The Future of the Digital Age According to Jaron Lanier
Nobody’s Opinion
Okay…so Joran doesn’t exactly have the slick look of the other internet guru’s. When Tom Beebe (Thanks Tom) sent me an article about this guy last week, I must admit, besides being upset about the “cashless’ society that the internet is taking us, I had not thought much about the other side— but I am now.
So Nobody Asks: Is there a downside to the internet?
Men love to invent…and thank God. For the short time they have been here, they went from clubbing each other with clubs, to threatening each other with the atomic bomb proving that many inventions have a double edge sword. One’s man’s ceiling is another man’s floor, and even Paul Simon would admit that he’d rather be a hammer than a nail.
While the sheer genius of the atomic bomb can be marveled at…the world is now in continuous fear of the next ‘nuclear’ attack, and some of us wish that it had never been invented..and did they REALLY think the future consequences of it through?
Obviously not.
And so it is with the new digital technology–like the atomic bomb it is having a downside effect. With all the wonderment that has come with the ease of home computers, there is a man who is pointing out, that it could be the destruction of us all.
And that’s where Jaron Lanier comes in. Jaron was a Silicon Valley digital rock star. He was a pioneer and publicizer of virtual-reality technology (computer-simulated experience. ) and knew all the big guys; Jobs, Gates, Zuckerberg, —-Google, Facebook, etc…and he is so upset about what he has created, he is going around the world and warning the rich guys…of what he calls, “digital Maoism.”
Jaron Lanier, calls this “digital Maoism” indicting “internet intellectuals” like Facebook and Google of being “spy agencies.” He wants to subvert the “hive mind,” as the web world’s been called, before it engulfs us all, destroys political discourse, economic stability, the dignity of personhood and leads to “social catastrophe.” Instead of an ever-upward enlightenment, it is just as likely, he argues, that the crowds will devolve into an online lynch mob.
And who could deny this? Remember how excited Obama was about the Arab Spring? Remember how it was declared that the whole thing came about because of FACEBOOK? Without FACEBOOK the riots would not have evolved. But what came of that? While Zuckerberg was taking victory laps with Obama’s plans to get rid of Mubarak, a huge vacuum was created and the Muslim brotherhood jumped into that hole, and took the reigns of power, leaving the ‘useful idiots” staring at their cell phones and wondering what the hell happened.
And Jason sees this as not a good thing. It’s Mob rule…which is what democracy is, and our founders hated it. He explains it as:
“An enabling and foreshadowing of mob rule, not a growth of democracy, but an accretion of tribalism. But it slowly is turning us into a nation of hate-filled trolls. We have economic fear combined with everybody joined together on these instant twitchy social networks which are designed to create mass action. What does it sound like to you? It sounds to me like the prequel to potential social catastrophe.”
And then there’s the economic side, which is much more damaging. Here’s more:
“I’d had a career as a professional musician and what I started to see is that once we made information free, it wasn’t that we consigned all the big stars to the bread lines. They still had mega tour profits. Instead, it was the middle-class people who were consigned to the bread lines. And that was a very large body of people. And all of a sudden there was this weekly ritual, sometimes even daily: ‘Oh, we need to organize a benefit because so and so who’d been a manager of this big studio that closed its doors has cancer and doesn’t have insurance. We need to raise money so he can have his operation.’
And I realized this was a hopeless, stupid design of society and that it was our fault. It really hit on a personal level—this isn’t working. And I think you can draw an analogy to what happened with communism, where at some point you just have to say there’s too much wrong with these experiments. So by taking value off the books, you’re actually shrinking the economy.” whoever has the biggest computer can analyze everyone else to their advantage and concentrate wealth and power. [Meanwhile], it’s shrinking the overall economy. I think it’s the mistake of our age.”
Since Jason is a musician also, he sees the damage here. Gates, Jobs, Zuckerberg, they just don’t get it because the ONLY job they ever had was creating the internet. But when you’re a musician you dream of the hit record, and with free downloads…the monetary rewards of original music went out with the proverbial free downloads onto your hard drive.
And not just musicians…the whole print industry has been changed: thousands of newspapers and magazines have shut down. Think of how many journalists have lost their jobs. And SO much misinformation is put on the internet, it’s hard to tell what’s true and what isn’t.
Many of our schools are getting rid of books, and giving the kids IPADS. They have stopped teaching cursive writing…texting will become so big in the future, that future generations will not even know how to make a complete sentence. Already in China, the kids are forgetting how to read, because all they do is text. Not to mention the waste of time everyone spends on their computers.
AND…when everything is online: books, money—- all that you do and say will go to the few people who run the world and who will have the power to completely control every single thing. Jaron is right. Jason even goes so far as to blame the housing crash on the internet:
“The rise of networking has coincided with the loss of the middle class, instead of an expansion in general wealth, which is what should happen. But if you say we’re creating the information economy, except that we’re making information free, then what we’re saying is we’re destroying the economy.”
To my mind a over leveraged unsecured mortgage is exactly the same thing as a pirated music file. It’s somebody’s value that’s been copied many times to give benefit to some distant party. In the case of the music files, it’s to the benefit of an advertising spy like Google [which monetizes your search history], and in the case of the mortgage, it’s to the benefit of a fund manager somewhere. But in both cases all the risk and the cost is radiated out toward ordinary people and the middle classes—and even worse, the overall economy has shrunk in order to make a few people more.”
We read of online bullying leading to teen suicides in the United States and, in China, there are reports of well-organized online virtual lynch mobs forming…digital Maoism.”
You know, too many of us know someone who has been grieviously hurt by the internet. I know a man whose girlfriend got mad at him, and went online to FACEBOOK and told all kinds of horror stories to their whole network of friends, and it even got back to his work. They were lies, and somehow he forgave her, and they made up, but the damage had been done. This is happening to millions daily. There is no recourse in court….in fact the law can’t keep up with it.
And if you think that the powerful people will think twice about hurting society, remember the story of Zuckerberg. When he first invented FACEBOOK as a student, he put up a very demoralizing contest and rated all the women on his campus as “ugly” or “cute” and everyone on campus got to have fun putting down women. Typical liberal. He was old enough to have a moral compass, but he had none.
It was…disgusting….and yet, Zuckerberg was forgiven for such an insidious prank because he was a genius. The question is, when these young, rich, and sometimes very immature boys work with Presidents, you DO have a Maoism. Zuckerberg has moved to China to avoid taxes.
No doubt Zuckerberg thinks he is saving the world, he’s not like Jaron who sees beyond himself. You COULD say that the internet is a young technology..it will work out the bugs in time.
I’m sure they thought the same thing about nuclear warfare. But unlike the atomic bomb…so far, we’ve been kept pretty safe from it..it doesn’t affect our daily lives. But the internet is working it’s magic every single day. Hopefully…Jaron will make the rich elites think: After all…he’s right…we are NOT gadgets….but like the ‘ape’: We sure do love them. 
Feinstein’s Hebetudinous Harping
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The White House has put out the message that Obama will be coming for our guns…and sooner rather than later. In the meantime, the propaganda is strong. Movie stars, who make their living off of shooting and killing onscreen, are the ones carrying the message.
But…let’s remember back: Bill and Hillary tried their best to disarm America. Waco, Oklahoma…they tried to use both those disasters to get gun control…even though Janet Reno killed 75 people in Waco, 25 of whom were children. During Waco, we saw the democratic mindset on steroids.
Oh…but those people were terrorits…right?
The truth is: Crime has come down in America. According to our own FBI reports:
Fact, the United States violent crime rate is down 50% in the past 25 years. Fact, the United States murder rate is down 50%. Fact, the United States has 3.5 less times violent crime rate than the disarmed United Kingdom. Fact, rifles deemed by gun grabbers as “assault weapons” are used in a very small minority of murders that occur annually in the United States.
How about that murder rate? Same thing. It dropped nearly fifty percent as well to 4.7 per 100,000. If you will notice, in metropolitan areas, where the population is greater than 250,000 the violent crime rate is double that of the national average that we looked at in Table 1 above. The murder rate is more than double the rate of the national average.
So, the crime rate has come down, but in the cities were Hispanics and blacks gangs have control over the poor citizens who live under strict gun control laws, it’s double.
There is absolutely no reason why good decent law-abiding gun owners should give up their guns to the criminals.
Nobody Thinks, when Obama passes Feinstein’s dream of disarming America, we will see another “WACO.” But THIS time, Obama has drones. Not to mention, last year the government literally stockpiled millions of hallow point bullets to all the government agencies…as if they are going to need them.
Michael the Moore says the white people are just being silly…they want a gun because they are scared of black people and that’s just ridiculous.
Well, he can come to my neighborhood….In fact, I wish he would. 
Nobody Wins when a country is disarmed. Last week, an article in Russia’s Pravda warned us NOT to give up our guns. Nobody Thinks, they ought to know…
We should never give them up. Never. Every communist in the world took over after he disarmed his people…and tell me, who scares you more?
50 cents, or Obama?
Nobody’s Email: The Story of Rudolph
Nobody Gets Email:
His 4-year-old daughter Barbara sat on his lap quietly sobbing. Bob’s wife, Evelyn, was dying of cancer.
Little Barbara couldn’t understand why her mommy could never come home. Barbara looked up into her dad’s eyes and asked, “Why isn’t Mommy just like everybody else’s Mommy?”
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Brave Teacher Quits on Youtube…and Nobody Salutes Him
Nobody Wins
God bless this man…He says exactly what I have been thinking for years.
I have witnessed in my lifetime, the horror of what passes as our school system. When my son was in school…time and time again, I was always up at his school, complaining about one thing or another. I truly believe that schools hold some of the stupidest people, who were being paid big salaries, to sit on their asses all day long and collect taxpayers money.
Too many of our schools have become prisons. Mere education camps for teaching kids to not think, behave, and be bored. Teachers are always complaining about the kids, but kids need to run, to jump, to laugh…we knock all that out of their system, and it’s why we have a nation of stupid people. 
I remember going back to my old high school when I was in my twenties. I walked the halls with my friend during classes, and we were both stunned— literally stunned. There was not a word coming out of any child. And this high school held THOUSANDS of kids. Not a sound. The teachers voices droned on in somberly monotone. Those poor kids, I thought to myself I turned to my friend, who had been in the same grade as I, and our mouths dropped with shock…we started laughing it was almost too painful to witness.
When we went to school, everyone was talking, laughing, having fun. When the teacher talked you shut up, but there was always time to smile, to laugh…to see these kids in complete depression was a big awakening for me. As we passed and looked into every classroom, every head was down. All eyes were down. As if they were all frightened. My old high school..had become a prison.
As you can see, this man is furious. And I spent a good portion of my own life being furious at the schools that my son attended, which I myself had attended. I have never met so many stupid, and arrogant people in one place in my life, and our country’s schools are FILLED with idiots. The ones who could help the children, like this teacher said, are not allowed to. That’s not saying that here and there we don’t still have good schools, it s just that IF you live in a democratic district, your schools are almost federal prisons. And they are all starting to look like prisons. The newer ones have no windows at all.
And…while now they will fortress the school against criminals, the PARENTS are also kept out. This was happening when I was trying to visit my son. You would go to the office, and they would always say…even AFTER school was over. “If we let you into the school. ALL the parents will want to come in.” Nope. You could not monitor the class even though YOU paid their salaries. The system is so messed up. As a parent, you have to be careful, because the teachers let you know, THEY hold your child’s future in their hands. Too many of them will remind you of that if you even complain.
One can only surmise, that our government WANTS a stupid people. A smart and educated populace would never put up with them.
Kids learn better when they are having fun. Don’t listen to me, listen to the man whose inventions give you EVERYTHING you use everyday; Thomas Edison. Here’s some things he had to say about teaching children.
“I like the Montessori method. It teaches through play. It makes learning a pleasure. It follows the natural instincts of the human being. The trouble with our way of education as generally followed is that it does not give elasticity to the mind. It cast the brain into a mould. It insists that the child must accept. It does not encourage original thought or reasoning and it lays more stress on memory than on observation. It breeds fear and from fear comes ignorance.”
Nothing is going to doom this nation more than raising generations of stupid kids. And that’s what we’ve done, and will continue to do. It’s one of the reasons we have Obama. He puts on his jet set cool leather jacket, and smiles, and half the people believe anything he says, because they went through the American school system.
The only place it seems we are excelling is computer technology, where Apple, Facebook, and all the others are execelling…ever ask yourself WHY?
Because they have FUN! They have gyms, and playgrounds, and swimming pools when you go to work there…, and then they work hard.
If we did this in our schools, no country in the world could match our kids. No country in the world runs their schools with the aim to take a mind and set it up for learning for life. This man to me, is a hero.
If only ALL the teachers were as smart as him.
Nobody Wins when we run our schools like concentration camps.
The problem with Newtown is a cultural one…not a gun problem. This kid, was raised in the finest schools, and probably felt like an outcast all through the school years. Mix in divorce with that, and you have a time bomb. They said he was extremely intelligent.
Well, it’s the intelligent ones who are destroyed in our schools. I don’t know how many really brillant kids I have seen been ostracized in school, simply because they were smart, and had energy. Instead of nurturing our own natural intelligent resources, we are destroying them.
It’s up to the parents to make sure your kids survive.
(Sorry about the rant…it’s just that I have SO many bad memories of the absolute horrors of our educational system.)
Piers Morgan…Go Back to England?
Nobody Wonders
It the BRIT and the AMERICAN! Check this out. Which man-made the best points?
I’m not going to get into my opinions here on this ‘gun’ problem issue tonight, but watch this in point for point logical argument. Piers Morgan gets so mad he starts name calling.
It’s an interesting debate.
The liberals today are beside themselves with grief because Americans went out in droves and bought guns….go which I say…HURRY, there’s still time!
Have fun watching it…I did.
Nobody Pretends With Angels
Here’s the thing: I can’t post my usual “Nobody Gets Email” this weekend. The truth is, like everyone else, I want to cry…and tears won’t come…just a pushing behind my temples, a slow fog hangs over my chest, and like every single person that has ever watched their most darling of little children go into a school before they can barely tie their own shoelaces…..we all remember our children at that age…and today was hard to bear with this latest shooting.
I called my son tonight, even though he is 32, in my mind, he was in kindergarten again. Chasing lizards. Walking into the school bravely trying to hold his own fears. I had the overwhelming need just to tell him how MUCH I love him.
In my mind, I was being allowed to here the sound of my son, his voice, his laugh…the things we always take for granted, and today everyone was hit in the face with “But for the Grace of God” it could happen anytime, to anyone.
He told me his best friend’s daughter was born today.
“Does she LOOK like him? ” I laughed with a tease.
But no, he hadn’t heard of any of this…he had gone to work (they have no TV’s there) and came home and went to sleep. “What happened?” he asked.
He was spared the agony of the day, and for that I was thankful. We talked of the usual: bills, pets, Duck Dynasty…Christmas plans. And just the sound of his voice sent pain through my soul.
He was alive, but somewhere mangled and bloody, and lying on a cold floor, are little children…who died a horrible death, because some twisted, and angry soul took out his rage on their innocent little bodies. And tonight there are parents who have to go identify the body of the most precious thing they’ve ever held dear…and see the carnage where they were NOT there to protect them. And they will blame themselves…and hate God, and want to die, and all the other things that go with despair.
So, I think I’m going to take the weekend off…posting anything at the moment is just…almost to me, idiotic. Politics would just dirty the page.
Tomorrow I think I’ll buy myself a bottle of something, mourn, (I only drink on certain occations, and I never look for them.) —and then go on. Nobody suggests it a good idea, and I’ll be back certainly…Sunday or Monday.
Now, excuse me while I go pretend some angels …
Nobody Remembers: Spock Loves Bilbo Baggins
Nobody Remembers
For those of you who grew up with Star Trek, here is one side of Dr. Spock you might have been glad you never knew…but HERE we see just how long the story of Bilbo Baggins has been around. In fact, I have to admit, I read THE HOBBIT in college, and then just had to get the Lord of the Rings.
Nobody could have done a better job than Jackson bringing the story to life, and after watching this video, I am SOOOOOOOOOOOOO glad nobody in the 1960’s attempted to make Tolkien movies until they had the technology of today.
Imagine midget’s running around with fake feet and snap- on ears.
BUT…having said that…this is too weird. I’m not sure I’m going to be able to get this out of my head, and I apologise in advance…
Enjoy…and remember…two cultural heroes’ rolled up in one silly song with a bunch of young pretty girls dancing around (Which, come to think of it, might be why Leonard agreed to be in the video, because I can’t think of any other reason he would do this.)
When the Sands of the Pharohs Turn to Sugar
Nobody Wins
I found this video by random today: A young boy signs up, and then finds out that war is terrible–and this same video could have been made back in 1969. He is right about many things: America does get in too many wars…and if it were up to its citizens, after the attack, we would have gone to kill bin Laden, and not bombed Iraq. America’s military is in too many countries, and war makes too much money for too many people. Despite what Bush thinks…Iraq has turned out to be another Vietnam. He might have to wait more than 50 years to get his glory.
BUT…to say that it’s a ‘racist’ war, is going a bit too far. We…were attacked. Innocents were killed, not soldiers. Unlike WWII, no Muslims in this country were rounded up, even though the Muslims here pose much more of a danger than the poor Japanese’s citizens living here back in 1942 ever did.
What did President Bush do? He got the rich ones out, at our expense. Fine with me.
I must admit, while I don’t agree with most of the points made in the video, I can see how a young man involved over there could rationalized his pain in exactly that way. The young…just don’t know any better. Life will hit them…and thank god it will be later rather than sooner.
So, blame it on the corporations? I’ll go with that. BUT…blame it on the racist Americans who will not bow or feel compassions for Islam?
You have to ask yourself: what has the army been feeding these guys?
Today it was released in the news, that Obama is going full-force “Allah” by issuing a demand that our armed forces may KILL Muslims, but, they cannot for any reason talk against them.
Really? Oh..that REAL logical.
Reported today:
The new U.S. military handbook for troops deployed to the Middle East orders soldiers not to make derogatory comments about the Taliban or criticize pedophilia, among other Islamic things.
The new manual, which is around 75 pages, suggests that Western ignorance of Afghan culture— not Taliban infiltration—is responsible for the increase in deadly attacks by Afghan soldiers against the coalition forces. The draft leaked to the newspaper offers a list of “taboo conversation topics” that soldiers should avoid, including “making derogatory comments about the Taliban,” “advocating women’s rights,” “any criticism of pedophilia,” “directing any criticism towards Afghans,” “mentioning homosexuality and homosexual conduct” or “anything related to Islam.”
Okay soldier: you turn your head when you see that Afghan with that little boy.
Can you believe this shit? (Sorry…I’m still an American)
Obviously, this is more proof that Obama and Hillary are on a mission to make it against the law to talk against Islam in this country. The military will be FORCED to do so.
The citizens will be next.
And after that? Submission.
So, when Hillary says she is NOT going to run for office in 2016, I’d believe her, because the Muslim Brotherhood is not going to want a woman in the White House, and it seems it’s their mission to not offend the Muslims at any cost.
Unless of course, she wears a burka..and I know a few fellows who would approve.
The truth is: someone will always be at war. The war in the Middle East will only stop when the Saharan sands turned to Broccoli…and by that time, all the prophesies will come true…and until that time, the remaining Americans who love their country have a even more powerful enemy to survive.
Their own govenment. And on that–the young and the old, can agree.
What Next, Dr. Zhivago?
Nobody Knows
I remember how shocked I was upon hearing Mitt Romney, on one of his last debates, talk about how wonderful China was. He toned down his previous points about how they manipulate their currency. But China has beat all of the big business men at their own game. For instance: Take Jeffery Immelt, Obama’s Jobs Czar. (Who pays no taxes) Communism, he believes is superior to our political system. Evidently enslaving millions of people is not much of a concern to Jeffery.
It’s official: They are not making much of a secret about it: Some of our top American businessmen, and the politicians they keep in office, want a slicked version of communism right here in America..and keeping the parties at each other’s throats daily will help convince us all soon that’s it’s the way we should go.
The Chinese have stolen all our technology, and used the greed of our most successful businessmen to destroy us. But many of these big shots like Immelt, prefer to deal with just a few men, to give them monopolies. It’s a dream of power that makes Ayn Rand look like a Mickey Mouse story.
Jeffery Immelt didn’t hold back his feelings on just how much he admires the Chinese. It’s rather sickening…how MUCH he admires them.
And now, we have Warren Buffet pushing communism along with George Soros.
Investors Warren Buffett and George Soros are calling on Congress to increase the estate tax as lawmakers near a decision on tax policies that expire Dec. 31. This action threatens 526,421 family farms, of about 25 percent of all farms in America, according to a Senate analysis. Many farm and ranch families would be forced to sell their assets to satisfy Washington Democrats’ insatiable appetite for tax money. Up to 24 percent of America’s farm and ranch families could be forced to hand over a large chunk of their heritage to the Internal Revenue Service when a family member dies. This would economically devastate rural communities.
And HOW would that benefit Warren Buffet? After these family farms are finally are sold off…that will clear up land for Buffet’s railroads, AND get more people into the cities, where Obama plans to make us a competitor to China. People are to be gently pushed Into the cities, where they can be monitored daily with camera’s. Detroit and St. Louis will become agricultural centers. All those buildings will make way for workers to plant and harvest to feed the world.
Think I’m making this up?
When they control the land, the food, the water, and keep you in poverty, the only thing you can if you have any money left…
Is move to Canada, or Belgium where the French are flocking! This man, bless his heart, even shows you the way—
A man should be allowed to pass his land and his farms to his children and their children.
And after the farms…what will they come for next,—-Doctor Zhivago?
“The moment the idea is admitted into society that property is not as sacred as the laws of God … anarchy and tyranny commence. PROPERTY MUST BE SECURED OR LIBERTY CANNOT EXIST” –John Adams
Nobody Flashes Obama’s Union Thugs…Not Happy.
Nobody Flashes
Well hey, Greece is coming to America sooner than we thought! ! Some union thugs think that the “right to work” law is taking away his hard-earned pension and GIVING IT TO SOMEONE ELSE!
Uh..isn’t that the same thing as Obama taking hard-earned money from the people who ARE paying taxes and giving it the those who aren’t paying taxes, along with free housing, cell phones, health care, kidneys, food stamps and cars?
Tell me, where’s the difference?
“There will be blood,” State Representative Douglas Geissthreatened from the floor of the Michigan House of Representatives today as the body debated legislation that would make Michigan the nation’s 24th right to work state.
So, after the right to be able to choose whether you want to join a union was voted on…. instead of losing in good grace (as conservatives always do) the union is out for blood, and decided to start with the reporters in the tent, and the guy with the microphone, who did NOT hit the guy back after he attacked him.
Frankly, the guy who was doing the punching looks like he could use a few more beers.
Nobody’s Perfect: Jamie Fox VS the Brits
Nobody’s Perfect
I should have posted the video yesteday…as it was all over the internet. But…of course…it’s been taken down, (I think) because Jamie Fox said, for all the world to hear, that he got to kill white people in his movie and he really enjoyed it! It was such a WONDERFUL black thing to do!
If Jamie keeps this up…I’m almost SURE he will get next year’s Nobel Peace Prize.
Mmmmmmm…..silence. Notice NOBODY on the liberal networks are even talking about this?
Nobody suggests that all white people boycott that movie. But of course they won’t. There are too many stupid white people….who think that’s funny…black men wanting to kill them because they are white. I guess since Jamie is such good friends with Obama, he feels he can say he would like all white people dead and enjoy the moment? And uh…
YES HE CAN!
So, if Jamie Fox can declare he would love killing white people, then any white person in the country should be able to say they love killing black people. Right? Free speech, after all.
I wonder how the “white” producers of Jamie’s new movie are going to go for that. They just lost a major portion of their profits. I’m not going to even RENT it.
On the other side of the loony bin last week, were the Brits. It seems Prince Williams’ Kate was very sick in the hospital when some Australian DJ’s decided to call up the hospital and pretend they were the Prince and the Queen, and since the nurse was NOT of British birth, she believed them and gave them information she shouldn’t have. Like, she was having trouble with the royal pregnancy.
Uh-oh. Big mistake.
So she killed herself. In true liberal guilt fashion, every one in the media now is more concerned about the two idiot DJ’s than the family___
The family of the tragic nurse who took the hoax call to the hospital where the Duchess of Cambridge was staying have been given less support than the Australian DJs behind the stunt, an MP said yesterday. ‘We have the Australian DJs who are getting all this counselling, but what about the family? What about support for them?
But..That’s not all the Brits are doing. They are determined to control cow flatulence! While Hillary is taking taxpayers’ money we have, to build Mosques in Cairo, the British government is spending money on the flatulence of cows. Here’s what one reporter from the Daily Mail found out:
Millions of pounds of British taxpayers’ money has been spent on a scheme aimed at reducing the flatulence of Colombian cattle, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
A £15million grant to ranchers and other organisations in the South American country was part of a £2.9billion package of ‘climate aid’ to developing countries which critics called ‘ludicrous’.
The initiative aimed to improve animal diets by cultivating trees and plants on their grazing lands – in doing so reducing the amount of methane escaping through belching and flatulence.
- A total of £14million of climate aid finance to projects in Uganda, despite the Government recently stopping all aid to the country because of corruption.
- £31million of British money going to Turkey – a middle-ranking economy – to help develop geo-thermal and wind power.
- The Department for International Development (DFID) funding meetings between tribal ‘rain-makers’ and meteorologists in Kenya.
- Who wins the nutjob of the week? You decide. I’m too tired. BUT…put me in a field of flatulent cows anyday…where I can be SURE I won’t run into Jamie Fox. I’d be just fine.
Nobody’s Email: Governor LaPage’s Suggestions..
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Here’s one I got last week. It’s about a no-nonsense governor of Maine, Paul LaPage, who Nobody wishes would got more media time.
(Thanks to Tom Beebe)
THE LAW IS THE LAW!
I really love this one.
This is one of the better e-mails I have received in a long time! I hope this makes its way around the USA several times over!!!!! HERE IS WHAT Governor LaPage said: 
“THE LAW IS THE LAW So “if” the US government determines that it is against the law for the words “under God” to be on our money, then, so be it. And “if” that same government decides that the “Ten Commandments” are not to be used in or on a government installation, then, so be it. I say, “so be it,” because I would like to be a law abiding US citizen I say, “so be it,” because I would like to think that smarter people than I are in positions to make good decisions. I would like to think that those people have the American public’s best interests at heart.
BUT, he said, “YOU KNOW WHAT ELSE I’D LIKE? Since we can’t pray to God, can’t Trust in God and cannot post His Commandments in Government buildings, I don’t believe Government (Federal, State and Local) and its employees should participate in Easter and Christmas celebrations which honor the God that our government is eliminating from many facets of American life.
I’d like my mail delivered on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter. After all, it’s just another day. I’d like the” US Supreme Court to be in session on Christmas, Good Friday, Thanksgiving & Easter as well as Sundays.” After all, it’s just another day.
I’d like the Senate and the House of Representatives to not have to worry about getting home for the “Christmas Break.” After all it’s just another day.
I’m thinking a lot of my taxpayer dollars could be saved, if all government offices & services would work on Christmas, Good Friday & Easter.
It shouldn’t cost any overtime since those would be just like any other day of the week to a government that is trying to be “politically correct.”
In fact…. I think our government should work on Sundays (initially set aside for worshipping God….) because, after all, our government says that it should be just another day….” What do you all think????
If this idea gets to enough people, maybe our elected officials will stop giving in to the “minority opinions” and begin, once again, to represent the “majority” of ALL of the American people. SO BE IT……….. Please Dear Lord, Give us the help needed to keep you in our country! ‘Amen’ and ‘Amen’ Touché!
If this gets around the country a few times, perhaps we will see a better day!
SOME People, Grow Up!
Nobody Reports
I have never seen one episode of Two and a Half Men. I once watched about three minutes of it, and Charlie Sheen said something very stupid, and that was about all I needed. Now— the young man who played the kid, Angus Jones, has grown up to become a Seventh Day Adventist, and is advising everyone not to watch it, because, it is crap.
So, why is EVERYONE attacking him now? He was making money off of crap.
How many people in Hollywood are making money off of crap? In that vein, how many ‘people’ in the world are making money off of selling crap? What did Jesus say? If you are guiltless…then who among you can cast the first stone?
Prostitutes of capitalism confess. You made money off of selling us Pamela Anderson running on the beach in a red bathing suit. You made money off of cotton candy. Let’s not forget the millions of people who bought cigarettes and died of cancer. I could argue my public education was so crappy, I to this day, have trouble with spelling. Crap. Crap. It’s everywhere.
But we are free to pick and choose…are we not? So far. They haven’t chipped Two and a Half Men to be downloaded into our brains…yet.
Frankly, Nobody Thinks if some of our politicians would come to a camera and say, “Hey, all these people up here are liars and they are ruining your life”…even though he was making millions, it would be a start. This Nobody would consider his worthiness for another term.
Good for Angus. Stating the obvious. Not too many do.
Schwarzenegger: The New Goebbels
Nobody’s Opinion
“Scientific socialism” would hold especial attraction for intellectuals by promising to replace spontaneous and messy life with a rational order of which they would be the interpreters and mentors.–Richard Pipes
Sorry. I have been in the land of Hallmark’s Christmas, “Santa makes all your dreams come true” marathon all day yesterday. My husband had a nasty cold, so we watched 4 Hallmark movies in a row— in bed. In fact, we only stopped between movies to eat, and then jumped right back under the covers again. What’s endearing about my husband is that he keeps the Kleenex box on his side of the bed, and I have always wondered how in the world he knows when to hand me one. He just does. He doesn’t even look at me, he just reaches over, grabs one, and hands it to me at the perfect moment: You know, at the big ending where everyone that was fighting makes up, and Santa Clause finds his way home, and the orphan kids get a meal, and they find the lost puppy, and well…these movies are all about family, love, and doing what’s right. There are not too many “gay” love stories in them…yet. Most of the Hallmark Movies are in the traditional Christmas spirit.
And darn it…Where else can you get that kind of entertainment anymore? In the last ten years, Hollywood has been promoting its social messages in every sitcom, movie, and song. They’ve been cramming them down our throats. In other words, we are being socially engineered by some of the most brilliant minds on the planet, to accept all their future goals for the masses.
And now, “Professor” Arnold Schwarzenegger has been put in charge of a special school, where these new propaganda artists will be trained to …as he puts it, “educate” the masses. Film, art, and government will become one entity, much as in old Germany. An institute to train future artists to continue…globalization. 
He held a panel at the school on C-Span today, which consisted of Ron Meyer, President of Universal Studios, Brain Grazer of Imagine Entertainment (Apollo 13) Rob Friedman, Co-Chairman of Lionsgate, and Jimmy Iovine, record producer of Bruce Springsteen among others.
The giants.
Arnold said very bluntly that his institute was there to bring students and world leaders together to “educate, inform, and change attitudes.”
And these men were obviously proud of the social issues they had educated us on. They were all very proud of Brokeback Mountain for instance. What was very clear is how seriously these men took what they perceived to the social issues of the day. EVERYONE in America needed to be trained, educated, and taught how to think and act…and they knew how to get that message across.
The issues? Name every liberal issue you can think of…we’re going to see more of it: climate change, global warming, women empowerment, end of life issues (euthanasia) eating healthy, immigration, race, etc….
In other words..Marxist propaganda all wrapped up in big smile— like only Arnold can deliver.
Yes, right there in Southern California, Arnold’s propaganda ministry will be training future propagandists for the global government.
Just look at who’s on the board: This is from Arnold’s website—
The new institute’s bipartisan Board of Advisors includes international leaders in business, public service and education. Initial members include Henry Cisneros, who as San Antonio’s mayor became the first Hispanic-American mayor of a major U.S. city and was appointed by President Bill Clinton as secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; Vicente Fox, who served as president of Mexico from 2000 to 2006; Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, chair of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; George Shultz, economist and statesman who served as U.S. Secretary of State from 1982 to 1989; Austrian Chancellor Werner Faymann; and Kandeh K. Yumkella, director-general of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization.
Guiding principles include: science and evidence must play an important role when finding solutions to policy and social issues; local solutions are often the best means to solve global problems; and future leaders, including students and young people, must help shape the solutions for our future
The USC Price School of Public Policy, established in 1929, is one of the premier schools of its kind in the nation. Through a time-honored commitment to public service, a legacy of strong connections to professional leaders and a world-renowned research portfolio, the school’s faculty, students and alumni work to improve the quality of life for people and their communities worldwide. The USC Price School of Public Policy is at the forefront of research and teaching on today’s major issues, including: housing and real estate markets, environmental sustainability, health care, economic development, transportation and infrastructure, governance and leadership, nonprofits and philanthropy, civic engagement, immigration and the impact of terrorism
Gee…sounds like you, dear poor pathetic uneducated citizen won’t have too much to say about any of this…but you can be sure they will try to ‘entertain’ you while you’re being brainwashed.
And Arnold may be a registered Republican, but like New York Mayor Bloomberg, there’s not a thing conservative about the man.
On September 27, 2006 Schwarzenegger signed a bill creating the nation’s first cap on greenhouse gas emissions. He left California with a record high deficit, and worked with the Chinese Government to build a bridge there.
The politicians and Hollywood are practically united. This instituted will seal the final deal…and Nobody is more afraid than me, that these old Hallmark Christmas movies will someday stop, because they offend our Muslims citizens.
I did notice they are keeping a lot of the old Christmas songs out of them….even this year.
So…Arnold has a new job. He is now the New American Goebbels. His father, would be proud.
Nobody Thinks I’m going to miss those old Hallmark Christmas moves…someday. Where else can you find so many happy endings? With all these morons taking control of our lives and taking away our religion, our free speech, our jobs, our dreams and Christmas wishes….happy endings are getting harder to come by…
Pass the Kleenex.
About
I am a nobody. If the different classes of America were color-coded, I would be in the yucky brown, one rung up from the bottom. I grew up in Naples, Florida and live near the Mississippi River now with my husband and two dogs. I am part of the slowly disappearing middle-class. I was a musician most of my life: drummer/singer/keyboards—but I retired before the plastic surgery flu hit. I have no degrees, which could be a good thing…depending on how you view our educational system. I do have three patents…but that really doesn’t make me a somebody. The one thing that is constant in my life is my OPINIONS, which i have more than perhaps even Carl Sagan could have imagined…mostly political. (yes…my ancestors were crabby buggers)
Hopefully other nobody’s will put their opinions on my site. But, if you happen to be a somebody, you’re more than welcomed to help out.
It’s my Nobody Opinion that Nobody’s Perfect, and Nobody Cares, that Nobody Knows why Nobody Wins, and when that happens, Nobody Wonders, why Nobody Flashes, why Nobody’s Fooled, but then Nobody remembers that Nobody ALWAYS Reports the truth.
You can email me at joyanna_adams@yahoo.com
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