The following was sent to me by an anonymous source, and has asked me to print it. So here it is.
"You see that the country is collapsing into a fetid pit of paper pushing, over regulation and newspeak, and yet you do nothing. After all what on earth can you do? You are but one man/woman. Someone forgot to tell that to Rosa Parks.
You sit at home, watching your TV and mumble softly into your Shiraz because there is nothing you can do. Someone forgot to tell that to Ghandi.
Another regulation is dumped on you from a great height and you grumble, but carry on regardless because there is nothing you can do. Someone forgot to tell Martin Luther King that there was nothing he could do.
You voted for the Lib/Con coalition, but you forgot that their best intentions would be destroyed by the beast that is parliament, so you carry on regardless because there is nothing you can do. If only someone had told Lech Wałęsa this.
You read the Daily Mail and chunter about the madness you see there. But again you do nothing because there is nothing you can do. If only Neslon Mandella had listened to the naysayers
Your children will come to you 10 years from now and ask you WHY you let this all happen.
And you will answer that you were afraid. You were afraid of being judged. you were afraid you will be ridiculed. You were afraid that the agents would come knocking on your door and ask you for your "papers". You were afraid that you were wrong. you were afraid that you were right.
Can you look your child in the eye and say you are handing over a world fit for them to live in?
I merely ask the question"
Worth thinking about
Thursday, 16 September 2010
Wednesday, 15 September 2010
The law of contracts
All commercial activity in this country comes under what is known as "Admiralty Jurisdiction". We have all heard of Common Law, or "the law of the land", but how many of us have heard of Statute law, "the law of the SEA".
Admiralty or commerce law was set up hundreds of years ago to protect and allow trade between different countries. As time progressed, the law moved from the shipping lanes onto the dry land as there were many benefits to both the controllers and the controlled. It existed along side common law (which the British/Dutch Empires spread to all corners of the globe) but has slowly begun to replace it.
Everything is now about contracts. Two examples:
You are born, your parents Register you to the state. This gives the state the power to take you into care should your parents not look after you. It is a contract.
You buy a car and you register it.... effectively signing it over to the state. You then set up a contract to pay the state £X every year for the use of their roads and their car. If you don't pay your road tax, this allows the state to take your car and crush it.
The thing is, when you start to understand this, you see the power this information gives YOU.
The next time you buy a service off a company....... say a Clinical Waste contractor, and they feck you about with made up regulations....... well perhaps you should explore their breach of your mutual contract. The civil courts take a very DIM view of contract breach.
Just a random thought for the day
Admiralty or commerce law was set up hundreds of years ago to protect and allow trade between different countries. As time progressed, the law moved from the shipping lanes onto the dry land as there were many benefits to both the controllers and the controlled. It existed along side common law (which the British/Dutch Empires spread to all corners of the globe) but has slowly begun to replace it.
Everything is now about contracts. Two examples:
You are born, your parents Register you to the state. This gives the state the power to take you into care should your parents not look after you. It is a contract.
You buy a car and you register it.... effectively signing it over to the state. You then set up a contract to pay the state £X every year for the use of their roads and their car. If you don't pay your road tax, this allows the state to take your car and crush it.
The thing is, when you start to understand this, you see the power this information gives YOU.
The next time you buy a service off a company....... say a Clinical Waste contractor, and they feck you about with made up regulations....... well perhaps you should explore their breach of your mutual contract. The civil courts take a very DIM view of contract breach.
Just a random thought for the day
Monday, 13 September 2010
Madness
So let me get this straight. The unions object to the proposed spending cuts because their members will be penalised. So let me get this straight, all those people who work in the private sector, you know the businesses that actually bring in the revenue that the country depends on, they are to bear the brunt of the austerity measures, is that what the unions are saying?
For the Unions to call mass strikes would result in a reduction in the countries GDP, which would reduce tax revenue, which would reduce the amount of money available to cut the deficit, which would then require even worse spending cuts. It would also affect the countries credit rating, putting the currency at risk. The country is already bankrupt........ please don't give the IMF an excuse to impose some REAL PAIN.
If Union leaders start calling for a "coalition" of strikes, they risk being charged with sedition. If there is pain to spread around, we all have to share it. And to be honest, I would argue that the pain should START with the public services who are a net drain on finances. Start with the Quangos, close them all and save AT LEAST £60 billion a year.
For the Unions to call mass strikes would result in a reduction in the countries GDP, which would reduce tax revenue, which would reduce the amount of money available to cut the deficit, which would then require even worse spending cuts. It would also affect the countries credit rating, putting the currency at risk. The country is already bankrupt........ please don't give the IMF an excuse to impose some REAL PAIN.
If Union leaders start calling for a "coalition" of strikes, they risk being charged with sedition. If there is pain to spread around, we all have to share it. And to be honest, I would argue that the pain should START with the public services who are a net drain on finances. Start with the Quangos, close them all and save AT LEAST £60 billion a year.
Sunday, 12 September 2010
October the 20th
What everyone seems to be forgetting (or perhaps just trying to ignore like an extremely large credit card bill shoved into the back of a sock drawer) is that the Government Spending Review is published on October the 20th. This is when the Austerity starts in ernest. This is when the real pain of Labours spending madness will become evident.
And time and again I hear people saying that we shouldn't be cutting spending and paying down debt, because we risk a double dip recession. What they fail to understand is that if we DON'T reduce the deficit we risk something far worse...... a sovereign debt crisis.
You see, the only thing keeping this country going at the moment is foreign governments, banks etc buying our government debt. The more debt this country has, the more risky our debt seems and thus the more expensive it is to service.
Labour were like a teenager with a credit card. They maxed it out, and took out another credit card to continue the good times. They maxed that one out too. Now the Lib/Con coalition (and no I didn't vote for them) are like the concerned mother who uncovers the teenagers foolishness. She has to take control of all this manic spending to get the debt down, or young Johnny is going to be made bankrupt.
If you want to know what happens when a country goes bankrupt and its currency collapses, look at Argentina, look at Greece.
So it's quite simple.
Do you want austerity measures and cuts in public services and a possible double dip recession?
Or do you want a currency collapse, hyperinflation and a depression which wipes out the middle class.
I support none of the political parties. I will remember however who spent all the money in the coffers and more besides.
And time and again I hear people saying that we shouldn't be cutting spending and paying down debt, because we risk a double dip recession. What they fail to understand is that if we DON'T reduce the deficit we risk something far worse...... a sovereign debt crisis.
You see, the only thing keeping this country going at the moment is foreign governments, banks etc buying our government debt. The more debt this country has, the more risky our debt seems and thus the more expensive it is to service.
Labour were like a teenager with a credit card. They maxed it out, and took out another credit card to continue the good times. They maxed that one out too. Now the Lib/Con coalition (and no I didn't vote for them) are like the concerned mother who uncovers the teenagers foolishness. She has to take control of all this manic spending to get the debt down, or young Johnny is going to be made bankrupt.
If you want to know what happens when a country goes bankrupt and its currency collapses, look at Argentina, look at Greece.
So it's quite simple.
Do you want austerity measures and cuts in public services and a possible double dip recession?
Or do you want a currency collapse, hyperinflation and a depression which wipes out the middle class.
I support none of the political parties. I will remember however who spent all the money in the coffers and more besides.
Friday, 10 September 2010
The CQC
Got a very threatening and unhelpful book from the CQC today, outlining all the hoops of fire we will have to jump through.
One of the notable ones is the need for CRB checks. Wouldn't it just be easier for them to coordinate with our OTHER registration body, the GDC. If a dentist is ever arrested by the police, they inform the GDC....... so really CRB checks are a bit like a broken pencil (pointless).
I suspect the CQC will completely ignore the GDC, and will probably make them obsolete. They are also merely the initial wave of bureaucracy that is going to envelope us over the coming years. Ho hum
One of the notable ones is the need for CRB checks. Wouldn't it just be easier for them to coordinate with our OTHER registration body, the GDC. If a dentist is ever arrested by the police, they inform the GDC....... so really CRB checks are a bit like a broken pencil (pointless).
I suspect the CQC will completely ignore the GDC, and will probably make them obsolete. They are also merely the initial wave of bureaucracy that is going to envelope us over the coming years. Ho hum
Wednesday, 8 September 2010
The most important film you will see this year
One of the tings you will start to notice about this blog is that it's not all about dentistry.
There is a reason for this. The blog expresses a reflection of my interests. I have interests other than dentistry. One such interest is history. Several years ago I uncovered a little known book called
"The collapse of complex societies"
Every single empire has collapsed. Every civilisation (with the exclusion of our own) has collapsed.
The Babylonians
The Persians
The Eygyptians
The Greeks
The Romans
The Myans
The Incas
The Mongols
The Spanish
The Dutch
The French
The Prussians
The English (our wmpire is still contracting to this day)
All collapsed and either dissapeared or became a much smaller shadow of their former selves. And they collapse either due to internal strife....... or they run out of resources. We now have a global civilisation....... that is running out of virtually everything.
This is why everyone should watch this film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyHIOg5aHk
By the way, i am available for childrens parties ;)
There is a reason for this. The blog expresses a reflection of my interests. I have interests other than dentistry. One such interest is history. Several years ago I uncovered a little known book called
"The collapse of complex societies"
Every single empire has collapsed. Every civilisation (with the exclusion of our own) has collapsed.
The Babylonians
The Persians
The Eygyptians
The Greeks
The Romans
The Myans
The Incas
The Mongols
The Spanish
The Dutch
The French
The Prussians
The English (our wmpire is still contracting to this day)
All collapsed and either dissapeared or became a much smaller shadow of their former selves. And they collapse either due to internal strife....... or they run out of resources. We now have a global civilisation....... that is running out of virtually everything.
This is why everyone should watch this film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyHIOg5aHk
By the way, i am available for childrens parties ;)
Tuesday, 7 September 2010
3 kinds of people
Whenever you try and do something, you are usually faced with 3 kinds of people:
But enough of that gibberish. We have some dental health news in the......... errrr news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11182666 - Key reason 'found' for gum and heart disease link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8700836.stm - Many 'too busy for a proper brush' of their teeth. Too busy my giddy Aunt. One wonders how long these individuals spend watching the one eyed hypnotist!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10176410 - Brush teeth to 'prevent' heart disease. One does have to ask why these BBC articles always have pictures of toothbrushes with WAY too much toothpaste on them, but that's a differant matter.
- Those that support you
- Those that oppose you
- Those that don't give a damn what you do
But enough of that gibberish. We have some dental health news in the......... errrr news.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11182666 - Key reason 'found' for gum and heart disease link
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/8700836.stm - Many 'too busy for a proper brush' of their teeth. Too busy my giddy Aunt. One wonders how long these individuals spend watching the one eyed hypnotist!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10176410 - Brush teeth to 'prevent' heart disease. One does have to ask why these BBC articles always have pictures of toothbrushes with WAY too much toothpaste on them, but that's a differant matter.
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