Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Do I hate upper class billionaires?

 No! I do not hate anybody! I do believe ultra rich corporate bosses can do much better with their wealth than hide it in places like Panama. If you live alone on an island with a fortune in gold and jewels and money, you are still alone on an island. Nobody will do the work for you and your money is useless. I suggest the rich invest their money creating projects and inventions that protect Nature and help the working class maintain the economy. In turn both Nature and the average working person will protect the upper class life style as long as that life style is not abusive. Both ends of the spectrum will benefit otherwise putrid greed will once again implode the economy! Besides that, you can't eat money!
1. We need coastal desalination plants. Yes they are expensive but necessary!
 2. We need clean water distribution pipe lines delivering clean water to farmers and cities. Farmers should stop using pesticides and practice companion planting. I suggest Lentils and Vegetables as their main super crops. Stop Beef and Chicken processing as they do more harm than good.
3. We need cheap apartments for the lower class so they can once again have disposable incomes. I suggest converting useless office towers into apartment buildings. Make sure the buildings are clean and self contained. Hire staff!
4. We need thousands of city buildings containing Hydroponic gardens. Grow Lentils and Spirulina as they are the best foods on Earth. You can also have protected roof-top vegetable and flower gardens.
5. We need buildings that can create and maintain Hydroponic gardens and roof-top gardens. Buildings that can produce their own clean energy with windows that convert sunlight into electricity.
6. We need Electric cars and buses and Bicycle paths to stop global burning!
7. Of course we need new kinds of clean energy. The new Fusion reactors will be great when and if they work, meanwhile, wind Turbines and Solar Panels are becoming popular; especially in Germany which produces 90% of their total energy using clean non polluting methods. If they can do it so can we!
8. Of course we need space ships and satellites and cell phones! Mars awaits!
9. We need free education and why not create schools within giant corporations?  Such educational facilities could be Tax deductible and every company could offer high school and college credits based on their companies line of work as well as a minimum wage page check. The education would be free for the student while they worked for the company and students would be free to change companies for different credits. Today, most companies train their own workers. The training should be both tax deductible and good for a high school or college or university credit. Farmers can once again hire students to help them do farm work and learn Plant Biology for credits. All employees, students or otherwise, must receive fair pay for work achieved.
10. Companies are not people and the "Citizens United" law must be changed. It will create a better U.S. and as a consequence, world economy. Don't panic gentle Billionaires, it won't hurt your power structure. Remember, we are on a tiny little planet Earth, together! You need a comfortable working class and they need you!
11. Worker unions must be created and protected for the benefit of both the worker and the company leadership. A non-religious humanitarian social and economic balance must be achieved. We do not want a world where the rich get richer and the poor die on the streets unless they decide to revolt! Switzerland and Sweden and Norway are great examples of worker unions working with their company bosses and with their respective governments to create a society of healthy and happy people. No, I don't hate the super rich but today they seem to be dominating and creating a society of super poor people while hoarding Billions of Dollars off-shore! Why is that? 

The Root of all Evil!

Gentle readers:

 When I was a boy, religious beliefs dominated the educational and social and political as well as the economic landscape. God was here and there and everywhere and without my full awareness, I was indoctrinated. How deeply indoctrinated did not strike home until years later when I began playing with Lottery machine games.

  My doting Mother dragged me to many religious institutions in my youth and did not care which religious faith or group or cult we joined, or what school she put me in as long as there was a religious belief underlying the institution. I was given religious basics over and over until they sank deep into my subconscious memory. Basics like: Don't kill! Don't steal! Don't cheat! Don't lie! Don't fornicate! Don't gamble! And the years rolled by agonizingly slowly. I suffered mental torture and believed I would remain forever a prisoner of moralizing authorities!

 "Money is the root of all evil!" and  "Don't gamble, you will lose!"  are religiously based concepts that contradict themselves as well as basic logic. For example, if money is the root of all evil then throwing it away seems like a good idea and why not gamble and lose all that evil money? But then came the other moralizing edict. Don't gamble you will lose! If money is evil, so what? Apparently money has changed value over the years and is no longer evil! It is now becoming important and something we must not lose! That means the religious groups of my past were wrong!

 When I discovered lottery gambling machines I quickly lost money and it took a while before I began to win! Surprisingly, it was fun to win! The Dopamine in my brain rewarded me for winning and I continued to play until I lost again. I enjoyed winning the games and I kept on gambling until I realized that I was putting my winnings back into the machines. The machines were allowing  me to win but I was not allowing myself to keep the money. I was putting the money back into the machines so that I could reward myself with Dopamine. It was fun to create the sensation of pleasure and both the sensation of pleasure and my deeply indoctrinated beliefs were guiding me to put the money back! Only later, when I could not afford to pay my debts did the fun stop! Without any fun in life, gambling became like a drug and a way to inject pleasure back into the brain. A vicious cycle of addiction took hold!
   The people who create lottery machines and the games that go into these machines, do understand how addicted gamblers feel about money. They fully understand the probability concept. Allow gamblers to win and most 'probably' they will put their winnings back into the machines. These particular authorities understand how gamblers do not care or value money.

 Addicted gamblers, like drug addicts, care about winning and feeling good. Winning allows the brain chemical Dopamine to re-enforce a good feeling in the brain and when all the money is gone, so what?! Isn't money, after all, the root of all evil and millions of gamblers today are over the age of Sixty. Many were religiously indoctrinated in early childhood.

 As science replaced religion and the economy grew stronger and stronger, money became the central goal for millions of people, except for gamblers and drug addicts. Those who help create gamblers and drug addicts today apparently do value money and they do take and keep the money. Sadly, that continues to make money the root of all evil!  

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Attention Justin Trudeau!



The 4th Largest Economy In The World Just Generated 90 Percent Of The Power It Needs From Renewables

 MAY 9, 2016 4:16 PM

CREDIT: SHUTTERSTOCK

On Sunday, for a brief, shining moment, renewable power output in Germany reached 90 percent of the country’s total electricity demand.
That’s a big deal. On May 8th, at 11 a.m. local time, the total output of German solar, wind, hydropower, and biomass reached 55 gigawatts (GW), just short of the 58 GW consumed by every light bulb, washing machine, water heater and personal computer humming away on Sunday morning. See the graph below, courtesy Agora Energiewende, a German clean energy think tank. (It’s important to note that most likely, not all of that 55 GW could be used at the time it was generated due to system and grid limitations, but it’s still noteworthy that this quantity of power was produced.)
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CREDIT: COURTESY AGORA ENERGIEWENDE
Here are a few takeaways from this milestone:
Germany is the fourth-largest economy on the planet. Germany’s $3.7 trillion GDP beats the economic output of any other country in Europe or, for that matter, any U.S. state. Sunday’s spike in renewable output shows that wind and solar can keep pace with the demands of an economic powerhouse. What’s more, the growth of clean energy has tracked the growth of Germany’s economy.
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Germany is an unlikely leader in solar. Germany ranks second in installed photovoltaic solar capacity, according to the International Energy Agency. Until recently it was the world leader. It’s notable that, on solar, Germany is outpacing the United States, a country four times as populous. What’s more remarkable is that Germany sees about as much sunshine as Alaska.
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Individuals are driving Germany’s energy revolution. Sunday’s performance highlights the success of the Energiewende, or “energy transition,” Germany’s push to expand clean energy, increase energy efficiency, and democratize power generation. Smart policies have opened the renewable energy market to utilities, businesses and homeowners. As of 2012, individuals owned more than a third of Germany’s renewable energy capacity.
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Germany still gets most of its power from fossil fuels. Sunday’s spike resulted from a combination of reduced demand — a Sunday morning lull in power consumption. It also came from robust supply — an abundance of wind and sunshine to drive up renewable energy output. On average, renewables supply 30 percent of the country’s power. That is nonetheless a huge proportion. By comparison, the U.S. gets just 13 percent of its power from renewables.
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Jeremy Deaton writes about climate and energy for Nexus Media. Tweet him your questions at @deaton_jeremy.
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Germany has less Sunlight then Canada and so why are they leading the renewable energy revolution? Solar panels and Solar windows can be implemented everywhere in Canada.All we need is an economic plan created by our federal government. Why not copy Germany's?

Monday, May 9, 2016

Vote against exorbitant CEO pay packages.

This sounds interesting! We might be able to curtail multi-million dollar pay checks to CEO's.

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Liz McDowell, SumOfUs.org us@sumofus.org

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It's time to stop ridiculous CEO pay packages
While average workers struggle to get by, CEOs take home outrageous multi-million dollar paychecks.

BlackRock -- the world's largest asset manager -- has the power to stop runaway CEO pay. Call on BlackRock to vote against exorbitant CEO pay packages.
Joseph,
In 2014, the average CEO earned 373 times more than the average worker.
While employees at big corporations like Walmart and McDonald’s earn so little they need government help just to pay bills and put food on the table, CEOs are taking home pay packages worth tens of millions.
And every year, these astronomical rewards keep going up.
Luckily, we can do something to stop this. There’s a growing movement of activists, shareholders and everyday investors who are calling on big companies to rein in ridiculous CEO pay deals -- and it’s working. Just last week, BP shareholders voted down the CEO’s $20 million pay package.
And now we have the chance to influence BlackRock, the single largest asset manager in the world.
The investment giant owns shares in almost every public company in the world. BlackRock executives cast votes at thousands of shareholder meetings each year -- and nearly every single time, they approve outrageous pay levels for CEOs.
A BlackRock shareholder has just put forward a shareholder resolution calling for BlackRock to change its voting policy on CEO pay. If the resolution passes at the company’s AGM, it could have a huge impact on CEO pay at hundreds of the world’s biggest companies.
Let's send a strong message to BlackRock that it needs to support this resolution or alienate its customers -- and hurt its bottom line.
Executive pay has been skyrocketing for the last 30 years, while the wages of average workers stagnate. The average CEO now earns nearly 1000% more than in 1978, while average workers earn a pitiful 11% more -- not even enough to keep up with rising costs of living. 
BlackRock thinks it can keep voting to support fat cat CEOs without any backlash, because it doesn't think anyone is paying attention. If we can show that thousands of investors, customers and everyday people are watching, we can force BlackRock to change its stance on CEO pay. 
We’ll deliver your signatures at the AGM on May 26th -- and make sure that BlackRock knows that it can’t continue to vote for skyrocketing CEO pay without facing consequences.
Our shareholder activism is making a real impact. Just last week we gained historic support for a resolution calling on Canada’s biggest tar sands company to disclose its lobbying and political spending. Now we’re taking on the outrageous system of executive pay.
 
Thanks for using your investments for a good cause,
Liz, Lisa and the SumOfUs team

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Friday, May 6, 2016


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I STILL HAVE HOPE! NEVER GIVE UP!!

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Doctors Without Borders Pulls Out Of World Humanitarian Summit, Says It No Longer Has Hope

 MAY 5, 2016 11:02 AM
CREDIT: AP PHOTO/NAJIM RAHIM, FILE
An employee of Doctors Without Borders walks inside the charred remains of the organization's hospital after it was hit by a U.S. airstrike in Kunduz, Afghanistan, October 16, 2015.
Doctors Without Borders announced that it will not be participating in the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit, calling it a mere “fig-leaf of good intentions” that will not actually hold states accountable for their failure to address the humanitarian crisis in the world today.
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon previously called on world leaders to attend the first World Humanitarian Summit (WHS), which will be held in Istanbul later this month, in order to send a message to the world that “we will not accept the erosion of humanity which we see in the world today.” The summit aims to help countries, U.N. agencies, and international organizations like Doctors Without Borders prepare and respond to crises.
But news that Doctors Without Borders will not be attending the summit reveals how little faith some international aid organizations have that the summit will bring about true change.
“We no longer have any hope that the WHS will address the weaknesses in humanitarian action and emergency response, particularly in conflict areas or epidemic situations,” Doctors Without Borders announced in a statement on Wednesday. “As shocking violations of international humanitarian law and refugee rights continue on a daily basis, WHS participants will be pressed to a consensus on non-specific, good intentions to ‘uphold norms’ and ‘end needs.’ The summit has become a fig-leaf of good intentions, allowing these systematic violations, by states above all, to be ignored.”
The announcement comes mere days after a Doctors Without Borders-supported hospital in Aleppo, Syria was attacked, killing at least 50 people, including one of the last pediatricians in the city. It also follows recent news that 16 U.S. military personnel involved in the horrific bombing of a Doctors Without Hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan in October 2015 received “disciplinary measures,” but no criminal charges were made. These cases are not new. According to the organization, 75 hospitals managed or supported by Doctors Without Borders were bombed last year.
In its decision to withdraw from the summit, Doctors Without Borders called for greater accountability for these violations of international law, as well as greater attention to the refugee crisis, which the U.N. has said is the largest the world has seen since World War II, with nearly 60 million refugees in the world today.
“Putting states on the same level as non-governmental organisations and U.N. agencies, which have no such powers or obligations, the Summit will minimise the responsibility of states,” noted Doctors Without Borders. “In addition, the non-binding nature of the commitments means that very few actors will sign up to any commitments they haven’t previously committed to.”
On Tuesday, the president of Doctors Without Borders, spoke in front of the U.N. Security Council in New York City, and called for an end to the bombing of hospitals throughout regions of conflict.
“What are individuals in wars today? Expendable commodities, dead or alive,” she said during the speech. “In Afghanistan, the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Sudan, Syria, Ukraine and Yemen, hospitals are routinely bombed, raided, looted or burned to the ground. Medical personnel are threatened. Patients are shot in their beds. Broad attacks on communities and precise attacks on health facilities are described as mistakes, are denied outright, or are simply met with silence. In reality, they amount to massive, indiscriminate and disproportionate civilian targeting in urban settings, and, in the worst cases, they are acts of terror.”

Thursday, May 5, 2016

Dear Prime Minister Trudeau...of course it is climate change!

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said "people should not conclude climate change was to blame." Referring to the Alberta fire that has created 88 thousand refugees.

Dear Justin Trudeau:

 How about in India where people have died this past week because India is experiencing the worst heat wave in their history?  
 How about Alaska where the frozen muskeg is unfreezing.
 How about the fact Glaciers around the world are melting?
 How about those NASA charts that measure climate and the red line keeps going up, way way up?! Are all these indicators false! Are all the scientists around the world wrong?

 This begs the question...are you in bed with the Oil producers? Do you have a hidden agenda? I am wondering if you have agreed to the cross Canada Oil pipeline?
Something makes me feel very uneasy!

Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The world humanitarian peace and ecology movement.
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Wednesday, May 4, 2016


Today, May 5th., 2016, forest fires are burning out of control in Alberta, Canada. 

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