WHO “LOST” $3 TRILLION?

 The £90 million a year spent by The City of London on lobbying seems to reach deep into Westminster. The Treasury Select Committee, chaired by an ostrich-like Conservative MP with severe memory loss, has the brass-neck cheek or outright stupidity today to shoot the Governor of The Bank of England for withdrawing support from Barclay’s top directors and ousting Bob Diamond.  Apologists planted in government still have the gall to say “The City is a Major Asset for the UK”.

YOU LOST THE LOT – YOU DUMBOS! They parrot this deception despite the fact that The City in 2009 lost £52,000 for every household in the UK; totalling $1.3 trillion – in one year.  If UK.Gov had not guaranteed ALL bank deposits, The City would have happily squandered all the savings of everyone, seen banks go bust – and would start up again with the same repetitive lies. A similar level of loss was suffered by every household in the USA.  Where did those trillions of dollars go? Every Debit entry has an equal Credit entry. Who benefitted?

Is it coincidence, cock-up or conspiracy that the vast River of Off-Shore funds, the Free Markets, rose by $3 trillion from 2009 to 2012 - from $18 trillion to $21 trillion?  Is that where our money has gone – via The City and Wall Street?

We have had enough of being managed by morons. Sack every City grandee who operated from 1980 to date – and track and repatriate our money from the tax-havens. Do it now - and invest it in the real economy to create jobs and industry.  

HOW HEAVY IS THE HIGGS BOSON?

THE HIGGS BOSON 

I have been asked several times "What does a Higgs weigh?" Here's my attempt to measure it in normal, everday terms.

 HOW SCIENCE SEES IT - The Higgs Boson is thought to be the unit of energy in an approximately atom sized sphere of 70 trillionths of a meter.

The Higgs boson weighs about 115MeV/C² to 125MeV/C². In English, these are 115 million electron volts to 125 million electron volts each divided by 90 thousand trillion (the speed of light squared).

HOW COOKS SEE IT - In ordinary kitchen units, grams, each Higgs Boson weighs:

From  0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,205,010,000 grams

Up to  0.000,000,000,000,000,000,000,222,830,000 grams

(about 2 thousand, billion, billionths of one gram)

...so not very large or heavy. In fact, very, very, very small. But the Higgs are about 134 times as large as protons (which are at the heart /nucleus of atoms alongside neutrons).  All the “Higgs Bosons” in the entire universe link with each other to make “The Higgs Field”. A field has no parts so each Higgs Boson  permeates the whole universe. Remember that a boson is in the super-light-weight photon and electron family. Remember that light (photons) and electricity (electrons) are of the same electro-magnetic spectrum, along with Infra-Red, X-Rays and Microwaves etc - all of which we amateurs refer to as LIGHT. Visible light (rainbows) is a small part of the whole spectrum.

IN ORDINARY MEASURES - Let's say to make some sugared donuts to eat weighing 125 grams (about 1/4lb, 4.5 ounces, of delicious, deep-fried and sugar coated carbo-hydrates) would need the equivalent weight of  

560,965,758,650,092,000,000,000
Higgs Bosons. That's 561-Thousand-Billion-Billion Higgs Bosons will weigh the same as your plate of donuts. And, YES, the Higgs would be in there, making up the weight of the donuts.  If it is confirmed to exist, The Higgs is in or around every atom.

WILL THE HIGGS FIELD SUFFER HEAT-DEATH?

HIGGS FOR KIDS - MORE HIGGS BOSONS


HIGGS TO HOUSE-BRICKS

HIGGS BOSON DIES

HIGGS BOSON EXPLAINED - 2

www.noelhodson.com/index_files/Life-Universe-Everything-8Mar2011.pdf

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmvCsQly2c

Science further reading

http://www.lightandmatter.com/html_books/lm/ch36/ch36.html#Section36.3

                                                                                                              

HIGGS BOSON AND CUSTARD

                                                                                                                

GRAVITY AND IMMORTALITY

                                                                                                                

THE HIGGS BOSON & MRS TRELLIS OF NORTH WALES

HOW HEAVY IS THE HIGGS BOSON?

NEVER PAY TAX EVER AGAIN!

Tax planning is now open to all UK (and USA, Pacific Rim & EU) taxpayers; to the employed, self-employed, corporate, charities, family-trusts and everyone. All you need do is spend £100 to buy a limited company, John Smith (Guernsey) Ltd, (see Exchange & Mart) and a £10 brass plaque on the wall at Trafalgar Court, St Peter’s Port, Guernsey, appoint one of Guernsey’s 65,000 people as your agent for ½ hour a year for £20 – and that’s it – you need never pay UK taxes again.  

Then we all just pretend. If for example you are John Smith, employed at BMW-Mini, Cowley, Oxford on £38,000 a year, you make up a piece of paper saying your services are provided by John Smith (Guernsey) Ltd and the employer pays you in your off-shore bank account. No VAT (sales tax), no PAYE income tax deductions, no national insurance deductions, no pension deductions – ever again. You spend £120 and get tax-free income.  You get your salary (Oops sorry, I mean Fees) gross.  All you need do is pretend you make business decisions in Guernsey (or the Isle of Man or State of Delaware – whichever you prefer). Get some pals together – ten or twenty of you and share the company. With a hundred people the tax-free "fees" would be £3,800,000.

In the bad old days – before The Free International Markets – some pedantic, old, miserable, class-envious tax inspectors would call it False Accounting, or Fraudulent Conspiracy; or argue that the transactions are Not Commercial, Not at Arms Length, Insider Dealing, Not Necessary for The Business, A Sham, an Employment Contract By Any Other Name – and therefore should be ignored for tax purposes and taxed in the UK. Your pretences would trigger a very costly Back-Duty-Tax-Case that you would lose.  You might go to jail.

But in this liberal age – the knowledge society – the international era, it is, as every TV, newspaper and magazine journalist* repeatedly says – “All Perfectly Legal”.  If you have any doubts, watch the Channel 4 Dispatches 9^th July 2012 film, Secrets of the Taxman, and see that everyone is doing it – even the members of the Board of The Inland Revenue (now HMRC).  If you get a tax demand, just take Dave Hartnett, Head of HMRC, for a drink – and the demand might mysteriously diminish or even vanish. Ask Harry Redknapp or your local MP or Judge or TV presenter how its done - it's magic - and brush up on your acting skills – its really, really, really simple.

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/articles/secrets-of-the-taxman-clips

(Most off-shore schemes are legal in the tax-havens but NOT in the UK /USA etc. Off-shore banks, agents, lawyers etc may abscond with your money. *Most media journalists and politicians haven’t a clue about tax-law and parrot their views because they fiddle their own taxes off-shore. Money can go down as well as up. Follow this advice on your own responsibility and at your greatest peril. I personally think it is a massive, pervasive fraud and advise all to “move your money on-shore” before the tax-collectors get you)

http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/hmrc-directors-connected-to-potential-tax-avoidance

HMRC directors connected to potential tax avoidance

BANKERS' I.Q. - WHOSE THE DUMMY?

UPDATE - 8th October 2014.

Rather than learn to add-up and take-away or take any responsibility whatsoever, despite their mega "rewards", senior HSBC bankers Alan Thomson (Audit Committee) and John Trueman (UK Deputy Chairman) have resigned; in fear of new rules of conduct from the UK's financial regulators the PRA and FCA, which include possible prison sentences for "reckless conduct" (gross stupidity) that might crash London's banks again. How can they afford to give up work? The phrases "obscenely overpaid" and " rats leaving a sinking ship" leap to mind.

10th August 2012 - Banking Clowns:
“Hello! You will find this hard to believe, but my name is Mr Totally Utterly Stupid and I’m an International Banker in charge of trillions and trillions of transactions and thingamajigs and suchlike, every day, all over the world; I’m paid huge amounts of money, so much that I don’t bother to count it. I’m one of new Masters of the Universe, the cash aristocrats who run the world.

That’s not the bit that’s hard to believe; Oh No! What most of you whining wage earning peasants find difficult to believe is that I haven’t a clue what’s going on. But it is true. I don’t know anything about global finance. I don’t have a clue what position my hugely important international transborder bank is in; and justifiably so. Our Balance Sheets are very, very, very complicated. You just try reading one – and you tell me what it means. I think you’ll admit it needs a lot of adding up and subtracting, some of it in one’s head, to comprehend. Very hard work. You’d have to pay me much more money; a huge, huge, huge bonus to take one of those home as bed-time reading. Very rich people like me don’t expect to have to work.

And thus, you can see that it stands to reason that I can’t have the faintest clue what other international very, very, complicated banks are doing, either. And as for the BIG PICTURE…  Well! Who is going to even try to read all the numbers of all the banks, at the same time, altogether. There’s no need. We know when its OK when we get our massive tax-free rewards at Christmas – and we know it’s not OK when the global system collapses, dopey old taxpayers stump up a few more trillion, and we still get our bonuses; with a bit of a ticking off from the jolly strict Regulators. Cue my colleague:”

“Thank you Totally Utterly Stupid and Hello everyone. I am Mr Reprehensibly Stupid, a fearsomely alert national regulator of the financial system.  You pay me not very much, less than a million a year, for keeping things in order. But I was brought up in the same school as all the bankers – and told it is rude to point – and even ruder to ask pointed questions. I am not a rude man; so I don’t ask any questions. I don’t like to look at any banks’ Balance Sheet, without an invitation – and I would never look over the fence at what is happening in other countries. How rude would that be! And what hard work! I know that everything is ship-shape when my banker friends tell me it’s alright. I know things have gone wrong when nations collapse and millions of the hoi-polloi lose their tedious little jobs and mobile homes and so on. Then my bosses smack me on the wrist with a wet flannel, wait a month, then give me a hug and a bonus. In brief – I know nothing. It’s all very secret and confidential. And long may it stay that way.”

This pantomime is my reaction to the announcement in New Scientist, 11 August 2012, Page 6, Special Report/ Global Finance, The Meltdown Forecasters, that contrary to what I have assumed for 30 years, really, really, really is not so. NOBODY compiles the global financial positions on a daily basis in real-time and uses them to forecast crises. NOBODY is looking. The world of finance flies blind – through the storms and fogs without instruments. And guess what? They crash. What the F*** are we paying them for if they can’t even do basic bookkeeping and cash-flow forecasts. Why are we employing these sanguine clowns at immense cost to “manage” the Money-Economy – and our lives?  

The NS article ends with “Someone needs to keep track of the big picture”, says Laura Kodres, chief of the IMF’s global financial division. Until then another financial meltdown could be just around the corner.”

How about you Laura? Get the damned data onto those IBM main-frames and start compiling. Publish the Global Daily Balance Sheet next month. It isn’t rocket science – just plain old simple bookkeeping. Get on with it!  Or pay Google to do it. NOW! 

MONEY WARS  
END OF LOAN SHARKS? 
MARK CARNEY - MONEY-WARS
ECONOMIC REFORM ARTICLES

MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - CLIMATE CHANGE

 

http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/greenland-melt.html

“July 2012 - For several days this month, Greenland's surface ice cover melted over a larger area than at any time in more than 30 years of satellite observations. Nearly the entire ice cover of Greenland, from its thin, low-lying coastal edges to its two-mile-thick center, experienced some degree of melting at its surface…    ….According to satellite data, an estimated 97 percent of the ice sheet surface thawed at some point in mid-July.”

NASA scientists first reported an unprecedented meltdown then thought it might be faulty data.  It matters because when the 2.2 million square kilometres of snow and ice, rising up to a mile high on Greenland melts, sea level will rise dramatically.  When the 13.8 million square kilometres, rising up to 3 miles high on Antarctica also melts – the sea will rise by about 300 ft (113 metres).  Governmental and commercial pressures to resist all thoughts of change and focus on “business as usual” censor such facts and, Canute like, push them a hundred years into the future.  If your home is below 300ft, as are 80%, follow the NASA link and judge for yourself.

My climate-change e-novel, Out of the Depths (Print version, Over the Rainbow) tracks migrants from the flooded coastal margins and concludes there is no hiding place for highlanders or lowlanders. If you live on a mountain, try stopping 5.6 billion desperate refugees from joining you.

• LONDON FLOODING
• BRITAIN FLOODS - CALIFORNIA DRYS

• LONDON FLOODS 

• REPUBLICANS AGAINST ARCTIC MELTDOWN 
• MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND 

• SEA-LEVEL AND MELTDOWN 
• ARCTIC AND ANTARCTIC WARMING – SEA LEVEL RISES 
• CLIMATE CHANGE and NEW YORK  
• DOOMSDAY – LONDON & NEW YORK FLOOD 

• STORM WARNINGS – HURRICANE SANDY 
• FLOODS, POLAR ICE CAPS - BLOG ARCHIVE

• LONDON FLOODS - 300ft UNDERWATER 
• GLOBAL FLOODS - READ ALL ABOUT IT! 
• S.O.S. – ARCTIC ICE MELTING 
• NOAH'S FLOOD - 2012-25 
• FLOOD ALERT 
• MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - CLIMATE CHANGE 
• MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND - THE CURSE OF ST. SWITHIN. 
• “MOVE TO HIGHER GROUND & MOVE YOUR MONEY ON-SHORE!... 
• BIRD-FLU AND FLOOD INSURANCE 

CREATURES OF LIGHT – DYNAMIC UNIVERSE

It is little wonder that friends tell me to get a life and get out more. For our vacation I took five popular science books on the physics of the universe, including an old cartoon ABC version of Einstein’s Special & General Relativity in which I had once managed to scribble the maths of E=MC² …and understand it. Einstein’s “Special” theory shows that the speed of light is the only fixed “dimension”, whereas height, length, breadth and Time vary. And his later “General” theory shows that gravity bends space-time around massive (and presumably small) stellar objects.

I also re-read Professor Frank Close’s book The Void, which brilliantly explores vacuums, waves and the basic stuff of the universe. Closest to my heart however is The Goldilocks Enigma by Paul Davies, who starts by berating scientists who hold that the universe is ultimately pointless and meaningless. He explores the great mystery of how the universe on micro and macro scales is right for life, those ubiquitous delicate, complex, vulnerable, sentient creatures, including humans, usually mixed with water, that survive and emerge from cauldrons of exploding supernovae, zero temperatures (-273 degrees Kelvin), and survive crooked bankers and politicians.

This holiday reading confirmed that my speculations on Life, The Universe and Everything are still consistent with mainstream scientific thinking. It is still viable to assume that we are Creatures of Light, literally made from compressed light, immersed in an expanding sea of perpetual but dynamic electromagnetic holograms of the entire universe – The Aether-Matrix – and that all things, life and we broadcast our every motion, including brainwaves, into the Aether-Matrix, which in turn is informed and reformed by this feedback. We are literally and scientifically, Creatures of Light in an ocean of light. And, judging from Evolution, school leaver’s achievements and ever improving Olympic performances, we incrementally grow in ability. Whatever will become of us?

And …our personal brief life electromagnetic broadcasts, scientifically speaking, persist until the end of days; and affect the entire universe.  So – let us make them count.  

www.noelhodson.com/index_files/Life-Universe-Everything-8Mar2011.pdf

• NEW GRAVITY - SUMMARY (& VORTEXES)

CAPITAL IS ON VACATION

On return from holidaying in France, the land of revolutionary democracy, where they really know how to permanently turn aristocratic heads; newspapers report that the new aristocrats, super-rich villains, have hidden $21 trillion in tax-havens, courtesy of crooked banks. This is an advance on the $18tn reported in 2009 by the OECD – and shows it is increasing by one-trillion-dollars a year. $21 trillion will clear all the national government and banking deficits worldwide.

 http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jul/21/global-elite-tax-offshore-economy

The whole $21tn should be clawed back to the nations the cash was gouged from over the past 30 years. No new legislation is required. The governments, secret services, international banks, industry and auditors know where the loot is stashed. All that is needed to solve the global money crises is for back-duty-tax assessments to be raised under existing laws on all “offshore” funds, trusts, charities and other funny money hoards. The required (100 years old) laws and precedents exist across the world. In tax law the hoarders are guilty until proved innocent (prove where the asset came from and that tax is paid). This massive collection cannot be trusted to the usual tax collectors; e.g. the UK’s HMRC is infiltrated with tax dodgers and its courts with biased “offshore” judges at the highest levels. New “tax-clean” special task forces need to be recruited from the intelligence services and incentivised with collection commissions.

 http://www.channel4.com/info/press/news/hmrc-directors-connected-to-potential-tax-avoidance

Governments in the USA, UK, Europe, South America, Japan, China and the Pacific Rim have no reason to delay the repatriation of the $21tn; to be invested in the home nations now; to make sustainable jobs for our unemployed, our students and the next generation. Ask your elected representatives if they or anyone connected have siphoned assets to tax-havens. And tell them to get our capital back to work at home.

TAX-STRIKE: The alternative is for everyone to ape the rich and to withhold all their taxes.

 TAX AND ECONOMY - ARCHIVE - JAN13

TAX AND ECONOMICS ARTICLES 29TH APR 13