“Postmodernist French social theorist Jean Baudrillard argues that a simulacrum is not a copy of the real, but becomes truth in its own right: the hyperreal. Where Plato saw two types of representation—faithful and intentionally distorted (simulacrum)—Baudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which “bears no relation to any reality whatsoever”.”
This is why your non-profit and the blog are so critical… to return to the real, is a step towards political renewal. We don't know reality inside a simulacrum.
About a third of American adults are considered obese, having a Body Mass Index greater than 30 (BMI is calculated using height and weight), and 18% of American teenagers are considered obese, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In 2010, a group of retired military leaders warned that 27% of young adults (a total of nine million), ages 17 to 24, are unfit for service because they are too fat. “This is a national security issue,” a spokesman for the group said. “We are having difficulty recruiting from the civilian population.”
For almost a quarter of a century, UN deputy secretary general Jan Eliasson has been an indefatigable champion of the right to water and sanitation for all
He reels off the statistics to show how far there is yet to go: “1.8 billion people worldwide drink contaminated water; 2.4 billion people lack improved sanitation. In poor countries, 90% of sewage is discharged untreated into rivers, lakes and coastal areas. An estimated 800 to 900 children under the age of five die every day from diarrhoeal diseases. “If we continue on our current path, the world may face a 40% shortfall in water availability by 2030.
Yesterday I was censored by LinkedIn when I tried to post a story [by someone else] on “The Madness of Queen Hillary.” Coming as it does in the aftermath of Google manipulating both search and spam results in favor of Hillary Clinton, Facebook blocking YouTubes from Alex Jones, and Twitter censoring trending results associated with Hillary Clinton’s health, I have realized that the major social media enterprises have become part of a police state where the opinions of we “unredeemable deplorables” are easily censored.
Why I asked myself would LinkedIn censor a member’s essay about a campaign that is dominating the news cycle in just about every form of media I check out? I asked Steele this question, and he writes:
Eric Schmidt is on record as saying that he has the right and the ability to control “hate speech” online. The “digital innovators” in the White House are all committed to Hillary Clinton in part so they can keep their jobs and continue to play with new means of manipulating the information environment. This happened because the White House ignored my 1994 letter calling for major investments in the integrity and security of the cyber domain (and actually allowed NSA to gut what security existed, with the complicity of IT CEOs, for the convenience of our mass surveillance program), and because in the absence of legitimate oversight in the public interest, social media enterprises will trend toward the abuse of their power, much as banks and corporations have in the material world.
Hillary Clinton has had a stroke — she is not suffering from pneumonia and her body double is easily spotted by the combination of 50 pounds less weight and the greater distance she keeps from the public she is being shown off to. The DNC has been in an emergency session — Joe Biden could be the new nominee and pick his own VP. As I have suggested for some time, Donald Trump is certain to win UNLESS Joe Biden will listen to a former Jesuit altar boy and embrace the idea that at this point in time and space, God wants him to clean up the two-party tyranny and restore evidence-based honest governance to the USA.
There is no assurance, if Trump wins, that he will not immediately sell out. Absent an Electoral Reform Act that restores integrity to the whole system, the two-party tyranny is certain to continue to front for the 1% regardless of who is President.
Citizen Soldiers: Let Them Serve examines the plight of service members who served in the Middle East who are struggling to find meaningful jobs and what they can offer our small cities, towns and villages.
