the government has no clothes!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYecfV3ubP8

--from George Orwell's 1984

No transparency means no accountability!


Whenever power is exercised without accountability ,
it is suceptible to abuse!

When power is shrouded in secrecy ,people will seek to tear away the curtain that conceals the Truth!

-a refreshing contrast to the doctored pablum and outright lies that often comes out of the mouths of politicians.
-a  rare and honest glimpse into the "behind the scenes" operation of power.(so this is what they mean by "diplomacy"!!)

Wikileaks has given us a peek of the machinations(that take place in the backrooms of power) and raw ideation(unpackaged for public consumption) of those in positions of power

Governments and corporations wield their power behind a cloak of secrecy  and deceit.
They have been denuded, uncloaked, rendered transparent..
Their cloak of secrecy has been rent asunder ,and they stand exposed in all their nakedness--embarrassed,humiliated,shamed--for all to see.
These documents provide an inside/unfiltered look into the exercise and abuse of power.

Interesting how the political establishment/elite wch routinely tramples our right to privacy
becomes outraged when their own right to privacy/concealment is violated.
 Any disclosure/exposure that erodes or threatens the legitimacy of their authority and their privileged position of entitlement.
How they huff and puff (and incite to assassination!)about the leaked information ..always invoking the cliched  "threat to national security" argument,when it is really their own concealment that they are concerned about (and protecting their own positions of power)!
These Wikileaked documents appear to contain little that could endanger the security of any country.
 If our watered-down mainstream media refuses to shine a light on the dark side of the political process,
then we ought to applaud those who are willing to risk their lives and their liberty to do so!

To those who stand with the people (who are tired of being lied to by the political establishment)
Julian Assange is a folk hero  whose place in the mythology of the digital age is assured.

"In a time of deceit,telling the Truth is a revolutionary act" --George Orwell

 "In a free society, we are supposed to know the truth.
In a society where truth becomes treason, we are in big trouble. " -- Rep. Ron Paul

"The very word "secrecy" is repugnant to a free and open society" --JFK


Lies engender cynicism and distrust.
Transparency and disclosure increase public confidence in the integrity of gov't.
Conversely,  secrecy ,deception ,and corruption contribute to public distrust of gov't.,and a decline in respect for politicians.
We expect our leaders (those elected to public office for the purpose of serving the people) to exhibit honesty , authenticity, and high moral standards.
When leaders fail to respond to the people's demand for greater openness and integrity in government, those who have placed their trust in them, understandably feel betrayed and angry!
When the people lose their respect for the political process and the institution of government

they will   defy the authority of the government and will mobilize  and take their rage to the streets.

see: protecting info in a transparent world (does the digital age mean the end of privacy)

see "the ethics of information access and management"

see "the interception and aguisition of confidential information--a new kind of guerilla warfare"

Corporatism:

Corporatism: the worship of money/the religion of consumerism
To: larry.@

Thanks for the article from the National Post titled "Kiwifruit Moralism" .
It was a good satire on left-wing/environmentalist movement.
As one who strongly identifies with liberal values and ideas
I offer the following by way of rebuttal.

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http://www.vivelecanada.ca/article.php/20060317180751493=0D

When man's highest ideal and purpose in life is the acquisition of
money and men deny the existence of any power higher that the power
they feel they receive from being fabulously wealthy,they lose
their sense of right and wrong, and answer to no one for their
actions. They are worshipping false gods
They shut off their consciences, and run amuck over anyone in their
way to achieve goals that lead only to their own sense of importance
see "capitalism run amuck"
We have seen the ascendance of the corporate welfare state where
corporations who tout the free market economy are the new welfare
bums--the billion dollar babies-- blessed with massive government
subsidies/bailouts, the beneficiaries of preferential legislation, and
deregulation-- such that insider trading and corporate cronyism are
epidemic
The corporate welfare state has escaped the vicious
attacks handed the social welfare state as government has become
the hand maiden to the corporate welfare state.
 The media, for its part, has effectively been co-opted to this "out-of-control" corporatism
The corporate welfare state is brought to you by neo-conservatives.
They praise the mantras of privatization and deregulation-- the
vehicles of unmitigated greed. These practitioners have proven that
they cannot be trusted with the keys of the kingdom yet they escape
scrutiny because they control the agenda, the media, and most
importantly effective political opposition is lacking.
Neo-conservatives, and their corporate welfare state, also want to
eliminate, or at least minimize government as it quite simply gets
in the way of unmitigated greed-- so they can act without any
consideration for the public good or public consultation-and this
is just what is happening in the US now.
And this leads us to Benito Mussolini and that little word "fascism"
as corporatism too easily mutates/morphs into fascism.

"Fascism" should more properly be called corporatism,
since it is the merger of state and corporate power."
- Benito Mussolini

In, Lament for a Nation, Grant states
"Yet what is socialism if it is not the use of government to
restrain greed in the name of the social good"

The world has been taken over by the neoclassical market economy
theory and is going to hell in a handbasket, with environmental
destruction, human destitution and mass murder ... by hunger, sickness,and war
 growing by the day. This is officially called by our
economists and politicians as "the free movement of wealth creating
capital"
The neoclassical theory has become the biggest crime wave in human history

If the world hopes to save future generations, it will have to shed
all ideology based economic theories and start following the laws of
physical realities.


The neoclassical market economic system is built on the false
theory of so called "competition", including the twisted out words
of Adam Smith.
 He never said: "In competition self interest serves
the common good".
 A totally asinine and criminal statement, neither Smith, or any
sane person would ever say,.. yet it is being taught as economics.

My friends, you can complain and bitch against the actions of
corrupt politicians and their owners/handlers, the corrupt corporations,
but unless you start going after the universities, where this garbage
is being taught, you're wasting your time. Because they are basing
their actions on the theories coming out of universities, picked up
by corporations in courses on business management and administration.
The corporations own the government and so-called elected public officials serve the interests of their financial contributors and not their constituents.We the people need to reclaim our power and our lives! from corrupt politicians whose loyalty is not to those whom they have been elected to represent but to their financial backers.
If they cannot prove that they are worthy of representing us then they should be fired.

The highest priority for corporations is to maximize profits for their shareholders.
Politicians ,on the other hand, are supposed to represent and promote the public interest.
When elected officials devote more effort to creating opportunities for industries (private corporations)
than for the people who they have been elected to serve, they lose our trust and our respect--especially when industrial growth  comes at a cost to the public interest (such as environmental degradation/pollution)

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Taming Predatory Capitalism

JAMES K. GALBRAITH
In 1899 Thorstein Veblen described predation as a phase in the
evolution of culture, "attained only when the predatory attitude
has become the habitual and accredited spiritual attitude...when
the fight has become the nt note in the current theory of
life." After an entire century's struggle to escape from this
phase, we've suffered a relapse. The predators are everywhere
unleashed; and the institutions built to contain them, from the
United Nations to the AFL-CIO to the SEC, are everywhere under
siege.
Predation has again become the defining feature of economic
life.
Our first problem is to grasp this reality in full.
Postwar prosperity was built on a vast cut in the cost of security
and the achievement of peace in Europe and much of Asia. The
American role in the cold war system was to provide security; for
this the dollar's role as anchor of the world trading system was
our reward. But now, with Iraq, we are seen worldwide as the
leading predator state, promoting war as a solution rather than as
the ultimate economic and human horror. For this, many would like
to see our privileges revoked.
Corporate and financial fraud and political corruption form the
second great domain of predatory capitalism.
 DeLay, Frist and Abramoff are the names in the news, but the tone is set by the
leadership--Cheney of Halliburton and Bush of Harken Energy--a
large predator and a small scavenger, specialists in cronyism and
expert in nothing else. When predation becomes the accepted
business and political norm, the foundation of capitalism crumbles.
Markets lose legitimacy, investors fly to safety in bonds, and
authentic innovation and shared growth both become unattainable.
The solution must be not just a change of parties but a new
political class, including a new media not under corrupt control.

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060417/forum/4=0D

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Large contibutions from special interest groups have eroded trust in our elected officials and corrupted our government". A different kind of candidate running a different kind of campaign,depends on the support of ordinary citizens and runs to represent/serve them, not lobbyists and large corporations.
We must elect leaders who are willing to serve, protect, and advance the public interest,rather than betray it!
The failure of the political establishment to protect the public interest is a betrayal of their mandate.
It used to be called treason; now it's called politics!

We must establish and maintain a clear separation between government institutions and corporations(whose loyalty is only to themselves)!
 The independence of the judiciary is deemed to be an essential part of the fabric of a free and democratic society.
Legislators/(those who make the laws) and the government  must also fulfill their role  independent
of the external influences of corporations and their lobbyists.
A lobbyist is by definition someone seeking to influence the outcome of government policy in their own favor!

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Murray Dobbin,a Vancouver-based journalist,author and social activist in his 1998 book titled "The Myth of the Good Corporate Citizen--Democracy under the Rule of Big Business" writes:


“Unspinning “ political issues: a citizen's guide to globalization

"As union, social and environmental activists, we know that the vast majority of Canadians share our progressive values of strong communities, sustainable development, and robust universal social programs;' 
"But somehow, when it comes to choosing governments, those people (including many union members) vote for parties that are slowly dismantling exactly the things people value.
"Part of the explanation is that the language used to talk about these issues in the media is determined not by us but by corporate and party media consultants, business think tanks and right-wing
spin doctors.
"What we are talking about here is how issues are framed."
"All of these effective conservative/right-wing "frames" make our job of promoting social justice much more difficult. -
"But all of them can be reframed from our values perspective. And that also allows us to speak about positive alternatives, rather than always reacting to what they do and say.
"That won't guarantee we will win but if we don't 'reframe' these issues we are likely to keep losing important battles:'

war is stupid (as well as immoral)

Picasso's "Guarnica"

War is state-sanctioned murder on a mass scale!

Every gun,bomb,tank,and battleship that is made takes away from a human being who needs food,education,medical care,etc. Every dollar spent on the weapons of war is stolen from other more worthy causes toward wch it should have been applied to alleviate social injustice and human suffering and improve the quality of human life.

Instead of training a soldier to "kill and be killed" he could be taught some constructive employment skills that could benefit humanity

In 2008 the nations of the world spent 1.5 trillion dollars on weapons! --all of wch is immensely wasteful of the earth's resources!( apart from the horrendous suffering that such weapons inflict)

(43% of global military expenditure is spent by the USA---this is 6X more than China wch is second)

A simple cost/benefit analysis readily demonstrates that the fiscal and human costs of war far outweigh any possible benefit to a society.

There are two parties(war profiteers) with a vested interest in initiating and prolonging a state of war:

(1) the military -industrial complex who make the armaments/weapons of war/military hardware,and who promote military action and the glorification of war (the warmongers) ,and the military career professionals) Arms dealers (the suppliers of weapons) fuel armed conflict!
see the movie:Lord of War (2005)An arms supplier  confronts the morality of his work as he is being chased by an Interpol agent. Directed by Andrew Niccol. Starring Nicolas Cage,
After 9/11 , funding for the intelligence bureaucracy was doubled!,there was a buildup of weaponry, and two wars drained the US treasury, and squandered the country's resources.

(2)the executive branch of the government and it's associated military "defence"departments(e.g.Pentagon, CIA, NSA,etc.) becuz the constitution gives them more power in the event of war!
If the constitution can be suspended in times of war,what laws (if any) are those in power bound by?!
What incentive is there for those in power to adhere to the constitutional constraints (those laws enshrined in the constitution) if they can acquire more power by declaring a de facto state of war/emergency/threat to national security.
An ongoing state of war allows for a de facto declaration of "martial law" or rule by the military (military rulership).
The president is just the president; but the president as "commander-in-chief  "  is imbued with extraordinary powers. War permits the concentration of power in the presidency.
Seizing "emergency" powers allows those who hold the reigns of power to disregard the principles of democracy as well as civil rights.
The government gives itself the power to listen to every telephone conversation and to read every email message.
 When you have an immense military apparatus (the war machine),you can't just have them sitting around with nothing to do. You have to justify their existence-- you have to find a reason for war!

What? No wars to fight? Surely we can do something about dat!!
see "falsely led to war"

see   William D. Hartung's 'Prophets of War' wch could have carried an alternate title that sounds the same but carries a different spelling: Profits of War.
When is the use of military force morally justifiable?  and when is the cost of peace too high?
Making the case for the use of military force.

We should not minimize the criminality of war, for in every instance it violates the sanctity of life!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34360743/ns/politics-white_house/

Obama gives lip service to the value of proactive nonviolent peace activities, citing Ghandi and King, but then concludes that not taking military action is tantamount to inaction::
“I believe that force can be justified on humanitarian grounds, as it was in the Balkans or in other places that have been scarred by war. Inaction tears at our conscience and can lead to more costly intervention later. That's why all responsible nations must embrace the role that militaries with a clear mandate can play to keep the peace.”

It is my thought, however, that for a fraction of the cost (financial, political, environmental, social, moral) of our military campaigns in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, we could have undertaken nonviolent proactive humanitarian peace-building activities that would have left us with real friends in a genuinely improved world.

This, in contrast to the destruction, misery, anguish, hostility, heightened volatility, heightened polarization and heightened animosity that have been the natural, logical, and predictable consequences of policies of fear,hatred and violence.

see "the normalization of violence"

 I agree with the president that peacemaking calls for sacrifice, but why should we think, and be willing to accept, that the only sacrifice we can make, or could have made, for peace, is military action?

Worth Green, Seabrook

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U.S. Military recruitment poster:

Having trouble finding a job.

Uncle Sam is hiring!

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to serve your country.

You just have to be willing to die!

P.S. The following job benefits are included: free body bag and funeral ,and your name permanently chiseled on a cenotaph as an eternally honoured hero.
And if you don't like that option ,there's free prostheses and psyhiatric services for a lifetime!

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The first casualty of war is Truth!  --WikiLeaks

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101024/ts_afp/usiraqmilitaryinternetwikileaks_20101024102337

http://www.thirdage.com/news/wikileaks-released-iraq-documents-reveal-truth_10-24-2010

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NThe White Poppy symbolises the belief that there are better ways to resolve conflicts than killing strangers. Our work, primarily ehttp://members.shaw.ca/peacepoppies/du chttp://www.ppu.org.uk/whitepoppy/index.html ational, draws attention to many of From economic reliance on arms sales (Britain is the world's second largest arms exporter) to maintaining manifestly useless nuclear weaweapo9 years after the end of the ‘war to end all wars’ we still have a long way to go to put   If we really want to abolish the military and all that goes with it, we must first abolish the last remaining  justification for it in the eyes of the general public - I

Wear a White Poppy...

• to commemorate all victims of war
• to mourn the environmental devastation
  it causes
• to reject war as a tool for social change
• to call for dialog and peaceful conflict resolution
• to show your commitment to building a
  better future

...Because Remembering is Important,
But it Isn't Enough

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War requires a lot of preparation--the most important of wch is preparing the minds of the people!

The creation of an "enemy" is a commonly used political strategy for diverting attention from internal problems by focusing attention externally upon a designated "other"

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One is left with the horrible feeling now that war settles nothing;

 that to win a war is as disastrous as to lose one.

Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

Prepare for a massive contraction of the world's economies

 Most Americans are completely obsessed with the silliest of things.
 They wonder how Lindsay Lohan is going to fare in jail and they agonize over who LeBron James is going to play basketball for.

 But when it comes to the things that really matter, most Americans are completely clueless.

For example, while most Americans would agree that we are experiencing difficult economic times right now, most of them would also argue that our economic system is in fundamentally good shape and that things will get back to “normal” at some point. Those of us who are trying to warn America of the impending economic nightmare are dismissed as “doom and gloomers” and “conspiracy theorists”. But of course, as with so many things, the passage of time will tell who was right and who was wrong. Below there is a chart that I want all of you to burn into your memory. It is a chart of total U.S. debt as a percentage of GDP from 1870 until 2009. This chart clearly and succinctly communicates the horror of the debt bubble that we are currently dealing with.

                                            (click on image to enlarge)

 When this debt bubble pops, it is going to make the Great Depression look like a Sunday picnic. As you can see from this chart , the total of all debt (government, business and consumer) is now somewhere in the neighborhood of 360 percent of GDP. Never before has the United States faced a debt bubble of this magnitude…. Most of us were not alive during the Great Depression, but those who were remember how incredibly painful it was for America to deleverage and bring the economic system back into some type of balance. So if our current debt bubble is far worse, what kind of economic horror is ahead for us? But the truth is that we are facing some circumstances that even the folks back during the Great Depression did not have to deal with…. 1 – Back in the 1930s, tens of millions of Americans lived on farms or knew how to grow their own food. Today the vast majority of Americans are totally dependent on the system for even their most basic needs. 2 – A vast horde of Baby Boomers is expecting to retire, and the “Social Security trust fund” has nothing but 2.5 trillion dollars of government IOUs in it. According to an official U.S. government report, rapidly growing interest costs on the U.S. national debt together with spending on major entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare will absorb approximately 92 cents of every dollar of federal revenue by the year 2019. This is a financial tsunami the likes of which Americans back in the 1930s could never have even dreamed of. 3 – American workers never had to compete for jobs with workers on the other side of the world back in the 1930s. But today, millions upon millions of our jobs have been “outsourced” to China, India and a vast array of third world nations where desperate workers are more than happy to slave away for big global corporations for less than a dollar an hour. How in the world are American workers supposed to compete with that? 4 – Back in the 1930s, there was nothing like the gigantic derivatives bubble that hangs over us today. The total value of all derivatives worldwide is estimated to be somewhere between 600 trillion and 1.5 quadrillion dollars. The danger that we face from derivatives is so great that Warren Buffet has called them “financial weapons of mass destruction”. When this bubble pops there won’t be enough money in the entire world to fix it. 5 – During the Great Depression, the United States economy was relatively self-contained. But today we truly do live in a global economy. Unfortunately that means that a severe economic crisis in one part of the world is going to affect us as well. Right now, the United States is far from alone in dealing with a massive debt crisis. Greece, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Portugal and a number of other European nations are in real danger of actually defaulting on their debts. Japan (the third biggest economy in the world) is on the verge of complete and total economic collapse. So what happens to the U.S. economy when the dominoes start to fall? The truth is that by almost any measure, we are in worse economic condition than we were right before the beginning of the Great Depression. We have been living way beyond our means and the debts we have been piling up are clearly not anywhere close to sustainable. Did you think that we could just continue to run deficits equal to 10 percent of GDP forever? Of course not. The U.S. economy is being driven off a cliff, but America’s ”ruling class” has insisted all along that they know better than we do. But the truth is that in the final analysis it is not us that they care about. What they do actually care about is getting more money and more power for themselves and for other members of the ruling class. Today, 10,000 people make 30% of the total income in the United States each year. That leaves 70% of the pie for the remaining 99.99% of us to divide up. The reality is that however you want to slice it, the U.S. economic system is broken. However, considering the fact that America’s ruling class has a stranglehold on both major political parties, we are not likely to see any fundamental changes any time soon.
That is very unfortunate, because time is running out on the U.S. economy.

The absence of effective regulation of the financial system essentially places it "above the law" (no accountability)

This is confirmed by the fact that those who devastated the global economy have faced no punishment!

...and no "regulation legislation" has been passed to prevent the same from happening again.

The fox is still in charge of the chickens!

see "the decline and fall of the American Empire"

Global Catastrophe

The Scream
--Artist Edvard Munch



Subject: the orange-brown tide arriveth
To: larry@sympatico.ca
Date: Saturday, June 5, 2010, 1:12 AM

Horrible,Horrific and Horrendous images:

Warning: these heartbreaking images are obscene, and painful to view!

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/06/caught_in_the_oil.html

The real cost of America's addiction to oil!

Fouled: A Brown Pelican on the beach at East Grand Terre Island along the Louisiana coast on Thursday, June 3, 2010. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)


...and this is just the beginning--the tip of the iceberg!!
The effect on lower levels of marine life (whose habitat has been poisoned, and upon wch all others are dependent) is still invisible!!
The secondary and tertiary effects of this environmental and economic disaster will last for decades!

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--- On Sat, 5/15/10, bill dality wrote:

From: bill dality
Subject: the black tide cometh
To: larry.@sympatico.ca
Date: Saturday, May 15, 2010, 12:36 AM



http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/14/must-see-ac360%C2%B0-video-oil-spill-worse-than-expected/

Independent scientists now estimate the leak is gushing oil into the ocean at the rate of 70,000 barrels per day!
BP appears to have intentionally lowballed their estimate (of 5000 barrels/day) in an attempt to minimize/downplay the public relations and financial consequences to them.
BP chief executive Tony Hayward told Britain's Guardian newspaper that the spill is "tiny" by comparison with the amount of water in the Gulf of Mexico:
"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume," Hayward said.
"The techniques we're going to try over the next 24 hours, we need to remember, are about trying to contain this leak. They won't stop it."

A large component of the leak is natural gas wch is 90% methane.
Methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas than CO2. Compared with carbon dioxide, it has a high global warming potential of 72 (calculated over a period of 20 years) or 25 (for a time period of 100 yearsMethane in the atmosphere is eventually oxidized, producing carbon dioxide and water
Watch the video of Dr. Gregory Ryskin, Professor of Chemical Engineering at Northwestern University.
In the video, Dr. Ryskin explains how a prehistoric methane gas explosion could explain the Permian-Triassic Extinction Event, a mysterious period in Earth history where 95% of all species went extinct.Given that the amount of methane gas that is leaking from the BP spill site is at least equal to the amount of oil, it would lead one to believe that there is a huge underground pocket of methane gas buried there.

They are spraying tons of chemical "dispersants" onto the oil slicks in order to sink the oil "out of sight and out of mind".
These chemicals are more toxic than the oil! The worst case scenario is that the oil and gas will continue to leak until the entire reservoir (there are no estimates as to the total size of the reservoir) is emptied.
Currents will carry the surface oil out of the gulf , up the eastern coastline ,and into the Atlantic ocean.


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More Foul Play:

Dramatic pictures and video of ducks struggling in a toxic waste pond were released Tuesday at Syncrude's trial on environmental charges in the deaths of 1,606 ducks in a tailings pond in northern Alberta

 http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2010/03/02/edmonton-syncrude-trial-pictures-video-ducks-tailings-pond.html#ixzz13bnwQrWG

Monitoring of Canada oil sands impact flawed:

Tue Dec 21, 10:35 am ET

OTTAWA (Reuters) –

Canada must do a much better job of monitoring whether oil sands projects are polluting waterways in the Western province of Alberta since the current system of oversight has major shortcomings, an independent scientific panel said on Tuesday.
The panel was set up by the federal government in late September after an academic report concluded oil sands plants were sending toxins, including mercury, arsenic and lead, into the watershed.
"There are significant shortcomings in the monitoring system as a whole," the report concluded, saying the current system is far too fragmented

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSFcZ4QgrCA


5 Oct 2010 ... toxic sludge disaster in Hungary --fertile land turned into poisoned wasteland:

A massive spill of toxic (heavy metal oxides) sludge from an Aluminum plant in Hungary
The toxic red tide wch engulfed everything in it's path has reached the Danube...and soon the Black Sea.



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Komi republic oil spill/

http://www1.american.edu/ted/KOMI.HTM

the concept of "mass" requires clarification?

http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/mass.html#wgt

The Relativity of Mass:
Is there an objective (frame -independent) measure of an object's mass?
Mass is measured in units of weight,but the weight of an object depends upon the gravitational field it is under the influence of.
Thus not only is mass dependent upon velocity (the greater an object's velocity,the greater it's mass),but it is also dependent upon the gravitational field it is under the influence of...according to Newton's equation; Fg = G (m1*m2)/(d^2)
where G= gravitational constant (6.67*10^-11 Nm^2/kg^2)
In this equation the mass of m1 = Fgd^2/Gm2

Does this mean there is no objective measure of mass?

Afloat in zero G, one is weightless. But is one also massless?
m = 0 kg.
How do you measure mass (the matter/energy content of an object)in zero gravity?

Intuitively one would think that the matter/energy content of an object should be the same wherever in the universe it is measured.

Perhaps "mass" is better defined in units of energy (Joules).

An object with a mass of 50 kilograms weighs 491 newtons on the surface of the Earth; on the surface of the Moon, the same object still has a mass of 50 kilograms but weighs only 81.5 newtons.
(A newton is the force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second per second)... but how much is a kilogram?
How is the above statement justified?
How is an invariant mass of 50 kg obtained?

Also the mass of an object increases with (is dependent upon) the speed of the object

Also when energy is transformed into matter ,it acquires mass wch it did not have previously.

How does mass emerge?

Where does mass arise from?
How is it created?

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Mass and energy are interconvertible and equivalent forms of one substance.

"Mass" is a potential/stored form of energy whose relationship with it's kinetic form is described by the equation e= mc2 or m=e/c2 or m=e(1/c2) where 1/c2 is a constant equal to 1.11265006 × 10-17 s2 / m2(please to convert to s^2/km^2) Because of the interconvertible nature of mass and energy ,all the stored energy in an object possessing mass can be theoretically converted to kinetic energy according to Einstein's formula, e= mc2 Although we cannot physically measure the mass of a photon (how do you weigh something moving 186,000 miles/second?)  we can calculate it's "mass equivalent" by the formula m=e/c2

Can the Higg's Boson really explain why matter has mass?

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2013/03/14/wrd-science-higgs-boson-particle-discovery.html

How many "joule-drops" of pure and perfect energy are you made of?

units of energy = units of mass


The newton is the unit of force derived in the SI system; it is equal to the amount of force required to accelerate a mass of one kilogram at a rate of one meter per second per second. In dimensional analysis, F=ma, multiplying m (kg) by a (m/s2), the dimension for 1 newton unit is therefore: 1N =1 kg·m/s²

energy is defined via work, the SI unit for energy is the same as the unit of work – the joule (J), named in honour of James Prescott Joule and his experiments on the mechanical equivalent of heat. In slightly more fundamental terms, 1 joule is equal to 1 newton-metre(the energy exerted by the force of one newton acting to move an object through a distance of one metre) and, in terms of SI base units:

1J = kg (m/s)^2 = 1 kg m2 s^−2,= (1 newton meter)
1 Joule = 6.24150974×10^18 eV
One joule in everyday life is approximately:
-the energy required to lift a small apple one meter straight up.
-the energy released when that same apple falls one meter to the ground.

Physicists commonly express the mass of fundamental particles in terms of their energy, but the energy unit used to do this is typically the electron volt (eV). 1eV = 1.60217646 * 10^ -19 joules (1 joule = 6.24150974 * 10^18 eV).

An energy unit that is used in atomic physics, particle physics and high energy physics is the electronvolt (eV).
One eV is equivalent to 1.60217653×10^−19 J.
1eV = 1.60217653×10^−19 J (Visible light has between 2 and 3 eV of energy per photon, and X-rays about 60,000 eV)
1Mev =10^6eV
1Gev =10^9eV (10^9 eV is the energy contained in a single proton at rest)
The energy of the most energetic gamma rays range between 10 to 100 GeV (ten billion to one hundred billion electron-volts per photon).Gamma rays are the most energetic form of light.
1TeV =10^12eV , or 1.602×10−7 J,
(The most-energetic known cosmic rays have an energy of 10^8 TeV)

The LHC slams beams of particles together at a collision energy of 7 TeV, or 7 million electron volts.(14 TeV: The 'Designed' collision energy of protons at the Large Hadron Collider.)The largest machine in the world (the LHC)can "see" particles that are 10^3 X smaller than a proton.Since the diameter of a proton is 2 × 10^-14 meters ,the LHC is a "microscope" that can detect particles down to 2 x 10^-17 meters in diameter.


By mass-energy equivalence, the electron volt is also a unit of mass.
It is common in particle physics, where mass and energy are often interchanged, to use eV/c2, where c is the speed of light in a vacuum
(from E = mc2). Even more common is to use a system of natural units and simply use eV, with c set to 1 as a unit of mass.

For example, an electron and a positron, each with a mass of 0.511 MeV/c2, can annihilate to yield 1.022 MeV of energy.
The proton has a mass of 0.938 GeV/c2, making a gigaelectronvolt (1Gev =10^9eV) a very convenient unit of mass for particle physics.

1 GeV/c2 = 1.783 × 10−27 kg
The atomic mass unit, 1 gram divided by Avogadro's number, is almost the mass of a hydrogen atom, which is mostly the mass of the proton. To convert to megaelectronvolts, use the formula:

1 amu = 931.46 MeV/c2 = 0.93146 GeV/c2
1 MeV/c2 = 1.074 × 10–3 amu

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A coefficient is a constant or fixed number in front of a variable.

In the equation m = 1/c^2 x E (transposing E = mc^2)
1/c^2 is a coefficient equal to 1 / (the speed of light^2)
=  1/8.98755179 × 10^16 m^2 / s^2 
=  0.111265006 × 10^16 s^2 / m^2
 (error! see comment section)
=   1.11265006 × 10^15 s^2 / m^2 
 (error! see comment section)

If we write the equation E = mc^2 as E = c^2 m,
the coefficien c^2 =
(speed of light)^2 = 8.98755179 × 10^16 m^2 / s^2
Hence E= (8.98755179 × 10^16 m^2 / s^2 )x mass (in kg)

A proton at rest has a mass of 1.67 x 10^-27 kg.,
and this has the energy equivalence of 1 x 10^9 eV
Therefore 1 kg of protons has the energy equivalence of :
1 x 10^9 eV divided by 1.67 x 10^-27 kg
= 0.598802395 x 10^36 eV
=5.9 x 10^35 eV
(or converting eV to Joules):
Since 6.24150974×10^18 eV =1 joule,
5.9 x 10^35 eV = 5.9 x 10^35 eV /6.24150974×10^18 eV per joule
=0.94551 x 10^17 =9.45 x 10^16 joules

Therefore 1 kg of dirt (or anything) has the energy equivalence of 9.45 x 10^16 joules.
Since one megaton of TNT is defined as being equivalent to 4.184 × 10^15 J, , the energy equivalent of 1 kg of mass is approximately 21.5 megatons of TNT.(megaton of TNT = 4.184 × 10^15 J)
The "atomic bomb" detonated over Hiroshima in 1945 had an energy equivalent of between 13 and 18 kilotons of TNT (54 and 75 TJ)(kiloton of TNT = 4.184 × 10^12 J)
Hence the energy contained within 1 kg of any mass is 10,000 X greater than that released by the Hiroshima bomb!
But splitting a uranium atom (as in an atomic bomb)converts only 0.1 % of it's mass into energy,whereas mixing matter and antimatter is 100% efficient.
100 pounds of antimatter converted completely into energy would exceed the yield of all the world's nuclear weapons.

Another example: an electron has a rest mass of 9.10938188 * 10^-31 kilograms. It's rest mass expressed in electron volts is 9.1094*10^-31 kg * (2.998 *10^8 m/s)^2 * 6.242 *10^18 eV/J = 5.11*10^5 ev = 511 keV.

How many "joule-drops" of pure and perfect energy are you made of?
Hint: multiply your weight in kilograms by 9.45 x 10^16 joules

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Yes,..."from dust unto dust" ;
but,...more importantly, "from light unto light"!