Ipod Dominates The Mp3 Mp4 Player Market

Posted by admin in Articles on Jul 8th, 2010 | 0 comments

This is an mp3 / mp4 player that music lovers acknowledge the most in the modern time. US-based Apple, one among the largest producers of computers, notebooks and computer hardware and software, introduced iPod in 2001 with a single model for the international music market. Apple kept on introducing new iPods for each generation. The latest one is the iPod 5G. Apple also came up with two different variants: the iPod Shuffle (without digital display), the iPod Nano (the smaller version of iPod). Recently, Apple came up with the new-generation of iPod, the iPhone that integrates the conventional MP3 and video player with an internet ready mobile phone.

This article compares each iPod by its special features. One of the most popular model is the iPod 5G that comes with 30 or 80 GB storage capacity. It is not just an mp3 / mp4 player, you can store, view and share complete music videos, movies, podcasts, play games, share photos, playback music and videos, connect to a video output device, and much more. It can play your favorite music for up to 20 hours as this iPod boasts of higher battery life.  

The iPod Nano has many of the same features as the full-size iPod, but with much lesser storage capacity. It comes in 2 GB, 4 GB and 8 GB models. It has up to 24 hours of battery life and is comparatively lighter and smaller. It also suffers from some limitations; the iPod Nano doesn’t support voice recording and media storage via third-party peripherals. iPod Nano is a great mp3 player for people who would just like to listen to audio files.
Apple’s most-pocket friendly iPod is iPod Shuffle. It offers a host of advantages: it’s affordable for everyone; its sound quality is as good as that of any other iPod; it has flash memory rather than a hard drive; and it’s really portable. However, the disadvantage is that it doesn’t include a screen for steering up to specific songs. It has a limited storage capacity, 512 MB to maximum 1 GB. So it’s good for those who want to be in fashion, yet can compromise on memory space. But the size of this mp3 player is so small that you can easily clip it to your clothes.

With digital music being in-vogue, many portable jukeboxes hit the market, since Apple kick-started the music revolution of our time. Other portable MP3 and MP4 players, besides iPod, are available in the entertainment world of mp3 / mp4 players. There are many Chinese, Korean and Japanese brands manufacturing low cost players in bulk. These are much cheaper, but have their own set of advantages and disadvantages. The fact remains that iPods are the most popular among all, and hold the biggest share of this market. There are enough iPod users in the market and a lot of new things are getting developed around iPods.

Some people just can’t do without their iPods, from jogging time to bed time. It sticks to their ears. Obviously, the battery drains out of the device. The latest buzz is that Andrew Schneider, a student from New York University, is exploring a solar-powered bikini that can charge iPods. Yes, it is true! The bikini will soak up the sun rays thru photovoltaic film strips. That means, while the iPod user is getting a sun tan, his mp3 / mp4 player is also getting a charge of 6.5 volts of solar power.

iPod has become a very desired mp3 / mp4 player around the world. iPod player just seems to be ahead of its competitors. Not just by delivering good quality products, but also in providing new solutions for eager electronic consumers. Let’s just wait what will be next in the iPod revolution.

Welcome To The Machine

Posted by admin in Articles on Jul 6th, 2010 | 0 comments

Dear Reader,

I hope you will take time to think about what I say in this article- many will recognize it as something they already knew, others it may come as a shock to.
Don”t be scared by the information you will read- it will help set your mind free.

WELCOME TO THE MACHINE

Believe only half of what you hear and half of what you see…
The theory of life being an illusion may make for good movie making or story telling, but what if the theory was true.

Imagine a World created and designed by scientific mind-control artists which have manipulated many aspects of life including the manipulation of technology and even our thoughts.

1. The television has been designed to manipulate brain waves. A romantic movie
can make you cry, a violent movie can make you angry or sick, a comedy can make you laugh. Advertising networks use spectrums of light such as extreme brightness, flashing, colours, images, sounds and key words to make you want to buy something- to make you remember the advertisement. Watching too much television in the dark can damage your eyesight, and watching television on a sunny day with the curtains open can also damage your eyesight because both cause your eye’’s focusing lenses to strain.

2. Music is an expression of emotion through sounds, often with words which carry a message. Rock music can make you feel tough and angry. Pop music can make you happy. Some classical music can make you feel sad. Any type of music, when produced amplifying the high and low frequencies can cause annoyance or ear damage. Ultra high frequencies (the treble range) can make you mad, far too alert or even crazy or violent. Ultra high treble can also be used as a method of torture.

3. Different chemicals and drugs can alter your perception of what you see and hear. When you are tired and drink caffinated liquid before watching television or using a computer forces your brain to wake up, yet your eyes will not focus naturally but will also be forced to strain to focus, which causes migraines. Alcohol makes you drowsy, and watching television when drunk can make it difficult to comprehend the programme, and make you more tired as you strain to
understand what you are seeing and hearing, causing migraines.

4. A credit card,mortagage or loan is another trick, an illusion which will be explained later on…

Part A.:- THE CLONING EXPERIMENT…
Now let’’s assume that history itself, as documented in books and encyclopedias, is actually an account of a long- gone past, before an experiment of what I will refer to as Earth Computer Simulation (ECS), designed by top scientists and computer programmers a very long time ago- unmeasurable in years because it happened so long ago. We now exist in the 21st Century,so we are told. Perhaps we actually live in the 21st Century computer simulation, which is a mix of physical reality,(yes, we do exist on Earth!) and mind-controlled reactions (are we individually programmed by a super-human alien race in space somewhere??).

Our planet Earth is brilliant, potentially a place of peace and goodwill, yet it is full of flaws and oppressive laws, corrupt rich control-freaks and elite leaders who are aware that they have the money,power and control over our lives with their decisions. Those decisions have created the cities,towns and lives we lead, yet have destroyed so much of humanity by being oppressive to cultures which are simply different. The white race is the most control-freak of all races. The majority of capitalism and development has stemmed from white power which has involved oppressing other cultures, killing opinion and quashing uprising and protest.

So let’’s also assume that our very minds, thoughts and decisions are programmed into us from separate independent computers,located possibly somewhere on Earth or in deep outer space. As individuals we have a great ability to educate ourselves and improve our lives, meaning that if you are not satisfied with your life, career or health for example, The Earth Computer Simulation (ECS) program can be altered or corrected from within planet Earth itself- by you.

By this I mean we have the ability to use money to buy things to improve our own lives- like good food, good clean water and good clothes, other luxuries, and educate ourselves to obtain better jobs and careers.But perhaps the current planet was designed to control every individual separately- so that we conform to a schedule-the program which was designed to make our planet go in one direction and not end up with millions of independent free thinkers. Maybe we cannot actually truly make a decision to do anything of our own free will, because we might be receiving computer-commands from a satellite which tell us each what to do, day-to-day,
throughout our lives. You might hear of ”the game” , or ”the experiment” when you get into mind control and free-thinking. How much of our independent thought is actually independent? Are we merely receiving static-computer commands from a personal computer with each day that passes by, unaware that we are being controlled to say and do whatever we are being programmed to do by some computer? Are our minds slaves to ”the machine” and will we ever escape the commands we receive.

Perhaps the World is a mix of physical reality and electronic mind control. Has our World been designed by an evil force that oppresses some cultures, so that only white powercontrol the majority of people on Earth, and so make white people the richest and most powerful?
What about the problems on our Earth- the starving millions, the diseases that kill millions, the wars that kill millions? Again we can change these things if we were just able to get our hands on enough money. I don”t mean a couple of billion dollars, but hundreds of billions of dollars.

Part B:- ACCEPT IT- WE ARE ALL CLONES IN A SIMULATED WORLD…
So if we accept that our lives are a simulation- an existance which was designed by cloning and then deliberate segregation between religions,races and cultures you probably ask- why? Why have countries been at war with each other, religiously dominated and politically oppressed? Because- that’’s what has been archived in the history books. Imagine that millions of years ago our existance happened exactly as it is spelled out in historical books, with centuries of oppression, white power domination, Christian dominance, economic corruption suiting the elitists and World leaders who claim to be ”President of the World” and that sort of controlism. Those in control of white countries now hold more power and influence over business and wealth than any other culture, and to make sure that they maintained control of theie power they archived the decisions they made, arranging the decisions to oppress uprisings, control wealth for their own needs, designing economic systems to keep the majority poor and dumbed-down. The majority of hard working people earn little, can do little and have little but a house and a few luxuries. Average Joe and his family don”t have power to stand up against politicians and oppression because Police and Army are employed to quash uprisings, to protect the elite and the political decision makers. Perhaps the political structure as it exists today was designed to maintain white power and elitism, and is archived in computers from a time millions of years ago.

This theory can be boosted by the cloning theory. Have humans been ”designed” – or cloned a long time ago?
It makes sense that if a computer-controlled world system was designed to maintain the elitists grip on the World as it is today, then somebody would have cracked their code a long time ago, and educated the public for a revolution against the controllers,elitists and politicians who enslave nations, oppress people and take the money and power for themselves.But if the decisions we make are programmed, then we have to beleive that those revolutionaries against the powers-that-be may have themselves been either terminated or placed into a dumbed-down World of mind control. There could be some key revolutionaries who once freed the majority from oppression who are now simply leading a different life, unaware of their past-life leadership and achievements of cracking the controller’’s code. So are we living in a post-triumphant World, where the people who had succeeded in breaking the chains of oppression are now being ”programmed” into a dumbed down state. the majority of people watch the mind control device called the television. They spend all their time glued to it, brain in neutral and taking in hours of pointless information and sounds. People are dumbed-down by the television. It is a hypnotic mind control device,conveniently taking up your time so that you do not educate yourself about the bigger picture- the mind controlled world of power and elitism, greed and corruption.

Our existance may have been replicated- our religious leaders and basically everybody who exists today, existed a long time ago.
It is very possible for DNA experiment scientists to have dug up remains of millions of people and used their remaining body tissue to then clone it for a scientifically-designed future. Many of us have had blood tests- we have given our DNA via blood samples, and when we die the majority of us are surgically embalmed, our blood may have been removed millions of years ago and DNA put on ice in storage, our details logged in a database. The majority of us may have been replicated a long time ago.

This World is a delicate object, and whether you are a sceptic of the end of the World, chances are that the world as we know it- that of billions of people died a long time ago. Wars kill millions of people, disease kills millions, famine kills millions- storm floods,earthquakes,volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and sea level flooding all could have wiped out so many people millions of years ago that scientists realized that people were slowly being killed off, from natural disasters, famine,disease,war, car accidents, murders and from natural death causes.

So what the scientists did to make sure that civilisation did not die, was to take our blood samples and then re-create the World piece by piece until we came into existance- starting with the earliest samples of homosapien species that were found on Earth during excavations, and replicating them, while replicating humans in other parts of the World- the Aboriginal race, African race, Asian race and the caucasian race. It is a relatively simple process of populating the Earth with humans who would reproduce and give birth to more generations, and to watch the process of human civilization grow and grow, archiving the progress of humankind as they progresses naturally. Our DNA could have been altered to make us better at resisting diseases, and by getting tetnus shots, tuberculosis shots, influenza shots we are saved from extinction and demise. Those are some of the possible good things about the ”experiment”, that we were saved from extinction and recreated.
So for thousands of years we have been living in a designed World of computers and ”remote-controlled thought” , being controlled by independent computers somewhere, reproducing by natural means and merely playing out the archived history,playing out a scientific experiment which we have no way of avoiding.

But what truly happens when the World comes to an end, from a meteor or comet hitting planet Earth hundreds or thousands of years from now ? Does a scientific experiment then start to recreate the last 2 thousand years of history, by taking our stored DNA and recreating humans in laboratories and sending them into different countries as crusaders, sworn to keep the secret of the experiment a secret? Are a few hundred thousand people brought back to life to populate different key countries, to work as slaves under the rule of the crusaders? Were our religious and political leaders recreated to control simple minds into believing that God created everything, meanwhile they were the few who knew of the ”experiment” , and could not tell the truth , that the public were created as slaves after an apocalyptic event to re-populate the World?

So over millions of years the human race has been manufactured to become what it is today, steered in one direction by design and manipulation. Our political and religious leaders passed on learning, wisdom and ancient stories- the first level of education.
Perhaps the scientists laboratories are under the Earth, currently observing the development of their experiment- observing the people in the current ‘’simulated” World of design and control, programming their thoughts and decisions to achieve order and to give the riches and power to the current elitists. Maybe it is the current elitists who set up this sontrol-grid system, to maintain their ‘’superiority” above the public, the dumbed-down people who know nothing about much of this but are glued to televisons instead?

Part C:- The Human Brain, Altered By DNA Manufacturing:-
Not only could have our bodies been changed, but the very core of our body, the brain could be a semi-altered organism, capable of being programmed more easily. The brain works on electronic signals, just as the heart creates micro-volts to keep it pumping. It was a long time ago, when human beings did not think independently whatsoever, and only a few people had wisdom,knowledge and understanding of abilities to create technology- which is evident from inventions. How did those few people become more intelligent to invent electricity, computer aprts, splitting the atom? It all happened a long time ago- those people were gifted, had brains which were more perfect in their natural formation, and since then scientists have simply replicated those brains by changing our DNA structure to include DNA of say Einstein’’s brain, yet the rest of our DNA is our own original self- from our own bodies.

If you look up ”trans-human cyborg technology” on the internet, you will find many articles on how humans could be (or already are) computer-chipped beings… How could that be possible you ask? I recall the NASA super-computer being unveiled a couple of years ago, and read up on the atomic-sized components that the computer uses- capable of calculating binary digits simultaneously- in computer one’’s and zero’’s at the same time. A standard home computer can calculate binary independently, first a one then a zero, not simultaneously. In theory billions of calculations could be done at the speed of light by the new NASA super-computer, as opposed to the standard home computer which can only calculate data or mathmatical sums at the speed at which the processor will allow it to, because standard processors become overheated and slow down and can only run at a specific speed. An atomic NASA computer can work far quicker-at the speed of light and doesn”t overheat because the components are atomic sized and do not store heat- thus won”t slow down. The industry ”Sony” created the cell processor- the organically grown microchip which could be just an indication of technology is available today. Maybe a far more powerful computer has already been designed- the human brain, grown organically and capable of receiving signals which control our movement, thoughts,actions and reactions. Has the human brain been engineered a long time ago to be better at learning?

There is another aspect of our simulated existance- the fact that the human brain can be destroyed by heavy drinking, over-eating, too much sleep, too much exercise,lack of oxygen, drugs of all kinds, caffeine, nicotine, alcohol etc.

So if we have been ”designed” a long time ago, and our DNA was changed so that we grow with a genetically created super-brain, an ”Einstein’’s brain” inside our skulls, why do many people do better in life, learn more and others do not.
When we grow from day one we all absorb different nutrients via the womb- some of us inherit DNA from small parents, some inherit DNA from tall parents- some fat, some thin and so on… So we are all unique and different, yet if the human race has been re-created to have a smarter brain , our brains could be replicated from specific blood groups. I won”t say each and every one of us has Einstein’’s replicated brain, but most of us have similar brains to those in our own cultures, which stem from our most family trees. It is difficult to say when scientists started collecting our DNA- did scientists find remains of beings been found frozen in permafrost thousnds or even millions of years ago from a natural catastrophe or massive nuclear war that killed most of humanity? Were we re-created after the catastrophe to have more powerful brains, which were easier to control by designing them with organic-electronic receivers that pick up command signals? Are we living in a remote-controlled body?

Part D:- Utopia- A Dream That Pleases The Rich, And You Are Their Slaves…
A lot of us are similar height,weight,looks and even in our thoughts. Thought is something we develop independently, from education of our World. Some of us listen and do well at school- others do not. Some don”t get an education and cannot percieve what a scientifically created World means. Many only believe that God created us all as equals. If we were created as equals- then why don”t we all have great technical abilities, be great at mathematics, be able to paint like Da Vinci, write music like Mozart or pop songs like the Beatles or Sting?

Why don”t we all have equal talents, so that we can all earn a fortune? With wealth we could eradicate war, famine, diseases… because we could all afford everything if we were all millionaires… Imagine it. We are all equals. Food and water for everybody. Medicines to combat all diseases made available to everyone. Good sewerage drainage systems to keep our towns and villages healthy. No bombs or weapons or violence…
It’’s called Utopia. A perfect World that could be perfect. With today’’s amount of money stored in various countries, we definately could eradciate poverty, famine and disease anyway. We definately can educate people in most countries with some of the wealth. But it seems as though our lives are a system, a prison of poor and weak oppressed by the wealth of the powerful. So if this world is a scientifically created replica of another time, why are there so many flaws- why do billions live in poverty?

The structure of power has been harboured and developed by World leaders over hundreds of years. The quests of Kings and Queens and religious groups have sought to take the majority for themselves and keep the people as workers, as slaves. That is what the labour market is- a slave system. People have been oppressed by violent Kings and Queens, leaders of all kinds for centuries, and we see the greed of humanity as it really is when we examine video reports and journals from around the World, comparing the different cultres and races, identifying poor nations and pointing out rich nations- and by reading history of our leaderships as they have progressed to become richer, more powerful and more violent toward the poor and the slaves over time.
The billions in poverty, the oppressed Africans taken to slave in America and Britain have risen up to fight oppression of white power,and dicatorship. Some have protested for democracy,for independence from white power, some against their own regional leaderships.Some countries have achieved their own independence, some have failed.
Some and us working class who can barely make ends meet- we have better city infrastructure. Some countries have much better quality of infrastructure and better opportunities for their citizens, some get good investment, wheras other countries have little investment… and many millions of people work for nations as slaves, for a dollar or less per day.

Why has the quality of life in white, western countries been so much better than in other nations? Was the system designed to keep the non-white races oppressed?

Why are there so many people in the World who accept that they can do little to change the ”program”, the scientifically created prison that we accept as ”life”. Our wages are low, our taxes are high, our expenditures are high. Billions are in poverty, crying out for help, for a better life- yet our rich leaders in some countries have only created machines to program us with happy thoughts- and pumped our head full of jargon through the television to keep us brainwashed and quiet- dumbed down is the expression.The news broadcasts pump out the usual scandalous lies and corruption of political speeches,the reports of hundreds of billions of dollars earned by corporates and financial sectors of the World. So many little gadgets and inventions fill our time and we have spent probably a few seconds in a week thinking of those working as slaves for less than a dollar per day, of the impoverished nations where disease and famine exist, where the millions perish from hunger and lack of medical help.

Modern cities are full of copius amounts of drugs like alcohol to numb and wipe the brain clean of knowledge, nicotine to addict us to smoking which kills 15 million people per year from cancers. And then we are told to ”respect the leadership in Washington” or ”honour the Queen and Crown”, praise the Chairman of the corporation for being heroes when all they do is fiddle with numbers in a computer to make themselves richer..fiddling with ones and zeros in a database to suit themselves and oppress others…
Others are told to just worship God and the Prophets, and put their faith in religions, but really there are millions of human rights activists and anti-war activists working hard to fight for equal pay, equal opportunities, peace and an end to oppression and poverty,famine and disease. What has the World come to?

Big corporations made massive profits that were not accounted for, and were sent to remote islands and tax-free parts of the World. Billions of dollars and pound sterling robbed from economies and ending up in bank accounts of ”tax-havens”- the 50 or more locations around the World which hide the corporate and elite wealth and profits,and where the money of Monarchs, dictators and criminals is kept. Where has the the money gone that people worked for, and gave in good faith to pension funds, investments and pyramid schemes which ended up going broke. Where did all the money go to?
It is on planet Earth, that’’s for sure. It probably exists in tax-havens which our Governments have promised to close down- yet the tax-havens still exist, and latest word is that new tax-havens are being created to hide more money- our money. Most of the money though is not in physical notes and coins- it’’s existance is in computer form, existing on harddrives and wired to the tax-havens from locations around the World where accounts are not checked.

Corporations can donate to foreign political parties or to foreign charitable organizations which do not pay tax or have to reveal their incomes, who in return can donate to charities without being monitored. The money existing in computer accounts on harddrives or USB stick can then be easily transported to locations where the harddrive disk or USB stick contents are read and dowloaded into tax-haven computers. If the money was wired through the internet or private servers then the money transfer might be intercepted by Police or other financial authorities. Think about it, private planes taking a man in a suit with a small USB stick in his pocket to the tax haven on some small island, where the money is downloaded onto a tax-haven bank computer and kept secret.
How many private jets have been the carriers of public money to these tax-havens?

The financial programs that have been created and used to take investor money have stolen hundreds of billions of dollars and kept in a tax haven. Maybe some World leaders are in on the secret, and know where the locations are. Various investigations point towards 50 such locations around the World which are considered to be tax-havens, and some of our World leaders have vowed to close the tax havens down and retrieve the money, yet how can we trust that the money will actually be retrieved? Will we see a list of the countries which hold the money, and a list of the money actually retrieved?

Having said this, how can we stop the creation of tax-havens? It is as simple as transferring money from harddrive to USB stick and then downloading it onto another bank computer in a new location, in a new bank or isolated country or island. It is important that people realize just what has been done with our money. The money hidden could be used to fund wars, create new investments, new industry in countries,be given to dictators in exchange for oil contracts, where profits made are not monitored, and then transported back to the new tax-haven. If we actually do retrieve most of the money it could be used to combat famine,disease and improve lives in the Third World and developing nations. It could be used to build flood defenses across the World, to stop flooding in villages, towns and cities-saving lives, farmland and livestock.

Don”t let that spoil your t.v. dinner though.
It’’s not like I want you to have an attack of conscience…

Part E:- Mind-Controlled Masses, Television and Music…
People need to be educated, and not overly-consume drugs, alcohol or indulge in too much television. You can”t learn much from Rambo and other violent movies, you can”t learn much from cartoons or soapies which all promote violence, or from violent computer games. They may be entertaining, or stimulating, but those sources of entertainment simply train our brains to become comfortable with violence, and when you turn on the evening news to enjoy your t.v. dinner, you are unaware of the pain and suffering that people feel in parts of the World who are bombed in their villages and homes by our ”powerful” leaders.
What kind of power is that which our leaders use? It’’s called conditioning the mind to ignore the impact of reality, and to simply make us ignore the human impact- so that we switch over to the movie channel and watch mindless Rambo violence.

How many of you watch the news and see people blown to bits and say- ”That’’s awful, it’’s making me sick…” and then you turn it over to Rambo which you actually sit and enjoy, because it has a backing sound-track of bravado-style music where Rambo the hero rushes in, blows up a whole village of enemies and saves the future of a country??? So many people only enjoy their violent programmes, and some just love their intricate science fiction or comedies- watching them over and over until the videotape wears out- putting their minds in a ”GroundHog Day” trance?

Music in programming is also able to put you in a trance. Positive-sounding happy music in a violent film tricks the brain. It makes you feel good when you”re actually seeing something extremely horrible. That’’s mind control for you. It’’s brain manipulation, to condition you to absorb information through the television and to not think , but to sit, braindead and observing images which are synchronised with the noises, sound effects and the music. At the end of it you might feel fatigued because your brain has struggled to process a lot of images and noises, which are generally nonsensical and non-educational. You can learn a lot by switching your idiot-box off (the television)- and turning to the internet. Use the net to research topics that you are interested in- not just videos or music.

Type something into the Google search engine, look up trans-human cyborg technology, and most of what you are reading here will make perfect sense.

Part F:- Nano-Chipped Brains Make Good Spies…
The human brain can be manipulated in so many ways, and in the future it may be possible to simulate the human brain using a computer, which could mimick thoughts, emotion, dreams and actions. What if we actually exist in a computer world? What if the future has already arrived, and people are human-cyborgs? It could be possible…Many people already believe that a human being could be ”manufactured” by cloning to make a person 100 percent perfect and identical, like the cloning experiment of ”Molly the sheep”, but in reality the person could have been cloned to create body doubles in the World -decades,centuries or millenia ago, in laboratories which exist either in outer space or in laboratories deep underground… Just how useful would cloning a human be?

The usefulness of a body double in the World of spies and Government agencies would be a tremendous advantage to those who could, for example, create a perfect cloned politician from DNA , and then ”grown” in a laboratory, just as ”Molly the sheep” was cloned. What if the DNA of a famous politician was taken a long time ago, along with many millions of volunteers, and used to recreate a World that we now live in? We accept everything we hear on documentaries about how long humans have been on Earth, the creation of technologies in the 20th Century, but how long ago could our human race have actually been recreated?
Perhaps millions of years ago humans existed, but in a different technologically inferior period of existance. We may not have realized what our industries were doing to the planet, and how population rise would overcome the ability to provide basic needs like food, water, oil,housing and medicines…
If humans were cloned at that point, millions of years ago, then we could be living in a computer- generated simulation of that period. Everything that occured,as logged in history books could have been recreated to generate a cloned planet of an existance long ago, one that was carefully watched over by scientists at the time, and re-invented to become what it is today- a repeating program which is actually flawed with war, famine,disease and oppression.

In a World of spies and espionage, it is possible that a very long time ago a spy could be made from a very famous person or a World leader, like a politician- who was cloned from the original human existance before disaster or war killed humanity, and brought up by such scientists, to be ”programmed” or simply put, taught to be a spy against other nations, or their own- and had an atomic-sized nano computer chip inside their brain. Perhaps the brain itself is a genetically altered super-brain, capable of storing massive amounts of information and when fused with a nano-chip could tap into the part of the brain which controls eyesight and hearing. The chip may be able to record information which the chipped clone sees and hears, and later removed to be downloaded onto a computer for scanning. Perhaps the chip itself is the brain- a massive organic network of cell processors, able to store information like a normal computer harddrive. The cell processor by Japanese makers Sony use a small one in their Playstation 3 box. The brain itself is so many times the size of the small chip, and stores memories.

One example is the ordinary cockroach. Recently scientists found that they could insert a nano chip inside a baby cockroach which was used to control the cockroach movement, and the suggestion was that Governments could use the insect as a spy device with future nano-technology and transmitter inside. As the cockroach developed into a full adult cockroach, the computer chip would be surrounded by the insect’’s body tissue, so the cockroach would not reject the computer chip control device. In theory you could insert a computer chip into a baby human brain, and as the baby grew up, the computer chip would not be rejected by the human body. It is possible therefore that the science has been perfected and humans are not all 100% human. Some may be manufactured by
using DNA of kidnapped or dissident human beings, such as protestors. Government-spy agencies with advanced technology could already be using organic cell processors which are inserted into the cloned baby’’s brain and grown into Government spies, recording information via the chip through the eyes and ears.

It may be possible to make full size adults in a laboratory by recreating the human body limb by limb and vessel by vessel, although it may sound too difficult to achieve, unless a method of fast-growing chemicals are given to a baby to make the human grow into an adult within months or a couple of years. We can already create miniature crops ,so in theory some kind of ”growth-hormone-chemical-engineering-method” could be used to force the growth of a baby into an adult much quicker than by natural growth.

One scenario where a cloned-fast-grown-adult-human could be used would be for spy agencies, who could obtain DNA from blood tests from hospitals and clinics. Some countries may have already done this. In a fantasy situation for example, a politician could be created from DNA samples, which could then be altered to fast-grow a clone, with a computer chip inserted into the human brain. This is where it could get very technical. In reality,our lives are documented on computers,and the information we provide makes up a story of our lives. Every photo we have, every holiday snap, every doctor visit, our education, credit card purchases and internet web search can be documented, and used to program a clone to learn every aspect of anybody” person’’s life, assuming there is enough information to do so. The clone could then be used to spy on their collegues, with the information being uploaded to a computer and transmitted to a super-computer spy agency.

Our own thoughts though are private, as humans- they only get documented if you write them on the internet or send them to a newspaper or magazine…or if you write an autobiography…all the information you provide could help to program a clone. If you can imagine collecting millions of DNA samples from around the World, the you could recreate cloned beings in the future. Perhaps we exist in this simulated/created World, which is re-initiated from blood samples by scientists later in the future when humanity is destroyed for whatever reason, and all the scientists have to do is recreate important famous people in each country around the World, programming them to be much wiser than the majority of surviving humans after the modern World comes to an end. Then the natural circle of life happens, and the history just simply repeats itself. But this seems to be to improbable. How can life repeat itself naturally, without direct intervention from scientists? Anything could go wrong, any one person accidently killed or dies of disease and the whole experiment could go wrong. That is why it makes more sense to realize that we are cybernetic beings- living organisms which see and hear things because we are electronically programmed and controlled in so many ways to see and listen. Some people are relatively dosile and do not think past the storyline of an action movie, yet some are great thinkers and invent things,just as our modern world has been created by technologically advanced humans or other beings. If our brains can be programmed to make us physically do things then we have little control over our thoughts, as they could be ”wired” to us continuously from supercomputers-each of us having our own supercomputer or hardrive sending us our thoughts and controlling our day-to-day movements. Our reactions,sense of humour and awareness,feelings and emotions might all be be really have control over.

Part G:- Back To The Future
Remember what I said about this existance being a replicated scientific clone of an existance a long time ago? Perhaps not so long ago, about a hundred thousands years ago it is possible that a clone of a politician could have been fast-grown from DNA from blood samples, and could have been chipped and then replace the original politician. How would they do that? Body guards of a politician are also blood tested for illness, disease,drugs and viruses. In theory, a rogue Government could have obtained millions of DNA samples of people, including Government body guards DNA , especially current politicians and body guards, who would have given blood samples to doctors many years or even decades ago. The DNA samples could have then been stolen or bought for the right price by an enemy Government agency and taken back to their country to be cloned. Then using the documented history of the politician or body guard, a clone could easily be brought up from computer files kept from another life, and educated, learning about their original clone’’s life. As the Government-spy-clone grows up, he or she learnss to be a Government spy, working for the benefit of their country’’s leadership. This would be possible, especially if the Government-spy-clones are kept in underground facilities, and grown quickly using fast-growth-hormone-therapy, and learn everything possible about the person they are cloned from, as much of who we are is documented on computers.

This could get very dangerous in the future, because if spies have already been created, then a Government-cloned spy could infilitrate top secret facilites using thumb-prints and iris scanners and voice detectors which would recognize the person as the real original human, unable to detect a perfect clone.

Part H:- Obamatron, The Cloned Political Spy…
Try to imagine a scenario, using the information I have supplied, where a politician is kidnapped and replaced with a clone. The body guards would also have to be kidnapped and cloned. So by using DNA samples and the fast-growth-method, cloning could have been done years before the politician is kidnapped.
Let’’s say for example that President Barack Obama was kidnapped on a visit to China or Japan, and his clone had already been ”fast-grown” in advance. Obama’’s clone and body guards could also be kidnapped, replaced during a private Government-Head meeting, and returned to America to spy on day to day activities of the WhiteHouse, Pentagon or any aspect of political life where information would be recorded and transmitted to satellites via the eyes and ears and a tansmitting chip in the brain or body. Politicians are chipped anyway, in case of kidnap, so the chip would only have to be altered to become a transmitting chip and then inserted into the same position in the clone. That way if the Obama clone which returned to America was checked over by the doctor, nobody would be able to tell the difference. Sorry for stealing President Obama for an example, but it’’s an indication of the type of technology that is probably available, and the DNA cloning and spy-scenario.

This may all sound like science fiction, but it could have already been done, and not just to a famous person, but the method, as I have said could be used to create fast-grown-spy-human-cyborg-hybrids, capable of recording and transmitting everything to a supercomputer.

Here is where the possible scientific application could be developed furthur, and I will have to elaborate to furthur explain how we might all be hybrids. When you were born, your DNA could have easily been taken, and nano-bot chips inserted into your blood which lodge in your brain. Or the chip may have recently been implanted in your blood when you had your flu jabs or tetnus shot
when a dog bit you, or when you went overseas and got a multi-jab to safe-guard you from tropical diseases and influenza. The nano-bot could contain a code unique to every person who recieves them- you could then be be tracked
by radar capability if the nano-bots were transmitters, or you could be traced using scanning equipment.

Virtually every person has had an injection from the doctor, and you cannot see nano-bots with the naked eye. If you believe this is possible, then how about a specialliy created world, where we are all hybrid-computer-chipped, and unable to know that we are recording and transmitting simultaneously everything we see and hear to a supercomputer.

Part I:- Are Dreams Just Dreams? ( The Second Earth )
Each culture has different DNA and history, so everything we have experienced in our different countries are unique to our lives, and documented. Africans are clones of themselves, Europeans are clones of themselves, Aboriginies are clones of themselves, Asians are clones of themselves. All cultures are clones in my theory, and in each race, every person is similar in some way to the next. We may all be human, with independent thoughts,feelings,hobbies, skills, talents,interests and habits- but what about our dreams?? Are our dreams just the brain going batty from all the information we see and hear every day, or are dreams another reality we see when we sleep, because when our brain sleeps the body has no use but to function on natural instinct, which is a slowed
breathing, low oxygen and relaxed muscles. Perhaps when we sleep our other cloned self is awakened on a planet which has been terraformed and created identically to our own, and we only get to see programmed images which the clone is activated or programmed to percieve as real ???

Have you ever had a dream which was so real that you can feel things, like the feel of the ground you walk on in your dream, or gravity such as flying in an aircraft, or falling, or touching something? Some people can actually remember dreams where you can feel solid objects and people. Perhaps it wasn”t a dream, but your clone actually interacts with solid objects, yet unaware of being in a ”dream”. Perhaps your clone is in a simulator, which sees digitally enhanced objects,images and scenarios. Sometimes a dream could be fictional- if your cloned brain can be programmed to see movie-like scenarios such as when you suddenly start flying or floating in a dream. Perhaps when you fall in a dream, your clone is actually falling in reality- on another planet, or perhaps it’’s just a dream- made up in a simulator, digitally enhanced, like a widescreen 3D effect cinema where you see a 3D movie of a roller-coaster ride and your brain believes you are actually on the roller-coaster, feeling the drops and loops as if you were actually there, but without the physical movements like gravity.

When you are asleep you cannot be sure that you are still being programmed via your brain, which recieves signals from a supercomputer and plays your sleeping program- while your clone, which is in fact a real human on another planet, or maybe a clone in a simulator sees a three dimensional digitally-created world or yet another program. When you wake up the program is terminated and your original body activates your human brain, and the main program is restarted- and you find yourself back to Earth, which all of us can tell is real by choosing what we want to eat, drink, wear, smoke, activites like walking. The natural life, the typical 16 to 18 hour day is obviously the main program.

So how can we tell if the living body and soul is mortal or immortal, because in theory, if we can recreate a clone on another planet Earth somewhere in the galaxy- then if one body dies, another can awaken in an identical World where we contnue life from the day before we died. Perhaps on another Earth we can be manufactured and kept in stasis,or in a comatose-state, ready to replace our other body if something should happen to the first body. If we can fast-grow bodies, then we could be replaced very easily, and quickly programmed to believe that we are still the same beings we were from childhood to adulthood, unaware of anything different, because our minds were taught and programmed in schools, by violent history lessons which are all documentented and unchangable, movies on television, our computer games, our separate lives and families and whatever makes us individually different. Perhaps there are multiple Worlds, each with a similar body double, each clones of ourselves.

Maybe by cloning ourselves and the creation of multiple Worlds that immortatility has already been achieved, yet it is not all fantastic and great. This world in which we live has human flaws like greed, war, disease, poverty,famine and natural disasters. We can stop poverty and war, disease and famine. Natural disasters may not be able to control as the planet. Earth is too vast to fully control – for example, we cannot control the tides, earthquakes, moving of earth plates, volcanic activity and winds or rain. We may be able to trigger such events, but to control the exact amount of
rainfall or wind in any part of the world would be impossible. It would also be impossible to control the movement of the Earth’’s crust, faults and tectonic plates to the nearest millimetre. That’’s the force of nature, and a powerful
force it is. Perhaps our Earth, as large as it appears to us as people is in fact the size of a basketball to a giant race of beings, and we are only small creatures living on it. Are we living in a nano-Earth, as nano-beings and created multiple times over by giant beings???

Part J:- Hack A Cash Machine…
Why can”t we print or steal loads of money , and hide it in a location so we can wake up in our cloned bodies and uncover it. If my theory is correct, any money you stash won”t exist on the other planet Earth (if there is one).
If we could do that then we could simply hack banks and set the bank computer clock backwards- so that (for example) if you took 1000 dollars out of a cash machine on the 1st January 2010, then by hacking a bank computer to go back to the December 31st 2009 your money would still be available to you.

Part K:- Burn Your Damned Credit Cards…
Not much more can be said on this technological World we live in, except that it is amazing and often entertainng- yet very flawed. What if we all burned our money in this world and any other mulitple Worlds,and able to burn or destroy money in our dreams? Everything would go completely wrong because our reality revolves around paper and coins and credit cards. The real money exists on computers, in bank accounts and in tax havens wher nobody can find it. 90 percent of money exists only in computers- the ten percent left is what we use for day-to-day life.

But in reality people could put the planet in chaos in a big way and break the power of banks and fiancial institutions. We would have to destroy all of our credit cards and money by burning it all. Either way, if there is no second world, if we burnt all our credit cards then the investment banks and public banks would have to give money out to people for them to survive. That way the credit card will become obsolete, and you”ll realize how much your life revolved around computer-credit. Only the credit card companies really benefit from you using it in the end.

Part L:- Because Credit Is Only Making Someone Else Rich…
If enough people at least burnt their credit cards and stopped investing in shares, then credit will no longer be used, and the big investment corporations and banks will not have the billions to play with, to profit from and steal.People who do shares give money away to people who in the past have stolen it and put it in a tax-haven account , away from the country, like squirrels storing nuts for the Winter. If we give them money through investments and through credit cards, then chances are that those squirrels will pinch all the nuts again.

Can we actually dispose of our credit cards to change our lives forever? The game that banks play with credit is a nasty one. Where did all the trillions
of dollars go- the money that was ”lost” during the economic crash? I”m talking about the money which was taken from taxpayers to ”bail-out” banks and large investment groups, and the money that was hidden in tax-havens.
I believe that some evil forces who love their money and credit have switched accounts over to new tax-havens, and are doing with you and your income what they have ben doing in the past… Perhaps they wire the money to another planet in the solar system- who knows??

We have to let go of credit cards for a start, to be able to understand what the investment groups have done to our world- because as far as I have learnt about economics, the money has been taken to make rich people even richer- we have bailed out banks and corporations by giving them hundreds of billions of taxpayers money, large bonuses and salaries, while we the mainstream public are only given a fraction of that in wages, and always have been. Who is Ben Bernanke? A man with an eye on the future, plans up his sleeve, money to play with, strings to pull and wool to pull over our eyes…He appeared to be worried when asked ”who did he give the trillions of dollars to” at a Senate hearing, as you can see for yourself in the movie ”The Fall of The Republic” by Alex Jones.

Did Ben Bernanke Wire Money To Another World? Maybe money was wired via satelitte to another World, one being created just like this one, where the rich get richer, the poor suffer from bankrupcy, poverty, famine, disease and war- just like on this one. Is our World a clone of another, just as bad as this one? It seems that whoever programmed this planet is evil, corrupt and doesn’t care about the famines, diseases and wars in other countries.

Do the same rich and elite control multiple World’s, many interstellar populations and the simulated programs which are our lives? How can we stop this endless cycle of corruption from plaguing our existance? Do we have to burn our credit cards and money to prevent the same happening to us in another life…???  Do we have to abandon money altogether,and help the poor by our humanity, sharing and genorosity?  Do we have to get a civilian force to seize control of the banks and investment groups, to channel the money to charity and welfare organisations, so that hospitals, schools, shelters can be built , so that food and clothing can be built and given to the needy? If we don’t do it, then the banks and the rich will continue to play computer games with our money, shuffling it around the world like a pack of cards, picking the winning cards out for themselves.

The game of money has gone on for too long, and now is the time to take back the cash, pay for the infrastructure which poor countries need. We can get the rich to pay for food and shelter, build schools and universtities to educate the third world the very basics of creating infrastructure to survive. And we can build medical centres for those nations which desperately need them- if we can just lock-up the mega-rich until the job is done…

Believe only half of what you hear and half of what you see. This reality we exist in is not a good one, it is unfair, unjust, greedy, full of war and hate, full of famine and disease which all can be fixed so easily if we can just take back control of our World from those who seek to make profit out of it,  from those who profit out of the good,honest hard workers and families, and who run off into the sunset with our cash to dream their corrupt dream into a reality that has become our living nightmare.

Part M:- A New World Order- Or The Same Old Oppressed World?
The New World Order is not a new thing when the rich and greedy rich are able to manipulate our minds to make us buy their expensive products, to take our cash and then build for themselves their empire of corruption and wars, which only kill and maim innocent people while industry and corporations make billions from the war machines, and factories manufacture rubbish for us to waste our money on- just to let them all take the profit and hide it while economies crash and poverty sets in, famine spreads and diseases kill millions every year?

When will we be able to stop them from messing with our minds and taking our cash , as they have done to us, time and time before? Time is running out, we have to beat them at their game before they beat us for our money. No longer should the weak fall while the rich prosper.  In religious terms, God condemns and judges those who do evil .Those who take all the profit for themselves and leaves the poor to die in poverty must be either stupid or evil. Apparantly God wins over the evil which has destroyed so many lives, and those people hurt by the money game need to be saved. The corporations and mortgage companies took people’s homes, and sold our resources and industry down the line.  Yesterday there were many who had families, a home and a place to call their own-
today they live in trailer parks in tents, and their homes have been resold in multi-million dollar packages to foreign countries.  America has fallen victim to the money game, Britain has too- and soon nation by nation the average wage earner will suffer the most, not because they have done anything wrong, but because they were easy prey for the creditors and the players in the money making game…

Credit killed humanity, credit starved the poor, credit is the new eugenics experiment. Taxes are just another way of making us poorer- the new climate tax will only make us poorer…how many more taxes are their up the leadership sleeve? Nobody is to blame for wanting a normal life, for wanting a family or home of their own. Nobody deserves to have it all taken away by greed, as investments are moved to other countries, leaving behind those who were always targets for corruption and greed for easy profits in the first place. Will the investment groups do this country by country?  They already have, and it might be happening again in the future, on another world.  Let’s save humanity and ditch the rich. God wants us to to. We know we must. We must seize the day and make the rich pay…

Part N:- Crash Their Goddamned Monetary System…
By removing our money from banks, and ceasing our use of credit cards and stopping public money being put into investments we can crash their electronic computer banking system of corruption and greed and not give them our money.
We then demand that the rich use a great chunk of their money, and money left in banks and financial groups to create infrastructure in third world countries and in other countries where the poor and needy require the infrastructure, such as water wells, medical centres, farming equipment, cheaply-built accomodation for the homeless.

That way we can eradicate starvation and disease in those countries where it exists.  Until the infrastructure is delivered to those countries which need help, we should refuse to bank our money and refuse to use credit. It is the only way to break the system- their computerized monetary system of oppression that only really makes the rich even richer. We have to do it for the good of humanity, those who need our help, or our lives will be only to abide by the corrupt electronic banking system, and we will have missed the chance to do use our ‘wealth’ to make lives better for those who need us and who cannot do this for themselves. Perhaps our souls depend on it too…
Buy with cash. Forget the credit card exists.

We do exist in this cloned, simulated, specially controlled and computer-created world. The computer needs shutting down and rebooting, with a new program, one without the evil money which keeps people in poverty,famine,disease and war. After all, we have really no need for those plastic cards. Humans existed for a long time before the credit card invention of the 1960’s. We can exist without them again. Power to the People is when you abandon their mainframe infrastructure, the main program. They just want you to trapped in it- like Tron was stuck in a computer game. Like an Obamatron stuck in a World where his own Government are trying to bring him down- you as an individual are brought down to the level of slave-your mind and body trapped by technology and modern routines, trapped by those who know how to control others to benefit themselves. In a World where there is plenty, the few get the most and the majority get much less or very little. Why should there be homeless people when our Governments can build cheap, affordable housing for families? The truth is, that Government are also trapped by a system, one where they are slaves to those in the highest position of power- those who control the flow of the money- the banksters and share-market traders, the financial institutions and the investment groups.They have 90 percent of all World money in their computers, not in cash. Electronic money exists only in a computer program, in lots of computers and programs across the World.

Our lives are at the mercy of computers, which can be re-programmed an altered in any way. Who controls us, the programs and the reality we cling to?

Top 10 Green Cell Phones of 2009

Posted by admin in Articles on Jul 4th, 2010 | 0 comments

The green cell phones and concept phones of 2009 represent a truly unique convergence of technology and innovative ideas. In compiling this list we were looking for cutting-edge renewable power sources, use of recycled or easily-recyclable materials, zero toxic substances, and enhanced capabilities. We’ve also included the use of recycled and minimized packaging and thinner user manuals (for the actual phones) in our criteria.

Here are what’s available and what’s possible in 2009. Enjoy.

Samsung’s Blue Earth

Samsung’s innovative Blue Earth phone is the first solar powered full-touch phone. Engineered to resemble a a flat and well rounded shiny pebble, Blue Earth is made of PCM recycled plastic and is free from toxic materials like BFR and phthalate. It boasts of energy-efficient user interface and charger and has a built-in pedometer that can indicate the amount of CO2 emissions the user has reduced by walking.

Magic Stone

The Magic Stone is still on paper but it promises to be a most fascinating piece of technology ever invented. For one, users can specify their preferred shape of the device when they order the phones online. Powered by electromagnetic charge emitted from remote transmitters, Magic Stone will never need recharging. As backup, it is coated with nano-material capable of converting sunlight into energy. It boasts of a touch screen interface and built-in holographic projector.

LG Pop Cell Phone

Back in October, LG introduced the GD510 or POP, a cell phone that comes with an optional battery cover that is also a solar cell, allowing users to charge the battery with sunlight. You can have 2.25 minutes of talk time or 180 minutes of standby by charging your phone for 10 minutes under the sun. The Pop is crafted from brushed aluminum which gives it a high-end look, has no toxic materials like BFR and PVC, and comes in recycled packaging.

Mobile Script

The concept Mobile Script phone is definitely one of the best concept devices this year. Featuring dual touch screen displays, it boasts of a flexible and retractable OLED display that can become rigid when charged allowing the user maximum viewing space when needed. For power, it comes coated with photo sensitive coating using nano technology to harness solar energy.

Sony Ericsson Elm and Hazel

The Elm and Hazel Phones are the latest offering by Sony Ericsson in its GreenHeart portfolio. Compared to the other concept phones featured here, these have humbler eco-friendly credentials but I’m including them here because they’re real phones available for purchase and because they’re made from recycled plastic. The Elm and Hazel boasts of a highly efficient battery system, zero hazardous chemicals, and minimized packaging.

Zeri Concept Phone

My persona on Ikariam is Kwisatz Haderach (from Frank Herbert’s Dune sci-fi books), so the Zeri green concept phone which features a top end that looks like the mouth of a worm of Arrakis is something special for me. This concept phone runs on a unique and original power source. The worm-like mouth is in fact, a mesh of knitted metal wires that detect and transform changes in temperature into energy while it is in your pocket. It can also convert air vibrations into usable power through hair-thin generators on piezoelectric system.

Xperia X001 Concept Phone

Created by Jozef Kocur, the X001 is the latest Xperia concept cell phone. This smartphone approaches the question of green power in a, well, smart way. Created from a solid piece of aluminum, this sleek eco-friendly phone combines the power of a solar cell and a methanol battery. The methanol case is transparent and provides a unique appearance to the front of the X001, while the solar panel can be seen at the back side.

Sticky Phone

Created by designer Liu Hsiang-Ling, the Sticky Phone concept is based on the idea that many users habitually place their phones near a window for optimum signal reception. This eco-friendly phone of the future has an arched back and is molded on polysiloxane (silicone). It can be attached to your glass panes where it can absorb solar energy via a solar panel at the back of the phone.

Touchwood Phone

The Touchwood is still in prototype stage and is made with the surplus wood of trees culled during thinning operations to maintain healthy forests. It boasts of an authentic cypress wood body, and developed by ITT Docomo of Japan in collaboration with Sharp Corporation, Olympus Corporation, and More Trees, a reforestation project founded by musician Ryuichi Sakamoto and others.

Magnet Phone

Designed by Tryi Yeh, the Magnet Phone concept is solar-powered – enabling the user to recharge the cell phone anytime, anywhere with renewable energy from the sun. Sporting a light OLED panel, the nifty device comes with a large solar panel cell and can be customized to suit the user’s tastes. You can listen to your favorite music tracks, watch videos, and play games on the Magnet Phone without worrying much about charging this eco-friendly device.

A General Look at Alchemy Part 3

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The Philosopher’s Stone

The Philosopher’s Stone is a catalyst that transmutes an object to its highest expression. With the application of the Stone, for instance, base metals are transformed into gold; men are changed into gods. The stone is a prime requisite in Alchemy and Hermeticism, without it the state of regeneration and resurrection are not attained.

Legends of mystical stones are to be found in various cultures; for instance, taoists refer their stone as the “Stone of Wisdom.” The Burmese called theirs “the Stone of Live Metal.”Muslims venerate a stone that lies reposed in the kaaba. This stone is said to be a fragment of a meteorite. It is traditionally believed to be white in hue but because of the sins of men, it turned black. There is a stone called “Cintamani” said to be a state jewel of the mystical and mythical city of Shamballa. Shamballa is believed to exist in the etheric plane above the Gobi desert. Esoterically speaking, “Cintamani,” or the “love-jewel,” represents the perfect expression of the anahata, or heart chakra, the enlightened mind, or bodicitta. When a seeker is told to acquire Cintamani, the unfoldment of the heart chakra is meant. This has its parallel with the Grail Quest in that, microcosmically speaking, a spiritual principle within man is the object of the search. This is further supported by the tradition that King Solomon’s temple was built without the sound of tools. A certain stone called “shamir” was used to fashion the Temple. Esoterists know that the Temple refers to the causal body, the vessel clothing the Monad, the Spirit of Man. The Temple, or the causal body is built with the shimmering stone of virtues, good works, and an enlightened mind. These are nourishment that beautifies the Temple.

Perfect Love is truly a catalyst. Its power transforms human expression into that of the divine. Love is an aspect of the buddhic component within man; alchemically speaking, it is described as the gluten of the White Eagle.

From the above it can be gathered that the Philosopher’s Stone is no stone in an ordinary sense. This is stressed repeatedly by alchemists in their writings. They declare that the Stone is made out of the First Matter, and is composite of the four elements. The Stone is believed to be hidden within man. Powers of the Godhead are ascribed to this fabulous Stone. Its appearance, so say the alchemists, is unsightly to look at, is to be found in filth, and is valueless to the majority of men. Since there are various categories of alchemy, it is probable that the Stone differs at each alchemical level, taking on a different characteristic and nature.

Aside from Love, other aspects of God, of Omneity, can be said to be the Stone, such as Supreme Reason, Wisdom, Power and Light. These qualities all have the ability to purify and illumine body, mind, and soul. To acquire the Stone is to discover Truth, Reality, and the Absolute, the “fixed,” the non-aggregate–and this is the Magnum Opus–to experience and to know Reality veiled by the “adversary,” “deceiver,” “opposer,” or “maya.” It is the sublimest work any person can do.It fulfills the old adage: “Man, know thyself.” The Stone derives its power from the highest aspect of man, from his divine Self which is essentially a spark of God.

Christ is sometimes described as a stone–a corner stone that is also at the same time its peak–which architecturally, describes a pyramidal structure; in the above sense, Christ, Light, Life, and Love are synonymous, for they all partake the nature of the Stone; they all have the capacity to transmute man’s being. Christ Consciousness is the Stone that transmutes man holistically.

The heart of the crown chakra, and the heart chakra anchored to the thymus gland, are sites where the stone unfolds its power. Within the crown, the sahasrara chakra, the Christ Stone magnetizes the head centers and crystallizes in the brain ventricles, resulting in the manifestation of hormones and nectars of a spiritual quality that flows into the blood stream and raising the vibratory rate of the body’s atomic-structure. This transformed blood is the saving blood of Christ.

There is a divine flame of life, anchored in the heart. When nourished by the mystic Stone, by the Love–Life–Light principle, it radiates energy and magnetism to the surrounding area–to the thymus gland, to the pericardiac sac and fluid, and to the heart itself. It regenerates the blood cells as the blood stream circulates through the heart and lungs resulting in youth, vitality and radiant health. Hindu yogis declare that those who do not love, grow old quickly. In the light of the above, the “how” and “why” are easily discerned.

There are occultists who believe that the Philosopher’s Stone represents a certain gnosis transmitted to worthy aspirants by Adepts of the Art. This Stone, then, concerns doctrines of mystical/occult principles that allows one to attain perfection in a single life time. Initiation and ritual play a vital role in this transmission. By applying esoteric principles, the aspirant is transformed into a master soul. An Adept is in a sense the Philosopher’s Stone, for his very presence transmutes all who are fortunate enough to come into contact with him.

The First Matter

Nothing comes from nothing, therefore, matter and life must have had a source. The Absolute is that source; it is the Supreme Reality, and it is constantly emanating and absorbing back into Itself the energies and intelligences that manifest universes into existence. Out of the Absolute, there is an effluence of Prakriti and Purusha–Cosmic Root Substance and Cosmic Mind-Consciousness-Intelligence. These two principles are personified by Shiva and Shakti.

Cosmic Root Substance is the Prima Materia, the First Matter, or “Chaos,” from which all elements and substance proceed. It is spirit energy unstructured as yet into particles of matter by the Cosmic Mind. Hindu mystics sometimes call First Matter “Akasha,” meaning “Space.”

Cosmic Mind creates by presenting a form, a thought-form, a blue-print of the intended manifestation, and coalescing around it the required substance from Prima Materia. First, the fluidic energies are concentrated into electrons, protons, and other subatomic particles; they are later combined to form an atom, which possesses the germ of “the Seed,” the atomic number and structure of the blue-print and thoughtform of what it will eventually become. Atoms are then grouped to molecules which are later formed into a mass cognizable by the senses. The substance then fills the form-image, the “husk” of the Seed.

The mind of Man, being part of the Cosmic Mind, has the potential of creating in a similar manner as the Supreme Creator. Only when Man truly reflects the image of his creator will he be given authority to do so.

Alchemists declare that the First Matter is to be found within Man. Actually, our whole universe is permeated with it. It is everywhere present but no where manifested until magnetized by the Mind.

Differentiation between Matter and Consciousness is solely an illusion existing at the surface of Reality. The Many in its relative existence can be reduced to one–the Absolute, the Supreme Being. Qabalistically speaking, The fruits of the Tree of Life are absorbed into Ain Sof and Ain Sof Aur; these are reduced in their essence to Ain, the One, the All, the Unknowable.

The Seed

In a figurative sense, the alchemical seed, just like an ordinary seed, possesses both germ and husk–the male and female qualities. As applied to alchemy, the germ is the atomic number and the “DNA” of the substance, while the husk is the form that the substance would fill. Thoughtforms are seeds. They are blue-prints that manifest in the physical plane when magnetized and substantialized with the First Matter.

Alchemical Seeds are archetypes–the essences or germs of manifestations, and that which is in the process of being manifested. Everything has a seed, a conception of what a thing is destined to be. Mind, the Director, the Philosopher’s Stone, nourishes Seeds with Prima Materia.

The following are the probable steps used by medieval alchemists for a transmutation on the physical level: first, the base metal is molten down–the heat of the flame has a transforming effect on the molecular level. Secondly, at a certain point of the operation, the mind of man comes into play, controlling and directing at atomic and subatomic levels–changing the vibratory rate, the atomic number and structure into gold. It is said that to make gold we must have gold. This does not refer to the adding to base metals a piece of gold. This seed of gold, is a seed in the form of an electronic pattern or blueprint of gold held in one’s higher consciousness. The mind must be in a gold-consciousness state.

On a transcendental level, to transmute oneself into a god, one would require a god-pattern, a god-ideal visualized and meditated upon. Once the picture is perfected one assumes or identifies oneself with it, keeping it constantly in mind even after the meditation session. This would result in an increased vibratory rate of the various principles composing Man. Technically, the mind of Man synchornizes with the god-archetype, and by magnetic induction, is transformed into the god. Visualization, or mental imaging, is the method used with which the archetype is established. Precipitation may occur instantly, as in a paranormal manifestation, or after a lapse of time depending on the nature and magnitude of the archetype.

The processes described above appear to be one of the great Hermetic secrets of the Egyptian Mysteries. The methods correspond with the practices of Vajrayana in Tibetan Buddhism, as for instance, the discipline of the “divine pride” of being a Buddha.

Ethically speaking, before man attempts to put the forces of nature into action, it is expedient that he contemplates as to the worthiness of his designs. If his designs do not fit nor fulfill divine requirements, then bringing them into manifestation would simply be a violation of Cosmic law, and consequently, may be regarded as an operation of black magick. According to Martinism, it is this very violation of the Law that brought about “the Fall” of Adam Kadmon.

Mercury-Sulphur-Salt

According to alchemists, Mercury, Salt and Sulphur are the three-fold aspects of all phenomena–to be found in all compounds of a mineral or organic nature. It is postulated that by differing the proportions of each aspect in a compound, would cause a transmutation to occur. Mercury, as well as Salt and Sulphur, are not the common vulgar materials so used to effect a transmutation. This is made clear by exponents of the Royal Art.

Esoterically, Mercury represents Spirit, Salt–Body; and Sulphur–Soul. Every phenomenon and object in Nature is believed to possess these three attributes. It is thought that by separating each aspect of an aggregate substance, purifying, and then recombining them, the result would be a total refinement of the object.

Philosophically speaking, Mercury is the Mind; Salt–Will and Wisdom; Sulphur–Love. The three are components or principles of the Philosopher’s Stone, and they work potently to transmute any base metal or character into golden perfection. Without these principles, the coveted Stone is ineffectual in its capacity to change vibratory rates.

Sulphur moulds a person into a balanced individual, with the desire and motive to act creatively; Salt actually bestows the individual with the will and power to act; while Mercury, the intellectual principle, is the coordinating factor of both Sulphur and Salt. Mercury, Sulphur, and Salt together with the mysterious Azoth, the Divine Fire, or “Scamayim,” are the attributes of the Stone, and they work wonders when applied knowledgeably. These triune principles and Azoth correspond to the Christian Trinity and teh feminine principle personified by Mary. Azoth is the Shakti aspect of the triune godhead.

The Seven Metals

Metals in the world of alchemy and esotericism, in general, represents various conditions and principles to be found in Man and Nature. For instance, metals may represent the seven components or bodies making-up the being called “Man”; the seven exoteric rays from the Great Central Sun; and the seven major chakras within the subtle body. The seven metals also correspond to the seven angels presiding over the rays; to the seven archangels, the seven Chohans, the seven pairs of Elohims, etc.

Symbolically, the seven metals represent the seven planets known to the ancients–counting also the sun and moon, which are not planets proper, but a solar body and a satellite. The correspondences are as follows: gold-Sun, silver-Moon, lead-Saturn, mercury-Mercury, tin-Jupiter, iron-Mars, and copper-Venus.

The true subject of alchemy is Man–Man is the object of the transmutation. The alchemist is at once the subject and the object, the operator and that which is operated upon. Metals are associated with elements of Man’s character. Pure gold is the character of a “perfect” person–it is the manifestation of that perfection already inherent within man’s highest principle.

Within the etheric body, the chakras are the microcosmic planets. In Gichtel’s “Theosophia Practica,” a diagram is shown of a human being with the position of the orbs placed in the body. This indubitably reveals the fact that the chakras were known by Occidental mystics in the past centuries and played an important role in their spiritual tradition. The seven seals in Revelation is indeed another “revelation” of this fact.

Compassion is one of the Ego’s highest feelings for other life-units who are struggling in the business of living. The sense of unity with all life around is an indication of one’s growing realization of God. Being “my brother’s keeper” is no longer a burden to such a person advancing in the spiritual path; it is a dharma or duty that one feels a privilege in obeying–of being true to Self. It was because of such a sense of duty that spiritual alchemists embarked upon the search for a Universal Panacea to cure the ills, suffering, and pain of a fallen humankind.

Pain, illnesses, and imbalances may be found in various levels of the microcosm–the physical, emotional, mental, etc. The Universal Panacea, in general, can be said, to be principles and laws of God that would establish harmony and health if applied.

Physical pain and illness are the result of a lack of prana, of the life-force, or “Mumia,” as Paraclesus called it, into the psycho-biological system. This interrupted flow is mainly the result of a psychic condition unleashed by negative thoughts and emotions. When the channels or prana-influx are purified, when the Yin and Yang, the positive and negative polarities within the body are well-balanced, when the four elements residing in the body are in a state of equilibrium, then health should result.

There is a higher source of the life-essence that is rayed from the Great Central Sun directly to the Monad and down to the Atma of man, and this is associated with the flame of life residing in the physical heart. Daily devotions to the flame within and to the “Father who art in heaven,” causes a descent of the essences of life, of the Atmic fire, into the quaternary vehicles of Egoic expression and results in a regeneration of the whole psychobiological system.

A surplus of the life-force within the body is radiated-out and forms an aura of protection around the corpus. There are, however, major terminal points where the life-force flow out in a concentrated state. The hands are just two of these terminal points. The energy radiated out from these chakras are called by various names: Od-force, animal magnetism, nerve energy, etc. Egyptian mystics of bygone days called it “Sa-Ankh.”

There is an interesting concept concerning the above principle and the Atmic fire. When concentrating and meditating upon the Atma, the higher forces tends to flow more abundantly, and this energy together with the solar, lunar, and earth prana, when imbued upon a substance, such as water, would cause the fluid to be charged with life-essences capable of restoring the sick into wholeness when consumed by them.

This magnetically charged water can be considered as one of the manifestations of the Elixir of lIfe, the Nectar of the gods, or the Universal Panacea. Tantric icons of deities are sometimes depicted as holding a vessel of nectar in their hands. Evidently, a certain law and principle are indicated by this mudra. Practitioners of meditation would do well to experiment holding in their hands a cup of water during meditation and consuming it directly after the meditation session. The result could be invigorating and vivifying to the psycho-biological system, reinforcing the vital forces already present.

Fire

Fire is essentially divine, emanating as it does from the godhead. “God is a consuming fire,” is a well-known expression to be found in holy scriptures. Fire purifies and accelerates the motion of atomic particles–it increases their vibration. Fire is a creative principle, a divine tool in Shiva’s hand, transforming and transmuting matter to spirit, and spirit to matter. Heraclitus considered fire to be the first principle from whence all things owe their existence; by “fire” he meant the Divine fire, the “Scamayim” of the Qaballists that is continuously being outpoured by Ain Sof. The center of this emanation in our solar system is the sun. In man, it is the Monad. This indicates that all that is, is essentially fire.

Man, the Monad, is a spark of Fire from the Great Central Sun; all of Man’s principles are fire in lesser manifestation and intensity. A spark of the Monad lies hidden in Man’s heart. Fueling this flame with daily devotions of Right Action, Right Thought, Right Speech, meditation and prayer, increases the power, wisdom, and love of the divine nature of Man–this is spiritually represented by the threefold nature of the heart-flame, the fleur-de-lis.

Adepts of alchemy advise their students to work on the Prima Materia with the Internal and External Fire; that is, the fires of the mind, kundalini, Christ substance, sexual energy, prana, and chemical fire. This teaching of master minds reveals that fire manifests in various ways in visible and non-visible worlds. Fire is defined as “an internal activity whose external manifestation are heat and light.”

Fire was worshipped in various ancient cultures as a manifestation of the Supreme Being. Initiates of the temples invoked the Divine Fire within their beings in their daily rituals of adoration and esoteric exercises. Alchemy continues the tradition of honoring the fiery principle, however, adding a new dimension to the rites of worship by applying it practically and scientifically.

Mythologically, Prometheus was said to have stolen fire from heaven and given it to primitive man, to the displeasure of the gods, for humankind was not yet ready to use this principle in a creative, unselfish manner. The secrets of Fire was subsequently withdrawn, but not completely, for here and there, the sons (initiates) of those gods came of age and were, consequently, entrusted with the mysteries of fire and were given the authority to wield the force intelligently, wisely, and compassionately for the benefit of all beings.

In nanotechnology, a science still in the theoretical stage, miniature machines on the nano scale are hoped to be realized by future generations. The problem faced by scientist today is the creation of the first nano-machine, a “universal assembler,” that would create other machines and parts composing of selected molecules and which would later be programmed to do special work. One of their ideas of developing this nano universal-assembler is to create a tiny assembler in the millimeter scale that would in turn create another assembler of a smaller dimension, and so on until it reaches the nano scale. This technology when realized, has a wide range of application in the fileds of medicine, ecology, and industry. The potential for abuse is also inherent. In a sense this infant science is related to alchemy, for its development is applicable in the art of transmutation and precipitation on the physical level. Using their own terminology, it is the fires of the alchemist’s mind that is the “universal assembler.”

Fire fascinates and hypnotizes man, almost bearing him away to higher realities, as allegorized by the myth of Zeus in the form of an eagle snatching away Ganymede to the heavens. The closer one approaches God’s fiery presence, the more one is cleansed of all karmic sins lodging and ossifying the four lower bodies.

Copyright © 2006 Luxamore

Automobile industry : Disruptive technologies are the need of the hour !

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Automobile industry : Disruptive technologies are the need of the hour !

 

                                           SUNIL KEWALRAMANI                  April 28, 2009

 

 

Hearing the new, more aggressive restructuring plan offered by General Motors reminds one of the scenario for mankind jokingly foreseen by Woody Allen. “One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to choose correctly.” If – and it is a big if – the plan is accepted by debtholders, they will be taking a disproportionate hit compared with other principals. Only shareholders will fare worse – although unbelievably GM’s shares soared 20 per cent.

Under the plan, the union-run healthcare trust would exchange half the cash owed to it for shares, making it a substantial shareholder in a restructured enterprise. GM’s scheme also assumes another $11.6bn in cash from the Treasury. In addition to the $15.4bn of loans received, part of this would be retired in exchange for half the carmaker’s equity. These two steps would give unions and Treasury about 89 per cent of the company, even before private debtholders are taken into account. GM envisions some $27.2bn of that debt being converted to equity, giving holders another 10 per cent of the company.

Whatever happens, shareholders will be either wiped out or nearly so. Even a minimal recovery depends on debt-holders taking a bigger financial hit than the union. Assuming unsecured lenders accept, the restructuring plan would create a much less indebted but also far smaller GM with about 40,000, or a third fewer, US workers, and four core brands with a little over half today’s number of dealerships. This makes sense, as do shedding Pontiac and plans to axe Saturn and Hummer. Someone has to pay. More government cash may be needed to avoid Chapter 11. A bankruptcy restructuring may be messier and less pleasant for dealers, workers and suppliers – but more equitable

Detroit Three have their back against the wall

The market capitalisation of General Motors is now below that of Mattel, the maker of Match-box toy cars.  Once industry leader, GM, now finds Toyota’s market value, at $ 145 Billion, now 25 times greater than GM. 

As a poor strategy, the Detroit Three focused on high-margin gas-guzzling sports-utility vehicles and pick-up trucks, which have now lost charm as oil prices have ventured, however temporarily, into unchartered territory. The Three also failed to control labour costs and have not built flexible assembly lines. As a desperate move, Ford has sold its flagship brands Jaguar and Land Rover to the TATAS.  Credit is the automobile industry’s lifeblood and today, the drying up of credit has hit carmakers’ financing arms such as General Motors’ GMAC and Ford Credit hard.   Detroit’s producers are seeking to tap into federal bail-out funds for their financial arms, alongside a $ 25 Billion low-cost credit line to retool old factories.

 

Germany’s Big 3 also face significant  headwinds; devise counter-strategy :

Volkswagen, Daimler and BMW have acquired a reputation for offering cars with cutting-edge technology.  They are however heavy gas-guzzlers and heavy emitters of carbon dioxide. The trio have now decided to launch electric cars, to desist demand destruction due to high oil prices impacting revenues.  Daimler plans to offer Mercedes-Benz S400 hybrid in 2009. However, the luxury sedan will be out of reach but for the more affluent.

 

Europe too catches the slowdown flu :

Sales in the European union HAVE fall 8.3 % compared with last year. Italy was down 20 %, Spain by 31 % and Ireland 49 %. The Italian group Fiat is to stop production at most of its domestic factories in late 2008 for 3 weeks with hundreds of workers laid off temporarily.  Renault is already cutting 6000 jobs round Europe and Peugeot is cutting fourth-quarter production by at least 20 per cent in France.

 

China’s automobile industry too hits a slippery path :

After stunningly rapid growth in the domestic car market—34 per cent in 2006 and 24 per cent in 2007, year-to-year passenger car sales rose an anemic 14 % in the six months to June 2008.  Possible reasons include the almost 70 % decline in Shanghai’s stock market since its peak in 2007, reducing car buyers’ disposable income. Tight government monetary policy has meant fewer purchases of high-end business vehicles.  According to auto consultancy JD Power, China “could be on the brink of a significant pause in demand growth”.  Only the government’s $ 600 Billion stimulus packaged has saved the scene in 2009, and somewhat restored in China’s automobile market. With the world economic outlook still uncertain, it may be quite some time before the third largest world economy returns to more solid growth.

 

Although fuel prices are subsidized in China, sometime back China did hike fuel prices to reflect market reality but this had only a marginal impact on sales : for the average consumer, it added only Rmb100 ($ 15) to monthly operating expense. This, when weighed against the Rmb150,000 average cost of mid-sized vehicle, was not termed demand-destructive in China.  Yet, faltering world economic growth is beginning to hit hard as China is essentially an export-driven economy. This, coupled with uncertainty over whether oil prices will remain at the levels they are at present, could cause some buyers of sub-compacts to defer purchases and compel consumers to look for more fuel-efficient cars.

 

French car market is turbo-charged by cheaper, cleaner cars :

Renault and its French rival Peugeot-Citroen, assisted by government incentives to produce cheaper, cleaner cars, have already started utilizing government incentives to turbo-charge their offerings.  The ‘bonus-malus’ tax system introduced by the French government under President has stimulated purchase of small cars.

 

The Japanese Four got their strategy right

Honda, Toyota, Nissan and Hyundai steadily captured the bulk of the market in compact cars and SUVs, known as crossovers.  Nissan plans to launch an electric car powered by a lithium-ion battery in Japan and the US in 2010.  Mitsubishi is offering MiEV, its version of the electric car, in Japan by 2009.  Nissan believes that the batteries it is developing with NEC will give its car a range of 160km and be 80 per cent rechargeable in 20 minutes. The range could increase to 300km or so within a few years.

 

In her book ‘The End of Detroit’, Micheline Maynard observes that “with their efficient development methods, their focus on manufacturing and most important, experienced engineers in critical management jobs, the foreign companies never forgot that they were in business to develop top-quality cars and trucks that appealed to customers, as opposed to rental-car models and government fleets”.

 

Toyota’s Prius charges ahead

The Toyota Prius, a petrol-electric hybrid vehicle, finds demand far in excess of what it can supply. The delivery time is anywhere between 6 weeks and four months, indicating that Toyota has stuck the right chord with its customers.  Toyota could foresee consumers’ long-term falling out with fossil fuels, and as the pioneer, had sold its first Prius in 1997.

 

Every battery in a Toyota hybrid is made at a factory in Shizuoka, Japan, by Panasonic EV Energy, a joint venture between Toyota and Matsushita Electric, holding company of Panasonic. The factory has an annual capacity of 500,000 nickel metal hydride battery packs a year, acting as a natural ceiling.  Honda has sold 52000 units of its singly hybrid model, a Civic sedan, in 2007 and plans to offer a new hybrid-only five-door that will have an initial annual sales target of 200,000 units, gradually extending upto 500,000 units by 2010.

 

Honda first car-maker to offer hydrogen-powered car FCX Clarity :

FCX Clarity of Honda is the first hydrogen-powered car whose only exhaust pipe emission is water.

 

General Motors to build world’s largest rooftop solar power station in Spain

Its Zaragoza factory in Spain, which produces about 500,000 cars a year, will be covered by 183,000 square metres of solar panels.

 

   Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 to General Motor’s  rescue

   At a time when General Motors is trimming capacity and chopping jobs across North America, Lordstown, Ohio is set to hire 1400 workers for a third shift. The plant owes its good fortune to building the sporty, fuel-efficient Chevrolet Cobalt and Pontiac G5 cars.  While demand for big sports-utility vehicles and pick-up trucks are on the decline, Cobalt sales jumped by 18 per cent in the first five months of 2008.

 

GM collaborating with dozens of utilities for its Chevrolet Volt and Saturn Vue electric cars

  Both industries have a lot riding on the success of plug-in cars that will run largely on electricity, with gasoline or other fuels filling a supplementary role. It is collaborating with utility majors American Electric Power Co., Austin Energy, Consolidated Edison Inc., Dominion Resources Inc., Duke Energy Corp., DTE Energy Co., Edison International, New York Power Authority, PG&E Corp., Progress Energy Inc., and Public Service Enterprise Group Inc. The Chevy Volt is designed to run at full speed for at least 40 miles solely on lithium-ion batteries. Auto makers need the cooperation of utilities since they control the new technology’s primary fuel—electricity—and must make sure that the vehicles’ recharging processes must mesh with the electricity grid and don’t inadvertently undermine grid reliability.  Intelligent embedded software will ensure recharge at most optimal time and price.

 

The ‘Jatropha’ Factor :

Gujarat-based Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute (CSMCRI) is assisting Daimler Chrysler, M&M and GM in using Jatropha as an alternative fuel in their futuristic engines. Diamler’s Jatropha plantations across Gujarat and Orissa are already in their fourth year.  GM on the other hand has made a first-phase investment of $ 0.5 Million to get biodiesel derived from Jatropha tested in six of its vehicles at CSMCRI’s facility at Bhavnagar in Gujarat, India.

 

BMW and Fiat enter into  strategic alliance :

The two are exploring links between Alfa Romeo and the Mini small car brand. BMW already has an engine agreement with France’s PSA Peugeot-Citroen. Fiat has as many as 29 alliances with competitors to reduce R&D costs. After Fiat withdrew Alfa Romeo from the US in 1995, BMW would help reintroduce it.

Alliances are a significant cornerstone of strategies of most car companies today.  BMW and arch-rival Daimler are jointly cooperating with General Motors on hybrids to further their joint interests.

 

India’s rise as the ‘small car hub’ of the world

  Small cars account for 71 % of Indian car market; the corresponding figure in China is 33 %. In September 2008, Maruti’s export sales rose significantly to 6318 units from 4362 units in last year.  Cumulative exports grew 25% to 30,235 vehicles from 24,236 vehicles for the period April-September 2007.  Maruti currently exports Alto, M800, Omni, Wagon R and Zen Estilo to non-European markets such as Chile, UAE, Algeria and East Africa. The year-end launch of its new compact ‘A-Star’ should provide further fillip.  Nissan plans to buy 50,000 A-Star compact cars from Maruti and export to markets in Europe. Bajaj Auto’s exports grew 43 % to 68,572 units in September 2008 as compared to 48,048 units in September 2007.    Hyundai, aided by high demand for its new i10 compact,  continued to be the leader with export kitty swelling from 9508 units in September 2007 to 23911 units in September 2008.  Hyundai exports 40 % of its small car production in India; ‘Santro’ is sold as ‘Atos’ in 97 countries.  TVS Motor reported 40 % growth in exports at 13036 units during September 2008, as compared to 18229 units in the same month last year. 

 

Car penetration in China and India low compared to Developed nations

The car penetration rate in USA is 600 cars every 1000 people.  In Europe, it is 300 cars every 1000 people (since the public transportation infrastructure is more efficient than in the USA). In China and India, it is about 30 cars every 1000 people.  Thus, as these economies grow rapidly, there will be greater demand for cars to ensure mobility.

 

Hyundai’s i10 and Santro are quick to react to the need of the hour :

Launched to challenge other cars in the market, such as Maruti Wagon R, Zen Estillo, Tata Indica and Chevrolet Spark, the two models of Hyundai—i10 and Santro have enabled Hyundai to clock 39 % growth in sales in the domestic passenger car segment over the period April-June 2008.  The i10 model might further affect Maruti and Tata sales as Hyundai has launched its compressed natural gas (CNG) variant and launced the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) variant in end-2008.  Recently, in tune with changing times, Hyundai launched a new version of the i10 powered by a 1.2 litre Kappa engine whose double overhead camshaft would enable the engine to run at higher speeds. The Kappa engine is being manufactured at Hyundai’s engine and transmission plant in Sriperumbudur and its remarkable fuel-efficiency will significantly raise the bar in the segment.

 

65 % of Maruti Suzuki’s Swift and Dzire are diesel variants :

The growing trend towards diesel is forcing Maruti to launch diesel and petrol variant of Splash hatchback.  Whereas more than 75 % of Tata Motors’ Indica and Indigo sell the diesel versions, more than 65 % of Hyundai’s Verna and Sonata’s sales comes from the diesel counterpart.  Also on the diesel track are  Mahindra’s Logan and GM’s Optra.

 

M&M to speed up e-vehicles, launches CNG variant of Bolero :

M&M plans to launch an array of alternative fuel variants including CNG and hybrid versions of its flagship SUV Scorpio and that of its one tonner pick-up vehicle Bolero.

 

Tata Nano to crank out 30 % more fuel-efficient CRDi diesel engine :

Tata Nano will sport the world’s first 800 cc, turbo charged CRDi diesel engine. The small diesel engine will have fuel injection systems developed by Bosch.  Rest of the diesel engine platform will be developed by Tata Motors and German powertrain maker FEV.  Tata Nano will be the world’s first 800 cc, turbo charged, CRDi diesel engine.  While Bosch is working on the CRDi system for the Nano, Honeywell Turbo India is working on the turbo charger, thus providing a unique fuel-efficient buying proposition.  The 1.3 liter Fiat multijet CRDi engine that Suzuki has used on its Swift is the smallest diesel engine in India thus far.

Tata Nano is beefing up the low-cost car with fitments such as air bags, better designed interiors and engine options to make the Nano export-quality. Tata Nano’s unique fuel-efficient engine and ‘bottom-of-the-pyramid’ pricing of $ 2200 makes it a unique customer-centric proposition and a disruptive technology which when replicated across engine classes, has the capability to transform the way we move, the way we go to work, and basically the way we live our lives.  After making its mark on the domestic scene, Tata Nano has its eyes on the world small car market.  Tata Motors, which plans to deliver its first electric car by the end of this fiscal, has tested Indica platform for the vehicle.  The company is working on five prototypes of electric vehicles.

During September 2008, Tata Motors has launched three new fully loaded variants on its popular Tata Indigo CS range.  The new variants are the petrol GLX model and two diesel LX models—in the Turbo-charged diesel with intercooler and direct injection common rail engine options. Bajaj launched the new Platina 125 cc with the Digital Twin Spark-Swirl Induction or DTS-Si engine during September 2008.  TVS Motor broadened the horizons of its TVS Scooty with the launch of Balancing Wheels, a unique and innovative product that can be effectively fitted on to the Scooty. This indicates how automobile manufacturers are resorting to disruptive innovations to keep their revenue stream flowing.

 

The car industry is leanly managed with high fixed costs and relatively less flab.  This is the sign of the industry’s competitiveness since carmakers have steadily improved their vehicles’ quality in recent years while barely increasing their prices.  For example, despite large improvements in performance, Porsche’s flagship 911 model has been priced virtually the same in real terms since 1992, according to EurotaxGlass, the publisher of Glass’s Guide, the UK car buyer’s handbook. 

 

Disruptive technologies possible in China and India

Most of the developed nations have their past legacy.  They also have their interests and resources to protect.  For example, most have inflexible assembly lines and labour contracts which they cannot terminate except at a steep cost. Thus, they keep defending their gas-guzzling vehicles, and are not customer-centric.

 

On the other hand, China and India, have the advantage of being in virgin territory with not much of past legacy to haunt them.  They have the advantage of being able to experiment with disruptive technologies, especially in an era of high crude prices.

 

Amazingly, unlike the developed nations, most of the focus in China and India is on the high input costs, high interest rates and falling demand.  Commodity prices and interest rates have begun to retreat of late.  Yet, there is little appreciation of how disruptive technologies can bring about a revolution in the way we travel to work and do things.

 

The real disruptive innovations are more likely to take place in Silicon Valley, Bangalore and Chennai rather than in Detroit where car-makers have their legacies and interests to nourish and defend.  High oil prices, although temporarily acted as a dampener for the automobile industry, has come as a blessing in disguise for India in its endeavors to become the “small car hub of the world”.  While the rest of the automobile world is scaling down capacities, Hyundai, for example, has started in India third shift operations in mid-September 2008 as compared to the originally planned October 2008 to meet soaring demand for i10 in domestic as well as overseas markets.  The rest of the world has already benefited by bringing out fuel-efficient innovations to transform the landscape of the world automobile industry.

 

Thus, disruptive technologies seem to be the need of the hour.  Supply-side management rather than overly focusing on the demand side, seem to be the key factors that will reverse the gloom that has descended on the world automobile industry and usher in an era of growth and prosperity in the commuting world.

 

 

Sunil Kewalramani is a Wharton Business School MBA and CEO, Global Capital Advisors.