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American Corruption

A s a young industrial power, the United States suffered from levels of political corruption commonly associated today with impoverished nations in the developing world. This is among the findings of a new working paper co-written by Harvard Law School Professor Matthew Stephenson ’03 and California State Supreme Court Justice and Stanford Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar tentatively titled “Taming Systemic Corruption: The American Experience and its Implications for Contemporary Debates,” which chronicles the history of corruption in the United States between 1865 and 1941.

I suppose that one would expect a new country to be corrupt at the beginning since it is learning how to flex its muscles globally but certainly after 1941, when everyone's economy was destroyed, the US took on the task of rebuilding the world along with Great Britain and Russia.

Instead of corruption getting better, corruption got worse as large corporations began to strongly influence the American government with money.  While that was going on the American government, also using money, began influencing the rest of the world by telling everyone that Democracy was the only honest form of government to have.

The irony here is that the US was being dishonest as it pursued global democracy and honesty.  After several years, some of the countries realized what the US was doing and tried to beat them at their own game.  The first threat came from OPEC...  They sent students to American Universities to learn economics, then used economic theory to compete against the US.

As the US grew and prospered, it not only tried to influence the rest of the world but it tried to influence politics and the economy within the USA.  This primarily came from large corporations but also came from self-made billionaires who wanted to influence the future and protect their wealth.

While there were small areas of corruption in business and government, nothing reached the level of corruption until Donald Trump became President.  As a result of his Presidency, the Democrats in their efforts to maintain their corrupt influence, have enlisted the support of large corporations, the FBI, the DOJ, and mainstream media.  In so doing, they have created two forms of justice as they try to eliminate the conservative voice altogether.

Once we have only one point of view, no one will ever be able to control our internal CORRUPTION...

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A Look Inside ALICE

A look inside ALICE at the Large Hadron Collider. ALICE is one of the LHC's four particle detectors. Image: CERN/LHC

Recently astronomers caught a strange mystery: extremely high-energy particles spitting out of the surface of the Sun when it was relatively calm. Now a team of theorists have proposed a simple solution to the mystery. We just have to look a little bit under the surface.

In 2022 the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory detected a flash of extremely high gamma ray radiation coming from the disk of the sun. To generate that kind of radiation required a particle with TeV energies slamming into another particle. 

This observation came on the heels of over six years worth of observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope in orbit of the Earth. That telescope found significant gamma ray detections also coming from the Sun. 

Those detections were of lower energy than the HAWC results, but pointed in the same general direction.  What was especially surprising about these observations was that these remarkably high-energy particles seemed to be emitted from the Sun when it was in a relatively quiet state. 

Occasionally solar storms and flares rip across the surface of the Sun, and naturally these generate enormous amounts of energies which can easily create high-energy particles. But when the Sun is quiet it’s much harder to identify a sufficiently large source of energy to power these kinds of processes.  READ MORE...

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Controlling Your Mind

 

Earth's Water Came From Space

Earth may have formed much more rapidly than previously believed after born as tiny millimeter-sized pebbles that accumulated over a period of just a few million years.

The new theory also implies that rather than water being delivered to Earth by icy comets, this vital ingredient for life is present on our planet due to our young planet thirstily sucking up water from its space environment. 

The theory could have important implications for the search for life outside the solar system, indicating that watery and habitable planets around other stars may be more common than currently theorized.

The new theory put forward by the team suggests that around 4.5 billion years ago when the sun was an infant star surrounded by a disk of gas and dust, known as a proto-planetary disk, tiny particles of dust would be quickly sucked up by forming planets once they reached a certain size. 

In the case of the infant Earth, this "vacuuming up" of disk material ensured our planet was supplied with water.  READ MORE...

Corruption

 

Greed - Power - Control

Belief in religion and an afterlife has been replaced by belief in becoming wealthy and living large now.  Underscoring this desire is WIIFM...

What's In It For Me...  

I have worked in all sorts of business environments both as a worker, in management, and as a consultant and the negative aspects of management as just as prevalent in a CHRISTIAN ORGANIZATION as they are in a manufacturing organization, a government organization, a service organization, or a military organization.

Most of the current leaders in business and industry have backgrounds in the military which explains a lot...  and, this military influence will soon die out as less and less people are entering the military to establish their first 20-year career.

RHIP - Rank Has Its Privileges 

RHIP is present big time in all types of commerce and is primarily based upon Greed, Power, and Control.  The higher up in an organization the more greedy one becomes, the more power one receives, and the more control over other people one has.

We are taught at an early age to be GREEDY...  children watch their parents spend money and get into debt.  They listen to their parent's conversations after their parents think they are in bed asleep.

Parents push children into college for the sole purpose of earning more money in their lifetimes.

Drug dealers don't sell drugs because they are addicted typically, they sell drugs because of other's addiction and the more they sell, the faster they will rise up in the organization...  they are motivated by Greed, Power, and Control.  Drug dealers don't last long if they are addicted to the drugs they sell.

Athletes who have a talent know that their talent is going to make them wealthy.  The greater the talent the greater the wealth and the greater the power and control becomes because of that unique talent.

Actors/Actresses are the same way.  Some got it while others don't.  The same holds true for musicians and singers.

Why do you think that athletes, actors, ctresses, and musicians keep working as long as they can.  It has very little to do with their profession but with the amount of money they can generate because of their skill.  

THEY ALWAYS WANT MORE...

After Testifying

 

Jupiterian Lightening

Scientists have recorded lightning on Jupiter in radio observations. Recently, however, a historic event occurred when the Juno space probe took the first-ever photograph of a Jupiterian lightning bolt.

Here's What We Know

A NASA freelancer accidentally discovered the lightning photo in the raw data collected by the spacecraft. The image was taken on December 30, 2020, when the probe flew close to the gas giant's north pole for the 31st time.

The lucky recipient of the photo is Kevin M. Gill. In 2022, he completed processing the data from the JunoCam. It is known that the picture was taken from an altitude of about 32,000 km.

In the near future, scientists will be able to get more photos of Jupiterian thunderstorms. This is because the spacecraft will regularly fly over the night side of the planet for several months.

Source: ScienceDaily

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American Education

 

Aboriginal Painted Rock

Hundreds of years ago, in a cramped cave, Indigenous people in Australia painted a pair of watercraft whose origins have puzzled archaeologists since the artworks' discovery about 50 years ago. Now, a new study may have solved the mystery: The paintings likely depict "fighting craft" from what is now Indonesia, hinting that there may have been "physical violence" between the Indigenous people and visitors from afar.


Archaeologists identified the boats as being warships from the Moluccas (also known as the Maluku Islands), an archipelago off the eastern coast of Indonesia that's located directly north of Australia, according to a study published May 2 in the journal Historical Archaeology.


"Just these two craft suddenly add another dimension to the sphere of interaction of northern Australia — that Australia is not just some sort of land that's on its own, in the middle of nowhere and is cut off for 65,000 years from everywhere else," study co-author Daryl Wesley, an archaeologist and senior lecturer at Flinders University, told ABC News Australia.  READ MORE...

American Justice

 

Life of an INTJ Scorpion

When I was 30 years old, I took my first Myers-Briggs Personality Questionnaire and the results indicated I was an INTJ.  I took the test again when I was 40, 50, and 60 years old for shits and giggles and the results were always the same.  Therefore, one could safely say I am an INTJ.

According to the Myers-Briggs website:

INTJ is one of the rarest personalities in the world. These personalities make up about 2.6% of the total world population. The percentage of INTJ men is 3% while INTJ women contribute 2.2% to the general population. Thus, the ratio of INTJ men is slightly more than that of women. INTJs have an insatiable curiosity for the world, and they want to know the answer to everything they think of. In every way possible, they strive to improve themselves.

INTJs prefer to work alone, but when working in teams they tend to be helpful to the people. They are ambitious individuals who aim high and try to achieve their goals. They feel comfortable working in an environment without emotional influence. Further, they tend to search for new and innovative approaches to promote the organization’s growth. They don’t stick to traditional methods and want to welcome all possibilities before making any decisions. In a nutshell, INTJs excel in any organization because of their confidence, vision, decision-making, and logical approach.

However...

I have been misunderstood all my life and until I had my first personality results, I seriously thought that there was something mentally wrong with me.  It was weird to find out that my personality was exactly the way my personality was supposed to be like.

Throughout the course of my life, my first wife wanted a divorce because of my personality; my brother and sister no longer wanted to have anything to do with me after our parents died; and, my daughter just up and stopped communicating with me, giving me no reason for doing so.  It's been over 7 years since I heard from her and no answers to the emails that I sent to her.

My current wife and I are constantly misunderstanding each other because of our conflicting personalities and my personality has resulted in me not having any friends.  Most of my so-called friends were idiots anyway as their thoughts were extremely shallow and lacked depth.

AND TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE, I am a SCORPION by birth....  October 31...

The scorpion is the symbol for Scorpio, and that wicked stinger tail is no myth. Scorpio can lash out and slice you in two with his bitter tirades. You'll quickly understand what a tongue lashing is all about if you give him reason to test it out on you. The scorpion sting is no fable. A Scorpio male can be vengeful if he's betrayed by his lover or discovers their feelings for him weren't real. Even though he's a water sign, it can quickly become boiling water.

One thing about a Scorpio man when it comes to love, he isn't in it for the pure fun of it. To the Scorpio male, love is as serious as it gets. Scorpio won't ever pretend he does if he doesn't feel love for you. Genuine feelings are the height of passion and integrity for Scorpio. He will drown himself in the throes of a passionate love affair and enjoy every second of both agonies and ecstasies of love.

My Scorpion attributes makes it very difficult for me to have a serious relationship with any female let alone a marriage partner.  

What I found out was that women wanted only superficial relationships... like:

• Take me out to dinner
• Take me out dancing
• Take me out to this movie
• Take me out to this party

Of course, my choices in females could have been responsible for that because I looked for females that I thought might be good in bed.  Not many females are really interested in poetry (other than you writing them a poem) nor are the interested in any form of art:  classical, abstract, or modern.

Of course, I was also a NONCONFORMIST at the time so I was rather unconventional from the getgo.  I also was shy, got my feelings hurt easily, and had low self-esteem that took me several years to overcome.  This was created in part by my father's verbal abuse.  He lived like a military man and that kind of structure was the last think I wanted and certainly did not motivate me.

At 75 years of age, I really don't give a rat's ass what people think of me, nor do I need any friends to enjoy life around me.  At one point, I counted on my second wife more than I should have but don't do that anymore.  My Siamese cat likes me and does not judge me and accepts me for who I am and actually likes being around me.  

LIFE IS GOOD

Hydrogen Electric Vehicles

To comply with carbon emissions regulations, many automakers have pledged to phase out the production of gas and diesel vehicles in the near future. But there is something in their plans that is hard to ignore. While the pathway to achieving zero-emission vehicles offers two options - battery and hydrogen fuel-cell EVs - the latter has been massively sidelined. Only a handful of hydrogen fuel-cell electric vehicles (HFCEVs) have been produced so far.  

The Toyota Mirai, the Hyundai Nexo, and the Honda Clarity Fuel Cell, which was discontinued in 2021. Speaking of which, only three companies are responsible for all hydrogen cars in the market. In contrast, millions of BEVs are gracing our roads today, and nearly every car manufacturer can claim production responsibility for at least one model.

In light of automakers' actions, it appears as if achieving zero emissions is synonymous with producing BEVs instead of exploring other available options. Not long ago, the world’s largest automaker, Toyota, was on the receiving end of criticism for being deliberately slow in shifting toward the production of all-electric vehicles. 

All this time, the company was experimenting with other options, including hybrid and hydrogen cars, which they believed could be better alternatives to achieving the same goal of reducing carbon emissions. 

In their defense, the then CEO Akiyo Toyoda said that EVs are just a hype that will backfire when they flood the market and cause overload on the grid along with more emissions indirectly through electricity generation. Guess what he proposed was the true green vehicle – you got it right – hydrogen fuel-cell cars.  READ MORE...

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