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Did This New Bill Really Get Passed In The The Land Of The Free?
Submitted by Simon Black via Sovereign Man blog,
Science is about truth. It’s about fact.
It’s about forming hypothesis and either proving or disproving that hypothesis through what we can observe, test, and measure.
For thousands of years it’s been through this method that humanity has progressed. And history shows that every time “authorities” get involved, it invariably arrests this process.
Human civilization lost centuries of progress in the “Dark Ages” (a bit of a misnomer, given that societies were flourishing in Asia at the same time).
European governments would burn anyone at the stake who dared to write that the Earth wasn’t the center of the universe.
We’d like to think we’ve come a long way since then. But have we really?
It was just a few years ago that the EPA was slammed in a scandal for putting political pressure on scientists to influence their work.
And just last week, the United States House of Representatives passed a bill that effectively kicks the scientists out of the EPA’s Scientific Advisory Board, and makes room for industry insiders.
What’s curious is that this bill specifically allows for industry representatives to serve on the advisory board even when they have a direct conflict of interest with the board’s advisory activities.
This makes it yet even easier for a handful of big companies to influence public policy and force everyone else to do their bidding.
By themselves, companies would never be able to set policy. But when you put them in bed with government, they can do so at the point of a gun.
To give you an analogy, this would be the same thing as commercial banks like Citi or JP Morgan getting to choose the representatives that set monetary policy at the Federal Reserve.
—Oh wait, they’re already doing that.
Or it would be like the Department of Homeland Security buying completely useless body scanners from a company linked to the former head of DHS.
—Oh wait, they already did that too.
Or it would be like the FDA selecting some of its top executives from big agriculture companies like Monsanto.
—Oh wait, they already do that too.
Abraham Lincoln famously said at Gettysburg in 1863 that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
The system we have today is none of those things.
- The EPA is not there to protect the environment.
- Homeland Security is not there to secure the homeland.
- The FDA is not there for the health and safety of Americans.
And you’re far more likely to get shot by a police officer now in the Land of the Free than you are to ever even see a terrorist.
This system isn’t there to support you or protect you. It’s there to extract as much as possible from you through taxes and inflation at the point of a gun, and then force you to follow the rules that they create which benefit themselves the most.
That’s what passes as a free society today.
And it’s the biggest threat to our liberty, the biggest threat to our livelihood, and the biggest threat to future generations that won’t even be born for decades.
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The regulatory agencies have been weaponized and their sights are on YOU, the productive.
But a liberal told me its a republican trying to kill the planet.....
RIPS
Government of the sheeple, by some people for those people.
Land of the Free??? Simon's smoking something or relying those Pravda-on-the-Hudson textbooks they indoctrinate with at West Point...
Richard Olney (who was rewarded for this "insight" with Eric Holder's office) in 1892.
The [Interstate Commerce] Commission, as its functions have now been limited by the courts, is, or can be made, of great use to the railroads. It satisfies the popular clamor for a government supervision of railroads, at the same time that that supervision is almost entirely nominal. Further, the older such a Commission gets to be, the more inclined it will be found to take the business and railroad view of things. It thus becomes a sort of barrier between the railroad corporations and the people and a sort of protection against hasty and crude legislation hostile to railroad interests. The part of wisdom is not to destroy the Commission, but to utilize it.
Rinse, Repeat
Well, let's go back to Lincoln himself:Abraham Lincoln famously said at Gettysburg in 1863 that a government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. Then proceeded to prosecute a war against some of those "people". This is how the big lie works...
It hasn't disappeared, it has been destroyed and through purpose with a firm hand by the Elites (of whom Lincoln was one).
Yes, Lincoln "did" suspend habeas corpus and imprison news reporters without trial or due process during the Civil War. Not a good idea to quote about freedom and rights from a president that ignored them via executive order.
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/president-lincoln-suspends-th...
let me be the first to say it, lincoln was a fucking idiot.
lincoln was a traitor and a master propagandist
who;s better face to be on a penny maybe obola will replace the bastard
Why shouldn't they pass these laws? Everyone will still obey them 100%
Come on Simon, you could at least start the article off accurately.
"It’s about forming hypothesis and either proving or disproving that hypothesis through what we can observe, test, and measure.'
Incorrect.
The scientific method can ONLY disprove a hypothesis.
Hook Line and Sphincter
Some people pass themselves off as smart in order to get money. Part of the problem, not part of the solution.
Why am I seeing a trend of people who are saying that facts or "the scientific method" can only be used to disprove ideas, theories, or hypothesis? Is this some new line of progressive bullshit? How else can something be proven? Are you saying that an idea can only be true if there is nothing to disprove it? There is no evidence that God does not exist, but I bet you believe that he doesnt. Please help me understand how this is supposed to work, if you can.
duplicate
The FEDERAL E.P.A. was started up by the Kissinger/Nixon Administration (following the map or 'blueprint' used by the State of California).
The 'Obamacare' legislation was started up by the Jarrett/Obama Administration following the map (or 'blueprint') of Mitt Romney's State of Massachussetts (and BOTH being written by a commisymplant fuck named JONATHAN GRUBER from M.I.T.).
I WONDER who wrote up the 'legislation' in California back in 1970 (that was the 'standard' for the FEDERAL Environmental Protection Act).
Well, as long as the 'lobbyists' aren't 'federally-registered foreign government lobbyists' (like A.I.P.A.C. members or something that are NOT), it's just fucking LEGAL. ZEIG fucking HEIL.
I wonder if Kissinger is banging Jarrett on the side.
I wonder if Kissinger is banging Jarrett on the side.
No, but Obama is. Or should I say, she is banging him.
Anyone else note the irony in the Diktraitor, Dishonest Abe's speech, since the republik was long dead before Abe took orifice?
There was still plenty of Republic for ol' Abe the sophist to sodomize when he took office, but there was pretty much nothing left to rape by the time he received his fatal dose of cranial lead.
Lincoln, another lawyer from Illinois.
He lied. He wasn't really a liberal.
The sooner people stop calling America The Land of the Free the better, let's call it what it is, an evil empire run by sociopath billionaires that turned the culture into a Global Death Cult that worships Permanent War so they can make more billions killing people around the globe while extracting the maximum possible from the serfs and making sure to crush any dissent with militarized police and spy forces. At least Medieval serfs had a better deal and much more job security.
Wow that's pretty comprehensive.
You are right - the land of the free is a bit of a stretch these days - however, we're on here talking about it. In a lot of countries that'll get you killed or at least get some of your organs sold to wealthy visitors. So the story is not told, it's in flux, and you can effect how it turns out.
Note the part about "evil empire run by sociopath billionaires." You and I are so far removed from any kind of real influence, much less power, that what we say means nothing. Absolutely nothing. Go ahead, talk about whatever you want all day long. Do it with other people, too. Do it in public. You have no effect on the big picture or the bottom line whatsoever. At most, your empty exercise is useful in keeping the collective myth alive, whether it depends upon Orwellian doublethink or not.
And, should that ever change, your life will be transformed into living hell, by any means necessary.
But, for most "folk," just losing your livelihood and facing homelessness is threat enough. They and their hierarchy of toadies, formal and otherwise, will ensure it. The truth don't pay and the lies still do.
So it is for compliant contributing citizens of Evil Empires.
About the most comprehensive overall summation of the US I've ever read.
They should make school children recite this every morning
that's after the republican kills you first...
IT's the elite agenda to hide the truth. The truth can set you free, only if you can find it and do something with it.
Lying fucking bastards. Control by chaos, fear and plain out deceit.
Hollywood now has shows of gubermint with all the devious plans and actions. Scandel, madam secretary etc. Why??? To dull the pain of the truth, hidding in the surreal display.
Why else do hundreds of thousands of football fans yell and scream for their team to win. It is all they have.
Fuckin' A.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVpyx2gSYIc
While I may not always agree with Simon ... this time I have to say he hit the nail right on the head. Nothing could CLOSER to the truth.
Corporate lobbyists are everywhere:
“The ISDS mechanism gives foreign corporations the ability to directly sue countries at private international tribunals for compensation over health, environmental, financial and other domestic safeguards that they believe undermine their rights. These investor-state lawsuits are decided by private commercial arbitrators who are paid for each case they hear, with a clear tendency to interpret the law in favour of investors.”
http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2014/11/ceta-trading-away-democracy.html
ObamaCare is just the beginning...
Note: If the Republicans don't repeal it very soon, then those that pump the red team should just STFU.
How about NSA spying? There are so many things that need to be done but I'll bet against all of them happening.
Boots in Syria before anything useful.
The sweet smell of Oligarchy
Is that the new car smell Obama's been talking about ?
He got a real good whiff while biting the headrest when Reggie was in the back.
It’s unthoughtful to call a politician a plain liar when you have a calm liar, a preaching liar, a speed liar, a scholar liar, and a calculating, smooth liar to choose from.
A hypthesis is never "proved", it can only be disproved. Eventually, after enough rigourous attempts to disprove a hypothesis, certain models for how things work come to be accepted as fact. Even then, then are still tested from time to time.
Fuck off Simon, from your private bungalow in some distant land...
Prove that^^
*You're the one asserting it, pal. As you're talking of "truth" - you can either prove it to be true, or you're a logical quack!
I dunno what a hypthesis, but a hypothesis is basically an assumption. In real life, Laws is exactly correct, "assuming" a typo.
You can't actually "prove" an assumption no matter how many times and in how many circumstances it appears true.
I used this one a few days ago, but it applies in this instance as well-
When I was young, my Daddy asked me:
Did you know that cows hide in trees?
No they dont!
<sternly>
Sure they do! Have you ever seen a cow in a tree?
No, sir.
See how good they hide?
bye bye galt, where did he go? cabin in the montains?
Fuck you Lincoln.
Sic semper tyrannis
"What’s curious is that this bill specifically allows for industry representatives to serve on the advisory board even when they have a direct conflict of interest with the board’s advisory activities."
i see no problem ... this is the Federal Reserve model for its 12 banks ...
oh wait, ...
Just like in Lincoln's time, it depends who those "people" are.
There are The People, The Herders and The Livestock.
Dr. Jim Willie points out that the US has run out of countries to attack and loot so now they are attacking their allies.
http://www.goldenjackass.com/main5.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3_fbiHfU6M&feature=youtu.be
With a "friend" like the US, a country doesn't need enemies.
The "friendship" America has with many of its "allies" is not that much different from the "friendship" Germany had with France after France's capitulation in 1940.
This Simon idiot is clueless about science. Why does ZH keep inundating viewers with this crap?
Ahhh. Did you read the collection of words Simon laid out in a particular order for you? From your comment I seriously doubt it.
Science is not about " truth".
There are no "facts".
You can't prove a hypothesis.
Yes you can, and then it becomes theory! If you can't prove it, then it goes into the dustbin of history.
Following 9/11 EPA said lower manhattan air quality fine ... Following BP spill EPA said Gulf water quality fine ...
Fukushima? (heh-heh-- couldn't pick a better time to "decommission" the radiation detectors, could we?)
How long until everybody starts referring to O as the "Benevolent" Dictator he so desperately wants everyone to believe he is.
How about "Dear Careless Rapper" ?
Caesar
Hm, political pressure to stop the EPA from regulating carbon emissions... wonder how that fits in the science-denial tale.
Dig up Nixon so that we can desecrate his corpse for creating this EPA monster.
Abraham Lincoln was the USA's version of Stalin, and a mega fascist to boot. Oh, and before somebody says "But he ended slavery" - The abolitionists HATED Lincoln. He was no friend of black people. His legacy is revisionist, Orwellian bullshit.
To you downvoters: Read your history. Read Lincoln in his own words, read the data rather than believing what people tell you to believe. It's not even debatable. He was a mega-fascist, and he was an enemy to freedom, and he was an enemy to blacks. He massacred a peaceful protest in NYC just for starters.
My favorite Lincoln trivia question that I always ask any of his fanbois is this; "How many slaves did Lincoln set free?"
The answer: ZERO
The emancipation only "freed" slaves outside of the Union, and freed absolutely none within his sacred Union. Slaves in Union states were only freed AFTER the war, and only by the states' governors, who were the only people with the power to do so.
As for his home state of Illinois, it wasn't a slave-free state, it was a black-free state. It's one of the most racist places I've ever been.
So you are saying he is just like a Lawyer of Today or maybe buddy-buddy with Bankers... Or maybe he was the type of Patriarch that wanted to tell everyone how to live and that his Values were the most important for everyone to adopt.
I have to look into his speeches.
Thomas DeLorenzo's books are a good read. They are empirically and factually correct. But some may not like what they say. It may change their worldview.
Not his speeches. Read the memoirs of his closest associates. He said the blacks should be free, but not here, back in Africa is fine. He was a racist. He told the southern States that slavery could go on if they buckled under to the new tax scheme, where the agrarian south would pay the majority share, thanks to the northern bankers and industrialists that already owned the congress.
I find it comical and sad the fact that people actually believe the USA was ever in history governed of, by, and for the (common) people.
Saying it doesn't make it so and if you look back in history the US has only ever been what it claims to be in words; meaningless, meaningless words. The actions have always been to the contrary.
If anything I feel we may be moving closer to the aforementioned democracy and away from a republic what with social media etc but be careful what you wish for. Have you met the average person? Many are not intelligent and whats worse is the majority are extraordinarily ignorant regarding any substantive issues.
Even dumb, ignorant people can produce things. The US government isnt even giving them the chance to do that anymore. They are literally stripping shit down to the fucking bone. I dont know what the end game is but it isnt going to be pretty.
Which is why it is so funny watching the media & politiacl feeding freenzy going on around this consultant on the Obamacare law.
The guy says Americans are dumb, or stupid, or whatever, and the press goes nuts while he runs for cover. All he needed to do was stand up and defend himself with some facts, because Americans ARE dumb, and there are plenty of examples to prove it.
Everyone knows Americans are dumb. What made him reprehensible is that he took advantage of Americans BECAUSE they are dumb.
Which sounds like standard operating procedure for the political classes overall. So, he gets blasted by a bunch of yahoos who are, in reality, even more reprehensible. Both funny and sad.
Hey, in other news, for the cost of Obamacare, we could have cut every American a check for 3k to just go ahead and buy insurance. Coulda means tested and focused it on people who couldn't afford it.
But that's not what we do in this country. We wipe our ass with the bill of rights, grow government, spend $ we don't have, and call the opposition names.
And Americans are too busy going down to the mall to buy sneakers with lights in them to notice that abolutely nothing has changed as to a profligate Congress, an imperial president, out of control banks, and the power to issue currency in the hands of private banks - mostly old European Jewish banking dynasties who CRAVE war.
General George S. Patton 3 days before his death warned of what would become the fate of the world (forget about the corrupt US) Upon seeing the filth and horror created by the jewish communists he urged the powers that be to empower Germany for they were fighting the wrong people.
fact not fiction do the fucking research and stop acting like being racist is a bad thing... dumb asses racism = self preservation get it thru your thick fuckin heads
OH yeah if you don't think that holds true keep marrying off your daughters to non-whites go ahead and breed your fucking family, your heritage and your bloodlines out of existence... some of us "racists" will be glad to see ya fucking gone.
http://youtu.be/JUDSeb2zHQ0
Anybody remem er this one?
It’s about forming hypothesis and either proving or disproving that hypothesis through what we can observe, test, and measure.
Oklahoma Federal Building 1995? It was a fertilizer bomb that took Murrah apart!...
Manhattan September 11, 2001? It was just a really bad fire! You need to ignore stuff like this and get it out of your mind forever! Honest!!!.... Especially if you're an architect that wants to find meaningful employment building buildings with loans secured from a bank! And if your a fire fighter or a policeman???.... Let that reality sink into your head when you can't pay for your college loans and the roof over your head because you arre not towing "the party line"! That building was just made better than the 3 that collapsed on 9/11 the same way on the exact same day! Get over it!!!!
Science is about truth. It’s about fact. No it isn't! Science is about what your government tells you it is!
Good luck if you want truth when your government tells you that you can't have it!!!!
"Oklahoma Federal Building 1995? It was a fertilizer bomb that took Murrah apart!...
Manhattan September 11, 2001? It was just a really bad fire!"
Those are correct.
Your weekly paycheck from "Uncle Binnie" is in the mail!
Nice work moneybot
"Your weekly paycheck from "Uncle Binnie" is in the mail!
Nice work moneybot"
Nice imagination you have Nemo. It was a fertilizer bomb and all three buildings had totally out of control fires.
Your lack of critical thinking skills is discouraging but not surprising.
"Your lack of critical thinking skills is discouraging but not surprising."
Yours are noted.
It was a fertilizer bomb. All three buildings had totally out of control fires.
moneybots
Just found your picture. Thought I saw five guys dressed like this dancing across the river when the Tower(s) fell???!
Will look even better with the "Star of David" tatooed on your forehead!
So is this what the well dressed Neo-Nazi-Zionist is wearing in Kiev and Gaza these days?...
"moneybots
Just found your picture. Thought I saw five guys dressed like this dancing across the river when the Tower(s) fell???!"
Your imagination is still running amok.
It was fertilizer bomb and there were totally out of control fires in all three buidings that collapsed.
Forget it MB, they see anything from any MSM source and its instantly an NWO conspiracty - even if it were 1+1=2.
They cannot do the simple Maths or Physics to show what the energy stored in the two towers was, and how that was much more than enough to do ''what the official story claims''. It's just Physics - but they cannot do those calculations. They just don't understand it.
They cannot do the simple Maths or Physics to show what the energy stored in the two towers was, and how that was much more than enough to do ''what the official story claims''. It's just Physics - but they cannot do those calculations. They just don't understand it.
Leracunt
Do tell us more about it just being physics and the "calculations" involved, especially when "equal and opposite" are in the mix!
Let us know when the Zionist book on free fall acceleration comes out for publication -won't you?...
"Leracunt
Do tell us more about it just being physics and the "calculations" involved, especially when "equal and opposite" are in the mix!
Let us know when the Zionist book on free fall acceleration comes out for publication -won't you?..."
Name calling, because you can't refute what he is saying.
The Zionist Laws of Motion Book post 9/11
free fall acceleration for an object = for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction in that object
Yes of course!... Everything is so clear to me now?!!!
WT7 had a few small fires. Yet it all fell down in one great big flumph.
"WT7 had a few small fires. Yet it all fell down in one great big flumph."
A major lack of critical thinking on your part. Windows were busted out all along the north wall on certain floors, as the fire travelled from one end of the building to the other. A CBS reporter got good footage it.
A CBS reporter got good footage it.
You mean this guy?
"A CBS reporter got good footage it.
You mean this guy?"
The CBS reporter who's camera operator shot video on the north side of 7 World Trade, as it burned, without a single NYFD firefighter attempting to put it out, leaving it to burn totally out of control.
As i said, all three buildings that collapsed, burned totally out of control..
Why don't you show us a link to the tape, instead of just talking about it, like an asshole.
Well that didnt take long for Nemos point to be proven! LOL! Fucking moron. Or sick in the head, cant tell.
"Well that didnt take long for Nemos point to be proven! LOL! Fucking moron. Or sick in the head, cant tell."
Nemo does have quite an imagination, doesn't he.
It was a fertilizer bomb and all three buildings that collapsed had totally out of control fires.
Keep saying it, your paycheck depends on it! LOL! I just had a vision in my head of you saying that everyday before you log into your JTRIG account.
"Keep saying it, your paycheck depends on it! LOL! I just had a vision in my head of you saying that everyday before you log into your JTRIG account."
Another with a vivid imagination, with visions even.
It was a fertilizer bomb and all three buildings that collapsed had totally out of control fires.
If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will enventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the peopl from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
- Joseph Goebbels
Not enough Zionist scientists, so room must be made for Zionists political hacks to advise and run the rackets.
An American, not US subject.
As for "Did This New Bill Really Get Passed In The The Land Of The Free," they passed NDAA 2012 with indefinite detention tucked nice and treasonously inside, so why not.
The Federalist triumph !
It’s about forming hypothesis and either proving or disproving that hypothesis through what we can observe, test, and measure.
That's a rather old fashioned way to look at science and sometimes quite possibly a bad way to conduct research. When science is driven by money, personal pride, agenda, celebrity, or any of these combinations, the results can be expensive and awful. As a purist, I believe science should be driven by data and nothing else. There's enough ego in science perverting the interpretation of data already without starting out with a pet hypothesis. Data driven research is what counts in my opinion.
One could argue that the wholesale usurpation of government departments created to protect citizens by multinational corporations and financial institutions is a natural progression of neo-feudal capitalism. The other side of the coin, where government departments are usurped by a single political agenda (communism, for example) offer the same result. It always ends with the powerful and wealthy getting more powerful and wealthier at the cost of ordinary people, the 99%. I don't think there's any way to put this right short of making all corporate/oligarchical interference in government a capital crime in a democracy. No more special interest groups, no more lobbyists, no more entities like AIPAC, no more private central bank dictats, no more swapping chairs from the boardrooms of finance to the seats of office in government.
Neo-feudalism, crony capitalism, corporate socialism, corporatism, whatever you want to call it, there is just too much power and wealth in the hands of a few, and we're all drowning in the debts, cruelty and oppression these fuckers have created so they can expand and extend their empire of evil for a little longer while teetering on the brink of systemic collapse. The funny thing is, if they had been just a little smarter and less greedy, they could easily have avoided coming this close to collapse - they have the fucking monopoly on the global reserve currency! ffs. - but their nature and perhaps the nature of all men suffering from megalomania is such that they were all too predictably predatory and avaricious.
When faced with their own mindless fucking mess, their response is equally predictable: We will destroy the world if you don't let us steal from you a little longer. And so here we are today - bailouts upon bailouts with every market, commodity and medium of exchange on the planet manipulated daily for their gratification. Some days, I just have to laugh at the insanity of it all, until I am reminded that these same fuckers also murder kids all over the planet to satisfy their base instincts for diversion and war.
Good Piece for Simon Black. Regulation Capture. Government Capture. But we can add Justices & Medical Doctors who receive gifts of seminars or training at universities based on Funding from Industry.
"Science is about truth. It’s about fact.
It’s about forming hypothesis and either proving or disproving that hypothesis through what we can observe, test, and measure."
That is what it is supposed to be about, but history has noted scientists having egos, just the same as anyone else.
Edison killed animals with AC current, to promote his DC currrent as the standard for power generation. He even invented the electric chair for that purpose.
The FOX network show on the universe, hosted by Neil Degrasse Tyson, presented stories of early scientists who fought against those who would upstage them.
While I can't argue with any of the points made, it frustrates the hell out of me that no call to action is included. Perhaps we're in that great gray zone just before the critical mass is achieved, and once it happens a great flush will be upon us to rid our body politic of the excrement!
and all we get is the scraps from Longshanks table
Aye..but their wenches....we can take them whenever!
Scary stuff... (/sarc)
E-Cigarettes 101
http://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/features/electronic-cigarettes
By R. Morgan Griffin
WebMD Feature
Reviewed by Arefa Cassoobhoy, MD, MPH
Electronic cigarettes: Are they safer than tobacco? Or are they a high-tech way to hook a new generation on a bad nicotine habit?
Nobody knows yet.
Research into the effects of e-cigarettes lags behind their popularity. But ready or not, the era of e-cigarettes is here. It’s a booming, billion-dollar industry -- on track to outsell tobacco products within a decade. The number of teens and tweens using these products doubled between 2011 and 2012.
The time to get informed about these products is now.
Or you could use them just to vape hash and enjoy a healthy buzz.
Simon. are you saying that the EPA prior to this bill was a well meaning orginization doing a lot of good in the world? This government is evil and all it's branches are evil and it does not matter who sits on the advisory board. They are not capable of doing good. They have not been doing anything good for years and they will not do anything good in the future. Stop drinking the Koolaid Simon.
"By themselves, companies would never be able to set policy. But when you put them in bed with government, they can do so at the point of a gun."
The problem is one of turn about is fair play. Obama has arbitrarily crushed the coal industry. Germany for one is building new coal fired power plants, as they simply need the stable power supplied by coal.
Two Google engineers just stated that renewable energy doesn't work.
"The key problem appears to be that the cost of manufacturing the components of the renewable power facilities is far too close to the total recoverable energy – the facilities never, or just barely, produce enough energy to balance the budget of what was consumed in their construction."
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2014/11/22/shocker-top-google-engineers-say-r...
Say what you like about his schemes, he is right about this.. It's a big club and YOU aint in it..
.." In a strange mixture of fear and respect, I had once admired Clark. He had this wide-open notion of no law at all, of being the law unto himself. The awe paid him by everyone at our law offices was so powerful as to be intimidating, and as a young attorney confronted with the complexities of the politics mixed in with the law, I was not just impressed; I was overwhelmed. After all, I had to learn how the system worked and Clark showed me. Politics and the law were one and the same. They were not just synonymous; they were identical.
In my first years at the law firm, Clark seemed to work legal magic. A phone call to a judge and the case was won. Get the word out for the final review of legislation and every key member of the lobby showed up in our conference room. Place a phone call to an officer with his bank and get cash on request. Dine in Austin's finest restaurants and bill the client. Enter the dark underside and find whatever is needed to complete the bill of fare - all the nighttime fun and games." ....
http://spartacus-educational.com/JFKclarkE.htm
Edward Aubrey Clark
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Much of "science" is actually science with an agenda. Finding evidence that fits a certain conclusion.
Lincoln was a murderous fascist on the take that sold America out to foreign bankers for shoes & purses for his wife.
Par for the course in the world of politics.
the lowest common denominator is always an interesting
love story, sad and beautiful ....
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The Men Who Killed Kennedy: Part 8 The Love Affair
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGrrdTlMpS4
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romeo and juliet, usa/amnerican style.
Dear Simon,
Science is about "thruth"? Who's truth? Which "truth"? There is no "truth", there is only opinion.
Example: Lacking a referrence point outside of our universe (we have none), indeed, the earth can easily be thought of as being the center of the universe but to say so today, one might expect the modern equivalent of being burned at the stake.
I lost interest in your tiresome drivel after that.
If you don't believe in truth, you won't recognize it when it starts gnawing on your scrotum.
My scrotum is my own business and none of yours so kindly gnaw upon your own scrotum and leave mine alone no matter how enticing and desirous you may find it.
In other words, my truth is mine and your truth is yours. They are both "truths" regardless of how much they may differ.
"By themselves, companies would never be able to set policy. But when you put them in bed with government, they can do so at the point of a gun."
When political activists are put in charge of policy, they also do it at the point of a gun. What eventually winds up happening is push back.
I couldn't agree with the conclusion more. We're aphids being milked by the ants. Nothing more.
Direct Democracy = Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.
Representative Democracy = self serving, lying politians corrupted by the corporations.
Bullshit on the first one, correct on the second. Direct Democracy = majority rule by vote-buying, corrupt, thieving politicians and fuck everybody else. Can't argue with your definition of Representative Democracy.
So the urban dwellers can directly redistrubute income for their use? Ummmm
Preach it brother!
Where is this "land of the free" you speak of?
Is this the bill?
EPA Research Standards – Passage - Vote Passed (237-190, 7 Not Voting)
The House voted to pass a bill that would prohibit the EPA from proposing, finalizing or disseminating a rule or other regulatory impact analysis or guidance unless all scientific and technical information used to support the research results is made publicly available and can be independently analyzed and reproduced. It also would clarify that environmental research law does not require the disclosure of information that is prohibited by law.
Rep. Michael Fitzpatrick voted YES
We need the bill number and for Simon Black to point to where in the bill are the objectionable actions. Wouldn't surprise if this innocent sounding bill is actually the awful bill in disguise since Fitz voted for it.
It shouldn’t be too hard to figure out: If we don’t live in a democracy with government of, for and by the People; we must live in a society that is ruled by the fascist. A country ruled by corporate monopoly and their government.
By the way, real Science is dead.
You mean the Ehrlichians, watermelons, carbon-phobes, anti-capitalists, anarchists, and Malthusians are losing? That's too bad.
The problem is not the science, its the scientists with an agenda. This is why this happens.
land of the free and home of the brave..... thank you for your cervix....
lincoln is the reason big government exists so fuck abe too.... he crushed state's rights and ushered in what the ussa sheeple live under today... corporate/political crony kickback tyranny... thanks
Fucking Lincoln?????
I thought there were at least some objectivists that could see right through Lincoln's silver tongue to the truth. He mouthed that phrase while he proceded to wipe out 600,000 of those "people" , then maimed for life another 600,000 and ruined 1million families in the process.
The REAL Lincoln was a tyrant, a figure on a par with Idi Amin, Pol Pot, Mao.
Even Lyndon Johnson has to resign for killing only 80,000 men.
Don't quote Lincoln unless you first admit that he should have been assassinated in 1860, and that Booth acted 4 yrs too late.
Lincoln!!! Jesus h. Christ!!!
And this is a surprise? Who has been approving and forcing vaccines ion the public for decades? Yeah, real shocker of a story.
How come the article never even hints at the fact that all law-making authority is vested in the Congress by the Constitution, and they may not delegate that authority to anyone.
Therefore, all agency "regualtions" are NOT law. Maybe we should talk about this more often.