“Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. It is in vain to say that democracy is less vain, less proud, less selfish, less ambitious, or less avaricious than aristocracy or monarchy. It is not true, in fact, and nowhere appears in history. Those passions are the same in all men, under all forms of simple government, and when unchecked, produce the same effects of fraud, violence, and cruelty."
A genuine didgeridoo is made from trees which are hollowed by termites while they are alive. MYTH: "You bury the didgeridoounder the ground and othe termites will hollow it out." ... FACT: A genuine termitehollowed didgeridoo can be made from many different eucalyptus varieties and also from some other tree species.
JEWS IN SPACE! Israeli spacecraft aims for historic moon landing within months.
As foretold by the prophecies
WOULD A RUSSIAN PUPPET SAY THIS? “Angela, you need to stop buying gas from Putin.”
Be afraid but not too afraid ... The Government Will Allow Cody Wilson’s Defense Distributed to Distribute Gun-Making Software
From a 1970 issue of New York magazine, Buckminster Fuller on the massive economic lever of technology:
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
THAT’S (NOT) A MAN, BABY: Infighting at Business Insider Over Pulled Column on Transgender Issues. “Conservative columnist defended casting Scarlett Johnansson as a trans man.”
WOULD A RUSSIAN PUPPET SAY THIS? “Angela, you need to stop buying gas from Putin.”
From a 1970 issue of New York magazine, Buckminster Fuller on the massive economic lever of technology:
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.
That was written almost 50 years ago…the capability of technology to generate wealth has increased greatly since then
The Book of Hope: Rockefeller Institute of Government – Nancy Zimpher: “Working together, good people are changing the world. In his new book Reclaiming the American Dream: Proven Solutions for Creating Economic Opportunity for All,[1] Ben Hecht spotlights efforts that are successfully addressing some of the country’s most pressing issues: meaningful employment, economic empowerment, impactful civic involvement, education that works. But this book is so much more than a public policy study. It’s a recipe for hope. Organizations that come together, focus on a common agenda for social change, and use shared measurement-of-progress tools are achieving remarkable and sustained success.
EU Parliament News:
“3D printing is transforming how products are made, but many legal
issues such civil liability and intellectual property rights still need
to be clarified. Additive manufacturing, commonly known as 3D printing,
is changing how products are designed, developed, manufactured, and
distributed. By 2021, the 3D printing market could be worth €9.6
billion, according to a report by the European Commission.
Although it is creating opportunities for companies, it is also raising
challenges, especially concerning civil liability and intellectual
property rights. French EFDD member Joëlle Bergeron
has written an own-initiative report with legislative and regulatory
recommendations in the field of 3D printing. Her report was adopted by
MEPs on 3 July and will now be forwarded to the European Commission for
consideration. We talked to Bergeron following the vote by Parliament’s
legal affairs committee on 20 June about why legislation on this is needed…”
New York Times, Government Work Done, Tax Policy Writers Decamp to Lobbying Jobs:
New York Times, Government Work Done, Tax Policy Writers Decamp to Lobbying Jobs:
Six
months after Republicans pushed a $1.5 trillion tax overhaul through
Congress, many of the most influential players who worked behind the
scenes on the legislation are no longer on Capitol Hill or in the Trump
administration.
They are now lobbyists.
The
two-way street between lobbying and lawmaking is well worn in
Washington. But after President Trump’s campaign pledge to “drain the
swamp,” there was some speculation that the so-called special interests
might be sidelined. And while the frenetic two-month sprint last year to
pass the tax legislation left some lobbyists marginalized, the
businesses now scrambling to navigate the changes are increasingly
recruiting the people who wrote it.
Just How Many People Could The Earth Support?
We have been engineering our environments to more productively serve human needs for tens of millennia. We cleared forests for grasslands and agriculture. We selected and bred plants and animals that were more nutritious, fertile and abundant. It took six times as much farmland to feed a single person 9,000 years ago, at the dawn of the Neolithic revolution, than it does today, even as almost all of us eat much richer diets. What the palaeoarcheological record strongly suggests is that carrying capacity is not fixed. It is many orders of magnitude greater than it was when we began our journey on this planet. … [Read More]
Romain Gary, literary bad boy. He fabulated copiously, wrote under assumed names, and won the Prix Goncourt twice, which was technically impossible
Stupidity is not the prerogative of any one class or creed. It is Heaven's free gift to men of all kinds, and conditions, and civilizations. A practical man, said Disraeli, is one who perpetuates the blunders of his predecessor instead of striking out into blunders of his own.
Chinese AI beats 15 doctors in tumor diagnosis competitionThe Next Web. The accuracy rate of both approaches is still not so hot from a patient perspective.
IMBALANCE: Why are American media so compassionate and obsessed about the
fate of 12 boys in a cave of Thailand, when thousands are kids who did nothing
wrong are stuck in Trump administration detention? asks
columnist Will Bunch. Similarly, Daily Beast editor Noah Shactman questioned why The New York Times put six
reporters on the story of Trump supporter Alan Dershowitz getting the cold
shoulder this summer on Martha's Vineyard.