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More salmon in the Pacific since 1905, the Russians catching 500K tons this year.  85% of the planet stlil unexplored.  USA now the biggest producer of oil/gas – who would have thought that 20 years ago.  In BC, 40m pinks just a couple of years ago, the biggest since 1900.

Where do you get the idea the air is polluted?  As pointed out SEVERAL times, now, London air, today 15 counts; 1950 200 counts; 1900   600.  Vancouver, just 5. Beijing/Delhi 600!!       Our power 98% from Hydro – clean, renewable; cheap.  Also making MORE money by playing the market.

Canada, Brazil, Russia, Australia, Congo and others not part of any supposed CO2 problem.   We absorb 4 times the amount we emit; we have 100 times more land/capita than UK – miles of trees and lakes, and oceans and marshes.   SINCE the trees are growing, ergo they are retaining CO2.    No?

I have about an IQ of 130 ish.  They do not like to tell you, but after doing my first test, placed in over achievers Upper class meaning I would go to Uni at 16, but not allowed till 18 in UK.         It is not that I think myself clever, but that, though you lot SAY you are clever, you are not ACTING in a clever fashion, but instead use every dishonest tactic in the book.  Refusal to answer shows you CANNOT.

In my 4 day Permanent Commission selection, we were given an impossible task and 20 minutes for a solution – as a scientist being used to doing rough calculations, I could quickly see that the ship would sink before the helicopters could make a return trip, thus drowning half the passengers.  So what to do?  Throw up your hands?   I placed myself as Commander, and ordered the helis to be filled with extra liferafts and SAR techs – “Fly out in ground effect to save fuel. Half way, drop liferafts and SAR techs. Continue to ship, and pick up half passengers, then drop them at half way point……..etc”

The other 19 candidates gave up and were gone next day.     16 year minimum contract; in Reserve till 65; $2+m to train us.  I served 47 years……..like the crack regiments, Lifeguards, Blues and Royals (The Queen’s personal bodyguard!  Need to be a Royal, like Harry Windsor, or aristocracy), we could do what we wanted.  Smashing up the Mess; driving on the runway with no lights, one time crashing a car into the bloody guardhouse!!  Staggered out, laughing.      All gone in the morning and nothing said……….mess games in our $3,000 barathea mess kits – British bulldogs; high cockolorum; Are you there Moriarty?   Major fun times.    At 18 had my own servant, my batman.  Brought me tea in the morning.  (Had 5 servants in Africa including dhobi boy who did the washing.)………

We were family friends of the first Politician to become a Saint, Julius Nyerere. Not canonised YET, but half way – he is a “Servant of God” has at ;east one miracle and you can pray to him. (Fat lot of good!!)…….My Mother had helped him get started on his career and in 1955 he made her, a white woman, Godmother to his, a black Nationalist’s child to thank her for her help.  An honest decent man.

Posting on other sites, so my apologies if any repetition.

In 1958, he said, “We, the people of Tanganyika are going to place a lighted candle on top of Kilimanjaro.   Its light will shine beyond our borders, giving Love where there was Hate; hope where there was despair; dignity where before there was only humiliation…..”

Sadly he did nothing about the population, now 50m cf. 15m in 1962!!!!    “Nenda kwa Mungu, rafiki!”  “Go to God, friend.”