Entry point

You sense the wonder when you know you’re right
that you always have been and you’ve seen it’s true.
The words were spoken that delved deep inside,
stirring something that no longer there could hide.

The door creaks open just a little more.
Soon perhaps you’ll stand there on the other side.
A new awakening, like a distant call
drifts on down the ages from some ancient hall.

The day dawns when it’s time at last to go,
Leave the place of dreams that long has been your home.
You wake now seeing without lying eyes
that which thought alone could never ever devise

Space now contracts to leave a seething glow,
no more separation or prescribed disguise.
Dimensions crumble and time’s ticks are gone.
All is known now that the two are joined as one.

Different worlds

I am rather bemused and in no way amused
by the messages coming my way
about crashes and gold
will it be warm of cold
and how much will be left of my pay.

I look up to the stars and that slight reddish Mars
and bold Jupiter shining so bright.
No Moon is to be seen
all around is serene
in the wonderful quiet of the night.

I peer round at the rose standing there by the door
with fresh buds about ready to flower.
See the grass growing slow
there the blackbird I know
and I feel, as they, old Nature’s power.

I gaze into the mirror at he who looks back
the one free of what’s lurking inside.
I want now to step through
so that I can see who
is the one in which these thoughts reside.

Intruder

I’m just a fool; I know that now
but I must go on anyhow.
There are those who might giggle, sneer,
pity the one who’s sitting here.
It seems so very long ago
that we bathed in sweet young love’s glow.
When smiles and laughter filled our days
and tenderness knew many ways:
a touch, a kiss, a warm embrace,
such joy that sadness had no place.
Yes, I remember oh so well
when all at once the curtain fell
almost transparent but too strong,
each wondering just what went wrong.
Was what we had something so blind
that doubts could rise to plague the mind,
thoughts that in Nature have no place,
the curse of that which has no face
that weaves the nightmares from our dreams
and holds at bay true love it seems?

The descent

Obama’s going down even further in the estimation of many, and it’s his own fault. He who made such a hopeful start has never ceased to disappoint since, except those who are still mesmerized by his charisma or are making a mint from his financial handouts.
Now the “Groveller-in Chief”, as the press is calling him, on meeting the Emperor of Japan bowed 90 degrees and offered a hand to be ceremonially cut off if necessary. This means that if we ordinary types ever get to meet the Emporer (which we won’t but never mind) we would have to bow at least 150 degrees and offer our heads to him for possible symbolic decapitation. Protocol would appear to demand it.
The president obviously feels a strong urge to bow for some reason when he meets royalty and one wonders what it could be. His action appears to be in breach of state department protocol which states that an American president should bow to no one short of the Heavenly Father – and I don’t mean the Pope. The mainstream media is rather surprised by his antics and the alternative media are having a field day saying that it’s a sign of subservience to his masters – the elite, as he also did something similar on meeting the Saudi King.
Why should anyone care? Well no doubt for many, it must seem to rather tie in with his concerted efforts back home to undermine America’s roll as world leader. The last bastion of minority freedom is disappearing under a landslide of increasing bureaucracy, overspending, bankers’ bad debts and depreciating printed money. Europeans who value personal liberty are looking on with leaden eyes in the aftermath of the acceptance of the Lisbon Treaty, giving even more power to the central government.
Well, if the World Government becomes a fact we, its servants, may all have to get used to bowing.

The secret

I carry a secret; I tell you no lie.
It’s heavy this burden and I don’t know why
it’s been with me always, well, since I was young:
a knowledge that’s wounded and left songs unsung.

Though questions were asked no clear answers would come
but always I hoped that there still would be some
who might bring some light to the darkness inside
and set free the one who preferred there to hide.

And still it is waiting for some sign I know
to come to the surface and bid me “Hello”
to show me with eyes growing dimmer each day
a world that I glimpsed in a dream far away.

Natural chaos

Last evening we watched an episode of Inspector Morse in which the theory of chaos was briefly discussed. A few years ago I got interested in this subject which led inevitably to the wondrous world of fractals. For any who may not have heard of the word “fractal” it is the name for an unsmooth geometric object. Classical geometry describes a tabletop as a plane and ignores the roughness of its surface while fractal geometry is concerned with the local irregularities. Fractals have self-similarity: each part of a fractal object is similar to the whole object – they are clones of themselves. The similarity can be perfect or only approximated.
I won’t go further into the fascinating theory of fractals. Those interested can find a good introduction here.
Edward Lorenz, an American mathematician and meteorologist, discovered in the 1960’s, while considering the ability of computer models to predict the weather, that small variations in values of the input parameters of certain mathematical models can have an enormous influence on the result. This appeared to be a property of models using non-linear equations which are necessary to describe natural processes.
It must be said that Henri Poincaré, the French mathematician, physicist and philosopher, was the first to discover this form of model behavior in the 1880’s during his research into the mathematical equations describing the orbits of three gravitationally bound objects in space.
Study has shown that these non-linear systems are not random but chaotic. Though they appear random, they are actually deterministic systems governed by physical or mathematical laws (predictable in principle, if you have exact information) that are impossible to predict in practice beyond a certain point. As Wikipedia puts it: “…, a nonlinear system is any problem where the variable(s) to be solved for cannot be written as a linear combination of independent components.”
The uncertainty involved in the application of models to non-linear systems is the reason why weather forecasting centers use what are called “ensemble forecasts” for their daily long term forecasts. This involves running the computer model a number of times using slightly different values of the input parameters each time and grouping the output results according to similarity. The members of the largest group can then be taken as providing the most reliable forecast. In doubtful cases the results of other computer models from other centers can eventually be taken into account.
The above also applies to other natural systems such as evolution. Even economic models are susceptible due to their dependence on natural processes.
There are those in high places who believe that Nature can be positively influenced by man, using his technology, to produce something superior. Indeed, it is well known that weather modification programs have been around for decades. Publicized results on, for example, the artificial production of rain, dissipation of clouds and reduction of hurricane intensity have been inconclusive.
Man is a part of Nature and not external to it and when applying his thought process through action to something in the “external” environment there is an immediate reaction which can never be entirely predicted due to its complexity. Outcomes of earlier interactions can be a guide but no more than that. My point is that the use of models to predict natural processes will always involve an element of uncertainty and their practical application an element of risk to the environment and man himself.

Saturday report

I’m sure our local morning paper is mostly a source of cold amusement or boredom to those of a more skeptical turn of mind, like me – those not easily fooled by shoddy propaganda. Its sudoku is also too easy, damn it! Why don’t I take another? Well I did switch to a national paper of a definite higher quality for a while (with harder sudoku), but it had the irritating habit of arriving after eight o’clock on weekdays and as late as one o’clock in the afternoon on Saturday, if it arrived at all – inexcusable, of course. The one redeeming feature of our present publication is the local gossip.
The government here has a problem: it’s always made up of at least three political parties and presently we have a mixture of centre Christian Democrats, rightwing Christians Fundamentalists and leftwing Socialists – a motley crew.
Due to the inevitability of compromise they’ve all joined forces somewhere in the middle, producing a rather tasteless, thin political soup. The opposition comprises about three hundred parties (slight exaggeration) all constantly fighting each other and as such not really forming any effective opposition to the ruling coalition. As in many western nations, the more rightwing parties have gained in popularity the last few years, largely due to bungled immigration policies and their repercussions.
The upshot is that our leaders (well, let’s be kind) like to push important decisions as far into the future as possible and let the less important ones sink into the quagmire of seemingly endless official and public debate, where they lie dormant until some irritating journalist inevitably resurrects the underlying issue, hopefully at a much later date.
The largely disillusioned public doesn’t really care, anyway. Elections are a mere distraction and unlike many special days on the calendar one is not even given time off. Well it’s true, as I’ve said, that many do have an obsession with immigrants who can’t fit in and generally seem to lounge around, some descending into criminality, and there’s the persistent sore of different cultures and religions not getting on too well. Oh, and politicians who propose legislation that obviously steals from salaries don’t last long.
The latest important decision has been to introduce a kilometer levy on vehicles from 2018. Yes, you read it correctly – 2018. No more purchase and running taxes but a distance-travelled tax (sorry levy) instead, and (how could it be otherwise) there will be a reduction for vehicles producing less CO2 than their guzzling counterparts. The people I referred to in the first sentence think that, at an estimated guess based on experience, the sending out of nine million bills per month might stretch the capabilities of even a most industrious future administration to breaking point, and that the whole system will ultimately prove to be too expensive anyway, as so often has happened in the past.
Perhaps in 2018 we’re all driving clean vehicles with only their drivers producing CO2, so it would seem a safer bet to just heavily tax breathing and be done with it. Perhaps in 2018 little green men will have taken over the Earth and turned us all into slaves – without vehicles. It’s all possible.
After years of research and debate involving the unions, the government has decided to raise the pensionable age from 65 to 67 with effect from 2017, yes 2017. Most unions are steadfastly against the move, as they see it as their members having to contribute longer for less. Anyway, there’s plenty of time left to iron out the details. Of course, many of those higher up can even now go on as long as they are capable if they wish.
On a lighter note, according to the media in general the western economies are easing out of economic depression (or is it recession?), crawling it’s true and likely to slide backwards at any time, but momentarily making slow upward progress. All except Britain it seems, which is making Prime Minister Brown’s severe headache even worse. Well, he can perhaps still manage a thin smile thinking about the coming utopia of the New World Order (perhaps as late as 2018), in which he imagines his personal problems will be over. How naive can one be?
Oh, and the NASA has found water on the Moon, several bucketfuls I’m told. So the future seems a little brighter for those of us who will have to survive on our sister body while raping it of its natural resources or when the planet becomes inhabitable for humans or both – hopefully after 2018.
I’m sure there are those who, in their craziness, see man’s situation in 2018 clearly, but let’s all agree to do our best to ensure that their dreams don’t become our nightmare reality.

Sand sculptures

As I’ve mentioned before, official comments on the ideas of those who don’t accept official explanations are too often limited to personal abuse and/or condescending rhetoric. This morning I read in our local newspaper (government propaganda journal) a report by an official of some UN climate body saying that those who didn’t acknowledge man-made global warming can obtain from him a bucket of sand so they can carry it around and stick their heads in it whenever necessary. He obviously carries around a heavily used one himself; the only difference is that he’s being forced to stick his head into his.
There was another article (yes, the trillionth) by some clot saying that it couldn’t understand why intelligent people in the healthcare business wouldn’t take the swine flu vaccines. The argument is that they are a danger to others and should be ashamed. No, the government should be ashamed for promoting and spreading these largely untested, poisonous concoctions under false pretenses, which while not even guaranteeing prevention, can cause severe disorders themselves. Of course, I have my head in the sand now so you won’t hear this.
It used to be considered beneficial to consider all sides of any argument before making (especially important) decisions but this no longer seems to apply to governments and their advisers. This denial reeks of hidden agendas and cannot fail to fire the imagination of those outsiders who, luckily, can still think intelligently.
My guess is that governments no longer care whether or not their spokesmen appear as cretins, because their plans are proceeding exceedingly well anyway, thank you very much, and there’s not a damned thing we sand people can do about it. Well perhaps not, though some are trying their best.
I want to be President of the European Union. Well, I mean, if Tony Blair is a possible candidate why can’t I be? Do I have your vote? Of course, it probably won’t mean much but it would make a point.

Endgame

When they come I’ll still be here
sitting in my favorite chair.
Masked, with weapons I’ve no doubt,
muted brains that no more care
ravaged by the demon clan,
remnants of the age of man.

Nature’s treasures gone to waste
torn and twisted show their might,
stripped their skin of gentleness,
blinded to eternal night.
Lost they stagger, rise and fall
following the banner’s call.

Grayness in the branches hangs.
Screeching rain unseen by eyes
pierces with its talons sharp
heeding not the pleading cries.
Chaos treads where once was peace.
Will this madness never cease?

Planning for tomorrow

Updated

9th November 2009 – Speaking at a scientific conference entitled “Falling Walls”, Angela Merkel told reporters:
“The most important thing, when attempting to overcome barriers, is: Are the nation states ready and willing to give competencies over to multilateral organizations, no matter what it costs?”

So, as Germany celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago another sort of wall is going up between the elite and the rest of humanity as the science/industrial complex and its minions continue to expand and increase their influence over world affairs.
Of course, we all build walls between ourselves and others in the psychological sense, to protect our ego from disillusionment and attack. On other levels, groups of similar persuasion build walls for the same reason and countries guard their boundaries. The source of this segregation lies, therefore, in the heart of each of us even though we prefer to point the finger of guilt at others. The problems in man’s world are caused by selfishness and greed which result in an unequal distribution of natural and artificial resources and a continuing lack of real support to developing nations in raising economic and social standards.
If the proposed World Government of the elite does reach fruition, to be sustainable it will undoubtedly need to bring in more suppression of civil liberties and intervene even more in the daily lives of the population. Although the elite undoubtedly see such a world as a utopian dream, from the point of view of the lower echelons it is difficult to see such a system becoming anything other than an oppressive dictatorship and one that will be harder to correct than any other in history because this time there will be no outside assistance available. The ability of such a regime to control significant unrest would seem to be inversely proportional to the size of the world’s population, estimated at 9 billion by 2040. This is perhaps the reason why so much is heard from the elite concerning the necessity to reduce the world’s population – to save the planet of course.

2012

The film 2012, which concerns the end of the world as forecast by the Mayans, has caused somewhat of a stir. So much, in fact, that the NASA has felt it necessary to reassure us by presenting us with the “facts” and telling us that the Mayans had just forgotten to extend their calendar past 2012, which is rather inconsiderate of them considering the possible repercussions. Perhaps they were really describing, symbolically, the turmoil resulting from the installation of a World Government. Time will tell.

Swine Flu update

During another part of the discussion on whether or not the vaccine should be made mandatory for health workers and school children, Lone Simonsen, Research Professor and Research Director at the Department of Global Health, George Washington University, suggests creating an artificial scarcity in order to ramp up demand for the vaccine.
“I think what would work better would be to say that there was a shortage and people tend to buy more of something that’s in demand. (Laughter.) We saw that — there was one season where, really, people lined up all night to get a flu shot.” Simonsen says, much to the amusement of the other attendees at the symposium.
See here for more official reactions

The authorities in Europe are really pushing the vaccine now and attacking those on the internet who are warning people of dangerous side effects and revealing the truths behind vaccination. If the same authorities had done this in the first place there wouldn’t be such a ruckus. The question still being unanswered is why the WHO took the flu epidemic to the pandemic level when there was no reason to do so and why there has been so much propaganda concerning this flu when it is no worse than any other flu outbreak. The people are waking up to possible explanations.

Latest news from America:

‘Miscarriage reports from pregnant women who have taken the H1N1 swine flu vaccine are starting to pour in from all over the nation. Vaccines and pregnancy simply do not mix safely. In fact, the package inserts for the swine flu vaccines actually say that the safety of these vaccines for pregnant women has not been established’
Full report can be found here