WILL THIS REALLY HAPPEN ??

 

Disclosure of things that will change the face of the world and what will disappear with them, as in petroleum stations, and auto repair shops, as well as Kodak camera films. Here is a reading of the most important things that will happen in our nearby future world; 1, Auto repair shops will diminish or even disappear in some instances, as the gasoline or diesel engine presently consists of 20.000 individual parts while the electric car motor contains 20 electrical parts that are sold with a life time warranty, and are only repaired by the dealers. It only takes 10 minutes to disassemble and replace an electric motor. 

Faulty electric motors are not repaired at repair shops, but are sent to a regional repair shop that fixes them using robots. The malfunction light of your car's electric motor lights up, warning you to drive to a station that looks like a car wash-station, and your car is towed while you have a cup of coffee, and it comes back with a new electric motor ready to go before you finish your beverage. 

The petrol pumps will disappear as well!! Street corners have electricity distribution and charging meters, firms will install electric recharging stations, in fact they have already started in the developed world, and the new batteries are being charged within 20 minutes for a total run of more than hundreds of thousands of Kilometers equivalent to more than 200.000 miles. Major smart car manufacturers have all allocated funds to start building new factories that only produce electric cars and trucks, buses and farming equipment.

The coal industries will disappear, gasoline/oil companies will stop, the drilling and exploration of oil will cease, the major oil cartels will vanish, entire countries and regions of the world will suffer and be in trouble, Germany already announced dates to totally eliminate fossil fuel. Homes will produce and store more electrical energy during the day, use it and resell the excess to the main electric grid. The network stores and distributes them to industries with high electric consumption. Today's child will only see personal cars in museums, the future is approaching faster than most of us can imagine.

In 1998, Kodak had 170.000 employees and sold 85% of its photo paper production world wide. In a matter of few years their business model disappeared and they went bankrupt. What happened to Kodak and polaroid will happen to a lot of industries in the next 5 to 10 years, back in 1998 everyone had to have a camera, and took pictures on films, today our young don't even know what's that, smart phones totally replaced all of it. 

It will happen again, and much faster. AI, health, autonomous and electric cars, education, 3D printing, agriculture and jobs, it's coming sooner than we think, we're calling it the fourth industrial revolution, software tools is disrupting all traditional industries, and a decade down the line they will take over completely. Uber is just a software tool, they don't own any car, it is now the largest taxi company in the world. Airbnb another software institution is now the largest hotel company world wide, and it doesn't own a bedroom or a pillow. Do we think any major hotel company expected this. 

Artificial Intelligence and computers are advancing at an amazing speed in every aspect. IBM's Watson is taking over lawyers with more accuracy and efficiency. Watson is already helping and competing with doctors diagnose all types of illnesses with greater accuracy than human diagnosis. Face recognition devices are already replacing humans in many situations. 

Self driving cars will change the way we live and commute and own cars. We will not need to park the car, just pay for the distance traveled, and you can use the time productively while the car is being driven automatically. It will change our cities, as they're will be 90-95% less cars driving around and parking, it will save lives by limiting millions of accidents around the world. Even insurance companies will suffer big time with accident rates diminishing to almost zero. 

A great competition is already here between traditional car makers and companies like Tesla, Apple and Google who are building computers on wheels, call them smart electric cars. Volvo already took the decision to replace all internal combustion engines with electric or hybrid engines. Again cities will be less noisy and far less polluted, as electric engines are far more silent, emitting clean air. Cheaper real estate offices and housing, and cheaper electricity and utilities. 

It will eventually hit air travel with way more efficient electric engines, and cheaper air fares, and finally with health machines that work with your phone taking your retina scan and your blood pressure and samples plus all your functions, it will Annalise all your body signals and identify nearly any decease, most hospitals and doctors might turn obsolete. Welcome to tomorrow, welcome to the real 21st century.       

               My, as always, usual thanks for your time following the blog, please stay safe and well.                 

Facing an impasse in Israel and the world....

 

Last week, we witnessed a sort of a coup in Israel, with the purpose to oust PM Netanyahu, it is still going on, with some weird tactics and unique faces playing the game, the agreement on a coalition that would oust Prime Minister Netanyahu after some 12 years in power isn't over yet, but let's face the truth, do we want Netanyahu and his branch of fascist zionism out?? yes we do. To the extent of wanting to replace him with a Naftaly Bennet, the other side of the coin of fascist zionism?? Maybe and only a cautious maybe. 

Over the years, Netanyahu increasingly manipulated the post to gain full access of the Israeli imagination while creating a system of fear, suggesting that Israeli survival without him is impossible, using total brutality, chaos, apartheid, wars, regime change in many neighboring countries, even by dominating and manipulating very useful American foreign, military and monetary policies. But he's not alone in this game.

many political leaders, modern and old, are now governing his style, influenced by his tactics and bizarre ideology, following in his steps, the first to come to mind is ex president Trump and many congress members, Lukashenko of Belarus, Orban of Hungary, Bolsonaro of Brazil, PM Modi of India, Assad of Syria, Erdogan of Turkey, the Muslem mullahs of Iran and the royal family of Saudi Arabia, just to name the major ones, of course Kim and Putin are already grand masters of the game, It's a new trend in governing, a la Netanyahu, whereby even smaller insignificant leaders like Oun of Lebanon is learning their tactics and demagogy. 

David Swanson is a gifted private author, writer, journalist and radio host, he uses a mix of seriousness and satirical intonations, I'm hereby producing one of his latest articles, imagining  an exchange between Netanyahu and the American Congress, it portrays many realities of both sides and their thinking and fantasies, with a special twist.       

Congress: B. B. Bee. Bee. Bibi, Bibi, Bibi, are you there? Yes, just hold this rocket launcher, and this one, and this one, and, I’m just going to hang these grenades from each of your fingers, and, no don’t bend over, here, I’ll just put this strap over your shoulders, and can this gun fit in your back pocket, how about a few knives to strap on your legs, here, ooh, yes, here, have a seat in this F-16, THERE you go, and don’t go murdering any children — I say that unequivocally — pppppppwaaahhhahahahahahahahahahahah, no, I mean it, I think more bullets, let me balance these on your head, say, do you have a wheelbarrow I can share a little napalm in, good man, could you use a cup of white phosphorus for the road, oh, oh, I was just thinking, Beeeebeee,

Bibi: You know I’m a figment of your addled brain, right? So I can tell you this in pretty safe confidence? Over here we only spend $20 billion a year on a military, not like the trillion or so you guys do, and $4 billion of that you give us for free every year from your generous tax payers, and then you sell us most of the weapons that we spend that $20 billion on, and you take care of those weapons, and you develop weapons with us, and you stockpile your own weapons here and then slip them to us as needed, and you do war rehearsal “exercises” with us, and you feed us your “intelligence,” and you promote our bullshit worldwide, and 45 times you veto holding us to the rule of law at the UN, and you ship us more weapons right in the middle of us blowing up apartments and schools and hospitals and streets and doctors and mothers and babies, and so what I’d like to hear from you now, stand up straight, what I’d like to hear from you now is your very best humanitarian humbug. Go!

Congress: It’s simply wrong. It’s un-American. It’s just not who we are. That’s why I will be asking President Biden about the possibility of encouraging Hamas and Israel to call a halt to the vicious cycle of tiffs, spats, and acrimony. And I will be supporting legislation to require that if the government of Israel wants to imprison and torture children it not do so using U.S. dollars, but rather use somebody else’s dollars for that, and use the U.S. dollars for general Apartheid maintenance, because frankly I’ve heard enough inexcusable challenging of Israel’s right to exist and defend . . .

Bibi: Oh fuck! Stop! Oh Jesus! I mean Moses! I mean, oh fuck, you’ve got it. The right to exist is the key. That’s it. I don’t feel like I exist unless I’m blowing up buildings. And you don’t feel like you exist unless you’re talking to a padded wall. To each his own in a free society!

Congress: You know, 8 of us have declared that Palestinians have human rights. At this rate, your great grandson might have to find a new sugar-daddy for your great-great grandson. Hey, how many, I mean how many kids and grandkids have you got, because I was thinking, wouldn’t they each like a dozen Apache helicopters or something just to show our appreciation? Know what we did to the Apaches dontcha? The Two State Solution.

Meanwhile, the Israeli Knesset is still debating a proposed new government to replace Mr. Netanyahu's administration but not his regime or extreme right fascist trends and tactics, let's wait and see. 

                 As always, all my thanks to you all, stay safe and well.

ROLL OUT THE DRUMS OF WAR ....

 

In the U.S. the whole subject of China is being politicized, and only in one direction. China is becoming enemy number one, militarily, economically, socially and from a human rights perspective, leading to cold war  tactics and even fast approaching military confrontations. All branches of governments, including all its agencies, plus the private sector including powerful think tanks, media and analysts are all on board for this shift of policy. We're willing now to forgive Russia for its century's long bad behavior and confrontational attitudes, we're forgiving many long term enemies including terrorism and rogue entities, to give ourselves fully the full scope, and be well prepared for the biggest of all wars, adventures and confrontations. 

Ex one term president Trump, was pivotal in this approach and in brain-washing American minds, with the propaganda of bad China, dangerous China, he used all possible words to influence the experts and the population at large to start looking and considering China as the enemy number one, the feared enemy who is going to eliminate our way of life, our liberties and our wealth, even our religiosity, and mostly our superiority and dominance. 

Mr. Trump, his oligarchy and administration used every possible occasion to belittle China's progress and achievements, including calling the pandemic of Covid19 the Chinese virus, maybe it was a Chinese originated virus, but that does not make it as we officially claimed that China had deliberately manufactured and released the virus as a biological weapon, against The U.S. or civilization. 

Many official politicians echoed the words of Mr. Trump knowingly or ignorantly, leading in some instances to mass attacks against anyone who shared the Asian physiognomy and looks, many innocent, especially elder people from generations of Asian immigrants were harmed for no other reason than sharing the looks of the makers and perpetrators of the Chinese virus crime. 

In Congress one of the earliest advocates of these false rhetoric was Senator Tom Cotton, Republican from Arkansas, who often criticized China, and who has a history of promoting falsehoods, like election fraud and other Trump's allegations. Even the media went along for a while and covered his flawed arguments, suggesting that China had deliberately released the virus as a biological warfare. Whereby many, too many unfortunately, seem to decide that if Cotton believed something, and Fox News and Donald Trump echoed it, the idea has to be right, substantiated and Q-Anoned .We challenged every report and investigation body of the global health officials, simply because their reports were not conformed to our official dictum and end-strategy. 

The virus origins do not affect any part of the fight against it, be it Covid, Ebola, Sars, Mers or bird flu, The previous administration failed to impose proper travel restrictions, testing, contact tracing, social distancing, ventilation, masking and vaccination. We are still paying for these purposely or negligently delayed actions, with millions of cases and unnecessary deaths. 

The Senate is currently debating "the strategic competition act" A bill loaded with anti-China framing and policies that are certain to entrench the new cold war even further, and the Pentagon backed by the war-machine, were more than ready to send a guided-missile destroyer straight into disputed islands in the south China sea, triggering Chines planes and warships into high alert, each side accused and blamed the other of violations. This act was predictable and intentionally deliberate, as the ship set sail just hours after president Biden specifically laid into China in a speech. We are surely getting ready for some big actions and lots of hostilities, Rambo style. 

The war machine, defense industry and their Pentagon pals, are already urgently pitching and lobbying Congress on the need to buy more weapons and increase Pentagon budget, while our existing war budget is currently 4 times the size of China's. Again we're headed in the wrong directions, and we're not trying to stop the Washington's growing harmful approach to China before things spiral further out of control. It's a continuous philosophy and demagogy of ours and we're not showing any signs of relinquishing, we're not learning from our past 5 or 6 decades of failing, pretentious adventures. 

We all know that more militarization and demonization of China is a distraction and a self-defeating strategy toward the true security we need here at home. What we need is more innovation, cooperation and multilateral approaches, not more hostility and confrontations, working together for a better future to both countries and humanity, and not just continuously fighting each other and competing for supremacy. 

        As always, my deep gratitude for your time and patience.... please stay safe and well.