--- From John H
If you are interested/concerned about where the economy is headed watch the Laura Flanders interview with economist Michael Hudson linked below. This portion of the interview is 17 minutes and well worth your time. The rest of the interview is also very good if you are concerned about Amazon.
http://michael-hudson.com/2018/04/high-cost-economy/
John
Friday, April 06, 2018
Fwd: And the crazies just keep on coming . . .
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From: John H
From: John H
Well folks, things just aren't getting better as we move deeper and deeper into the muck of empire gone berserk!
John
Links:
Thread of Paul of KDKA on FB
Mark Rauterkus posted: I do not remember the KDKA hosted debate among ALL the candidates on the ballot for the recent election for US Congress. Remember when the corporate media in town did the freeze out of the Libertarian who was not spending millions in advertisements for a 6 month job. That's pay to play folly that KDKA was a big part of promoting. Yet the margin of difference between Coke and Pepsi was twice as great with the third choice. Woops.
Corporate bean counters at KDKA have a hard time counting to three when it comes to choices to offer the voters in terms of debates. Or, just don't do any at all.
Paul Martino Kdka: The standard in most of these debates is...if a candidate is polling less than ten percent, he or she is a fringe candidate with virtually no chance of winning. Therefore it makes sense to focus on the legitimate candidates who will be the eventual winner.
Mark Rauterkus That is a top-down standard that is shameful. It is a corporate policy that is undemocratic and not what we urge you to do. The standard is also that the super-majority of the voters do not even go to the polls because of BS standards such as that.
The real standard is set when the election department puts who is ONTO the ballot. If the person is on the ballot, the standard is achieved.
We don't need some newsroom, corporate, suit wearing person with power telling citizens who is fit to be on the stage because they didn't pay the advertisement dollars for air-time nor hire the polling corporate buddies to tell you what to do.
If you really feel strongly in what you post, you should retire. There is no hope for being a journalist then.
In the real world, the third party person had twice the difference as to who won. In the real world, the third party person is the one who moves the policy for the future. In the real world, a bulk of the Ds and a bulk of the Rs are not going to change their minds and vote a different way because of the debate. Meanwhile, the third party person who is a voter -- a THIRD of the voters these days are INDIE, L, G, S, C, and Unaffiliated, are going to decide who wins.
People vote with their feet. The region and the city is in decline, still, due to the bias against the individual, perfectly illustrated with this corporate policy.
You've made Sinclair speak sound like the the song of angels.
Mark Roberts: Mark Rauterkus Sorry. Not everyone can play.
Paul Martino Kdka: Mark Rauterkus the League of Women Voters uses a standard similar to this. Has there ever been a libertarian candidate in the state to receive ten percent of the vote or more?
Mark Rauterkus: Paul Martino Kdka I did.
Mark Rauterkus The League of Women Voters are part of the problem too. The non-voters are crushing them too.
Judy Haluka" This has been true forever. It is called efficient use of resources. Why would you spend vakuable resources on a candidate that has no hope at all?
Mark Rauterkus: Because it is STUPID to think with only HALF A BRAIN.
BECAUSE it is not efficient to to discount / ignore / prison / embargo / freeze-out / and frustrate a rather large segment of the citizenship.
The third party candidate represents the 1% or 2% of that minor party as well as the greater majority, 40-60% of the citizens who choose to NOT VOTE AT ALL.
And most of all, how EFFICIENT are the USE OF RESOURCES so as to SPEND more than $5-million for a job that lasts 6 months (as the term is going to end in 2018) and pays less than $200K annually? The entire efficient use of resources is a total joke because these other candidates in this case BURNED MONEY. They are the definition of INEFFICIENT resource squandering. Did it cost them $200 per vote received? The Libertarian in this case got people to vote for his campaign at $.50 each. Who is efficient, really? Why are the big-spenders the one we want to go to congress and have influence over treasury, taxes, and constitutional matters?
Wednesday, April 04, 2018
Tuesday, April 03, 2018
Fwd: Another disgusting subservient action by the U.S. regarding Israel
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This is sadly depressing, but entirely expectable. We are the evil force in the world puppeteered and controlled by an Israeli fascist government. The Real News Network is one of the few media outlets which will document these vile actions with full detail. They deserve our support.
From: John H
Monday, April 02, 2018
Fwd: Now for some esoterica
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-- From: John H
Today was a bad day for Mr. Market with the indexes down substantially Bloomberg mentions that this is because there is a 'blackout period' for corporate purchases prior to the corporate reporting period, but then it add an interesting caveat: "S&P 500 firms have bought back almost $4 trillion of their own shares since the bull market began nine years ago, data compiled by S&P Dow Jones Indices show." One does not have to look very far to see why the market has maintained such a high level with really very little economic activity to show for it. On the other side of the pile is the impending and ongoing collapse of cryptocurrencies. I realize that this may well be esoterica for most of you, but it is an interesting sidelight for those who believe that cryptocurrencies will somehow replace sovereign money systems. Attached are two pieces from Wolf Richter of Wolf Street discussing the cryptocurrency collapse and the not-so-novel idea that the U.S. Dollar is about to lose its status as the world's reserve currency. Gold bugs and others have been salivating over this prospect for many years now, but it just doesn't seem to be coming to fruition any time soon. In fact, it may well be much more likely that we will see a nuclear war before we see the Dollar collapse.
John
Article on the collapse
Executive Director of SKWIM USA, a 501(c)(3)
PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo Camp Executive Coach
PPS Summer Dreamers' Swim & Water Polo Camp Executive Coach
Middle School Swim Coach at The Ellis School
Former Varsity Boys Swim Coach, Pittsburgh Obama Academy
Recent Head Water Polo Coach, Carnegie Mellon University Women's Club Team
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
http://CLOH.org
412 298 3432 = cell
Pittsburgh Combined Water Polo Team
http://CLOH.org
412 298 3432 = cell
Sunday, April 01, 2018
Fwd: The coming nuclear war with Russia
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From: John H
Ready or not we Americans are facing an imminent possibility of nuclear war. This should not be an idle fear for this nation as forces in our national security, military and political institutions are racing headlong in an effort to both demonize Russia and to force it into an untenable corner both politically and militarily. Russia has very clearly spelled out that it will only be pushed so far before it has no choice but to retaliate with the only military option it has to compete with the U.S. and NATO – that is nuclear weapons. This is made clear in the two attachments to this e-mail. The first is another excellent analysis by Jim Kavanagh (The Polemicist) which I heartedly encourage everyone to read in full. The second by Brian Cloughley is also highly pertinent to what is now very much on our collective doorstep.
John
Links
Friday, March 30, 2018
Fwd: Fracking and its consequences
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From: John H.
The attached op-ed from the Washington Observer-Reporter contains more confirming information about the dilatory effects of fracking on the health of all of us living in this region. Western Pennsylvania is now a hot-spot for many different types of cancer. Washington and Greene Counties now have the highest incidence of air pollution in the state by a factor of almost six, most of which is directly from fracking. It's time we begin raising our voices in protest to the powers that be in Harrisburg to get some real and effective regulations and controls in place to control this noxious pollution. Yes, these types of controls will increase the cost of fracking production, but that is a very small price to pay for reducing the health consequences we all now have to live (and die) with.
John
John
Thursday, March 29, 2018
More swimming crisis
https://coachrickswimming.com/2018/03/29/we-need-a-saner-approach-to-swim-meets/
The author / coach does not call the landscape a crisis, as did the other article we covered in detail last week. But, this is a new verse in the same crisis song.
Last week's conversation was published at Swim.Chttps://swim.cloh.org/2018/03/22/competitive-swimming-is-in-a-crisis-reports-swimming-world-and-wayne-goldsmith/LOH.org/
The author / coach does not call the landscape a crisis, as did the other article we covered in detail last week. But, this is a new verse in the same crisis song.
Last week's conversation was published at Swim.Chttps://swim.cloh.org/2018/03/22/competitive-swimming-is-in-a-crisis-reports-swimming-world-and-wayne-goldsmith/LOH.org/
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Monday, March 26, 2018
Two Facebook Flashbacks
In 2010, from my Blackberry phone I posted. Maryland Terps Hoops graduate 8 percent. Duke more than 90. Money after graduation and debt after degree unknown.
Four years ago I was posting for a few weeks from a hospital in Dallas, while enduring two surgeries -- ruptured appendix. One of my tips then was, "Don't eat rotisserie chicken the meal before flying south."
Four years ago I was posting for a few weeks from a hospital in Dallas, while enduring two surgeries -- ruptured appendix. One of my tips then was, "Don't eat rotisserie chicken the meal before flying south."
Sunday, March 25, 2018
Fwd: Progressing Into A Chin
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Saturday, March 24, 2018
Fwd: Crisis in the water --- and you're invited to the Saturday Swim School this week
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From: Mark Rauterkus
To: 412-public-news
Hi All, near and far!
We've got a crisis -- or a few of them -- in our future.
#1. Global engagement and fitness with kids seems to be in a decline.
A great commentary was published in Swimming World magazine about the crisis in a favorite domain of mine, competitive swimming.
From the international to the local scene, we need to evolve our interactions with our youth and gather all the support we can muster for our communities. Wellness -- from gun violence to school safety -- matters. We've got to step up our game in many ways.
Check out my blog post with a pointer to that article on competitive swimming and a follow-up conversation about our one-size-fits-all solution.
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#2. Regional
If you do nothing else, please click the PETITION directed at the school administrators at Eastern Michigan University who want to cut its super-successful men's swim team.
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#3 Local Invite
Adults and high school kids are able to meet me on Saturday from 8:30 am to 11:30 for the Saturday Swim School.
Kids in middle and elementary school are able to swim from 11:30 to 1 pm.
I really want to get the former students of Swim & Water Polo from PPS Summer Dreamers back in the water and playing SKWIM.
There is no charge as this is a labor of love.
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#4 Three different Lifeguard Classes have been offered and are filling to capacity, also a part of the Saturday Swim School. https://Guard.CLOH.org to get on the waiting list.
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#5. We're hiring both kids and adults to help with our summer activities at the pools in the city.
Apply with this google form. https://cloh.org/wp/
Friday, March 23, 2018
Fwd: Two excellent articles
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From: John H
Attached are two excellent and very different articles on two critical subjects for all Americans to consider with all seriousness. They each, in their own way, discuss 'elephant in the room' issues to which the national media give only scant attention; and, when attention is paid, it is usually focused on the wrong aspects of the issues.
The first, by Andrew J. Bacevich, offers a telling look at The New York Times negative coverage of all things Russian to the exclusion of coverage of U.S. military and political machinations all around the globe which impacted millions and millions, unseating multiple governments and creating an unimaginable refugee crisis in many of these same areas. If you happen to be in the Pittsburgh area on Friday evening, labor lawyer and peace activist Dan Kovalik will be discussing many of these issues in a book presentation at the UU Church of the South Hills in Mt. Lebanon, 1240 Washington Road at 7:00 p.m. This should be an interesting and important event to attend.
The second article from my favorite alternative news site, naked capitalism, concerns what is almost certainly the greatest existential threat to humankind in all of recorded history, global climate change. It argues that unless we begin to attack climate change from the perspective of supply limitations all of our efforts will be for naught. This is an important and oft neglected aspect of many activists efforts on this issue. I have to admit that while I am a long-term cynic about the prospects for stopping or even significantly limiting global climate change, I strongly believe that it is absolutely real and the dangers it poses to humankind (and most other life on the planet as well) are not at all understated and need to be addressed with all due urgency. However, I hold serious doubts that we humans, ensconced as we are in the comforts of carbon-based energy, really will be willing to make the changes necessary to have a significant impact upon the climate. As I occasionally do, because they are usually excellent, I have included the comments to the article.
Please do check out these two excellent articles.
John
Links
Fwd: Two for the price of one
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From: John H
From: John H
Two excellent articles on the politics of our time! You won't see this information on the national news.
John
Links
Fwd: Now is the time! Quake with terror.
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From: John H
If there ever was a time when the nation and the world should quake with terror, it is NOW, with the announcement that Trump is firing H. R. McMaster and replacing him with John Bolton. Bolton is an absolute out and out nut case who despises diplomacy and believes whole-heartedly in forcible regime change. He is a longtime neocon hawk who was one of the sponsors of the war on Iraq – and we know just how well that turned out – so look out Iran, North Korea and . . . Russia. Because he will be advising and encouraging one of the most unstable and suggestable leaders ever entrusted with any high political office, nuclear war may well be on the near horizon.
John
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