What Progress Part 4-4 - Utopian Dream of Paradise

  Reflection: #020

My Utopian Dream of Paradise. 

It seems my dream of a utopian paradise is like wanting to touch the tip of a rainbow. If you try to get closer to the rainbow, it stops raining—or it starts raining harder—and the rainbow disappears. The further you try to approach it, the further away it goes.  I was not alone in my utopian dream. Like me, millions of people dreamed of a world in peace and full of new technological advances. But all those dreams, like my own, remained unfulfilled.

Dreamers with great optimism or pessimistic minds—it was the same for everyone.

Nobody reached this utopian future of a world in peace, in silence, without the thunder of bombs and bullets.

All news companies would go bankrupt because there is nothing to tell—at least nothing catastrophic.  Today, temperatures in countries that once had definite seasons, such as summer and winter, are so different that in December, you no longer know whether it is spring or not. In May, there will be snowfall.  Once again, I have to go back to the 1960s to discuss the scientific opinion on possible climate change and its consequences. They said then that if the climate were to change by half a degree Celsius in a century, it would be catastrophic: 0.5ºC in a century! Today, we are talking about an increase of three to five degrees more than we have been discussing. In the Kyoto Treaty, the United States did not sign an agreement to reduce the gases emitted by vehicles—and even less by factories. They do not want to talk about it again until 2025.  The United States goes to war without moral authority, without financial resources, without having soldiers willing to go to war. That's what legionnaires are paid for, just like the French once did with the Foreign Legion. At least they were well-trained.

Today, the young are being sent from South America.

Each immigrant from Latin America receives thirty thousand dollars to return after a year and a half of war.

In the contrary case, in the event of death in battle, the body is given to relatives with the same amount of money.  The suicide of veterans—not old, but young (after one year in Iraq, you are already a veteran)—of the war in Iraq is increasing because of the cruelty experienced. Thousands are committing suicide, already back in the USA. They cannot bear or process the injustice and cruelty of this war (for oil).  Let us move forward.  Today, I read about a new bubble in the stock market. A bubble is an inflated ball. Artificial. The oil bubble.

A year ago, there was talk of the profits from real estate in the US. Today, you buy it, and tomorrow you sell it for almost fifty percent more.

In other words, in practice, you take a hundred percent loan to buy a property: you buy something for a hundred thousand dollars, and a few months later, you sell it for a hundred twenty, thirty, or fifty thousand dollars more. Now you cancel your bank loan—that is, you pay it back—and open a savings account because you have earned thirty thousand dollars. Now you play this game again—and not just you. No.  The Canadians bought everything they could with so much lust.

Latinos, immigrants without permanent jobs, are encouraged to build or buy their homes. Investors with significant hedge funds spent their clients' money—they don't even know where the fund manager is taking it. European banks, the English, even the Chinese, put their savings or borrowed capital in the hands of these managers to buy property.  It's called a bubble. It exploded! Investors around the world suffered considerable losses in value. In some cases, investors' savings dropped by half their actual value. America may have lost all or most of its middle class. That means whoever was on the middle-class level is now struggling to survive. Their homes lost value because there were no more buyers!  Unemployment and inflation in the US, like never before, will be the future.

Why, in the middle of the outbreak of this bubble, does the president go worldwide to make propaganda for biodiesel?

... (To start another bubble!)  Biodiesel is manufactured from agricultural products used as food for humans and can be consumed by humans. Mainly corn, soybeans, rape, and sunflowers are used. Does this deliberately reduce the supply of food to increase the price of agricultural products?

I think so. Farmers were almost completely technically bankrupt.

The US has no money. Yes, it can print money, but money without value. Printed paper, nothing more.  Granting more subsidies to farmers was already economically impossible and politically prohibited by international treaties.

Now, everyone, from everywhere, pays three times as much for every product that comes from agriculture: flour, meat, milk, oil. The whole world is now paying the cost of the war in Iraq. More people are dying in Iraq every day than in decades before.

There is no drinking water, no medicine, no food for the Iraqi people.

But for two hundred and fifty thousand soldiers, three packed daily meals have been transported from the United States to Iraq. Iraqi farmers were forbidden to use maize seeds and traditional wheat. Genetically modified seeds (which is not bad in itself) were brought from the United States and sold to farmers at a high price. At the same time, the sowing of self-produced seeds was made punishable.  What progress!  The paradise of my dreams—where did it disappear to?

And why didn't it stay in 1980 and wait for me there?

Today, we were on our way—I and the rest of the people on this Earth—we were so optimistically heading toward the future, to be happy forever.

Why did the future not begin in 1980? Twenty years would have been enough to prepare for the future!

What year will we choose now to enter the future and live the utopia of the sixties?

2030 or 2050? But in 2050, the oil will run out for good.

Is this the beginning of the future, or would it be the definite end of this desired future?  But before that comes this magical year 2012, where the world ends! One more concern.

I do not fear this as much as I fear entire nations without food. They will create a tsunami such as we have never seen before. People in need are dangerous.

Man caused hunger, not nature. If nature joins man to destroy the world, then we are in big trouble.

Sadly, all the plagues I have described—and most likely to come—are human-made.

We are still experiencing disasters not caused by nature.

The wrath of Mother Earth has been inflamed, but so far, they are only threats, not yet a massive rebellion.  It's just like a sigh or a little cough.

A tsunami, sad as it is, is nothing compared to what the Earth can do.  The plagues of Revelation are all human-made and are released one by one. And the limit of what man is capable of enduring will probably be exceeded.

What do we tell our young people? That sadly, we are not able to cope with the course of humanity. Let the young take the helm as soon as they are ready and change the ship's course.  Greetings, and let us fight together for a better future for our young people! 

Don Joseph Bauer

http://marsandufosmysteries.blogspot.com/2010/01/war-had-world-countless.html
http://marsandufosmysteries.blogspot.com/2009/12/now-another-twenty-years-have-passed.html
http://marsandufosmysteries.blogspot.com/2009/12/what-progress-part-1-4.html

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What Progress Part 3-4 - Countless Wars

Reflection: #019

Countless Wars in the World.

In the never-ending conflicts between Israel and Palestine, I have long lost count.

The war between Iran and Iraq lasted eight years. The two countries bought fighter planes from France and England.  Pilots from Iran and Iraq had to train in England. One group in the morning, another in the afternoon. After weeks of training with the same trainers and the same aircraft in England, they returned to their home countries to hone their fighting skills. If this is not cynicism, what is it?  Iraq-US. United States-Iraq.

The wars in Africa don't have such spectacular names as "Desert Storm" One and Two.

No, they don't have a name. Neither do the peoples or tribes killing each other.

In Africa, people are murdered day after day, without comment in the media. With unimaginable cruelty.  The embargo against Cuba is still in force. None of the presidential candidates in the United States will lift the ban.

Obama, the Black senator, said he would talk to Castro—that's all.  These power plants will be destroyed with bombs if Iran does not renounce nuclear energy for electricity.

The new aspirants for the presidency in the United States are determined to do so.  

What progress!  

A country in the making needs energy. If there are no large rivers to build dams, what other alternative do they have? Iran knows that one day the income from crude oil dollars will end. What comes next? They study and invest in modern infrastructure with industries that are not dependent on oil.

Iraq did that. Libya did that. Improving infrastructure and preparing for a life after oil.

Being independent of other countries is the solution: separate from selling crude oil and independent of buying products from other countries. Is that not logical? Is this not a sound long-term economic policy?

Furthermore, do they not have the right to do so? No! That is what the United States says.  The profits from oil, from drugs (from all over the world), from the arms business, and income from various illegal transactions must be invested in a savings account in dollars.  These foreign currencies go back to the United States, and this money is invested there. But little in infrastructure and more in war technology.

The USA has many runways (airports), some highways, and nothing else. Every city has some tall buildings.

They have Las Vegas to spend what they do not have. Las Vegas has no water, no light, no food, no beautiful landscape. But the hotels are built like paradise.

Yes, every technological advance is—and has been—used there. But will someone please tell me with what money?

And for whom?  All that in a place with a permanent temperature of over forty degrees. Isn't it a deadly place for mortals? It isn't very hospitable to any species. But man built his paradise there. You can also get married and divorce in an hour.  Why can't you spend a dollar on developing countries? Then there wouldn't be a massive exodus of the poor to more prosperous countries.

They say it's not safe to keep the money in banks in these countries. But is it safe in the USA? The value of the American currency has halved, which means that half of it has disappeared. In other words, if you worked for thirty years and saved your earnings, fifteen years of your working life would be taken away.  

What progress!  

Continue …  

Josef Bauer

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What Progress Part 2-4 - Another 20 years have passed

Reflection: #018

Another 20 years have passed.

God keeps me alive for some reason.

Maybe to enjoy the paradise in which we already live.  In the sixties, it was twenty years to the "future," thirty years to total utopia. One could feel that we were heading toward a totally fantastic madness. Fifty years have passed. A significant period. But have we made any progress in that time? I say no. We went backward.  I don't have any numbers at hand, but the cars have multiplied many times over, the telephones have increased, and now you can see pictures on them—they're mobile. Today, there are three billion three hundred million mobile phones!  The sweat of a horse after a fast gallop has a strong smell, but it is still a natural one. The petrol vapor you inhale when filling up, and the exhaust fumes from poorly combusting diesel engines, on the other hand, are toxic.  Cars still carry a stove and burn fuel. They have air-filled tires that wear out quickly. Small damage to tires can lead to severe accidents.

The brake pads still fill the air with asbestos (cancer!) instead of recovering kinetic energy during braking. Vehicles have a heavy gearbox instead of using an electric motor to control the speed on the wheels. A cable can transmit electricity to the engines flanged to the wheels, and a computer can regulate the necessary voltage—instead of transferring the speed with an iron Cardan shaft and gears in a gearbox filled with dirty oil!  

What progress!  

Continue …  

Josef Bauer

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What Progress Part 1-4 - Dreaming for 50 years

  Reflection: #017 

For more than thirty years, I have been reading extensively about new discoveries in astronomy. I also enjoy observing the starry sky.  In the years between 1965 and 1985, astronomical information was very scarce.

More or less, we knew the diameters of the planets, the duration of their orbits around the Sun, and some moons orbiting their respective planets.

The Moon of our home planet was best known, probably because of its proximity. It was always mentioned, for example, as the cause of a woman's menstrual cycle—the Moon has the same 28-day calendar as a woman in her monthly cycles—and it causes the movement of seawater, the tides. Good.  The two moons of Mars are well known (Jules Verne already described their exact dimensions and counterclockwise orbit).  Reaching the Moon was a dream that came true in the sixties. The Moon was without an atmosphere, as was Mars. That was the scientific opinion.

Not to mention water on Mars or ice on the Moon. You only read about it in science fiction. The German series Perry Rhodan already described very prophetically and precisely the environment in the near cosmos, like the existence of inhabited planets with all conceivable forms of life.

But a serious man does not read fiction, let alone believe or talk about it.  Anyone who read it knew that they spoke of telephones that also allowed image transmission. While you were talking, you could always see your conversation partner on a small screen.

In the 1970s, not even a computer with much memory and many other details—which came forty years later—was known.

The Church and the staff of established scientists laughed at such fantasies. Well. Time won against them.

What one was not allowed to believe then is now a matter of everyday life for everyone.  So, with all the renewed technology, our lives will change in less than forty years. That's what futurists and dreamers like me thought when I was young—and maybe I still am today. Only now, I no longer dream of radical technological change, but of humanitarian reform.  For me, in 1965, the year 1980—which was still in the future—was magical. From then on, everything that was utopian in the days of the sixties would become reality, and in the nineties, one would live in a magical world.

At the age of 9 or 10, I prayed to God that I might experience this moment.

He fulfilled my wish and allowed me to experience the magic date.  The date of the magical year 1980 came, and neither the press nor anyone else spoke of a historical event. And so it was in 1990.

I was already living in the future of my old dreams, and it was nothing special.

Cars smoked, made noise, crashed together; people died of hunger and simple diseases. They ate and drank contaminated food and water.  The clocks were still analog. Although I already had an automatic Swiss watch—i.e., by moving my arm, it always kept running—there was still nothing of another world. People also used electric calculators, and those who could afford it bought a scientific calculator.

Color television became implemented and installed in many apartments.

The interest in the Moon had vanished.

Nothing was reported about it anymore. Not a single satellite went in its direction.  Landline telephones came equipped with modern buttons instead of the rotary dial with numbers.

What progress!  Airplanes no longer used propellers so often, but turbos with hellish thrust—thousands of horsepower in these engines with impressive kerosene consumption. One hundred and fifty thousand liters of kerosene is stored in the wings of a jumbo to carry the weight of two hundred people!

What progress! 

Continue … 

Josef Bauer

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Vatican Allows Believing in Aliens

Reflection: #015

VATICAN CITY (AP) – The Vatican's leading astronomer says that belief in extraterrestrials does not contradict faith in God. 

The priest José Gabriel Funes, Jesuit director of the Vatican Observatory, says that the vastness of the universe makes it possible that outside Earth, there could be other life forms—even intelligent ones.

In an interview published on Tuesday by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Funes says that such a belief "does not contradict our faith" because aliens would still be God's creatures. 

The interview was headlined "The Alien Is My Brother." Funes said that excluding the existence of aliens would be like "setting limits" to God's creative freedom.  

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D90KSE100&show_article=1

End of translation.  

The Vatican allows us to believe in brothers from other worlds!

To believe in intelligent life throughout the universe—that is what I have always said.

God is in all the universe.

Life can't be locked in a cage. Catholic teaching tells us that God created the universe.

The Earth we live on, and all humans ourselves, are only a part of this creation.

Planet Earth is vital for us, but in the infinite space of the cosmos, there are similar celestial bodies—and therefore, to deny the existence of other beings would be blasphemy.  I do not know how the politics of the various rulers in the many millennia of our existing civilization have dealt with this subject.

There was always contact with other beings. But in our present time, people still deny the existence of extraterrestrials, especially having contact with them here on this planet.  Observations of the global behavior of influential politicians and unusual facts bordering on insanity confirm a denial that is carried out with all power and purposefulness on all levels—be it scientific, religious, or political. In other words, however great the effort, the status quo must be maintained as it is to proceed with a plan.

It is a plan that came into being thousands of years ago.

Everything is planned for the long term because prophecies are insights into such sketches of our future.  It is a plan that must be fulfilled, and if it was recorded in writing and binding in secret societies, it would also be systematically performed.

The argument is as simple as that. But about that, at another time.  The Vatican is, therefore, radically changing its attitude to the question of life outside our planet.

Mr. Giordano Bruno, my friend from a previous life, was burned in Rome because of his knowledge of planetary orbits, and the astronomer Galileo was banned and imprisoned because he said that the planet Earth revolves around the Sun. His often-quoted statement, "And yet it moves," bears witness to his accurate observations.  The Vatican knows that the confirmation of the existence of beings from other worlds is imminent and will happen at any time. We must prepare ourselves for new times if we are not to miss the train.

This is the way it is, and this is how they behave. And that is fine with me. Mistakes must be corrected. To deny the possible existence of other beings in the universe was a mistake. It has no bearing on faith in God.  On the contrary, it can attract more believers if modern science is included in religion. The Vatican has rehabilitated Darwin as well as scientists from earlier centuries. We may need to look for a better explanation for the origin of Jesus and the Holy Trinity.

We take the first step.

Now we are waiting for the next one.

 Josef Bauer

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The Plagues of the Apocalypse

 Reflection: #014

Why do we hear about tsunamis, earthquakes, cyclones, and droughts in Asia?

We hear about a cyclone in Burma (Myanmar) and a 7.9-magnitude earthquake in China.

A hundred thousand people drowned in the cyclone. Five thousand people died in the earthquake. 

I ask myself if the earthquake has something to do with nuclear testing. I think so. Never before has an earthquake this intense been measured and recorded on the Richter scale. Let's follow the world news for the next few weeks. The states are predicting the most violent tornadoes.

What is happening to the weather? 

Mars can give us an example of how a beautiful planet can stop harboring life if the environment is not respected.

Mars didn't just lose its water.

Something happened.

Something serious.

Something terribly serious. 

Pictures taken by NASA show us pipelines on Mars. In the meantime, these pictures of the famous pipes have been analyzed by many, including myself. It seems that they were used to transport water. I will show you further evidence of these channels and technically intelligent shaped drains or pipes.

I hope that in the end, the creatures on Mars still had the technology available to channel water into their habitats. 

We, here on Earth, will have neither the technology nor the will nor the resources to transfer a fundamental element from one country to another. On the contrary, the neighbor will be cut off from the influx of this vital element, as is happening between Israel and Palestine. More expensive food, banned or expired medicines are sold to the neighbor, as is the case in South America.  All exhaust gases from factory furnaces are blown through high chimneys into higher air layers so that the wind carries them away from the factory location.

It is terrible for the people who have to breathe in these fumes mixed with poisonous substances.

Those who live separated from food, water, and hygienic habitats will perish.

If a person survives this scenario, they live with the trauma of tragedy for the rest of their life. 

In one of these days or years, we will have an earthquake or a tsunami of people.

Today, we have a tsunami in the US currency. Nobody talks about it, not about its cause. Nobody understands it, but this earthquake is powerful.

It seems to be one of the plagues of the apocalypse that will hit us hard.

The second plague is already at the door: hunger. Not two years will pass before more people die of hunger than of cancer and AIDS.

http://www.bread.org/learn/hunger-basics/hunger-facts-international.html

I will not speak of the many dead in war zones as plagues. They are man-made and are the cause of more diseases.

Food will become a luxury article for two to three billion people. The water is polluted; there is no longer a river in the world whose water can be drunk. In a humid climate, diseases will grow like fungi.

Europe will know malaria, dengue, skin fungi, and other diseases associated with high temperatures. A mosquito can quickly come from different countries and live in Europe while it is hot—and that is already guaranteed. The heat stays with us.

The plagues of the apocalypse are just around the corner.  When I wrote this reflection, the death toll in China was five thousand. Today, we are unfortunately talking about more than fifty thousand! We are also talking about the fact that more than four million people have become homeless.

Josef Bauer

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