Showing posts with label Richard. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Richard. Show all posts

Evidence is the only way to determine if something is true. - Richard Dawkins - Great Books: Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds - The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - John Marks The Monkeywrench Gang - Ed Abbey

I saw a TV Show called "9/11 The Towers and The Pentagon" that had a lot of film that I had not seen before. However, there are still no photographs of an AIRPLANE at The Pentagon. Quite mysterious...
Unsolved Mysteries - Why are there No Photographs of an Airplane at the Pentagon on 9 - 11 - 2001
Unsolved Mysteries - Why are there No Photographs of an Airplane at the Pentagon on 9/11/2001?


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Laura Flanders TV Show: Trump's budget for the USA reduces the amount spent on people and the environment and increases the amount spent on the military.
17 years of war in the Middle East has left the USA in more danger than before. Terrorist Organizations use our bombing to recruit new members.
The War has caused great destruction of the countries in the Middle East. Clearly spending money on the Military is a bad idea.
It didn't help Iraq or Afghanistan.
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Great Books:
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds -
The Search for the Manchurian Candidate - John Marks
The Monkeywrench Gang - Ed Abbey
I Robot - Isaac Asimov
Stranger in a Strange Land - Robert Heinlein
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Ancient Aliens TV Show - Legendary Times Magazine - Giorgio Tsoukolos
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Save Richardson Grove Redwood Trees in California. On Highway 101 on the way towards Eureka from San Francisco the road goes thru a stand of old growth Redwoods. The road twists and turns in such a way that it's easy for cars and trucks to drive thru but not Two Trailer trucks. Corporations have been trying to widen the road for decades but tree huggers have prevented the removal of the forest for increased profit. There is another way to get merchandise to Eureka from San Francisco...
Use boats... Both cities have great harbors.
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bioneers.org mushrooms and bee life extension. Paul Stamits. Bees that eat certain mushrooms that grow on birch trees live longer. It fights viruses that grow on mites. Old growth forests are intelligent. We cannot talk to them because of our lack of a common language. The bees knew that they should eat the mushrooms.
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It appears that the Gods are angry at us. Hurricanes, Earthquakes and Forest Fires. I think there is a message... Global Warming is Real and we ought to do something about it. Drive our cars less, exhaust causes air pollution and increases Greenhouse Gasses in the atmosphere. Use less electricity... Power plants often burn coal or natural gas and pollute the air. If it becomes normal to have two Hurricanes every year in the USA a large coastal area will become uninhabitable. From Texas to Florida and up the east coast all the way to New York will become a disaster zone.
Maybe we need Aztec or Mayan Priests to sacrifice a virgin on top of a pyramid. Maybe that would appease the Gods. I read an article in the newspaper that says the best place to survive global warming is Eureka, California. I hate reading such articles because those of us that are already here don't want a bunch of immigrants moving here. It would wreck everything... Too many people cause traffic jams, increase rental prices and cause long lines at the grocery stores. So, don't come here... keep on going North to Oregon! It's great there!
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Let's build cities using Disney's original EPCOT Design. Concentric circles connected by monorails.
Work in the center surrounded by home/shopping then parks and farms. That way people would not waste so much time commuting to work. Less money spent on gas for cars, less air pollution, less global warming and fewer hurricanes. For example consider San Jose California. There is a lot of work available at computer companies. However there are not enough homes for the people that work there. Many people commute over an hour from the bedroom communities of Santa Cruz or Tracy. If we moved the jobs closer to where the people live, the workers would be happier since they would not be spending an hour stuck in a traffic jam every morning before work. Also the employees would not be spending so much money on housing and automobile fuel. We could move offices by creating a database of where the employees live and building new work locations near those locations. Under the current system, zoning laws separate factories from homes. That made sense when factories
caused air and water pollution and people did not want to live near that pollution. However, many jobs today are office work where people sit at desks and work on computers all day. No pollution at office jobs. We could have these employers move to the suburbs. Maybe they could use the abandoned shopping malls. Amazon's business model has caused traditional retail businesses to go bankrupt. It is simply more efficient to shop online and have the USPS deliver the products than for the shoppers dive to the shopping mall and buy the products there. I see that Amazon is planning to build a second headquarters where they will be hiring 50,000 people. A better plan would be to create 10 mini headquarters employing 5,000 people each. Each of these mini headquarters could use the EPCOT model. Experimental Planned City of Tomorrow. It's simply better.
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Great TV Show: Economic Update by Richard Wolff - News with a Socialist Perspective instead of Corporate "Yadda-Yadda"

https://www.democracyatwork.info/

This week on Economic Update, Professor Wolff delivers updates on German workers who elect almost half of corporate boards of directors, major US corporations with negative tax rates, Kentucky governor maneuvers against black-lung victims, involuntary part-time employment, epidemic of U.S. evictions and Trump's tariffs on China. 
https://www.democracyatwork.info/eu_employees_vs_employers_endless_tensions

https://itep.org

Amazon reportedly raked in more than $5.6 billion in U.S. profits in 2017, but despite that, the company essentially paid $0 in federal income taxes.

That’s largely attributable to “excess stock-based compensation deductions” and the effect of the 2017 Tax Act, according to the company’s U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission filing earlier this month. In other words, Amazon was able to leverage the tax credits and breaks to zero out taxes it owed this year, according to the Institute on Taxation and Economy Policy (ITEP), a non-partisan think tank.

https://itep.org/category/blog+corporate-taxes/

Professor Richard Wolff questions IF Capitalism is a good way to run a world. NO. Too crisis prone... Economic meltdowns are built into the system.

http://www.rdwolff.com/

He proposes a different system...


Yes, there is an alternative to capitalism: Mondragon shows the way


Why are we told a broken system that creates vast inequality is the only choice? Spain's amazing co-op is living proof otherwise

Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism -- by Richard Wolff
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhzBq15p_f0

Most Americans have never recovered from the recession of 2008 and the outsourcing, mechanizing, robotizing and computerizing of their jobs. Men’s salaries and working conditions have been deteriorating since the mid 1970s. Women’s salaries have increased to 77% of men’s low salaries. Americans are emotionally depressed. We consume 50% of the world’s psych meds and 80% of the world’s heroin. Suicides addiction obesity and other social ills have increased. Too many are in despair. This panel explains what happened, why it happened and what to do about it.
http://www.democracyatwork.info/

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