Iran's unmanned bomber looks like a V-2 missile

Iran Shows Off Unmanned, Long-Range Bomber

Iran's unmanned bomber reminds me of a V-2 missile or a reusable cruise missile with a bomb attached. Even though it looks very primitive like a world War II German V-2 missile I don't think that Israel or any of the mideast nations are very happy about this. Click on "Iran Shows Off" at top.

by the way 200 kilograms is equal to about  a 440.9 pound

payload. 1000 kilometers is 621.37 miles approximately.

What does this mean?

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2007/12/picture-this-pr/

When I was trying to research the length of a Predator drone to see if it was around the same length as the 4 meter Iranian Karrar the above photo  and short explanation came up at wired.com at the above internet address.  It might just be photoshopped but if it isn't then it is quite a sight for a 135 mile per hour roboplane. Usually, you don't get this effect unless you are near the speed of sound like when fighter jets get a vapor cloud off of wing tips or surfaces in high speed turns at air shows.

Iran Launches Unmanned Bomber

Iran inaugurates nation's first unmanned bomber 
TEHRAN, Iran – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has inaugurated the country's first domstically-built long-range unmanned bomber.
The 4-meter long unmanned plane, dubbed as Karrar or striker, was inaugurated by Ahmadinejad on Sunday, the national day for the country's defense industry.end quote.

Recently, I wrote about the bad precedent the Predator Drone with Hellfire missiles set. Now, we have a 4 meter unmanned bomber out of Iran. I bet Israel is really happy about that. (cynicism)
Iran is rubbing the Nuclear power plant in the world's face by launching the unmanned bomber today.

To me, it basically says, "Yes. Now you know if we can we will nuke all our enemies with a nuke in a Karrar when we can."

Only 100 of the 500 SandPs the same as 1957

The End of Management
A popular video circulating the Internet captures the geometric nature of these trends, noting that it took radio 38 years and television 13 years to reach audiences of 50 million people, while it took the Internet only four years, the iPod three years and Facebook two years to do the same.

It's no surprise that fewer than 100 of the companies in the S&P 500 stock index were around when that index started in 1957. end quote.

If there are fewer than 100 of the original 500 still there from 1957 it puts the last 50 years in a completely new perspective for all or most of us.

If you look at the 38 for radio
                             13 for TV
                               4 for internet
                               3 for IPod
                               2 for Facebook

you begin to comprehend what we all are up against in regard to what Alvin Toffler once called Future Shock. At this point we live in a state of perpetual shock that I might call Post Traumatic ongoing Future Shock which would be defined as having more things to adapt to than was humanly possible and stay what would be defined as a normal human being.

However, normal cannot mean normal human in 1950 through 1980 or even 1990. The new normal is only abnormal to those of us who lived through the 1950s and into the present. So, welcome to the new abnormal. But, if you think it is normal then it is. Because "As a man thinketh so is he(or she).

So you might ask how far can a human adapt? I think a better question might be "How far can a human physically adapt?" Because psychological adaptation is relative but physical adaptation  is more of about bio-mechanical absolutes.

Quantum Gravity

It was my wife's birthday so we met our friends at a nice restaurant. He is the head of a University Physics Department and she is a psychiatrist. As we started talking he was telling me about studying Quantum Gravity in Europe a lot lately. I asked what Quantum Gravity is. He explained that from gravity comes the basic understanding of time and space and that quantum gravity even though theoretical at present is being studied for many reasons including the many new dimensions it may lead us to. Since I never studied physics in college I felt sort of out of my league even though I understand the mechanics of electricity having worked with my father in his Electrical Contracting business as an Electrician's helper and having wired many many houses and buildings growing up and then working with a variety of computers both as a programmer and operator and have been into home computers as a hobby since 1978.

I asked him a question regarding electricity that had been bothering me for some time. Even though he had a good answer something about the answer still bothers me. But I couldn't convince him that I actually had a point.

I said that I was worried that electricity creation from breaking magnetic fields I felt might be depleting the Magnetosphere and that since  Mars had a depleted magnetosphere it could be an indication that humans or other alien technological life once lived there (even our ancestors) and by generating electrical power by breaking magnetic fields as in power plants they had depleted their magnetosphere which made them vulnerable to plasma bursts and cosmic rays which degraded life on the planet there. Though this is an intuitive judgement I have learned to trust my intuitions in certain situations like this one.

What he told me was that in alternating current since the electricity only travels back and forth in a circuit between a location(your home?)  and the power station that there is no loss of energy except in the fossil fuels burned to generate the electricity. Even though he answered my question I didn't find it intuitively satisfying and realized that maybe he was just too programmed down a certain direction to be able to see where I was actually going with my questioning. Sometimes it is very frustrating trying to talk to very intelligent people about things.

However, he did convince me of one thing. I realized that I had had the misconception that the light from the lights you see lit up by electricity was the electricity and realized as we were talking that actually what we are viewing is the metal filament lighting up in an incandescent lamp because of resistance in the metal filament. And any heat given off is also from the resistance (slowing down of the electrical flow through the filament). So at least in this way he evolved my thinking about light and electricity.

However, my concern about the magnetosphere is a real one and I have learned to trust my intuition over what any intellectual tells me about anything. My instincts and intuition have saved my life over and over again so I know there is something wrong in the electricity equation that scientists either have covered up or overlooked. I really believe that we are depleting our magnetosphere by generating electricity through breaking magnetic fields. However, solar generation is okay because it is like synthetic photosynthesis i.e. it converts photons directly into electricity thereby eliminating breaking any magnetic fields and is therefore about as safe as photosynthesis.

Grizzly Bear Wants Fried Chicken

http://www.comcast.net/video/brown-bear-attack/1569084600/Comcast/949720224/

I happened to see this video advertised and it is a funny way to see just how strong and intelligent a Grizzly Bear would be at getting whatever it wants from you with 4 to 5 inch claws. Luckily, the man is in a metal "bear or shark cage" so no one gets hurt. However, it demonstrates just how strong and inquisitive a Grizzly Bear is. Also, Native Americans called them "Big Dogs" because their behavior is similar to a giant wild dog.

The World Stock Markets don't like uncertainty

And since they don't like uncertainty the worldwide stock markets aren't having fun lately. There are just too many variables to deal with: Global Climate change, deleveraging of all or most economies for the next 10 years or more, the subprime meltdown and aftermath ongoing, Globalization etc. etc. etc.

Each variable as it collides with all the other variables just makes stranger sub-variables. And unfortunately, I don't believe that there is an existing computer model that accounts for enough variables to actually be fully useful during these times. And getting close but being off at all: there's no cigar, because an inch can literally be a mile in forecasts these days.

As bond yields lower market risk is elevating

While most of the banter through the latter part of 2009 was about an imminent run-in with inflation, the reality is, without demand, there's no inflation!
Deleveraging is keeping demand depressed, making deflation the big threat. Indeed, especially given the world's bloated debt problem. end quote and graph from:

 

Clear Signals That Market Risk Is Elevating

Creative Destruction

“CREATIVE DESTRUCTION: … the competition from the new commodity, the new technology, the new source of supply, the new type of organization – competition which commands a decisive cost or quality advantage and which strikes not at the margins of the profits and the outputs of the existing firms but at their foundations and their very lives”.

Joseph A. Schumpeter
end quote.

We are in the midst of a "Creative Destruction" of the American way of life. The fact that only a minority of people in the U.S. fully understand this is why there is so much physical, mental and political chaos. If people cannot define the problem in order to mount a useful response they begin to fight each other in desperation in their extreme distress. 


It may be that until enough people understand this at least in a very simplistic way, there will be no useful solution to the problem which is not at all Republican or Democratic in nature but based upon the new world economy which is very hard even for me to even begin to understand. And as far as I can tell NO ONE fully understands because it keeps changing so fast that no one can completely comprehend all the variables let alone the solution.


It may be that allowing the world to change this fast could just be the death of us all or it could mean that we become from a world like a caterpillar to then turn into a butterfly and fly away into our next incarnation as a human race. Only time will tell which it is.

notes on the End of Management

The End of Management
to read full Wall Street Journal article click on "The End of Management" the next line above this one.
begin quote.
Yet in today's world, gale-like market forces—rapid globalization, accelerating innovation, relentless competition—have intensified what economist Joseph Schumpeter called the forces of "creative destruction." Decades-old institutions like Lehman Brothers and Bear Stearns now can disappear overnight, while new ones like Google and Twitter can spring up from nowhere. A popular video circulating the Internet captures the geometric nature of these trends, noting that it took radio 38 years and television 13 years to reach audiences of 50 million people, while it took the Internet only four years, the iPod three years and Facebook two years to do the same. It's no surprise that fewer than 100 of the companies in the S&P 500 stock index were around when that index started in 1957.

Even the best-managed companies aren't protected from this destructive clash between whirlwind change and corporate inertia. When I asked members of The Wall Street Journal's CEO Council, a group of chief executives who meet each year to deliberate on issues of public interest, to name the most influential business book they had read, many cited Clayton Christensen's "The Innovator's Dilemma." That book documents how market-leading companies have missed game-changing transformations in industry after industry—computers (mainframes to PCs), telephony (landline to mobile), photography (film to digital), stock markets (floor to online)—not because of "bad" management, but because they followed the dictates of "good" management. They listened closely to their customers. They carefully studied market trends. They allocated capital to the innovations that promised the largest returns. And in the process, they missed disruptive innovations that opened up new customers and markets for lower-margin, blockbuster products. end quote.

begin quote.
Mr. Coase received his Nobel Prize in 1991—the very dawn of the Internet age. Since then, the ability of human beings on different continents and with vastly different skills and interests to work together and coordinate complex tasks has taken quantum leaps. Complicated enterprises, like maintaining Wikipedia or building a Linux operating system, now can be accomplished with little or no corporate management structure at all.

That's led some utopians, like Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams, authors of the book "Wikinomics," to predict the rise of "mass collaboration" as the new form of economic organization. They believe corporate hierarchies will disappear, as individuals are empowered to work together in creating "a new era, perhaps even a golden one, on par with the Italian renaissance or the rise of Athenian democracy."
That's heady stuff, and almost certainly exaggerated. Even the most starry-eyed techno-enthusiasts have a hard time imagining, say, a Boeing 787 built by "mass collaboration." Still, the trends here are big and undeniable. Change is rapidly accelerating. Transaction costs are rapidly diminishing. And as a result, everything we learned in the last century about managing large corporations is in need of a serious rethink. We have both a need and an opportunity to devise a new form of economic organization, and a new science of management, that can deal with the breakneck realities of 21st century change. end quote

The application of globalization through the internet in the 21st Century with mass voluntary collaboration is a relatively new concept for me in regard to the ancient concept of the corporate behemoth worldwide. However, it is obvious that this is actually what is happening on an almost unlimited level of collaborations of all kinds worldwide. When my step son reaches out to find and finds his perfect compatible mate and eventually wife online and I hear of more and more people doing this with happy results (if enough  honest and true variables are compared by both parties ). Then it appears that almost on any level one can collaborate worldwide in an almost unlimited way potentially. Why would the worldwide corporate world be any different no matter how much it initially resists. So we have reached now and more so in the future not only the end of management but also the death of Management at least as we knew it in the 20th century. I would like to end with the following quote from the above article:


What will the replacement for the corporation look like? Even Mr. Hamel doesn't have an answer for that one. "The thing that limits us," he admits, "is that we are extraordinarily familiar with the old model, but the new model, we haven't even seen yet." end quote.

August 21st Iran starts up Nuclear Reactor

 Iran prepares to start up first nuclear reactor 

Click "Iran prepares to read full yahoo news article on Iranian Nuclear Reactor above.

I guess the U.S. government convinced Israel that there will be no Iranian Nuclear weapons for a year yet, otherwise Israel would have destroyed this reactor already in a surgical strike.

Save the Middle Class

'Too Big to Fail' Is Killing the Middle Class, Celente Says

To read full Yahoo Finance and/or view video of Celente click "Too Big to Fail" above. begin quote below:


---says Gerald Celente, director of the Trends Research Institute. “This country went from a nation of Main Street, mom and pop businesses to Wall Street and 'too big to fails',” he tells Tech Ticker in this clip. ("Not only were they 'too big to fail,' they were 'too big to jail'," he says of Wall Street execs.)

Deregulation and bailouts favor the country’s largest corporations, at the expense of small business, Celente believes. “They’re squeezing out everybody else." Policies like these have created the widest wealth gap in the industrialized world, he says; “10% of the nation controls 93% of the assets."
Former IMF Chief economist Simon Johnson makes a similar point in his book, 13 Bankers. In it, Johnson claims, six banks (Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo) control 60% of America’s gross national product.
The only way to turn the tide, says Celente, is to “put back what was in place that worked,” like the Glass-Steagall Act and the Sherman Antitrust Act, which exists in name only. “That’s what stopped the robber barons from raping the country.”
Celente is confident more regulation on the largest companies will help entrepreneurs, which in turn strengthening a fading middle class – the backbone of our society. “America becomes strong again when the middle builds big again,” he says.
Unfortunately, Celente sees the trend going in the opposite direction. “The merger of state and corporate powers, let’s calls a spade a spade. It’s fascism.” end quotes.

So here we have fascism caused by globalization, the global subprime meltdown etc. Doesn't anyone see that someone or some group may have planned this? Or at the very least took advantage of the situation to the detriment of the middle class and the poor worldwide? Since globalization weakens all nation states, and the subprime meltdown caused mortgage holders worldwide to go underwater as their equity in their houses faded away, what is the way out of this? One way is to somewhat even the playing field for all businesses within the U.S. by bringing back the laws that were needed to keep competition more fair during the 1930s once again. Without new ideas to make worldwide globalization more fair to everyone we are headed for economic times much more serious than the Great Depression here in the U.S. , Europe and Japan at the very least. There has to be a way to save the middle Class all over earth so the poor have some chance of survival too.

Globalization only really benefits the rich worldwide.

China tech giant Foxxconn to install nets to catch suicidal employees
Click on "China tech giant" above to read full news article

In the last 24 hours and after reading many articles and watching many programs related to Globalization I finally realized something. It is that, "Globalization only really benefits the rich worldwide". Anyone else suffers directly or indirectly from Globalization. So as a result of this instead of having a healthy world middle Class, the middle class in most of the world is dying slowly  from globalization.

My second realization is that the only way to stop the disenfranchisement of the present middle class and poor class worldwide would be to create Globalized Unions so the masses don't all starve to death through the globalization process.

This is how globalization works. First one corporation or company in some country in trying to compete with another company realizes that they only way to do that is to get cheaper labor somewhere else. So all the people who had good jobs no longer do anymore for whoever they worked for. Unionization means nothing if your job is shipped to China or Viet Nam. So, in this sense Globalization is a Union Breaker worldwide.

So then, this job is then done for probably 10cents on the dollar for what people were paid before to do it or less. So even though the new people have a job they are forced to work so hard and so fast that they are driven towards suicide or into suicide by the company in the foreign land with no workers rights.

So, you may say that the people benefit that can now buy this product for much less. However, they are not really benefiting because their jobs have now been lost to globalization and they no longer are able to pay their mortgages. So, in factory towns all over the U.S. and world all these homes devalue as they foreclose worldwide in the 1st world countries that now lost all their jobs to globalization.

So, my statement is: "What good is globalization if no one has any money but the rich to buy anything?"

So, the oncoming result of globalization can only be (as all governments on earth lose effectiveness) because the people most places have no jobs, is revolt internationally, even in the places where people who have the jobs now commit suicide because of mistreatment by their companies.

The only answer I can see to this problem is global unions that operate in all nations. This is the only long term solution that I can see to populist chaos and revolution worldwide eventually caused by unbridled globalization. Because globalization unchecked is the death of every nation state along with the death of the middle class and poor worldwide.

If you disagree with me read a few books like: "The End of the Free Market" by Ian Bremmer. And if you are a thinker like me then you will know for sure that what I'm saying is true.

How to Keep your Head when others aren't

The problems the U.S. in encountering really has nothing at all to do with Republican or Democratic issues. The real issue is globalization. U.S. companies have Globalization figured out. They get their products made in China and other countries where labor is still cheap enough to be able to compete globally. However, for the U.S. Middle class unless they are either invested in either U.S. Blue Chips that have overseas divisions or they move overseas to work for these companies they are losing out and will continue to lose out as globalization sucks the marrow out of those who don't understand this one fact.

Companies cannot stay in business globally if they pay wages as high as the U.S. requires to live here. So, a way must be found for the middle class of the U.S. to somehow benefit from globalization or there will be a populist revolt of both Republicans and Democrats. You are seeing some of the beginnings of this in parties such as the Tea Party party. But most of these people don't understand that globalization could also be defined as the disempowerment of all nation states and all forms of nation state government. Until the world deals with this problem the middle class and poor of the world will be more and more screwed by globalization. Because if you don't own or own stock in a company that benefits from a globalized economy then you are being screwed big time and the only economic way is downward. This is a fact and until everyone understands this and a REAL solution is found suffering will continue worldwide among the middle class and poor as everything they own slowly decreases in value. This is a sad truth. I wish more people would educate themselves enough to understand this one terrible fact of life in the globalized world.

Zen Koan August 19th 2010

My favorite Zen type Koan is one that one of my teachers gave me along the way: He said,
"If you want to live forever you might die right now But if you are ready to die right now you may live forever."

This symmetry of this Koan has always worked for me. It reminds me a lot of the native American Warrior slogan, "It's a good day to die."

Yes. It's hard to be brave in life, especially if you are young and have many years (at least theoretically) before you.  There is another saying, "Life springs eternal if you die daily". If you are not a soldier or policeman you may be able to relate to this saying  better. For the "dying daily" here refers to dying to God. On hundreds of nights in my life I wished for death to take me. But what I said to God was always, "If it is your will God I will go on with my life. Show me, God."
And always in the morning I was always reborn as someone new in the hands of God.

The world and the universe is too big for any human to understand with his or her mind. But we can encompass and understand the whole universe easily in one lifetime with our hearts and intuition. I guarantee you this. It is possible to understand everything with your heart and instinct and intuition.
There is nothing really to be afraid of except fear itself. That is the truth.