Revelations Chapter 1

Ok, I've decided what I'm going to use my blog for. Well, its not a diary, so I can't be a personal troglodyte in the full view of the public eye, raining tears of betrayal, weariness, dilapidation, depression, ambition and all the woes of your average teenage ruggermuffin. So, I thought: wouldn't it be nice to picture a blogger as an old man in his pipe and slippers, drinking tea and wearing a lightly laced woollen cream jumper simply reading the papers and books and spitting out raps about his long accumulated knowledge, allowing nations to feast on this gibbous mire of wisdom he's come up with? All grandfathers love doing it anyway, reading and spreading wisdom, so maybe that's what cosmic man should have thought of ages ago.

So, every day (if I can), I'll 'spit' some random ideas and thoughts from what I learnt in the day, combining them in a weird and wacky coagulation of hopefully perspicacious thoughts. This weeks thoughts are mainly from the news journals and papers, but next week I will include my thoughts on a book I just finished, Jung's 'Modern Man'.

DID YOU KNOW: today, I read that Bill Gates' Foundation a few months ago had set up a programme for poverty elimination researchers and rural development scientists to apply for grants, of the huge sum of $100,000 each, to develop their individual ideas in seeding for venture projects. And some of the ideas are amazing - one person developed a chewing gum that can detect signs of malaria in a person's saliva, via a solar-activated mosquito larva poison. Another bloke came up with a way of equipping mobile phone with hypersensitive microphones to record coughs in microscopic sonic waves, allowing pneumonia to be diagnosed in an instant.No chance of that happening for cosmic man...

Then, on Japan's financial situation: Japan has the highest debt-to-GDP ratio of any rich nation, near 200% of GDP, and one fifth of its budget goes to making interest payments on sovereign government bonds. But, I came across a fascinating article that talks about how this country, mired by years of economic collapse and a paralysed slump to anaemic financial drudgery has had some revelations of its own on how to market these bonds - check this out!http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/a01c3edc-74be-11df-aed7-00144feabdc0.html

North Korea is a bit of a cesspool, and I remember reading somewhere about Condoleezza Rice describing it as 'thrown out in space'. Today I read about the true conditions of this weird country, like Romania, Krygystan, Uzbekistan and so many of the weird socialist/Marxist governments that have had despondent lunatics running their country - the head of Romania famously had slaves painting all shrubbery and trees in his path green, whereever he went. In North Korea, in some areas more than 70% of residents survive on a corn porridge mixed with grass. Even when soldiers try and steal corn, when the police are called there have been incidents of murders between both of them. This country faces its biggest food shortages in the century. This is a horrific country in terrible poverty many people do not realise - housewives have to send meat to the army in tiffin boxes, collect scrap metal and because of lack of heavy machinery all building is done by women carrying heavy rocks manually. There is an abundance of prison camps and labour camps for even wandering the country in search of food. In these brutal camps, 3/4 see themselves executed, half die simply from being beaten. I urge readers to watch the opening scenes from a 'Shawshank Redemption'. As the article I read called it, this really is Hell on Earth.

Next week: an installment of my view on Afghanistan and the state of NATO, the peace process, model bombardment, war in the Middle East, and the insurgency troubles as well as thoughts on the solution. By then, I would have finished Ayn Rand's 'Atlas Shrugged'. Then, a special on secret societies from my own experiences, starting from Henry Luce's prized Skullduggery at Yale a century ago exactly. This guy also founded Time, Fortune, Sports Illustrated and Life magazines, and rather reminds me of some rather gifted but crazed peregrinators I know from back home. Then, i'll discuss a guy called Chiang Kaishek, a 'historic loser'

There's an advert on TV for Bing.com that states 'what has information overload done to us?'. It is of cosmic man's opinion that it has done marvellous medicine, but only in light doses like the one I shall try and deliver, and by no means robotically but sinuously. Perhaps a hint of Sowell's 'Intellectuals and Society' could deliver what I mean.

Good night. (I find it hard to sleep, so all these posts come by night in a kind of lunar envelope)