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While a lot of people may be doing their part for the environment by sending their discarded plastic items off for recycling, the fact is that much of the plastic currently in use is non-recyclable. In a not particularly eco-friendly process, some of this plastic is burned to generate electricity, while much of it simply ends up in landfills. Canadian company JBI, however, has developed a process that uses those plastics as a feedstock, and turns them into fuel.
link: http://www.gizmag.com/plastic2oil-converts-plastic-to-fuel/19108/While a lot of people may be doing their part for the environment by sending their... more
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Plastic is wonderful material. It has so many uses, infinitely malleable to fit almost any need. And soooo durable. Plastics last hundreds, even thousands of years.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DO5tyrfTfpcPlastic is wonderful material. It has so many uses, infinitely malleable to fit almost... more
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Last week, Amazon joined the array of companies that offer an electronic trade-in program. To trade in an electronic device, a customer can click a “trade-in” button on Amazon.com, then print out a pre-paid shipping label in order to ship the device to Amazon for free. After Amazon receives the device, the customer receives credit for future Amazon purchases. Trade-ins are currently offered for 2,550 electronic devices, including cell phones, tablet computers, MP3 players, and cameras.
“Technology is constantly evolving and newer, better versions of consumer electronics are introduced all the time,” said Paul Ryder, vice president of Electronics for Amazon.com. “We want to give customers the opportunity to get great value from their used electronics. Hundreds of thousands of customers have already received millions of dollars in gift cards from the other products in our program. The Electronics category is a natural extension and we are delighted to offer our customers more trade-in options.”
T-mobile also announced a trade-in program last week. T-Mobile’s trade-In program allows its customers to trade in old cell phones for money which they can use to buy new cell phones, including smartphones. The program allows customers to “offset the cost of a new phone purchase by up to $300,” according to a press release. T-mobile will even accept cell phones from other cell phone carriers.
E-waste is a growing problem
Electronic trade-in programs are important because electronic devices contain hazardous chemicals. When electronic waste (e-waste) is dumped into a landfill the hazardous chemicals can leach into the soil, and be released into the air. If e-waste is incinerated heavy metals like lead and mercury are released into the air.
Trade-ins also represent a huge opportunity. It’s a lot easier to mine old cell phones for raw materials than it is to dig for them.
The Electronics Take Back Coalition calls e-waste the “fastest growing waste stream in the U.S.” In 1998 only 2.3 million of the 20 million computers no longer functioning were recycled, according to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and most computers recycled were from large businesses and institutions. A 2006 report by the International Association of Electronics Recyclers states that there are 400 million units of e-waste a year. Over three billion tons of e-waste was disposed in 2008 in the U.S. and only 430,000 tons or 13.6 percent recycled, according to the Electronics Take Back Coalition.
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What happens when old building are renovated with newer, safer fixtures? A New England collector-turned-artist recycles them into art.
New Hampshire resident David Random has been collecting antique mechanical and architectural parts for years. He loved the shape, detail and utility of typically-ignored fixtures like heating grates, lawn fixtures and kitchen utensils. After a while, he started to notice the some of these items almost seemed like they were meant to be joined together in artistic way.
Read more and see pictures of Random's sculptures: http://ow.ly/4SkXDWhat happens when old building are renovated with newer, safer fixtures? A New England... more
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Could happen - "population sizes, going from 6.2 billion to 26.8 billion people in 2100." The biggest cause of waste and pollution in the world is the every expanding population of our human race. We are the only species that waste resources and in the end will vanish from this planet sooner than latter because of our massive, destructive, technology driven solutions based on madness and uncontrolled madness.Could happen - "population sizes, going from 6.2 billion to 26.8 billion people... more
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Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has eclipsed ethical considerations and where massively complex systems of productions ensure that all the products we buy will have detrimental impacts most of which we may never even consider. Thus, instead of avoiding the purchase of products from one bad company only to support another, we avoid buying anything to the greatest degree we are able.
Freegans are people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. Freegans embrace community, generosity, social concern, freedom, cooperation, and sharing in opposition to a society based on materialism, moral apathy, competition, conformity, and greed. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/42951-freegan-Freeganism is a total boycott of an economic system where the profit motive has... more
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In order to save the environment, society needs to get to the root of the problem: waste. Trash is stinking up the planet, and the best place to start tackling the garbage crisis might just be to start by throwing out ourselves. In infoMania's Earth Day special, Brett Erlich brings us the best for people tackling human waste head on--sometimes literally.
Watch the sneak peek for 'Viral Video Film School: Saves The Planet' here, and then tune in Friday, April 22 at 10:30/9:30c for an Earth Day special packed with all-new material from Professor Erlich.
infoMania is a weekly half-hour satirical show that puts a comedic spin on the 24/7 media overload. Picture the ultimate office water-cooler, only with funnier co-workers who willingly stay up late imbibing all forms of media so you don't have to. Hosted by Brett Erlich and co-starring Sergio Cilli, Erin Gibson, Ben Hoffman and Bryan Safi, infoMania airs on Thursdays at 11/10c on Current TV.
Go to http://current.com/infomania for more, and make sure to check out our Facebook profile for special features at http://facebook.com/infomania.
Current Media, the Peabody-and Emmy Award-winning television and online network founded in 2005 by Al Gore and Joel Hyatt, engages viewers with smart, provocative and timely programming -stories that no one else is telling in ways that no one else is telling them. Current's programming shines a light where others won't dare and boldly explores important subjects -- opening minds, sparking conversations and forming deep connections with its viewers. The channel's audience is comprised of affluent, curious, social and connected adults who crave the kind of entertaining, enlightening, witty and informative programming found on Current's TV and online properties. Current is now available via cable and satellite TV in 75 million households worldwide - 60 million households in the US - through distribution partners Comcast (Channel 107); Time Warner ; DirecTV (Channel 358 nationwide); Dish Network (Channel 196 nationwide); Verizon and AT&T. In the UK and Ireland, Current is available on BSkyB (Channel 183) and Virgin Media (Channel 155), and in Italy, Current is available on Sky Italia (Channel 130). Viewers can also find Current online at http://www.current.com.In order to save the environment, society needs to get to the root of the problem:... more
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Authorities in Japan raised the prospect Friday of a likely breach in the all-important containment vessel of the No. 3 reactor at the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a potentially ominous development in the race to prevent a large-scale release of radiation.
Contaminated water likely seeped through the containment vessel protecting the reactor's core, said Hidehiko Nishiyama of the Japan Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency.
Three men working near the No. 3 reactor Thursday stepped into water that had 10,000 times the amount of radiation typical for a nuclear plant, Nishiyama said. An analysis of the contamination suggests "some sort of leakage" from the reactor core, signaling a possible break of the containment vessel that houses the core, he said.
The workers have been hospitalized, according to the agency.
Nuclear power experts cautioned against reading too much into the newest development, saying the burns suffered by the workers may not amount to much more than a sunburn.
Moreover, evidence of radioactivity in the water around the plant is not necessarily surprising given the amount of water sprayed onto and pumped into the reactors, said Ian Hutchinson, professor of nuclear science and engineering at the Massachusetts institute of Technology.
"I am not particularly alarmed," he said.
The reactor thought to be leaking contaminated water is the same one cited in the dramatic evacuation last week of a small crew of workers who had stayed behind after the plant's owner pulled most employees from the area. The workers were pulled back March 16 after white smoke began billowing from the reactor and radiation levels spiked.
At the time, the Japanese nuclear safety agency said it suspected damage to No. 3's containment vessel, but a government spokesman the next day said there had been no indication of a "major breach of containment."
That reactor is of particular concern, experts have said, because it is the only one at the plant to use a combination of uranium and plutonium fuel, called MOX, that is considered to be more dangerous than the pure uranium fuel used in other reactors.Authorities in Japan raised the prospect Friday of a likely breach in the... more
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The Government Accountability Office (GAO), issued it first annual report on reducing or eliminating duplication, overlap, or fragmentation in government spending (embedded below). This particular report identifies areas where adjustments would generate tens of billions of savings, and the GAO did not even examine the entire federal government.
http://politisite.com/2011/03/01/congress-want-to-cut-the-budget-by-100-billion-start-here/The Government Accountability Office (GAO), issued it first annual report on reducing... more
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The U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than 20 separate programs to help the homeless and 80 programs for economic development.
These are a few of the findings in a massive study of overlapping and duplicative programs that cost taxpayers billions of dollars each year, according to the Government Accountability Office.
A report from the nonpartisan GAO, to be released Tuesday, compiles a list of redundant and potentially ineffective federal programs, and it could serve as a template for lawmakers in both parties as they move to cut federal spending and consolidate programs to reduce the deficit. Sen. Tom Coburn (R., Okla.), who pushed for the report, estimated it identifies between $100 billion and $200 billion in duplicative spending. The GAO didn't put a specific figure on the spending overlap.
The GAO examined numerous federal agencies, including the departments of defense, agriculture and housing and urban development, and pointed to instances where different arms of the government should be coordinating or consolidating efforts to save taxpayers' money.
The agency found 82 federal programs to improve teacher quality; 80 to help disadvantaged people with transportation; 47 for job training and employment; and 56 to help people understand finances, according to a draft of the report reviewed by The Wall Street Journal.
Instances of ineffective and unfocused federal programs can lead to a mishmash of occasionally arbitrary policies and rules, the report said. It recommends merging or consolidating a number of programs to both save money and make the government more efficient.
"Reducing or eliminating duplication, overlap, or fragmentation could potentially save billions of tax dollars annually and help agencies provide more efficient and effective services," the report said.
There have been multiple efforts to cull the number of federal programs in recent years, but they often run into opposition from lawmakers in both parties who rush to defend individual spending provisions. In fact, GAO's recommendations are often ignored or postponed by federal agencies and lawmakers, particularly when they could require difficult political votes.
The report says policy makers should consider creating a single food-safety agency because of a number of redundancies. The Food and Drug Administration makes sure that chicken eggs are "safe, wholesome, and properly labeled" while a division of the Department of Agriculture "is responsible for the safety of eggs processed into egg products."
Spokespeople for the Department of Agriculture and FDA pointed to the Obama administration's creation of the Food Safety Working Group, which works to better coordinate the government's regulators.
The report says there are 18 federal programs that spent a combined $62.5 billion in 2008 on food and nutrition assistance, but little is known about the effectiveness of 11 of these programs because they haven't been well studied.
The report took particular aim at government funding for surface transportation, including the building of roads and other projects, which the administration has made a major part of its push to update the country's infrastructure.
The report said five divisions within the Department of Transportation account for 100 different programs that fund things like highways, rail projects and safety programs.
One program that funnels transportation funds to the states "functions as a cash-transfer general-purpose grant program, rather than as a tool for pursuing a cohesive national transportation policy," the report said. Similarly, it chided the government over encouraging federal agencies to purchase plug-in hybrid vehicles while having policies that agencies reduce electricity consumption. It said government agencies have purchased numerous vehicles that run on alternative fuels only to find many gas stations don't sell alternative fuels. This has led government agencies to turn around and request waivers so they didn't have to use alternative fuels.
A spokesperson for the Department of Transportation said the president's budget for fiscal year 2012 "proposes to cut waste, inefficiency and bureaucracy by consolidating over 55 separate highway programs into five core programs, and by merging six transit programs into two programs."
more at http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703749504576172942399165436.htmlThe U.S. government has 15 different agencies overseeing food-safety laws, more than... more
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Neg Norton is president of the Yellow Pages Association, a group that's taken some hits on TreeHugger for pushing paper phone books. Today, his association is rolling out a new, national opt-out Internet site, where people will be able to end delivery of paper phone books to their doorsteps. If you don't want them, they won't be delivered ... for at least a few years. Norton sat down with Treehugger to talk about the launch of yellowpagesoptout.com, an improvement on an older model, which required people to contact individual publishers for opting out of paper directories.
TH: Tell me, why did the Yellow Pages industry decide to launch this upgraded opt-out site?
NEG NORTON: We're trying to do the right thing here, by our customers, and environmentalists and everybody. We think this site is a really positive step toward that ...
There are 158 domestic publishers, and all of them are on the site.
TH: But why did you decide to create a clearinghouse for opting out of phone books?
NN: It doesn't make any sense for us to deliver phone books to people who don't want them. We don't want to irritate consumers, and it creates no value for our customers, either.
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http://www.yellowpagesoptout.com/Neg Norton is president of the Yellow Pages Association, a group that's taken... more
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A hotel constructed entirely from trash has opened its door in central Madrid, Spain. The trash hotel, or rather the Save The Beach Hotel, is a project by German artist HA Schult, together with the support of Corona Extra.A hotel constructed entirely from trash has opened its door in central Madrid, Spain.... more
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Recently Complete News Updates Ms Brandi Favre has been arrested in connection with a meth lab bust. Police in a rural Mississippi county arrested at least three people Wednesday during a drug raid...Recently Complete News Updates Ms Brandi Favre has been arrested in connection with a... more
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If you missed PopTech this year, you may not have heard. But waste is now a resource. If PopTech Fellow Ryan Smith can turn sewage sludge into plastic, Brooke Farrell (RecycleMatch Co-founder and PopTech Fellow) is pretty sure she can handle what's in your company's dumpster. RecycleMatch is creating markets for all kinds of things we once considered trash.If you missed PopTech this year, you may not have heard. But waste is now a resource.... more
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by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
A proposed program to cover counseling sessions for seniors on end-of-life care has risen from the ashes of health care reform and found a new life in Medicare regulations, Jason Hancock of the American Independent reports.
In August, former Alaska governor Sarah Palin started a rumor via her Facebook page that the the Obama administration was backing “death panels” that would vote on whether the elderly and infirm had a right to live. In reality, the goal was to have Medicare reimburse doctors for teaching patients how to set up their own advance directives that reflect their wishes on end-of-life care.
Patients can use their advance directives to stipulate their wishes for treatment in the event that they are too sick to make decisions for themselves. They can also use those directives to demand the most aggressive lifesaving interventions.
Waste not, want not
Though end-of-life counseling was ultimately gutted from the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the legislation will eventually ensure health coverage for 32 million more Americans. However, Joanne Kenen in The American Prospect argues it will do comparatively less to curb the high costs of health care. The architects of the ACA had an opportunity to include serious cost-containment measures like a robust public health insurance option to compete with private insurers, but they declined to do so.
Kenen argues that the government should more aggressively target waste within the health care delivery system, especially Medicare and Medicaid. Unchecked and rising health care costs through Medicare and Medicaid are a significantly greater driver of the deficit than Social Security or discretionary spending:
“The waste is enormous,” says Harvard health care economist David Cutler. “You can easily convince yourself that there is 40 to 50 percent to be saved.” Squeezing out every single bit of that inefficient or unnecessary care may not be realistic. But it also isn’t necessary; eliminating even a small fraction of the current waste each year over the next decade would make a huge difference, he added. Health care would finally start acting like “a normal industry.” Productivity would grow, in the one area of the economy where it has not, and with productivity gains, prices could be expected to fall.
The new end-of-life counseling program will help reduce waste in the system, not by pressuring people to forgo treatments they want, but by giving them the tools to refuse treatments they don’t want.
Teen births down, but why?
The teen birth rate has dropped again, according to the latest CDC statistics. Births to women under the age of 20 declined by 6% in 2009 compared to 2008. One hypothesis is that the reduction is an unexpected consequence of the recession, an argument we pointed to in last week’s edition of the Pulse. John Tomasic of the Colorado Independent is skeptical of the recession hypothesis. He writes:
Emily Bridges, director of public information services at Advocates for Youth, agrees with other observers in pointing out that teens aren’t likely to include national economics as a significant factor in pondering whether or not to have unprotected sex. Peer pressure, badly mixed booze, general awkwardness, for example, are much more likely than the jobless recovery to play on the minds of horny high schoolers.
Some states with weak economies actually saw a rise in teen birth rates, Tomasic notes. However, this year’s sharp downturn in teen births parallels a drop in fertility for U.S. women of all ages, which seems best explained by economic uncertainty.
It’s true that prospective teen moms are less likely to have jobs in the first place, and so a bad job market might be less likely to sway their decisions. However, young women who aren’t working are unlikely to have significant resources of their own to draw on, which means that they are heavily dependent upon others for support. If their families and partners are already struggling to make ends meet, then the prospect of another mouth to feed may seem even less appealing than usual.
Abortion is the elephant in the room in this discussion. The CDC numbers only count live births. Logically, fewer live births must be the result of fewer conceptions and/or more terminations. Some skeptics doubt that economic factors have much to do with teens’ decisions about contraception. However, it seems plausible that decisions about abortion would be heavily influenced by the economic health of the whole extended family.
Last year’s decrease was notably sharp, but teen birth rates have been declining steadily for the last 20 years. The Guttmacher Institute, a New York-based non-profit that specializes in research on reproductive choice and health, suggests that successive generations of teens are simply getting savvier about contraception. Births to mothers between the ages of 15 and 17 are down 48% from 1991 levels, and births to mothers ages 18 to 19 are down 30%.
Stupid drug dealer tricks
Martha Rosenberg of AlterNet describes 15 classic dirty tricks deployed by Big Pharma to push drugs. These include phony grassroots patient groups organized by the drug companies to lobby for approval of dubious remedies. Another favorite money-making strategy is to overcharge Medicare and Medicaid. Pharmaceutical companies have paid nearly $15 billion in wrongdoing settlements related to Medicare and Medicaid chicanery over the last five years.
This post features links to the best independent, progressive reporting about health care by members of The Media Consortium. It is free to reprint. Visit the Pulse for a complete list of articles on health care reform, or follow us on Twitter. And for the best progressive reporting on critical economy, environment, health care and immigration issues, check out The Audit, The Mulch, and The Diaspora. This is a project of The Media Consortium, a network of leading independent media outlets.by Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium blogger
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The State Department has put out a press release announcing that it has approved spending $3.36 million next year to "train" foreign judges and other law enforcement officials about "intellectual property." There are 15 different projects, which all come down to various training programs for judges, police, law enforcement in how to kowtow to American industry in dealing with infringement of copyrights, trademarks and patents.
Given the way our government seems to think that whatever the industry says is accurate -- no matter how many times it's been disproved -- you have to imagine that any "training" is going to be laughably one-sided. For example, I note that one of the projects is:
> Latin American Online Piracy $142,944
> Training for judges from Peru, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay on
> combating digital/online copyright piracy crimes.
Except, last I checked, those countries had their own copyright laws, and didn't need to obey US specific laws. In the case of Brazil, for example, it's been contemplating new copyright laws that would be much more respectful of fair use and the public domain. Yet, given the way the State Department has acted in the past on these issues, why do I get the feeling that "fair use" isn't a part of the training campaign?http://www.techdirt.com/images/topic_politics.gif
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By David P Shirk
Freedom is more than an ideal. It is a way of life that all who embrace it can live, and prosper under. Morally speaking, it is the only way to live if you wish to be in charge of your own life and all you produce. The more freedom you either abuse or give up, the more government grows to fill in the gap.
In short, government is like a fire. Contained and well supervised, it serves its keeper well. Yet people like fire, and all too often perceive its benefit not its danger – living in ignorance of its full capability when it is unleashed. They feel the warmth from it on a cold day, and use it to heat water, and cook. They know that most others use it as well in such small amounts that it is not something to be feared, but rather used for their benefit. Yet one day someone takes their eye off of it. A smoldering ember pops out of the fireplace and starts spreading. Eventually the entire house is consumed, and the owner left destitute. People know that governance of any sort could be for the good – as long as it remained in their control under their watchful eye, and doing only what it was told to do out of well thought out reason.
Such a form was held by a small town once. So the townspeople allowed it, and kept it small. Yet one day while they were not using it, they stepped away from it and allowed it to keep burning. Yet while they were away going about their business, the fire decided that it was not burning enough to make everyone warm and happy. So it spread.
At first all the people noticed was a small piece of wood missing from each one of their stacks. Upon further investigation, they found one less fortunate enjoying a warm fire in an alley. It turns out that the mayor’s assistant had taken that small bit of wood, and used it to warm the guy who was down on his luck. Some people thought this was wrong – after all, they had always been kind to this man – given him food, a place to sleep when the weather got too bad, and even firewood on days that were just chilly. Others thought that this was great – it saved them the time and effort of dealing with the guy, and at the relatively low cost of a small piece of wood.
The general consensus was that it was no big deal. So the next day, the people went about their business again. This time they come back, and another small piece of wood was gone again. They had expected this however, so they did not think anything of it. This went by for a week or so, and they soon became indifferent to it.
Then one day they returned and did not even think about the wood anymore. Yet upon entering their homes, some found their cabinets open, some said that the last of their flour was taken, and some their water supply lower than usual. It would have sounded like the whole town was imagining things had fewer people noticed. Once again they investigated, only this time they found that the town hall was warmly lit, and a dozen or so were eating a well set meal.
This caused a little more of a stir. The town’s people did not mind feeding a guy who was driven to poverty by a bad fall while working, but most of the others enjoying the food and the fire worked far less than the rest of them. They were impoverished not by an accident, but by the choices they made such as becoming a slave to the bottle or some other bit of nonsense. However the towns people grudgingly gave a little more way, seeing the situation as a distasteful act, but not one enough to get too ruffled over – after all, they still had work to do and their families to go to.
The overseer of the provided food and shelter reported later that night to the mayor. He saw his task as not only justified, but morally imperative to any righteous society. He told the mayor that the job was done, but that the townspeople were a little upset by the situation. The mayor asked his opinion, and he responded that the townsmen should be ashamed of themselves – after all, it was only taking their spares and making good use of them. The mayor thought about the matter and concluded that his assistant was correct. However he did not want the matter to get out of hand, so he kept the provided food, fire and temporary shelter as the new norm – not to be added to.
However a month passed, and winter was due to set in. As a result, the townspeople had stockpiled more wood on their property. Yet due to the ever diminishing weather, more wood was needed to provide heat for the less fortunate of the town. However the wood was taken nonetheless, with food in just about the same amount.
The brutal winter came and went, setting the stage for a very nasty town hall meeting in the early spring. For the most part, most had enough stored for the winter, and sat quiet. Yet there were a few families that the extra taken from them all season long, and that little bit made a world of difference. After spending the last few weeks of winter with a meager fire and little food, they ended up finding themselves in the town hall just to get warm again.
One father stood up, and as respectfully as he could, made it known how outrageous this whole thing was. He was immediately answered by the condescending public servant who retorted with comments like ‘How dare you claim to be in the right yet refuse to give to help the needy’. The father lost his composure at that point and yelled back at the official for always having a full belly and warm place to go from his hard work while his family who had earned it had to remain with less. The official smiled and pointed out that maybe so, but the father and his family were both at the town hall with ready food and warmth when they needed it. In the end, the father was exasperated, and once he completely lost his temper, was asked to leave.
Once he left no one else had anything to say. They felt for the father, but did not feel like being made out to look like an unreasonable idiot like he had been. So it was decided that the experiment was a success, and would become policy. Long story short, this went on for a generation. There were always complaints, but in the end nothing changed.
The next generation had a mayor just like the last. He felt mortified when he found that his official and those under him were not getting paid for gathering the wood and the food. So he implemented a small tax to see that they were compensated. The taxes went the same way as the wood and food had, and despite the complaints, turned into policy.
Yet another generation passed and there were still problems. Even worse was that the people had began taking the idea of ‘giving until it hurts’ as a way of life, and the way they used to live was long forgotten (save for the old timers who were labeled as mentally ill anyway). The new mayor seemed consistent in the eyes of the people so they listened to him – after all, they still lived, so what was the wor....
http://www.peacefreedomprosperity.com/?p=3824By David P Shirk
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On October 23 2010, MicrobeWorld attended the first annual USA Science and Engineering Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. In part 2 of this two-part video, Stanley Maloy, Dean of the College of Science at San Diego State University, continues his tour of the microbiology related exhibits at the festival.
Featured in this episode are members of the departments of biology and microbiology at the University of Georgia and Idaho State University. Maloy also introduces us to some of the work being done at The J. Craig Venter Institute in San Diego, Ca.
Watch as Maloy introduces us to the power of microbes through demonstrations of waste turned into energy, termites living off a diet of wood, and the radiation resistant power of microbes. Maloy also takes us on a tour of the The DiscoverGenomics! Mobile Laboratory which travels around the Washington D.C. area visiting schools that otherwise wouldn't get the chance to see science in action.On October 23 2010, MicrobeWorld attended the first annual USA Science and Engineering... more
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Taxes are a lot like salaries. If you paid someone $1 million a day they'd scream bloody murder they should've gotten $1,000,000.01. If you taxed them 1%, they'd whine they shouldn't have to pay more than 000.1%, with those whining the loudest being the people with the lowest taxes and highest pay. It's time for some rational discussion on taxes.Taxes are a lot like salaries. If you paid someone $1 million a day they'd scream... more
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