tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-23990178363009246972024-03-06T05:56:04.755+00:00efficiency meets sustainabilitycaw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.comBlogger305125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-25026262245492487432013-10-10T17:16:00.000+01:002013-10-10T17:26:09.132+01:00Back to the barns!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Or would not tents be</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><b><i><span style="font-size: large;">the cheaper alternative?</span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: red;"><i>How you can get on the property ladder with a £41,000</i></span></span><br />
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="color: red;"><i>three bedroom home</i></span></span></div>
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I know, Mr Neo and Mrs Lib are governing us. Clever is he who rips off his
counterpart the best while <i>best</i> is calculated in buckets of Sterling, bags of Euro or piles of Greenbacks in our days and counterparts are regularly called customers,
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I respect Kevin McCloud; he, his Grand Design programme has become a brand name, is
the one who is trying to demonstrate that there are many different ways to build
your home and dwell in a spectacular one-off or an ambitious dream home.</div>
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he who shows the nation that there is this opportunity of a self-build market
against all the construction industry’s hard trial to channel the majority of all house buyers
towards its shelves; readily available new builds, built while cutting all possible corners to reinforce margins, often part of soon-to-look-like-slums
sleeping estates, where estate is too grand a word; one or two metre distance
between the houses, bedroom three, four and possibly five being wardrobe-sized,
the two designs, three colours, four shapes and five layouts so similar that I would need to raise a
bespoke flag to find the one my family lived in cooped up in between cheapest
wooden fences.</div>
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The industry claims UK house buyers would not want anything else but what it
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But I also doubt that Kevin McCloud should use his name and brand for the described farmyard type barns; those poor and pity constructions are definitely not what we should aim for:<br />
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'We set ourselves the challenge of getting under the magic £50,000 and making sure that what came out the other side would be something we'd really want to live in, be really beautiful and not just more shoe boxes.'<br />
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The Barnhaus steel frame is lined internally with lots of insulation - straw bales being most cost effective - and doors and windows are added at either end.</blockquote>
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<i>Beautiful? ... not a shoebox?</i> Give me a break!<br />
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<i>Straw bales being most cost effective</i> ... compared to what? To avoiding any need for any insulation or to living in a cave? Of all materials straw is probably one of the most complicated to deal with in reference to <span style="font-family: "Calibri","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">λ</span>- and U-values, durability, fire resistance, etc. pp. Cost effective bales?! Another break, please.</div>
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I would have thought we finally have arrived at a point where designing, constructing and delivering any home would at least touch the subject of energy efficiency, durability, comfort and health? The article takes long and rather funny detours to avoid such basics:</div>
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Architect Ed Green came up with the award-winning design which gives buyers the 'skeleton' of a house, and allows them to adapt the original framework to their taste<br />
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The home, which is bigger than many modern new-build houses, will give first-time buyers the chance to build their own 'Grand Designs' home at a fraction of the cost.<br />
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Typically first homes under £90,000 will get a much smaller space to a 'substandard design', the winning architect claimed.</blockquote>
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Is this some kind of April fools' joke? A <i>substandard design</i> replaced with a farmyard barn box? But it gets even better:</div>
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Pretty much the whole house could be built by a relatively unskilled person - except for the electrics.</blockquote>
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Well, there is the real difference to the normal construction industry's approach; while it also uses <i>relatively unskilled persons</i> but charges an arm and a leg the self-barn-builder can build and finish his barn without going into any great detail, not to mention know-how, as to plumbing, heating, ventilation, tiling, windows, roof and foundation, thermal bridging, U-values, air changes and what not! Progress! Superb? The remains of British construction industry should turn pale.</div>
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Would climbing the property ladder starting from a substandard designed and built farmyard barn really work?</div>
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'And you can go on eBay and buy a steel barn frame the size of a family home for around £2,500.</blockquote>
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Good luck, this is the next best solution to living in a tent; but then may be living in a cave would make more sense! It would definitely be more cost effective. </div>
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-61806357162130285572013-09-23T12:16:00.000+01:002013-09-23T12:16:02.097+01:00Topping out!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><b><i>...in Dundee!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">If</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">this house</span> will
stand and stay<br />
<span class="hps">until all the</span> <span class="hps">envy and</span> <span class="hps">hatred</span> <span class="hps">passes</span>,<br />
<span class="hps">then – indeed – it will remain</span><br />
<span class="hps">until the world</span> <span class="hps">has fallen to ashes!</span><br />
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<span class="hps">Malice</span>, <span class="hps">enemies</span>, grief and sorrow<br />
<span class="hps">shall evade</span> <span class="hps">your</span> <span class="hps">door</span>!<br />
<span class="hps">Joy, happiness, bliss and glee</span><br />
<span class="hps">shall find the same and ever more!</span><br />
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<span class="hps">This house shall grant <br />
refuge and home</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">glory and</span>
<span class="hps">honor</span><br />
<span class="hps">to those, who dreamt it true!</span><br />
<span class="hps">Their verdict</span> <span class="hps">shall</span> <span class="hps">be:</span><br />
<span class="hps">"Lord</span>, protect <span class="hps">our home<br />
</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">and give us</span>
<span class="hps">your blessing,</span> <span class="hps">too!</span> <span class="hps">"</span><br />
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<span class="hps">God,<br />
protect</span> <span class="hps">this house</span> <span class="hps">from danger</span>
<span class="hps">at all times,</span><br />
<span class="hps">charm and shield</span> <span class="hps">his master's family,</span><br />
<span class="hps">may it stand safe and sound, year by year</span></span></i><i><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">
and keep all worries out, thankfully.</span></span></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">This
green </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">tree shall be <span class="hps">symbol</span><br />
<span class="hps">for our client's</span> felicity<br />
<span class="hps">which</span> <span class="hps">shall dwell in </span>this house<br />
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i><span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">Lord,<br />
hold onto </span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">this house,<br />
<span class="hps">until a snail walked off its knees,</span><br />
<span class="hps">until an ant</span> starved long and hard<br />
for it to empty all the seas.<br />
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for it to stand and celebrate! </span></span></i></span></div>
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The snail is now on its way, the seas are rather rising and the <b>HANSE HAUS</b> house in Dundee will be finished by Christmas!</div>
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Thank you all visitors, friends, neighbours, maybe and hope-to-be customers and all helpers for making it a memorable day. </div>
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Carpe diem!<br />
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<b>Chill out!</b> Now? Yes! Another foundation in for another HANSE HAUS, this time in Dundee.</div>
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That slab was done very well and in time under what was severe time pressure and lots of site restrictions thanks to the company <b>Total Build Team Ltd.</b>, Peter Carnegie "and friends": Well done! Thank you for the hard, precise and neat, noiseless and reliable work to all involved in that enterprise; this was your second slab for a HANSE HAUS and when I say we are looking forward to be working on further projects all over Scotland it says it all, doesn't it?</div>
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-8500421870880772702013-08-20T14:54:00.000+01:002013-08-20T15:03:23.525+01:00Fukushima!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Day to day events and the jobs' pressures, mainstream's constant bread and games irrigation, floods of hard to differentiate pseudo-news mixed with unbelievable acts under UK's terrorist laws easily help (us) to forget and avoid the real problems. One being Fukushima!</div>
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I came across the article in <a href="http://rt.com/news/fukushima-apocalypse-fuel-removal-598/">RT: Fukushima apocalypse:Years of `duct tape fixes` could result in `millions of deaths`</a>: </div>
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<span style="line-height: 1.45em;">- The racks inside the pool
that contain this fuel were damaged by the explosion in the early
days of the accident.</span><span style="line-height: 1.45em;"> </span>
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corrosion of the pool walls, and probably the fuel rods and
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<span style="line-height: 1.45em;">- The building is
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<span style="line-height: 1.45em;">- The cranes that normally
lift the fuel were destroyed.</span><span style="line-height: 1.45em;"> </span>
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not be possible; everything will have to be done
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process without humans, which will manage this enormous task
while being bombarded with radiation during the extraction and
casking.</span><span style="line-height: 1.45em;"> </span>
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<span style="line-height: 1.45em;">- The process of removing each
rod will have to be repeated over 1,300 times without
incident.</span><span style="line-height: 1.45em;"> </span>
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under such complex conditions could result in a criticality if
the rods come into close proximity to one another, which would
then set off a chain reaction that cannot be stopped.</span>
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At Fukushima, they are dealing with massive amounts of
groundwater that flow through the property, and the endless
pouring that must be kept up 24/7/365 to keep things from getting
worse. Recently there appears to be subsidence issues and
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Liquefaction is explained <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquefaction">here</a>; just the same like pouring water into a sand-box when we were children. Only, in this case this is lots of water, contaminated, into grounds known to shake constantly and there are swimming pools full of nuclear fuel rods waiting to take a dip and melt back to where they came from... if not that one earthquake strikes first. </div>
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It would be interesting to hear and read from alternative sources about the situation in Fukushima. <a href="http://www.fukushima-diary.com/">Fukushima Diary</a> is one: a desperate voice.<br />
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-82491365789539571922013-07-27T20:42:00.000+01:002013-07-27T20:42:22.042+01:00An die Nachgeborenen...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Berthold Brecht, 1953</i></span></b><br />
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Der Text:<br />Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten!<br />Das arglose Wort ist töricht. Eine glatte Stirn<br />Deutet auf Unempfindlichkeit hin. Der Lachende<br />Hat die furchtbare Nachricht<br />Nur noch nicht empfangen.<br />Was sind das für Zeiten, wo<br />Ein Gespräch über Bäume fast ein Verbrechen ist.<br />Weil es ein Schweigen über so viele Untaten einschließt!<br />Der dort ruhig über die Straße geht<br />Ist wohl nicht mehr erreichbar für seine Freunde<br />Die in Not sind?<br />Es ist wahr: ich verdiene noch meinen Unterhalt<br />Aber glaubt mir: das ist nur ein Zufall. Nichts<br />Von dem, was ich tue, berechtigt mich dazu, mich sattzuessen.<br />Zufällig bin ich verschont. (Wenn mein Glück aussetzt, bin ich verloren.)<br />Man sagt mir: iß und trink du! Sei froh, daß du hast!<br />Aber wie kann ich essen und trinken, wenn<br />Ich dem Hungernden entreiße, was ich esse, und<br />Mein Glas Wasser einem Verdurstenden fehlt?<br />Und doch esse und trinke ich.<br />Ich wäre gerne auch weise.<br />In den alten Büchern steht, was weise ist:<br />Sich aus dem Streit der Welt halten und die kurze Zeit<br />Ohne Furcht verbringen<br />Auch ohne Gewalt auskommen<br />Böses mit Gutem vergelten<br />Seine Wünsche nicht erfüllen, sondern vergessen<br />Gilt für weise.<br />Alles das kann ich nicht:<br />Wirklich, ich lebe in finsteren Zeiten!<br />II<br />In die Städte kam ich zur Zeit der Unordnung<br />Als da Hunger herrschte.<br />Unter die Menschen kam ich zu der Zeit des Aufruhrs<br />Und ich empörte mich mit ihnen.<br />So verging meine Zeit<br />Die auf Erden mir gegeben war.<br />Mein Essen aß ich zwischen den Schlachten<br />Schlafen legte ich mich unter die Mörder<br />Der Liebe pflegte ich achtlos<br />Und die Natur sah ich ohne Geduld.<br />So verging meine Zeit<br />Die auf Erden mir gegeben war.<br />Die Straßen führten in den Sumpf zu meiner Zeit.<br />Die Sprache verriet mich dem Schlächter.<br />Ich vermochte nur wenig. Aber die Herrschenden<br />Saßen ohne mich sicherer, das hoffte ich.<br />So verging meine Zeit<br />Die auf Erden mir gegeben war.<br />Die Kräfte waren gering. Das Ziel<br />Lag in großer Ferne<br />Es war deutlich sichtbar, wenn auch für mich<br />Kaum zu erreichen.<br />So verging meine Zeit<br />Die auf Erden mir gegeben war.<br />III<br />Ihr, die ihr auftauchen werdet aus der Flut<br />In der wir untergegangen sind<br />Gedenkt<br />Wenn ihr von unseren Schwächen sprecht<br />Auch der finsteren Zeit<br />Der ihr entronnen seid.<br />Gingen wir doch, öfter als die Schuhe die Länder wechselnd<br />Durch die Kriege der Klassen, verzweifelt<br />Wenn da nur Unrecht war und keine Empörung.<br />Dabei wissen wir doch:<br />Auch der Haß gegen die Niedrigkeit<br />verzerrt die Züge.<br />Auch der Zorn über das Unrecht<br />Macht die Stimme heiser. Ach, wir<br />Die wir den Boden bereiten wollten für Freundlichkeit<br />Konnten selber nicht freundlich sein.<br />Ihr aber, wenn es so weit sein wird<br />Daß der Mensch dem Menschen ein Helfer ist<br />Gedenkt unserer<br />Mit Nachsicht.<br />
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-28979058245306888792013-07-14T09:21:00.001+01:002013-07-14T09:21:31.677+01:00Let's go back to Jackson<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-2197234164495745342013-07-10T15:45:00.000+01:002013-07-10T15:49:51.063+01:00Fiddling a Warming Tune<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>... sending shivers down your spine!</b></i></span></span><br />
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-23844013737389547642013-07-07T08:46:00.003+01:002013-07-07T08:48:34.566+01:00Industrial Warmth<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>2001 to 2011</i></span></b></span><br />
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The report, <i><a href="http://library.wmo.int/opac/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=15110" target="_blank">The Global Climate 2001-2010, A Decade of Climate Extremes</a></i>,
analysed global and regional temperatures and precipitation, as well as
extreme events such as the heat waves in Europe and Russia, Hurricane
Katrina in the United States of America, Tropical Cyclone Nargis in
Myanmar, droughts in the Amazon Basin, Australia and East Africa and
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<span style="color: #444444;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><i>of a HANSE HAUS house</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">day one: Tuesday 0600, before the storm</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">accuracy!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">first wall down</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;">a wall full of holes...which one is that?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> a wall painted? why?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> day four: closing the roof</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"> day four, Friday evening: a tidy construction site.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><b>PRISM ... Whistleblower</b></i></span></span>...<br />
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A <b>whistleblower</b> (<b>whistle-blower</b> or <b>whistle blower</b>)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup> is a person who exposes <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misconduct" title="Misconduct">misconduct</a>,
alleged dishonest or illegal activity occurring in an organization. The
alleged misconduct may be classified in many ways; for example, a
violation of a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law" title="Law">law</a>, rule, regulation and/or a direct threat to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_interest" title="Public interest">public interest</a>, such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fraud" title="Fraud">fraud</a>, health and safety violations, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_corruption" title="Political corruption">corruption</a>.
Whistleblowers may make their allegations internally (for example, to
other people within the accused organization) or externally (to
regulators, law enforcement agencies, to the media or to groups
concerned with the issues).<br />
One of the first laws that protected whistleblowers was the 1863 United States <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_Claims_Act" title="False Claims Act">False Claims Act</a> (revised in 1986), which tried to combat fraud by suppliers of the United States government during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Civil_War" title="American Civil War">Civil War</a>.
The act encourages whistleblowers by promising them a percentage of the
money recovered or damages won by the government and protects them from
wrongful dismissal.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-answers1_2-0"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whistleblower#cite_note-answers1-2">[2]</a></sup><br />
Whistleblowers frequently face <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprisal" title="Reprisal">reprisal</a>,
sometimes at the hands of the organisation or group which they have
accused, sometimes from related organisations, and sometimes under law.<br />
Questions about the legitimacy of whistle blowing, the moral
responsibility of whistle blowing, and the appraisal of the institutions
of whistle blowing are part of the field of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_ethics" title="Political ethics">political ethics</a>.</blockquote>
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For me there is way too much discussion about the moral aspects of the blower and his actions while the misconduct of the so-called intelligence services obviously of all coloeurs seems to be taken as an unavoidable or like something without alternative. Even if there was no alternative why are we never told the truth and why would what Snowden did then be illegal?</div>
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Carpe diem and thank you: Edward!</div>
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p.s.: Reader: I hope you are aware that those so-called services, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%29" target="_blank">Prism</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempora" target="_blank">Tempora</a>, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON" target="_blank">Echelon</a>, etc. pp now monitored you reading the above, watching the video... and should you not have left this site after reading the headline for less than 6.54 seconds you are now followed day and night, whatever you google, you read, write, copy or delete, for at least an unknown time period - only, to store the evidence found in case they come across you or your clan again... and they will:</div>
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<b><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">The AssangeSnowdenManning Syndrome</span></i></span></b><br />
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<i><span style="font-size: x-small;">Yes, it is raining in Scotland...</span></i></div>
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We have a new car! Well, it is 24 years old; 22,000 miles on
the clock! Almost untouched, a collector’s item, a top of the (old) line 300E
4-matic, a mind-boggling £35k in 1989!</div>
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<i><b>4-matic</b></i> was Mercedes’ even more sophisticated but then more complicated
answer on the Audi Quattro technology. It is obviously a human misconception
that we all need to re-invent wheel after wheel after wheel, but then…</div>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4Matic" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>4-matic details...</i></span></a></div>
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Picking it up and taking it home - the first 800km trip for
the car in 10 or 12 years, it did very well except for a somewhat retarded
automatic gear changing when arriving at home - was a good idea.</div>
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Then, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I made an
expensive mistake: I thought it sensible to have the gearbox checked at the local super
specialist, the one and only MB dealership in a 200km circle. Booked it in for
0800 on a Friday morning and agreed to have it hooked up to the service system,
read out any messages with a special eye on the 4-matic system, change the transmission
oil and filter – just that, no more, no less! While on the phone we agreed I would arrive
at 0800, sharp, wait for the works to be done; as usual i-pad and i-phone plus
endless mails and a coffee or two would give me some “office-time” in a corner
seat.</div>
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While the registration had already given her, a thoroughly telephone-marketing-trained question-and-answer-machine-lady, all relevant details,
plus postal code, name and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>even date of birth
(mine) she went through all the data at least three times; in times of Tempora and Prism,
the hunt for Mister Snowden from HongKong to Moscow and the brewing 52 years in prison for a Mister Manning
you would have thought that with the postal code alone they would be able to
read your mind forward and backwards, but … unexpectedly my experience with the
same workshop, different people and different ownership about nine years earlier
when they were not able to find an electronic mistake on an almost brand-new G400 and our
more or less constant spare-part orders (we dare owning other exotic Mercedeses…),
obviously was not part of their data-collection-bonanza. Ten minutes into that repeating
process of personal data …</div>
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… I should have noticed that I was on an entirely wrong trip!
Her answer on my polite request to watch the computerised test and check, more specifically
to see that readout with the car hooked up to the DTC, the data link connector,
was: “<b><i>No way!</i></b>” Health and Safety would not allow any third party in the
workshop, too dangerous, one could be hurt 2… 3… 4… finally: “<b><i>…but we can
print out the read-out data and discuss it with you in the office</i></b>”. And "<b><i>Yes, our staff knows those cars, very good really, has worked many times on same...</i></b>".</div>
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This time that H&S crap should have – finally - rung all
bells, after all I am in construction (!!); and I should have thought about that
“<i>… could be hurt…</i>” line much more seriously! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div>
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<a href="http://mercedesclass.net/"><i>mercedesclass.net</i></a></div>
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07:56, I arrived in front of the same lady’s desk – us old
(!) German borns are terrible when it comes to punctuality. Repeating all data
two and three times and then asking what was wrong as if I had not given all details before,
ended with the sentence “<i>Okay, the car will be ready by five o’clock… do you
need a lift?</i>” Well! ”<i><b>No!</b></i>”</div>
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I was lifted stante pede! Lifted into that orbit of bad
memories and that ugly experience with the same shop, different actors, nine years ago; that same arrogance of altering anything their way and of how
best to rip one off. “<i>No! I will stay, it is a defined job and was booked to
start at 0800 with me waiting.</i>” “<b><i>Basta!</i></b>”. “<i>But checking the old car thoroughly will take some time… we do not know the outcome, yet, it might take some...!</i>”.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>less than 1% of all W124 built came as 4-matic </i></span></div>
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09:45, eight or ten e-mails later found the car just “lifted”
with the transmission oil making a mess instead of running into a collection
tray; all eyes on the workshop intruder walking right into the workshop did not
stop the intruder taking a good look at the underside of his 24 year old new
car. Except for the oil all over the place... looking very good, the car! The workshop? Discussable!</div>
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10:30, I had long returned to the same chair to do
some more e-mailing, the technician came in to tell me that a test drive had revealed
the same odd behaviour of the car; he would have to check the pneumatic and
hydraulic pressures in the gear and transfer box and no, the car would definitely not have
any diagnosis connection to read out any mistakes… Oh (!?); so (?!) <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>… back to waiting. </div>
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11:40 the same technician explained that he had not been able
to check those pressures, confirmed again that there would be no diagnosis option for
that kind of old car, that I would have to book it in again as he would have no
more time…</div>
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12:10 the car was parked in front of the show-room.</div>
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12:35 I was presented with the invoice; the fault had not been
found, a bulb had been changed and two different but unknown quantities of oil of
unknown quality had been changed costing £67.50 plus one filter; the morning
was summed up with the detailed report-line: “REQ OIL CHANGE AND CHECK AGAIN”.</div>
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Brilliant; LAB cost was discounted 40% at £225.72, obviously
from 376.20, which, generously calculated, from 9:30 to 12:10 computes to an
hourly rate of £141.08. Okay - discounted to so much more favourable £84.65. </div>
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Completely frustrated I left this centre of excellence trying
to add up this £1,700+ bill from nine years ago and the above £385.99; that old invoice had said “Fault not found” after the car had been parked three days in the same workshop with 17 hours invoiced. Once home I "googled" that diagnostic capacity of the W124 series... and guess what...!!? Correct: the workshop lacks the equipment or the capacity to use it; definitely the car does not!</div>
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You might ask why I did it again? Well, meanwhile the ownership had changed, there could have been room for improvement and getting a lot better; I tend to trust people, naively, d'accord - but then it got much worse: at least last time I did not
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I wanted to return immediately to make a real fuss... and made my way, but then...?</div>
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And why do I like those old cars? It is more that I dislike today's electronic plastic bombers Mercedes-Benz (and
others) build for us, their customers; they just too obvious are made to boost shareholders’
value by promising the blue from the sky look wise and also performance wise but only until guarantee and
warranty are done with. It needs electronics and software service and updates
to help those wanna-be classics to become real vintage cars – but that is not driving new
business so our throw-away-society shan’t leave room for anything sustainable. As
BMW has admitted they build cars to last a life time - and that life-time is
defined by BMW to be six years; thereafter it is time for the customer-idiot to invest into a new model and
re-start depreciation from five or even six digit purchase prices to neglectable chump
change five or seven years down the line.</div>
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<b>Abriachan: Tuesday: May 28<sup>th</sup> 2013, evening, between
18:00 and 21:00</b>: did anybody come across a pickup or a car pulling an open
trailer driving through Abriachan in a rather obvious search for his private
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-67813364856293521322013-05-26T16:03:00.001+01:002013-06-24T12:58:33.675+01:00Stop beating arround the bush!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><b>We need action and progress!</b></i></span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><b>No diluting and digressing!</b></i></span></span><br />
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This telegraph article on "<a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/10063598/The-low-cost-family-house-of-the-future.html" target="_blank">The low-cost family house of the future</a>" is a prime example of the hot air our society and precisely lobbies of all kinds of industries are producing, obviously trying to avoid progress threatening established margins by all means.</div>
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The article is all about <i>low-cost</i> and <i>low-energy</i> but it avoids the slightest, in fact any reference to real numbers; as such those terms remain as accurate as the coordinates of cloud-cuckoo-land, obviously just another exercise to fill the paper and irritating the public.</div>
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Cost in relation to home building regularly comes as <b><i>£ per square metre [£/m²]</i></b> and low-energy refers to <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/eco-friendly-green-and-credentials.html" target="_blank">gobbledygoo</a><a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2010/08/eco-friendly-green-and-credentials.html" target="_blank">k</a> unless you define the energy consumption; internationally that is done in <i>kiloWatt per square metre and year [kW/m²a]</i>.</div>
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There is, oh wonder oh Telegraph, an international Standard, supra-nationally now accepted in many countries, from Japan to the US, from Norway to South Africa, in Australia and in South America: it is called <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/passiv-or-passive-house-or-haus.html" target="_blank">Passive House Standard</a>; it defines the maximum energy consumption to be no more than 15 kW/m²a<b><span style="color: red;">*</span></b> for the space heating demand. To get there it needs a thorough calculation taking many different factors into account not only the construction's location and orientation but also all materials', all components' and all appliances' energy efficiencies; the software developed to do exactly that is called <a href="http://passipedia.passiv.de/passipedia_en/start" target="_blank">PHPP</a>, the Passive House Planning Package.</div>
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Solar gain and lunar loss, air-changes per hour <i>[ach]</i>, air tightness, U-values, thermal conductivity, thermal bridging, psi-values, efficiency values those are the modern parameters to take into account. Quite a difference to living in caves or cavity-cold homes.</div>
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So it is time to stop producing hot air, time to end this useless inventing British complicated but diluted standards that no enduser will be able to understand (> CoSH); no need to invent any more British wheels again and again; what is needed is for all members of the British construction industry, from the bosses down, to (want to) understand that it is high time to apply this existing and proven knowledge extensively, now!</div>
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There were also technical issues for the Simonsens. The ventilation system
broke down on a Friday night, and an engineer had to be called out to fix
the problem. The technology in the Kettering house is similarly daunting
with a plant room filled with pipes and tanks. Nik says if it goes wrong: “I
have a number to call.”
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What shall sound so dangerous describing a dramatic high-tech problem like <i>The ventilation system broke down...</i> can be no more than one ventilator that probably had no more power supplied and that <i>similarly daunting with a plant room filled with pipes and tanks</i> by implication just avoids the dirty chaos in British homes with pipes and pumps, tanks and meters dumped into dark and poky cupboards, an almost inaccessible attic or into so desperate needed bathroom or kitchen cabinets guaranteed avoiding proper access for maintenance or repair.</div>
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And cost? From experience it can be done for around £1,500 per square metre, Passive House Standard, turnkey - now, to compare like with like one should know what <i>turnkey</i> really comprises! And make sure that both products, turnkey homes, built to PH Standard, hence comparable in energy consumption! Plus, make sure that both homes are heated to the same levels, i.e. 21° in all rooms, but 19°C in the bedrooms. I know, complicated, but I said <i>like with like</i>! And efficiency does not come with throwing the dice!</div>
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<span style="color: red;"><b>*</b></span> one litre of heating oil equates to 10.7kW, so your 150m² 5-bedroom house should not use more than the equivalent energy of 210 litres of heating oil per year or roughly £13 a month to keep a temperature of 21°C throughout the house (bedrooms 19°C). Now you compare!<br />
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-47711036189415958382013-04-13T10:48:00.000+01:002013-04-13T10:48:39.265+01:00Oil and gas: end of!<span style="color: #444444;"><i><b><span style="font-size: large;">... for heating syste<span style="font-size: large;">ms</span> in Denmark!</span></b></i></span><br />
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From January 1st, 2013, onwards Denmark has forbidden oil or gas fired heating systems for new builds; for existing heating systems 2016 will be the deadline.<br />
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More <a href="http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/blog/post/2013/02/denmark-puts-the-brakes-on-heating-costs-with-new-legislation" target="_blank">here</a> and <a href="http://notrickszone.com/2013/02/21/tiny-denmark-bans-oil-and-gas-furnaces-in-new-homes-in-a-bid-to-rescue-the-planet/" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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Even though mainstream avoided and avoids this ground breaking news making headline - all over Europe, not only the UK! - there are already sarcastic comments floating around on how tiny Denmark believes it would make a da... bit of a difference, etc.<br />
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Stupid, arrogant foolishness; no, it is intentional ignorance!<br />
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By the way, any news on the offshore leaks?! No! Wonder why? And then this hits the Italian nail on its cappella:<br />
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Carpe diem!caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-53371591560049448302013-04-07T13:02:00.002+01:002013-04-07T13:02:38.928+01:00Willy Brandt († 08.10.1992)<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="color: #444444;"><i><b>I have tried!</b></i></span></span><br />
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"Nothing happens by itself. And only very little is permanent - hence, bethink your power and the fact that every time wants its own answers; and that one has to keep pace with time if good shall be done."</div>
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I very much doubt any politician in charge today has managed to keep pace with time; they all keep pace with mainstream, no doubt, with mainstream setting the standards with its alleged but confounded ideas of creating free markets for free people while it is nothing else but a bonanza for the <i>very rich</i> to become <i>very richer</i> - assisted by the many want-to-be-rich-or-at-least-part-of-it - while the huge rest falls to pieces and poverty. What a stupid idea! What a lousy way of leading. Does anybody still believe there shall good be done?</div>
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When QE was the last resort they promised to watch inflation to not kick in; now they forge statistics, fiat money every bloody day and want to deflate the currency at any price; they skim the savers, install capital controls that they will never be able to lift again but let the big ones run offshore; when offshore leaks mainstream is already there and takes its silencium. And as all do everything at the same time, in parallel, deflation is global with us all riding on the same corkscrew - no cork, though. </div>
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<i>I have tried!</i> is my loose translation of Mr. Brandt's words on his gravestone: <i>Man hat sich bemüht!</i></div>
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<i>Nothing stays the same!</i></div>
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P.S. See below, funny, even in German (at 0.31 to 1.00): Willy Brandt's three-questions-three-one-word-answers-interview - he was offended by the fact that German TV had offered him a mere 90 seconds to talk about the first French-German Consultations, 1971, which he thought was way too short - those 90 seconds - for such an important meeting: they had had to discuss currency relations, FF/DM, by the way!</div>
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caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-5186177152639113002013-04-05T15:36:00.000+01:002013-04-06T06:59:06.902+01:00It reeks of storm!<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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I do not <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">think </i>I do:
I really do. It rather stinks; it is going to be one of those storms described as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">perfect</i>. Perfect because things are
starting to fall into place that we expected to eventually fall but not all at
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I could live with bad management, lousy and/or corrupt
managers being punished like it finally <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">seems
</i>to happen with <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/epic/rbs/9968583/Fred-Goodwin-sued-as-investors-launch-4bn-case-against-RBS.html">RBS</a>
and HBOS’ so called <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/9972823/HBOS-former-bosses-should-be-banned-from-financial-sector-says-commission.html">former
bosses</a>. Whether in the end any of those heroes will ever really get punished -
I doubt it. See the <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/libor.html">Libor</a>
scandal! What scandal you might ask? True: that law-breaking insolence is<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>dealt with behind those thick curtains that
protect today’s banksters’ offices from any light; just in case Deutsche Bank and
others set up <a href="http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2012/11/29/wegen-libor-ermittlungen-deutsche-bank-bildet-rueckstellung/">provisions</a>,
some hundred million Euro, measurements in return reducing their tax load and buying them off. But, that
scam will end without further consequences except for them trying harder, next time.</div>
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That <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/03/offshore-secrets-offshore-tax-haven">Offshore
Leak</a> might be a different story; for one there is not much about that in
British media, yet<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;"> * </span></b>; may be that is because there are many off-shore
paradises, money wise in this case, that speak English, some very close, and many are somehow related
to thee Queen, thee Commonwealth and thee City? Mind you, we are told it
involved 170 countries and 120.000 letterbox-companies. Mind boggling that
amount of data going back 30 years and as much as this needs to be dealt with <b><span style="color: red;">**</span></b> –
I am afraid this could be a financial and social tsunami. What if the Queen and
the Camerons are part of this, or even Tony and George? What if Putin, Merkel,
Hollande and Berlusconi plus Sarkozy needed to be arrested and put into the
same jail cell? Well, guess somebody would notice and put Madame Merkel into
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Watch the suicide and emigrant lists of those 170 countries … and do not believe a minute that any criminal or immoral aspect of all this will be put into any bankster's basket; evil to him who evil thinks and while all banks offer sophisticated off-shore services it is the stupid customer that gets caught, eventually. </div>
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Emigration will not really help anybody to avoid that
global <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2010/05/double-dip-or-dip-deep-deeper.html">currency
battle</a>, now entering an unknown dimension with Japan going berserk. As a
measurement of last resort they are printing vast, vast, vast sums of money –
mind you, that’s hitting return after punching in 12 or 15 zeros behind a 1 or a two or actually any figure and that not only once but monthly from now on – fiat money the
easiest way, ever - to buy back their own crap; recycling, snow-balling, ponzi-ing? Government bonds and then dump them in a bin, or the worst bank, if that’s
the better name for it. That is <i>the most daring monetary experiment of modern
times</i> as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/9972754/Japanese-bank-governor-Haruhiko-Kuroda-makes-history-with-monetary-blitz.html">The
Telegraph</a></i> titled this flooding the market with YEN; the idea is to massively <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2010/01/race-for-weakest-currency-is-on.html">devalue
the currency</a> for exports (jobs!) to grow fast and furious, to force-inject
inflation into what is a deflating economy and hope for nobody else following
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That’s hopeless, stupid! What BO and BSB do for the
greenback in the US, why Merkel insists on a EURO agitated by the PIIGS’ and french stress to keep it soft, DC and GO want to do in the
UK; strengthen UK exports by weakening the Pound or rather vice versa; woau! How much of that export strength is left? I
believe proper schooling, training, apprenticeships worth the title, dual
education plus on-going, extensive studies and education would do much
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">While discussing <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/passive-passion.html">Passiv
Haus Standard</a> during this year’s <a href="http://www.ecobuild.co.uk/conference.html">ecobuild</a> seminars and the
installation of a MVHR, a mechanical ventilation system including heat
recovery, UK experts explained coram publico that this would make things too
complicated, too difficult a gadget for the average British tenant/owner to
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Frightening;<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and
insulting: why would the average middle-European be able to cope with that kind
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">high tech</i> while the British … ?
Or, this very likely is the early result of adding the word <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">vitiosus</i> to this <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">circulus</i>
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Apropos weak: how much does a weak Pound buy? We import more
than 50% of our energy and, while you might like it cold, more than 50% of our
food! Do you like strict diets? This year we might even have to import much more, or do you see UK
potatoes growing with the coldest March on record?<br />
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record: in general terms importing means we have to pay in a foreign currency
after swapping Pound into $, € or ¥ where, please note, the last stands for the
YEN but also for the YUAN!</div>
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China is <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ccf2a93a-8539-11e2-88bb-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2PZkjBTXg">boosting
its defence spending</a> by almost 11% - this year! Obviously China has the funds,
hardly any debts and something to prepare for or against? It is also growing
its <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20907358">agriculture</a> and
pumping a lot of money into <a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/ccfb504a-5e32-11e2-8780-00144feab49a.html">renewables</a>.
Funny, isn’t it? We are cutting any incentives, we are discussing silly bedroom taxes for the poorest and
whether to install <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/mar/31/cyprus-casinos-boost-economy">Casinos</a>
in Cyprus to save its economy, Merkel’s Euro and Schaeuble’s regime - while China
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Euro</a>! Really, I wanted to avoid that criminal rubbish; it is still alive; rather,
it is not disconnected, yet, from life supporting but until lately utterly illegal
instruments such as bad banks, bail-outs and bail-ins, and the on-going … here we are again:
money printing.</div>
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Spain 26.3%, Portugal 17.5% Italy 11.6%, Greece 26.4%;
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But our future even looks more difficult and much darker:</div>
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Spain 55.7%, Portugal
38.2%, Italy 37.8%, Greece 58.4%, France 26.2%; the official figures for
those between 18 and 24 years old. Official! And what kind of jobs does the rest have?
Low-paid ones, un-trained ones, picking tomatoes or serving beer to poor tourists? How many of them all have gone through any
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You could call it the Euro’s unemployment bomb - until it explodes; no wonder DC
and GO think, why should they put any money and effort into a dying market of people needing
training and education?</div>
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Guess what, at least car sales show some sympathy:</div>
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Spain minus 13.9%, France minus 16.4%, Austria minus 19.9%,
Finland minus 58.6%, Germany minus 17.1, Netherlands minus 31.4, and in
addition Japan minus 16.7, Brazil minus 4.7%. So, really, how long can we be
happy and proud on headlines like <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21683216">UK car
sale rise for 12<sup>th</sup> consecutive month</a>? And what is the base of
this rise, how are they paid for, those cars, and how long do they or does this
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Is it a coincidence that VW is creating <a href="http://www.thelocal.de/jobs/?site=tlse&AID=48869#.UV6uBspn58E">new
jobs</a>, outside the EU? </div>
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It becomes apparent that Mr Neo and Mrs. Lib have not only
allowed all those jobs to be exported to – mainly – <a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2011/01/chinas-economic-lessons.html">China</a>;
any kind of job machine has been given up for nothing,
for free. This is the third time I add this video… I think it should now read 2020, not
2030:</div>
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My respect, China. Age must help in becoming wiser.</div>
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While Gobi Dessert is growing steadily, 28% of Chinese
landmass is dessert-like area, anyway, and China buying all kinds of land
worldwide, we are all in for increasingly bad weathers; if you thought that
cold lately would tell us Global Warming has had it then I would recommend to
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The rate of changes multiplied by the level of ignorance in
solving any of our problems is unbelievable; we are presented with scientific results by crowds of scientists
from all over the world, they describe the problems we face, we see and in many cases feel those; we do understand most of them but we are
unwilling or incapable of addressing and solving them; or, even worse, we wilfully ignore them all for all kinds of stupid, bad and criminal reasons; that makes it
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Carpe diem!</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: red;">*</span></b> … might be that they all need time; similar to
the big fish on Cyprus when Putin took two days to decide whether he would
support Cyprus or rather give his friends and soon-to-be-friends time to visit
those London branches of the Cyprus banks to sort out their accounts just in
time…</div>
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<![endif]-->caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-54091358439748986782013-03-21T05:24:00.001+00:002013-03-21T05:26:50.118+00:00At last a letter...<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">for you George and Dick! And Tony!</span></b></i><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><b>A Message to George W. Bush and Dick Cheney From a Dying Veteran </b><br /><br /> To: George W. Bush and Dick Cheney<br />From: Thomas Young<br /><br /> I write this letter on the 10th anniversary of the Iraq War on behalf of my fellow Iraq War veterans. I write this letter on behalf of the 4,488 soldiers and Marines who died in Iraq. I write this letter on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of veterans who have been wounded and on behalf of those whose wounds, physical and psychological, have destroyed their lives. I am one of those gravely wounded. I was paralyzed in an insurgent ambush in 2004 in Sadr City. My life is coming to an end. I am living under hospice care.<br /><br /> I write this letter on behalf of husbands and wives who have lost spouses, on behalf of children who have lost a parent, on behalf of the fathers and mothers who have lost sons and daughters and on behalf of those who care for the many thousands of my fellow veterans who have brain injuries. I write this letter on behalf of those veterans whose trauma and self-revulsion for what they have witnessed, endured and done in Iraq have led to suicide and on behalf of the active-duty soldiers and Marines who commit, on average, a suicide a day. I write this letter on behalf of the some 1 million Iraqi dead and on behalf of the countless Iraqi wounded. I write this letter on behalf of us all—the human detritus your war has left behind, those who will spend their lives in unending pain and grief.<br /><br /> I write this letter, my last letter, to you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney. I write not because I think you grasp the terrible human and moral consequences of your lies, manipulation and thirst for wealth and power. I write this letter because, before my own death, I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done. You may evade justice but in our eyes you are each guilty of egregious war crimes, of plunder and, finally, of murder, including the murder of thousands of young Americans—my fellow veterans—whose future you stole.<br /><br /> Your positions of authority, your millions of dollars of personal wealth, your public relations consultants, your privilege and your power cannot mask the hollowness of your character. You sent us to fight and die in Iraq after you, Mr. Cheney, dodged the draft in Vietnam, and you, Mr. Bush, went AWOL from your National Guard unit. Your cowardice and selfishness were established decades ago. You were not willing to risk yourselves for our nation but you sent hundreds of thousands of young men and women to be sacrificed in a senseless war with no more thought than it takes to put out the garbage.<br /><br /> I joined the Army two days after the 9/11 attacks. I joined the Army because our country had been attacked. I wanted to strike back at those who had killed some 3,000 of my fellow citizens. I did not join the Army to go to Iraq, a country that had no part in the September 2001 attacks and did not pose a threat to its neighbors, much less to the United States. I did not join the Army to “liberate” Iraqis or to shut down mythical weapons-of-mass-destruction facilities or to implant what you cynically called “democracy” in Baghdad and the Middle East. I did not join the Army to rebuild Iraq, which at the time you told us could be paid for by Iraq’s oil revenues. Instead, this war has cost the United States over $3 trillion. I especially did not join the Army to carry out pre-emptive war. Pre-emptive war is illegal under international law. And as a soldier in Iraq I was, I now know, abetting your idiocy and your crimes. The Iraq War is the largest strategic blunder in U.S. history. It obliterated the balance of power in the Middle East. It installed a corrupt and brutal pro-Iranian government in Baghdad, one cemented in power through the use of torture, death squads and terror. And it has left Iran as the dominant force in the region. On every level—moral, strategic, military and economic—Iraq was a failure. And it was you, Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who started this war. It is you who should pay the consequences.<br /><br /> I would not be writing this letter if I had been wounded fighting in Afghanistan against those forces that carried out the attacks of 9/11. Had I been wounded there I would still be miserable because of my physical deterioration and imminent death, but I would at least have the comfort of knowing that my injuries were a consequence of my own decision to defend the country I love. I would not have to lie in my bed, my body filled with painkillers, my life ebbing away, and deal with the fact that hundreds of thousands of human beings, including children, including myself, were sacrificed by you for little more than the greed of oil companies, for your alliance with the oil sheiks in Saudi Arabia, and your insane visions of empire.<br /><br /> I have, like many other disabled veterans, suffered from the inadequate and often inept care provided by the Veterans Administration. I have, like many other disabled veterans, come to realize that our mental and physical wounds are of no interest to you, perhaps of no interest to any politician. We were used. We were betrayed. And we have been abandoned. You, Mr. Bush, make much pretense of being a Christian. But isn’t lying a sin? Isn’t murder a sin? Aren’t theft and selfish ambition sins? I am not a Christian. But I believe in the Christian ideal. I believe that what you do to the least of your brothers you finally do to yourself, to your own soul.<br /><br /> My day of reckoning is upon me. Yours will come. I hope you will be put on trial. But mostly I hope, for your sakes, that you find the moral courage to face what you have done to me and to many, many others who deserved to live. I hope that before your time on earth ends, as mine is now ending, you will find the strength of character to stand before the American public and the world, and in particular the Iraqi people, and beg for forgiveness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">Carpe diem! </span></span><br />
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-67750779617694273302012-11-17T07:33:00.000+00:002012-11-17T07:50:27.394+00:00The Ship of Fools...<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i><span style="color: #444444;">... lost and last?</span></i></b></span><br />
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I am sorry for those of you who do not understand German; you would be listening to a precise description of us fools on one of those lost last ships...</div>
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<i>The helmsman lies, the captain is fully drunk</i><br />
<i>the machinist lost in his nagging lethargy.</i><br />
<i>The crew a bunch of dirty crooks,</i><br />
<i>the radio coward too scared to morse SOS,</i><br />
<i>hobgoblin in command of this ship of fools, </i><br />
<i>full speed ahead and tack the reef1</i><br />
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Found this translation in the web, admitted, it is not an easy task to put Reinhard Mey's verses following his message into another language:</div>
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<b>Reinhard Mey – Ship of Fools – Das Narrenschiff</b><br />
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Mercury falls, the signs indicating storm,<br />
Bloody diggling and nagging from the command tower<br />
And dull grinding sounds roll from the machine.<br />
And rolling and pounding and heavy sea,<br />
The on board the chapel plays "Humbataeterae",<br />
And a mad laughter penetrates from the latrine.<br />
The charge is putridly, the papers fictitious,<br />
The bilge pumps leaky and the section walls blocked,<br />
The hatches far open and all alarm bells ring.<br />
The waves hit head high in the loading bay<br />
And St Elms fire licks from the bay deck,<br />
Yet nobody on board can read the signs!<br />
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The first mate lies, the captain is drunk<br />
And the machinist sunk into a dull lethargy<br />
The crew just loud perjured rascals,<br />
The radio operator too cowardly to send an SOS<br />
Kobolds are leading the fool's ship<br />
Full steam ahead for the Reef!<br />
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On the horizon the signs of the time create lightning<br />
Baseness and greed and vanity.<br />
On the bridge numskulls gawk and romp about.<br />
In the murky deep the sharp serrated shark fishes,<br />
Bringing his catch in the dry, along the tax,<br />
On the sand bank, with the well known treasure island.<br />
The other money launderers and pimps who are already waiting<br />
Brothel king, play machine baron,<br />
In the bright light, nobody is to be in the darkness<br />
In the banana republic, even the president<br />
Has lost shame and knows no scruples,<br />
Dresses up with the tax thief in the suite.<br />
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The first mate lies, the captain is drunk<br />
And the machinist sunk into a dull lethargy<br />
The crew just loud perjured rascals,<br />
The radio operator too cowardly to send an SOS<br />
Kobolds are leading the fool's ship<br />
Full steam ahead for the Reef!<br />
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One has made himself smooth, one has positioned.<br />
All high ideals have been damaged,<br />
And the big rebel, who did not become too tired to argue,<br />
Mutates to a servile, poisoned gnome<br />
And sings lamb like devout before the bad old man in Rome<br />
His songs, for truth: Times are changing!<br />
Once young savages are pliant, devout and tame,<br />
Bought, anaesthetised and wing lame,<br />
With little velvet paws traded for the once so sharp claws.<br />
And futile old men present perky to themselves<br />
Always with a lot of too young women on the upper deck,<br />
That warm their floppy limbs and spoon feed them with pre-chewed food.<br />
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The first mate lies, the captain is drunk<br />
And the machinist sunk into a dull lethargy<br />
The crew just loud perjured rascals,<br />
The radio operator too cowardly to send an SOS<br />
Kobolds are leading the fool's ship<br />
Full steam ahead for the Reef!<br />
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They arm against the enemy, an enemy that has been here for a long time<br />
He has his hand on your throat, standing behind you.<br />
In protection of the paragraphs he mixes marked maps.<br />
Everybody can see it, but everybody looks away,<br />
And the shady character emerges from his hiding place<br />
And crosses fire before all eyes in the kindergarten.<br />
The lookout shouts from the highest mast: End of time in sight!<br />
As petrified as they are they hear him not.<br />
They move like lemmings in mindless hordes.<br />
It is, as if all have lost their minds,<br />
Itself to the fall and to the purge committed,<br />
And a willo' the wisp became their beacon.<br />
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The first mate lies, the captain is drunk<br />
And the machinist sunk into a dull lethargy<br />
The crew just loud perjured rascals,<br />
The radio operator too cowardly to send an SOS<br />
Kobolds are leading the fool's ship<br />
Full steam ahead for the Reef!<br />
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<b>Here the German original: Das Narrenschiff</b><br />
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Das Quecksilber fällt, die Zeichen stehen auf Sturm,<br />
nur blödes Kichern und Keifen vom Kommandoturm<br />
und ein dumpfes Mahlen grollt aus der Maschine.<br />
Und rollen und Stampfen und schwere See,<br />
die Bordkapelle spielt „Humbatäterä",<br />
und ein irres Lachen dringt aus der Latrine.<br />
Die Ladung ist faul, die Papiere fingiert,d<br />
die Lenzpumpen leck und die Schotten blockiert,<br />
die Luken weit offen und alle Alarmglocken läuten.<br />
Die Seen schlagen mannshoch in den Laderaum<br />
und Elmsfeuer züngeln vom Ladebaum,<br />
doch keiner an Bord vermag die Zeichen zu deuten!<br />
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Der Steuermann lügt, der Kapitän ist betrunken<br />
und der Maschinist in dumpfe Lethargie versunken,<br />
die Mannschaft lauter meineidige Halunken,<br />
der Funker zu feig' um SOS zu funken.<br />
Klabautermann führt das Narrenschiff<br />
volle Fahrt voraus und Kurs auf's Riff.<br />
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Am Horizont wetterleuchten die Zeichen der Zeit:<br />
Niedertracht und Raffsucht und Eitelkeit.<br />
Auf der Brücke tummeln sich Tölpel und Einfaltspinsel.<br />
Im Trüben fischt der scharfgezahnte Hai,<br />
bringt seinen Fang ins Trockne, an der Steuer vorbei,<br />
auf die Sandbank, bei der wohlbekannten Schatzinsel.<br />
Die andern Zuhälter und Geldwäscher, die warten schon,<br />
Bordellkönig, Spielautomatenbaron,<br />
im hellen Licht, niemand muß sich im Dunkeln rumdrücken<br />
in der Bananenrepublik, wo selbst der Präsident<br />
die Scham verloren hat und keine Skrupel kennt,<br />
sich mit dem Steuerdieb im Gefolge zu schmücken.<br />
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Der Steuermann lügt, der Kapitän ist betrunken<br />
und der Maschinist in dumpfe Lethargie versunken,<br />
die Mannschaft lauter meineidige Halunken,<br />
der Funker zu feig' um SOS zu funken.<br />
Klabautermann führt das Narrenschiff<br />
volle Fahrt voraus und Kurs auf's Riff.<br />
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Man hat sich glatt gemacht, man hat sich arrangiert.<br />
All die hohen Ideale sind havariert,<br />
und der große Rebell, der nicht müd' wurde zu streiten,<br />
mutiert zu einem servilen, gift'gen Gnom<br />
und singt lammfromm vor dem schlimmen alten Mann in Rom<br />
seine Lieder, fürwahr: Es ändern sich die Zeiten!<br />
Einst junge Wilde sind gefügig, fromm und zahm,<br />
gekauft, narkotisiert und flügellahm,<br />
tauschen Samtpfötchen für die einst so scharfen Klauen.<br />
Und eitle Greise präsentier'n sich keck<br />
mit immer viel zu jungen Frauen auf dem Oberdeck,<br />
die ihre schlaffen Glieder wärmen und ihnen das Essen vorkauen.<br />
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Der Steuermann lügt, der Kapitän ist betrunken<br />
und der Maschinist in dumpfe Lethargie versunken,<br />
die Mannschaft lauter meineidige Halunken,<br />
der Funker zu feig' um SOS zu funken.<br />
Klabautermann führt das Narrenschiff<br />
volle Fahrt voraus und Kurs auf's Riff.<br />
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Sie rüsten gegen den Feind, doch der Feind ist längst hier.<br />
Er hat die Hand an deiner Gurgel, er steht hinter dir.<br />
Im Schutz der Paragraphen mischt er die gezinkten Karten.<br />
Jeder kann es sehen, aber alle sehen weg,<br />
und der Dunkelmann kommt aus seinem Versteck<br />
und dealt unter aller Augen vor dem Kindergarten.<br />
Der Ausguck ruft vom höchsten Mast: Endzeit in Sicht!<br />
Doch sie sind wie versteinert und sie hören ihn nicht.<br />
Sie zieh'n wie Lemminge in willenlosen Horden.<br />
Es ist, als hätten alle den Verstand verlor'n,<br />
sich zum Niedergang und zum Verfall verschwor'n,<br />
und ein Irrlicht ist ihr Leuchtfeuer geworden.<br />
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Der Steuermann lügt, der Kapitän ist betrunken<br />
und der Maschinist in dumpfe Lethargie versunken,<br />
die Mannschaft lauter meineidige Halunken,<br />
der Funker zu feig' um SOS zu funken.<br />
Klabautermann führt das Narrenschiff<br />
volle Fahrt voraus und Kurs auf's Riff.<br />
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Carpe diem! <br />
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-69024300733931099522012-11-15T06:22:00.000+00:002012-11-17T07:49:15.319+00:00Passive Passion...<b><span style="color: #444444;"><i><span style="font-size: large;">... a summary of what is PassivHaus</span></i></span></b><br />
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-6477634718572203822012-10-28T06:15:00.000+00:002012-10-28T06:41:50.461+00:00Sceptic Doubts<br />
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<span style="color: red;"><b><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">... going down the<a href="http://www.skepticalscience.com/climate-of-doubt-shines-light-on-climate-deniers.html" target="_blank"> up<span style="color: red;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span>escalator</a>!</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Carpe diem!</span></span><br />
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-7387184850195253122012-07-19T12:53:00.001+01:002012-07-19T12:53:52.506+01:00Euro! Stop here!<div style="color: #444444;">
<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Any day longer will make it worse!</span></b></i></div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Much worse! </span></b></i></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Prior to have to live through an explosion of this Unified European Currency and see the European Union become a battlefield I demand this stupid adventure to be stopped here and now!</b></span></div>
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At the moment we might have a smallish chance left to settle this suicidal experiment in a controlled and organized way. Any day longer this "Einheitswährung" as it is called in Germany, the "Unity-Currency" of something that is far from being a Unity, is strangling those totally unequal economies and peoples it will become worse; worse than any cut could be today!</div>
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Unemployment rates in the South soar with young people under 25 reaching 55% in places, overall a >25% rate of unemployment in Greece, Spain, Portugal, soon Italy are only what we will see next in other states and France, The Netherlands, even the UK once the bread and games are over with. And shortly thereafter in Germany! Combined with severe cuts into training and education all this is the recipe for extreme social pressure and economical depression of unseen dimensions; industrial output shrinks at record rates all over Europe and that is not machinery and production slowing down but complete plants shut off and people send to hell; that hell of trying to find a job in an environment that does not create labour but exported and exports any job possible for the sake of boosting wholesale markups until retail collapses along with purchase power.</div>
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<b>If</b> there is any intelligence left in Europe it should, it must act now; neither a bank-union, bank banks, ultra low or even negative interest rates nor any of these stunningly ignorant and all the same money-printing-Ponzi-bonanzas will solve the disaster that one currency pulled over what was an unprepared, inhomogeneous Europe, not unified economically, not legally, not socially, has caused.</div>
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As to Pound Sterling people will say it is good where it is, strong and an independent alternative, so why call for the Euro to be ended? The Pound is only so strong like the Euro is weak, independence is history and UK is still part of the Eurasian continent.</div>
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<b>The Euro must end here! Der Euro muß weg!</b></div>
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-45598931229364643452012-07-13T08:09:00.000+01:002012-07-14T07:27:25.152+01:00LIBOR<div style="color: #444444;">
<span style="font-size: large;"><i><b>... the interbanking scam!</b></i></span></div>
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I remember the lines of bankers I had to deal with in the past which would criticise my business plan as to not being profitable enough; 25% or 30% margins were expected otherwise, why bother?! After this we all understand the motivations:</div>
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While some try to save money going DIY others use DIY in a much more profound way; it is criminal, but who cares in a world where all those foxes put themselves in charge of all those hen houses; they set their margins themselves; monopoly at its best; this cartel doesn't even need breakfast.<br />
This breakfast refers to a so-called breakfast-cartel of the German light bulb industry where the main producers met one morning in April 1899 and agreed to raise prices by 10% - during that breakfast they agreed on who would say what, go first, follow up, etc. Of course, this was and is declared illegal, but how good are declarations when mainstream has those for lunch?</div>
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In above video Mr Booth, representing the Institute of Economic Affairs, is masterfully trying to not answer any question in detail which seems to be the goal of this <a href="http://www.iea.org.uk/about/what-we-do" target="_blank">IEA</a>, while this perky Mr Reid speaks for the one and only ICFR, International Centre for Financial Regulation, the "<i style="color: red;">... only independent, non-partisan organisation to be exclusively
focused on best practice in all aspects of financial regulation
internationally.</i>" as you can read <a href="http://www.icffr.org/About-Us.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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But then you should see the list of those independent Founder Members <a href="http://www.icffr.org/getdoc/27ff7b91-c775-4f3e-aabf-0de683b5329b/Founder-Members.aspx" target="_blank">here</a>. If you see UBS, Barclays, Her Majesty's Government or Morgan Stanley, etc. on that list you are not nuts! Calm down, you are just watching the scam having breakfast! Simon Johnson: <a href="http://baselinescenario.com/2012/07/12/the-market-has-spoken-and-it-is-rigged/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+BaselineScenario+%28The+Baseline+Scenario%29" target="_blank">The Market Has Spoken...</a></div>
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This does not leave me and my business plans with any hope. Banksters! I recommend you reading the<a href="http://efficiencymeetssustainability.blogspot.co.uk/2009/03/bank-as-in-bankrupt-culture-of.html" target="_blank"> interview</a> with James K. Galbraith, March 2009, three years ago!!!</div>
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There was clearly a systematic failure. But that does not mean there was no criminal energy around.<br />
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WHEN will we finally see things change? What a stupid question!<br />
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<br />caw rockhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03252346486811877343noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2399017836300924697.post-6818444540215154952012-07-13T06:58:00.000+01:002012-07-13T07:04:17.175+01:00We will adapt to that...<div style="color: #444444;">
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