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The Rule of Law, for 800 Years

This year marks the 800th anniversary of the Magna Carta, on which the constitutional liberties and the Rule of Law of England were founded. It was signed by a beleaguered King John on 15 June 1215 with his disgruntled noblemen. Dan Jones’ Magna Carta shows why it was granted, repudiated by the king, and subsequently reinstated, and became the founding document in the history of liberty of the English-speaking people.
http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/rule-law-800-years

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Economics in One Lesson

Henry Hazlitt wrote this book following his stint at the New York Times as an editorialist. His hope was to reduce the whole teaching of economics to a few principles and explain them in ways that people would never forget. It worked. He relied on some stories by Bastiat and his own impeccable capacity for logical thinking and crystal-clear prose.
https://mises.org/library/economics-one-lesson

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Mystery Shopper Feedback

Just got off a phone call with a guy wanting to sell me some services. I thought I would do his colleague the favour of letting them know where they went wrong. Of course, in doing so I reminded myself of some things I could be doing better too. Funny how it works like that. You make an effort to teach someone something and you learn from it yourself.

G’day Russell,

You will undoubtedly hear that things did not go as you would have desired on the phone call.You might easily dismiss it as some old curmudgeon taking offense at the slightest thing.Which I am perfectly willing for you to do and you might be right.:-)

But I have been in sales for over 30 years so there might be something here worth reading.

I recall over 30 years ago reading how a top executive, (I think it was Reg Ansett, a guy who ran an airline here is Australia) said he could newly meet someone and sum them up in 30 seconds of conversation.

In my youthful ignorance at the time it was completely outside my reality. Talking to many thousands of people since and having done some very interesting courses that taught me a lot about people, I find myself a lot closer to being able to do that than I was 40 years ago. Let me share with you the indicators from the conversation I had with your colleague.

There’s an old line, “Most people don’t care how much you know until they know how much you care.”

If you are in the top 1% of people who like to learn from their mistakes, allow me to offer some free coaching.Call it a “mystery shopper” feedback.

1. You said you would talk to me but then you got someone else to talk to me. First broken agreement. Acts as an invalidation – “I’m not important enough for him to talk to.” Which may be a good call on your part. 🙂 WHENEVER you hand over a person to another team member it should always be done with a good explanation and plenty of notice. NEVER no notice and no explanation.

2. The person who spoke with me had done insufficient homework to satisfy me he was interested enough in me and my business to understand my assets with which he would be working. This demonstrated to me a lack of interest and lack of genuine desire to truly understand me and my business and to be of service. The more homework you do on a person and their business, the more chance of success you have.

3. When he could not bring up my Facebook Healthelicious site I asked him to spell what he had entered. It took two repeats of my question and me actually having to physically check for myself that what I was asking him to do would work before he told me the incorrect spelling he was using. This demonstrated a lack of interest and courtesy in getting right the name of the prospect’s firm and, what’s even worse, an inability to follow instructions or duplicate commands. Bad enough having to deal with those inabilities face-to-face but the last thing you want to have when working remotely with someone.

And this is a sales guy! Where you want to be creating the best impression to win the business!

As a result of the above feedback I hope you review and refine your processes and coach your colleague. I know as a business owner that this sort of feedback is worth gold. But only if you use it!

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Climate change is galactic!

Investment bankers and carbon traders are already gearing up for the UN Paris climate conference scheduled in December. The aim of “securing a legally-binding global climate agreement on curbing carbon emissions” is in reality an attempt for global dictatorship. From Thomas Malthus to Bertrand Russell to green movement founder Prince Philip and his modern acolytes, the British imperial elite, now the London-Wall Street elite, have schemed of ways to forcibly stop nations from using their own energy resources for development, so that colonial—and now financial—powers can control those resources for their own power and profits; London and Wall Street banks reaping billions by speculating on carbon credits that all nations will be forced to trade is the latest extension of this imperial suppression.
The issue was never about climate because in reality climate change is a galactic phenomenon. Carbon dioxide has never been—nor will be—a significant driving force of climate as any honest geologist will attest.
Cosmic rays originating from deep outer space and solar cycles are the drivers of climate change. Planet Earth is cycling through the Milky Way galaxy in two cycles: the 62-million-year-cycle of our solar system’s movement up and down through the plane of our galaxy and the 145-million-year-cycle corresponding to the motion of our solar system around the galaxy and through its spiral arms. The resulting variations in cosmic rays reaching earth are further modulated by the sunspot cycle: the more sunspots there are, the more intense is the solar energy showering the earth, through which less cosmic rays can pass; fewer sunspots means more cosmic rays reach earth.
The galactic forces affecting climate and weather are not just of prehistoric significance. These forces have very real consequences right now. A 2008 study “Role of Variations in Galactic Cosmic Rays in Tropical Cyclogenesis: Evidence of Hurricane Katrina” by Bondur, Pulinets and Kim showed a remarkable relationship between solar activity, galactic cosmic rays, and the infamous hurricane Katrina which devastated New Orleans in 2005.
Scientists who have seriously looked at geological history know that carbon dioxide (CO2) levels today at 400 parts per million are much lower than for most of the history of life on Earth and 450 million years ago the Earth went into an Ice Age when CO2 levels exceeded 4,000 ppm—ten times the current concentration. Earth’s climate has always changed with variations in cosmic energy from our galaxy as it moves through the Milky Way.
The most dramatic climate change in recent human history occurred around 13,000 years ago as the Earth emerged from a 100,000-year-long freezing glacial period. At the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) approximately 20,000 years ago, sea levels were around 125 metres lower than today. Aboriginal tribes walked from mainland Australia to Tasmania over what is now Bass Strait. For all the hoopla over rising sea levels today measured in millimetres, consider that at the LGM not only was Bass Strait non-existent, the Gulf of Carpentaria and most of the Timor and Arafura Seas were part of the Sahul continent, which also included New Guinea.
Over the last 1.25 million years, Earth has experienced 13 ice ages on a 100,000-year cycle corresponding with our planet’s orbital cycle around the sun. This is known in the scientific community as one of the Milankovitch cycles, specifically the Earth’s eccentricity. The Earth has experienced a cooling trend for several million years and fortunately (for the past 13,000 years) we now live in a warmer interglacial period, but this won’t last for long. Oxygen isotope records indicate that warm interglacial periods have typically lasted 10,000–15,000 years. This means the next cold glacial period will hit us relatively soon, and failing intervention, future generations will need to adapt to icy conditions lasting a likely 90,000 years.
German-American rocket-engineer Krafft Ehricke in the 1970s prepared several documents detailing a plan to place mirrors in space, reflecting extra sunlight on the Earth to targeted locations. Such vision may well serve humanity in averting an otherwise inevitable perilous glacial cooling. Extra light will improve crop yields and prevent frost damage.
The Abbot government’s ludicrous $2.55 billion Emissions Reduction Fund won’t change the climate one bit. And last month’s $660 million carbon auction yielding a $13.95 per tonne carbon price, described by Environment Minister Greg Hunt as “a stunning result” was in reality a complete waste of our hard-earned taxpayer dollars for zero climate outcome.
Instead of being sucked into the swindle of CO2 reduction, funding for climate change should be directed to better understanding the galactic nature of climate to assist with forecasts and allow for weather modification. For example, scientific studies demonstrate that ionisation in the atmosphere from incoming cosmic rays generates rain, by playing an important role in cloud droplet formation and precipitation, thus mediating a cooling and warming effect on Earth. By applying these scientific principles in cloud formation we are able to greatly increase rainfall as several trials worldwide have demonstrated.
Australian Rain Technologies’ ATLANT™ rainfall enhancement ionisation technology has demonstrated in both Australia and Oman that by using an electrical charge to create negative ions, cloud droplet formation occurs at a faster rate. The most recent trials in Oman identify at least an 18 per cent boost in rainfall. The charging stations only require about 500 watts to operate and in 2013, it was estimated this technology generated 53,940 megalitres of water in summer while it was 56,520 megalitres last year. By contrast a water desalination plant would require about 40,000 times more power to produce the same volume of water.
Join the CEC to fight for the rights of nations to develop, and address real climate challenges with real infrastructure solutions.
https://www.cecaust.com.au/shopping/shopexd.asp?id=66