and their megalomaniacal ilk are still promoting an orange, and Thiel's pet, rerun.
https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2020/04/catastrophic-merger.html
https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2020/04/catastrophic-merger.html
The Middle East has always been at the junction of three continents, now known as: Africa, Asia and Europe. It has, almost continuously, been a contested region, because the one who controls said cross roads can put tolls and taxes on trade and travel through the region.
Transit through the region has been, determined by archaeologists, happening since before humans evolved. Our hominid ancestors left evidence of passage and residence in and through the area. Humans followed and, as we evolved, went from leaving remnants of evidence to recording the history of said trade, transit and conflict.
Thus began records of warring amongst a variety of different groups of people as they tried to determine who would control access to the area. Documents that record millennia of wars have accumulated since. The struggle for power and profit has continued to spill the blood of those who are simply trying to live in the region. Meanwhile the violent efforts of narcissists and megalomaniacs, who fancy themselves worthy of conquest and control of the middle east, continue unabated. This turmoil started well before the discovery of oil, gas; the potential of wind and solar energy prospects.
The Tragical Middle-Easterly Tour continues today in a conflict between Israel and the groups (Hamas, Hezbollah and Houthi – 3H – provocateurs) that other nations employ to kill and be killed in near constant warfare with Israel.
The fighting is made worse by the current government of Israel that is led by, accused criminal, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The aforementioned government is, literally, dead (the death of many others) set against a two state, peace proposal recommended by other governments in the region and around the world.
I've proposed a different version of the two state solution, that has yet to garner the attention of anyone of consequence. It calls for the creation of a new state, in the Sinai peninsula, to be known as New Palestine (details to be found here: https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2024/02/a-plan-for-peace-in-middle-east.html ).
It is my hope that at some point, in the near future, sanity and accompanying restraint will become a new norm... I holdeth not my breath.
This information should be being broadcast from every Democratic bully pulpit, every where, all the time. For no good reason this information is rarely heard at all!
This post contains links to multiple resources that will communicate a version of the same thing:
One of our political parties is far better for the economy than the other... The Democrats are, by far and away, better for the economy!
I copied these links to articles and books from my blog and they are also accessible (www.blueboomerhd.blogspot.com), by click, from my campaign website (www.wymanusa.org). More links to similar subject matter is available here:
https://blueboomerhd.blogspot.com/2024/06/vote-in-your-own-best-interest-vote-for.html
Specific books and links to check out:
Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet (Your Wallet Does Better During a Democratic Administration), by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb, Advantage Media Group, 2012.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/mismatch-us-economy-perception-versus-reality-mcgeever-2024-06-26/
“The gulf between America's downbeat view of the US
economy, and it's general healthy well-being, could not be
wider.”
“...Systematic bias in driving inaccurate perceptions
about US economic performance, in the media, are (mostly) to
blame.”
https://www.epi.org/publication/econ-performance-pres-admin/
“Summary:
The economy performs much better during Democratic presidential
administrations than during Republican ones.”
Also noteworthy is the statistic that President Clinton stated at this year's Democratic Convention, and James Carville repeated on Bill Maher's program: Real Time. In the years since the fall of the Soviet Union, in 1989, there have been equal years of Democratic and Republican presidential administrations... During the Democratic administrations 50 million jobs were created; Republican administration years 1 million jobs were created. These numbers can be verified at the Bureau of Labor Statistics website.
Once again:
This information should be being broadcast from every Democratic bully pulpit, every where, all the time. For no good reason this information is rarely heard at all!
What is wrong with us?
Just asking,
Stephen M. Wyman
Candidate for TX House, district 20, this year.
Three quick quotes:
Those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
Those who erase history are trying to repeat it.
First line is attributed to: George Santayana;
Second line: mine own, till proven otherwise.
Unregulated capitalism is feudalism; encouraged by, and for, narcissists.
Also: mine own, till proven otherwise.
Therefore, I approve of, and encourage: Lina Khan: FTC Chair;
Jonathan Kanter: DOJ: Assistant Attorney General of the Antitrust Division.
Antitrust enforcement in the United States was first, and appropriately, pursued and discouraged by Teddy Roosevelt. Teddy was part of the wealthy, prone to narcissism class, and he understood that his peers were largely incapable of self-control.
I applaud and support the continued the efforts of Ms. Khan and Mr. Kanter.
Stephen M. Wyman
Democratic Candidate for Texas House, District 20
(Andice, Cedar Park, Florence, Georgetown, Jarrell, Leander, Liberty Hill)
I support women’s access to and choice in all aspects of reproductive health care.
All of Affordable Care Act, Medicare and Medicaid's programs should be available to all eligible Texans, including 12-month postpartum Medicaid eligibility.
Addiction and mental health issues are, in fact, health problems and should be treated as such.
Public dollars are only for public schools.
Teachers and staff in our school systems should have professional, living wages.
Pre-K education should be available and affordable, free when needed, for all Texas children.
Kids’ meals should be available (free, as needed) at their school year-round.
Post secondary education should be affordable (free for Texans in state institutions).
The leading cause of death for children and adolescents should NOT be gun violence.
I oppose state spending for border militarization and anti-immigrant law enforcement (SB4).
I support science-based climate change mitigation, response and adaptation.
I support strategies and laws to encourage voter participation.
I oppose policies that lead to discrimination and persecution on the basis of race, ethnicity, faith, sexual orientation, gender identity.
Texas has a regressive tax system that should be brought into the real world, so that Texans can have the municipal, county and state services they deserve.
The electricity in Texas should be as simple and dependable as the flipping of a light switch.
Renewable energy sources should be encouraged.
Texas State Savings and Loans, Financial Institutions, can help make living indoors, in Texas, more affordable.
Suggested reading:
On the Wealth of Nations (the Original, “Wealth of Nations,” Tome Explained and Analyzed with Wit, Wisdom and Brevity), by PJ O'Rourke, Grove Press, 2007.
Free Fall: America, Free Markets and the Sinking of the World Economy, by Joseph E. Stiglitz, W.W. Norton and Company, 2010.
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy, by Thomas Sewell, Basic Books, 2011.
The Wrecking Crew: How Conservatives Rule, by Thomas Frank, Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., Inc., 2008.
Blowback: A Warning to Save Democracy From Trump's Revenge, by Miles Taylor, Simon and Schuster, 2024.
Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty, The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2017.
The New New Deal: the Hidden Story of Change in the Obama Era, by Michael Grunwald, Simon and Schuster, 2012.
Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Climate Change, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2010.
The Big Myth: How American Business Taught Us to Loathe Government and Love the Free Market, by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2023.
Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most destructive Industry on Earth, by Rachel Maddow, Crown Publishing, 2019.
The History of the Standard Oil Co., Two Volumes, by Ida M. Tarbell, Cosimo Classics Publishing, 2010; originally published in 1904.
A Brief History of Doom: Two Hundred Years of (Private) Financial Crises, by Richard Vague, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the (Private) Financial Crisis, by Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera, Portfolio/Penguin, 2010.
Bull by the Horns: Fighting to Save Main Street From Wall Street and Wall Street From Itself, by Sheila Bair, Free Press, 2012.
How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World (Things That One Might Not Realize Are Working Till They Fail), by Deb Chachra, Riverhead Books, 2023.
Bulls, Bears and the Ballot Box: How the Performance of Our Presidents Has Impacted Your Wallet (Your Wallet Does Better During a Democratic Administration), by Bob Deitrick and Lew Goldfarb, Advantage Media Group, 2012.