon such systems. We need to defend both capitalism and democracy </strong><strong>whilst condemning those evil thieves in the dark corners of the banking world.</strong>"</p> Having exported all the techn…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-02-14:5313775:Comment:108132012-02-14T21:55:51.864ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p>Having exported all the technological jobs - like those at Motorola - to China, we now face the dilemma of <strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9079754/Apple-orders-inspections-of-Chinese-factories.html" target="_blank">NOT being able to control</a></strong> the <em><strong>self-interested, do what I say not what I do, greed and power of a nation which has had corruption built into its collective DNA for the last 3000 years</strong></em>. How on earth can we expect…</p>
<p>Having exported all the technological jobs - like those at Motorola - to China, we now face the dilemma of <strong><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/apple/9079754/Apple-orders-inspections-of-Chinese-factories.html" target="_blank">NOT being able to control</a></strong> the <em><strong>self-interested, do what I say not what I do, greed and power of a nation which has had corruption built into its collective DNA for the last 3000 years</strong></em>. How on earth can we expect <em><strong>such a beast</strong></em> to adhere to the same set of values and principles which we ourselves have begun to put to the back of our minds during our relentless submission to the <strong>HIDDEN PERSUADER</strong>S which lies at the core of our "<strong>built on growth forever</strong>" <em>evolutionary capitalism of the West</em>.</p> MY OWN PERCEPTION of the pote…tag:letschangetheworld.ning.com,2012-02-14:5313775:Comment:107182012-02-14T21:55:32.568ZMichael Grovehttps://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profile/MichaelGrove
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MY <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/vision-1" rel="noopener" target="_blank">OWN PERCEPTION</a></span> of the potential of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">global interactive televisual communication</span>, from the outset, was one which did not subscribe to an advancement of the inherent <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">greed & perversion of …</span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">MY <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/vision-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">OWN PERCEPTION</a></span> of the potential of <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">global interactive televisual communication</span>, from the outset, was one which did not subscribe to an advancement of the inherent <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;">greed & perversion of <a href="http://letschangetheworld.ning.com/profiles/blogs/perception-is-the-medium" target="_blank" rel="noopener">perception</a></span> of those <br/>that are responsible for <span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="text-decoration: underline;">the control</span> of the species mindset</span> …</span><br/> <br/><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong><a href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=1435318536496393" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Hidden Persuaders</a></strong> as <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vance_Packard" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span style="font-weight: bold;">Vance Packard</span></a> succinctly described them.</span></p>