America's Real Job Creators are Broke | NationofChange

America's Real Job Creators are Broke | NationofChange: "Since the recession technically 'ended' 18 months ago, corporate profits have zoomed, sopping up an unprecedented 88 percent of America's economic growth. Meanwhile, only one percent of the growth that we all help produce has gone to wages and salaries, the primary sources of income for 90 percent of us.

Yet, those same CEOs say they won't invest in new jobs or raise wages until consumers start buying again. That's like saying, 'The beat�ings will continue until morale improves.'"

America in Decline | NationofChange

America in Decline | NationofChange:

"Not even discussed is that the deficit would be eliminated if, as economist Dean Baker has shown, the dysfunctional privatized health care system in the U.S. were replaced by one similar to other industrial societies’, which have half the per capita costs and health outcomes that are comparable or better."

Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond - physics-math - 01 August 2011 - New Scientist

Ultimate logic: To infinity and beyond - physics-math - 01 August 2011 - New Scientist:

"Attempts to prove or disprove the continuum hypothesis depend on analysing all possible infinite subsets of the real numbers."

War Is A Racket | NationofChange

War Is A Racket | NationofChange:

"Two-time Congressional Medal of Honor winner Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler had it right 75 years ago when he said of war: 'It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious [racket]. ... It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives ... It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many.'

As President Barack Obama and Congress claim it is Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security that are breaking the budget, people should demand that they stop paying for war."

back from the triangle. here is a a friend of mine who lives there.

this mrning, first thing after shredded wheat.

In Eyes, a Clock Calibrated by Wavelengths of Light - NYTimes.com:

"Some experts believe that any kind of light too late into the evening could have broad health effects, independent of any effect on sleep."

well i am folding my tent at last and putting this blog as exhibit on the way back machine - when i figure out how to do it.

4th of july 2012 seems a good terminus. the world of 10,000 things has changed beyond (my) recognition, not only during my lifetime, but during the lifetime of this blog. the international oligarchs have exiled human personal discourse from the day to day, the criminal overworld is firmly entrenched, and the world wide oligarchy has stepped into the vacuum left by the fading of institutional modes of governance.

the debt driven source of power and wealth of the one percent and the slow realization of the 99% of the "rest of us" that we are now "wage slaves", throw away surplus, leaves me without words that have any meaning.

newt gingrich has said that homelessness is the natural state of mankind. he is right; the slow cultural evolution of civilization was a correction to this situation.

but the bandits have destroyed the institutions of civilization, slowly, like turning up the heat in a pan of boiling water little by little.

i would cultivate my garden like the elderly voltaire, but patented seeds and the company store have destroyed that idea.

the world of ideals has been totaled by the world of the deal.

SpyCloud: Intel Agencies Look to Keep Secrets in the Ether | Danger Room | Wired.com

SpyCloud: Intel Agencies Look to Keep Secrets in the Ether | Danger Room | Wired.com:

"It’s confidential, because individual slices of data can’t be deciphered on their own — an unauthorized person would have to obtain several different data slices at once to make sense of anything at all. It’s also more reliable. Even if the disks that hold those slices are corrupted, go offline or get lost, there is enough redundancy to reconstruct the whole file from just pieces."

Quantifying history: Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist

Quantifying history: Two thousand years in one chart | The Economist: "An alternative timeline for the past two millennia"

CultureLab: When flower power met quantum theory:

"When flower power met quantum theory"

when we were young.

The Allman Brothers Band | Whipping Post | Sep 23, 1970 | Music Video - wolfgangsvault.com

more green than i ever seen.

pretty colors. what HD video is meant for. forget about american idol.
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