- published: 02 May 2015
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Outside the UK, the BBC World Service has provided services by direct broadcasting and re-transmission contracts by sound radio since the inauguration of the BBC Empire Service in December 1932, and more recently by television and online. Though sharing some of the facilities of the domestic services, particularly for news and current affairs output, the World Service has a separate Managing Director, and its operating costs have historically been funded mainly by direct grants from the British government. These grants were determined independently of the domestic licence fee and were usually awarded from the budget of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. As such, the BBC's international content has traditionally represented – at least in part – an effective foreign policy tool of the British Government. The recent BBC World Service spending review has announced plans for the funding for the world service to be drawn from the domestic licence fee.
The golden mean is a World Machine
Unified by nature
Every single human being is bound by nature
Is it effect or is it cause?
Or just the way it was?
And down below as up above
It's a universe of love.
Everything has one connection
Synchronized, as one perfection
And endless flow
Omni-direction
Another answer is another question
There's no effect without a cause
It's scientific law
That down below is up above
It's impersonal love
From Fibonacci to Liberace
And verse to coda
To South Dakota
You are affected, you are connected
We concentric, we are electric
You are effect you are the cause
And there is no Santa Clause
And down below as up above
It's a universal love
We are effect, we are the cause
And there is no Santa Clause
And down below as up above
It's an axiom of love.
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