.
“A
human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part
limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and
feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion
of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few
persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this
prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living
creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.” ―Albert Einstein
No one ever thinks about these things... ever.
Party politics and labour
THE TRUTH ABOUT THE DEFICIT: It's Not Really That Big, And There's Only One Way To Close It
www.businessinsider.com
We don't have a spending problem and we don't have a taxing problem.
The
United States is the ONLY country that taxes American citizens even if
they have never lived in the United States at any time. Once born
American, you owe taxes as an economic slave even when you receive
nothing and have never lived in the USA. This law passed last December
that authorizes the confiscation of any firm’s assets if they do not
report what an American citizen does overseas has been devastating.
Americans have been thrown out of banks everywhere.
The world’s largest retailer recently outlined a new policy that will
exclude from health coverage newly hired employees who work fewer than
30 hours per week, as
The Huffington Post reported this month.
Experts described that move as an attempt by Walmart to shift the
burden of providing health coverage to the government -- specifically,
to Medicaid, the insurance program for the poor.
Obamacare includes a dramatic expansion of Medicaid, one that will potentially extend health insurance to as many as
10 million people by 2016,
according to the most recent Congressional Budget Office estimates. It
would achieve this by expanding eligibility to include individuals with
annual incomes up to 133 percent of the federal poverty limit --
currently $14,856.
A primary mission behind Obamacare was to ensure that people in
low-wage service sector jobs -- which typically do not include health
benefits -- would gain some form of medical coverage. But in a landmark
ruling this year, the Supreme Court gave states the right to opt out of
the Medicaid expansion. Republican governors in Texas, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Maine and South
Dakota have subsequently
signaled plans to do just that.
Many of these states share two traits: A large number of Walmart
jobs, and extremely tight standards for Medicaid eligibility. In Texas,
where more than
150,000 people work at Walmart,
according to the company -- the largest number of any state -- an
employed parent who earns more than 26 percent of the federal poverty
line, or $4,963 a year for a family of three, is deemed ineligible for
Medicaid. Jobless parents must make even less to qualify -- no more than
12 percent of the poverty line. Unless they are disabled, childless
adults do not qualify in Texas regardless of their income.
After Walmart’s new policy takes effect in January, many part-time
workers who stand to be denied company health benefits would eventually
qualify for Medicaid once the Obamacare expansion takes effect in 2014.
About of half of the roughly 1 million hourly Walmart employees in the
United States earn less than $10 an hour,
the company has previously disclosed.
But if states now threatening to forgo the Medicaid expansion follow
through on those plans, many Walmart employees -- along with others in
low-paid, service-sector positions -- run the risk of slipping through
the cracks: They are likely to work too few hours to qualify for company
benefits, yet earn too much to qualify for Medicaid under their states’
restrictive standards.
High fructose and diabetes
Global High Fructose Corn Syrup Use May Be Fueling Diabetes Increase | Observations, Scientific Amer
blogs.scientificamerican.com
It doesn’t matter where you look: the U.S., Mexico, Malaysia or Portugal, the more high fructose corn
“No
drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If
we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people
for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love
of power.” -P. J. O'Rourke
Narrated by Oscar winning actor
Morgan Freeman, “Breaking the Taboo” takes a critical look at how after
50 years of prohibition, illicit drugs are now the third most valuable
industry in the world after food and oil.
Breaking the Taboo (2011) - A Global Drug War Film
www.knowledgeoftoday.org
“Breaking
the Taboo” takes a critical look at how after 50 years of prohibition,
illicit drugs are now the third most valuable industry in the world
after food
Dems To Introduce Assault Weapons Ban Bill
www.huffingtonpost.com
WASHINGTON
-- In the wake of Friday's mass killing at an elementary school in
Connecticut, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said Sunday that she plans
to introduce an assault weapons ban bill on the first day of the new
Congress. "I'm going to introduce in the
Fears
mount this weekend about not just one cavern, but the entire
Napoleonville Salt Dome collapsing, with explosive gas still in some of
the over 50 caverns inside, as a Louisiana State University geologist
explained the worst-case Friday in Baton Rouge, followed by testy state
and company statements and an oil and gas insider interviewed by the
Examiner on this catastrophe-in-the-making. Saying that this
Louisiana-declared state of emergency is about a "sinkhole" and not
"salt dome collapse" emergency is part of the cover up, according to
Examiner's source on this event, required to remain anonymous. "I
wonder how long the media is going to get away with continuing to call
it a 'sinkhole'?" he said in an email interview, saying the whole area
is a "total loss."
Entire salt dome collapse under La. sinkhole possible
www.examiner.com
Fears
mount this weekend about not just one cavern, but the entire
Napoleonville Salt Dome collapsing, with explosive gas still in some of
the over 50 caverns i
Changing agriculture
Gulf Coast organizations team up for "A Bayou Christmas".
Babs Bagwell, of the Isle de Jean Charles Band of Biloxi-Chitimacha-Choctaw Indians
- "We're fixin' to be the first climate refugees of the United States
of America. We're at the most southern tip of Louisiana, severely
affected by storms, the BP oil spill has contaminated our waters and
seafood, upon which our people rely on....and the worst people affected
by this are the children..."
freethoughtblogs.comSome
anonymous internet jerk posted a picture of Morgan Freeman with a quote
from someone else about the cause of the Newtown school shootings.
Aqueduct City of Mexico (Photo credit: SMU Central University Libraries)
![“There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all.” -Anthony Douglas Williams ► www.knowledgeoftoday.org/2012/02/earth-is-alive-beautiful-finite-hurting.html
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Some Words...(inprisonedwomen.wordpress.com)
Einstein: Widening Our Circle of Compassion(jharnisch.com)
The Task of All Humans...Freeing Ourselves from the Delusion of Separateness(mindbodyspiritacademy.org)
Researcher finds hint of dark energy discussion in letters between Einstein and Schrodinger(phys.org)
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