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 2 may 2012 24 apr 2012 Insolvency, tax cuts, military spending and social security Armando, at DailyKos ... It is
as much a lie to say Social Security is "going
bankrupt" or "insolvent" as it is to say the
military is going bankrupt. The Chairman of the House
Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
thinks that the Obama administration is “the most
corrupt in history,” and he’s not afraid to say
it. One of my major childhood and adolescent activities was making models of ships, planes, spacecraft, and sometimes cars from model kits. I had dozens of them. In fact I still have a few, plastic-wrapped in boxes for decades, one my father started when I was very little, ones my son wasn't interested in, and a big model of the USS Constitution acquired with my house. But the old ones sat in the attic of my parents'' house, gradually getting fragile bits broken off as stuff got moved around now and then, for 40 years. Now that house is my brother's, and he's insulating the attic, and everything needs to get moved out. I was prepared to agonize over which favorite one or two to keep, as I moved box after box downstairs and outside. I pulled them out, and laid them on the grass. I still knew the names of most of the ships, and the aircraft types, and the spacecrsft programs. But they were bedraggled, dusty, and I was bemused that I had once been so proud on the paint jobs. I took pictures, then into the dumpster they went.   I remember some
others, though, which I didn't find.
21 apr
2012 Interesting. and good job, FBI:
In Nov 2011, as the FBI realized that taking down
a criminal botnet would negatively affect
half a million victims, it set up a server to
continue their internet service for several months
with it's security partner, DCWG.org. But
now it's time for that to end, so there are
newspaper stories on it, to warn people, to ask
them to remove the botnet malware from their PCs.
Remembering Project Gemini - The Atlantic,
2012 - 41 big photosBirds at the feeder: Mourning doves swallow black sunflower seeds whole, while the finches and sparrows crack them open and swallow just the kernel.  I thought John Carter of Mars
was pretty good. The cinematography was very well
done, but the plot suffers from being 100-year-old
pulp fiction. I don't know whether the motives of
the bad guys are in the books, but they are absent
in the movie. I think it should have been released
as summer fodder.And I rewatched Across the Universe (2007), a very good story set to Beatles music. 18 apr 2012 Religious discrimination by Romney's cronies. Lizard-brained partner of murderous kleptocrats does logic: “Yeah,” Robertson
agreed. “Is it guilt? Do we think that we have
sinned and therefore we have destroyed our
planet and therefore we’re going to get it in
the neck?”
“Just keep in mind that Mars, and say, ‘How many SUVs, how many oil refineries are there on Mars?’ And yet, it’s the relationship to the sun that is effecting the climate on Mars,” he concluded. Mitt Romney, American Parasite The Presidential candidate's years at Bain represent everything you hate about capitalism Pete Kotz, Seattle Weekly ..."Romney
is not a vulture capitalist, as Rick Perry
says, since vultures eat dead carcasses,"
notes Josh Kosman, who's written about the
private equity business for 15 years. He's
"more of a parasitic capitalist, since he
destroys profitable businesses." ...
More
on Lyme Disease and testing. In January, The Wall
Street Journal did
its best to piece together Romney's track
record, reviewing 77 investments made under
his direction. It turned out that nearly one
in three of the companies experienced severe
financial trouble. One in five wound up in
bankruptcy. The almost-state of Franklin, 1784-1788. Failed secession from North Carolina. 12 apr 2012 Cannibalize the Future Paul Krugman, NYT One
general rule of modern politics is that the
people who talk most about future generations —
who go around solemnly declaring that we’re
burdening our children with debt — are, in
practice, the people most eager to sacrifice our
future for short-term political gain. You can
see that principle at work in the House
Republican budget, which starts with dire
warnings about the evils of deficits, then calls
for tax cuts that would make the deficit even
bigger, offset only by the claim to have a
secret plan to make up for the revenue losses
somehow or other.
And you can see it in the actions of Chris Christie, the governor of New Jersey, who talks loudly about acting responsibly but may actually be the least responsible governor the state has ever had. 6 apr 2012 Climate change is a moral issue, on par with slavery. Jim Hansen, NASA climate scientist, from Rawstory  Averting
the worst consequences of human-induced climate
change is a “great moral issue” on a par with
slavery, according to the leading Nasa climate
scientist Prof Jim Hansen.He argues that storing up expensive and destructive consequences for society in future is an “injustice of one generation to others”. Hansen, ... awarded the prestigious Edinburgh Medal [on 10 apr 2012] for his contribution to science, [called] in his acceptance speech for a worldwide tax on all carbon emissions. In his lecture, Hansen argue[d] that the challenge facing future generations from climate change is so urgent that a flat-rate global tax is needed to force immediate cuts in fossil fuel use. Ahead of receiving the award – which has previously been given to Sir David Attenborough, the ecologist James Lovelock, and the economist Amartya Sen – Hansen told the Guardian that the latest climate models had shown the planet was on the brink of an emergency. He said humanity faces repeated natural disasters from extreme weather events which would affect large areas of the planet. “The situation we’re creating for young people and future generations is that we’re handing them a climate system which is potentially out of their control,” he said. “We’re in an emergency: you can see what’s on the horizon over the next few decades with the effects it will have on ecosystems, sea level and species extinction.” Now 70, Hansen is regarded as one of the most influential figures in climate science; the creator of one of the first global climate models, his pioneering role in warning about global warming is frequently cited by climate campaigners such as former US vice president Al Gore and in earlier science prizes, including the $1m Dan David prize. He has been arrested more than once for his role in protests against coal energy. Hansen argue[d] in his lecture that current generations have an over-riding moral duty to their children and grandchildren to take immediate action. Describing this as an issue of inter-generational justice on a par with ending slavery, Hansen said: “Our parents didn’t know that they were causing a problem for future generations but we can only pretend we don’t know because the science is now crystal clear.  first American spacewalk, Edward White, 3 jun 1965 T  homas Hardy Ale still tastes
like rancid treacle. Good thing it comes in small
bottles.Opa Opa IPA is drinkable, but has an unpleasant spoiled note. I like Sierra Nevada Torpedo Extra IPA, Wachusett IPA, Harpoon IPA. Are the "New Black Panthers" a fraud by Fox or other wingers? From TED: SmartBird, a herring-gull shaped robot that flies by flapping its wings. And Festo's SmartInversion, "a helium-filled flying object that moves through the air by turning inside-out." Neat trick, assuming it's real; horrible video. I was mentioning the little remote controlled helicopter robots to someone who said there are much bigger ones, and wouldn't it be interesting to equip them with paint guns and patrol Wall Street for banksters. My bank is United Bank, based in Springfield Ma. It sent one of those notices we always dread or ignore, about changing terms of service. But no! This was an nice enhancement, saying United will refund up to $10 in ATM fees per statement cycle. I like my bank. Rep. Paul Ryan's teabagger budget passed the House last week. Paul Krugman commented on it in the NYT. I liked a response by Northsider: Here's more food for
thought: If it's really true that there are $700
billion in annual "loopholes" worth closing, that
means there are $700 billion in tax increases for
somebody. Maybe somebody like you. Surely, not for
the 1% and the corporations who call the shots in
the radical right wing Republican Party. So, Mr.
Ryan, if you are serious about this and not just
making stuff up, please specify your $700 billion in
annual tax increases.
 Sad Panda (Team 190)
upsets the Monkeys
Moat of us, I think, really do like to talk with you. We calmly accept it, but we know you are probably lying when you say you are "just going going out the door," "on another line," "expecting an important call," "waiting for your taxes" or "too busy." You often deny your identity. You may or may not have money to donate. You may or may not be out of work. You may or may not have just sent the client a check last week. If you're "at work" or "at a meeting," why did you answer the phone? Maybe those are the white lies that lubricate social interactions, as you make excuses for avoiding social responsibility, evade unexpected solicitors, or feel overwhelmed by pleading from so many causes. The auto-dialer will keep on making calls, day after day, until someone picks up, speaks to us, and says yes, no or "take me off the call list." You have to specifically say. "Take me off the call list," and it only applies to that client organization's list. We are not allowed to leave phone messages, so if you screen your calls, you're going to get upset at the calls without messages. The auto-dialer could display a company or client identity, instead of a blocked number, but the company and clients prefer not to, for reasons unknown to us callers. Yet some phones do display the company, and some seem to display the number. It is a small minority of people who contribute to political campaigns, and you get put on lists as possible supporters, so we aren't cold-calling. We know you are being deluged with phone calls, emails and real mail - it would make our job much easier if you were not. It's our job to persuade you of the urgency of our cause, and why this cause is a little more important than that one. It's only April, and people are already experiencing donor fatigue. But there is another group of potential donors that claims it wants to wait until the election is closer. I wish we had a response code for that, at least to test that population by following up. We can legally call from 8:30 AM to 9:00 PM, local time. So the computers (or supervisors) know when to open and close time zones. It works pretty well, but we get a few people taking their phone numbers as they move, from New York to California, for example; they are usually gracious at being woken at 7 AM. Seems to be only Californians who are furious at being woken at 9 or 10 AM. I don't usualy work Sundays, but when I have, there are people upset at being called (although it was their decision to answer a blocked call.) I looked for a call center image to accompany this text, but nearly all are of pretty, smailing young women. All in all, that's not us. We are male and female, very varied in age, ethnicity, body art and education. No one could look at us and then make even mediocre predictions on the top callers.  Lanternfishes are small mesopelagic fish of the large family Myctophidae. One of two families in the order Myctophiformes, the Myctophidae are represented by 246 species in 33 genera, and are found in oceans worldwide. They are aptly named after their conspicuous use of bioluminescence. Their sister family, the Neoscopelidae, are much fewer in number but superficially very similar; at least one neoscopelid shares the common name 'lanternfish': the large-scaled lantern fish, Neoscopelus macrolepidotus. Sampling via deep trawling indicates that lanternfish account for as much as 65% of all deep sea fish biomass. Indeed, lanternfish are among the most widely distributed, populous, and diverse of all vertebrates, playing an important ecological role as prey for larger organisms. With an estimated global biomass of 550 - 660 million metric tonnes, several times the entire world fisheries catch, lanternfish also account for much of the biomass responsible for the deep scattering layer of the world's oceans.  "The extinction of the
human race will come from its inability to
EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function." --
Edward Teller
 40
Years Ago Today: Teh Stupid Came to Stay.On March 22, 1972 the
National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse,
chaired by former Pennsylvania governor Raymond P.
Shafer, recommended that Congress amend federal law
so that the use and possession of cannabis would no
longer be a criminal offense. State legislatures,
the commission added, should do likewise.
“[T]he criminal
law is too harsh a tool to apply to personal
possession even in the effort to discourage
use,”concluded the 13-member commission, which
included nine hand-picked appointees of
then-president Richard Nixon, “It implies an
overwhelming indictment of the behavior which
we believe is not appropriate. The actual and
potential harm of use of the drug is not great
enough to justify intrusion by the criminal
law into private behavior, a step which our
society takes only with the greatest
reluctance.
The criminal law is "too harsh a tool".
Eloquently worded, don't you think? “… Therefore, the Commission recommends ... [that the] possession of marijuana for personal use no longer be an offense, [and that the] casual distribution of small amounts of marihuana for no remuneration, or insignificant remuneration, no longer be an offense.” However the very harsh tool, Richard Nixon, on his own, apparently, decided that this was the wrong answer and chucked the Shafer Commison Report into the trash and made "reefer madness" - marijuana prohibition and all the propaganda that goes with it - Republican Gospel.  My large bird feeder is divided in two, and this winter I've been filling both sides with black oil sunflower seed. The house sparrows love it, and there have been 30 at once, on the feeder and the shelf below. House finches also come, in pairs and small groups, and wb nuthatches fly in to poke around, usually grab a single seed and fly off again. Occasional downy woodpeckers do the same. The sparrow have emptied the feeder in 5 days, sometimes, and they get to be boring, so I was interested in attracting other birds. One recommendation, perhaps from Audubon, was to use striped sunflower seed, which are larger and tougher than the black oil seed. The sparrows definitely prefer the oil seed: I filled one side with oil seed and the other with striped seed. The ol seed was gone in about 6 days, and after3 weeks, the striped seed is only half gone. House finches are most common now, with only the striped seed left. I get occasional bluejays, mourning doves, downys. sparrows. A titmouse was feeding 2 days ago. I put the thistle feeder out for the season, and have seen a couple of house finches at it. How much do small prey distinguish among threats? Do the small birds at my feeder know which large birds overhead are threats? There are small groups of crows, ring-billed gulls, turkey vultures, and Canada geese flying around and passing by pretty often, and sometimes a red-tail hawk. Do the potential prey know that only the hawk is really dangerous? 20 mar 2012 Heart of Darkness, on the war in Afghanistan Maureen Dowd, NYT
The epitaph of our Sisyphean decade of two agonizing wars was written last year by then-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates: “Any future defense secretary who advises the president to send a big American land army into Asia, or into the Middle East or Africa, should have his head examined.”  18 mar
2012Police state thuggery in New York and St Louis. I can hire one half
of the working class to kill the other half.
-- Jay Gould (1836-1892)
Murder seems to be legal in Florida, at least if the victim is black and the shooter not, and there are no eye-witnesses. Trayvon Martin was murdered by George Zimmerman, on 26 feb 2012 in Sanford Fla.  And so I begin my
work here at Wired Opinion with a direct, firm,
personal statement of my own convictions,
derived from 60+ years of close association with
dedicated scientists and the responsible media:
 Those very
popular mythical beasties — ESP, psychokinesis,
prophecy, etc. — don’t exist. Homeopathy is a
dangerous farce.
Faith-healing is a deadly joke. Perpetual motion is a juvenile dream. Uri Geller is a 4-trick magician. The dead don’t talk to anyone. Religion is an ancient notion we need to get over. There! And then was Martin
Luther, referring to Copernicus:
"There is talk of a new astrologer who wants to prove that the earth moves and goes around instead of the sky, the sun, the moon, just as if somebody were moving in a carriage or ship might hold that he was sitting still and at rest while the earth and the trees walked and moved. But that is how things are nowadays: when a man wishes to be clever he must . . . invent something special, and the way he does it must needs be the best! The fool wants to turn the whole art of astronomy upside-down. However, as Holy Scripture tells us, so did Joshua bid the sun to stand still and not the earth."  Russell's teapot 
 GIf I were religious, I'd say, "Rot in Hell, Breitbart." But good riddance, anyway. The recent Faux outrage over a description of Catholic ritual reminds me:  The
Papal Conspiracy Exposed. Rev Edward Beecher.
1854. Boston: Stearns & Co.A bit of sectarian vitriol, condemning the Romanist system as anti-American, anti-Biblical, bloody, intolerant and totalitarian. 29 feb 2012 Goodbye, First Amendment: ‘Trespass Bill’ will make protest illegal Just when you thought the government couldn’t ruin the First Amendment any further: The House of Representatives approved a bill on Monday that outlaws protests in instances where some government officials are nearby, whether or not you even know it. The US House of Representatives voted 388-to-3 in favor of H.R. 347 late Monday, a bill which is being dubbed the Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act of 2011. In the bill, Congress officially makes it illegal to trespass on the grounds of the White House, which, on the surface, seems not just harmless and necessary, but somewhat shocking that such a rule isn’t already on the books. The wording in the bill, however, extends to allow the government to go after much more than tourists that transverse the wrought iron White House fence. Under the act, the government is also given the power to bring charges against Americans engaged in political protest anywhere in the country. ...   The meaning
of religious freedom, I fear, is sometimes
greatly misapprehended. It is taken to be a sort
of immunity, not merely from governmental
control but also from public opinion. A
dunderhead gets himself a long-tailed coat,
rises behind the sacred desk, and emits such
bilge as would gag a Hottentot. Is it to pass
unchallenged? If so, then what we have is not
religious freedom at all, but the most
intolerable and outrageous variety of religious
despotism. Any fool, once he is admitted to holy
orders, becomes infallible. Any half-wit, by the
simple device of ascribing his delusions to
revelation, takes on an authority that is denied
to all the rest of us. - HL
Mencken
26 feb 2012 Too Big to Fail: An Executive Suite True-Life Tale By Sam Pizzigati at OurFuture.org If a blunder you committed cost your employer $4 million, how long would you stay employed? In America today, a CEO can cost his company $4 billion and still collect both a paycheck and a bonus. People in America get fired all the time. Break too many plates as a dishwasher, lose too many games as a coach, miss too many deadlines as a reporter, you’re going to be history. Consider Randall Stephenson, the chief exec at telecom giant AT&T. Stephenson had a bad year in 2011. A really bad year. His decisions cost AT&T over $4 billion. What price did Stephenson pay for this debacle? Last week we learned that price — and much more about the dysfunction that defines us. assets did Stephenson's T-Mobile fiasco cost AT&T? Try this analogy. Imagine a terribly disgruntled AT&T employee out to inflict as much damage on the company as he possible could. This troubled employee picks up a sledgehammer and walks up and down the aisles of an AT&T mobile phone warehouse, smashing one $100 phone box after another. He can smash 10 boxes a minute, 600 an hour. After an eight-hour day, he has inflicted $480,000 worth of destruction. How long would this destructive demon have to keep that sledgehammer swinging to do as much damage to AT&T's bottom line as CEO Randall Stephenson's $4.2 billion T-Mobile merger break-up? Another 8,749 days. The disgruntled employee in this parable, needless to say, would be fired — and spend no small amount of time in prison. The actual penalty on Stephenson? Did he lose his job for costing AT&T all those billions? Not even close. Stephenson, AT&T corporate filings revealed Tuesday, didn’t even lose his bonus. AT&T paid the CEO, for his 2011 executive labors, $1.6 million in base salary, $3.8 million in cash bonus “incentive award,” $12.7 million in stock compensation, and enough other goodies to value his total pay at $22 million. Interesting penalty. Stephenson saw his pay drop less than 9 percent for an executive performance that dropped AT&T annual earnings by 52 percent.  How Ma Bell Shelved the Future for 60 Years - Gizmodo Bell Labs invented the telephone answering machine with magnetic tape in the early 1930s, but suppressed it for inane business reasons. A Dallas-area physician has been arrested and indicted for allegedly bilking Medicare of more than $350 million for bogus health care services. The federal indictment charges that Dr. Jacques Roy of Rockwall, Texas, had also created a fake identity and sent money offshore with intentions to flee the country. The indictment charges that Roy, who owned Medistat Group Associates in DeSoto, Texas, "engaged in a staggering and long-running fraud scheme," billing Medicare for more than $350 million and Medicaid for more than $24 million on behalf of 11,000 purported beneficiaries. Roy's office manager as well as five owners of home health agencie were also indicted in the alleged scheme that federal law enforcement officials called the largest healthcare fraud case in the nation's history, the Chicago Tribune reports. Under the alleged fraud scheme, the doctor and his office manager in DeSoto, Texas, Teri Sivils, who was also charged, allegedly sent healthcare “recruiters” door-to-door asking residents to sign forms that contained the doctor’s electronic signature and stated that he had seen the residents professionally for medical services he never provided. They also allegedly dispatched more “recruiters” to a homeless shelter in Dallas, paying $50 to every street person they coaxed from a nearby parking lot and signed him up on the bogus forms.   Give the church a place in
the Constitution, let her touch once more the
sword of power, and the priceless fruit of all
ages will turn to ashes on the lips of men.
[Ingersoll's Works, Vol. 1, p. 203]   —By Tom Philpott, Mother Jones ... It turns out, not
surprisingly, that plates mounded with cheap shrimp
float on a veritable sea of ecological and social
trouble. In his excellent 2008 book Bottomfeeder: How to
Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood,
the Canadian journalist Taras Grescoe took a hard
look at the Asian operations that supply our shrimp.
His conclusion: "The simple fact is, if you're
eating cheap shrimp today, it almost certainly comes
from a turbid, pesticide- and antibiotic-filled,
virus-laden pond in the tropical climes of one of
the world's poorest nations."
"J. Boone Kaufman, University of Oregon, calls the shrimp-farming style that prevails in Asia "the equivalent of slash-and-burn agriculture," because farm operators typically "only last for 5 years or so before the buildup of sludge in the ponds and the acid sulfate soil renders them unfit for shrimp," he told Science." more at Wired 25 feb 2012 Social situation maps at Rural Assistance Center - state by state maps of many health and education statistics  health insurance coverage, 2006 Geography
of government benefits
interactive maps from NYT
Wikipedia, Crime in the US Poor, undereducated, superstitious, violent areas (ie, Red States) suck money from the rest of us.  Karl Rove meets Inigo Montoya related: The Superiority Complex of Vaccination Foes By Amanda Marcotte, Slate, 13 feb 2012  13 feb 2012: romney: to defecate in terror. (via Rawstory)  15 feb 2012 Leaked
docs: Heartland Institute think tank pays
climate contrarians very well
 By John Timmer The scientific
findings relevant to climate change generally
appear in journals that the public will never
look at. Instead, the public battle over the
science and its policy implications often boils
down to a battle between scientific societies
like the AAAS and National Academies of Science
and think tanks like the Cato Institute and
Heartland Institute, which contest the
scientific consensus. The Heartland has even set
up a contrarian counterpart to the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
called the NIPCC (for "nongovernmental" and
"international," naturally).
Yesterday, a series of documents that allegedly originated form the Heartland were leaked to a prominent climate blog. The documents reveal that most of the funding for its climate activities come from a small range of very generous donors, and that big plans are afoot for 2012. If the Heartland has its way, it will fund the launch of a new website by meteorologist and climate skeptic Anthony Watts, and prepare a school curriculum intended to keep teachers from addressing climate science. 13 feb 2012 Lowering reich-wing standards, week by week: "We are not
auditioning for fearless leader. We don't need a
president to tell us in what direction to go. We
know what direction to go...We just need a president
to sign this stuff. We don't need someone to think
it up or design it...Pick a Republican with enough
working digits to handle a pen..." — Grover Norquist
at CPAC
 12 feb 2012. Rep.
Steve King and the scary lightbulbs of scary doom 10 feb 2012. I'm adding Google trackers to many pages,
and testing their ads on a few major pag 10 feb 2012 -- Some things never change  DAILY NEWS(Tom Paxton, Ramblin' Boy, 1964) Civil rights leaders are a pain in the neck Can't hold a candle to Chang Kai Shek How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Ban the bombers are afraid of a fight Peace hurts business and that ain't right How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Daily News, daily blues Pick up a copy any time you choose Seven little pennies in the newsboy's hand And you ride right along to never, never land We got to bomb Castro, got to bomb him flat He's too damn successful and we can't risk that How do I know? I read it in the Daily News There's millions of commies in the freedom fight Yelling for Lenin and civil rights How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Seems like the whole damn world's gone wrong Saint Joe McCarthy is dead and gone How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Don't try to make me change my mind with facts To hell with the graduated income tax How do I know? I read it in the Daily News John Paul Getty is just plain folks The UN charter is a cruel hoax How do I know? I read it in the Daily News J. Edgar Hoover is the man of the hour All he needs is just a little more power How do I know? I read it in the Daily News Copyright Cherry Lane Music Publishing Co., Inc. Youtube - Raymond Crooke version (not bad, but he's no Tom Paxton)  Pop Rock
was named, and learned to play CRUD, but not very well.5 feb 2012.
O beautiful for Cayman Isles
It's not that I'm an introvert.
It's just that I'm silently plotting a way to kill you
all to stop your incessant CHATTERING DRIVEL...
*deep breath*
Payday loan criminals, by National
Public Action, via CrooksAndLiars
26 jan 2012 DailyKos.
Scrutiny of Willard's tax records revealed three million
dollars in a forgooten account, which he dismissed as
trivial.
 "Trivial? A three
million dollar error is trivial, now? Good God, if I
accidentally discovered that my bank account had three
million more dollars than I thought it did, that
wouldn't be trivial, that would would be an occurrence
of the caliber of discovering sentient Pop Tarts." --
comment
"Unlimited growth is the
ideology of a cancer cell." -- Edward Abbey
 12 jan 2012. James Bond villains
blamed for nuclear's bad imageBy Sean Coughlan, BBC News education correspondent The evil villains in James Bond movies are being blamed for casting a long-lasting shadow over the image of nuclear power, says the president of the Royal Society of Chemistry. Prof David Phillips says that Dr No, with his personal nuclear reactor, helped to create a "remorselessly grim" reputation for atomic energy. Prof Phillips was speaking ahead of the 50th anniversary of the movie. The chemistry organisation says it wants a "renaissance" in nuclear power. Prof Phillips says the popularity of the Dr No movie from 1962 created an enduringly negative image of nuclear power - as something dangerous that could be wielded by megalomaniacs with aspirations to world domination. The evil Dr No was foiled by James Bond: Sean Connery and Ursula Andress in the 1962 movie  The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a Lunatic Asylum. -- Havelock Ellis
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Willard
sings his anthem:
Teddy Roosevelt
vs. the plutocrats:
A report published by National Public
Action this month has even more devastating details of
the effects of this type of predatory lending, and link
payday lenders to big banks' profits:
