The Lesson of 2018

Posted 31st of December 2018 to the Chicago Tribune Newspaper Chicago Illinois USA

I though I should give the NYT a break from Americas view from a far .

So after crunching all the media information from this last year the Skin of Evil award goes to...
The US Right Wing Fundamental Christians.
After President 45 unscrewed their lid and looking over the historical record we find their finger prints on pretty much
Every evil act in us politics this century, and in case you have not noticed they scare the willies out of the media, judiciary,  other Christians and pretty much any democrat still in power. And oh, their prophetic mission statement IS to end the world.

Their Ideas appear from afar to be more satanic than Christian especially when they get involved in politics where no one is safe from their wrath.

Every US war where there is mass carnage of innocents they flood the polls with political cheerleading.
Something unbecoming a Christian Nation?  It is true, look it up, history is full of it and it is why All Americans live in a state of anxiety, fear, injustice and now political insanity.
So that’s the lesson for the year. Just remember, they are a minority. 

Rules for Humanity's Second Chance

Posted 13th December 2018 to the Indicator Planet Money Podcast NPR.

Welcome to the Anthropecene Earth.
There will be a few changes you might need to get use to on a what is now a finite planet.

First you will need a Global Government and all Humans will be its citizens or "Earthers"

If you pay taxes the government will allow you to partake in all the full benefits of society, if not you will be treated a Earthers Second Class and will live under restrictions. If your mind is toxic to your community you will be put into care communities away from the tax payers and voteing.

Religion will become culture heritage along with ethnic status and will be overseen and maintained by regional Cultural Communities to ensure human diversity is maintained.
This will replace war but the military will also be preserved as culture as part of human history.

Politics will be based on the every hundred Earthers get one representative and so on until there are one hundred top leaders  as every one in the system can be accountable by human recognition.

Pass-times and meaning of life: The Earthers will be the caretakers of Human History and Achievement and keeping alive all the past will take up more time than all the wars and crimes of History.

Travel: essential travel only as mass travel is too disruptive and energy intensive,

Waste: everything will be reused and will be carefully designed to be so. in everything will be cyclical like the closed system nature uses.

Wealth: there will be rewards for the best Earthers but within reasonable margins as stock piling of wealth by individuals will be seen as toxic behaviour. Travel will be a reward.

Comfort and Happiness: Your tax will will cover all your needs from the State and if you are not able to be happy or comfortable natural medications will be supplied as well as euthanasia services as a last resort.

Population Cap: there will be an ultimate number of humans that will be too excessive for the planet to cope with so reproduction will have to comply to physical boundaries as well as cultural ones, as the Anthropocene started in 1945 that will be used as a bench mark.

Failure to comply: if these measures are not taken than Nature will by default deal with Humanity as an outbreak species and if Nature is too slow waring humans will speed natures hand.

  

Public Opinion Journalism Letter

Posted to the 1st December 2018 to the Southland Times (Fairfax Media) Invercargill NZ

Thanks for looking after Southland’s Citizen Journalists with you public opinion   
Just be mindful that their job is to take on subjects house journalists can not touch
or even comment.

It would be nice if you could point out the opaque boundaries of the mainstream media
to volunteers. I have been doing this work since the 1980s and it’s still confusing as to weather we are appreciated
by some publications as some editors are ironically not always great communicators.

So just what are the biggest Issues of our time you want feed back on ?

We await instructions...  to keep our print media in the game.  

Where did it all go wrong ? - NY Times

Posted 11th Dec 2018 to the New York Times Opinion NY NY USA

In 2018 where More people are out of poverty than at any time in Earth’s history why is the future looking so grim ?
Well it all started when wealth became something that could be hoarded. Civilisation really kicked in when society taxed surplus money but it starts failing when obsessive hoarding creeps in. In the USA after the second world war for example in order to hoard money  lying & cheating other nations and frantic union breaking at home caused a push pull scenario for economic & Political refugees that has now reached critical levels all stockpiling of money can reach undreamed levels. No one really knows what the point of it is, but it has trashed our political justice and support structures for it and turned citizens against each other and Opioids have become the route of escape from this troubled uncertain world.

Just a thought, maybe the surviving Journalists of the World might want to look into this?

Michael Barbaro - Climate Even Horizon

Posted 8th December 2018 to the New York Times NY NY USA

Bernie Sanders the uncrowned People’s President has spelt out what we need to do to save us all from ourselves and our planet when the Trump Show leaves Washington  perhaps your own Michael Barbaro could give us some Idea of a time frame.
The Population of Earth is needing to make plans and this event will be a seismic shift so we need to know where to invest our time and money or there WILL be utter panic.

It is clear that the main “action” hold outs are the evangelical Trump base who are clearly into doomsday in a big way.
I am pretty sure the great Mr Bezos is not one of them, so go for it Michael :-)

Sounds like a job for the New York Times of Old.