There Is A Strong Support For A Creator Or A God From Within Science

Why Are People Who Run Big Businesses Allowed To Cheat Us?
I’m finding it increasingly hard to deal with the anger produced by the way people who run big businesses are allowed to cheat us.
Carillion bosses grovelled before MPs saying how upset and sorry they were that they allowed the firm to collapse with a billion-pound pension deficit and a billion-pound debt, despite giving themselves lavish pay and bonuses right until the end.
If courts can take the savings, cars and houses off guilty criminals, why can’t we do the same to guilty sharks who knowingly enriched themselves by gambling with workers’ pensions and livelihoods?
( Brian Reade, 10.02.2018 )

Excess Heat Is Altering Our Climate Beyond Human Tolerance.
Collective prosperity at the global level depends on cheap surplus fossil fuel energy.
For two centuries we have been able to use those fossil fuels as collateral for future debt, to build ever bigger machines to extract elemental resources from the earth.
This has been our great burning, because extracted materials of themselves are of no use to us unless we use heat to process them into desirable commodities.
That excess heat is altering our climate beyond human tolerance.

But heat provides our industrial growth economy: fuels must be consumed to sustain it and provide continued employment to make things that are ultimately thrown away in order to consume more to enable our debts to be continually carried forward.
Our system of rolling debt depends on increasing energy input and burning it ad infinitum.
So they who assert that climate change is a hoax get voted into office, granting permission to burn our planet forever.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )

The Family Silver Sold Off.
Margaret Thatcher’s market-led policies saw the sale of 20 state-controlled companies including British Telecom.Sales were marketed by huge advertising campaigns like “Tell Sid” for British Gas, which ended with a £5.4 billion sell off.
She said she wanted to open up share ownership to all.
But most people who bought shares in the newly-privatised firms sold quickly to make a quick profit.
The proportion of shares held by individuals rather than institutions did not actually increase.
With the family silver sold off, market forces now set the price.
( Rose Winfold )

Prisoners Behind Bars In The UK.
There are around 80,000 prisoners behind bars in the UK.
Women make up just 5% of the inmate population, and are kept in 12 prisons.
The average cost of keeping a prisoner in jail is £40,000 a year.
England and Wales have the highest incarceration rate in Western Europe, with 148 people in prison per 100,000.
Serious assaults on staff from prisoners have trebled since 2012.
Prisoner-on-prisoner assaults went up 28% from 2015-2016.
37.4% of prison officers in the UK are female.
( National Offender Management Service, January 2018 )

A Strong Support For God Within Science.
There is a strong support for a Creator or God from within science.
Science shows the universe is not eternal and that it began to exist at the ‘Big Bang’.
Stephen Hawkings admits ‘many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention’.
Equally, the astonishing fine-tuning of the laws of nature to make life possible are also consistent with a divine creator.
Thirdly, Richard Dawkins admits that ‘living objects look overwhelmingly as though they are designed’, although he prefers evolution’s account of why this is so, despite a number of serious holes in the evidence.
Of course, none of this scientific evidence ‘proves’ God exists, but it does create a strong cumulative case that it is probable, provided you do not rule out the possibility before you have weighed the evidence.
Faith is not ‘blind faith’, but a rational position consistent with an open mind.
( Wilfred Soon )

Study Finds 4.5 Million UK Children Living In Poverty.
More than 14 million people, including 4.5 million children, are living below the breadline, with more than half trapped in poverty for years, according to a new measure aimed at providing the most sophisticated analysis yet of material disadvantage in the UK.
The measure seeks to forge a fresh political consensus between left and right over how to define and track poverty, with the aim of encouraging better-targeted poverty interventions, and making it easier to hold politicians to account.
It finds poverty is especially prevalent in families with at least one disabled person, single-parent families, and households where no one works or that are dependent for income on irregular or zero-hours jobs.
( Patrick Butler, 16.09.2018 )  ..  theguardian.com

Israel Demands $28,000 From The Palestinian Family For The Jeep Which Killed Their Son.
Israel has sent the family of Abdullah Ghneimat, a Palestinian in his early twenties who was crushed to death by an Israeli army jeep, a bill for $28,000 for damage caused to the vehicle which killed him.

The incident occurred at around 4am on June 14, 2015 as Ghneimat was walking home from work in the West Bank town of Kufr Malek, northeast of Ramallah.
The Israeli vehicle reportedly flipped over while conducting military activities in the area they illegally occupy, trapping Ghneimat underneath.
Al Jazeera reports that Ghneimat was “denied medical attention for over three hours and bled to death under the vehicle.”

The Ghneimat family has been engaged in a protracted legal battle since they filed a lawsuit against the Israeli soldiers who were driving the vehicle six months after Ghneimat’s death.
The Israeli Ministry of Defence then filed a countersuit against the family, the latest development of which is the $28,000 bill for damages to the jeep.

According to Shawan Jabarin, director of independent Palestinian human rights organisation Al-Haq, the billing of Palestinian families for damages is part of a new strategy by the Israeli authorities to punish Palestinians for any form of resistance.
He told Al Jazeera: “I think they’re heading to a level where anyone who utters the word ‘occupation’ can be arrested, harassed and possibly fined.”
( Middle East Monitor, 14.02.2018 )  ..  middleeastmonitor.com

Horse-Loving Royals.
My favourite story about the 100th anniversary of women getting the vote concerns Emily Davison throwing herself under King George V’s horse at the 1913 Derby.
Many saw it as the ultimate act of heroism by a courageous feminist, but not King George’s mum Queen Alexandra.
She sent a telegram to the jockey at the time saying how sad she was that he couldn’t finish the race due to ‘the abominable conduct of a brutal lunatic woman’.
Heartless I know, but I reckon a century on those horse-loving royals would take the same view.
Let’s face it, if you come from a family which doesn’t need to worry about voting because the cap-doffing voters blindly accept they are your subjects, I guess you’d see them all as lunatics.
( Brian Reade, 10.02.2018 )

Our ‘Survival Brain’ Hasn’t Developed Beyond The Level Of The Hunter.
Energy is required to sustain all life forms, we cannot go on taking more than our fair share.
80 million new people arrive on the planet each year.
They demand to be housed, clothed and fed, spreading available resources even thinner.
The mothers of the next 2 billion people are alive now.
They will reproduce as a matter of personal survival, taking global population beyond 9 billion by mid century, guaranteeing our fall off the ‘energy cliff’ because the means to sustain that number does not exist.

We are 7.5 billion people on a planet that, pre-oil, supported between 1 and 2 billion.
By any reckoning, 5 billion people alive now do not have a future, let alone 2 billion more due over the next 30 years.
We must burn fuel to maintain what we have, but the act of burning destroys what we have.
This is contrary to human instinct, because our ‘survival brain’ hasn’t developed beyond the level of the hunter/gatherer.

The only recourse will be violent conflict to take what others have.
All wars are about survival and acquisition of resources.
Conflict will destroy what energy sources we have left and finally exhaust any survivors.
As energy supplies deplete, the industrial economy will enter its terminal phase, still suffering collective denial.
But no nation can hold together without the fuel sources that created it.

Secession will become inevitable, into five, six, seven or more regions in the USA, along racial, religious, political and geographic lines.
The faultlines are already there, with no energy base there will be nothing to stop ultimate breakup.
Other conglomerations of states and provinces will also disintegrate.
The EU, Russia, China, Africa will react and deny, but the end result cannot be avoided: Energy depletion = social/economic collapse.
( Norman Pagett, 17.07.2018 )