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Scratches to Sketches
Friday 26 August 2011
US should raise taxes to help fix deficits, say business economists - CSMonitor.com
You could start with a really high gasoline tax with incentives to electric cars! You could link mortgages to people. You could remove the tax subsidy on mortgage interest. You could tax billionaires. You could have a tax on leveraged borrowing that bites.
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China's military power: Modernisation in sheep's clothing | The Economist
Nothing like a good fight to keep these military guys happy whilst the rest of us think fighting is at the root of all evil!
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The sad facts behind Rick Perry’s Texas miracle - The Washington Post
Are you piss sing on his pole?
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What are Booktracks?
Curious use of sound to make book reading more fun!
http://www.businessinsider.com/booktracks-2011-8
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Sense of Justice!
There is a big difference between a society that is primed to be suspicious and allows it's citizens to fire all sorts of weapons at each other, and a society that muddles through to get at the truth.
As a victim myself to the primed justice in America, I feel it is too full of traps for unwary people, especially those who are used to very different and more humane norms.
The American system of fighting through things rather than seeking a balance of less aggressive emotions, bleeds a higher level of damage where too many are made victims not of the crimes committed, but of the justice seeking process itself. No, I don't think justice is so important that it is allowed to damage. I think justice should be available, but proceed without making those seeking justice victims of the process.
America has a lot to learn about being a just community and about the processes of achieving justice. It's not fun to work or live in America because of all the fighting that takes place, one way or another. It's not good enough to say that the fighting achieves justice, because it doesn't. What is left out is the fact that process of achieving justice in America is unjust and real justice is never achieved.
America is destined to remain the unjust society until it can figure out just processes for achieving justice. Fighting is not the answer.
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WikiLeaks reveals China's failure to measure dangerous pollution | Environment | guardian.co.uk
Sad state of affairs when business opportunities to fight pollution abound and people do not have relevant facts of the need or potential demand!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/aug/26/wikileaks-china-dangerous-pollution
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