Interesting!
Sunday, 18 August 2019
Allegations of General Electric US$38 Billion Accounting Fraud
What is much more interesting about this report is how effective the Department of Justice is at fighting white collar crime, ... it isn't. The DoJ doesn't even try!
From 2009:
On cost-benefit analyses of cheating, see "Security Theater". In the following talk about inequality, I would have loved to see some examples of justice and perceived and desired levels of inequality, analysed in Bayesian terms of the sample populations drawn from different demographic classes.
Some People Around Here Are Deluding Themselves
This woman and her boyfriend came to me today to give me a rotten mandarina and two pesos and tell me to never give up on my dream of seeing my daughter one day. And then this stupid idiot tells me that Evo Morales isn't going to jail, and that he's going to be elected as president again. She is very badly mistaken. Evo Morales, and all his accomplices, are going to face trial for the crime of traición de la pátria, under the constitution and statues of the Republic of Bolivia. See 2009 Coup D'Etat in Honduras.
This explains why it is so difficult to learn something that you don't already know.
On cognitive illusions, see Russian Government is Clearly NOT Taking Climate Change Seriously and People Want Me To Shut The Fuck Up For A While?
This talk gives one an insight into how "Evonomics" works, at 10 minutes 52 seconds
On the value of trust, see first, A General Strategy for Solving Problems by Analysis of Situational Logic and then Jade on Equilibria in Complex Systems
There is a problem with many analyses of psycho-dynamics of trust based on money. They use money, because it allows some measure of objectivity, but what they don't take into account is that the subjective value of money depends upon many things, such as how much you have, how much you think you are going to need in the future and how much you think you think you are going to actually get in the future. They also depend upon how you value the possible ways in which you could use that money. So in all these behavioural experiments the results are highly suspect, even if you were to take into account the demographics of the sample population in terms of financial wealth and level of education. So what I am saying, in this "long rigmarole of the slave", is this: these observations are not observations about "human nature", they are observations about the behaviour of people under certain highly dubious premisses about the value of money and education. That said, we can still learn from them some of the tricks that people with access to practically unlimited amounts of money can use to manipulate large swathes of a population, and it doesn't bear thinking about!
All of the talks I've found so far about trust seem to have missed the most important factor which is the microbiome and "gut feelings". See Psychological Profile and Lori on Extraterrestrial Life.
On establishing trust transitively, see Bootstrapping Secure Global Communications. So now you can see why I loathe this song:
This explains why it is so difficult to learn something that you don't already know.
On cognitive illusions, see Russian Government is Clearly NOT Taking Climate Change Seriously and People Want Me To Shut The Fuck Up For A While?
This talk gives one an insight into how "Evonomics" works, at 10 minutes 52 seconds
On the value of trust, see first, A General Strategy for Solving Problems by Analysis of Situational Logic and then Jade on Equilibria in Complex Systems
There is a problem with many analyses of psycho-dynamics of trust based on money. They use money, because it allows some measure of objectivity, but what they don't take into account is that the subjective value of money depends upon many things, such as how much you have, how much you think you are going to need in the future and how much you think you think you are going to actually get in the future. They also depend upon how you value the possible ways in which you could use that money. So in all these behavioural experiments the results are highly suspect, even if you were to take into account the demographics of the sample population in terms of financial wealth and level of education. So what I am saying, in this "long rigmarole of the slave", is this: these observations are not observations about "human nature", they are observations about the behaviour of people under certain highly dubious premisses about the value of money and education. That said, we can still learn from them some of the tricks that people with access to practically unlimited amounts of money can use to manipulate large swathes of a population, and it doesn't bear thinking about!
All of the talks I've found so far about trust seem to have missed the most important factor which is the microbiome and "gut feelings". See Psychological Profile and Lori on Extraterrestrial Life.
On establishing trust transitively, see Bootstrapping Secure Global Communications. So now you can see why I loathe this song:
Saturday, 17 August 2019
Russia Using e-visas, ....
... soon we'll be able to use e-passports, ... 😂
Kaliningrad is a lovely place! ❤️💓💕 No, I've never been there either.
Kaliningrad is a lovely place! ❤️💓💕 No, I've never been there either.
2009 Coup D'Etat in Honduras
This Honduran coup d'état happened a couple of weeks after I arrived in Bolivia in June 2009, and I heard nothing about it at the time, from anyone in Bolivia or outside.
Here's an Al Jazeera report that was aired during the 2016 Presidential campaign. See in particular from 2 minutes 12 seconds: Environmental activist Berta Cásares was assassinated in her home on March 2016:
For more on Henry Kissinger, see Cafayate, Argentina, Trump Administration Vote Winner and Heinz Buttkissinger. The Brits are certainly involved in this too. See British Intelligence and the FBI/CIA Rats Nest.
The problem is, how we are ever going to be able to prosecute these people for these war crimes when we have corrupt, frightened, stupid heads of state like Morales and Maduro desperately holding on to power because they're afraid of doing a couple of decades of jail time. What's the problem, do they think their human rights will be violated somehow? For more on Prison Reform, see this post, ALL THE WAY THROUGH!! Why Climate Scientists Shouldn't Set Policy.
I wrote this weird thing in April 2013, because I was starving and people in Cambridge refused to help me, so I thought the end was nigh. At the time I wrote it, I didn't know Hugo Chavez had died, let alone that there would be an election of some sort in Venezuela within a few weeks. The inflamatory part is in the lyrics to this song, which I altered, see the last few pages of Economics II, about "Predators, preserved by Venezuelan Oil Tar Empty cartridges from a Magnum Tossed, into agricultural lime..." which could also read "Vote cartridges from a[n] MT into agricultural lime, ...."
So after that, maybe George Soros sent someone down to Venezuela wirh a fistfull of dollars to cause a riot over voting machines and Maduro's first act on being elected was to have seven protestors killed, .... shit like that does happen, see Who Owns The Revolution?
When I arrived in Bolivia a decade ago, the first thing I did was start an investigation into the forestry industry. I mentioned Eduardo Galeano's book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Maybe that put someone's nose out of joint? I later followed that up with an investigation on the ground, see the trip report here which includes some photos of jaguar footprints, and also footprints of "Perros del Monté", which turn out to be the same thing as "Gatos del Monté"! Sadly, Galeano died on April 13th 2015.
See also this, from 2009:
On page 8 of Economics II, there is this quote from Aristotle, on what is the efficient cause of any movement of the spirit. Seeing how my life has gone, I have to say that experience bears him out!
Here's an Al Jazeera report that was aired during the 2016 Presidential campaign. See in particular from 2 minutes 12 seconds: Environmental activist Berta Cásares was assassinated in her home on March 2016:
A former soldier with the US-trained special forces units of the Honduran military asserted that Caceres' name was on their hitlist months before her assassination. As of February 2017, three of the eight arrested people were linked to the US-trained elite military troops of which two had been trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, USA, the former School of the Americas (SOA), renamed WHINSEC, linked to thousands of murders and human rights violations by its graduates in Latin America.
For more on Henry Kissinger, see Cafayate, Argentina, Trump Administration Vote Winner and Heinz Buttkissinger. The Brits are certainly involved in this too. See British Intelligence and the FBI/CIA Rats Nest.
The problem is, how we are ever going to be able to prosecute these people for these war crimes when we have corrupt, frightened, stupid heads of state like Morales and Maduro desperately holding on to power because they're afraid of doing a couple of decades of jail time. What's the problem, do they think their human rights will be violated somehow? For more on Prison Reform, see this post, ALL THE WAY THROUGH!! Why Climate Scientists Shouldn't Set Policy.
I wrote this weird thing in April 2013, because I was starving and people in Cambridge refused to help me, so I thought the end was nigh. At the time I wrote it, I didn't know Hugo Chavez had died, let alone that there would be an election of some sort in Venezuela within a few weeks. The inflamatory part is in the lyrics to this song, which I altered, see the last few pages of Economics II, about "Predators, preserved by Venezuelan Oil Tar Empty cartridges from a Magnum Tossed, into agricultural lime..." which could also read "Vote cartridges from a[n] MT into agricultural lime, ...."
So after that, maybe George Soros sent someone down to Venezuela wirh a fistfull of dollars to cause a riot over voting machines and Maduro's first act on being elected was to have seven protestors killed, .... shit like that does happen, see Who Owns The Revolution?
When I arrived in Bolivia a decade ago, the first thing I did was start an investigation into the forestry industry. I mentioned Eduardo Galeano's book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent. Maybe that put someone's nose out of joint? I later followed that up with an investigation on the ground, see the trip report here which includes some photos of jaguar footprints, and also footprints of "Perros del Monté", which turn out to be the same thing as "Gatos del Monté"! Sadly, Galeano died on April 13th 2015.
See also this, from 2009:
On page 8 of Economics II, there is this quote from Aristotle, on what is the efficient cause of any movement of the spirit. Seeing how my life has gone, I have to say that experience bears him out!
As Isaac Newton would have said "I have made the experiment." See Catholic Church.
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