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Make love, not war
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Peninsula readers' letters: August 22
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Posted: 08/21/2012 06:45:27 PM PDT
August 22, 2012 5:15 AM GMTUpdated: 08/21/2012 10:15:20 PM PDT
Eat healthy
Dear Editor: With the new school year just around the corner, parents' attention is turning to school clothes, supplies and lunches. Yes, school lunches.
Traditionally, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has used the National School Lunch Program as a dumping ground for surplus meat and dairy commodities. Not surprisingly, its own surveys indicate that children consume excessive amounts of animal fat and sugary drinks, to the point where one-third have become overweight or obese. Their early dietary flaws become lifelong addictions, raising their risk of diabetes, heart disease and stroke.
Gradually, the tide is turning. The department's new school lunch guidelines, mandated by President Barack Obama's Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act, require doubling the servings of fruits and vegetables, more whole grains, less sodium and fat, and no meat for breakfast. Still, food lobbyists have prevailed on Congress to count pizza and French fries as vegetables, and fatty mystery meats and sugary dairy drinks abound.
Parents and students should consider healthy school lunch as a work in progress and insist on healthful plant-based school meals, snacks and vending machine items. Guidance is available at www.fns.usda.gov/cnd, www.healthyschoollunches.org, and www.vrg.org/family.
Peter Anatoli,
Palo Alto
War hysteria
Dear Editor: The war drums are beating again. Unconcerned with the chaos we have created in Iraq and Afghanistan, the pro-war letter-writing lobby and their media supporters are urging Israel to launch a pre-emptive strike on Iran. Unable to deliver a decisive blow on Iran's nuclear facility, Israel is using its U.S. proxies to drag us into another war. The timing is no accident. Israel hopes to exact an advantage from our preoccupation with the upcoming presidential election. Remember, Operation Cast Lead -- the pre-emptive attack on Gaza -- was carried out in December 2008 just before Obama's inauguration.
War hysteria can easily be amplified by false propaganda. How many members of Congress and the public were hoodwinked into believing Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction?
Ominously, Yedioth Ahronoth, Israel's largest selling daily newspaper, is predicting an imminent attack. The Israeli National News opposes such action, warning that "Israel is not a superpower." The former and current Israeli military establishment are vigorously opposed to an attack. Israel should heed the advice of Martin Dempsey, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, who warned that "a strike at this time would be destabilizing."
Jagjit Singh,
Los Altos
Make love, not war
Dear Editor: Men have been trying to change the world by violence, war and terror for thousands of years now, and the only changes have been bad ones -- which they just go on repeating war after war, year after year, century after century. You'd think they'd be ready to try love by now, since nothing else has worked.
But, sad to say, people just don't seem to learn from history -- or I should say the men who have run nations, kingdoms and empires haven't learned. If they'd had more women running things, they might have had more success. Women know how many years it takes to nurture, teach and raise a child, and are generally much more reluctant to send that child off to some stupid, pointless, vainglorious war where he'll wind up wounded or dead.
So make love and spread love and vote for love, not war.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto
The Dead Sea
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/29/18720531.php
The Dead Sea
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Aug 29th, 2012
In recent years, it's been discovered that these chemicals are very valuable, and they're now being extracted from the waters of the Dead Sea.
They estimate that the chemicals of the Dead Sea, including bromides, from which they make ethyl gasoline and medicines, nitrogen for explosives and potashes, which are used for fertiliser, so on, are worth $250 trillion!
The Dead Sea is worth more money than is in all the banks in the whole world: $250 trillion worth of chemicals!--A very valuable prize for any conquering nation that would like to have it! One of these days, according to Bible prophecy, Russia is going to march on Israel and try to capture all of this wealth. At the present time, Israel touches part of the Dead Sea. On the other side, it's surrounded by Jordan, which used to be called Trans-Jordan, because it was across the Dead Sea and across the Jordan.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Sunday, August 26, 2012
Never catch up
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/26/18720294.php
Never catch up
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Aug 26th, 2012
Nearly 9 million households now have upside-down mortgages, and for the first time ever, mortgage debt is bigger than the total value of homeowner equity [cash invested]—bigger by $836 billion, according to research by Merrill Lynch.
Half of Americans (50%) report that the value of their home is worth more than the amount they owe on their mortgage, up slightly from 47% last month. This finding slipped below 50% for the first time in June of last year and has ranged from 44% to 57% ever since. Thirty-nine percent (39%) say their home is not worth more than what they owe, down slightly from last month’s high of 42%
2.8 million Americans are 12 months or more behind on their mortgages. This truly amazing data point represents a very sad fact of the housing market. Once a homeowner falls that far behind in their mortgage, the odds are that they will never catch up. (Mortgage mods are likely to fail at an exceedingly high rate as well).
The housing problem set off the dominoes: Surging defaults meant the mortgage-backed securities plunged in value. All these investments, of course, were highly risky. Higher returns on investments almost always come with greater risk. Credit has become the drug of choice of the modern world, far more widespread than any other. Individuals, companies and governments must have their fix of it, for they are addicted to it, and the withdrawal symptoms are too painful to endure. Like many drug users, however, they do not see that they have a problem. They’re surrounded by other users who are in similar situations. “Credit and debt are just the way of the world, a necessity, and nothing to worry about"
Ted Rudow III, MA
Never catch up
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Sunday Aug 26th, 2012
Nearly 9 million households now have upside-down mortgages, and for the first time ever, mortgage debt is bigger than the total value of homeowner equity [cash invested]—bigger by $836 billion, according to research by Merrill Lynch.
Half of Americans (50%) report that the value of their home is worth more than the amount they owe on their mortgage, up slightly from 47% last month. This finding slipped below 50% for the first time in June of last year and has ranged from 44% to 57% ever since. Thirty-nine percent (39%) say their home is not worth more than what they owe, down slightly from last month’s high of 42%
2.8 million Americans are 12 months or more behind on their mortgages. This truly amazing data point represents a very sad fact of the housing market. Once a homeowner falls that far behind in their mortgage, the odds are that they will never catch up. (Mortgage mods are likely to fail at an exceedingly high rate as well).
The housing problem set off the dominoes: Surging defaults meant the mortgage-backed securities plunged in value. All these investments, of course, were highly risky. Higher returns on investments almost always come with greater risk. Credit has become the drug of choice of the modern world, far more widespread than any other. Individuals, companies and governments must have their fix of it, for they are addicted to it, and the withdrawal symptoms are too painful to endure. Like many drug users, however, they do not see that they have a problem. They’re surrounded by other users who are in similar situations. “Credit and debt are just the way of the world, a necessity, and nothing to worry about"
Ted Rudow III, MA
Thursday, August 23, 2012
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Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965
Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965
By Edward Ngai
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s love of practical jokes has been well-documented: he’s admitted to playing “a lot of pranks in high school” and his family teased him for it on late-night television.
As a freshman at Stanford in fall 1965, Romney put his pranking skills to work in service of one of the nation’s great college rivalries.
Romney is named and quoted in this Daily article from November 18, 1965. In it, he details foiling Cal's planned Big Game pranks. (The Stanford Daily)
In his one year at Stanford, Romney was very involved in the Axe Committee, tasked with guarding the Axe, which goes to the Big Game winner, and promoting school spirit.
According to a Stanford Daily article from 1965, Romney, then an 18-year-old living in the freshman dorm Rinconada, went to the UC Berkeley campus on the night of November 16, four days before the 68th Big Game.
Impersonating members of Rally Committee, Cal’s student support club similar to Stanford’s Axe Committee, Romney and two of his freshman dormmates successfully diverted the attention of Cal fans away from their original plan to paint Hoover Tower blue and gold.
Romney, thinly veiling his identity by using the pseudonym Tim Yenmor, instead proposed stealing a wheel for the Stanford cannon. One dormmate who remembers the scene recalls that he made that wheel out to be far more sacred to the Stanford faithful than it actually was.
“We learned all their plans,” Romney is quoted as saying. “Even if they found out we were from Stanford, we still have the advantage. They will either have to change their plans or risk being caught.”
After Romney’s efforts, security was stepped up around the Band Shack, where the cannon was kept, and precautions were taken to guard against some other pranks, or RFs, that Cal’s Rally Comm was planning. It’s not clear whether Cal students followed through with those plans.
In their book, “The Real Romney,” authors Michael Kranish and Scott Helman discuss the events leading up to the 1965 Big Game.
“[Romney] figured the axe heist might be discussed and decided to go undercover,” they wrote. “In faded Levi’s jeans, a heavy wool work jacket, and well-worn moccasins, Mitt infiltrated the rival campus.”
Referred to in the 1965 article as the “head of the Stanford special police force,” the young Romney apparently returned to Stanford with some vital intelligence before hitting the beat himself, guarding the Axe and the Lake Lagunita bonfire leading up to the Big Game.
Ted Rudow III
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff."
American's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.
Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth. "Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. Bohemian Club members as former President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff.
Both my Grandfather were Masons. The highest, Mason 33 Degrees, Grand Cross included James McCurdy, my Grandfather, Eugene Rudow, best friend.They both went to M.I.T. and built their houses side by side on Mercer Island in Lake Washington near Seattle,Wash. He built the first floating bridge in America. Some noted leaders reported are: Norman Vincent Peale, (Scottish Rite) George Washington, Harry Truman, Newt Gingrich(33)Skull and Bones), Bill Clinton
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Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965
Mitt Romney led the charge as a Big Game prankster in 1965
By Edward Ngai
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s love of practical jokes has been well-documented: he’s admitted to playing “a lot of pranks in high school” and his family teased him for it on late-night television.
As a freshman at Stanford in fall 1965, Romney put his pranking skills to work in service of one of the nation’s great college rivalries.
Romney is named and quoted in this Daily article from November 18, 1965. In it, he details foiling Cal's planned Big Game pranks. (The Stanford Daily)
In his one year at Stanford, Romney was very involved in the Axe Committee, tasked with guarding the Axe, which goes to the Big Game winner, and promoting school spirit.
According to a Stanford Daily article from 1965, Romney, then an 18-year-old living in the freshman dorm Rinconada, went to the UC Berkeley campus on the night of November 16, four days before the 68th Big Game.
Impersonating members of Rally Committee, Cal’s student support club similar to Stanford’s Axe Committee, Romney and two of his freshman dormmates successfully diverted the attention of Cal fans away from their original plan to paint Hoover Tower blue and gold.
Romney, thinly veiling his identity by using the pseudonym Tim Yenmor, instead proposed stealing a wheel for the Stanford cannon. One dormmate who remembers the scene recalls that he made that wheel out to be far more sacred to the Stanford faithful than it actually was.
“We learned all their plans,” Romney is quoted as saying. “Even if they found out we were from Stanford, we still have the advantage. They will either have to change their plans or risk being caught.”
After Romney’s efforts, security was stepped up around the Band Shack, where the cannon was kept, and precautions were taken to guard against some other pranks, or RFs, that Cal’s Rally Comm was planning. It’s not clear whether Cal students followed through with those plans.
In their book, “The Real Romney,” authors Michael Kranish and Scott Helman discuss the events leading up to the 1965 Big Game.
“[Romney] figured the axe heist might be discussed and decided to go undercover,” they wrote. “In faded Levi’s jeans, a heavy wool work jacket, and well-worn moccasins, Mitt infiltrated the rival campus.”
Referred to in the 1965 article as the “head of the Stanford special police force,” the young Romney apparently returned to Stanford with some vital intelligence before hitting the beat himself, guarding the Axe and the Lake Lagunita bonfire leading up to the Big Game.
Ted Rudow III
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff."
American's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.
Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth. "Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. Bohemian Club members as former President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff.
Both my Grandfather were Masons. The highest, Mason 33 Degrees, Grand Cross included James McCurdy, my Grandfather, Eugene Rudow, best friend.They both went to M.I.T. and built their houses side by side on Mercer Island in Lake Washington near Seattle,Wash. He built the first floating bridge in America. Some noted leaders reported are: Norman Vincent Peale, (Scottish Rite) George Washington, Harry Truman, Newt Gingrich(33)Skull and Bones), Bill Clinton
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by indybay.org Wed Aug 22 11:45:55 PDT 2012
Don't be cannon fodder! You'll always hear lots of noble-sounding slogans and speeches from military recruiters and politicians, but the reality of the military is a lot different. I know. I was drafted 1972 to fight in Vietman War.
Men have fought thousands of wars down through history. All of them seemed important at the time, but now even the names are forgotten, just footnotes in dusty old history books. There's been so much death and destruction, so many young men wounded and maimed, so many widows and orphans, all for so many futile causes.
America would like to export democracy to the world. Her people think it is a great thing, for has it not brought them wealth? The rich can grow richer and the poor can grow poorer because, after all, the rich think, it's the survival of the fittest. American democracy is not one of the best exports to the world, because it is not godly democracy, and it is even less fitted to many other nations than it is to America.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Make love, not war
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Posted: 08/21/2012 06:45:27 PM PDT
August 22, 2012 5:15 AM GMTUpdated: 08/21/2012 10:15:20 PM PDT
Make love, not war
Dear Editor: Men have been trying to change the world by violence, war and terror for thousands of years now, and the only changes have been bad ones -- which they just go on repeating war after war, year after year, century after century. You'd think they'd be ready to try love by now, since nothing else has worked.
But, sad to say, people just don't seem to learn from history -- or I should say the men who have run nations, kingdoms and empires haven't learned. If they'd had more women running things, they might have had more success. Women know how many years it takes to nurture, teach and raise a child, and are generally much more reluctant to send that child off to some stupid, pointless, vainglorious war where he'll wind up wounded or dead.
So make love and spread love and vote for love, not war.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Palo Alto
Cannon fodder
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/22/18720061.php
Cannon fodder
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Aug 22nd, 2012
Don't be cannon fodder! You'll always hear lots of noble-sounding slogans and speeches from military recruiters and politicians, but the reality of the military is a lot different. I know. I was drafted 1972 to fight in Vietman War.
Men have fought thousands of wars down through history. All of them seemed important at the time, but now even the names are forgotten, just footnotes in dusty old history books. There's been so much death and destruction, so many young men wounded and maimed, so many widows and orphans, all for so many futile causes.
America would like to export democracy to the world. Her people think it is a great thing, for has it not brought them wealth? The rich can grow richer and the poor can grow poorer because, after all, the rich think, it's the survival of the fittest. American democracy is not one of the best exports to the world, because it is not godly democracy, and it is even less fitted to many other nations than it is to America.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Cannon fodder
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Aug 22nd, 2012
Don't be cannon fodder! You'll always hear lots of noble-sounding slogans and speeches from military recruiters and politicians, but the reality of the military is a lot different. I know. I was drafted 1972 to fight in Vietman War.
Men have fought thousands of wars down through history. All of them seemed important at the time, but now even the names are forgotten, just footnotes in dusty old history books. There's been so much death and destruction, so many young men wounded and maimed, so many widows and orphans, all for so many futile causes.
America would like to export democracy to the world. Her people think it is a great thing, for has it not brought them wealth? The rich can grow richer and the poor can grow poorer because, after all, the rich think, it's the survival of the fittest. American democracy is not one of the best exports to the world, because it is not godly democracy, and it is even less fitted to many other nations than it is to America.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Monday, August 20, 2012
Haven't learned
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/20/18719941.php
Haven't learned
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Aug 20th, 2012
Men have been trying to change the world by violence, war and terror for thousands of years now, and the only changes have been bad ones—which they just go on repeating war after war, year after year, century after century. You'd think they'd be ready to try love by now, since nothing else has worked!
But, sad to say, people just don't seem to learn from history—or I should say the men who have run nations, kingdoms and empires haven't learned. If they'd had more women running things, they might have had more success. Women know how many years it takes to nurture and teach and raise a child, and are generally much more reluctant to send that child off to some stupid, pointless, vainglorious war where he'll wind up wounded or dead!
So make love and spread love and vote for love, not war! Love is creative and of the Lord, whereas war is destructive because they're not the Lord's wars, nor do they serve his purposes. They only kill and maim and destroy and leave anger and bitterness in their wake.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Haven't learned
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Aug 20th, 2012
Men have been trying to change the world by violence, war and terror for thousands of years now, and the only changes have been bad ones—which they just go on repeating war after war, year after year, century after century. You'd think they'd be ready to try love by now, since nothing else has worked!
But, sad to say, people just don't seem to learn from history—or I should say the men who have run nations, kingdoms and empires haven't learned. If they'd had more women running things, they might have had more success. Women know how many years it takes to nurture and teach and raise a child, and are generally much more reluctant to send that child off to some stupid, pointless, vainglorious war where he'll wind up wounded or dead!
So make love and spread love and vote for love, not war! Love is creative and of the Lord, whereas war is destructive because they're not the Lord's wars, nor do they serve his purposes. They only kill and maim and destroy and leave anger and bitterness in their wake.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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by indybay.org Fri Aug 17 11:16:09 PDT 2012
Actually, the Philistines were not what is today. The Palestinians today, Palestinians are Arabs who moved in later. The Philistines were more closely related to what used to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the ancient Phoenician Empire of traders, and they were actually more closely related to Hiram, King of Tyre, and some of them, although Hiram was more of a friend of Israel at that time, the time of David.
So the Philistines and their five famous cities used to occupy the coastal plain of Israel. Gaza was one of the major cities--the Arabs still live there-- of course Israel has now incorporated the Gaza Strip into Israel. It's now a part of the occupied territories, and they've just stolen away the whole country! It was called Palestine by the Romans, in Latin, came from "Philistia" which was the name of the country way back under the Philistines. It was the name of the country for thousands of years till the Jews came along.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Friday, August 17, 2012
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Actually, the Philistines were not what is today. The Palestinians today, Palestinians are Arabs who moved in later. The Philistines were more closely related to what used to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the ancient Phoenician Empire of traders, and they were actually more closely related to Hiram, King of Tyre, and some of them, although Hiram was more of a friend of Israel at that time, the time of David.
So the Philistines and their five famous cities used to occupy the coastal plain of Israel. Gaza was one of the major cities--the Arabs still live there-- of course Israel has now incorporated the Gaza Strip into Israel. It's now a part of the occupied territories, and they've just stolen away the whole country! It was called Palestine by the Romans, in Latin, & came from "Philistia" which was the name of the country way back under the Philistines. It was the name of the country for thousands of years till the Jews came along.
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Actually, the Philistines were not what is today. The Palestinians today, Palestinians are Arabs who moved in later. The Philistines were more closely related to what used to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the ancient Phoenician Empire of traders, and they were actually more closely related to Hiram, King of Tyre, and some of them, although Hiram was more of a friend of Israel at that time, the time of David.
So the Philistines and their five famous cities used to occupy the coastal plain of Israel. Gaza was one of the major cities--the Arabs still live there-- of course Israel has now incorporated the Gaza Strip into Israel. It's now a part of the occupied territories, and they've just stolen away the whole country! It was called Palestine by the Romans, in Latin, & came from "Philistia" which was the name of the country way back under the Philistines. It was the name of the country for thousands of years till the Jews came along.
Ted Rudow III
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by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Aug 17th, 2012
Actually, the Philistines were not what is today. The Palestinians today, Palestinians are Arabs who moved in later. The Philistines were more closely related to what used to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the ancient Phoenician Empire of traders, and they were actually more closely related to Hiram, King of Tyre, and some of them, although Hiram was more of a friend of Israel at that time, the time of David.
So the Philistines and their five famous cities used to occupy the coastal plain of Israel. Gaza was one of the major cities--the Arabs still live there-- of course Israel has now incorporated the Gaza Strip into Israel. It's now a part of the occupied territories, and they've just stolen away the whole country! It was called Palestine by the Romans, in Latin, came from "Philistia" which was the name of the country way back under the Philistines. It was the name of the country for thousands of years till the Jews came along.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Friend of Israel
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Friday Aug 17th, 2012
Actually, the Philistines were not what is today. The Palestinians today, Palestinians are Arabs who moved in later. The Philistines were more closely related to what used to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the to be the Lebanese, which were the Phoenicians, the ancient Phoenician Empire of traders, and they were actually more closely related to Hiram, King of Tyre, and some of them, although Hiram was more of a friend of Israel at that time, the time of David.
So the Philistines and their five famous cities used to occupy the coastal plain of Israel. Gaza was one of the major cities--the Arabs still live there-- of course Israel has now incorporated the Gaza Strip into Israel. It's now a part of the occupied territories, and they've just stolen away the whole country! It was called Palestine by the Romans, in Latin, came from "Philistia" which was the name of the country way back under the Philistines. It was the name of the country for thousands of years till the Jews came along.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
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Issues Beyond Palo Alto, posted by Ted Rudow III, MA, a member of the Palo Alto High School community,
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff."
American's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness","Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.
Monday, August 13, 2012
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My value systems are?
by Ted Rudow III
Sunday, 12 August 2012
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney's vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff."
American's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.
Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth. "Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. Bohemian Club members as former President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff.
Atherton, CA, the town that I moved near Stanford University, is one of the wealthiest towns in the United States! It has more police per person than any city or town in the United States! When the "Silver King of the Comstock Lode," James C. Flood (who was an Bohemian), used part of his reported eighteen million dollar fortune to purchase 600 acres off Middlefield Road, built Linden Towers, a 44-room, three story home. He adorned his 1878 estate house with towers, gables and cupolas and furnished with exotic The area now known as Lindenwood was developed between 1937-1955, after the death of Flood's son. Some of my neighbors were the Chairman of the board of such companies as Kelly-Moore Paints, Memorex, Transamerican and Ampex.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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by indybay.org Wed Aug 8 12:47:42 PDT 2012 Vultures
But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pocket. How Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney's former firm, Bain Capital, and others have used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. "It's just a scheme to take a cash-rich company and move all that cash to a few actors typically it's the executives of the target company and the executives in the private equity firm and then you force everybody else to pay."
Wall Street scandals including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. In Libor, it was 16 banks acting in concert to rig the international interest rates. What this one was was a number of the world's biggest banks colluding to artificially suppress the amount of money that cities and towns earned on their municipal bond service.
The Libor, scandals trillions of dollars, and not a single person has had to have any individual consequence. So you talk about all those settlements. Those are all paid by the company and by the shareholders. Not a single person since 2008 has gone to has been indicted, has gone to jail, has spent a day in jail, or has paid any kind of money out of his own pocket. And until there's any individual consequence, it's really a license to steal. If you can go to jail for rigging an $800 trillion market, what can you go to jail for? This is the result of a selfish, greed-driven society. They've hardened their hearts for so long and are so blinded by greed and hypocrisy that they don't even hear the pitiful pleas of these poor suffering ones.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Saturday, August 11, 2012
My value systems are?
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/11/18719353.php
My value systems are?
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Aug 11th, 2012
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.
American's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.
Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth. "Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. Bohemian Club members as former President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff.
Atherton, CA, the town that I moved near Stanford University, is one of the wealthiest towns in the United States! It has more police per person than any city or town in the United States! When the "Silver King of the Comstock Lode," James C. Flood(who was an Bohemian), used part of his reported eighteen million dollar fortune to purchase 600 acres off Middlefield Road, built Linden Towers, a 44-room, three story home. He adorned his 1878 estate house with towers, gables and cupolas and furnished with exotic The area now known as Lindenwood was developed between 1937-1955, after the death of Flood's son. Some of my neighbors were the Chairman of the board of such companies as , Kelly-Moore Paints, Memorex, Transamerican and Ampex.
Ted Rudow III, MA
My value systems are?
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Saturday Aug 11th, 2012
Rep. Paul Ryan as Romney' his vice presidential running mate. At an Atlas Society meeting celebrating Ayn Rand's life in 2005, Ryan said that "The reason I got involved in public service, by and large, if I had to credit one thinker, one person, it would be Ayn Rand", and "I grew up reading Ayn Rand and it taught me quite a bit about who I am and what my value systems are, and what my beliefs are. It’s inspired me so much that it’s required reading in my office for all my interns and my staff.
American's elder statesman of finance, Alan Greenspan, has shaken the White House by declaring that the prime motive for the war in Iraq was oil. Alan Greenspan was Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board (FRB). He had served on the FRB since 1987 when he was appointed by President Reagan. Dr. Greenspan served on advisory boards for Presidents Nixon, Ford and Reagan.
Greenspan was born and educated in New York City, where he earned a BA, MA and, 27 years later in 1977, a PhD in economics. After earning his MA in 1950, Greenspan became a 20-year associate of famed philosopher Ayn Rand, author of books "The Virtue of Selfishness,""Atlas Shrugged" and more. Greenspan wrote for Rand’s newsletters and authored a chapter for a Rand book. As legend has it, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan was once a member of Ayn Rand's 1960's salon. He was invited guest at Rand's apartment and apparently was close enough to have read her epic Atlas Shrugged as it came off her typewriter. Philip Rothschilds ordered one of his mistresses (Ayn Rand) to write an 1100-page book that would describe to all witches how they would take control of the World through the Illuminati: It's called Atlas Shrugged.
Few of my family friends are member of the Bohemian Club. My father was inviting to join but turn it down! President Herbert Hoover once called this club "the greatest men's party on Earth. "Anybody can be President of the United States, but very few can ever have any hope of becoming President of the Bohemian Club. While the club was formed in 1872 by a group of San Francisco journalists, the male-only club now bars journalists from membership to protect the group's privacy. Membership is coveted, and people routinely wait 10 or 15 years before gaining admittance. There are currently about 2,700 members. Bohemian Club members as former President George Bush, President George W. Bush, Henry Kissinger, retired Gen. Colin Powell, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Dow Chemical Chairman Frank Popoff.
Atherton, CA, the town that I moved near Stanford University, is one of the wealthiest towns in the United States! It has more police per person than any city or town in the United States! When the "Silver King of the Comstock Lode," James C. Flood(who was an Bohemian), used part of his reported eighteen million dollar fortune to purchase 600 acres off Middlefield Road, built Linden Towers, a 44-room, three story home. He adorned his 1878 estate house with towers, gables and cupolas and furnished with exotic The area now known as Lindenwood was developed between 1937-1955, after the death of Flood's son. Some of my neighbors were the Chairman of the board of such companies as , Kelly-Moore Paints, Memorex, Transamerican and Ampex.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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by indybay.org Mon Aug 6 11:24:43 PDT 2012
Aug. 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit. Since 1940, the United States has spent $5.8 trillion on nuclear weapons programs, more than on any single program except Social Security, according to a Brooking Institute study billed as the first comprehensive audit of the country's effort to build a nuclear arsenal.
If divided equally among all of today's Americans, the cost would be $22,000 per person.
The study notes that spending on the current nuclear arsenal has stood at about $35 billion annually, or roughly 15 percent of the total defense budget. Although new weapons are no longer being produced, the stockpile has the equivalent explosive force of about 120,000 Hiroshima bombs, according to Stephen I. Schwartz, chairman of the four-year project.
They think that such weapons will be useful against their enemies, but those who take up the sword themselves and live thereby shall die thereby. Even the manufacture and existence of such weapons brings only pain, death and suffering to those who are afflicted and sickened by the radiation. Nearly all of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, not to mention all those who died in the Tokyo firestorm we started, were unarmed civilians--old men, women, children, babies. So whether one is a war criminal or a war hero depends on whether one is on the winning or the losing side. War itself is a crime against humanity just like Ernest Hemingway said.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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Next European Crisis Date To Watch: Sept 12
Next European Crisis Date To Watch: Sept 12
Posted By Joseph Candel
– 2012/08/08Posted in: Economic Crisis
Via The Economic Collapse
The financial chess game in Europe is still being played out, but in the end it is going to boil down to one very fundamental decision.
Is Germany going to allow the ECB to print up trillions of euros and use those euros to buy up the sovereign debt of troubled eurozone members such as Spain and Italy or not?
Nothing short of this is going to solve the problems in Europe.
You can forget the ESM and the EFSF.
Anyone that thinks they are going to solve the problems in Europe is someone that would also take a water pistol to fight a raging wildfire.
No, the only thing that is going to keep Spain and Italy from collapsing under the weight of a mountain of debt is a financial nuke.
The ECB needs to have the power to print up trillions of euros and use that money to buy up massive amounts of sovereign debt in order to guarantee that Spain and Italy will be able to borrow lots more money at very low interest rates.
In fact, this is probably what European Central Bank President Mario Draghi has in mind when he says that he is going to “do whatever it takes to preserve the euro”.
However, there is one giant problem.
The ECB is not going to be able to do this unless Germany allows them to.
And after enduring the horror of hyperinflation under the Weimar Republic, Germany is not too keen on introducing trillions upon trillions of new euros into the European economy.
If Germany allows the ECB to go down this path, Germany will end up experiencing tremendous inflation and the only benefit for Germany will be that the eurozone was kept together. That doesn’t sound like a very good deal for Germany.
Right now, the yield on 10 year Spanish bonds is above 7 percent and the yield on 10 year Italian bonds is above 6 percent.
Those are unsustainable levels.
The only thing that is going to bring those bond yields down permanently to where they need to be is unlimited ECB intervention.
But that is not going to happen without German permission.
Meanwhile, the situation in Spain gets worse by the day.
An article in Der Spiegel recently described the slow motion bank run that is systematically ripping the Spanish banking system to shreds….
Capital outflows from Spain more than quadrupled in May to €41.3 billion ($50.7 billion) compared with May 2011, according to figures released on Tuesday by the Spanish central bank.
In the first five months of 2012, a total of €163 billion left the country, the figures indicate. During the same period a year earlier, Spain recorded a net inflow of €14.6 billion.
If those numbers sound really bad to you, that is because they are really bad.
At this point, authorities in Spain are starting to panic. According to Graham Summers, Spain has imposed the following new capital restrictions during the last month alone….
A minimum fine of €10,000 for taxpayers who do not report their foreign accounts.
Secondary fines of €5,000 for each additional account
No cash transactions greater than €2,500
Cash transaction restrictions apply to individuals and businesses
How would you feel if the U.S. government permanently banned all cash transactions greater than $2,500?
That is how crazy things have already become in Spain.
We should see the government of Spain formally ask for a bailout pretty soon here.
Italy should follow fairly quickly thereafter.
But right now there is not enough money to completely bail either one of them out.
In the end, either the ECB is going to do it or it is not going to get done.
A moment of truth is rapidly approaching for Europe, and nobody is quite sure what is going to happen next. According to the Wall Street Journal, the central banks of the world are on “red alert” at this point….
Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi, with words but not yet actions, demonstrated this week that they are on red alert about the global economy.google_protectAndRun("render_ads.js::google_render_ad", google_handleError, google_render_ad);
Expectations are now high that Mr. Bernanke’s Federal Reserve and Mr. Draghi’s European Central Bank will act soon to address those worries. But both face immense tactical and political challenges and neither has a handbook to follow.
So what happens if Germany does not allow the ECB to print up trillions of new euros?
Financial journalist Ambrose Evans-Pritchard recently described what is at stake in all of this….
Failure to halt a full-blown debt debacle in Spain and Italy at this delicate juncture – with China, India and Brazil by now in the grip of a broken credit cycle and the US on the cusp of fresh recession even before the “fiscal cliff” hits – would tip the entire global system into a downward spin, triggering the sort of feedback loop that caused such havoc in late 2008.
As I have written about so frequently, time is running out for the global financial system.
Even Germany is starting to feel the pain. This week we learned that unemployment in Germany has risen for four months in a row.
So what comes next?
There is actually a key date that is coming up in September. The Federal Constitutional Court in Germany will rule on the legality of German participation in the European Stability Mechanism on September 12th.
If it is ruled that Germany cannot participate in the European Stability Mechanism then that is going to create all sorts of chaos. At that point all future European bailouts would be called into question and many would start counting down the days to the break up of the entire eurozone.
If Germany did end up leaving the eurozone, the transition would not be as difficult as many may think.
For example, most Americans may not realize this but Deutsche Marks are currently accepted at many retail stores throughout Germany. The following comes from a recent Wall Street Journal article….
Shopping for pain reliever here on a recent sunny morning, Ulrike Berger giddily counted her coins and approached the pharmacy counter. She had just enough to make the purchase: 31.09 deutsche marks.
“They just feel nice to hold again,” the 55-year-old preschool teacher marveled, cupping the grubby coins fished from the crevices of her castaway living room sofa. “And they’re still worth something.”
Behind the counter of Rolf-Dieter Schaetzle’s pharmacy in this southern German village lay a tray full of deutsche mark notes and coins—a month’s worth of sales.
I have a feeling that it would be much easier for Germany to leave the euro than it would be for most other eurozone members to.
The months ahead are certainly going to be very interesting, that is for sure.
Europe is heading for a date with destiny, and what transpires in Europe is going to shake the rest of the globe.
Sadly, most Americans still aren’t too concerned with what is going on in Europe right now.
Well, if you still don’t think that the problems in Europe are going to affect the United States, just check this news itemfrom the Guardian….
General Motors’ profits fell 41% in the second quarter as troubles in Europe undercut strong sales in North America.
America’s largest automaker made $1.5bn in the second quarter of 2012, compared with $2.5bn for the same period last year. Revenue fell to $37.6bn from $39.4bn in the second quarter of 2011. The results exceeded analysts’ estimates, but further underlined Europe’s drag on the US economy.
Profits at General Motors are down 41 percent and Europe is being blamed.
The global economy is more tightly integrated than ever before, and there is no way that the financial system of Europe collapses without it taking down the United States as well.
And considering the fact that the U.S. economy has already been steadily collapsing, the last thing we need is for Europe to come along and take our legs out from underneath us. Related / Kapcsolódó:
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Posted August 9, 2012 at 6:23 PM
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But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pocket. How Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, and others have used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. “It’s just a scheme to take a cash-rich company and move all that cash to a few actors — typically it’s the executives of the target company and the executives in the private equity firm — and then you force everybody else to pay.”
Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. In Libor, it was 16 banks acting in concert to rig the international interest rates. What this one was was a number of the world’s biggest banks colluding to artificially suppress the amount of money that cities and towns earned on their municipal bond service.
The Libor, scandals trillions of dollars, and not a single person has had to have any individual consequence. So you talk about all those settlements. Those are all paid by the company and by the shareholders. Not a single person since 2008 has gone to—has been indicted, has gone to jail, has spent a day in jail, or has paid any kind of money out of his own pocket. And until there’s any individual consequence, it’s really a license to steal. If you can’t go to jail for rigging an $800 trillion market, what can you go to jail for? This is the result of a selfish, greed-driven society. They’ve hardened their hearts for so long and are so blinded by greed and hypocrisy that they don’t even hear the pitiful pleas of these poor suffering ones.
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Repeals death penalty as maximum punishment for persons found guilty of murder and replaces it with life imprisonment without possibility of parole. Applies retroactively to persons already sentenced to death. Requires persons found guilty of murder to work while in prison, with their wages to be applied to any victim restitution fines or orders against them. Creates $100 million fund to be distributed to law enforcement agencies to help solve more homicide and rape cases. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Net savings to the state and counties that could amount to the high tens of millions of dollars annually on a statewide basis due to the elimination of the death penalty. One-time state costs totaling $100 million from 2012-13 through 2015-16 to provide funding to local law enforcement agencies. (Source: CA Secretary of State)
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Requires labeling on raw or processed food offered for sale to consumers if made from plants or animals with genetic material changed in specified ways. Prohibits labeling or advertising such food as “natural.” Exempts foods that are: certified organic; unintentionally produced with genetically engineered material; made from animals fed or injected with genetically engineered material but not genetically engineered themselves; processed with or containing only small amounts of genetically engineered ingredients; administered for treatment of medical conditions; sold for immediate consumption such as in a restaurant; or alcoholic beverages. Summary of estimate by Legislative Analyst and Director of Finance of fiscal impact on state and local government: Potential increase in state administrative costs of up to one million dollars annually to monitor compliance with the disclosure requirements specified in the measure. (Source: CA Secretary of State)
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But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pocket. How Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, and others have used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. "It’s just a scheme to take a cash-rich company and move all that cash to a few actors — typically it’s the executives of the target company and the executives in the private equity firm — and then you force everybody else to pay."
Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. In Libor, it was 16 banks acting in concert to rig the international interest rates. What this one was was a number of the world’s biggest banks colluding to artificially suppress the amount of money that cities and towns earned on their municipal bond service.
The Libor, scandals trillions of dollars, and not a single person has had to have any individual consequence. So you talk about all those settlements. Those are all paid by the company and by the shareholders. Not a single person since 2008 has gone to—has been indicted, has gone to jail, has spent a day in jail, or has paid any kind of money out of his own pocket. And until there’s any individual consequence, it’s really a license to steal. If you can’t go to jail for rigging an $800 trillion market, what can you go to jail for? This is the result of a selfish, greed-driven society. They've hardened their hearts for so long and are so blinded by greed and hypocrisy that they don't even hear the pitiful pleas of these poor suffering ones.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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Thursday, August 09, 2012
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Unterreiner: Sport, space and the nation
By Miles Unterreiner
Every four years, just as America is at its most divided, we have a chance to come together again through sport. This election year, there is more to divide us than usual. Thankfully, there is more to unite us as well.
I write primarily about politics, and the more I read and write, the more discouraged I tend to become. Every day seems much like the next: another Israeli-Palestinian peace plan fallen through, another shooting at a cinema or temple, another bombing in Iraq, another squabble over health care or tax returns or fried chicken, another fight between the 1 percent and the 99 percent over, in Lasswell’s famous definition, who gets what, when and how.
That’s why I so treasure those few truly politics-free moments — the moments when we are no longer Republicans or Democrats, upper-crust or lower-class, black or white or brown, but simply Americans. Those moments don’t come often, and most of them seem to come at the Olympics.
It was impossible to feel cynical about much of anything when Gabby Douglas’ smile lit up the world after winning the all-around. The furor around Mitt Romney’s comments about Britain’s preparedness for the Games disappeared from memory when Britain’s Mo Farah and our very own Galen Rupp, training partners in Oregon, embraced after going 1-2 in the 10,000 meter final — two men of different faiths, different ethnicities and different countries, united through shared, brutal effort in the service of sport. Politics lay forgotten as the entire country watched Alex Morgan put a brilliant finish past a horrified Canadian squad in the final minute of extra time, snapping 122 minutes of tension in one final moment of glorious victory. To paraphrase Barack Obama: At that moment we were no longer divided into red states and blue states, but united as fifty red, white and blue states.
When I’m watching NBC’s wonderfully nationalistic coverage of the Games, swamped in patriotic slow-motion montages of American athletes overcoming tremendous adversity to run, jump, swim and, in Ryan Lochte’s case, give disastrous interviews for the stars and stripes, I forget for a moment all the things that need fixing about our country and remember everything we’ve done right.
And among those things is continuing to support the American space program, which recently landed the cutting-edge Curiosity rover on Mars after a ridiculously complex landing procedure involving parachutes, rockets and, in the final moments of the so-called “seven minutes of terror,” delicate landing cables.
These are the moments that make us remember why we live in this country, the moments when we can honestly and unflinchingly celebrate collective national achievements, the moments where rancor and bitterness have no place.
They are also the moments on which it is most difficult to place a price tag. Who knows what will come of our distant exploration of a mysterious planet, or which child will be inspired to do great things by watching Missy Franklin or Michael Phelps?
Already, however, critics on both sides of the partisan divide have raised complaints that we ought not to spend the time and money to explore space when there are pressing problems here on Earth; that pure government-funded research without a direct and immediate impact on human welfare is inherently useless; that Olympic athletes get too much attention, earn too much money and divert our attention from more important problems.
Those complaints constitute a dangerous narrowing of our vision and a frightening lowering of our ambitions for humanity. Confining our discussions of the public welfare to narrow questions of self-interest, division and distribution robs the nation of its ability to enjoy a good life that cannot be captured by recourse to numbers, facts and figures.
There is a time and place for everything, and the problems of our nation and the world cannot be solved by feel-good heroics alone. But as far as it is in our power, we ought to continue to support the projects, people and ideas that transcend our small, man-made boundaries and enrich the sum of this human experience we all share.
Share your favorite Olympic moment with Miles at milesu1 “at” stanford “dot” edu.
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Vultures
But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pocket. How Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, and others have used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. "It’s just a scheme to take a cash-rich company and move all that cash to a few actors — typically it’s the executives of the target company and the executives in the private equity firm — and then you force everybody else to pay."
Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. In Libor, it was 16 banks acting in concert to rig the international interest rates. What this one was was a number of the world’s biggest banks colluding to artificially suppress the amount of money that cities and towns earned on their municipal bond service.
The Libor, scandals trillions of dollars, and not a single person has had to have any individual consequence. So you talk about all those settlements. Those are all paid by the company and by the shareholders. Not a single person since 2008 has gone to—has been indicted, has gone to jail, has spent a day in jail, or has paid any kind of money out of his own pocket. And until there’s any individual consequence, it’s really a license to steal. If you can’t go to jail for rigging an $800 trillion market, what can you go to jail for? This is the result of a selfish, greed-driven society. They've hardened their hearts for so long and are so blinded by greed and hypocrisy that they don't even hear the pitiful pleas of these poor suffering ones.
Ted Rudow III, MA
Wednesday, August 08, 2012
Vultures 2
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/08/18719153.php
Vultures 2
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Aug 8th, 2012
Vultures
But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pocket. How Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, and others have used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. "It’s just a scheme to take a cash-rich company and move all that cash to a few actors — typically it’s the executives of the target company and the executives in the private equity firm — and then you force everybody else to pay."
Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. In Libor, it was 16 banks acting in concert to rig the international interest rates. What this one was was a number of the world’s biggest banks colluding to artificially suppress the amount of money that cities and towns earned on their municipal bond service.
The Libor, scandals trillions of dollars, and not a single person has had to have any individual consequence. So you talk about all those settlements. Those are all paid by the company and by the shareholders. Not a single person since 2008 has gone to—has been indicted, has gone to jail, has spent a day in jail, or has paid any kind of money out of his own pocket. And until there’s any individual consequence, it’s really a license to steal. If you can’t go to jail for rigging an $800 trillion market, what can you go to jail for? This is the result of a selfish, greed-driven society. They've hardened their hearts for so long and are so blinded by greed and hypocrisy that they don't even hear the pitiful pleas of these poor suffering ones.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Vultures 2
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Wednesday Aug 8th, 2012
Vultures
But a small group of vulture funds have been trying to divert that money into their own pocket. How Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney’s former firm, Bain Capital, and others have used private equity to raise money to conduct corporate raids. "It’s just a scheme to take a cash-rich company and move all that cash to a few actors — typically it’s the executives of the target company and the executives in the private equity firm — and then you force everybody else to pay."
Wall Street scandals — including a decade-long Wall Street scandal that drained money from every county and state in the United States — and notes not a single bank executive has faced individual consequences. In Libor, it was 16 banks acting in concert to rig the international interest rates. What this one was was a number of the world’s biggest banks colluding to artificially suppress the amount of money that cities and towns earned on their municipal bond service.
The Libor, scandals trillions of dollars, and not a single person has had to have any individual consequence. So you talk about all those settlements. Those are all paid by the company and by the shareholders. Not a single person since 2008 has gone to—has been indicted, has gone to jail, has spent a day in jail, or has paid any kind of money out of his own pocket. And until there’s any individual consequence, it’s really a license to steal. If you can’t go to jail for rigging an $800 trillion market, what can you go to jail for? This is the result of a selfish, greed-driven society. They've hardened their hearts for so long and are so blinded by greed and hypocrisy that they don't even hear the pitiful pleas of these poor suffering ones.
Ted Rudow III,MA
Monday, August 06, 2012
War itself
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2012/08/06/18719004.php
War itself
by Ted Rudow III, MA ( Tedr77 [at] aol.com )
Monday Aug 6th, 2012
Aug. 6, the anniversary of Hiroshima, should be a day of somber reflection, not only on the terrible events of that day in 1945, but also on what they revealed: that humans, in their dedicated quest to extend their capacities for destruction, had finally found a way to approach the ultimate limit. Since 1940, the United States has spent $5.8 trillion on nuclear weapons programs, more than on any single program except Social Security, according to a Brooking Institute study billed as the first comprehensive audit of the country's effort to build a nuclear arsenal.
If divided equally among all of today's Americans, the cost would be $22,000 per person.
The study notes that spending on the current nuclear arsenal has stood at about $35 billion annually, or roughly 15 percent of the total defense budget. Although new weapons are no longer being produced, the stockpile has the equivalent explosive force of about 120,000 Hiroshima bombs, according to Stephen I. Schwartz, chairman of the four-year project.
They think that such weapons will be useful against their enemies, but those who take up the sword themselves and live thereby shall die thereby. Even the manufacture and existence of such weapons brings only pain, death and suffering to those who are afflicted and sickened by the radiation. Nearly all of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki victims, not to mention all those who died in the Tokyo firestorm we started, were unarmed civilians--old men, women, children, babies. So whether one is a war criminal or a war hero depends on whether one is on the winning or the losing side. War itself is a crime against humanity just like Ernest Hemingway said.
Ted Rudow III, MA
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