Mr. Podolsky explains how the Official Fire Story violates the Laws of Thermodynamics.
This is raw footage from one of the experts appearing in our upcoming, hard-hitting documentary of evidence for the destruction of the 3 World trade Center skyscrapers — “9/11: Explosive Evidence — Experts Speak Out”
By Christopher Le Coq
BRUSSELS | Sat May 14, 2011 12:10pm EDT
(Reuters) – A solar energy plane made the world’s first international flight powered by the sun on Friday to show the potential for pollution-free air travel.
The Solar Impulse took off from an airfield at Payerne in western Switzerland on Friday morning and landed at Brussels airport after a 13-hour flight.
“The objective is to demonstrate what we can do with existing technology in terms of renewable energy and energy savings,” project co-founder and pilot Andre Borschberg told Reuters by telephone during the flight.
Borschberg believes such solar-harnessing technology can be used to power cars and homes. “It is symbolic to be able to go from one place to another using solar energy,” he said.
The Solar Impulse project began in 2003 with a 10-year budget of 90 million euros ($128 million) and has involved engineers from Swiss lift maker Schindler and research aid from Belgian chemicals group Solvay.
The plane, which requires 12,000 solar cells, embarked on its first flight in April 2010 and completed a 26-hour flight, a record flying time for a solar powered aircraft, three months later.
With an average flying speed of 70 km/h (44 mph), Solar Impulse is not an immediate threat to commercial jets, which can easily cruise at more than 10 times the speed. A flight from Geneva from Brussels can take little more than an hour.
Project leaders acknowledged it had been a major challenge to fit a slow-flying plane into the commercial air traffic system.
Friday’s flight was Solar Impulse’s fifth. Previous flights did not leave Switzerland. A larger prototype is scheduled to fly around the world in 2013.
(Additional reporting by David Brunnstrom; editing by David Stamp)
To the religious these lies are particularly seductive, because most religions claim their creeds and doctrines to be absolute truths handed down to humanity directly from God. The promised reward of a heavenly afterlife is especially tempting to those whose worldly lives leave much to be desired. It is also true that many valuable ethical insights have been derived from religious teachings. The Golden Rule itself is a good example of this fact. So, why not make religion our ultimate source of ethical guidance? Why not consider the Golden Rule to be the highest behavioral standard?
To answer these questions properly we need to look back at the earliest origins of religious thinking. To the best of our knowledge, based on the archeological evidence, such thinking began with the search for objective truth about how the world works, the behavior and causes of natural phenomena, the origins of life, and the ways and means that must be observed in order to make daily life a more predictable and manageable experience.
Today we find that science is a far better guide to objective truth than religion; but in those days there was no science. So the earliest religious pronouncements were speculative statements about the personal experiences of those who spoke. They were basically saying, “This is my experience and this is what I think it means.” Some of these speculations, right or wrong objectively, seemed more credible than others; so organizations formed around those whose insights were the most popular. These organizations were formed hierarchically, so it was natural that they became bureaucratized as their influence grew.
“Bureaucracy”, you must understand, is not a synonym for “organization”. Bureaucracy is the systematic elimination, destruction, or avoidance of corrective feedback. As such it is highly damaging to the search for objective truth. But early religious leaders were heedless of this fact. So the statement, “This is my experience” became, “This should be your experience” – and “This is what I believe” became “This is what you should believe”.
As religious organizations grew more and more powerful, often dominating whole cultures, they often became more and more bureaucratic; so it was only a small step for “This is what you should believe” to become “This is what you must believe – or else!” This insistence on infallibility, which violates the sixth Ethical Principle, was the basis for many forms of religious persecution, including that of the Crusades, the Inquisition, the pogroms of Europe, and Hitler’s Holocaust in Germany. The phenomenon persists today in the Islamic Jihad and in various other instances of genocide around the world – as we have seen recently in Africa and Asia.
The Golden Rule is particularly relevant to this discussion. Christians say, “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Jews say, “Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you.” Both of these statements can be summarized by the single admonition, “Do unto others only as you would have them do unto you.”
If everyone valued the same treatment by others the Golden Rule would be pretty good. However the question arises, “How do you want to be treated when you encounter a sado-masochist”? The phenomenon of sadomasochism is a fairly common neurosis, well known to psychologists and other mental health practitioners worldwide. My 20 years as a clinical Psychotherapist indicates 1 person in 5 are indeed sado-masochists. This condition causes those so-afflicted to value the infliction of physical and/or emotional pain – either as the perpetrator or as the recipient thereof. Since there are many gradations of this problem and the causes are unconscious, many sadomasochists don’t even realize that they have a problem.
It is also observation, as a clinical psychotherapist, that the greater the compulsion to sado-masochism, the higher the level of power one attains. This allows the sado-masochist to cause greater pain and suffering on a higher degree to a larger number of people.
So two sadomasochists might be quite happy observing the Golden Rule by inflicting pain on one another; but the rest of us wouldn’t want to be treated so. Thus the universal application of the Golden Rule by everyone wouldn’t be an altogether good thing. We must therefore conclude that religious teachings in general, and the Golden Rule in particular, leave much to be desired as sources of ethical guidance and behavioral standards.
is a set of four simple affirmations containing the most prominent logical consequences of the Titanian Ethic. These affirmations and a brief explanation of each are shown below. I strongly suggest that you learn and honor this code.
For a more formal explanation of the Ethics – one that can be incorporated into an organizations bylaws – let’s look at the Bill of Ethics.
Bob Podolsky is interviewed on Free Talk Live. Bob Talks about what is a cartel and what the government is: a huge power brokerage cartel. Or in other words a shared monopoly. How and why did governments develop? Why do we tolerate government? Fear of government and fear of Chaos. The only thing government provides is a form of organization. The type of organization it provides is a hierarchy!
In a hierarchy command flows down and hopefully feedback flows up. The problem with hierarchy is it invariably creates bureaucracy. Bureaucracy is the systematic elimination, destruction or avoidance of corrective feedback. So if an organization destroys corrective feedback, then the head will not know what the hands and feet have done and makes a lot of mistakes. When the lack of the feedback relates to the ethics of what the organization has done, that organizations will do a lot of evil!
