<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"> </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="ES-AR"><div class="m_8089426900284268772WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1f497d"><u></u> <u></u></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #b5c4df 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="ES">De:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="ES"> portugheis alberto [mailto:<a href="mailto:alberto_portugheis@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">alberto_portugheis@yahoo.co.uk</a>]  <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="ES"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"" lang="ES"></span><br></p></div></div><div><div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">R<span class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large">e</span>sponse to an article written by the internationally known scientist John Scales Avery for the Transcend Media Service (9 March 2020)</span></p></div><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Dear John,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif""><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"">Your writing is always a joy to read and I also agree with much of what you say. There is however one point, where we will always disagree. You write ” the problem of achieving a stable, peaceful and sustainable world remains serious, challenging and unsolved.”, whilst I write ” the problem of achieving a stable, peaceful and sustainable world remains UNSOLVABLE, IMPOSSIBLE TO SOLVE, EVER !!!!!” and I’m using capitals because I’m really shouting.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">I’d love you to one day swap your comments on politicians and write about the many thousands of you colleagues, who accept very good salaries to help politicians destroy humanity, destroy our planet. Without scientists we would have never had Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Without scientists we’d have never had landmines, grenades, bombs, rockets, torpedoes, teargas, and ……..Coronavirus !!!!!!! without scientists we would never have had mortars, rocket launchers and interceptors, Scud missiles, Apache helicopters, tanks, WARships, air-FIGHTERS, drones with their killer laser beams, etc, etc, etc.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">We hear all the time about the shortage of cash among the scientific community trying to help Humanity live better, healthier and longer lives. Communities are continually organizing fund-raising event for Cancer, Aids, Malaria, Multiple Sclerosis, Asthma, Heart, Diabetes, Kidney research. However, scientists wishing to develop faster and lighter spying and killing drones, faster and more powerful rockets, tanks, torpedoes, etc, have all the money they need. The message to children growing up is: “efforts to prolong life, don’t pay; efforts to shorten life make you rich”.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">When a business (shoe factory or shop, bookshop, supermarket, hair salon, etc, is not doing well, they have to cease trading and /or declare themselves bankrupt. If a tank or rocket business has had a bad year, a Government subsidy is readily available for the business concerned, so that production of killing toys can continue unaffected.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">People selling goods of services for the enjoyment or better life of Humanity, advertise in newspapers, radio stations, TV channels, street posters, etc. Those making and selling machine guns, bullets, landmines, tanks, rockets, torpedoes, nuclear submarines, etc needn’t advertise; they offer commission or pay bribes to certain politicians, diplomats, top brass, etc and deal done.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">Whilst Humanity naively accepts the BIG lie that Armed Forces are only necessary as a deterrent or for defence, the planet is doomed. <br></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">Alberto (Portugheis)<u></u><u></u></span></p></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#222222">President HUFUD<u></u><u></u></span></p></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