Some people have a depraved taste for equality, which impels the
weak to lower
the powerful to their own level, and reduces men to prefer equality in
slavery
to inequality with freedom. I believe that it is easier to establish an
absolute
and despotic government amongst a people in which the conditions of
society are
equal, than amongst any other; and I think that, if such a government
were once
established amongst such a people, it would not only oppress men, but
would
eventually strip each of them of several of the highest qualities of
humanity.
Despotism, therefore, appears to me peculiarly to be dreaded in
democratic
times.--deTocqueville
The Great Attractor is a diffuse mass concentration fully 250 million light-years away, but so large it pulls our own Milky Way Galaxy and millions of others galaxies towards it.
Toady: noun: A person who flatters or tries to please someone to gain favor; verb intr.: To behave as a toady. From shortening of toad-eater. In times past, a quack employed an assistant who ate (or pretended to eat) a poisonous toad and was supposedly cured by the quack's medicine. From there the word extended to a person who would do anything to curry favor. Earliest documented use: 1827.
Facebook revealed that it had manipulated the news feeds of over half a million randomly selected users to change the number of positive and negative posts they saw as part of a psychological study to examine how emotions can be spread on social media.
A recent article reported "the federal government is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of a half-trillion dollars a year in tax breaks, according to the International Monetary Fund." But total US oil production is only a third of a trillion per year. A Bloomberg New Energy Finance study finds that all the world's governments spent $557 billion to subsidize fossil fuels in 2008, while spending only $43-46 billion to subsidize clean energy. The U.S. and Europe made up most of the latter figure.
Toady: noun: A person who flatters or tries to please someone to gain favor; verb intr.: To behave as a toady. From shortening of toad-eater. In times past, a quack employed an assistant who ate (or pretended to eat) a poisonous toad and was supposedly cured by the quack's medicine. From there the word extended to a person who would do anything to curry favor. Earliest documented use: 1827.
Facebook revealed that it had manipulated the news feeds of over half a million randomly selected users to change the number of positive and negative posts they saw as part of a psychological study to examine how emotions can be spread on social media.
A recent article reported "the federal government is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry to the tune of a half-trillion dollars a year in tax breaks, according to the International Monetary Fund." But total US oil production is only a third of a trillion per year. A Bloomberg New Energy Finance study finds that all the world's governments spent $557 billion to subsidize fossil fuels in 2008, while spending only $43-46 billion to subsidize clean energy. The U.S. and Europe made up most of the latter figure.
The mag Greentechgrid has an article with the title, "Storage is the New Solar."
Regarding the goofy petroleum policy of the current government, do not forget that, according to Loftus' and Aarons' Secret War Against the Jews, Standard Oil continued to supply oil to the Nazi government well into the war years with the U.S..
There are water shortages in Texas. Fracking is a powerful drain on water supplies. In Crockett County, fracking accounts for up to 25% of water use, according to the groundwater conservation district. But Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, argues fracking is not the only reason Texas is going dry – and nor is the drought. The latest shocks to the water system come after decades of overuse by ranchers, cotton farmers, and fast-growing thirsty cities.
Who was...Andres Escobar?
There are water shortages in Texas. Fracking is a powerful drain on water supplies. In Crockett County, fracking accounts for up to 25% of water use, according to the groundwater conservation district. But Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech University in Lubbock, argues fracking is not the only reason Texas is going dry – and nor is the drought. The latest shocks to the water system come after decades of overuse by ranchers, cotton farmers, and fast-growing thirsty cities.
Who was...Andres Escobar?
The
loss of Lois Lerner's IRS communications will be instructive. When
Nixon's 18 minutes of tape was erased the politicians and the public
were outraged. Outraged. Now if the current political lies are met with a
shrug and a "what can you do?" I think that will imply a significant
decline in the culture's ability and willingness to demand standards.
Navigant recently forecast that the stationary battery industry would grow from $250 million this year to $17.5 billion in 2023.
The
National Organization for Marriage has been awarded a $50,000
settlement from the IRS after the agency admitted wrongdoing in leaking
the organization's 2008 tax return and the names and contact
information of major donors. The information was forwarded from the IRS
to the pro-gay marriage group Human Rights Campaign. That
group then posted the data on its website during the 2012 presidential
campaign. The documents showed Romney donated $10,000 to the National
Organization for Marriage and that information was used against him in
the campaign against Obama.
Unauthorized dissemination of such information is a felony.
As many stars as there are in our galaxy (100 - 400 billion), there are roughly an equal number of galaxies in the observable universe -- so for every star in the colossal Milky Way, there's a whole galaxy out there. All together, that comes out to the typically quoted range of between 1022 and 1024 total stars, which means that for every grain of sand on Earth, there are 10,000 stars out there. At the lower end for the number of total stars (1022), gives us 500 quintillion, or 500 billion billion sun-like stars.
Unauthorized dissemination of such information is a felony.
As many stars as there are in our galaxy (100 - 400 billion), there are roughly an equal number of galaxies in the observable universe -- so for every star in the colossal Milky Way, there's a whole galaxy out there. All together, that comes out to the typically quoted range of between 1022 and 1024 total stars, which means that for every grain of sand on Earth, there are 10,000 stars out there. At the lower end for the number of total stars (1022), gives us 500 quintillion, or 500 billion billion sun-like stars.
Golden oldie:
http://steeleydock.blogspot.com/2010/10/economic-generation.html
Deputy Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Daniel Henninger says, “The Watergate break-in was the professionals of the party in power going after the party professionals of the party out of power. The IRS scandal is the party in power going after the most average Americans imaginable.”
AAAAAAAAaaaaaannnnnnndddddd.......a graph:
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