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Plight
of American Employees
A
short while back, the U.S. government, in its inimatable wisdom,
granted a tax cut to the American people, with an inordinate
amount of the cut going to some of the richest people in human
history, the top 1 percent of Americans who benefit to an extraordinary
degree due to the labor of American employees.
As
a result of that tax cut, for which the overwhelming majority
of American workers got little more than a "keep your mouth
shut" payoff, the government is going "broke".
In
addition, the gulf between those rich beyond comprehension and
hardworking American employees continues to widen.
For
example, last year S&P performance decreased by 12 percent,
CEO remuneration skyrocketed up by 22 percent, and the wages
for American employees who skirted layoffs eked up 3-4 percent.
Anyone
smell the stench of corporatized America, here? Employees be
damned, the rich get richer, and the poor and middle class keep
scraping the leavings to try to get the best of the leftovers
in a system designed to impart manipulation and control of the
many, yielding an increasing stockpile of inordinate wealth
and power for the few.
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Environment
Damaged, Citizens Harmed, Drug Production Expands
Columbia
drug-eradication via aerial spraying is resulting in harmful
consequences for the citizens and environment of Columbia, much
of which may be irreversible.
The
effort, supported by $1.3 billion in U.S. funds, is intended
to curb heroin and cocaine production as an adjunct to the anti-human
U.S. drug war on Americans & Columbians.
The
herbicide, glyphosphate, has been reported to make people sick
and damage the environment.
The
production of drug crops, since the spraying has begun, has
expanded and has spread to neighboring countries.
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Origins
of God(s) & Goddess(es)
Comparing
the evidence that the god(s) & goddess(es) concepts are
a result of human 'make believe'
-to-
the dearth of evidence that they are objective assessments of
profound contacts with super-beings ...
...
the former stands out as the clear logical and rational iteration
of the whys and wherefores when it comes to stories / claims
about super-beings.
Genetic
and evolutionary factors are the underlying motivating reasons
within the following, dealing with basic human wants & needs
as a result of an evolutionary continuum by which the human
brain developed an ...
...
intense fear of ultimate unknowns (primarily, death) and an
intense yearning to replace those unknowns with something the
human brain could relate to in terms of the human experience
on earth.
In
essence, at some undefined point in our evolutionary history,
the following concepts became an inherent part of the human
condition that remains with us to this very day ...
1)
we know we don't know, for sure, where we came from (we're totally
dependent on external explanations for that) and
2)
we know we don't know, for sure, where we are going (once again,
we're totally dependent on external explanations for that),
and
3)
we know there is much about our existence that we don't know
and perhaps can never know (providing the primary impetus for
the world of 'make believe' that treats unknowns as fuel for
religions).
All
of those played crucial roles in the origins of god(s) and goddess(es)
and continue to be a major factor in the perpetuation of religions.
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