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.

 

Think

Earth - The Finite Planet and Matters Relating

Malcolm E. Mason

Australia

2011

Malcolm E Mason Po Box 675 Batemans Bay

NS W 2536

Australia

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1. . 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

2. 
   

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

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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�.

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3. 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.

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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

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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.

1. Countries who 'Sell' their resources to anyone, willing to pay ever increasing prices at any Exrtraction rate requested..

2. 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.

3. 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

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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).

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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.

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3. Mattem Relating

1. 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.

2. 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

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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.

3. 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

4. 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.

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3. 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.

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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.

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3. Thoughts on Recent Events

1. 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.

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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

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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,.

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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

• inguest and the East Timoe connection, I thought we should remmember her contibutions to the World, in the anti cluster bomb and land mine campaigns - see reverse side.

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.

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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

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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.

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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.-

1. June 2011, OPEC not to incresae Oil extraction • good news.

2. June 2011, USA UK and a few others, decided to release Oil reserves, thus reducing conse�tion of this FINITE resource - bad news.

3. June 2011, Massive orders for Aircraft (commercial)- bad news.

4. Automotive production Worldwide continues almost unabated- bad news.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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.............

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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.

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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.

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THE HUNT FOR THE

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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>

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To heck with Carbon emrnissions - please light the fire.

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Thats better - move it dog.

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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.

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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.