Earth the Finite Planet-Rare Earths and Minerals
In the year 2011, I wrote an essay with the title "Earth - The Finite Planet and Matters Relating".
Bound with an Amber cover, the colour of CAUTION, plus a disc recording the assay.,for use by the recipient. Around thirty were sent to Heads of State and people in high office at the time . First off to the Prime Minister Julia Gillard and second to HRH Charles, The Prince of Wales through PM's etc of UK, New Zealand etc plus Presidents of France; USA and on.
Yes I was ninety on 22 August 2025, I want to get the World to read, my precautionary Essay and so with my genuine Maserati watch on my wrist (Never got the car); Book 'Under a Metal Sky' by Philip Marsden Granta Publications London;Finally my now empty box of mixed Baklawa,(Everybody loved them) from Syria and a Cane walking stick, I quote VERBATUM my essay in full.
Regetfully without the Pictures. For some unknown reason, I and others cannot find a way to transfer, from a Disc to here. Will update, when I Can.
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Earth
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The
Finite
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Relating
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The Ta]king
Stick is
the tool
that
teaches
each one
of us
to honour
the Point
of View
of every
living creature.
It
is a
respectful way to
talk things
through. especially
a disagreement.
.
Quiet
Thoug4hts
My name is
Malcolm Mason
and I
am like
Planet Earth
finite and
I become more
finite each
hour, each day
,each week,
plus very
definetly at
seventy five. each
year. Every time
I slow or
breath more heavy
climbing
stairs, it
is
reasonable to
liken it
to momentary
drop in
pressure in
an Oil/Gas
well or say
a gap in the seam of
a rare
metal mining operation. Finite
indicators of the
finitness of all
things we have taken for granted for
so long this
century
But first May
I borrow
your minds,
for just
a little
while. I
do this
by asking
you to
sit in
quiet thought
for about
a minute,
not easy,
but pleases
try -
and now
.is it
a poem,
a prayer
or simply
thoughts on
who we
are .
May
we in
our own
way send
out a
message of
Hope, of
Love and
of
Understanding.
Hope-
For all those
people
whose
circumstances are
so much
worse than
ours, in
the same
way as
other people messaged us.
when we were down.
Love -
To all
who have
never known
love and
are
desparately searching for
- maybe-
just one
word from
us. we who
are so
fortunate to
know and
experience its life
giving power,
Understanding-To
endeavour to understand the
ways, apprehensions,
faiths,
customs and ideas
of others.
We can
do this.
hopefully,
not just
today, but
at all times.
Malcolm
E Mason
200l
and now
2011.
Contents.
I.Quiet
Thoughts
2.Introduction
3.The
Main
Event
4.Matters
Relating
5Summary
and
Conclusions
6.Thoughts
on Recent
Events
7Misccllaneous
and
Acknowledgements
This
Essay
was
finished
ready
for
publication
Saturday
27
August
2011.
I
hope
that
the
document
will be
read
and acted
upon
by
the
recipients
and
or
their
advisors.
When
positive
intention
is
contemplated,
please
feel
free
to
copy
and
send
out
to
other
interested
people.
Earth
-
The
Finite Planet
is
just
that.
We
must
all
do
our
part
to protect it
without
fear
or favour.
Malcolm
E
Mason.
2Introduction
This is hopefully,
a word
picture of
Planet Earth -The Finite Planet
and Matters
Relating. In
essense a
good look
at how
Earth is
and how
earth \\ill become if
we don't
take notice
of its
distress signals,
cleary given by its
diminishing
resources.
Our journey
is not
one of
doom and
gloom, but
one of
looking at
what have
that is
Finite and what we
can do
about it
for the
future of
Earth and
its inhabitants.
We Think
about the air
we breath;the
water we
drink: the
sunlight we
bathe in
(naughty); the
land we
cultivate
and the
resources we use up
and rely on
for daily
convenience. Yes
we really
do think about conserving
our
forests; Whales. Fish in
general and tuna
and sharks in
particular; animals; birds: reptiles
and the
very land
we
culivate. All
is jolly fine
work and
we must
an applause peoples work
and efforts individually and
collectively, success
to all.
All that is,
to those carry out
their protests that
are not
violent with
potential fatal injury to all
sides. Forceful like an
Icebreaker I suppose. where
with relentless pressure the
resistance slowly gives way, something
like that.
There is
however a
far far
greater threat
to our
Finite Planet, that goes
on twenty
four hours
a day 365
days of
the year,
around the World about which very
few people
are
noticing or
even care
about One
single activity that can
bring our
planet to a
grinding halt- FULL STOP.
That single activity
is the
ever
increasing plunder
of the
worlds
Non-Renewable resources,
from the
assumed abundence
of Oil; Gas;
Coal and Iron ore to
the very rare ores
and silicate
rocks.
Hourly the
'Extraction Quantities'
of the worlds
non-renewables are
being increased by the extraction
industry.
In the
main they
are being
allowed to
do so
by
Governments,
the good
and the
bad, thinking short
term growth and even praising these
plunderers for their good
work. THIS
MUST STOP.
We will
ask ,is
growth so
important
any how.
The crunch
line is,we must put
caps on
'Quantities
extracted per
unit of
time'. And
we must do
it now.
The renewables of
Wind,
Solar; Wave
etc and
to be
a little
controvercial
Nuclear (Ouch
a non renewable ore)
will
gradually develope
and have a
chance to
take over
the 'Base
Load'.Here I
must as an
engineer state
my
favourite project----
Nuclear Fusion the
most difficult
to develop
but with no
emissions of
note (sorry
there is a
Neutron radjation problem, how
significant
I no not)
and no dangerous
fuels of
note
either. is
the energy
source for
the future.
for the
production of
electricity. I have
written on
this
previously with
the idea
of using
Fision as
the energy
to get the
temperature
up to Fusion
taking
over. Magnets
as
in the
massive project in France
could prove
to be
the incorrect way
to go.
Certainly worth massive
funds and
personnel from
every Country,
no ommisions.
The Hadron
Collider at CERN
in Geneva,
has nothing
to do with
helping Planet Earth in
any way.
simply a
multi
billion dollar
project chasing a
theory or
idea really
that coul�d
or could
not exsist,
reasonable
enough project
if
it
had been
kept at
a sensible
buget. I
weH
remember the
collider at
the
4
University of
Birmingham,
England in
the 60;s,no
late 50's.
In fact
my late mother in law was one
of a
small group
of ladies
who
searched photographic plates
for
'Events' visually,
in the days
before computors did
the job.
Sharp eyed
I can tell
you, she
missed nothing
including what her
future son
in law was
up to.
The collider
was a
straight line
tube as the
CERN
machine should be,
going round
in circles,
indeed. I
would have thought it
was obvious
that a
linnier tube
would be
the only
way to replicate the nature of
space and time.
I liked the
passage in the book King
George Vl.
His Life
and Times,
by John
W Wheeler
- Bennett,
went
something like
this ---
His Majesty
was greating
ready to
make a speech
at a
venue using
microphones and loud speakers
and he
was into
rehearsing his
speech when
it was
noticed that he
could not be
heard, to the
growing
annoyance of
the
speaker, he
turned slightly and
at that very
moment someone
threw the
correct
switch and
out came
his
Majesties voice
booming
around the
venue. "The
Damned Thing
Doesn't Work".
Well you
folk at
CERN at
over TEN
Billion
Euros your
collider may
not work,
but as
with K.ng
George Vl
along time
agoe there
is hope, you
need it.
Goodness over
Ten Billion
Euros could
be better
spent on
the FUSION
project
helping our
planet in
a practial way, that
of
electricity that is
in the
main none poluting and does not rely
on finite
resources
Welcome to
my Earth
- The
Finite
Planet and
Matters
Relating.
Finite ----
African Mahogany reportedly
landed Lydney UK
for
flooring; boatfittings and
special purposes in
1972 ,
maybe
earlier by
the mens
clothes.
Horror, it
still
appears to
have bark
on - goodness
knows - what
the under neath hosted�.
5
The
Main
Event
Non Renewable
Resources.
This Essay,
Think -
Earth, The
Finite Planet and
Matters
Relating.
uses the
word Finite
in a
very definative
way. because
when we look reality in
the face,
we are
seeing in very large ;letters EXTRACTION
QUANTlTES and
how long
we want them to
be countable.
As we are
seeing all
too clearly
in
the
Oil
industry we
are having
to drill
deeepr and in
more inhospitable areas.
Only when
the last
drop of
petrol goes
in the
last vehicle to
receive it,
will many of
us realise the the World is/was indeed
Finite.
The basis
of this
Essay
concerns the
conservation of
all finite
non renewable
resources, by
the setting
of maximum 'Extraction Quantities per
unit of time.'
We must
clearly understand
that this
essay
concerns in
the main
resources that
are
non-renewable (
l must
sound like
a politian,
keep
repeating
myself.but
its the
only way)
Let us
look at
a list
of most
of them,
the well
known and the
mistery ones that
few other
than
geologists have
ever heard
of, but
becoming very important
in the
production of modern
electronic and
electro chemical products-Here
goes'�
Oil:Coal;Coal shale;Copper ore;Iron
ore; Bauxite; Zinc; Titanium; Nickle;
Platinum;Boron Lead:Gold
(metal). Tungsten; Vanadium.
Chrome, all
common names
I suppose.
Now we
are hearing
about rarer
ores and
metals things
like
Neodymium; Indium;
Cerium: and
say rare
Ceramic Clays, goodness
. should l
know of
these things, these rare
ores of which we
are told China
has most of
them.
Fortunately there
are other
countries
that have them somewhere
and hopefully substitutes
can be developed.
As an
engineer should
I know these rarer
ores. Now then.
where is
that
Technical Dictionary
presented to me
at the
beginning of my
engineering training.
Ah yes
here it is in
my extensive library
'Bromsgrove Technical School'
Examination award session
1950 to
1951. Worcestershire
Education Committee United Kingdom.
Let me
try just
one.
1ND1UM, goodness,
symbol In ;
A rnetaJJic
clement in
the third group
of the
periodic table.
At number 49.
at. Wt
114.8,
mp 155
dehgrees C
. sp.
gr. 7.28
at l
3 degrees
C.
electrical resistivity 9 microhms
per cc.Found
in traces
of zinc
ores and
fonns compounds with carbon compounds.
Well there we
are in
my Chambers
Technical Dictionamy 1949 edition
first published 1940.
Ah yes
that
significant period
of research and development
during the
second
world war..
lt is
becoming
abundantly clear
that the
small
quantity ores
and rare
earths are
as
important as
the so
called big
ticket items
and thus we
must look at
ALL non
renewable resource Extraction
Quantities
Just a
little more
on the
nineteen
fourties
and fifties
years of
intensive
research and
development
in metallurgy and materials in general.
Many papers
were written mainly
in Europe
and the USA
in the
area'>
of
Metallurgy,
Chemical materials
like bakelytes
leading to
future
plastics,
Glass and
its composites pluss
extensive work
in the
area of
Aerodynan1ics
and
Thermodynamics,
leading the development
of modern
Aircraft,Autombiles
and other
manufactured
products by the
million.
6
May I give you
one example
close to my
memory of my intensely active mind
around 1957..
Before
joining the
Graduate
School of
"Ihermodynamics
and Related
Studies at
the University of Birmingham. England,
I spent a
number of months on
the Austin
Motor Companies
Gas Turbine
project in their Longbridge
research laboratories, sadly
no longer
in exsistance; Austin
then BMC then British
Leyland was
in the
end
mismanaged by
themse]ves
and the
British Government
and in
particular by Lord Stokes, who
in my
opinion,
had no idea
how to
run a
mass production
group.
OK leaving
the
politics of
mismanagement and
self interest, we return
to around
1957 and
Mason in
those
laboratories and
the
development
of the
Austin Gas
Turbine. \Ve
did performance tests
on a centrifugal compressor
(supercharger)
off a
Ro11s Royce
Merlin piston
engine,
Spitfires
and aH
that. I
have to
tell you
that it
was
made of
Aluminium alloy of
extra
ordinary fineness and
machined to
perfection.
The rotor
was 1
think a
stainless
steel and
again
beutifully
machined and finished to
a standard
only achieved
today in modem
Aluminium Alloy
Auto
engines.
We did
a lot of
·'stall''
tests and
performance runs
against the
meriad of
technical
papers of
the time,
by researchers in
Europe and
the USA.. I
of course got into
trouble with
the head
man when I said that the
axial turbine
design was
not the way
to go
, but
rather a ,
I think
I said, 'A
reverse centrifugal compressor' .
Out of
my office Mason, well it did
work but
very very
inefficiently and
for only short
period before either
the blades
flew off
or burnt out.
Jt was fun
especially
as Rover was
also in the
race,. The
point of all this
is that back in the
fourties
and on, new
materials
were being developed
using the products of base
ores plus
the alloys
produced with
the
help of
the rarer
ores.
Important now and increasingly
so.
It is becoming
clear that
caps
on
'Extraction Quantities
per unit
of Time'
must be
established on both the
common high
quantity ores
and the
rare ores
as they
are interdependant
and and
mos1 important of all Non- Renewable resources.
Extractors and
Users.
The
Finite
resources
which
cannot be
reproduce,d
are
extracted
by a
relatively
low number
of
sovereign states
for the
common high
quantity
ores and
more
numerous
for the
rarer ores.
The roll of
caping
extaction quantities
per unit of
time, can
only be
realisticaly contro1led
by
Governments. the
good and
the bad,
the
European
Union,
African Union
and dare
I say
it, some
division of
the United
Nations
should they
ever
have a
Chief strong
enough to
tell the
World to wise
up and
get their acts in order
Currently, as we know,
Governments around the
World seem to be
concentrating
on Trading
of Emrnissions or
pricing on
carbon emmjssions. which
in this
engineers opinion will not
be a
lot of
good when
these fmite
resources ,
making
these
climate
changes and
or
pollution
direct,
finally run out
and run out they
will.
It
is
clear that
the caping
of Extract
Quantities
per Unit
of
tirne,NOW
will give
alternative sources
of energy
and life, a
time scale
sufficient to
build up
to speed
to take
over the
base loads,
plus the
development of
Synthetics
along the
lines the
way
synthetic
lubricating
oils have
been
introduced. by
responsible
vehicle
manufacturers specifying
synthetics in
original
equipment.
I noted only
the other
day that
one oil
producer lists a
synthetic oil
for my
1996
Landrover Discovery, when
their
7
original was
a strnight
mineral oil.
Oh dear
I had
better put
my action
where my mouth
isncxt time
I change the manual gearbox oil.
The oil is
Castrol a division of
BP ,good
thinking.by this multi-national company.
Synthethics will
be a
major factor
in the push
for
survival of
planet Earth,
we are
seeing developments
in phannasuaticals
and we will
add many more I am certain.
As the
world grows
in
popuJation and
the
scramble
for energy
and resources
increase.
this call
for Extraction Quantity
per Unit of
Time, caps.
becomes absolutely crucial for the
survival of Planet Earth
and its
life forms
- Humanity;
Animals; Plants; Air
(oxygen); Water
and sunlighl
are there more.
The main users
of the
Earths
resources renewable and non
renewable
are we
are told.
are -
the United
States;
Europe as
a block,
with China
and India
as the
latest
avaricious
consumers and the present
growth areas -and
to be sure
they are bent on
having what they want and NOW.
It is abundantly
obvious the
China is
heU bent on
acquiring; using
and storing
resoucs of all
kinds, from wherever
and whoever is
silly
enough to
let them
have whatever they want and in whatever
quuantities. Its
amazing how
Governments including my
own of
Australia,
are
actua11y encouraging
the
extraction industries to
meet Chinas
and others needs
- They
delightfully call it
a mining
boom. I
call it
a road
to
disaster. It
horrifies me
to see
in real
time and
images of
those long
long Trains
of coal
and iron
ores in
particular heading for the ports where up
to ten
bulk carriers
are waiting
off shore
and there
1s no
one. not
a single
person
protesting. If only
I were
younger like those
logging; enviromental:
civil protesters. with all
their
energy. Where
are they?.
Three main
strategies or modus
operadi are in
vogue at
the moment .
A little
complex. but
not beyond the
capacity of
the
reasonably awake
and intelligent.
May I say
it,
concerned people
of Australia
and the
World in
general as
we are
all
involved.
must wake
up to
what is
happening.
Countries who
'Sell'
their resources
to anyone,
willing
to
pay
ever
increasing prices
at
any Exrtraction
rate requested..
Countries who
'buy'
resources
from
anyone
and pay
ever
increasing
prices
in
Extraction Quantity
possible. 111is
is
done
for both
use and
storage
for future
monopoly.
Countries who
'Buy"
and
'Sell'
to
and from
anyone
and
pay
and charge the
ever
increasing prices
,
usually
'buying' at
maximum Extraction
Quantities from the
foolish and
'Sell'
at very
controlled Extraction Quantities for the
Rare ores and
earths.
AJl three
have
International
specialist
Mining
Companies, willing to
give their
services
and exploit
any Country for
any resource. These
Mining Companies
can be Private or
Country owned..
We sec
it all
the time in
these various
forms, with India
and China's
growing
avoriciousness
for the
big
extraction
items, such
as Coal�
Iron ore;
Natural gas
and
Petroleum, whilst
limiting the
supply of
the more
rare ores
and metals.
'China and
America in
particular and the
EU not far
behind in the
predatory advance on
Africa and
the words in
general are buying into
'Soveriegn States'
very
8
infrastructures
facilitated
by often
corrupt Governments,
Heads of
State and
the international
Extraction Industrial
giants. (
May I
had here
legal and
illegal
Timbers in
massive
quantities.).
My
own
wonderfull
countries
government
seem to
think the
whole
matter of
Extraction
of the
big ticket items
is a
'BOOM' and
good for
the economy.1ittle
comprehending
it is
accelerating the advance of
the day of
judgment, when the
1ast Coal
and Iron Ore
trains run and the Natural Gas
pressures fall.
We must
put caps
on
'Extraction
Quantities per Unit
of Time'
NOW for
the future
of or
P]anet
Earth the
Finite Planet
----Alternatives must
be developed
and
acce[pted, before
Catostophic
climate change take hold
ending in a
World in
darkness and
in irreversable
delcline.
Now let
us look
at the
positiveness
of
Extraction caps
and my
targets
providing
economic continuity
and a
better
outlook for
our Planet.
'EXTRACTION
QUANTITIES
per UNIT
of TlME'
COAL.----
OiJ
- Gas -
Bio -
Rare Ores and
Earths
2005 Quantities
2005 Quantities
2007 Quantities
2007 Quantities
2009 Quantities
Let us choose
Metric
Tonnes and
Kilograms
as the
standard
quantities with
the
facture multiply by
0.984 to
Tons and
multiply by
2.2 to lbs
(pounds).
Per 'Unit
of Time',
let us
consider
'per year' for the big
quantitiy items
and maybe
'per year' or
and 'per
month' for
the rarer
Ores and
Earths .
The
smaller
per month
to cover
Air
Freight identified
ores and earths.
Note: fn
a past
life of
the late
60's, I
was one
of the
inorgarel
members of
the
'Association
of Long
Range Planners, in
Loudon -
Strateges
and Volwne
Planning Internationally
for
Chysler International.
End of note.
l have
set the
base years
on the
fact that
quantities can be
established
with good
accuracy. Provided
that is
what a
politician
once said,
when he was
forming a
new political party (Ausralian
Democrats). it was to
'To Keep
the
Bastards Honist'
he probably
failed,
certainly his
party did-
Oh dear.
Quantities must
be
established
from (
l) Port
shipping
records
and
independent ship
logs or
ladings with
reference to known
ships
capacities. (2)
Rail and
road
transport
and port loading
records.
(3) Air freight records.
We must
not rely
on the
Extraction industry
figures, as
they may
or may
not tally.
due to
fudging of
records for
Tax and
Duty
purposes. Once
established the
same
applies to
current shipments
(in and
out).
9
The
World
could
then
establish
realistic
'CAPS
on
'Extraction
Quantities
per
Unit
of
Time'
and
thus
take
a
big
step
towards
conserving
the
Finite
and
very
Non
Renewable
Ores
and
Rare
Earths
of
our
Planet Earth.
With
detennined
legislators
it
is
all
possible
,
with
no
compensation
for
anyone
or
organisation,
as
it
is the
very
survival
of
our
Planet
Earth
that
matters
for
future generations.
We
observed
in
mid
2010
how
the
Russians
placed
Caps
on
Grain
-
maybe
not
a
non
renewable
exactlyactly
but
a
risk if
there
were
to
be
little
seed
for
2011.The
Chinese
are
already
quietly putting caps
on
Rare
Earths
and
Ores.
And
OPEC
I
observe
continues
to
control 'Extraction
Quantities
per
Unit
of
Time'
for
their
OIL.
All
good
thinking,
they
must
have
read
my
last
eassay,
2004, which began
my thoughts on
Extraction Quantities.
The
beginning
of
the quest for
Finite
resourses
ended
l
940's
at
my
bithplace Lydney docks, England
.
Sketch
by
an
unkown
artist
m,i,
1800,s.
Coal
for
domestic
around
the
UK
and
later
exported
Belgium
and
Holland,
when
my
parents
ran
the
Docks
Post
Office
1940,s
to
1950,s. The
last
load out was on
the
MV Yarra.
10
Mattem
Relating
Economic
Growth
It is said
that the
major employer
and economic indicator
of a
Countries wealth is
small business one
to one
hundred people
per unit
of that
business.I
believe
that small
business's
aim in
life is
to
•·stay in
business" whilst making
a living.
Growth is
but a
thought, as
each business owner
knows there are
only so
many hours
a week that
can be
charged for
and so
many items
of goods
that can
be sold or
processed. by an
individual.
Electricians�
Plumbers;
Motor
Workshops;
Machine
Shops;
Deli's and
Cafes; bookshops
et al
. all
fully understand the
genera] principles
of their
busines
depends on
the next
telephone call
or person
walking into their
establishment.
Their aim is
to keep
that
flow
steady and stay
in business whilst making a Living.
just that
and not necessarily achieving
a profit
in an
acounting
sense.
It is
only when we
come to
Big business and
Governments. that
we hear
constantly, the
call for
growth, ecomomic growth and in
many cases,
at any cost.
In the pre 1900's
growth came to Countries and Individuals
by plunder
of other
countries and
peoples resources; of
people
(slavesand
the
like);
of
agricultural
land
(cotton
production in
the New
World) and
of course Treasure
(Gold and
presdus Stones
.as per
Spanish and
Portugese
plunder of
the Americas and the Orient).
At home in any
Country ,
the
strongest can by slaying any opposition.
siezc the pocessions of the weaker -
The
King makers
by way
of Serfs
through land
owners up through
the more
sucessful .
plunders to
the very
top of
Chiefs,
Rulers of
all kinds
and Kings and
Queens. The
result "Economic
Growth'' and the building of
Castles,
Forts, Great Houses and chateaus, hence
the rise of
Great Britain and Europes wealth.
The New America's
, India
and China
of course
for a
long time
I think
we must
all look
and 'THINK'
closely
about the
term Economic Growth
and do
we really need
in such
an earnest
way in
our Earth
- The
Finite
Planet ,
for the
long run,
which . the
way we are going
is just maybe that long.
Motor;
Aircraft
and
Electrical
lndustres
The subject
of this
essay. is
to bring
into focus,
the finite
nature of our
planet and its finite
resources.
Three major
products which
rely on the
supply of these
finite resources,
not only
use up in production in
ever increasing quantities
but also
are major pollutors of
our planet
by pollution of the atmosphere
from their
exhausts ;
pollution by
way of
noise and
when worn out
pollution
of our
Earth by landfilland burning.
A few
years agoe
l lay
beside a
river in
south west
Prance, a
place named
Aubiterre
on the
Charant �
Dordonge
border and
looked up
at the sky
one day
in July.
All I could see was
the
criss-cross of
11
of
vapour
trnils from
aircraft
and only
minutes passed
when an
aircraft
was
visible.
It is clear
and probably for
a separate
essay one
day , that
l will
look at
putting" Production Qauntities per
Unit of
Time"
on the
manufacture of
Cars;
Trucks:Aircraft
and Electronic
equipment 1
would forcast
the
targets,could be
again 2005
production, which
can be very
accurate.more so
than ores
and rare earths etc.
The Japanese
earthquake
led to
reduction
in their
products
around the
World,
\Vhich is
good for Planet Earth.
Carbon Trading
and
Carbon
Trading
l am
or rather
I was
a mechanical engineer with
specialist
education in
Thermodynamics
and related subjects.
To me
over the
past twenty years or so,
it has become abundantly clear the
"Carbon Trading".
·'Carbon
Tax",
and similar,
really are
and will prove
to be,
a waste of
energy and
time. All
that in
reality happens is redistribution
of the
Polution
prololem}\'e
are
ta.Iking
mainly of
coal.oil and
the
manufacturing
or power
generation
using these
resource<,._
there are
more
classes of
course, but these
are the main onjes.
Oh yes. what is
the saying?,
"StatP.
the
Bleeiing Obvius"
all that enrgy companies and other
ernmision exhausting
companies will do
is simply
pass on
the extra
costs to
the
consumer, be
they private
or industrial
users. They
will also
cry foul
and seek
financial assistance
- what
nonsence. My
own wonderful
Country
Australia has
got itself
into a
Tis Wis
and looking for
a way out
Im sure,
with the
current May
2011
government
insistance in
contiuing with
a its
Carbon Tax
proposal without spelling
out what that tax will be.
Oh dear.
Planet Earth needs
all Goverments
in all
Countries to
limit' Extraction
Quantities per
Unit of
Time' not lax
the ever
increasing quantities
Australia
and
others
,
Exporters
of
Polution.
How hipocritical can we
be we here in Australia,
this
stalwurt of
'Doing the
right
thing' and
wax lineal about reducing carbon and
other emmisions when we
export its
very source, coal gas
and dare I
say it
Uraniun in
ever increasing
amounts to
anybody
willing to
pay, boom times
they say.
As I have
said and
will continjue to
say,. Where
are all
the
enviromentalists
at the Ports
and Routes of
these
exports. Please don't
mention
brown coua)
the
dirtiest of
the coals,
leave it in
the ground.
12
Summary
and
Conclusions.
I have
always
endeavoured
to use
the words;
True;
Percieve and
Reconcile in
my essays
and this is
no exception, so here goes,
True -
Earths
finite resources are
becoming more
finite as
each hour, each
day, each
week and each
year
passes.
Depending
on the
resource
and its
attraction to
plunder
excaJation,
will p1ace
in focus
a factual
time of finish of that unrenewable
resourcs on
our Planet.
Perceive-
There is
the
perception
in the
minds of
many Governrnents; People
in high places; Extraction industry
management and Resource recipiants,
that, in
their lifetime
the Planet
Earth can
supply all of their needs. after
that it will not be their
responsibility and
there fore wm
not be accountable. Some
perceive that the
current
cscaJation of
damand and
subseqeunt supply is
a Boom leading to ever increasing
prosperity. Think abpout it.
Reconcile -
When
reality
dawns on
everyone.
that the
Finite
Resources are
indeed
finite,
hopefully the
World wi11see
that we
will have
to adjust
to economic
scale, by coming
to terms
with realalty and
seek a
rcconci.liation process
between all
parties and
to
Harmonise
our World in
many many ways
The World must
'think' on
these things
and place
Caps on
our
non-renewable resources.
''Extraction Quantities
per Unit
of Time"
must be
established on th.ese
resourcs with no
exceptions
or compensation as it is
the Earths
very future we are focusing on.
1
gave my
ideas on
targets in
section 3
- The
Main Event. Coal 2005
Quantities.
Oil 2005
Quantities.
Gas 2007
Quantities.
Bio
---------------------
2007
Quantities.
Rare Ores @
Earths--
2009
Quantities.
These arc
realistic
and
acheivable
targets
when
approached
with
deliberance.
The alternatives
of Wind;
Solar:
Wave�Tidal;
Threma.l
and Nuclear
Power
industries,
be
continually developed
to even higher efficiencies and safety,
to take
the base
load in the
energy
sector.
Hopefully.
FUSION research
will hopefully get
the funding
it deserves
and fast tracked
and employ
human resources from
anywahere on
our Planet,
no matter
what the
politics of
their country.
Personally
I would like
to see
funds
diverted from
the
Collider
projects in
the USA and
Switzerland,
which to
my mind are two of
the Worlds
egoe trip we cam do
without.
Within the
three words.-,True;
Perceive and
Reconcile is the
word
HARMONY. This not
only a btacutiful
word but
a.lso one
that we
all must
try to
emt:bce
in
everything
we do
in relation
to Planet
Earths.
creatures of
all kinds, flora and mfuana.
the air
we breath,
the water we drink
and sunlight we so nead for our daily exsistance.
13
If we
do nothing
or very
little, our
Planet -
Earth will
become barren
and uninhabitable by anything
other than the
most primative fonns
of life.
as it all
began.For certain
the sea
will still
be around
and containing
those primative
organisms with the
ever fasinating Finite
waves fonning and
pounding on the
shores.
Photo; Henry
Geddes
Images Finite
-A wave
off a
Tasman Sea
beach north New
South Wales,
Australia.
14
Thoughts
on
Recent
Events
The
Gulf
of
Mexico
Oil
Spill
and
others
around
the
World.
At the time of
the so
called BP
Deepwater Horizon
blow out.I wrote to
BP in
London, the
parent company
of
companies like
Castro] and
Conoco.
with copies
to
President Obama,
the British
Prime Minister;
heads of
the BBC;
O-W
(Germany)�
and my
own abc
(Australia).
f
queried, why
nobody was
stating the
facts about
who owned
and operated
the Rig in
question.-The US
appeared to
have put
some kind of ban on
the subject and
BP was
not explaining either.
The
letter
as
written.
This and
the other
Thoughts
are related
to Finite
things, using
the words
True and
Percieve with
a little
Reconcile thrown in.
As general
note on
Oil Rigs
and their
managenmet. may
I clarify
the topic
of rig
management and say
that
Oil rigs
arc a
bit ljke
Ships or
Aircraft where the
ship or
aircraft captions
are the
final decision
matter
onboard when the
ship or
aircraft
are
operational
at sea or
in
the
air. Rigs
dri1ling or
production have a
Rig
Superintendant or Manager who is
the
decision maker
in all
things operational
in normal
day
to
day operations or
emergencies.
The letter
as written.,
that
follows
endeavoured
to point this
out at the
time ie BP
was the
main contractor
for sure,
but the
rig was
under
contract to
BP and
American
Built.
American owned and American
operated
with most
likely an
American Rig
Manager. BP
would
twenty
four
hour access
to
rigoperations.
My goodness
thats a
departure from nom1
and
excelent news,
some one
must be
listening to
me after
all.
This new
proposal is
indeed an
exellent
procedure
remembering there
are some
3500 or
more wel1s
exploratory, production
and donnant
in the
Gulf of
Mexico
alone.
Around the
World I
do not
have a
figure, but
it must be
enormous and
managed by
many Oil Companies and
their
contractors with most fo
the rigs being of
American
manufacture in
the delta.
Worldwide
Ri':ls
are--Exploring;
Producing�
Produced
to
extinction
- FINITE
OIL
.-!6,iune
2010
Mr
Anthony Hayward -
Managing
Director The British Petroleum Co Ltd
l
St
James
Square
LONDON SWlY 4PD
Malcolm
E
Mason
PO
Box
675
Batemans
Bay NS
W
2536
Australia
Dear
Mr
Hayward,
Gulf
of
Mexico
and
other
American
Oil
problems
This
is
a
freindly
letter,
written
to
you
and
the
executive
board
of
the
'Quiet
Acheiver;;You
Mr
Hayward
an
equal
quiet
acheiver
in
your
deliberance
in
the
face
of
hypocritical criticism.
Whilst
dratfed a week or so agoe, it is
written on frosty blue skied
morning
deep
in
a
forest,
blue
and
yellow
morning
you
might
say,
also
in
1491
the
birth
date
of
Henry
the
Vlll,
who
of
course
was
not
in
the
least
a
guiet
acheiver,
but,
an
acheiver
nome
the
less.
As
most
people
would
know,
in
exploration
contracts,
there
is
the
lead
or
main
contractor,
with
major
and minor
subcontractors.
As
I see
it
BP
in
Deep
Horizon
is
the
lead contractor, leasing a drilling
rig
amd from
one
broadcast only
(abc
or
D-W)
someone
said
it
was
42%
BP
and
twenty
some
each
tpo
two
major
subcontracto
rs.
One,we
learn
is
Transcontinental
-
Rig
owner
operator
and the second Haliburton, no less, both Americamnowned.
I
can
see
why
your
Chairman
called
in
to
meet
with
President
Obama
but
not
why
h�
agreed
so
quickly
to
a
multi million
fund
and let
it
be
run
by
the
�residents
man,
an
American.,
If
BP
and
partn
prs
put
up
the
money,
BP
should
nominate·.
an
.
independant
fond
manager,
say
a
Frenchman
,.
history
again.
In
my
opinion
BP
is
a
great
company
and a
responsible
one,
doing
its
best
in
a
·nightmare
situation.
You
really
should
not
take
all
the
flack
or
blame
from
anyone�when
you
are
not
the
actual
operate
r
of
the
rig
inquestion or probably not
the
employer
of
the
men
killed
at
th·e
time
of
the
explosion,
£pr whom
we
all
send
our
condolences
and thoughts to
their
families.
Mr
Hayward
and
Bpi
executive,
you
really
have
to
tell
the
Amer�can
people
and
their
President.
ttYou
are
in
the
now"
and
the
reality
is,
Deep
Water
Horizon
was
an
exploratory
rig�well
in
extreme
deep
water,
just
like
the
nummerous
other
rigs
operational
and non-op. All
reasonable
frontier
precautions were
taken,
so
wise
up
Amermerica ,
you
want
oil
in
Americans
waters
fo�
whatever
reasons.
Deepwa
ter
Horizon
struck
real
trouble
and
BP
and
its
drilling
contractor (US owned
and
operated)
and
others
are
doing
all
they
can
to
solve
the
problems
in
deep
water.
America was
very
slow
to
assist,
a
couple
of
supertankers
would
obviously
have
come
in
us�eful
early
on.
In
the
meantime
the
relief
swing drill is
on
its
way,
so
shut up
and
show
a
little
of
the
old
American spirit
of
cooperation.
Tel;
02
44
78
10
43
Country
code
61
Fax:
02
44
72
47
87--For
Malcolm
Mason
Country
code
61
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ht:.\:f'
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2
.
Just
maybe
those
Senators
should
look
into
American
history
on
the
degrgation by
their
own,
in
the
early
years
and
on,
byspills
and gushers
flowing
onto American soil.
What
about
making
'THE
PRIZE'
by Daniel_ Yergin,
Simon
and Schuster 1991,
compulsory
reading
Th1,
knowledge
that BP
was
once
owned by the•deutsher
Bank'to
distribut..eastern
european
oil
in
the
United
Kingdom,
would
be
of
interest
to
some.
Transcontinental
and
Haliburton
are
all
American businesses and American
run.
As
I
have
said
elsewhere
from
the
President
down,
it
is
:�ways
made
very
cl,ear
as
now.
TaatAmerica
comes
first
and
the
theme
is
God
bless
America.
We
of
course
love
them
anyway.
This
letter
is
being
mailed
sixth
Of
July
another
Blue
and
yellow
morning,
when
in
1535
that
noisy
achiever Henry(v111)1
had
Sir Thomas More
executed
for
treason.
Odd
really
at
the
age
of
sevent
y
four,I
should
be
aware
of
the
King
and the
waters
�f
Lymington,
Southhampton and_ the
Ilse
of
Wight. Lived for
a
while
near
Lym,ington,
Berthon
and the
old
Contessa yatchs-harnesses
etc
and safety on
the
high
seas.
There
is
a
Pd'tugeuse
two
masted
schooner 1930;s
vintage,
timber
of
course,
just
sitting
there
all
alone.
As
the
song
goes
'IF
I
were
a
richmargmmmmmmm
etc,
she
would
be
mine
and
me
and
some
old
sailors
here
coilild
join
you,.off
the
Ilse
of
w�ght. (Moored
Batemans
Bay)
I hop�
this
letter
gets
thoough
to
President
Obama,
a
good man, doing
his
best
I'm
sure,to
getting
away
from
being
an
ex
senator�
and
into
his
Presidency.
Stand
tall
BP,
AS
a
man
of
letters
and
a
blogger
to
boltt,
I
wish every
success
to
all
inv�lved in
the
stopping
this
and
other
leaks
around
the
World
and
the
clean
up
to
be
good
and
definativo<l
p,,.�<:.. -
,s.
r.,
,(.
�inA
(:.
N,Q.
I
J'f
I"N (;
Q. ,.,.'Ii,C,;\"
ts$av's
by
me
distributed
to
Presidents,
PM's
and
High
ranking
off
.1c.1a1.s
Worldwide,with
some
interesting
responces.
26o4
2008
2010
THINK-
An
Essay
on
Governance.
THINK-
A
proposal
for
a
major
change
within
the
World
Financial system and mateers
relating.
THINK-
Earth,
the
Finite
Planet
and
matters
relating.
In
draft
form
and
commences
- My name
is
Malcolm
Mas on
and
I
am
like
Earth,
finite
anjd
I
become more
fin
ite each day------------------
Hopefully
eeady
August
2010,
when
I
am
seventy
five.
Limited
copies
available.
End
of
commercial
break
and
this
Freindly
letter.
July
25
2010
Prime
Minister
Julia
Gillard
-
Canberra
Prime
Minister
David Cameron
- London
Malcolm
E Mason
Po
Box
675
Batemans
Bay
NS
W
2536
Australia
Dear
Prime
Ministers.
Gulf
of
Mexico
and
other
American
Oil
problems
Good
morning on this another
blue
and
increasingly
yellow
morning as A.ustralia
aproaches
the first of
August, the
official Wattle day
and its
national
flower.
I
have
eclosed
my
recent
letter
to
Mr
Anthony
Hayward
of
BP,
on
my
reaction
to
the
nonesence
by
it
seems
everyone,
that
BP
is
to
blame
for
spill
in
total.
America
knows
and
all
who
are
brai
n
dead
or
possibly
not,
that
the
rig
is
owned
and
operated
by
An
America�
company
and
so
are
the
hundreds
of
others
workin�
or capped�
the
Gulf of Mexico. We
should all
know
that
on
occasion the
Americans
even
took
shallow
water
rigs
into
the
delta's.
You
will also know that
large parts
of the
gulf
are
matine dead,
due
to
run off
of industrial and
farm
chemicals and
has been for
some time.
Louisiana
coast is the
host to
the
biggest oil exploration
and
product
platforms
manufacture
in
the
World
and
from
ther�are
shipped
off
to
oil
areas of
the
world
where
and
when
needed, all American owned and
in
the
,rn,ain operated.
Eor
Australia it
is
Diamond
Corp
off the Queensland
coast
(plus spill last yearj.
In
view
of
Americas
history
of
Oil
spillages,
I
strongly
object
to
CEO's,
Chairmen
and
Prime
Ministers
going
to
Washington
cap
in
hand
and
taking
all
the
blame.
No
one
is
listening
to
the
real
story_
:
going
to
air,
unless
of course there
is
an
unofficial'D'notice
on the subject.
It
was
the
same
with
Lockerbie,
with
in
my
oppinion
the
Aircraft
industry and vested
interest�
who
did
not
want
the
true
out,
and
it
never
will.
I
and
a
now
deceased
Qantas
senior
captain;
put
in
a
submission
through
the
kin�
office of the then
Prime
minister Dame
Margaret
Thatcher,accepted
by
the
investigators
but never revealed in
an�
report,
due
I
believe
to
American
industry
lobby
and
as
always
there
was
our
Australian
connection.
Its
all
history
now,
so
here
we
are
with
three
young
people
a
Lady
in
Australia,
An
old
�tonian
in
London and a
chap
with a
good
tan
in
Washington,
may
I
wish
you
all
...,efl.
As
I
wrote
to
President
Obama,
please
spend
more
time
in
you<office
and1think'
before
acting
and
dont
run
so
fast.
To
Canberra
and
London
please
do
the
same
and
think about Refugees and
iromigra.ts
officutand unofficial,
your
current
strategies
dont
look
googd
and
you
are
still
too
soft on the
Banks,
maybe fierst
lobbying
again,.
Tel;
02
44
78
10
43
Country
c�de
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Fax:
02
44
72
47
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Malcolm
Mason
Country
code
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Blog
l,f;l:f'
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2
Sorry
about
that I
usually
try
for one
page
in keepin�
with
my old
Chrysler
Internationt9vice
presidents
advice.1Mac,
keep
your
�eports
comments
etc
to
one
A4
page
and
you
only
have
five
minutes
of
my time
per day.
Here
I
go
failed
again.
All
the
best
to
you
both.
Yours
sincerely
Malcolm
E
Mason.
As
I
participated
in
the
Lo�d
Justice
Scott
Baker
-
Pricess
Diann4
Hopefully
if
I
still
have
your
attention,
I
would
like
you
both to consider
that
Timor-leste,
although
a independant nation,
it
is
basically Portugese
speaking
and attitudes plus
no
doubt
refer
to
'lisbon
on
matters
�ofimportance.
Also
as
I
have
endevoured
to exp lain
to
lawyers
attending cases
in
.!ndenesian,
that courts
are
qu
ite
formal
regarding
dress
and
the
14\w
is
based
on
the
Dutcb
systeM
-
and
that
constitutional
matters
and
points
fo
law
are
often
refr
ered
back
to
Holland
as
did
Australia
not
ao
long
agoe
to
the
UK.
For
Prime
Minister Julia Gillard,
please
please
never
sit
in
the front
seat
of
a
protected
limousine,
as
it
is
the
most
vunerable
�
and
the
USA
modified
vehicles
are
,novwhere
near
as
well
protected
as
the
ones
9.\i:-
Cameron
travelsin,
in
...
the
rear
seating
area,
preferable
behind
the
driver,
the
main
bullet
catcher.
I'll
give
it
a
rest
now,
so
that
your
staffers can
fill
you
in
on
my
blog
and
Essays
sent
to
yourpredessers,
the
first
to
Mr
Blair
a
and
second
to
MrBrown
for
the
UK
and
Howard and Rudd for
here.
15
BHP
-
Billiton;
Extrata;
et
al
'
Extraction
to
Extinction
Increasingly we
are witnessing intense
activity to
control
Australia
resources, though
direct
and indirect
acquisition plus
partnership
deals. al]
with the
intent of
PLUNDER of
FINITE
resources at
accclarating pace.
The Plunderers
are mainly
British; American and
China with
Swiss and
others jioning
the fray.
Sadly the
government
of the
day and
past ones
calling it
a Mining Boom with
little consideration of the future.
Libya
-
Col
Gaddafi;
Lockerbie
and
Oil
I go
back to
the
sixties,
Gaddafi was
a young
revolutionary,a
bit like
the Castro
of the
day. They
grow old
and pocessive and
usually dictatorial. When
they have oil
which the world wants
the situation
gets a
little out
of hand it
seems
Lockerbie has
been
written
about by
the writer
many times,
the fello
would have
notrouble in
sac1ttcing a
national,if
for
the good
of himself
and aft.er
all the
man is home.
Enough said.
The europeans
and the
Americans have no
love for
this dictator
and when he
started to
violate his own people
action was
necessary
in limited
form. One
way or
an another
a result
\\'ill
eventuate
and the oil
will
flowagain and
will be
another source
to place
Extraction Quantities
per unit
of time
caps.
lmran
Khan
and
the
road
block.
No pictures but the
fella leads
a sit in
across the
road Peshawa Afghanistan border
. in protest
at American
drones
targeting perceived terrorist
locations
on
Pakistans
soveriegn
soil.
I have
travelled this road
a while
agoe -
valid point
I would have
thought and could
be the
start of
possible blockades
of the supply
route to
Afghanistan. Little
did he know
what happen
next, by way
of operations on Pakistans sovereign
soil.
Osama
Bin
Laden,
e
for
erumy.
e
for
extinction.
Goodness. how did
this chap
get in,the
felJo had
obviously retired
from direct
operations and
living with the Generals
but keeping his
hand in
like most
of us old
hands with
ideas and
strategies from experienceof life in
the
international scene.
HQ probably
where· �he
left it
a while
agoe. Again
and again
we hear
of true
and perceived
violations
of
soveriegnty ,
t
hiS
one
included the •.word
Oil
l indicated to
President G W
Bush and
the then
President of
Pakistan, where
Bin Laden
was, years
agoe -
The Swat Valley of
course an:d
the US
did get
near-once- to my knowledge Use m.y
procedure fo courier serveilence and
always 'Listen to
the Wind'.
All history
now, but
when they were
looking for
Saddam Hussein,
I told
the then
Secretary Colin Powell
of a
surveilence
procedure I had activated
and they did a sweep
within a bulls roar
of his
16
final
location.
No
no
,
thats
not
good
enough,
remembering
there
would
be
very
little
metal
at
the
location
(
an
old story told me
by
an
uncle
from
the
second
world
war
-
they
bury
things
in
the
desert)
I
messaged
Secretary
Ronald
Rumsfeld and
a second sweep
was
made
and
the
US
was sucessful.
Never
acknowledgement
of course
or
a note
of
thanks,
however
its njce
to
see
the
methology work,even if
its
only
the
groceries
and
mail.
Did
the
Pakistanis
know
the
fello
was
ther.,vith
family
and
probably
going
for
walks
in
the
late
evening.
As
in
mainy
leafy suburbs
of
cities,
who
knows their neigbours
three
or
four
houses
down
the
road
?.
Bin
Laden
like
everyone
including
resources
and
me
was
and
are
finite.
His
ending
for
him
and
his
family
in
his
presence,
was
catastrophic
to
say
the
least,
unfortunately
the
trigger
happy
assasins
missed a once only
opportunity
to get
him
alive
and
all
the
associated
intelligence that
could
have been
theirs
particularly
the
operational
location
of
his
past
organisation
and
its
current
operations.
•
Goodness,
we
could
have
had
Hussein
and
Ben
Laden
in
the
Hague
with
K.aradzic
and
Mladic
-
There,of
course
five
or
six
additions I
can
think of that
would
that
would
benfit
the
experience
of detention
for
while,
even
though
the} would never
have
the
fear
of
rendition
of
anything
other
than
a little isolation from friends
and
family.
This
essay
is
all
about
the
word
FINITE.
Let
us
hope
that
the
end
of
Planet
Earth,
will
not
end
in
a
burst of
fire
and
explosions
-
The
,message
is
clear.
Think
-
True;
Percieve;
Reconcile FINITE.
Stop
Press.-
June
2011,
OPEC
not
to
incresae
Oil
extraction
•
good
news.
June
2011,
USA
UK
and
a
few
others,
decided
to
release
Oil
reserves,
thus
reducing
conse�tion of
this
FINITE resource
-
bad
news.
June
2011,
Massive
orders
for
Aircraft
(commercial)-
bad
news.
Automotive
production
Worldwide
continues
almost
unabated-
bad
news.
China
limiting
Rare
Earth exports and
tending
to
limit
carbon
emmissions by
extracting
and
using
less
coal
etc.
China
always
double
edged
sword,
however
it
is
good
they
are
beginr1
ing
to
realise the seriousness
oft
all.
Australia
has
a
Carbon
Tax
coming
up
2012,
with
an
essimated
reduction
in
Carbon
emmissions
of
around 5%
.
No
not
15%
or
50% but
5%
.
I
have clearly
outlined
my
thoughts on
this
earlier,
so
I
will
say no
more
-
for
the
moment.
Oh
dear
-
I
have
raised
the
subject
of
live
animal
exports
for
slaughter
in
past
Essays,
where .
I
called
for
a
Total
ban.
All
animals
must
be
slaughtered
in
their
Country
of
origin.
Meat
processing
is
value
added
and
creats
jobs
in
low
employment
areas,
transport
work would
be
almost
the
same
and
asShipping is by
foreiegn
ships
nothing
is
lost
their.
Australia
recenting
banned
cattle
to
Indonesia
for
a
while
,
but
bowed
to
cattle
lobby. Very bad move
as
Abattiors
could
have
been
quickly
established
on
the
lines9t the
New
Zealand
model.............
17
6. Books
I have
read in
2010 and
2011 and
in my
libary
Harmony.
by
HRH
The
Prince
of
Wales
with
Tony
Juniper
and
Ian
Skelly.
What
can
one
say
about
the book inspired
by
this man,
the
Man
who
should
be
King
and
right now,
the
fello
who has recently
be
out
and
about
following
the
Uk
tTOubles.
He
is
and
really
always
has
been
a
man
for
the
people and
their World.
The book
is a schollarly and
informed unit of
as they
say themselves -A
new way
of looking
at the
World.
It is
a mixture
of his own
ideas of
Harmony and
relationship of
all things
that make
up our
Planet and a timely
reminder of the
the
thoughts
and actions
of people
in ancient
times and
more recent,on
the subject
of their influence
and structures
that we
all
observe. To me
it is
about Language,
Literature, Structure and Design, plus
as ever
Religion in its many
forms.
Harmony is
one of
those books
that all
should read
and use it
asl do,
as a
constant
book of
reference readily at hand
Patricia and
I have been
to Tetbury
and area,
seen the
house from afar
and the
very nice
Church in the
town 'with
its
musical bells, which
I
recorded
a number of
years agoe.
One day
maybe a
visit to
Highgrove garden will be
possible, who knows.
Last �bane�
to
s�e---
The
book
following
UK
telivision
series.
Agood document
of reminder
of the
images on
telivision
made more
attention getting
by Stephen
Fry's very
human reaction to
most things
wild, both
the animals
and the
enviroment in
which they
live. or try to exsist in.
Massive
-
I
have
talked
enough
on
this
irresponsible
waste
of
money,
not
millions
of
Euro's
but
Billions.
I will keep
it
in
my
library
only
to
remind
me
to
take
up
the
subject
again
somethime.
)et Age
-
The
Comet
and
Boeing 707
story.
Goodness I
have spent
many hours
on these
aircraft, all
good.
The stories
of my
experience would make up a book in
itself.
Just one
- Pan
Am
Singapore to
Saigon. On
entering Viet
Nam
airspace the
maveric
pilot
anounced the
due to the
situation
in Nam,
he would be
making a
fast and steep aproach, so
hold tight.
18
He then
put the
nose DOWN
and and held
until it
was nose up
and bang
we were on
the tarmac
and taxiing
to the
tenniO.On
going down
the steps
the pilot
opened the
side window
as I recall
and waved.
Pan Am
those crazy men in
: their
.flying machines.
Th�_Justice
Game
-
Geaffrey
Robertson.-
Always an
inspiration
tocto
more
for our
World and
he will
be there
,with his
incredible talent
as a
Barister and advocate of or for
the people.
Gu��o
My
Journey
by
DAVID HICKS.
A well
told account
of almost
an innocent abroad, who
by fate
was always
in the
wrong place
at the
wrong time.
A story
told by an
honest and
sincere
man,a man
without agression
really.
Apparantly is
not able
to reeive
any renumeration
from this
excellent book.
A silly
decision by
the Government of the
day in
Australia .
David
Hicks was
one of
the people
I
personably
lowiied
for
over the
years and
as you
see I
still do.
l also
lobbied for
Mosam Be�g
the UK
detainee. A
much more
aggressive
fello
verbaly and
his book
Ena.my
Combatent
was
wide�read and
respected.
His I
gather was
4-ble to
receive moniesfrom
the book..
Like a
numer fo
UK
Australian
detainees
they said
that the
UK MIS
was inv'1,d
in
the
interrogation process,
or knew
about it.
The UK Governemt said no
and probably true.
Had they
accussed MI6
they might have
had a better
chance
fc:t-argument,
but that
is only
my opinion
Agood account
of a
personal
story.
The Kite
Runner
by
Khaled
Hoss�,!!i.
Both
the
film
and
the
book
were
excellent
portrails
of
Afhgnaistan before and with the
Taliban,
brillianly done.
Inside
the
world
of
Osama
bin
Laden
-
by
Peter
L
Bergen.
A
good
reference
book.,
pity
they
shot
the fello
as
just
maybe we
could
had
bin
Laden
side
of
th
.ings
in
the
Hague
NB The
WG
Bush;
D Rumsfeld�
A Bliar;
and J
Howard biographies will: ,not
be added
library as
we all
know the results
of their
actions over
the past two decades
and they will have
to sort
it out
with their
maker in
due course.
Had they in
any way endeavoured
to consider
Reconcile- maybd.R
Cheney is
not so
hypocritical
to think
the public
will
believe
anything. A
complex
andr
ath
et' arrogant
man
I felt,
I
probably
won't
want
his book
either,
we
will
see.
IAN
SAMPLE
THE
HUNT
FOR
THE
GOD PARTICLE
19
7
Mecellaneous
and
Aknowledgements.
The
contents
of
this
essay
are
the
thoughts
and
experiences
of
the
writer
Malcolm E
Mason
alone.
No
groups
of
anykind were involved
in
the
base content.
This
is
the
third
Essay
of
the
THINK
trilogy.
where
l
have
always
had
in
mind
the
words
True�
Percieve;
and
Reconcile
-
powerful
words
indeed and they
are
on
the
rear
cover.
Always
thankyou
to
my
dear
wife
Patricia
for
her
patience
and
encouragement
to
get
the
job
done.
Again
thankyou
to
our
friend
Janette
Urbanik
for
active
participation
in
preparing
the
essay
for
publication.
Grammer
in
this
essay
is
-
Mal
Grammer.
Spelling
in this
essay
is
-
Mal
English.
Austltia
where
we
live
is.indeed
a
special place,
one
of
toleranmce
of
most
things,
particularly
to
individual
thoughts
�d·id.ea.,;,
for
which
I
am
gratful,
plus
of
course
if
Austwians
disagree
with
you
they
say
so
without
fear or
favour-
great.
Thankyou
indeed
to
those
people
who
took
the
time
to
read
this
essay.
whether
a
person
in
high
office
or
persons advising their peers. Please
alL
take
action
where you can.
The
Trilogy
sent
to
many
Heads
of
State,
people
on
high
office
and
laypeople
like
me
are:
Think -
A
Essay
on
Governance..
2004
Think
-
A
Proposal
foe-a
major
change
within
the
world
financial
system
and
matters
relating.2008.
Think
-
Earth,
The
Finite
Planet
and
Matters
Relating.
2011.
At
some
future
date
the
three
will
be
published
as
one.
hopfolly
before
I
definitely
become
FINTE>
"'
'.,
.,, ..t•t't
20
To
heck
with
Carbon
emrnissions
-
please
light
the
fire.
1
\ Fl,.Uff.
Thats
better
-
move
it
dog.
21
A
good
number
to
end
with.
Malcolm
E. Mason
- Personal
profile
English by
birth,
Australian
by choice.
Born 22
August
1935.
Childhood
ailments of
mastoid and
polio,
nurtured a
determined
mind to
achieve in
spite of
these early
physical
weaknesses.
Onward through
school,
technical
college and
university,
culminating
with the
Graduate School
of
Thermodynamics
and related
studies at
the
University of
Birmingham.
Not exactly
an
academic,
rather a
practical
mechanicaJ engineer.
InitiaJly
in heavy
engineering
- centrifugaJ
compressors
for
refrigeration,
steel,
mining and
nuclear
industries.
In the
main trained
at the
British
Motor
Corporation,
UK.
centering
on design,
service and
sales
(trucks and
military vehicles).
Travelled
internationality
in
over
seventy countries,
meeting
many people
around this
world of ours.
Good and
true people, I
might add.
In Australia:
motor
industry
and
construction
industry,
plus my
own
security
consultancy
and equipment
company,
which I
termed •the
passive
side of
violence'.
This and
three
incidents
in aircraft and
a number
of nasty
little
experiences in
Manila,
Hong Kong
and Saigon
grew my interest in
international
security,
particularly
the
transport
sector.
Papers,
letters and
inputs into
incidents, the
major one
being Lockerbie.
All I
hope to
blog in due
course.
All along,
developing
my humanitarian
work and
subjects
relating,
as the
cases
called,
with my
'letters of
hope'.
At 73,
August
2008,
a good
life, wife
and family.
Now the
fmaljoumey,
talking to
the world
where and when I
can.
thinktrue
- Blog
profile
thinktrue is
a journal
journey of
discussion
and opinion
of domestic
and world
events, in both retrospect
and
present. I
will
endeavour
to involve
the words
true,
perceive
and
reconcile,
plus occasionally
the word
perfidy,
which I
describe as
demi-treason.
In our
journey, I
wilJ
include the
posting of
my letters
to heads
of state,
politicians
and people in
high and
low office.
I will
not forget
my 'letters
of hope'
to all
in need,
whoever
they may
be.
From time
to time
posting
essays on
topics of
international
and
domestic importance,
again in
retrospect
and
present.
To add
further
interest to
our
journey,
transcripts
of my
occasionaJ. pre-recorded
radio
items, in
Australia
and
internationally,
past and
present,
because as
we all
know, not all
items are
broadcast as
with, say,
my 'message of
hope for
Iraq', with
music,
which I
sent to
Aljazeera
media in
Qatar, 14
November
2004.
Whether
broadcast,
I know
not!
These things
I have
been doing
for many
years, in
fact from
childhood,
as we
will see
as we
go along.
I
hope
you
will
enjoy
our
journey
and
to
my
World
'Outside
of
the square'.
Please
go
to
http:#
thinktrue20084blogspot.com
The last
page
of
this
third
essay
of the
trilogy was
written
on
22
-
08
-
2001
my
Seventy
six birthday----
What
a
journey.
Perceive.
per-e�v',
1.•.t.-pe-rcdutd.
percdv-in!.f.
[Fr.
percevoir,
L.
percipio,
to
pllrceive,
to
comprehend-p.:r, a.od
capia,
to
take.
CAPAB(,£.]
'l'o
have or obtarn knowledge
of
by
the
senaes; to
appreheod
or
t.a.ka
c"i;oi�oce
of by
the org:i.cs
of
sense;
to apµrel::end
by
the
mind;
to
disct:ro,
know,
i
nodersca.nd.
.
•.
Syn.
ucdt?r SEE.
-
Per•
t:e1vable.
per-si;'va.-bl,a.
Ca.pa.ble
of
beini.
pt!rceLved;
perceptible.
-
Pt>n·clvably,
per-se'-.a.-bli,
adu.
Iu
a
perceiv:i.blt!
manner.
-·Pcrcelver,
_per-si:!'vt:r.
n.
Ont!
who
per-
�iv.:s.-Pe.rcevt,
per'Sept,
n.
That
\Vhich
is
perceivtld.-PercevtlbllHY,
per-sep'.
ti-b1l''1-ti,
a.
The
sta�e
or
qnality
of
being
po::rceptiblt:i;
perception;
power
of
perceiT-iug.-
Perceptl
l;lc.
per-sep'ti-bl,
a.
Ca-r,alile
of beiug perceived.-PercepUbly,
per-sep'ti•bli,adv.
In
a
perceptible
manner;
so
as
to be
perceived.-Perceptlon, per-st?µ'shon,
n.
[L.
percrptio,
perctptioniJ.J Tbe
act
of
perceiving;
that
actor
process
ot
the
mind which makes known an
e:xternal
object;
foe
faculty by which
man
boles communic:i.tion
with
the
e.xternal
world
or
t:d.:�s
cogniz.tnce
of objects
without
the
mind.-¥e1·cept1Ye,
per-sep'tiv, a.
Re-la.tiug
to the act or power
of
perceiTiog; having
th!c'
facnlty
of
percei,ing.-Pe.rceJ)•
tl
YltY,
per-sep-tiv'i-ti,
11.
The
quality
of being perceptive;
i:,ower
of
perception.
Think
Rel.'oncil<-,
rek'on•s1l,
t·.t.-nconcilttl.
,·e-
i
co,iciliny.
[Fr.
,·ico11c-ilia,
from
L.
1·tcon-dlio-1·c.
again,
a.ud
coucilio,
to
conciliate.
Co�CILIATE.J
l'o
coocilie.te
anew;
to
re-store
to
uuiou
and
friendship
:i.ftl'r
estrani;e-ment;
to
a�just
or
settle
(<l1fferences,
quar-rels};
to
bring
to
a.�qulescence
or
q11i11t
euhmission
{to
r,co1Lcilt
one's
self
to
affiic-tions);
to
make
consistent
or
congruous: followed
by
with or
to;
to
remove
n.pparent
discrepancies
from:
tn
harmonize.
-
v.i.
'l'o
become
reconeil,.•d.
-
lleeoncller.
rek'on-sll-er,
n.
-
One
who
reconciles.
-
n.cconf.l
ll.'n1<-n
t,
rek
'on-sll-IJ1ent,
n.
Recoocilia.tion:
re11e\Val
of
friendship.
-
Reconcillntion.
rek'on-sil-i-ll."shon,
n.
[L.
reconcilialio.]
The
a.ct
ot
reconciling
pA.rties
at
variance;
renewal
of
friendship
after
disairreement
or
enmity;
Scrip.
atone-ment;
expiation:
tbe
act
of
harmonizing
or
making
consistent;
agreement
of
things
seemingly
opposite or
inconsistent.-Rt>C-•
ouclllntory,
rek-on-sil'i-a-to-ri,
11.
Able
or
tending
to
reconcile.-Recoucll1tbl<-,
rek-on-s1'Ja-bl,
a.
CApe.ble
of
bP.iog
again
brought
to
friendly
feelings:
capable
o(
bein.r
m:\de
to
agree
or
he
eon�istene;
ca-pa.ble
or
being
harmonized.
-
U.t>conc-1•
1a
hJen
c�!I.
rek-0n-sl'fa-bl-1111a,
11.
-Jtec•
ont'l}it.hly,
rek-on-sl'la-bli,
adv.