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TZM Response to "Occupy Wall Street"
On Sept 17th 2011, a grassroots expression of contempt was launched in the heart of the world's financial center in lower Manhattan of New York City, also commonly known to the world as the institution of "Wall Street". As of Sept 26th, there have been over 80 arrests and many recorded instances of what appears to be violence and abuse coming from the police and security forces there. However, the protesters remain vigilant in what could very well be a landmark event that will resonate for some time to come.
The Zeitgeist Movement would like to extend its public support to this basic expression.
As the world awakens to a failing financial system with growing civil unrest emerging without the bias of sovereignty, religion or political loyalty, a new, unifying perspective is slowly taking hold which transcends the framework many of us falsely assume as empirical to our way of life.
With the slow grind down of the global workforce as machine automation continues to replace human labor for the benefit of corporate cost efficiency, simultaneously reducing purchasing power and hence inevitably stifling so called "Economic Growth"; with the ever expanding Debt Crisis born out of the Fractional Reserve Lending System and the simple reality that money is created out of debt and sold as a commodity in exchange for Interest - Interest that can only again come onto existence through more loan sales; with the looming military programs growing in virtually all major powers as the financial crisis, coupled with a pending hydrocarbon energy crisis, begins to suggest a stage of global conflict possibly never before seen; along with the market psychology of Infinite Growth Consumption that continues to pervade and distort our values and what it means to live in harmony with nature on a finite planet...
...it might be time we begin to see that the social problems at hand are not specific to any general policy, administration, or even so called "corporate greed". The real problem at hand is actually systematic via the very core foundation of what defines our Economic System and the psychology that is supported and rewarded.
The historical illusion that continues to this day is that someone or some group is explicitly to "blame". Rather than focus on the 400 people who have more wealth than 150 million in America or the fact that globally 1% of the world's population has more wealth than 40%, let's instead ask ourselves how such a manifestation is even possible and, more critically, why we would expect anything less? Think about it.
After all, it's the "Free-Market", isn't it? Contrary to the statistically void efficiency assumptions made by most Market Economists, the Free-Market simply means anyone can do whatever they want and maximize however they want within the confines of legal legislation; legal legislation which, make no mistake, is also for sale in the Free-Market as well; as are political officials, regulatory institutions and whatever social entity you wish to consider.
Nothing but maximizing monetary gain is sacred and anytime a person or group brings some detrimental social or environmental consequence of this system to the forefront, pejorative distinctions are usually branded upon their forehead to stifle such concern and frighten other detractors – such as being called a "Socialist" or "Communist".
Furthermore, while people in protest today across the world continue to condemn monetary influence in social dealings such as the legal reality of Corporate Lobbying, even using such colorful terms as "Corporatism", "Crony-Capitalism" and even "Fascism", they seem to misunderstand what this system is and always has been.
The Free-Market model of Economics is a haphazard, unscientific anarchy of organization which assumes that any person or group with enough money and hence power will be "responsible" in their actions both socially and environmentally. The problem is that the very definition of being "financially responsible" actually means to be socially and environmentally exploitative, manipulative and negligent, for the main driver of this system is Inefficiency. The more problems in society in general, the more jobs are created and the more rich the upper 1% become. There is an empirical decoupling from what actually supports life and no alteration of the core configuration of the monetary-market Incentive will likely change that.
On a different level, this system, as an historical evolution, is actually based on a culturally hegemonic pretense. Once economic advantage is obtained, it will likely be kept. This is why everything in the system favors the wealthy by its general structure and inherent logic. While the public might complain about the fact that top Hedge Fund Managers bring in over 300 million dollars per year, they often do not find objection with an Interest system that rewards those with high deposits and essentially taxes those using credit. While you may buy your home with a loan, paying thousands in interest a year, a person of wealth can make a CD Investment and gain free interest income simply because they have the money to spare.
Class separation and perpetuation and the growing wealth divide is not a byproduct. It is inevitable. In the Free-Market, one is actually "free" to take away the liberty of others through the mere economic pressures generated from the game. You are only as free as the size of your wallet. The term "Institution Racism" was coined by civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael in the 1960s referring to how often unnoticed underlying policies and structures within the social system undermined African-American prosperity and equality. What we have today is a mere variation: "Institutional Classism".
Wall Street itself, which is the ultimate manifestation of the pursuit of money as a commodity rather than any form of true creation or social contribution, is naturally a ripe entity for symbolic objection for, at a minimum, it shouldn't exist at all and most certainly not have the grand effect it does on the stability of the global economy today,
regardless of the inherent shortcomings denoted.
However, that stated, it must again be made clear that Wall Street and the Banking System are not the source of our problems. They are only symptoms of an Economic System which will continue to fail by the very gravity of its outdated and false assumptions of human conduct and environmental relationships.
The question then becomes, what do we put in its place? ~Z
The Zeitgeist Movement is a global sustainability activist group working to bring the world together for the common goal of species sustainability before it is too late. It is a social movement, not a political one, with over 1100 chapters across nearly all countries. Divisive notions such as nations, governments, races, political parties, religions, creeds or class are non-operational distinctions in the view of The Movement. Rather, we recognize the world as one system and the human species as a singular unit, sharing a common habitat. Our overarching intent could be summarized as "the application of the scientific method for social concern."
To learn more about our work, please visit http://www.thezeitgeistmovement.com/
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That is a good question in the end.
Power used to be in the politicians hand,it didn't work well,because the States started to work and behave like selfish machines.
Than power was transferred to the corporations hands led by selfish individual decisions made by corruption within the system.
It is now clear that pure capitalism,open markets and non regulated markets do not work.
It is time i think for a peaceful revolution,one that can take us to the next level,like the one Michio Kaku talks about,to become a type one civilization.
I think about this often,if this system doesn't work , doesn't serve us as Human Beings,what could be the solution?
The only solutions in my mind,the ones that make sense to me,are the ones presented by the Zeitgeist Movement.
We cant keep on going destroying what is left on the planet for future generations,we cant keep on going being slaves for the profit of a handful of people.
It all makes sense to me when i see and read the ideas presented by the Zeitgeist Movement and The Venus Project for years.
My opinion on what should come next,should be a slow transition period,out of the monetary system,into a Resource Based Economy ahead in the future.
This latest events from the Occupy Movements around the world,including in my own country,Portugal,can and should really be the beggining of something great for societies all over the world.
I believe it starts with us,and that we,as conscious citizens of the world,should spread the word to all the people.
I do this every day,with mt close family,with my close friends,sometimes they don't understand me,and i don't blame them,they have their day to day lives issues to take care of,they have bills to pay,children to feed and so on.
So it is my firm believe,that this should be a peaceful and slow revolution.
Congratulations,this is without any doubt,a most relevant tool now available to the world,and i will spread the word.


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The Road Most Traveled Panel at SxSw - Sat, March 16 2013 and Revival Tour Showcase
Book Signing with Chuck Ragan, Frank Turner, Austin Lucas, Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids) and Chris Shiflett (The Foo Fighters).
Don't miss this. Seriously…don't.
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"An existence on the road is one in which you depend on the kindness of strangers more than you do in normal, civilian life. So treat the people around you with politeness and respect…and be considerate" - Frank Turner
The final lineup to this year's Revival Tour has been announced. List of performers will include:
Chuck Ragan / Dave Hause (The Loves Ones) / Toh Kay (Streetlight Manifesto) / Jay Malinowski (Bedouin Soundclash) / Tim McIlrath (Rise Against) / Jenny O. / Matt Pryor (The Get Up Kids) / Rocky Votolato / Jenny Owen Youngs / Jon Gaunt / Joe Ginsberg
Tickets for Revival Tour available HERE!
Check out this amazing Documentary on The Revival Tour.
GO BETTY GO IS BACK! The Original Lineup has not played a show since 2005 and come August 25th, that will change.
The band is playing The Troubadour in Hollywood along with The Dollyrots, Get Set Go and Dizzy Stilettos. Tickets are $10. The last time we saw the original lineup was actually at the Troubadour and although it was their last show, they absolutely ripped…almost as if they knew they were saying "Farewell!" This comeback show should have the same intensity. Don't miss this show!
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Title Fight is playing with Rise Against and A Day to Remember in San Diego on April 15, 2012.
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The Gaslight Anthem soundcheck at The Asbury Park Convention Center. 12/9/11
Fresh off the heels of their fourth full-length album, Something to Die For, The Sounds have been touring constantly and have proven themselves to be one of the hardest working indie bands in the world. Fronted by charismatic frontwoman Maja Iversson, the group has been leading a revival of '80s New Wave music while at the same time crafting a unique identity and creating something new. Immediately at the beginning of their set Iversson lit a characteristic smoke and the band lit into their upbeat electronic-influenced indie rock. The show was set in the recently renovated Neptune Theatre, once a kitschy movie spot in the University District. The Neptune's curved walls provide excellent acoustics and the funky '70s decor and nautical accents are a great backdrop for a live show.
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Boca Festival Days 28th Annual Juried Art Exhibit
The Artists' Guild of the Boca Museum of Art presents the Boca Festival Days 29th Annual Open Juried Art Exhibit at the Wyndham Boca Raton Hotel. The exhibit of fine art paintings, sculpture and photography is open to all South Florida Artists. The exhibit runs from August 4th through August 31st, 2014. The Opening Reception and exhibit are free and open to the public. The Rickie Report knows you'll want to see this show!
Opening Reception and Award Ceremony:
Thursday, August 7, 2014 6-8 PM
Wyndham Boca Raton Hotel
1901 Military Trail Glades Road Boca Raton, FL
Exhibition: August 4, 2014 – August 30, 2014
The Artists' Guild of the Boca Museum of Art presents the Boca Festival Days 29th Annual Open Juried Art Exhibit at the Wyndham Boca Raton Hotel. The exhibit juried Sunday, August 3, 2014, of fine art paintings, sculpture and photography is open to all South Florida Artists. The exhibit runs from August 4th through August 31st, 2014. The opening and exhibit is free and open to the public.
Works will be exhibited at the Event Center of the beautiful Wyndham Garden Boca Raton Hotel. The opening reception will be held on Thursday, August 7th, 2014 from 6- 8pm, with complimentary hors d'oeuvres & wine sponsored by the Wyndham. The Wyndham Hotel Event Center is located at 1901 Military Trail Glades Road Boca Raton, FL (561) 368-5200.
THE BOCA FESTIVAL DAYS 29TH ANNUAL OPEN JURIED ART EXHIBIT is part of Boca Chamber Festival Days (a series of fun-filled events held at different locations during the month of August) and is facilitated by the Greater Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce.
This show is a joint collaboration in supporting the visual arts, the artists, and enhancing cultural growth locally in our art loving community. "We are excited to participate again with the Boca Raton Chamber in support of Florida's creative and innovative art experience through Boca Festival Days, exhibiting at the charming Wyndham Hotel," says Judith Hochroth, Co-chairperson of the exhibit and Vice President of the Artists' Guild. "We encourage new artists to partake in our upcoming juried exhibition in helping to create a platform for new and exciting artistic styles exhibiting right here in our community," adds Hochroth.
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CHICAGO - NOVEMBER 08: Greg Olsen #82 of the Chicago Bears complains to a referee during a game against the Arizona Cardinals at Soldier Field on November 8, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois. The Cardinals defeated the Bears 41-21. (Photo by Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images)
Tight ends were the stars of the NFL this past season. Jimmy Graham and Rob Gronkowski made headlines and broke records. Chicago bucked -- or fell behind -- the trend because the Mike Martz offense used Kellen Davis and Matt Spaeth mainly as blockers. They were rarely used to catch.
Davis' 18 catches for 206 yards and five touchdowns paled in comparison to Gronkowski's league-leading 90 catches for 1,327 yards. In fact, the Bears' top two receivers, Johnny Knox and Roy Williams, couldn't even combine to top Gronk. The Bears need extra hands on a tall body. With Mike Martz gone, wouldn't a big tight end who can make crucial catches in the red zone be perfect?
Kellen Davis is the Bears' guy. Under Martz, he didn''t have the chance to show his hands enough. He is a free agent, but with Lovie Smith recently made positive comments about him. There's no reason to believe the Bears won't re-sign him.
If Chicago wants to add a tight end to give themselves another option, their choices are slim both in the draft and free agency. What's most frustrating to know is that the Bears had a reliable tight end with good hands on the team: first-round draft pick Greg Olsen, who was traded the Carolina before the start of last season.
In giving up Olsen, the Bears said goodbye to one of Jay Cutler's favorite targets. Even under Martz, he had 41 catches for 404 yards in 2010. He was reliable in the red zone. But he was traded away so that the Bears could bring in Spaeth, a tight end who would fit better in Martz's system.
By the end of the season, both Martz and Olsen were gone, and the Bears are stuck with few options at a position that has become one of the most important in the league.


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Report Writing - How To Structure A Report For Maximum Effect
'Learn How To Write Well-Structured, Concise Reports That Get The Message Across Accurately, Clearly And Effectively'
Who Should Attend?
For managers, supervisors, sales personnel, office staff, etc., who are responsible for preparing reports as part of their job.
About the Programme
This two-day programme is the ideal way to learn the skills of how to write effective reports that are easy to understand, and show consistency and professionalism.
Course Objectives
- To improve the level of English in writing your reports
- To study the appropriate use of language in reports
- To develop a positive report style
- To effectively plan the layout and structure of a report
- To identify and obtain the right information
- To present well analysed results in a report
- To understand how to present information attractively and professionally
- Using the above skills, to prepare a well-structured report at the end of the course
What You Will Gain
- A clear understanding of how to plan and structure a report in a professional manner
- Practice in building the introduction, the main body, and the conclusion of an effective report
- The ability to compile a report in a logical sequence
- A guide to help recognise, and eliminate, common errors in report writing
- The ability to focus on the main purpose of the report
- The skills to maintain clarity in preparing your reports
Programme Contents
Day One
- Types Of Business Reports
- The Purpose Of Business Reports
- The Skills Needed To Write Business Reports
- The Seven Steps To Creating A Professional Business Report
> Clarify The Objectives
> Determine The Scope
> Consider The Audience
> Obtain The Information
> Analyse The Information
> Determine The Solution
> Organize The Report
- Developing Your Style
- Language Choice
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- Day Two
- Designing The Structure - Beginning, Middle, End
- The Format Of A Report
- The Importance Of Attractive Presentation In A Report
- The Main Sections Of A Report
- Report Writing Practice
> Writing The Introduction
> Writing The Body Of A Report
> Writing Meaningful Conclusions & Recommendations
> Writing An Effective Executive Summary
- Proofreading & Editing
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- Trainer Coaching & Feedback
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Part of the course will involve each delegate planning, structuring & writing a full report.
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At the end of the course each delegate will be asked to complete a Personal Development Plan that can be used as part of future appraisals and that will also be an important tool for management reference.
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The Mt Woods Magnetite Project is a group of eight exploration licence areas, with a total area in excess of 3,400km2, located approximately 50 km south of Coober Pedy, South Australia.
The Project area includes a JORC Inferred Mineral Resource of 569Mt @ 27% Fe at the Snaefell Magnetite Deposit located 15km south-west of IMX's operating Cairn Hill Mine (IMX 51%). In addition to the Snaefell Inferred Mineral Resource, there are a number of other iron ore prospects including Tomahawk, Tomahawk North, Axehead and Pinnacles that make up a Global Exploration Target of between 900-1,200Mt @ 18-32% Fe elsewhere in the project.
Existing key infrastructure and favourable metallurgy (studies indicate that coarse grained concentrates that could be produced at Snaefell, have the potential to attract a significant price premium) differentiates Mt Woods as an economically attractive, lower risk and feasible near-term development opportunity.
Access to existing infrastructure, including available rail and port capacity currently being used for IMX's Cairn Hill Mine and the coarse grind, allows for a potentially lower capital cost and project complexity than most Australian magnetite projects.
Following completion of a favourable scoping study in June 2013 for the development of a project at the Snaefell deposit, work has continued with a focus on investigating alternatives to improve the return from the Mt Woods Magnetite Project. These alternatives have primarily targeted rail, port, power supply and shipping options to support several throughput scenarios between 1.8Mtpa and 3.5Mtpa of production.
Such development work has included engagement with key infrastructure owners, focussed on securing access to critical project infrastructure and delivering satisfactory outcomes for both the owners of existing infrastructure and the Mt Woods Magnetite Project.
Preliminary engagement has also commenced with South Australian Government authorities including the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources and the Department for Manufacturing, Innovation, Trade, Resources and Energy (DMITRE).
In preparation for further project development work, a geological, metallurgical and geotechnical drilling program has been developed for the Snaefell deposit and has been submitted to DMITRE for its approval. A heritage survey of the proposed drill collars has also been completed, with results and heritage approval expected during the December quarter. This will expedite the program once funding is obtained.
The Company is working with Azure Capital Limited to secure a partner for the evaluation and development of the Mt Woods Magnetite Project, with a number of parties engaged and at different stages of assessment.
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angiro ann doreen/Uganda September 18, 2014, 7:31 am
Good morning Pastor Sir! How is Your day? Divine Peace for You My father, Teacher,my beloved Pastor. I love you so much as a child love his father.GLORY! Our testimonies are very powerful because when the devil hear us testifying he becomes sick. He does not want us to glorify our father, he is ashamed. He will continue to be ashamed. Because testifying and glorifying our father is our life style. As we pray and intercede for the Christians around the world who are suffering from various health conditions, the healing power of God is working in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ because the Name of Jesus is medicine to our body. I say GLORY, GLORY, GLORY to all our brethren because l know the presence of God's power is manifesting in their lives right now.
Agbor Lydian Ebob/Cameroon September 17, 2014, 10:00 am
I will give Glory to God in all circumstaces through testifying of His, faithfulness, kindness and love. He's been faithful to me through the years, He is always there for me. His steadfast love and mercies endures forever.Of- course I will join you Christ Embassy team when you pray this afternoon I will pray to God to heal those who are sick in the Name of Jesus. He will touch them with His mighty hand, by faith they are completely healed by His stripes. He is the healer of all diseases, nothing is impossible to Him just believe and trust His word. Thank you Man of God. God bless you always.AMEN!
Nokuthula Princess Nxibelo/South Africa September 17, 2014, 9:17 am
Thank You my beloved Pastor for we know on our own we can do nothing but the wisdom of God make us to be victories in everything we do. The word of God is Powerful.
Agbor Lydian Ebob/Cameroon September 16, 2014, 10:51 am
Thank you Pastor Chris for the message. I will trust in the Lord with all my heart and lean not on my own understanding. I will fear the Lord, I won't live in the counsel of the wicked. I will acknowledge him, and he will make my paths straight. I am so blessed, my mentor. Many Thanks!
Nokuthula Princess Nxibelo/South Africa September 16, 2014, 10:25 am
I would like to encourage those who are persecuted because they are preaching the good news. The Battle is not Yours! Let God calm the storms in your life. Keep on trusting and believing His words. His steadfast love and mercy endures forever. He is a faithful God. He is always there for you, through the dark valleys. He will touch you with His mighty hand. He will turn your mourning into dancing. Peace be within you! AMEN
Nokuthula Princess Nxibelo/South Africa September 16, 2014, 5:40 am
What do we say to our dearest Pastor? Pastor we Love you, we will stand in the gap for our fellow brethren passing through persecutions in prisons for our heavenly father says if we don't pray, He will do nothing. Father, we pray and declare the word and release angles to this effect. Testimonies are on the way. Thank you father for answering us. Father, you said before we ask, you have answered.
Agbor Lydian Ebob/Cameroon September 15, 2014, 1:18 pm
I will pray in spirit for those Christians who're in prison and mistreated because of the gospel so that they'll be set at liberty to the glory of God.Thank you Man of God for the message. AMEN!
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Wow! Thank you pastor for giving us the word of God
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A trio of students from the Miami Ad School—Max Pilwat, Keri Tan and Ferdi Rodriguez—have came up with an innovative concept that allows people to read the first ten pages of popular books while riding the subway.
Using near field communications (NFC) technology, commuters select the desired book from a list of popular titles and read its first ten pages—upon finishing, the reader will be informed of the closest library location from which they can pick up and read the rest of the book.
This is a simple but ingenious idea that can be adopted and adapted to encourage reading in the 21st century, when new technology is changing the way we consume books.
This made me squeal in a really unattractive way at my desk.
Brian Kenney, director of the White Plains Public Library (NY), in the best op-ed of 2012 about the big, exploding picture of ebooks and libraries. I should also say it's his inaugural column for Publishers Weekly. I tumbled about it last week, but it's so provocative and, moreover, proactive, I had to do it again. (via cloudunbound)
Emily Powell, the bookstore's president and chief executive, said the machine matched with their mission of connecting readers and writers, since "it certainly speaks to the fact that our community is not just readers, but they're writers and we have the ability to offer them the service of helping them get started in publishing."
McNally Jackson Books in New York, which installed the machine in January 2011, has on average nearly one new self-publishing customer a day.
Mr. Leggett, of Politics and Prose in Washington, said consumers now had control over the publishing process, from deciding the physical dimensions, cover and layout, to how much they want to pay for it.
"It's a way for people who ordinarily wouldn't be able to have a book on the shelf to have it on the shelf," he said. "It's a way for the community to increase the number of people who can express their ideas."
The Antidote to e-Books - NYTimes.com
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Can we tell whether the universe is rotating?
If you believe wholeheartedly in Mach's principle, then there is no way to test empirically for rotation of the universe as a whole, since there is nothing else for it to be rotating relative to. However, general relativity is not very Machian, and it offers a variety of ways in which an observer inside a sealed laboratory can detect whether the lab is rotating. For example, she can observe the motion of a gyroscope, or measure whether the Sagnac effect is zero. There are alternative theories of gravity, such as Brans-Dicke gravity, that are more Machian than GR,[Brans 1961] and in these theories there is probably no meaningful sense in which the universe could rotate. However, solar-system tests[Bertotti 2003] rule out any significant deviations from GR of the type predicted by Brans-Dicke gravity, so that it appears that the universe really is as non-Machian as GR says it is.
It is therefore possible according to general relativity to have cosmologies in which the universe is rotating. Historically, one of the earliest cosmological solutions to the Einstein field equations to be discovered was the Gödel metric, which rotates and has closed timelike curves. If we lived in a rotating universe such Gödel's example, the rate of rotation would have to be expressed in terms of angular velocity, not angular momentum. Angular velocity is what is measured by a gyroscope or the Sagnac effect, and GR doesn't even have a definition of angular momentum that applies to cosmological spacetimes.
A rotating universe does not have to have a center of rotation, and it can be homogeneous. In other words, we could determine a direction in the sky and say that the universe was rotating counterclockwise at a certain rate about the line connecting us to that point on the celestial sphere. However, aliens living somewhere else in the universe could do the same thing. Their line would be parallel to ours, but there would be no way to tell whether one such line was the real center of rotation.
To find out whether the universe is rotating, in principle the most straightforward test is to watch the motion of a gyroscope relative to the distant galaxies. If it rotates at an angular velocity -ω relative to them, then the universe is rotating at angular velocity ω. In practice, we do not have mechanical gyroscopes with small enough random and systematic errors to put a very low limit on ω. However, we can use the entire solar system as a kind of gyroscope. Solar-system observations put a model-independent upper limit of 10-7 radians/year on the rotation,[Clemence 1957] which is an order of magnitude too lax to rule out the Gödel metric.
A rotating universe must have a certain axis of rotation, so it must have a particular type of anisotropy that picks out a certain preferred direction. We can therefore look at the cosmic microwave background and see whether its anisotropy contains a preferred axis.[Collins 1973] Such observations impose a limit that is tighter than provided by solar-system measurements (perhaps 10-9 rad/yr[Su 2009] or 10-15 rad/yr[Barrow 1985]), but such limits are model-dependent.
Because all of the present observations are consistent with zero rotational velocity, it is not possible to attribute any prominent cosmological role to rotation. Centrifugal forces cannot contribute significantly to cosmological expansion, or to the way your head feels when you're hung over.
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Bertotti, Iess, and Tortora, "A test of general relativity using radio links with the Cassini spacecraft," Nature 425 (2003) 374
Clemence, "Astronomical time," Rev. Mod. Phys. Vol. 29 (1957) 2
Collins and Hawking, "The rotation and distortion of the universe," Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 162 (1973) 307
Hawking, "On the rotation of the universe," Mon. Not. R. Astr. Soc. 142 (1969) 529
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Su and Chu, "Is the universe rotating?," 2009, http://arxiv.org/abs/0902.4575
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After 31 podcasts, The White Shadow finally gets to host an episode. Pinto and the White Shadow discuss the lack of participation numbers in high school athletics, the NDSU men's basketball team and their big game this weekend against South Dakota State University and a suggest rule change in college football.
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There's some days where Naruto both hates and loves his favourite sensei.
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Iruka snickered quietly behind the distraction of his hand.
"Iruka-sensei" Naruto whined, clutching at the crown of his sore head.
The brunette dismissed the pleading for mercy from those blue eyes. Turning, he hid the amusement he felt at 'torturing' - as the young blonde ninja would call it - Naruto today. Well, really it was the boy's own fault that brought this punishment down on his spiky head.
"Go on Naruto. The sooner you start, the faster it's done and the quicker you can go home." The academy teacher reasoned.
Naruto, the ever simplistic one, translated his brother-figure's speech to a blunt "Just do it."
He let out a small explosion of air and flapped nonchalantly at Iruka. "Yeah, yeah." And he turned away from the door to face his punishment.
The brunette sensei smiled fondly before closing the door to the room and wandering back to his desk to get some paperwork finished.
Naruto's punishment was to alphabetise all the books and scrolls in the small room - which admittedly was wall to wall shelving that was only waist-high - and the several book stacks he had knocked over when the hyper blonde tackled Iruka in greeting. The bed was waiting at home so the Uzumaki shinobi summoned a couple of shadow clones and set to work. All in all, the task took a few hours to complete.
As Naruto bent down to pick up one of the last ones. It was an untitled hard cover and strangely enough it was bound with ribbon. Just a little bit curious the blonde ninja carefully slipped off the trimming and opened the front cover.
Inside there was a neon orange note with a fine scrawl. Naruto silently read the message, azure eyes widening with every word.
A wide grin wiped the previous tired 'been working' expression from the blonde's face. Excitement welled up inside of him and thoughts of praise and affection for Iruka scrambled through Naruto's mind, replacing the errant ones of dislike.
It was the book that the boy had been coveting for the past couple of months but refrained from buying due to its' price. He'd told Iruka about it ages ago.
With a loud whoop of joy Naruto ran from the room - with the novel clutched fervently to his chest - to hug the life out of a certain brunette sensei.
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Pope Francis arrives in the South Korean capital Seoul, where he will travel around the country, meeting some of South Korea's five million Catholics. Rough Cut. (No Reporter Narration).
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We are in Panama with our Chevy '92 campervan. We drove down from Alberta to Panama and have had an incredible trip. We were planning on driving it to Argentina so we've just serviced it and it is ready to go again. However, we now have a sailing crew job from Panama and need someone to drive our vehicle OUT of Panama, up to Canada or down to Argentina - wherever you want to go!!!
I have spent over $3000 on it and it needs nothing - it all works, has new fluids, parts etc. etc.. All I need is someone IS:
to transfer the van into THEIR name in Alberta (you will not need a safety inspection because you only need insurance for 1 day to get plates), I will provide a bill of sale. I have an email with an authorisation form to transfer the vehicle into a new owner without them being in Alberta (you just need to arrange insurance) so then the plates will be posted down with the new official papers. We won't exchange money until you have plates, papers and keys in hand so it is not a scam. You do not have to be Canadian (we can sort out the papers together as I've done it before)
BOOK A FLIGHT down to PANAMA (or Costa Rica) THIS DECEMBER/ EARLY JANUARY.
We will exchange the plates at the border so you can enter legally with your vehicle in your name and go wherever you want!!
Sure, this is crazy and might sound too good to be true (scam?!) but we are offering this because importation costs to Panama are ridiculous (80% of vehicles value - $2000+ according to a customs broker) and I would much rather give it to someone who can use it.
I need someone who is 100% committed to do this - I cannot wait because our sailboat leaves Panama early 2013.
We have a contact who wants to share a shipping container to Columbia if you are quick, or RORO is cheaper.
If you know anyone interested in this let them know. We lived in this van for 2 months in the USA, camping in the forests and spent peanuts on accommodation!!! The van has everything (AC, Cruise, mosquito nets, kitchen, bed....etc.)
No timewaters or dreamers, you are going to need to be available in December/ January and have some travel money available!!! Below are more details:
Chevrolet g30 van in excellent running order
1 tonne capacity (the strongest van of its type) so it is great for house moves or trade use. Also comes with a roof rack.
v8 engine and transmission is 60,000 km old and very strong and smooth. Car has done 370,000 but been serviced well. In the past month alone I have replaced rear brakes, front shock absorbers, serpentine belt, spark plugs, distributor cap and rotor, HT leads, oil, air filter, greased the chassis, AC service and checked the ignition timing. It is ready for many many thousand miles more.
The chassis has no rust spots and is in great shape. Cosmetically it is looking like a 20 year old van so do not expect shiny paint - there are spots, scratches, dent and the rest. The doors are a little rough on the edges but do not give any problems now or soon.
Has working air conditioning and cruise control!! Power windows and door locks.
Interior is in fair to good shape. In fact, I think it is in good shape for the age with no sagging roof lining, fully insulated, tinted windows and clean trim. It is also fully carpeted.
Currently it is equipped for overland travel with a convertible bed/ bench seat., under seat storage, cupboard, kitchen shelves, surface and sink with 70g water tank and hand pump. The kitchen can be used from inside or out. This is all easily removed if you would like to use it as a passenger van or cargo van again. It is a regular roof hardtop (not a hi-top) so it will fit in a shipping container anywhere in the world. We also installed a roof vent which is invaluable in hot weather when parked. There is even a lockable safe.
thanks to a very high ground clearance and excellent (nearly new Dunlop and Michelin RV tires) 4x4 is not necessary in Central and South America for most roads and we have crossed many a dirt or flooded road in it. It is 2wd.
This is not a piece of junk old van...if you want one find a cheaply priced one and spend thousands repairing it! It is cosmetically 'old' looking with fallen paint, stickers on the rear door and a bent bumper etc. but this is a well kept van ready to work with hundreds of dollars of new parts and in excellent running order (tires alone are valuable).
Will sell to a resident or a traveller. It is registered in Canada so the title can be transferred in no-mans land. See below for more details.....
We had prepared the van to drive to Argentina (hence why I have spent over $1500 very recently servicing it!) and driven it from Canada to Central America. Will sell in any CA country. However a trans-Pacific sailing opportunity has come up and we need to leave in January. Vehicle will therefore come with all our tools, snow chains, accessories like fire extinguisher, cooking equipment and whatever else is wanted or we will donate the items away if not.
Would suit someone moving house, starting a business or trade, travellers headed north to Canada/ USA or south to the South Americas. We have saved a fortune in not using hotels and it has been so flexible allowing us to get to places other people cannot. Surprisingly minimal hassle too.
Please get in touch if serious. Will email photos. email@example.com
Photos don't really show it because there are heaps of small things in there that make life much easier but it basically has a kitchen, shelves, a cupboard, under bed storage (lots), curtains, mosquito nets, roof vent (very useful), a second battery, 12v fan, roof rack, roof storage, tarpaulin awning and so much more. Who would think how much difference a coat hook makes to your daily life?!?!
Vehicle has new tires (expensive!!) plus 2 spares, so many new parts as listed plus more. I am mechanically inclined so I have it just the way I want it to get to Argentina but as we said, we have just had to change our plans.
We get between 15-20mpg which is OK. The engine is pretty new (under 5 years old) and now I've just tuned it up (ignition and fuel system are all new) the economy should be good. Being able to sleep in it and cook and not rely on buses can save a lot of money in the long run plus we have 4 seats (the bed folds into a bench seat with seat belts) and more can be seated on the rear bench without seatbelts so fuel is often split between passengers.
We have had excellent news from the Alberta Registry Office because we now have an authorisation form, which I will email, allowing the vehicle papers to be transferred and new plates and registration to be assigned to the new owner without them having to be in Alberta!
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Vet med prof gets prestigious chair
UGA professor of veterinary medicine Michelle Henry Barton was appointed to a Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chair.
Barton is the latest UGA faculty member to hold a Callaway Chair since the program was established in 1968. The positions are funded through the Fuller E. Callaway Professorial Chairs Trust, established by the Callaway Foundation Inc., and administered by Bank of America. The trust, which was created to help colleges and universities in Georgia retain or recruit superior faculty members, provides $60,000 annually to support the professorship.
Callaway professors are chosen primarily for excellence in instruction, but must also have a distinguished record in scholarship and must provide valuable service to students and faculty outside their area of specialization.
Barton is a Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the department of large animal medicine with an adjunct appointment in the college's department of physiology and pharmacology. She joined the college as a clinical resident in 1986 and in 1990 earned a Ph.D. in physiology and joined the faculty in 1993. She became a full professor in 2000.


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Owners: they're all business
Snow, you may recall, was recently — or still is? — a card-carrying NHLPA member. In fact, he was one of the ones stirring up the ruckus over how Saskin got hired.
He was quoted as saying:
"Our issue as a whole isn't that Bob got fired," Snow explained Tuesday. "That kind of thing happens. The main issue is what transpired after that. How did the [hiring] process unfold? Did it follow the right path? I know it didn't.
"How did Bob get hired 15 years ago?" continued Snow. "They got a search committee. I don't think it's asking too much to get the best person qualified for a job that pays $2.5 million. That's a lot of money to pay someone and I want to make sure he's the best person for it."
The irony? Bob is to Neil as Saskin is to Snow, basically. Snow can't exactly be making chump change as a GM, and he's got his hands on the steering wheel of a corporation worth hundreds of millions. Astute observers may appreciate that it would be prudent to search hard for the best qualified candidate. You wouldn't want them to hire a guy just because he's handy ("Hey Garth, come here a sec. You busy?") or just because he's a Good Islander Boy, right?
Wang surely wouldn't do that. He's an owner, and owners are all business. He's personally worth thousands or maybe even millions, I'm not sure. A poster boy for left wingers? If you have some preconceived notions of that separate breed of humans called "business people", I guess.
I know I'll sleep better now, secure in the knowledge that if Wang didn't go through the right process of making completely abolutely sure that he hired the right guy then Snow, I'm sure, would call him out publically on that.


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XNA is Not an Acronym
I've finally got round to downloading the XNA framework, It's pretty much just a few new Namespaces for C# designed to make programming for games abit more straight-forward. And so far it does just that, it seems incredibly easy to pick up, and a much more interesting way to further learn C#. Also some good games have stemmed from this language, most of which only had 4 or fewer programmers working on them (Magicka and Capsized to name ones i've recently played).
While I wouldn't recommend it to anyone just starting out with programming, (C# without the XNA framework would be a better place to begin) it'd be a far more enjoyable way to learn coding for gaming.
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The Detroit Lions are teaming up with Henry Ford Health System to raise money for cancer research.Former All-Pro wide receiver Herman Moore was on hand Tuesday to help kickoff the 'Game On Cancer' campaign.
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AWS CloudFormation lets you describe stacks of related AWS resources (EC2 instances, Elastic IP addresses, RDS DB Instances, and much more) using a template. The template can include runtime parameters, allowing you to customize each stack as you create it. CloudFormation automatically creates resources in dependency-based order; you simply tell it which resources you need and how you want them to be configured and it will take care of the details.
You can now create and populate an entire Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) using a single CloudFormation template. CloudFormation templates are JSON formatted text files and can be stored in a source control system alongside your application source code. CloudFormation allows you to separate the network and VPC configuration from the resources needed to run an application.
For example, a network administrator can define the Virtual Private Cloud resources in a template and ensure that the subnets, route tables, network ACLs, and gateways are correctly set up. After testing the configuration, the network administrator can check the template into the central source control system. Here's an excerpt from one of the new sample VPC templates that describes a VPC resource:
"Type" : "AWS::EC2::VPC",
"Properties" : {
"CidrBlock" : "10.0.0.0/16",
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{"Key" : "Application", "Value" : { "Ref" : "AWS::StackName"} },
{"Key" : "Network", "Value" : "Public" }
A developer can then check out the template from source control and add the resources needed to run the application inside the VPC. Here's an excerpt from the new sample VPC templates that describes application resources:
"Type" : "AWS::AutoScaling::AutoScalingGroup",
"Properties" : {
"AvailabilityZones" : [{ "Fn::GetAtt" : [ "PrivateSubnet", "AvailabilityZone" ] }],
"VPCZoneIdentifier" : [{ "Ref" : "PrivateSubnet" }],
"LaunchConfigurationName" : { "Ref" : "LaunchConfig" },
"MinSize" : "1",
"MaxSize" : "10",
"DesiredCapacity" : { "Ref" : "InstanceCount" },
"LoadBalancerNames" : [ { "Ref" : "ElasticLoadBalancer" } ],
"Tags" : [ {"Key" : "Network", "Value" : "Public", "PropagateAtLaunch" : "true" } ]
Notice how the developer's "WebServerGroup" references the "VPCZoneIdentifier" created by the network administrator.
Here are two new sample templates that we've cooked up to get you started:
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- VPC with public and private subnets, an Elastic load Balancer, and an EC2 instance.
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We've been at war constantly since 2001. And we STILL have not had any honesty from our government about why we invaded Iraq.
Apple License – Cute
I go to update some apps on the iPhone, it tells me I must read and agree to new terms and conditions. I click to read, scroll and scroll, and at the bottom it says "Page 1 of 55."
Senate Republicans Filibuster Equal Pay For Women (Again)
Republicans in the Senate on Monday unanimously filibustered the Paycheck Fairness Act. Did you see this on the news? Did you hear about it on the radio? Did you read about it in your local paper? There is an election coming and accurate, objective information is essential for democracy to function.
The Paycheck Fairness Act "amends the portion of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) known as the Equal Pay Act to revise remedies for, enforcement of, and exceptions to prohibitions against sex discrimination in the payment of wages." It "revises the exception to the prohibition for a wage rate differential based on any other factor other than sex. Limits such factors to bona fide factors, such as education, training, or experience."
To sum up, it would put in place measures to ensure that women will be paid the same as men if they do the same work.
Anti-Union States Get Lower Tax Revenue, Spend More On Assistance
A study from Labor and Employment Relations professor Robert Bruno of the University of Illinois-Urbana and policy director of the Illinois Economic Policy Institute Frank Manzo IV showed that states with anti-union "right-to-work" laws have lower tax revenue, and have to spend more on government assistance to the poor as a result.
The study, titled, "Free-Rider States," found that legislation supporting workers' right to organize increases wages and reduces income inequality. As a result, collective bargaining states have higher incomes and less inequality. States with "right-to-work" laws have lower wages. These lower wages mean lower state income tax revenue, a slower economy in those states, and higher demand for government "safety-net" services.
Our study found that right-to-work laws weaken state economies and strain public budgets. Right-to-work laws not only sap government revenue in the form of reduced tax receipts, but they also increase government spending in outlays for food stamps and the earned income tax credit."
The study found that right-to-work laws:
- Reduce worker income by 3.2 percent on average.
- Lower both the share of workers covered by a health insurance plan (by 3.5 percent), and the share of workers covered by a pension plan (by 3 percent).
- Reduce union membership rates by 9.6 percent.
- Increase the employment rate (by 0.4 percent), but at the expense of a lower labor force participation rate (by 0.5 percent).
The study also found that workers in right-to-work states account for just 37.4 percent of all federal income tax revenues, but receive 41.9 percent of all non-health, non-retirement government assistance. This means that the better-paid people in union-friendly states are paying more taxes to subsidizing the low-wage earners in the right-to-work states.
Corporate Courts — A Big Red Flag On "Trade" Agreements
Think about everything you understood about our system of government here in the United States. We're governed under a document that starts with the words, "We the People." Right? When We the People agree that something should done to make our lives better, it's supposed to get done. Right?
You didn't know it, but that whole system thing changed several years ago. Our government, in our name, signed a document that placed corporate profits above our own democracy. The "investor-state dispute settlements" chapter in NAFTA (and similar agreements) places corporate rights on above the rights of people and their governments.
As a result of "NAFTA-style" investor protections that are part of so-called "trade" agreements, giant corporations can and do sue governments for trying to pass laws that protect their citizens from harmful chemicals, ban harmful products, and protect the rights of working people, among other things. Corporations even sue governments for passing laws that might cause the investors in the corporations to make a bit less money — like raising the minimum wage.
But wait, there's more.
Images Matter: ISIL Knew That
Big, bold images of barbarism are shocking and shaking our civilization to its very core with the third brutal beheading and murder by ISIL of three: two US journalists James Foley, Steven Sotloff, and now humanitarian British worker David Haines. CNN, this was not an execution, but rather an act of barbarism and murder sent out over the airwaves via social media. And somehow they knew that these images would mar the psyche, and forever scar a generation. Just as the pictures of the Twin Towers collapsing thirteen years ago ushered us to a misguided war, and those of the little girl running down the road burned by napalm forever changed the Baby Boomers from the cover of Life Magazine to make reparations to Vietnam and its people — these barbaric images will stay in the soul of a whole generation and may indeed speed the formation a global coalition to eradicate this evil from our planet.
Images do matter and again the terrorists understand their insidious power. Social media was not meant for this. It was not what the merry team around Zuckerberg's Facebook dreamt of late at night; rather, this is the antithesis of the global village they helped to create.
Note: Cross published from the Huffington Post: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michelle-kraus/images-matter-isil-knew-t_b_5818808.html.
Living With War
Try to remember peace.
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with war right now
And when the dawn breaks I see my fellow man
And on the flat-screen we kill and we're killed again
And when the night falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
I join the multitudes
I raise my hand in peace
I never bow to the laws of the thought police
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
To never kill again
I'm living with war in my heart
I'm living with war in my heart in my mind
I'm living with war right now
Don't take no tidal wave
Don't take no mass grave
Don't take no smokin' gun
To show how the west was won
But when the curtain falls, I pray for peace
Try to remember peace (visualize)
In the crowded streets
In the big hotels
In the mosques and the doors of the old museum
I take a holy vow
To never kill again
Try to remember peace
The rocket's red glare
Bombs bursting in air
Give proof through the night,
That our flag is still there
I'm living with war everyday
I'm living with war in my heart everyday
I'm living with wat right now
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Hundreds Of Organizations Ask For Change In Trade Policies
Approximately 600 organizations have sent a formal, public letter to Senate Finance Committee Chairman Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) opposing "fast-track" trade promotion authority and calling for a new system for negotiating and implementing trade agreements. The letter asks for trade pacts that "deliver benefits for most Americans, promote broadly shared prosperity, and safeguard the environment and public health." Read the letter here.
Campaign for America's Future is one of the organizations that signed this letter. The letter was led by the Sierra Club, AFL-CIO, the Communications Workers of America, the Citizens Trade Campaign, and Public Citizen. The letter was written because new fast-track trade promotion authority is being drafted by Wyden's committee. An earlier bill introduced by then-Senator Max Baucus and Rep. Dave Camp (R-Mich.) would keep Congress from debating or altering trade pacts like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and other upcoming agreements, even though they are considered one-sided in favor of giant multinational corporations over working people and the environment.
The letter asks for a new process for reaching trade agreements in which Congress has a role in selecting trade partners and in which Congress sets up a set of negotiating objectives that must be achieved. The new process would include more transparency and a way for Congress to certify that negotiating objectives have been met before trade negotiations are wrapped up.
Larry Cohen, President of the Communications Workers of America, said this new process can help us decide what kind of economy we want to have, saying, "A new model of trade authority is the only way to ensure that workers and communities have a voice in these trade decisions. We want to determine what kind of economy we have, not simply accept super-power status for multinational corporations and a snails' pace for the enforcement issues raised by the rest of us."
The Hill reports on this letter, in "Hundreds of groups call for new framework to negotiate trade deals," quoting AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka:
"Only with new trade negotiating authority can we secure new trade rules that can help hard working Americans build a sustainable economy and promote broadly shared prosperity," said President Richard Trumka of the AFL-CIO.
"Chairman Wyden has a chance to make history by being the architect of a new and democratic trade policy, and we commit to doing all we can to help achieve that goal," he said.
On fast track,
"There is no 'acceptable' version of fast track," said Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. "Fast-track must be replaced so Congress can steer international trade in a new direction and create agreements that actually work for most Americans."
Our Current Trade Deals Are Rigged Against Citizens By Choice
Our current trade deals are rigged – designed to benefit a few already-wealthy owners of giant multinational corporations. They were set up in order to transfer good-paying jobs out of the U.S. to take away the bargaining power of organized labor. This has forced down American workers' bargaining power, resulting in stagnant wages, a shrinking middle class and widespread poverty. Meanwhile the rich get vastly richer.
These rigged trade agreements have also massively increased our country's trade deficits. We currently run an enormous, humongous trade deficit of more than $40 billion a month.
Germany followed a different trade model. Germany worked with its companies and its labor unions to forge trade agreements that benefit businesses, workers and Germany's economy. CAF's Robert Borosage did a great job of laying out what happened in a recent interview on Richard Eskow's The Zero Hour radio program. (Scroll to 5:15.)
Globalization isn't an act of nature; it's a set of policies, tax, trade, financial, monetary policies where you make choices and those choices benefit parts of the economy and injure others.
We made choices. Multinationals basically wrote our globalization strategy and they chose to benefit investors, made it easy to ship jobs abroad, made it even easier to threaten to move jobs abroad and dramatically weakened the ability of workers here at home.
But that was a choice.
In Germany they made a very different choice where unions were stronger, and the companies and the unions together navigated a globalization strategy that has made Germany one of the great export powers of the world and allows German workers to sustain middle class incomes and benefits.
Public Citizen has an action you can join: Write your representative to demand a real replacement to Fast Track and put an end to unfair trade deals.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Sign up here for the CAF daily summary and/or for the Progress Breakfast.
Why Is SEC Sitting On Corporate Transparency Rules?
Are We the People the boss of the corporations, or are the corporations the boss of We the People? The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) needs to be reminded which way that question is supposed to be answered.
The SEC is the agency set up by We the People to "protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation." The SEC states that "all investors, whether large institutions or private individuals, should have access to certain basic facts about an investment prior to buying it, and so long as they hold it. … Only through the steady flow of timely, comprehensive, and accurate information can people make sound investment decisions."
One would think those basic corporate facts and timely, comprehensive, and accurate information needed by investors would include access to a company's tax returns. One would think they would include information about where the executives of the company are spending millions and millions of the company's dollars. And one would think they would include disclosure of the ratio of CEO "pay ratio" of compensation to worker compensation, as required by the 2010 Dodd-Frank law.
But so far the SEC is not asking corporations to provide investors and the public with this information. Don't shareholders — and We the People — deserve to know what these companies are really doing and how much they are really making?
What Are These Companies Really Earning?
Companies tell their investors that they are making tons of money. But to get out of paying taxes the same companies tell the IRS something entirely different. Don't investors have a right to know what the companies they invest in are telling the tax office?
Last month Catherine Rampell wrote in the Washington Post, in "Shareholders, public deserve tax transparency," that:
"[There is an] array of eye-glazingly complicated tax avoidance strategies adopted by America's biggest companies … The basic rationale behind tax transparency is that shareholders (and creditors and the general public) deserve to know what publicly traded companies are doing, particularly if complicated tax acrobatics are distorting their operational and investment decisions."
She points out that we started out requiring this.
This is not a new idea. In fact, when the modern federal corporate income tax was introduced in 1909, it came with a requirement to disclose the returns. Such transparency mandates were fought over bitterly for the next couple of decades, and U.S. returns have been confidential since 1935.
What About Company "Donations"?
If a company's executives are literally giving the company's money away to politicians, "charities" (maybe run by a relative), "think tanks" (that employ relatives, etc.) or other worthy recipients, shouldn't investors be provided with information about who is getting the company's money, and how much they are getting? (Milton Friedman notably claimed that such donations are "theft" from the company.)
(Note: If a company gives money to a politician, and is not simply "giving the money away" for nothing — with absolutely no expectation of getting anything in return — that would be bribery, under the law.)
Last week in The Nation Zoë Carpenter wrote about this in, "SEC Faces Renewed Pressure to Consider a Corporate Disclosure Rule":
The campaign to lift the veil on secret corporate campaign donations hit a milestone on Thursday. More than 1 million comments have been submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission calling for a requirement that corporations disclose political spending to their shareholders—ten times more than for any other rule-making petition to the SEC, according to the Corporate Reform Coalition.
"Investors want to know how their money is being spent," Tim Smith, director of shareholder engagement at the firm Walden Asset Management, said at a press conference outside the SEC in Washington. A sign over his right shoulder read, "Your money is being invested in secret. Why is the SEC doing nothing?"
Why Is SEC Sitting On These Rules?
So why is the SEC just sitting on these proposals to disclose basic information to shareholders? In the case of the CEO pay ratio, this is even required by a law passed almost 5 years ago.
Could it be that the people working at the SEC really do know who is the boss now? ("Boss" as in the writer of the big paycheck and future employer.) Maybe, and maybe not. Who's to say?
In early 2013 the Project On Government Oversight (POGO) released it report, "Dangerous Liaisons: Revolving Door at SEC Creates Risk of Regulatory Capture":
A revolving door blurs the lines between one of the nation's most important regulatory agencies and the interests it regulates. Former employees of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) routinely help corporations try to influence SEC rulemaking, counter the agency's investigations of suspected wrongdoing, soften the blow of SEC enforcement actions, block shareholder proposals, and win exemptions from federal law. POGO's report examines many manifestations of the revolving door, analyzes how the revolving door can influence the SEC, and explores how to mitigate the most harmful effects.
At the time of the report's release Bloomberg reported,
From 2001 to 2010, POGO says, more than 400 SEC alumni filed about 2,000 disclosure forms (which POGO obtained using the Freedom of Information Act) saying they planned to represent an employer before the SEC. That may vastly understate the problem because, as POGO points out, former SEC employees must file such statements for only two years after departing.
The SEC has exempted some senior employees (even sometimes blacking out their names on SEC documents) from a one-year cooling-off period during which they are barred from representing clients before the agency, POGO found.
Soon after the report was released: April, 2013, Ex-SEC chief Schapiro takes revolving door back to private sector,
With her seat barely cold at the chairmanship of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Schapiro will become a managing director at a financial consulting and lobbying firm that has hired a slew of former financial regulators over the last several years and that represents for many a nexus of the cozy relations between banks and their regulators.
Are We the People the boss of the corporations, or are the corporations the boss of We the People? Who's to say? Not the SEC, apparently.
This post originally appeared at Campaign for America's Future (CAF) at their Blog for OurFuture. I am a Fellow with CAF. Sign up here for the CAF daily summary and/or for the Progress Breakfast.
Everybody Has an Opinion v 2.0
It seems like everybody has an opinion on world affairs and what this President should or should not do even today on the Sunday morning political shows . Arm chair diplomats seem to be everywhere. In fact, every Tom, Dick and Harry is now an expert on Syria, Iraq, Iran, or the terrorist group — ISIS aka ISIL. It's truly an amazing phenomenon to witness so much commotion from our elected officials, media personalities or everyday citizens. Some want to declare war; others want to bomb, bomb, and bomb; yet while others don't want any troops deployed, and scrutinize every plane and/or drone that is used.
California's senior Senator Dianne Feinstein from San Francisco led the Democrats and took her best shot at the President for being too cautious on last week's Sunday's Meet the Press, but seems to be coming around to support the President after his statements today. But adding to the polemic is the ever growing pack of Democrats up for re-election, and the Republicans with their tom-tom drums stirring up fear and even more adversity. These GOP naysayers come in all shapes and sizes from the Boobsie Twins, aka Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham, who are both continuously stirring the proverbial pot on the world stage and at home; to Governor Chris Christie who is pounding his chest this week about Russia's Putin while judiciously checking his poll numbers. Really, really wish there was a way to simmer them all down because it is just not helping. Words do matter and this type of rabble rousing makes people even more uneasy during this time of great upheaval. Frankly, nothing good can come from Geraldo Rivera's evocative words on social media, except more unrest:
"Morning, the president finally declared our strategic goal to 'degrade and destroy' ISIS. We must hold him to it. Behead the ISIS butchers." 5:35 AM — 3 Sep 2014 New York, NY, United States
Ford C-Max Is Awesome
I bought a C-Max Hybrid in May. I have had it for a few months and I love this car, so I'm writing this review about it.
I had a 2000 Honda Accord and it was losing its reliability. I spent a lot of time researching cars. (My wife was finally saying "Jeeze, just buy a car already, I don't care anymore, just buy any car and get it over with.")
Before trying the C-Max I researched and drove (and rented when I could) Ford Focus & Fusion, Honda Accord, Chevy Malibu, Chevy Volt, Toyota Prius and Toyota Camry. My favorite of those was the Volt but it was more expensive and my wife wasn't as enthusiastic. I also liked the Accord.
The Fusion was nice but oddly my wife could barely see out of the passenger window and there were no options for raising the seat. (She is not short.) After driving the Fusion the salesperson suggested trying a C-Max — otherwise I would not have thought of it and hadn't really even heard of it. This is when I discovered the C-Max, and both my wife and I loved it.
Gas Mileage
Even though I liked the Accord, I finally decided to buy either a hybrid like the Prius or a plug-in like the Volt or Ford's Energi. (Notes: 1) I vastly prefer the C-Max now that I have been driving it. 2) Honda's Accord Hybrid and plug-in Hybrid weren't readily available yet and more expensive than they should be.) I'm just sick of being so dependent on the oil companies, shelling out huge amounts of $$ every time I fill up and filling up so often. I didn't want a pure EV like the Leaf because of range. I want the freedom to take longer trips without renting a car. But the plug-in Energi didn't work for me for a few reasons. (I am starting to regret the decision to just go hybrid.)
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Six Corporate Tax Myths In One Letter to Editor
How MANY mistruths can you count in a letter in today's San Jose Mercury News?
Lower corporate taxes would boost economy
When the government wants to raise taxes, the counter argument is always that people and corporations will work harder if they can keep their earnings. It is either that, or pass the costs to the consumers. Either way, high taxes are a no-win situation for everybody. Now that we have the highest taxes of any industrialized nation, corporations are "voting with their feet" and using legal tax-inversion strategies to stay competitive. The administration that pushed for high taxes is crying foul and saying this is not patriotic. Now they don't like the consequences of their greedy tax policies. Drop the corporate tax rate to 15 percent and watch the economy soar.
- Myth: People will work harder if they can keep their earnings. Actually, wouldn't people work harder to make up for the money that goes to taxes?
- Myth: Corporations pass the "cost" of taxes onto consumers. Actually corporations can't pass taxes to consumers. (And taxes are not a "cost.") Summary: taxes are on profits and prices are already as high as the company can charge. If corporations could just increase prices to cover taxes then the profits would go up, which raises the taxes, so they wold have to increase prices again, which would increase profits, which raises taxes, so they have to increase prices again, etc.
- Myth: Taxes are no-win. Actually they pay for the reads, schools, courts, police, military and the rest of the things that enable corporations to prosper.
- Myth: We have the highest taxes. Actually we don't. Corporations are shifting profits out of the country to avoid ever paying taxes. The solution is to make them pay their taxes, not lower tax rates to let them get away with this.
- Myth: The administration raised taxes on corporations. Actually the administration didn't raise corporate taxes. Corporate taxes have been lowered from 46% to 35% since the 80's.
- Myth: If the corporate tax rate was lowered to 15% the economy would soar. Actually there is no relationship between lower tax rates and higher economic growth. In fact, there is a correlation between lower rates and lower growth, possibly because lower taxes cause government to cut back on the things that help the economy prosper, like education, investing in infrastructure, basic research, etc.
The letter-writer probably actually believes the stuff he wrote. Many people do. This shows the effect of decades of corporate/conservative propaganda on the public. Unfortunately these beliefs are leading to policies that are killing our economy and our democracy.


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Would love to see a world cup being played in the U.K during Feb/March/April. I could finally play in ski boots for the first couple of rounds.
Would love to see a world cup being played in the U.K during Feb/March/April. I could finally play in ski boots for the first couple of rounds.
Kapil's tooth man, Imagine the toothpaste consumption on those babies.
The 2nd April date is wrong, so no jinx.
"I am very happy and it will allow me to have lot more rice."
Eoin Morgan on being given a rice cooker for being Man of the Match in a Dhaka Premier Division game.
And further proof of that is evident from what you say about Vaas. Vaas loves pitches that skid on. If you miss him, you are stone dead in the front.
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Member of the Sanga fan club. (Ugh! it took me so long to become a real fan of his)
I think India will win it. They seem the favorites to me. Having said that my gut feel hasn't been working too well since the beginning of the quarter finals. All my predictions since the WI-Pak QF, barring the SL-NZ SF, have turned out to be wrong
Your strategies against other teams like Aussies , Pommmies and Kiwis who just dont bother to ever learn to play spin in subcontinent will never work against India. Got it ?
Your actually lucky that Murali is confident of playing tomorrows game.
Though I wont be suprised if he misses out , the way Shoaib Akhtar missed out shockingly and also if he underperforms like Afridi and throws away the match to please his inlaws who are Indians.lol.
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Randiv has got a loser's attitude anyway, won't be a big factor in the game. He gave up and bowled a no ball to make India win instead of fighting till the end like a man in an ODI game.
Matthews has been ruled out, but Randiv has replaced him in the squad. So no Vaas.
Presumably they will have to play Perera or Randiv at #7, and the #8 will be decided on whether they want to play the extra seamer or spinner.
Given that Herath hasn't impressed me all that much, and I think the Sri Lankan lower order needs all the help it can get, I'd go with a 7-11 of Perera, Randiv/Kulasekara, Malinga, Murali, Mendis.
Every 5 years we have an election and have to decide who are the least obnoxious out of all the men. Then one gets in and they age really quickly. Which is always fun to watch.
Dude good spin bowling troubled India a lot in the semi-final. In fact only Gul (and Razzaq) was totally wayward in the semi-final otherwise the Indian batsmen looked totally at sea against the other bowlers (mostly spinners). I think I agree with Migara that you haven't really watched cricket EVER.
Afridi's in laws are Indian?????
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Christchurch Severe Aftershocks
Two damaging aftershocks hit Christchurch on June 13th. There have been no reported fatalities, but there is significant damage to infrastructure and buildings.
The first aftershock was a magnitude 5.5 and struck at 1300, 10 km east of Christchurch at Taylor's Mistake beach, at a depth of 11 km. It was followed at 1420 by a magnitude 6 quake, centred 10 km southeast of the city at a depth of 9 km.
There is no indication at this point that any foreign nationals have been affected in this event.
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