The format is too confining to me with all that info appearing all at once but it's a good start and good to see people emerging who are working to map the abuse of power and how to regain control of our “collective future.”
Phi Beta Iota: Caveat — Wikipedia is a controlled asset. Most of the pages that matter are being actively manipulated by corporations with vested interests in retarding public intelligence and public access to both the truth and to connections among cause and effect, true cost of goods, etcetera.
When I saw this story this morning I could hardly believe it was real. But I have checked and it is. You can click through to download the CDC .pdf report.
I find it highly ironic that this story is appearing in a conservative religious website, because much of this enormous spread of venereal disease is arising because the Theocratic Right has done everything it can to stop useful sex education in the U.S. leaving teens, particularly teens in Red value states, completely unprepared to practice safe sex. Not surprisingly, the incidence of unintended pregnancies and STDs in those states are much higher than in Blue value states.
Below find excerpts of Harvard Professor Linda Bilmes latest analysis of the costs of the Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Note that the costs are now estimated to lay somewhere between $4 trillion and $6 trillion.
N.B. The final sentence: “In short, there will be no peace dividend, and the legacy of Iraq and Afghanistan wars will be costs that persist for decades.”
It's not going to be a “peace dividend;” it is going to be a decades long and gigantic expense–in addition to the moral tragedy.
The excerpts from her cogent, well written text explain how she got to her conclusion. (The relevant page numbers are noted in parentheses.)
Collectivists have a favorite target. Big bad corporations. This is a complete scam. Why did Goldman Sachs turn out to be the biggest funder of Obama’s 2008 election bid? Why weren’t the corporate banksters who demanded and received those enormous bailouts, under both Bush and Obama, prosecuted for crimes?
Collectivists actually love big corporations. Collectivists just want to distract us from their real goals. And in order to enact those goals, they need banks, they need the military-industrial complex, they need Big Pharma and Big Oil.
They especially need somebody to control the world’s food supply, because that’s one of the ultimate squeeze plays on the global population. So who do they bow down to, in that arena? Monsanto, Dow, DuPont.
Washington politicians aren’t victims who can’t fight off big bad corporations. They aren’t at the mercy of those corporations. That’s a load of nonsense. That’s Politics 101 for brainwashed college students.
O poor little politicians! No power. No way to win against the big boys. No chance.
If you buy that, you’re ready to buy condos on Mars.
There is no lack of public intelligence — only a lack of public integrity.
100 Miles Per Gallon – Making It Reality
So the Wikispeed car design is ultralight and runs with a Honda F1 racing engine (internal combustion). The car weighs under 1500 pounds right now but doesn't have all the interior amenities we have all come to know and love.
Therefore, in order to add 1 more feature to the car that will increase the gas mileage even further, I plan to add a vapor fuel system first designed in the 1970's by Tom Ogle. See the documentary GASHOLE to get a complete picture of how the oil companies have been manipulating the auto industry to maximize profits. Don't even get me started on the wars we have fought to protect their profits.
Watch this video to see how people are doing this now.
