Humanity is at a cross roads, having to decide whether to continue to allow Big Business to manage our nutrition and health spend, or to install some non industry regulators, charged to use independence and transparency to install some common sense rules.
But then as an individual, why would you wait? What the In-Sync story provides is a chance to step aside and make a few changes to your day, thereby ensuring much greater potential for yourself and those close to you.
In order to refocus our minds, let us first look at some facts that are often ignored or denied:
• One in ten and rising are the number of children born with a permanent life changing disability.
• One in five and rising, is the number of children that have learning difficulties that require additional resources in the form of special help at school.
• 7 out of 10 people lucky enough to retire, are significantly disabled.
• The more we spend on health, the worst it gets.
• Increasing allergies and intolerances plus invented diseases treated with psychotic drugs, are endemic and further deplete friends, family and those affected.
• Transient lifestyles and dysfunctional parents have effectively blocked the intergenerational flow of common sense life skills, which has served humanity ever since year dot.
• Water supplies and even the oceans are becoming increasingly polluted with excreted pharmaceuticals and food industry chemicals.
• It is now self evident that we cannot continue to ignore nutrition. We do indeed become what we eat.
• There is a limit to the number of hospitals, borstals, prisons and asylums that intelligent people will fund.
As we slide down this slippery slope, we become less and less capable of realising what is actually going on. Multinational companies using lobbyists armed with stories pending doom, generate a feeling of fear, paralyzing the common sense that would normally provide a way through this morass.
There is a Solution
Using a combination of observing what works well with animals, backed up by evidence of people living in areas richly supplied with minerals, and finally confirmed by experience over 10 years of supplementing, the author points out:
• Firstly, just how important multi minerals and trace elements are to our holistic well being.
• Secondly, that there is a country mile between clinical or visible symptoms of a mineral deficiency and the amount needed to support a truly productive life.
• Thirdly, humanity is hugely more deficient than currently acknowledged by medicine or science.
• Fourthly, the recommended daily allowances (FDA) set 70 years ago is tragically inadequate.
• Consequently mineral supplementing is totally necessary at least for the medium term.
While these findings are the result of thinking Global, for you and your offspring, we urge you to act Local. Make a few small changes amongst you and your family, after all, like charity, change is best begun at home.
Sunday, 31 October 2010
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Pakistan Floods - An ineffitable result of no land ownership
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| Mr T |
I have spent a career working in five countries, originally trained in NZ as a Agricultural Consultant. One of the countries I worked in was Iran. The problem goes back to a simple fact that land in many Islamic countries such as Pakistan, is publicly owned, title has not been granted. The result of this is that land is raped, not nurtured, young men have nothing to look forward to and get easily diverted away from caring. Trees have been cut down to feed roaming flocks of sheep and goats, the soil has nothing to help it cling to the hills, Acid rain had melted the organic matter which can glue the soil in place.When this is understood, the answers become self evident. Interestingly it does not cost a lot to grant title using aerial photos nor does it cost much to plant trees. But then corruption diverts the the people in power and they show little interest in such a simple solution.
Wednesday, 13 October 2010
Democracy Under Attack - Repowering the Single Vote
Never before has Democracy been under such a serious assault. Large Corporations, NGO's and proffessional Organisations (such as lawyers, doctors and various Regulating Bodies with other interest groups), have discovered the effective power of employing Lobbyists to push their case. The chance that any of these ambitions are anything other than an attempt to manipulate Politicians and Beaurocrates in favour of their aims, is very unlikely.
How does the Voter feel with all this going on? Not to put to fine a slant on it, "Gutted" would be a good description of the feeling of having been ripped over.
There might be a very simple way to swing the pendulum back in favour of the voter. There have been some attempts in the past (UK's YouGov) but these have been more like blogs. They take too long to interact with and do not provide quick feedback, thereby do not quickly reward the voter for his input.
Set up a web site with current issues grouped by about 7 interest groups. Under each of these a series of sliding horizontal graphs representing Yes / No / Don't Know to each of a series of un-ambiguous questions. Obviously each user would have to log in with full name, DOB and on other selected question. The programme would take note of the IP address of the loggers computer and block it from more than one response in say 5 hours, to avoid multiple clicks.
I predict that after a few months, the Politicians will be checking this site before embarking on new policies.
How does the Voter feel with all this going on? Not to put to fine a slant on it, "Gutted" would be a good description of the feeling of having been ripped over.
There might be a very simple way to swing the pendulum back in favour of the voter. There have been some attempts in the past (UK's YouGov) but these have been more like blogs. They take too long to interact with and do not provide quick feedback, thereby do not quickly reward the voter for his input.
Set up a web site with current issues grouped by about 7 interest groups. Under each of these a series of sliding horizontal graphs representing Yes / No / Don't Know to each of a series of un-ambiguous questions. Obviously each user would have to log in with full name, DOB and on other selected question. The programme would take note of the IP address of the loggers computer and block it from more than one response in say 5 hours, to avoid multiple clicks.
I predict that after a few months, the Politicians will be checking this site before embarking on new policies.
Murray Darling Water Restrictions
One has difficulty accepting the gloomy predictions of job losses, by restricting water extraction from this river network when cconsiderable amounts of rice (and cotton) are being grown. This is a crop(s) that has to live in water for most of its growth cycle. This is not water smart in any sense of the word, after all Australia is the driest continent in the world, last time I heard.
All the water saved from this one change will go a long way towards recharging the Curong, where it will provide jobs of a different sort. It is called bending with the wind. Some people will have to leave dry inland areas and move to coastal areas. Cannot be all bad.
Is it not like Fishers, who gripe about increased "no take" areas to allow regeneration of the oceans fish population. Last calculation I read was that fish caught by commercial fishers, earned them individually about $1 each fish, and fish caught by recreation fishers, earned about $99 each to the whole community (accommodation, meals, retail, boat hire etc)
All the water saved from this one change will go a long way towards recharging the Curong, where it will provide jobs of a different sort. It is called bending with the wind. Some people will have to leave dry inland areas and move to coastal areas. Cannot be all bad.
Is it not like Fishers, who gripe about increased "no take" areas to allow regeneration of the oceans fish population. Last calculation I read was that fish caught by commercial fishers, earned them individually about $1 each fish, and fish caught by recreation fishers, earned about $99 each to the whole community (accommodation, meals, retail, boat hire etc)
Monday, 11 October 2010
GM Salmon Email sent to Food and Drug Association in the USA
I don’t really know where to start. Perhaps to say how difficult it must be for you guys in the Food and Drug Authority (FDA) to do your jobs, being as you are situated between a rock and a hard place, devilled if you do and damned if you don’t. Greed on one side and common sense on the other. Tough choice for people who have been eating degraded food for 70 years.
I write this to let you know that there are still people in the world who are very aware of the appalling effect that the current lack of food nutrition rules and regulations, is having on humanity. You guys are living evidence.
Lets have a quick look at what has happened over the last 50 to 70 years. Food rules or food safety has been a factor of micro-biologists confirming that there were no micro-organisms present in the tested food. Period. This is actually only one very small part of food being good for us. Limiting safety to this area alone, has lead to not just the acceptance of, but promotion of, trans-fat (now banned in a growing number of countries), GM (banned in all of the EU) degrated vegetable oils and food stripped of any useful content. It has also lead to the world wide sale of food inbrediants like machined soy, not fermented, tasteless and sold still loaded with pseudo oestrogens.
Imagine it if you still can: 70 years of food marketing without controls on foods nutritional value. Look what the Bankers did in about seven years with out controls.
Nothing to worry about you say? Under your watch: When plants are genetically modified (GM) to give them resistance to insect attack, scientists are inserting the common bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into the genome. As the plant grows this Bt gene or primary toxin called Cry1Ab, is replicated in every cell including the pollen. Trials have shown this insecticide to have sub lethal toxicity effects, interfering with the bees feeding efficiency and navigational skills. Looking at the big picture, this likelihood is enhanced, when the incidence of CCD and GM plantings, appear to be geographically related. (Just who forgot to imagine that this might happen?
And now you have or are about to, to allow GM Salmon onto the market without any labeling to allow the consumer to choose. From this minute, I will no longer eat Salmon of any description. May God rest your souls, for as sure as Hell, no one else will.
terry@in-syncminerals.com
I write this to let you know that there are still people in the world who are very aware of the appalling effect that the current lack of food nutrition rules and regulations, is having on humanity. You guys are living evidence.
Lets have a quick look at what has happened over the last 50 to 70 years. Food rules or food safety has been a factor of micro-biologists confirming that there were no micro-organisms present in the tested food. Period. This is actually only one very small part of food being good for us. Limiting safety to this area alone, has lead to not just the acceptance of, but promotion of, trans-fat (now banned in a growing number of countries), GM (banned in all of the EU) degrated vegetable oils and food stripped of any useful content. It has also lead to the world wide sale of food inbrediants like machined soy, not fermented, tasteless and sold still loaded with pseudo oestrogens.
Imagine it if you still can: 70 years of food marketing without controls on foods nutritional value. Look what the Bankers did in about seven years with out controls.
Nothing to worry about you say? Under your watch: When plants are genetically modified (GM) to give them resistance to insect attack, scientists are inserting the common bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis into the genome. As the plant grows this Bt gene or primary toxin called Cry1Ab, is replicated in every cell including the pollen. Trials have shown this insecticide to have sub lethal toxicity effects, interfering with the bees feeding efficiency and navigational skills. Looking at the big picture, this likelihood is enhanced, when the incidence of CCD and GM plantings, appear to be geographically related. (Just who forgot to imagine that this might happen?
And now you have or are about to, to allow GM Salmon onto the market without any labeling to allow the consumer to choose. From this minute, I will no longer eat Salmon of any description. May God rest your souls, for as sure as Hell, no one else will.
terry@in-syncminerals.com
Saturday, 9 October 2010
Emission Trading Revisited
For the purposes of this discussion, let us accept that climate change is a fact and that it is desirable that wealthy countries need to assist our wonderful planet recover from a prolonged period of indifference.
First it is often forgotten that it is not the roll of Governments to pick winners. Politicians or those that advise them, rarely have the appropriate experience or skills. Nor are these people constrained by the threat of business failure, as it is not their money that their decisions put at risk.
Second, it is 101 in human nature that all people, given half a reasonable chance, wish to succeed in life. It is built into their DNA. Because of this natural desire, the really successful private sector managers will act to remove any disincentives facing their employees, rather than bother with instigating incentive schemes. Like poorly conceived laws, incentive schemes are expensive, hard to administer and difficult to police.
Thirdly, the law of supply and demand, has worked extremely well in the past and there is no reason to think, that it wont in the future. It should be given a chance to work with carbon sequestering and offsetting.
People of the world want action! Some have already given up waiting and have made a start on their own. Examples of this, particularly amongst those making a living off the land, are widespread. It is unbelievable that Governments might well be TOTALLY LEFT BEHIND as citizens get on with their own solutions, based on common sense and a shared concern for the environment.
May I refer you to “Decision 2010” as published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday 28th July 2010. Australian of the Year 2007 Professor Tim Flannery commented on a farmer Michael Inwood, who had converted his farming techniques on his Bathurst property, to be more sustainable and had even converted his Ute to solar power, using it to carry out “zero kill” cultivation techniques. This in his mind, ensured that the vital carbon held in the soil was retained. In turn, this improved his carbon footprint and soil integrity remained for subsequent use. In the case of carbon trading, Mr Inwood represents, at least in part, both the demand and the supply. However, the supplier of solar panels that Mr Inwood fitted to his Ute, is also a supplier, meeting a demand.
It is exactly this sort of happening, that suggests that there already exists a strong demand from people (over 90 percent) wanting to improve their carbon footprint. They represent a largely unfulfilled demand and under the proven law of supply and demand, where there is demand, supply should follow. Perceived reticence amongst some citizens, may simply be a factor of credibility. Is this reticence because people cannot see any transparent and reliable structure to commit to and are scared that contributions, will either go into a Government’s general Spend Bin, or Big Business. I suggest that it is.
Action
Various politicians are talking about setting a price on carbon. This seems to imply that Government knows better than the market, as to what people are prepared to pay or do. Our Leaders plan to set targets forcing companies to achieve. Is this really needed? Is there not enough demand to force change? I suggest that if that is the case, then lets cross that bridge, if we need to. First we could remove the disincentives to a free flow of supply and demand by building an Emissions Trading Scheme, with clear rules and verifiable certification of transactions. In other words, delay the taxing of carbon and let us see what the market can do first. At least it will give time for the fuzzy heads to clear and possible consensus to be reached.
The track record of Big Business indicates a very narrow focus on a single bottom line. The time has arrived when this approach is unacceptable, unless of course for these company executives who plan to live on another planet. However more and more companies are being forced to change their approach, driven by customer demand. The presence of a well managed and transparent ETS Desk, will very likely remove peoples fear that ‘Big Business” will be the only ones to gain.
The primary object of such an ETS will be to increase the Supply of carbon credits, at the minimum cost to the community. As there is no point in re-inventing the wheel, it would make sense for Government to take a look at the New Zealand’s Governments example, when setting up the structure and rules for an Emissions Trading Mechanism.
The first increase in supply and demand is likely to be on the supply side and may be the planting of trees and discouragement of the cutting or clearing of currently treed areas. Forestry has very important advantages over other forms of carbon reduction.
They cost relatively little to establish both from a carbon capital cost and monetary capital cost.
They remove carbon from the atmosphere whereas most other Green schemes only reduce the rate of carbon emission.
Forestry is not restricted to big business, allowing Joe Citizen to get involved. This has a positive effect on rural communities.
Trees emit vast quantities of water vapor into the atmosphere, which in turn moderates the immediate climate, allowing other plants to be established, desertification to be restrained and the quality of life to be enhanced.
Planted areas are easy to identify using Google Maps and land titles. This makes them easy and less expensive to verify and administer (Job of the ETS Administrators).
They offer huge work opportunities, in growing the seedlings, planting and adding value with pruning.
The second step is to put in place a Certification mechanism whereby companies are able to advertise the Green credentials of any given product or even service that they offer. Whether it is an energy supply company or a supplier of butter, an airline or supplier of Flat Screen Televisions, the customer wants to know how much their purchase is going to damage the environment. At the moment they don’t know, making it nigh on impossible to alter life choices in favor of the planet.
This is just doing the simple things well and as mentioned above, it removes disincentives. A good example of this at work, are the new intelligent power meters that allow householders to identify the more expensive power usage appliances. Other examples might be a company which designs a new engine that is energy efficient to both build and run. The company gets its reward as people will buy it, simply because it is less expensive. If another company builds a new wind farm, they can sell power with Government Certification as to its carbon footprint.
Summary
The concept of market forces, determining the balance of supply and demand, is a proven tool of a modern democracy. This is especially true where the movement of goods that are vital to society, are managed with a set of rules that offer both transparency and fairness. This would allow the citizens of the world to participate and not just BIG BUSINESS as is usually the case.
This structure is suggested to be most appropriate, at least in the first instance, for the reduction of climate warming gases. Should more impetus be required in the form of a carbon tax, then it is always an option.
First it is often forgotten that it is not the roll of Governments to pick winners. Politicians or those that advise them, rarely have the appropriate experience or skills. Nor are these people constrained by the threat of business failure, as it is not their money that their decisions put at risk.
Second, it is 101 in human nature that all people, given half a reasonable chance, wish to succeed in life. It is built into their DNA. Because of this natural desire, the really successful private sector managers will act to remove any disincentives facing their employees, rather than bother with instigating incentive schemes. Like poorly conceived laws, incentive schemes are expensive, hard to administer and difficult to police.
Thirdly, the law of supply and demand, has worked extremely well in the past and there is no reason to think, that it wont in the future. It should be given a chance to work with carbon sequestering and offsetting.
People of the world want action! Some have already given up waiting and have made a start on their own. Examples of this, particularly amongst those making a living off the land, are widespread. It is unbelievable that Governments might well be TOTALLY LEFT BEHIND as citizens get on with their own solutions, based on common sense and a shared concern for the environment.
May I refer you to “Decision 2010” as published in the Sydney Morning Herald on Wednesday 28th July 2010. Australian of the Year 2007 Professor Tim Flannery commented on a farmer Michael Inwood, who had converted his farming techniques on his Bathurst property, to be more sustainable and had even converted his Ute to solar power, using it to carry out “zero kill” cultivation techniques. This in his mind, ensured that the vital carbon held in the soil was retained. In turn, this improved his carbon footprint and soil integrity remained for subsequent use. In the case of carbon trading, Mr Inwood represents, at least in part, both the demand and the supply. However, the supplier of solar panels that Mr Inwood fitted to his Ute, is also a supplier, meeting a demand.
It is exactly this sort of happening, that suggests that there already exists a strong demand from people (over 90 percent) wanting to improve their carbon footprint. They represent a largely unfulfilled demand and under the proven law of supply and demand, where there is demand, supply should follow. Perceived reticence amongst some citizens, may simply be a factor of credibility. Is this reticence because people cannot see any transparent and reliable structure to commit to and are scared that contributions, will either go into a Government’s general Spend Bin, or Big Business. I suggest that it is.
Action
Various politicians are talking about setting a price on carbon. This seems to imply that Government knows better than the market, as to what people are prepared to pay or do. Our Leaders plan to set targets forcing companies to achieve. Is this really needed? Is there not enough demand to force change? I suggest that if that is the case, then lets cross that bridge, if we need to. First we could remove the disincentives to a free flow of supply and demand by building an Emissions Trading Scheme, with clear rules and verifiable certification of transactions. In other words, delay the taxing of carbon and let us see what the market can do first. At least it will give time for the fuzzy heads to clear and possible consensus to be reached.
The track record of Big Business indicates a very narrow focus on a single bottom line. The time has arrived when this approach is unacceptable, unless of course for these company executives who plan to live on another planet. However more and more companies are being forced to change their approach, driven by customer demand. The presence of a well managed and transparent ETS Desk, will very likely remove peoples fear that ‘Big Business” will be the only ones to gain.
The primary object of such an ETS will be to increase the Supply of carbon credits, at the minimum cost to the community. As there is no point in re-inventing the wheel, it would make sense for Government to take a look at the New Zealand’s Governments example, when setting up the structure and rules for an Emissions Trading Mechanism.
The first increase in supply and demand is likely to be on the supply side and may be the planting of trees and discouragement of the cutting or clearing of currently treed areas. Forestry has very important advantages over other forms of carbon reduction.
They cost relatively little to establish both from a carbon capital cost and monetary capital cost.
They remove carbon from the atmosphere whereas most other Green schemes only reduce the rate of carbon emission.
Forestry is not restricted to big business, allowing Joe Citizen to get involved. This has a positive effect on rural communities.
Trees emit vast quantities of water vapor into the atmosphere, which in turn moderates the immediate climate, allowing other plants to be established, desertification to be restrained and the quality of life to be enhanced.
Planted areas are easy to identify using Google Maps and land titles. This makes them easy and less expensive to verify and administer (Job of the ETS Administrators).
They offer huge work opportunities, in growing the seedlings, planting and adding value with pruning.
The second step is to put in place a Certification mechanism whereby companies are able to advertise the Green credentials of any given product or even service that they offer. Whether it is an energy supply company or a supplier of butter, an airline or supplier of Flat Screen Televisions, the customer wants to know how much their purchase is going to damage the environment. At the moment they don’t know, making it nigh on impossible to alter life choices in favor of the planet.
This is just doing the simple things well and as mentioned above, it removes disincentives. A good example of this at work, are the new intelligent power meters that allow householders to identify the more expensive power usage appliances. Other examples might be a company which designs a new engine that is energy efficient to both build and run. The company gets its reward as people will buy it, simply because it is less expensive. If another company builds a new wind farm, they can sell power with Government Certification as to its carbon footprint.
Summary
The concept of market forces, determining the balance of supply and demand, is a proven tool of a modern democracy. This is especially true where the movement of goods that are vital to society, are managed with a set of rules that offer both transparency and fairness. This would allow the citizens of the world to participate and not just BIG BUSINESS as is usually the case.
This structure is suggested to be most appropriate, at least in the first instance, for the reduction of climate warming gases. Should more impetus be required in the form of a carbon tax, then it is always an option.
You Are Living Short of Minerals - The Balance of Evidence Says so...
Point One: When excess carbon meets water in the atmosphere, it converts to carbolic acid. This is commonly referred to as acid rain. This acid rain leaches minerals do that they get washed below the root zone, out of reach of the roots of plants and trees. This means that our shallow rooted crops especially, are less mineralised
Point Two: Acidic fertilizers made from petrochemicals adds to this washing away of minerals. It melts the organic matter that stores the nutrients ready for plant uptake.
Point Three: Not many years ago, mineralised salt was one of the few and certainly one of the most effective, enhancers of food taste. Secondly before refrigeration, it was widely used to preserve food. Naturally dried sea salt particularly, contains all the minerals for life and well being. Not any more. Now it is just sodium chloride with added chemicals and so has been converted from a vital booster of health, to a cause of sickness.
Point Four: Sugar has had the same commercial degradation. Instead of it being a valuable food it is now a health threat, because the vital minerals have been removed and sold to livestock farmers. Pure sucrose is not a food, it is a death sentence waiting to strike.
Point Five: Grain, be it bread, pasta or rice, is basically a seed and it contains all the nutrients for new life. The problem is that any modern refining machine worth its salt, readily removes these nutritionally useful bits, leaving white cellulose. No one was paying for these bits to be left in the flour and the domestic animal farmer, including feed lot managers, pay good money for the bran, the hulls etc. When these livestock farmers get faster growing healthy animals that did not need expensive drugs etc, their bottom line was looking positively artistic.
Point Six: Nature releases minerals and makes them available to plants, using the power of trillions of micro-organisms. These anaerobic (need oxygen) bugs must live near the top of the soil in order to breath and multiply. They require organic matter in which to thrive. Modern ploughs are too efficient at inverting this material deep into the soil profile where it is of little use. These mineral releasing bugs do not thrive and so do not release minerals at near the level that nature intended.
Dont mess with this life experience - Your next one could be 100's of years away!
Point Two: Acidic fertilizers made from petrochemicals adds to this washing away of minerals. It melts the organic matter that stores the nutrients ready for plant uptake.
Point Three: Not many years ago, mineralised salt was one of the few and certainly one of the most effective, enhancers of food taste. Secondly before refrigeration, it was widely used to preserve food. Naturally dried sea salt particularly, contains all the minerals for life and well being. Not any more. Now it is just sodium chloride with added chemicals and so has been converted from a vital booster of health, to a cause of sickness.
Point Four: Sugar has had the same commercial degradation. Instead of it being a valuable food it is now a health threat, because the vital minerals have been removed and sold to livestock farmers. Pure sucrose is not a food, it is a death sentence waiting to strike.
Point Five: Grain, be it bread, pasta or rice, is basically a seed and it contains all the nutrients for new life. The problem is that any modern refining machine worth its salt, readily removes these nutritionally useful bits, leaving white cellulose. No one was paying for these bits to be left in the flour and the domestic animal farmer, including feed lot managers, pay good money for the bran, the hulls etc. When these livestock farmers get faster growing healthy animals that did not need expensive drugs etc, their bottom line was looking positively artistic.
Point Six: Nature releases minerals and makes them available to plants, using the power of trillions of micro-organisms. These anaerobic (need oxygen) bugs must live near the top of the soil in order to breath and multiply. They require organic matter in which to thrive. Modern ploughs are too efficient at inverting this material deep into the soil profile where it is of little use. These mineral releasing bugs do not thrive and so do not release minerals at near the level that nature intended.
Dont mess with this life experience - Your next one could be 100's of years away!
How to Cut Government Expenditure without significant Job Losses
1. Reduce the capital spend on new plant by running existing items of plant for 3 shifts a day – More jobs, less capital. . This includes everything from bulldozers, to mail sorting equipment, to hospital equipment such as x-ray and ultra sound scanners.
2. Apply VAT to processed food or more specifically non-whole foods or which contain non-whole ingredients, including salt without its minerals, sugar with out its supportive nutrients and flour that has been stripped of its health providing nutrients. Doing this, will have the effect of reducing the cost and incidence of treating disease, policing, absenteeism, schooling and prisons. It will also be a huge boost to local production of whole food such as fruit and vegetables. It is easily administered and enforced.
3. Reduce the cost of health by making it compulsory for taxpayer supported parents to attend nutrition and life skills classes – shades of the hugely effective policy carried out during WWII.
4. Give 10 month notice that their will be no more automatic rights to benefits for parents of new born children – Abortion, adoption and family support are alternatives to using contraceptives. Paying for single mothers who have little parenting skills or work experience, who are breeding a new generation of similar type children, who are likely to populate council houses if female and prisons if male, will kill this country as sure as God made little green apples. A massive sociological mistake.
5. Balancing rights with responsibility, ask all people on full time benefits to submit DNA samples or biological identification (same as for passports). No compliance, no benefits. If it is good enough for working immigrants like myself, it is good enough for them. If they have nothing to hide they will not mind. This will enable computer checking for double dipping. And reduce the cost of policing and prisons. In the USA 85% of crime is carried out by people on benefits and raised by solo parents. Do your Math as they say over there.
6. It is completely unacceptable that Public Servants, who enjoy a much higher level of job security and offer a much lower level of true to life business experience, are paid higher than the private sector workers. Start with a 15% drop in remuneration and then freeze pay rates until they become appropriated to the private sector. A real chance for the public sector to regain public acceptability, by having a higher level of transparency. It is not good enough to say that that all jobs are advertised for all. What is the churn rate of private and public sector workers entering the public service. Public servants should be seen to be public, not closed shop.
7. If the number of public servants has to be reduced, then this is a golden opportunity to improve efficiency by off loading the least productive ones. In order to avoid sacking productive people, they need to be accurately identified. There is no group of people more likely to be able to assist with this selection, than those who work under them. An confidential efficiency survey asking all public servants/workers to make suggestions as to where waste can be avoided and at the same time rating their bosses as being good at their job, would be both be democratic and team building. This is not a new process. It is being done regularly overseas.
8. Having recently travelled by car from Scotland to the South West, it is apparent that vast areas of this country would be much better growing trees (global warming) as it was many years ago when humans cut and burnt them. There is an army of unemployed people who should be put to work establishing the nurseries of new tree stock, and then planting out the least productive areas of the UK. During the off season they can prune the young trees to ensure added value when mature. A military type of environment could be established in camps (a sort of green army training) to give many of these people a taste of discipline, a purpose to life and meals like that they have probably not experienced for some time, if ever.
Health is a major cost to the economy, both in a positive and negative way. It effects productivity, absenteeism and the actual cost of treating disease and caring for malformed or incapacitated people. Up until now, the tax payer has continued to pour vast sums into the reactionary, bottom of the cliff cess pit of disease, diagnosis, drugs and surgery. The ineffectiveness of this ‘’fire brigade’’ approach is well demonstrated by how little progress is ever made, even when massive increases of expenditure are applied.
9. In order to reduce the cost of health, prisons and policing, instigate a ban on the manufacture and importation of hydronated oils (transfats). These modified oils, widely used by the multi national fast food industry, already face bans in California, New York State and I think the city of Philadelphia, locations in the country where this food disaster was invented. The reason why they have been banned is readily researched.
10. Instigate some core research into lifestyle choices and unusual exposures of those people who have died earlier than normally expected. Why this has not been done or the results made public, one can only guess. Once any trends are identified, make the information public, so that people become empowered to make their own choices. If it is good enough for multi national pharmaceutical companies to advertise research on toxic disease remedies before being released for use in humans, then it is fine to release indicator stats on life style choices and indeed professions. This gives power to the people who are paying.
11. Instigate core research into comparative benefits of various supplements. This would have to be carried out by none medical staff, to avoid contamination by professionals /people who are currently rely on disease treatment to make a living. Blood tests are now well able to provide indicators of immune well being (haemoglobin, CD4 immune strength, blood sugar, cholesterol, etc etc.) and would be more than adequate to provide ‘’proof of purpose’’ for further research, as well as indicators for the poor tax payers.
12. Discourage or Stop public Servants from employing consultants to tell them what to do. Some day soon the taxpayer is going to realise how wrong it is to pay top salaries to Government officials who then employ the private sector firms, to tell them how to do the job, they are paid to do. They will begin to suspect incompetence. If the civil servant cannot do the job, resign.
13. Reduce the cost of the war against terrorism, by changing the way that the war is being fought. Bombers, rockets, tanks will never win against people who can live in a different cave every night. The only people benefiting from this ineffective high tech war are the top executives of BEA and Boeing etc. Unless the army are instructed to live with the citizens and families of Afghanistan, in their villages, share their concerns and provide stability, then outcome will be the same as it was in Vietnam. The soldiers will then gain the support of the people, who will work with them. Security will be increased and with that the establishment of services and trade. Otherwise it will be Vietnam all over again. Like the streets of Britain, the Bobbies are only effective when on the beat, talking to parents and the youth of today. This is where the problems begin and where they must be stopped.
2. Apply VAT to processed food or more specifically non-whole foods or which contain non-whole ingredients, including salt without its minerals, sugar with out its supportive nutrients and flour that has been stripped of its health providing nutrients. Doing this, will have the effect of reducing the cost and incidence of treating disease, policing, absenteeism, schooling and prisons. It will also be a huge boost to local production of whole food such as fruit and vegetables. It is easily administered and enforced.
3. Reduce the cost of health by making it compulsory for taxpayer supported parents to attend nutrition and life skills classes – shades of the hugely effective policy carried out during WWII.
4. Give 10 month notice that their will be no more automatic rights to benefits for parents of new born children – Abortion, adoption and family support are alternatives to using contraceptives. Paying for single mothers who have little parenting skills or work experience, who are breeding a new generation of similar type children, who are likely to populate council houses if female and prisons if male, will kill this country as sure as God made little green apples. A massive sociological mistake.
5. Balancing rights with responsibility, ask all people on full time benefits to submit DNA samples or biological identification (same as for passports). No compliance, no benefits. If it is good enough for working immigrants like myself, it is good enough for them. If they have nothing to hide they will not mind. This will enable computer checking for double dipping. And reduce the cost of policing and prisons. In the USA 85% of crime is carried out by people on benefits and raised by solo parents. Do your Math as they say over there.
6. It is completely unacceptable that Public Servants, who enjoy a much higher level of job security and offer a much lower level of true to life business experience, are paid higher than the private sector workers. Start with a 15% drop in remuneration and then freeze pay rates until they become appropriated to the private sector. A real chance for the public sector to regain public acceptability, by having a higher level of transparency. It is not good enough to say that that all jobs are advertised for all. What is the churn rate of private and public sector workers entering the public service. Public servants should be seen to be public, not closed shop.
7. If the number of public servants has to be reduced, then this is a golden opportunity to improve efficiency by off loading the least productive ones. In order to avoid sacking productive people, they need to be accurately identified. There is no group of people more likely to be able to assist with this selection, than those who work under them. An confidential efficiency survey asking all public servants/workers to make suggestions as to where waste can be avoided and at the same time rating their bosses as being good at their job, would be both be democratic and team building. This is not a new process. It is being done regularly overseas.
8. Having recently travelled by car from Scotland to the South West, it is apparent that vast areas of this country would be much better growing trees (global warming) as it was many years ago when humans cut and burnt them. There is an army of unemployed people who should be put to work establishing the nurseries of new tree stock, and then planting out the least productive areas of the UK. During the off season they can prune the young trees to ensure added value when mature. A military type of environment could be established in camps (a sort of green army training) to give many of these people a taste of discipline, a purpose to life and meals like that they have probably not experienced for some time, if ever.
Health is a major cost to the economy, both in a positive and negative way. It effects productivity, absenteeism and the actual cost of treating disease and caring for malformed or incapacitated people. Up until now, the tax payer has continued to pour vast sums into the reactionary, bottom of the cliff cess pit of disease, diagnosis, drugs and surgery. The ineffectiveness of this ‘’fire brigade’’ approach is well demonstrated by how little progress is ever made, even when massive increases of expenditure are applied.
9. In order to reduce the cost of health, prisons and policing, instigate a ban on the manufacture and importation of hydronated oils (transfats). These modified oils, widely used by the multi national fast food industry, already face bans in California, New York State and I think the city of Philadelphia, locations in the country where this food disaster was invented. The reason why they have been banned is readily researched.
10. Instigate some core research into lifestyle choices and unusual exposures of those people who have died earlier than normally expected. Why this has not been done or the results made public, one can only guess. Once any trends are identified, make the information public, so that people become empowered to make their own choices. If it is good enough for multi national pharmaceutical companies to advertise research on toxic disease remedies before being released for use in humans, then it is fine to release indicator stats on life style choices and indeed professions. This gives power to the people who are paying.
11. Instigate core research into comparative benefits of various supplements. This would have to be carried out by none medical staff, to avoid contamination by professionals /people who are currently rely on disease treatment to make a living. Blood tests are now well able to provide indicators of immune well being (haemoglobin, CD4 immune strength, blood sugar, cholesterol, etc etc.) and would be more than adequate to provide ‘’proof of purpose’’ for further research, as well as indicators for the poor tax payers.
12. Discourage or Stop public Servants from employing consultants to tell them what to do. Some day soon the taxpayer is going to realise how wrong it is to pay top salaries to Government officials who then employ the private sector firms, to tell them how to do the job, they are paid to do. They will begin to suspect incompetence. If the civil servant cannot do the job, resign.
13. Reduce the cost of the war against terrorism, by changing the way that the war is being fought. Bombers, rockets, tanks will never win against people who can live in a different cave every night. The only people benefiting from this ineffective high tech war are the top executives of BEA and Boeing etc. Unless the army are instructed to live with the citizens and families of Afghanistan, in their villages, share their concerns and provide stability, then outcome will be the same as it was in Vietnam. The soldiers will then gain the support of the people, who will work with them. Security will be increased and with that the establishment of services and trade. Otherwise it will be Vietnam all over again. Like the streets of Britain, the Bobbies are only effective when on the beat, talking to parents and the youth of today. This is where the problems begin and where they must be stopped.
Love the Bugs! Your life depends on them..
Every day, countless advertisements remind us that we are in danger of being overrun by harmful germs. Our only salvation, it would seem, is the vast range of antibacterial cleaners that line our supermarket shelves.
But is there is any scientific research to suggest that using these products to clean surfaces in your home will reduce illness?
Infectious diseases expert Dr Michael Whitby says no 'reputable research' has found that using antibacterial products to clean surfaces – such as bench tops, bathroom sinks and toilets – will cut sickness. (Much of the research into bacteria in the home is funded by the companies that make the antibacterial products.)
"I'm not saying that inanimate surfaces don't spread disease. What I'm saying is that in the close relationship of a household, a lot of it [disease] is spread person to person, and cleaning the inanimate surfaces with an antibacterial cleaner is not going to help," Whitby says.
But is there is any scientific research to suggest that using these products to clean surfaces in your home will reduce illness?
Infectious diseases expert Dr Michael Whitby says no 'reputable research' has found that using antibacterial products to clean surfaces – such as bench tops, bathroom sinks and toilets – will cut sickness. (Much of the research into bacteria in the home is funded by the companies that make the antibacterial products.)
"I'm not saying that inanimate surfaces don't spread disease. What I'm saying is that in the close relationship of a household, a lot of it [disease] is spread person to person, and cleaning the inanimate surfaces with an antibacterial cleaner is not going to help," Whitby says.
Capitalism would be great ...
• In a country, who’s Leaders have been elected free from corporate or union donations to political parties.
• When run by an elected Government free from the seductive corruption of lobbyists.
• Where money is used to facilitate the open and transparent transfer of goods and services, as apposed to gambling on derivatives and risk.
• Where fast food corporations are prohibited from profiting from feeding the population with little more than degraded waste.
• Where the media are not controlled by one or two extremely wealthy individuals using ‘fear’ to sell papers and air time.
• Where the Health Professionals are no longer judge and jury on their own members or potions.
• Where the Elected leaders are allowed full and transparent access to all things Military, to the very highest level.
• Where the laws of the land are not designed and /or implemented by members of a profession that demand to be judge and jury of their own behaviour.
Yes, I am sure it works a treat in those situations. If you can find one.
• When run by an elected Government free from the seductive corruption of lobbyists.
• Where money is used to facilitate the open and transparent transfer of goods and services, as apposed to gambling on derivatives and risk.
• Where fast food corporations are prohibited from profiting from feeding the population with little more than degraded waste.
• Where the media are not controlled by one or two extremely wealthy individuals using ‘fear’ to sell papers and air time.
• Where the Health Professionals are no longer judge and jury on their own members or potions.
• Where the Elected leaders are allowed full and transparent access to all things Military, to the very highest level.
• Where the laws of the land are not designed and /or implemented by members of a profession that demand to be judge and jury of their own behaviour.
Yes, I am sure it works a treat in those situations. If you can find one.
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