Paranoic diet

I saw a film on youtube about ketogenic diet as a cure for cancer. And I was wondering why we didn't solve the cancer issue long before 'big pharma' involvement. And why in communist states where you didn't have interest of 'big pharma' lobby nobody used this diet and people still had cancer.
I made a little bit of research and I found this article on National Health Institute.
It is explaining that the ketogenic diet makes the cancer more vulnerable to chemotherapy and it doesn't replace the treatment.
In brief: the metabolism of cancer cell is broken and produces more H2O2 which would be toxic unless you have glucose to neutralise it.
When we switch to ketogenic diet we have less  glucose and more H2O2 in cancer cells which made them vulnerable.
But the purpose of this post is are snake oil salesmen.
The biology is complicated, I had to read the article above twice , googling terms to understand it.
The snake oil sales men simplify biologic processes by combining truths with lies:
"The cancer cells need glucose to survive and divide"-true
"The cancer cells consume glucose at a higher rate than normal cells" -true.
"If we are fasting or making a ketogenic diet our glucose level will drop"-true
"Then if we will have low blood sugar the cancer cell will die" not true, because the speaker used 2 antagonic categories: bad cancer cells versus good human cells.
The cancer cells are more like the lost son who went on drugs and  on crime and become a social danger. It is a danger to society but his origins are from within society.
The cancer cells are human cells and they have the same propriety adaptation to the provided nutrients, so they can use ketones.
Of course the mind of audience a question pops out:
"Why we are not using this diet already?"
"Because big pharma wants to make money and they are threatened by cheap treatments" comes the answer. A true statement as you can see in the case of Martin Shkreli who took advantage of the monopoly on a HIV drug to increase the price with 400%.
Because people understand better the behaviour of other people, and few people have personal access to doctors, or pharmacists, this explanation is believed. And since is easier to rationalise good versus bad, if the greedy big pharma is bad and lying  then anyone who s against them is good, and says the truth.
Then these people form a paranoid cult who doesn't believe in traditional treatments as vaccines,antibiotic and chemotherapy, and follow all kind of diets vegan,ketonic,paleo.

Their guru's are always claiming that the truth was hidden from them in facts it is the opposite: they never seek the truth.
I didn't make a research but it seems that USA is most afflicted of this disease.

Maybe they are used to think in black and white?
After all, in the westerns the good guys wore white hats and bad guys wore black hats.

I shit therefore I am

Arguing with the pest control guy. regarding the existence of the cockroaches after his visit, I had an epiphany regarding of the Blaise Pascal proof "I think therefore I am":
It is better to say  "I shit therefore I am".
Cockroaches don't think but they exists. How we know that they exists despite the fact that we don't see them? They shit all over the place. This main argument, help me winning the philosophical debate with the pest guy and request for a refund.
If you notice all living thing produce shit. So being able to shit is similar to being alive.
This philosophical (physiological) proof "I shit therefore I am" implies that life is not an illusion, because our mind does not want to imagine a smelly turd.
Have you seen in video games simulated turds? They recreate every thing but not turds.
The recreate almost all physiology but not defecating. (How would be to play Grand Theft Auto, and stop for defecating?)
In Grand Theft Auto they simulated sex and violence (things that we like) but not defecation (thing that we don't).
If the life is an illusion of the mind, and the mind likes sex and violence but not turds, why we have turds and we don't have enough scantly clad women?
So with this shitty argument I deconstructed all the Cartesian theory and all the philosophic ideas that life is an illusion of the mind.

The gold standard

I hear often that we should go to the gold standard that the currencies should be backed by gold. But the gold standard it is not a defence against the inflation.
In the book "Industrial Revolution in Middle Age" by Jean Gimbel I found a chapter in which Philip IV of France called the Fair, diminished the content of gold in coins  because the economy was booming and need it more coins from the same gold.
The medieval economy which had a lower volume as ours needed cash, but it was limited by the usage of the gold standard for currency.
What are the functions of the currency after all?

1. It can be transformed into goods.
2. Can be stored indefinitely.
3. Offers information about the prices of goods.

The water and food are goods demanded everywhere they can be used as currency before they are spoiled.
The gold is used as currency because it is not spoiled, but how it transforming it self into goods?
Why the gold was in high demand before it was used in technology?
The feudal lords used force to collect excesses of goods  from their territory, but they have to compete with others, for land,status, and for daughters of other princes.
If you show that you have an excess of food, then you can afford an army and your neighbours will respect you.
Gold and luxury goods were and indicators of the personal welfare.
Who had less gold was at bottom pecking order. and had less influence and could be attacked easily.
The feudal lords had food and they need gold.
On the other side the city dwellers need it food.
The merchants collected gold and exchanged for food from feudal lords or peasants.
Because it was a constant need of gold, lords bought luxury goods regardless of the situation, or in a dire situation, there were others who hoarded gold out of fear.
The value of gold is fear: fear of losing status from the elite, fear from losing savings from the common people.
Due to increase of the economy and of the modern state who didn't rely so much in personal display of gold for showing status, the role of gold diminished as currency.

We could say that distribution of gold, and the display of gold shows the distribution of power within a society.
More hierarchical and rigid is the society more gold it needs and it displays.

Kim Jong Un is the puppet of Putin?

It is strange Kim Jong Un's boldness, US is at war with them, China is massing troops.
The only aid it seems is Russia. Soviet Union put Kim Ir Sen his grand father on power. North Korea is a Soviet creation.
Korean's don't like he Chinese empire.
North Koreans hate USA and Japan.
Maybe now it makes sense why Russia deployed missiles to North Korean border.
They are not to help Americans, but to ensure that they fail in North Korea, it is response for US strikes on Syria.
China doesn't want US so close, so they are not interested in weakening North Korea, maybe China will intervene in North Korea, in behalf of the Americans but they will demand some concessions in South China Sea, maybe at the expense of Philippines. 

Despre iluzii vandute: PNL si Ciolos calul troian in USR

Am vazut aseara un reportaj la TVR cu oamenii care au iesit singuri la protestat in micile orase din Moldova, unde speranta a murit.
M-am gandit la alte tari in care speranta a fost ingropata de-a binelea, gen Afganistan, Syria. Acolo sunt mafioti care sunt la guvernare si mafioti care te ajuta contra cost sa ajungi in Vestul Europei. Daca stai in tara respectiva te storc mafiotii locali, daca vrei pleci spre o viata mai buna  trebuie sa dai bani la alti mafioti, sa te treaca cu calauze muntii si sa te abandoneaze la granita UE.
In Romania rolul mafiotilor care te calauzesc o viata mai buna, este jucat de PNL, care nu are alt rol decat acela de a recicla electoratul anti-PSD , in voturi pentru aceiasi mafie transpartinica.
Altfel nu se explica non-combatul PNL-ului cand s-a hotarat ca primarii sa fie votati dintr-un singur tur, sau atunci cand s-a revenit la votul pe lista.
Votul pe lista intarind conducerea centrala de la Bucuresti in defavoarea provinciei, si intarind implicit puterea lui Dragnea in PSD.
Oare cum doamna Turcanu (fosta sefa a PNL) a putut cadea la acord cu PSD-ul stiind ca va avea un copil care va trai in aceasta tara? Sau poate si-a luat cetatenie in Monte Carlo si va privi de acolo fumul ce se va ridica din ruinele acestei tari?
Venirea USR-ului cam deranjeaza acest joc marginal al PNL si ar fi bine ca USR-ul sa fie deturnat.
Si ce om mai bun este decat competentul premier Ciolos pus de PNL?
USR ideologic se revendica ca un partid anti-sistem. oameni sai declarand ca nu au legaturi cu actualul sistem politico-economic.
Cum se potriveste activitatea domnului Ciolos de pana acum cu ideologia USR: a fost premier pus de PNL? Da,
Basescu a declarat ca el l-a facut comisar european la agricultura? Da.
A fost ministrul agriculturii? Da.
Sunt televiziuni care il ridica in slavi?Da.
Astea nu sunt dovezi ale legaturii intre Ciolos si sistemul actual?
Daca Ciolos va deveni presedinte USR, partidul va pierde pe termen lung, credibilitatea ca partid anti-sistem, in folosul unui relativ castig pe termen scurt in notorietate.
Nicusor Dan este destul de cunoscut acum in Romania, nu e ca la inceput cand se batea singur cu consiliul municipiului Bucuresti, asa ca Ciolos ca lider nu ar aduce cine stie ce castig.
Voluntarii UR nu au muncit ca sa-i faca lui Ciolos partid, daca vrea sa intre sa intre ca orice membru.

Limits of globalisation and limits for EU commision

I have read the Jean Claude Juncker speech and I must say that I am glad that someone stirred some debate in the European countries.
This speech made me think about decisions,globalisation,speed and stability.
The cheap transports made the globalisation possible and world much more instable.
The systems to be stable they must have a negative feedback loop, for example in order that a car to stay on the road, it must have a driver to look a the road and to turn the wheel.
But if we have a delay in this feedback loop, driver reacts too slow for example, at high speeds the system (car) will become unstable, because the driver will try to overcompensate. The only solution is to drive slower.
But the international competition doesn't allow you to drive slower.

A good example of instability created by delayed feedback is the Iran SUA relation.
USA overthrow Iranian prime minister Mossadegh in 1953, replacing him with the Shah. Shah was overthrown by Islamic revolution in 1979, and the Iranian-US relations are sour since then.
Between cause and effect was a delay of 26 years.
If the delay was shorter, let's say that Iranians somehow would punish USA for overthrowing Mossadegh, the USA wouldn't overthrow the democratic elect Iranian government and would start a negotiation about oil reserves in 1953 not about the nuclear program of Iran in 2016.
Another example is from nature: the trees give oxygen,regulate weather and fix soil.
If we cut 1 tree nothing happens because we have a buffer, the rest of the trees produce enough oxygen and drain enough water.
We cut 1000 trees, nothing happens, we get money and we develop a forestry industry and we cut trees for decades without something to happen.
Till one day the soil starts eroding, we have flood and droughts.Now we have a feedback that is telling us that we should stop cutting trees. Too late.

The best example of instable situation kept stable by a good and fast feedback is the nuclear threat during Cold War: if one side launched missiles the other would do the same.
The feedback was very fast in few hours after you pressed the button you received the feedback in the form of enemy nuclear missiles.This made th e rulers think twice.

What would happen if we would have the same feedback for damaging the environment? What if when we spill chemical wastes on a field we would lose our crop and die of hunger?
This type of feedback we have it before the railroads, the local communities survived with the local agricultural products. Then and now in poor rural communities from Romania, people take more care about their land.
Coincidently, now  the demand for local products rose with the awareness of the environment impact. Maybe, we as a society we organize our self to be stable.

Maybe the fact that we have in the world long feedback loops with delays, which determine instability, determines an isolationism in some countries such as USA and UK.
What the Europe shall do?
First define which feedback loops have delays.And decide where to act and where to give freedom to national governments.
For example: unemployment  in Romania it is a long feedback loop for Bruxelles: it must gather data, discuss within among other  issues, then implement some measures to be carried out by local authorities.
The feedback loop between national government  it is faster, the collection of data is faster, the interest is immediate and te measures can be implemented faster.
So the national government should replace the EU commission, and EU to be only a trade agreement?
Not at all. There are some issues, like defense and foreign policy where the national government might react slow
For example: Russia attacks Finland, and the French government should take a position.
Finland is far from France and it is not of interest, second France has some special relation with Russia (see armament deals), why should they bother?

Till the situation becomes worse for France, the situation will become worse for Finland and for members of EU from the Baltic Sea.
An supra national organization like EU, or NATO, will feel threaten faster because its border is at the Baltic sea not at the Rhine, and it will react faster.

In my opinion that EU should do few things but well, for more countries.
A 2 speed EU will drive to disintegration of EU due to economic polarization.
EU could become a supranational state with economic discriminations between its citizens.
Habsburgic empire was a supra national state with discrimination between nationalities and it collapsed after WW1, when the nations didn't want to fight for it.
The only multinational state that is working is Switzerland.
Switzerland started as treaty between cantons with equal rights, and the first topics that they agree were extradition of criminals,freedom of trade and common defence.
Let's learn from swiss modesty and start small.

How japanese sword techniques can help fighting lies and fake news

Today we must process information faster and faster and we leave the emotional brain to process information, and the emotional brain takes what it likes and discard any additional information.
If someone is primed to think that USA is behind any conspiracy in the world it is difficult for him to reject the false claims that the landing on the Moon was a fake.
It is hard to change someone's wrong ideas,but at least you can discourage him to spread the falsehoods, by making him doubtful.
After all nobody want to be considered a fool.
Let's imagine that you are on a TV studio, and you are trying to convince someone who believes that Moon landing was a fake, that he is actually wrong.
You can try to explain how the Saturn 5 rockets engine worked, or principles of optics on ancient film camera's, but even if you convince a technically ignorant person of your truth, it will take more than 5 min.

In Japanese sword fighting it is an school Iaido which is focusing on drawing the sword and cutting the oponent. The duel in this case takes seconds and the weaker opponent is dead.

The Iaido school focuses in simple fast techniques focused to hit vital organs, using the openings in defense.
We must develop a similar technique with fake news, to not let them spread.

In the case of fake Moon landing what is the vital organ, the hearth of the fake news?
Conspiracy. The US government has spend millions of dollars, for a Moon landing show.

So we must hit the conspiracy. And we must add to this conspiracy someone who is unlike to be a conspirator: the Soviet Union the archenemy of US in Cold War.

If the Moon landing was a fake why the Soviet Union kept silent? After all they could intercept rockets telemetry, and also they have high ranking moles as John Walker,Hansen and Aldrich Ames?

 Knowing were to hit is not enough you must also have the sword and the technique.
The sword it is an undisputed truth. The rivalry between USA and URSS is well known.
The technique consists of presenting the information in a way that is not rejected by the defense mechanisms of the other person.
If you say: "The whole thing with Moon landing fake is paranoia fueled by Russia", the other person will refuse to listen to you, because you making him looking like a fool, tricked by propaganda.

But if you put the misinformed person in role playing situation, maybe he will analyzing his believes.
Putting him in the role of URSS leader. he may wonder, if an ordinary man like me knows that the Moon landing was a fake, why the leaders from Kremlin, didn't know or didn't do anything.

In wining a dispute first you must have truth of your side, and you must be informed and know life sciences such as physics, well.

Second you must conceive simple fast experiments that can test the truth.
If someone is telling you about the car propelled by water. Ask him to ignite water. A fuel burns, if the water is fuel then it will burn.

Third you must know what truth's you can use.


Knowing how a camera works doesn't help in convincing someone who is ignorant about physics.
But everybody knows that enemies don't help each other, and was no reason for Soviet Union to cover USA in the biggest lie of the century.