28:45 “Single cause explanations are almost always false.” 36:15 “Don’t be- too critical of the efforts of other people.” Harari…a gay medieval military historian, is one of the most influential people on Earth. And he gives a great deal of credit to his team of about 20 people. History is NOT the study of the past, it is the study of change ..read more

The pro-democracy movement only needs to embrace border security, gun rights, and stop promoting trans rights and they will sweep all the elections. It is simple. Those three things and democracy is secured. Those three issues are how the autocrats are going to take power, just like they are doing across the world. If democracy dies it will be on that hill, defending people who are not citizens, a cause of death that is less than automobile fatalities or drug overdoses, and a tiny minority ..read more

I noticed many years ago on Fox News that whenever they began using the word freedom it had to do with cutting taxes or regulating industries. I found that the word greed could be substituted in these Fox scripts and it worked just fine. That is what they really mean….greed. Anything that taxes the rich or regulates their activities in pursuit of profit is not “freedom.” It is Orwellian that the billionaire class pays for the fake identity of the Republican party because the only thing that matters to them is evading taxes and regulation. The prime functions of government are the enemy of the ..read more

It all reduces to the rich evading taxes, which is redistribution of wealth, and regulation, which enables control of the rich, who crave control of everything by way of their wealth. I do not understand why this clear and simple message is not repeated constantly. One way to argue against their talking point is to say that a republic is the term for a representative democracy…that is, we elect our policy makers and if we do not like their policies, we vote them out of office. Instead of a direct democracy with a mob deciding all issues and easily swayed by demagoguery and ignorance, we enabl ..read more

Here we go. The battle lines are forming. https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/there-s-another-christian-movement-that-s-changing-our-politics-it-has-nothing-to-do-with-whiteness-or-nationalism/ar-AA1jQoQu?ocid=msedgntp&pc=SCOOBE&cvid=a0d3a86405f5427fab9f9fdf4a00d8c4&ei=61 ..read more

Frank Borman died on Tuesday November 7 at 95. He was the commander of Apollo 8, which was the first time human beings left the planet Earth and traveled around the Moon ..read more

Heather explains pretty much everything in the first 20 minutes ..read more

Einstein wrote an essay titled “Why Socialism?” for the first issue of the independent socialist magazine “Monthly Review.” Published in May 1949, the piece included the following paragraph that said (sentences bolded for emphasis): Private capital tends to become concentrated in few hands, partly because of competition among the capitalists, and partly because technological development and the increasing division of labor encourage the formation of larger units of production at the expense of smaller ones. The result of these developments is an oligarchy of private capital the enor ..read more

Garbage elections on the way and that may well end America ..read more

The “old” era of heavy launch was the Saturn V and this supposed “new” era is predicated on a vehicle much like the N-1, the failed Soviet counterpart of the U.S. Moon rocket. There were three primary features of the Saturn V that made it successful, the first being the F-1 engine, second the use of hydrogen upper stages, and third a space agency able to appropriately manage the program. The shiny new vehicle has no counterparts to the F-1 engine or hydrogen upper stages while its most remarkable features are the reusable stages and the landing procedure for those stages. In regard to appropri ..read more