https://ellenbrown.com/2011/04/16/libya-all-about-oil-or-all-about-banking/ Libya has a few clues. This from Ellen Brown in 2011. Alex Newman wrote in the New American: In a statement released last week, the rebels reported on the results of a meeting held on March 19. Among other things, the supposed rag-tag revolutionaries announced the “[d]esignation of the Central Bank of Benghazi as a monetary authority competent in monetary policies in Libya and appointment of a Governor to the Central Bank of Libya, with a temporary headquarters in Benghazi.”

As a straw poll I wonder how many Seeds commenters possess a soldering Iron? How many Seeds commenters can programme in or use Python or have any rudimentary skills sufficient to compile their own applications from Source? How many people here use Gnu/Linux. Tim uses Duckgo go as his browser of choice how many others use another browser outside of the Google Suite? On the Cummings Blog post this was the site I found most interesting of all that Dominic found interesting. https://dynamicland.org/ This statement stood out? “No normal person sees an app and thinks “I can make that myself.” Or even “I can modify that to do what I actually need.” By that definition I am not a normal person, I think the statement is false it is natural in all of us to question, to ask why? We are trained and indoctrinated not to do it, that’s rather different to not having a natural inclination to do it anyway. In the Pavlovian dystopia of surveillance Capitalism, it is more important than ever to make Orwell Fiction again. “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it”. George Orwell

Strongly influenced by Immanuel Kant, the biologists’ approach combined a sophisticated teleology with mechanistic theories and sparked bitter controversies with the rival programs, mechanistic reductionism and Darwinism. Although temporarily eclipsed by these two approaches, the morphological tradition, Lenoir argues, was not vanquished in the field of scientific debate. It contributed to pathbreaking research in areas such as comparative anatomy, embryology, paleontology, and biogeography.
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1851434.The_Strategy_of_Life

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Ernst_von_Baer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthogenesis

“Biology has largely rejected the idea that evolution is guided in any way”.

Can Biology reject anything? of course, it can not a category is not a thing abounded description of a convention in practice can be described by those regarding it, it is itself as an abstract notion incapable of expressing any notions of its own!
What this means to say is that the conventional mainstream establishment in Academic Biology expresses a view in opposition to Orthogenesis, that is quite different to “Biology Rejects the idea?”.

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actually take us no one has ever seen
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inside an atom however we think of it as
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a system of electrons circulating around
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a heavy nucleus at almost inconceivable
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This Varafoukis Lecture on The Nature of Money was brought to mind today after watching a more recent interview he gave to a French interview channel in February 2019, recommended to me by a French friend today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbnzQtLS4T8
In the second one He is asked to explain the Exponential Function.
@ 24.08 income was around 55 trillion just say
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55 there are too many zeros to worry
25:52 about 55 the total size of financial
25:57 derivatives was 70 okay so total income
26:02 another world
55 26:05 total derivatives 70 2007 exponential
26:12 growth okay this is this global income
26:17 had risen because of globalization from
26:19 55 to 70 from in six years as a lot from
26:23 55 to 70 growth in the size magnitude
26:28 volume of the river
26:30 others from 70 to 780 , nice so to
26:38 put it bluntly planet Earth was not big
26:40 enough for this bubble say burst in 2008

Steve Keen A good friend of Varafoukis has published and been linked to here on the Physiocrats and the Energy aspects of the Economic System. The point is though that it’s not only about Energy qua energy.
Which brings me to Dominic Cummings? I actually read all of the linked-to papers and blogs, After the whole exercise I have more doubts about Dominic Cummings before I started, The Un-necessary, “I will bin you”, machismo is rather off-putting. This Talk on the Edge web site is very good, Cummings would do well to watch it and internalise the ideas. https://www.edge.org/conversation/lee_smolin-the-causal-theory-of-views
This is a very good video on Di-Electric Magnetism, now this guy is a proper misfit. What’s more, he is I think very close to scientific truth as we would get to, absent vested interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KooPsEE7E-Q

Smolin really is onto something as is this man.

https://www.edge.org/conversation/stephen_wolfram-mining-the-computational-universe

I had reblogged this but as it hadn’t appeared I have re-posted instead. For a Blog that purports to be about scientific rigour, it seems to me that Scepticism, essential to the scientific enquiry, should welcome other points of view. The edge site is particularly good at that, at the edges of Human Knowledge, the way forward is not placed onto a handy shelf of bumper stickers.

“All men in this and other countries are accustomed from youth
to measure the increase or diminution of wealth by dollars or other
denominations supposed to be units of value…. Even when the facts
are understood, the idea that the change is in the value of the commodities measured, and not in that of the dollar itself, is so natural
that a long and severe course of mental discipline is necessary to get
rid of it. Indeed, we question whether the most profound economist
can be entirely successful in this respect “(Newcomb, 1879, p. 230).
https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/6360154.pdf

https://nextexx.com/electron-2-unanswered-questions/
“The idea of electricity as a flow of ‘electrons’ in a conductor was regarded by Oliver Heaviside as “a psychosis”. This encouraged Heaviside to begin a series of writings
Also consider the J.J. Thomson concept of the “electron” (his own discovery). Thomson considered the electron the terminal end of one unit line of dielectric induction. “Electrons as a separate, distinct entity…doesn’t really exist, they are merely bumps in something called a ‘field’.” – Dr. Steve Biller

I commented on this 3 years ago.

Roger Lewis
3 years ago (edited)
A great lecture, heres my epic poem dealing with some of these themes particularly Usury. /2016/02/25/usury-hells-fuel-and-mans-oppressor/

Varafoukis has some good points to make, as usual, For me, he falls down on Debt-based money and his pushing of the Green New Deal fraud. That said always worth listening to his views they are based on Inside knowledge.

This CHannel Thinkview was recommended by a French Freind, who told me about it when I dropped my son off at his to play earlier. Lots to watch on the channel, The translate to English button does not work for me today? not sure why .

Google will not allow the other platform on which thinkerview runs.

ita WEB 3 instance one of a growing number sprouting up and challenging You Tube hence Google booting it out, It opens in Firefox,.
https://peertube.co.uk/video-channels/thinkerview@mplayer.demouliere.eu/videos