Showing posts with label Truth. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Truth. Show all posts
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Monday, December 12, 2016
7 Unsettling Truths About Religion
I have no problem with people who want to believe in God or Gods. My problem is when people try to pretend their religious dogma or institutions don't see a problem with things that are clearly unethical.
Saturday, March 10, 2012
Danger Zone ageing nuclear power plants
Entergy executives in hearing say, "No we don't have underground nuclear pipes." They say this over and over again. Then come to find out they have said pipes and they are leaking. Then said executives say, "Oh they aren't underground pipes, those are buried pipes." LOL The lies these people tell are hilarious but also frightening.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the poster child of why regulation is needed and must be enforced. Not only for the safety of those that could be affected by radiation but for the fact that environments can become contaminated and unlivable for thousand of years. If there is any reason to regulate something it is this.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission is the poster child of why regulation is needed and must be enforced. Not only for the safety of those that could be affected by radiation but for the fact that environments can become contaminated and unlivable for thousand of years. If there is any reason to regulate something it is this.
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
GasHole
This documentary is about the technologies of gas engines and how we should have better technology now and why we do not. Very interesting film. The beginning is a bit conspiracy driven but the later film is very well done about American's energy policy.
P.S. Standard oil is back it's called Exxon/mobile.
P.S. Standard oil is back it's called Exxon/mobile.
Cap and Trade is STUPID
Cap and Trade is a scheme that politicians want because it allows them to appear as if they are doing something when in reality nothing has been done.
In the idea of Cap and Trade, corporations say to the government you MUST pay us to not pollute the earth. Also the corporations say we should make money for the pollution we are not creating.
Also the corporations are able to trade on the idea that if they are making pollution they can trade carbon credits with those that do not pollute allowing them to pollute at standard or more. Or Those that don't pollute can buy credits so they can pollute at standard or more. AMAZING In the words of Penn and Teller this is BUllSHIT!
Instead of doing the brave thing as politicians and taxing those that pollute. Or regulating pollution. They instead are either in the pocket of these corporation or like the comforts that this society is built on. You see the corporations don't want to be forced to put their money to work on better was of making products. If the government was to force and or tax them that would be BIG GOVERNMENT and that is wrong. Let the free market handle it. The free market is not about protecting the public. The free market is about selling comforts to the public. Government is suppose to protect the public.
Rome fell because it's politician cared more about their own interest than that of the people of the empire. There are many reasons for Rome's collapse but this is the main reason.
Cap and Trade is another policies based on emotion, allowing people to feel better. It is not based on logic or science but it allows people to "feel" like they are helping the environment.
In the idea of Cap and Trade, corporations say to the government you MUST pay us to not pollute the earth. Also the corporations say we should make money for the pollution we are not creating.
Also the corporations are able to trade on the idea that if they are making pollution they can trade carbon credits with those that do not pollute allowing them to pollute at standard or more. Or Those that don't pollute can buy credits so they can pollute at standard or more. AMAZING In the words of Penn and Teller this is BUllSHIT!
Instead of doing the brave thing as politicians and taxing those that pollute. Or regulating pollution. They instead are either in the pocket of these corporation or like the comforts that this society is built on. You see the corporations don't want to be forced to put their money to work on better was of making products. If the government was to force and or tax them that would be BIG GOVERNMENT and that is wrong. Let the free market handle it. The free market is not about protecting the public. The free market is about selling comforts to the public. Government is suppose to protect the public.
Rome fell because it's politician cared more about their own interest than that of the people of the empire. There are many reasons for Rome's collapse but this is the main reason.
Cap and Trade is another policies based on emotion, allowing people to feel better. It is not based on logic or science but it allows people to "feel" like they are helping the environment.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Can Science Determine Morality?
Author Sam Harris discusses how science can and does show what is morale.
To me this is simple. Science is about observation. When you observe that certain behavior brings about better human well being then it is morale. If it does not it is immoral. There is behavior done by the individual, then how those individual relate to one another as a community, then as a greater society. Values are and should be the Universal behaviors that allow humans to thrive as individuals, as a community and as a society.
To me this is simple. Science is about observation. When you observe that certain behavior brings about better human well being then it is morale. If it does not it is immoral. There is behavior done by the individual, then how those individual relate to one another as a community, then as a greater society. Values are and should be the Universal behaviors that allow humans to thrive as individuals, as a community and as a society.
Fixing Broken Government
Author Philip K. Howard talks on how to fix laws and budgets in Government. We need Government Legal Reform.
The Constitution is the highest law in the land. Yet written very simply on sixteen pages. So why can't most laws be written just as simply?
The Constitution is the highest law in the land. Yet written very simply on sixteen pages. So why can't most laws be written just as simply?
Thursday, January 6, 2011
FLIGHT FROM DEATH quest for Immortality
This documentary speaks about people's fear of death and how they live their life coping with it subconsciously.
Tuesday, November 23, 2010
POLLUTION DEBT
When watching these films about food, soil, and water. One thing comes up over and over again, POLLUTION. I don't understand people, especially people that want, or have children. I would think these people would most agree about the destructive properties and plague that is pollution.
When I watch the news I see these republican types that talk about economic debt. What about POLLUTION DEBT? They seem to not think of this. In fact these same people want to deregulate laws on these corporations that create this pollution. They say things like the market will make these corporations do the right thing. THIS IS BULLSHIT. Simple reasoning, if you eat chicken, and the chemicals in it accumulate slowly in your body. HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO KNOW THIS? You would eat this chicken merrily and never know. If you are living on top of chemical waste, or it is in the air from a factory. How are you suppose to know that the chemicals are slowly accumulating inside of you? How are you suppose to test the ground, the air, the water? That is the job of the government, to PROTECT THE CITIZENSHIP.
Corporation will get away with what ever they can. They don't do what is right. They do what is profitable. The people that say, "the market will rectify things". They make it seem as if the corporations are doing things that are out right destructive. So people well see this and stop buying their products. Problem solved. The problems what they do are not outright. They do things that slowly harm. Things you may not see or have to deal with. Things you wouldn't know about unless you study it or live in the area of the problem.
The corporation is about profit. It is suppose to be the job of the citizens to demand that corporations are responsible for what they do. The consumer will not demand this, the consumer wants the convenience and the cheap products at any cost. Are you a citizen, or a consumer? You can be both as long as you are citizen first.
POLLUTION DEBT is far worse than economic debt. We are seeing the events in small areas here and there in America. From waste in the soil, in the water, in the air. Look up hydraulic fracturing or frakking, see what Dick Cheney and his crony politicians have unleashed on many places in America. How he has opened up land that was once protected land, land designated to be owned by all AMERICAN CITIZENS, to be drilled and polluted. If that wasn't bad enough he also made it so these gas companies are not beholden to many environmental laws. Yes Halliburton is one of these companies, is that really a surprise anymore. It's disgusting.
Ronald Reagan the "genius" he was. Allowed for huge deregulation of environmental laws. He set it up so many rivers, and places can be polluted by corporations. One of those rivers is the Potomac River. This is the river that gives the D.C. area it's water. He basically allowed for the river that gave him his drinking water, to be polluted, now how smart is that. If that doesn't show how short sighted this man was, nothing will convince. The funny thing is many of the environmental laws Reagan took away were put in place by President Nixon. Nixon will go down as a "crook" and Reagan is considered a "hero", this is insane to me.
When ever I hear people talk about economic debt yet seem to not care about it. Many help pollution waste to prosper by being on the side of deregulation. When I hear them say, "Our kids will be paying this economic debt". I sit in disgust thinking, what about the waste your children will deal with in the soil, in the air, in the water, The WATER.
Economic debt seems trivial in the face of the health concerns that will come from this pollution, and that is the least, minor case scenario. The worst case scenario is most of the drinking water becoming contaminated. WHAT WILL YOUR CHILDREN DRINK? But hey economic debt, yeah that is so much worse.
We are dealing with the pollution from the last hundred fifty years. But the worse of it has been since the chemical revolution in the forty and fifties. Whether you like it or not we are in a large chemical experiment. The sad thing is, the experiment isn't being done by a scientist to see how these chemicals, effect the environment, interacts, and accumulates in the environment, animals, and people. No this experiment is done by corporations. These corporations are simply hoping that they can make as much money as possible before any really negative affects come to be learned. And even if it does, it won't matter cause the law says the people would have to show a direct cause and effect from the corporations practices. So the corporations, now and then will be loving that slow accumulation, cause it's difficult to proof.
REGULATION is to protect us from pollution, and irresponsibility of corporations.
P.S. It seems to me that people say to their children that the convenience of their life now is more important than the pollution you will have to live with in the future. How selfish is this?
When I watch the news I see these republican types that talk about economic debt. What about POLLUTION DEBT? They seem to not think of this. In fact these same people want to deregulate laws on these corporations that create this pollution. They say things like the market will make these corporations do the right thing. THIS IS BULLSHIT. Simple reasoning, if you eat chicken, and the chemicals in it accumulate slowly in your body. HOW THE HELL ARE YOU SUPPOSE TO KNOW THIS? You would eat this chicken merrily and never know. If you are living on top of chemical waste, or it is in the air from a factory. How are you suppose to know that the chemicals are slowly accumulating inside of you? How are you suppose to test the ground, the air, the water? That is the job of the government, to PROTECT THE CITIZENSHIP.
Corporation will get away with what ever they can. They don't do what is right. They do what is profitable. The people that say, "the market will rectify things". They make it seem as if the corporations are doing things that are out right destructive. So people well see this and stop buying their products. Problem solved. The problems what they do are not outright. They do things that slowly harm. Things you may not see or have to deal with. Things you wouldn't know about unless you study it or live in the area of the problem.
The corporation is about profit. It is suppose to be the job of the citizens to demand that corporations are responsible for what they do. The consumer will not demand this, the consumer wants the convenience and the cheap products at any cost. Are you a citizen, or a consumer? You can be both as long as you are citizen first.
POLLUTION DEBT is far worse than economic debt. We are seeing the events in small areas here and there in America. From waste in the soil, in the water, in the air. Look up hydraulic fracturing or frakking, see what Dick Cheney and his crony politicians have unleashed on many places in America. How he has opened up land that was once protected land, land designated to be owned by all AMERICAN CITIZENS, to be drilled and polluted. If that wasn't bad enough he also made it so these gas companies are not beholden to many environmental laws. Yes Halliburton is one of these companies, is that really a surprise anymore. It's disgusting.
Ronald Reagan the "genius" he was. Allowed for huge deregulation of environmental laws. He set it up so many rivers, and places can be polluted by corporations. One of those rivers is the Potomac River. This is the river that gives the D.C. area it's water. He basically allowed for the river that gave him his drinking water, to be polluted, now how smart is that. If that doesn't show how short sighted this man was, nothing will convince. The funny thing is many of the environmental laws Reagan took away were put in place by President Nixon. Nixon will go down as a "crook" and Reagan is considered a "hero", this is insane to me.
When ever I hear people talk about economic debt yet seem to not care about it. Many help pollution waste to prosper by being on the side of deregulation. When I hear them say, "Our kids will be paying this economic debt". I sit in disgust thinking, what about the waste your children will deal with in the soil, in the air, in the water, The WATER.
Economic debt seems trivial in the face of the health concerns that will come from this pollution, and that is the least, minor case scenario. The worst case scenario is most of the drinking water becoming contaminated. WHAT WILL YOUR CHILDREN DRINK? But hey economic debt, yeah that is so much worse.
We are dealing with the pollution from the last hundred fifty years. But the worse of it has been since the chemical revolution in the forty and fifties. Whether you like it or not we are in a large chemical experiment. The sad thing is, the experiment isn't being done by a scientist to see how these chemicals, effect the environment, interacts, and accumulates in the environment, animals, and people. No this experiment is done by corporations. These corporations are simply hoping that they can make as much money as possible before any really negative affects come to be learned. And even if it does, it won't matter cause the law says the people would have to show a direct cause and effect from the corporations practices. So the corporations, now and then will be loving that slow accumulation, cause it's difficult to proof.
REGULATION is to protect us from pollution, and irresponsibility of corporations.
P.S. It seems to me that people say to their children that the convenience of their life now is more important than the pollution you will have to live with in the future. How selfish is this?
Saturday, November 13, 2010
Ronald Reagan
I plan to write a more description post about this, but for now I will say this.
RONALD REAGAN WAS AN IDIOT.
I say this because most of not all the things that Republican cite as the reason Ronald Reagan was a good president or did to make this country great. Were actually short sighted plans. Yes they did good for America in the immediate time (during his presidency) somewhat after. However for the long term, most of his policies we are dealing with the consequences of and will be for years to come.
(I'm sure someday a Republican will see this and say I need to show evidence of this and I will when I write my later post on this subject matter.)
RONALD REAGAN WAS AN IDIOT.
I say this because most of not all the things that Republican cite as the reason Ronald Reagan was a good president or did to make this country great. Were actually short sighted plans. Yes they did good for America in the immediate time (during his presidency) somewhat after. However for the long term, most of his policies we are dealing with the consequences of and will be for years to come.
(I'm sure someday a Republican will see this and say I need to show evidence of this and I will when I write my later post on this subject matter.)
The Corporation
This film gives an in depth view of the psychology of a corporation. You may say, how does a corporation have a psychology it's not a person? Well if you didn't know this, legally a corporation is defined as a individual with all the rights as a person. So if it is a person it psychological profile would fit that of a psycopath. Watch this video it shows the history, politics, legal, and social effects of allow corporations be "persons".
Understand I have nothing against the concept and practice of corporations. My only problems is with the means they choose to gain their profits.
Understand I have nothing against the concept and practice of corporations. My only problems is with the means they choose to gain their profits.
The Future of Food
This film is about how food has, is and will be changed, thanks to technology, corporations and politics.
Crips and Bloods Made in America
This documentary tells the history and the factors that created and sustain gangs in America.
Many people say this film is all about blame "whitey" or about the gang members not taking blame for what they do. It doesn't do this... it tells the factors that make this people they way they are, this includes their own view of themselves for the good and bad (mostly bad).
I like this documentary for the fact that it doesn't actually focus on the gangs themselves but the history, economics, politics, and social factors that surrounds Black America and that created this small fringe of it's society.
Many people say this film is all about blame "whitey" or about the gang members not taking blame for what they do. It doesn't do this... it tells the factors that make this people they way they are, this includes their own view of themselves for the good and bad (mostly bad).
I like this documentary for the fact that it doesn't actually focus on the gangs themselves but the history, economics, politics, and social factors that surrounds Black America and that created this small fringe of it's society.
American drug war
This documentary tells the history of the drug war and the absurdity of it.
The thing I find so illogical and stupid is the argument, "Let's legalize everything if you want to legalize drugs." It's an argument to appeal to one's base emotional reaction rather than the logical long term view.
The thing I find so illogical and stupid is the argument, "Let's legalize everything if you want to legalize drugs." It's an argument to appeal to one's base emotional reaction rather than the logical long term view.
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Lord save us from your followers
In this documentary the man who created it is saying that Christians should be more Christ like. I think no one would have anything bad to say of Christians ever if they could simply follow the example of their Lord and savior.
FUEL - documentary
Fuel is a Documentary about Alternative fuels and the issues it brings, and (possible) solutions to some of the problems.
Rethink Afghanistan
I think this is a documentary that all Americans need to watch about the War in Afghanistan. Much of this I knew but there were many details I hadn't been informed in. I watched it at www.snagfilms.com
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Thursday, August 19, 2010
PENN & TELLER BULLSHIT
Penn & Teller Bullshit is a very good show. If you like shows that use COMMON SENSE, have a bit of WISDOM, uses up to date information and FACTS. This is the show for you. Many social and political issues are full of people, being and using emotion to make "points" but they aren't using actual facts. This show does that. With a lot of humor and an occasional bare breast or nudity (Men and women).
This show is on SHOWTIME check it out. If for anything find the episode on Lie Detectors. If you have any faith in them after that show you won't.
If I remember this correctly, this image came from an episode of an idiot who was trying to show how people (especially children)that play first person shooters will become crazed killers. I'll admit that if the kid has the tendencies to want to use guns and kill then they will be attracted to these games. However just because a few use these games to help their dark impulses isn't grounds to ban the games. By this reasoning we won't allow alcohol, or driving, or many other things that are dangerous but socially acceptable. If a few idiots can't handle the responsibility doesn't man the majority of the population should be punished.
Watch this show! You, your community, and your nation will be better off for it.
Side-note: HBO has more hype and is it's shows are more talked about but SHOWTIME has more consistently good shows.
This show is on SHOWTIME check it out. If for anything find the episode on Lie Detectors. If you have any faith in them after that show you won't.
If I remember this correctly, this image came from an episode of an idiot who was trying to show how people (especially children)that play first person shooters will become crazed killers. I'll admit that if the kid has the tendencies to want to use guns and kill then they will be attracted to these games. However just because a few use these games to help their dark impulses isn't grounds to ban the games. By this reasoning we won't allow alcohol, or driving, or many other things that are dangerous but socially acceptable. If a few idiots can't handle the responsibility doesn't man the majority of the population should be punished.
Watch this show! You, your community, and your nation will be better off for it.
Side-note: HBO has more hype and is it's shows are more talked about but SHOWTIME has more consistently good shows.
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