the tronsil affair

The tonsil affair

By David Verveer

Today it is my turn to baby-sit on my grandson, who had his tonsils removed last week. He is 8 years old, and not the complaining type, but you can see it really hurts him when he swallows or tries to eat something.

In order to prevent his catching an unwelcome virus of his classmates, we keep him home until after the Sukkoth holydays, thus taking turns in keeping him company during these, for him, long lasting and painful days. I do remember when they did the same thing to me, recently (only 60 years ago), and seeing his face when he swallows, reminds me of the nagging pain, which goes from the ears to the throat. I really pity him, but can't help him. It seems to be the price we pay in growing up.

He is only allowed to eat un-heated food, including ice-cream, but his favorite dishes of chips (French fries) with snitzel and fresh cucumbers is much too painful. He eats this pudding and cream things which children eat nowadays, but with that he remains hungry. I took him with the car to a restaurant in the center of the neighborhood, and passed by his school, there his school mates were outside doing sport, and he was really jealous of them. On the way back, I took another route, without seeing the school. In the restaurant he ordered a croissant, from which he consumed the soft inner part, which on itself was apparently a painful affair.

Now we are back home, he lies in front of his TV and looks at a children program, and I try to fix the computers in my daughter's house, by cleaning them, scanning them and installing new preventive software, a job which takes much time and is rather boring, but is definitely my responsibility, as my daughter and kids do not have sufficient patience to perform these tasks, which one has to do every so often, or else the computers slow down to stand still, due to trash and other slowing software. The worst enemies are the games, which not only take up enormous amounts of memory, but also interfere with the basic software performance, which are essential for running the computer.

In the mean time being away from work, makes them apparently realize how important I am, as every five minutes somebody phones me with questions such as, where, why, what and when, but that seems to go with the function of project manager (or is it a sign that I don't manage very well, as with a good manager in his absence, everything should go smooth).

But now my big question, why do people have tonsils, if they have to be taken out, what is their function? Is it like the appendix, a simple construction mistake, or like the tail bone, something the human body doesn't need anymore? And if we mention unnecessary parts, why are we circumcised, doesn't this skin have a function, why do we torture the new born with a medical operation? I learned that our first trauma comes from the cruelty we encounter with the age of 8 days old, many follow after that, especially kids with Jewish mothers and grand mothers. Yes Savta (grandmother), I took the medicines, waited for a grown-up to cross the road, and did my homework. Savta, not now, I am busy!

Yom Kippur thoughts

On Yom Kippur (Day of Atonement) we generally make a list of people, who have done us wrong in the past year, and whom we have to forgive. We also make a list (secretly and mentally), for ourselves, whom we perhaps have wronged, generally this last list is rather short, as the really bad things we personally did to others, somehow, we do not count and remember. I won’t bother you with my misdeeds, nor will I bother you with those stupid bastards, which made me angry the past year, people like this stupid maniacthat nearly killed my wife and me, when he drove into my car, with enormous speed, and had the bloody cheek, not to admit his fault. Of course I won’t forgive him and will meet him in court in a few months. However, I will forgive the people angry with me, because my stubbornness, my idiotism and principles. And I have to admit; I don’t care what other people think of me, and please do not hurry to inform me, as I don’t like emotional talks.

But there are people; I will never forgive, as they are in my mind, mass murderers. I refer to religious freaks that are opposing birth control, and who are responsible for the population growth, precisely in the sectors of poverty and ignorance. I add to this the green environmentalists, tools in the hand of bankers, brokers and businessmen, who as irresponsible unscrupulous criminals promote the manufacture from corn and grain derived energy fuels instead of using them to feed the world, thus driving the food prices sky high, and driving the poorer nations into famine.

I also will not forgive fanatics, terrorists and zealots, people without conscience or hearth who because belief and principles will cause suffering and sorrow to others, irrelevant if their cause and grieve has grains of justifications, and I do not accept the argument that the enemy can not be trusted, because they never have kept their promises. We are not allowed to take away their human rights, not from their leaders, but from the people living next door to us, born there, lived and toiled in poverty their entire life, in neighborhood of our riches. Who are we, to take away, what is not ours to take? Nobody chooses his own parents, religion or circumstances under which he is born. We all have an irrevocable and equal right to live and prosper.

And going back to forgiving and not forgiving, I forgive you, if you say that I wrote this time, nonsense, which was not funny at all.

Oh, and before I forget, I am not a racist, but I hate those green creatures from outer space, who, in name of science, fight the production of my favorite gas, the carbon dioxide.

Gmar Hatima Tova (I hope that God has decided to write your name in the book of the living).

this is why you are converted to be a greenist

This is why you are converted to be a Greenist

By Internet and David Verveer

It was clear from the beginning that the banning of Carbon dioxide campaign was a clever hoax, backed by corrupt bankers, businessmen and pseudo scientists. However, their campaign got out of control, when the masses started to belief (in a kind of new religion) that human intervention could stop the so called Global Warming, by reducing the use of fossil derived energies.

Personally, I couldn’t care if All Gore makes money, but I do mind that the third world are now thrown in a new crisis, due to rising food prices, which will cause eventually, millions of children dying from starvation. I know that I am too late and my writing has no influence on anybody, but somehow, we need to wake up the conscientious American and European, and remind them that they have a responsibility for the welfare of the entire world.

Large musical festivals, in order to donate to the hungry, are beautiful acts showing how kind the rich are towards the needed, but when this disaster is caused by a pure swindle, not backed up by any proven facts that human produced Carbon Dioxide causes Global Warming, nor that Global Warming is in fact taking place, and not just a warming period in the ever changing climate pattern. Besides the clear fact that in general, rising temperatures are beneficial to the existence of humans, increases the food yields, etc.

I just copied / pasted some extracts from the internet, in order to show you that I am not talking nonsense, and my argument is based on hard evidence.

The methanol production

The methanol consumption on the fuel market exhibits stagnant growth, which exerts an enormous downward pressure on prices paralleled by capacity expansion. Production of acetic acid remains a major methanol consumption sector.

This year may witness augmentation of methanol use as a fuel, since further development of direct-methanol fuel cells is expected (like in new Toshiba's methanol-driven devices demonstrated at CeBIT 2007). The worldwide market for replacement cartridges used to replenish fuel in fuel cells is likely to grow to $1b a year by 2010, according to Avicenne Developement. However, the potential use of micro fuel cells to power mobile devices will be limited for several years because of regulatory restrictions on transporting them on aircraft, according to Takeishi Ruta Takeishi, a manager in Toshiba's European electronics division.

Methanol production growth may be also spurred by the introduction of new technologies implying the use of methanol to obtain gasoline and polymers.

In general, global demand for methanol is forecast to grow by an average of 2% a year in the coming few years. Then the growth may slow down.

Developed countries are major methanol consumers.

In Russia, methanol is consumed mainly in the production of Formalin and synthetic rubbers, which account for 60-70% of total methanol use.

Methanol is a colorless, toxic, flammable liquid, used as antifreeze, a general solvent, a fuel, and a denaturant for ethyl alcohol. It is also called carbinol, methyl alcohol, wood alcohol, wood spirits.

The bulk of methanol is processed into formaldehyde in order to produce plastic masses, urotropine, and carbamide resins. Methanol can be used to make methyl tertiary-butyl ether (MTBE), an oxygenate which is blended with gasoline to enhance octane and create cleaner burning fuel. In the future, methanol could possibly be the fuel of choice for providing the hydrogen necessary to power fuel cell vehicles.

Rising food prices

The recent rise in corn prices--almost 70 percent in the past six months--caused by the increased demand for ethanol biofuel has come much sooner than many agriculture economists had expected.

According to the United States Department of Agriculture, this year the country is going to use 18 to 20 percent of its total corn crop for the production of ethanol, and by next year that will jump to 25 percent. And that increase, says Marshall Martin, an agriculture economist at Purdue University, "is the main driver behind the price increase for corn."

The jump in corn prices is already affecting the cost of food. The most notable example: in Mexico, which gets much of its corn from the United States, the price of corn tortillas has doubled in the past year, according to press reports, setting off large protest marches in Mexico City. It's almost certain that most of the rise in corn prices is due to the U.S. ethanol policy, says David Victor, director of the Program on Energy and Sustainable Development at Stanford University.

The rising food costs fueled by ethanol demand are also affecting U.S. consumers. "All things that use corn is going to have higher prices and higher cost, to some extent, that will be passed on to consumers," says Wally Tyner, professor of agriculture economics at Purdue University. The impact of this is being felt first in animal feed, particularly poultry and pork. Poultry feed is about two-thirds corn; as a result, the cost to produce poultry--both meat and eggs--has already risen about 15 percent due to corn prices, says Tyner. Also expect corn syrup--used in soft drinks--to get more expensive, he says.

The situation will only get worse, says David Pimentel, a professor in the department of entomology at Cornell University. "We have over a hundred different ethanol plants under construction now, so the situation is going to get desperate," he says. Adding to the worries about corn-related food prices is President Bush's ambitious goal, announced in his last State of the Union address, that the United States will produce 35 billion gallons of ethanol by 2017.

Still, some suggest that the overheated ethanol market could soon cool down. "Politicians will see that, first of all, it is not helping our oil independence," says Pimentel. "It is increasing the price of food for people in the U.S., it is costing an enormous sum of money for everyone, and it is contributing to environmental problems. But I can imagine it is going to take another year or more before politicians realize they have a major disaster on their hands."

At current oil prices it is cost-effective to produce bio-fuel. Competition for land and other resources will rise between productions for food versus for fuel. Food prices: what's driving them?

So why is this happening? After all, as The Economist points out, bringing previously marginal land into productive use normally solves demand for food. This time, however, we have a heady cocktail of sharply rising demand from emerging-market consumers coupled with climatic changes, resulting in what Jim Rogers says is the lowest global inventory of food since 1972. Add to that the demands of a rapidly expanding biofuels industry and suddenly you have a serious squeeze. Investment bank Goldman Sachs says the world is entering a period of 'sustained inflation in agricultural products'.

Food prices: The growing hunger in Asia

In agriculture, the three economic giants are the US, China and India. Yet in America, despite 26 years of favourable growing conditions in the mid-west, the supply of feed grains is at near-record lows. That is in large part because consumers from a host of emerging markets are now joining Western countries at the table. BAM says: 'From 1,600 calories a day... 20 years ago, three-quarters of the world's population now has enough money to eat just like us; and they are.' It is this demand from India and China's growing middle classes in particular that is driving much higher levels of global food consumption and pushing up prices worldwide.

As people get richer, they tend to switch away from a predominantly vegetable-based diet to one that includes meat. Lots of it. JP Morgan reckons consumption per head in China could rise by more than 50% from 1997 to 2020, reinforcing warnings given a decade ago by Lester Brown in his 1995 book Who Will Feed China? The most protein-efficient meat is poultry; according to Coxe, 'a bushel of corn produces 19.6 pounds of retail chicken, but just 13 pounds of pork and a mere 5.6 pounds of beef'. The trouble is, demand for beef and pork has been strengthened by fears about poultry following avian bird flu outbreaks, which have hit Asia hardest. Today’s emerging market preference for red meat is driving up the corn price, already under pressure from biofuel demand (see below).

It’s a similar story in India. A 13.7% annual rise in white-collar salaries (the highest rate in Asia, says the International Herald Tribune), is creating huge demand for everything from houses to beer. Despite being the second largest wheat producer on the planet at around 70m tons, India is now a net importer; local prices have risen by 12% in the past year. Domestic supplies simply can't keep pace with a triple whammy of higher southern region consumption, rapid population growth and rising incomes.

Growing, urbanising populations also have another effect - reducing the amount of land available for arable use. 'Every year for the past decade, China has lost fertile land equivalent to the area of Scotland,' says BAM. To feed its population, it 'actually needs to add a land area equivalent to Scotland every year'. India and other industrialising nations are no different.

Of course, Malthusian predictions of a global food supply crunch are not new and nor is the emerging markets story. But an added development in recent years that has further upset the balance of supply and demand is what Goldman Sachs dubs 'ethanol euphoria'.

Food prices: the biofuel bubble

The surging price of oil, up from just $20 a barrel a few years ago to more than $60, has understandably created huge interest in finding alternative sources of power to cut dependence on the black stuff. The International Energy Agency estimates that demand for crops for biofuels is set to soar from 41.5m tons of oil equivalent in 2010 to 92.4m by 2030.

Thanks largely to George Bush’s cleaner energy initiative, which aims for a fivefold increase in use of renewable fuels by 2020, the biofuel of the moment is ethanol. Carmakers in Detroit have agreed that half their vehicles will be designed to run on a petrol-ethanol mix of 85:15 by 2012. Unfortunately, the preferred method of ethanol production in the US is corn-based, even though this is a costly and inefficient way to produce fuel. Brazilian sugarcane-based ethanol is far more efficient, but the political reality is that the votes of corn farmers hold more sway with US politicians than environmental concerns. A fifth of the US corn crop is already given over to ethanol production, with some analysts suggesting this will rise to 25%.

It’s not just the US. Europe wants biofuels to meet 10% of energy demand by 2020. Hans-Willem Windhorst of Germany's University of Vecta says to hit this target, 25% of all European arable land will have to be turned over to ethanol production. Unsurprisingly, this biofuel mania 'is creating unintended consequences throughout the global food chain', says Bloomberg. Land that was used for soybeans, for example, is now being diverted to corn for ethanol, sending soybean prices rocketing. Meanwhile, rapeseed crops being grown in the EU to feed biomass plants are taking up land once used for wheat and barley, resulting in rising hamburger and beer prices.

The huge diversion of corn in particular, notes The Sunday Times, is directly affecting meat prices. 'Livestock producers are having to bid against the ethanol industry to get supplies of corn,' notes the US Department for Agriculture. As a result, global output of beef, pork and chicken is expected to fall by up to $2bn a year, thanks to the rising cost of feeding livestock. But worse still, is that the drive for 'green' fuels - which are after all, meant to offset climate change - is set to make the problem worse, according to a new UN report. As Metro reports, 'soaring demand for palm oil, an ingredient in biodiesel, has already led to tropical forests being cleared in South East Asia'. In fact, Indonesia, a key palm oil producer, actually has the worst carbon emissions per head due to cutting down forests to make room for production.

Food prices: changing weather patterns

This brings us to another key reason behind rising food prices - climate change. Whatever your take on the causes of climate change, it is hard to deny that some parts of the world are experiencing freakish and troublesome weather conditions. Even Bank of England governor Mervyn King recently blamed rising UK inflation on 'a rise in food prices caused by a weather-induced global reduction in supply'.

In Australia, the Prime Minister, John Howard, last month warned that the drought facing the country, which scientists are calling a 'one-in-a-thousand-years' event, was an 'unprecedentedly dangerous situation'. In fact, if it doesn’t start raining within the next few weeks, the government will be forced to turn off water supplies to the 50,000 farmers whose livelihoods depend directly on irrigation. A ban could see food prices triple, says food growers’ group Ausveg, while Treasurer Peter Costello said the 400%-500% rise in banana prices seen after Cyclone Larry could be repeated, 'in relation to stone fruit, horticulture, all of these things', he said. Already rice production has collapsed, from 1.6m tons to 106,000 in 2006/07; cotton has tumbled to 250,000 tons, from 597,000 the year before; and wine grapes have produced their smallest harvest since 2000.

So why is this happening? Water has warmed up in the Pacific Ocean, moving moisture away from Australia and towards South America. But as Dr David Jones, head of climate analysis at Australia’s Bureau of Meteorology, tells the Herald Sun, 'this isn't simply due to El Nino. We’ve never seen a drought event like the current one on our records. This is starting to go beyond anything we’ve seen in the past and there are other things going on. It clearly raises the issues of climate change.'

But at least Australia can afford to buy imports. In Guatemala, where nearly half of children are malnourished, more and more people are going hungry. Farmers lost their crops to Hurricane Stan in 2005, while drought is threatening crops this year. 'The weather affecting crops is increasingly unpredictable due to climate change,' Ian Herret, head of the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation in Guatemala told Reuters, adding that 'hundreds of thousands' could starve this year if rising prices combine with drought.

Al Gore's Inconvenient Loot

Former Vice President Al Gore has built a Green money-making machine capable of eventually generating billions of dollars for investors, including him, but he set it up so that the average Joe can't afford to play on Gore's terms. And the US portion is headed up by a former Gore staffer and fund raiser who previously ran afoul of both the FEC and the DOJ, before Janet Reno jumped in and shut down an investigation during the Clinton years.

As Bill Hobbs first pointed out, Gore supposedly pays for his extra-large carbon footprint through Generation Investment Management (GIM) - and if you're looking to go green, and have your wallet go along with Gore, think again - average people are too insignificant to play - verifiable from this pdf.

Generation is based in London, with its U.S. offices in Washington, DC. The firm will manage the assets of institutional investors such as pension funds, foundations and endowments, as well as those of select high net worth individuals.* Generation expects to make extensive use of long-term performance based fees. Generation will begin its investment management business in early 2005.

* like Al Gore

Gore's company, GIM was specifically established to take financial advantage of new technologies and solutions related to combating Global Warming. The Global Warming crowd has told us that just recently new science emerged confirming the alleged fact that Global Warming is man made. So, ask yourself, why is it that Gore set up his Green money machine three years ago back in 2004? Is it possible Gore knew what the science would say before it was out? And even if not, can an individual who stands to make millions from Global Warming really be trusted as an honest broker on that topic? Talk about giving the fox the keys to the penthouse.

Even if Global Warming did exist, in principle, what's the difference between war profiteering and this? One could justifiably argue that Gore is taking advantage of, in his opinion, a catastrophic situation to clean up - and I don't mean the environment.

Here's a list indicating what it takes to make money along with Al. Funds associated with these companies have placed millions of dollars under Al Gore's control. And, as you'll see below, Gore's selection for the US President of GIM might raise a few eyebrows as well.

AFLAC INC - AQUANTIVE INC - AUTODESK INC - BECTON DICKINSON & CO BLACKBAUD INC - GENERAL ELECTRIC CO - GREENHILL & CO INC - JOHNSON CTLS INC - LABORATORY CORP AMER HLDGS - METABOLIX INC - NORTHERN TR CORP - NUVEEN INVTS INC -STAPLES INC - SYSCO CORP - TECHNE CORP - UBS AG - VCA ANTECH INC - WATERS CORP - WHOLE FOODS MKT INC

According to their own documents, GIM intends to invest in, or buy companies poised to cash in on Global Warming concerns. If we borrow John Edward's so-called two Americas concept for a second, this all means higher prices and taxes with more regulation and an altered standard of living for people like you and me, while Al Gore sits ensconced in his other America reaping profits from each new government mandate for us, business and even government itself. It's win win, alright, but mostly for Al.

To add insult to injury, Gore chose Peter S. Knight, an old friend and colleague some are sure to recall, as the US President of GIM.

Peter S. Knight, formerly Managing Director Met West Financial, lawyer, Chief of Staff for Senator Al Gore (D-TN) from 1977-1989, and Campaign Manager for President Clinton's successful re-election in 1996, is President of Generation U.S.

Conclusions

The above quotes are copied without changing a word, and what I do not understand that if people understand why this hoax was started, why they do nothing in order to stop it. Please understand, the results of a famine in Africa, South America and Asia will claim more lives than any armed conflict. We are responsible for those people.

Carbon dioxide is not responsible for ruining our world, YOU ARE!

stop the earth wobbling

Stop the earth wobbling

By David Verveer

Yes, you read correctly, I started a world movement to stop the earth wobbling. Well known scientists claim that the Global Warming is caused by the wobbling effect of our world (due to the simple reason that the orbit of mother earth around father sun, continuously changes, due to change caused by tiny shifts in Earth's rotational axis and orbit). This shift brings our globe nearer and farther away from the sun, thus directly influences the climate. True we do not know the precise reason for this wobble, nor if this wobble follows a known pattern, returning to the same orbit every 1500 year or 21 year, in short, we have insufficient information to predict the next orbit.

But to remain with the same logic of prophet All Gore, of the Greenist religion, we too, think the wobbling is surely man made, and the culprit is H2O (water). Sounds wild, but let me try to explain, the human utilization of fresh water is increasing constantly, which has a direct effect on the balance between salt (oceans and seas) and sweet water (rivers, aquifers, melting icebergs). Increase of the ocean water masses, pushes the earth into an incontrollable wobble, which caused the current hot weather.

Scientists from the Interplanetary University of Nergens in the Netherlands published a study showing that a further decrease of clean water will push our earth at least 24.732 cm nearer the sun, with a disastrous effect on the rising level of the North Sea, endangering the entire population of west Holland. The known climatologist Dr. Ahavat Hatipa Hamarra suggests developing dry water, (Powder which when mixed with liquid, becomes water).

Personally, for years, I suspected that water was the culprit, for example, why humans are the only living creatures that waste regularly water by washing themselves in an abundance of water, why not dry clean?

Our movement, the anti-wobblers, suggest to create laws against showering and bathing in clean water, this in order to save the world, and in order to promote this good cause, I am prepared personally to head our movement and make myself available as next General Secretary of the United Nations.

When I write this, all over the world people join our movement, arrange well published meetings, all this, in order to save human civilization from extension, just like what happened those poor dinosaurs.

Our slogan, THINK BEFORE YOU DRINK OR SINK should be on your mind daily, if you don't want on your conscience, poor children in the under developed countries, to drink coca cola?

Before I forget, I hereby declare Carbon Dioxide innocent of any wrong doing to our earth and climate. It can again be used as blessed Fertilizer Gas in horticulture and agriculture, and as member of the humanoids, I apologize for having accused such important and beneficial gas, for ruining our earth, we will always love you, carbon dioxide.