Young Social Media Idiots Forfeit Education

Don't expect US students to come anywhere near the top in science or math: they are wedded to their social media and the specious 'friends'  We interviewed 22 students from Amherst High School and were shocked to learn that 16 of those students, reported a daily cell-phone and Ipad use of 4 hours or more. Obviously, something has to give. What gives is education: the careful examination and logical analysis, and exposure to entire new domains and fields of inquiry. Loss of these capabilities just confirms what the economy bears: just 3% of Americans are minimally competent in any discipline. The big masquerades is the corporate-loving economists. The government has made sure that all those foolish investors in subprime mortgages were paid back, while cutting unemployment benefits, foodstamps/SNAP, Medicare.

Our research into ancient Anatolia, Palestine and Mesopotamia must necessarily focus on the temple. That structure was usually open to all. It was the center of re-distribution of products, and workers. In ancient Sumeria, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria, and the Land of Hatti, the temple provided rations.

The modern dopes say this is socialism, not capitalism. But evidence shows that providing everyone with basic necessities, allowed small investors to save and invest, without worrying about meeting basic needs. This re-distribution also kept folks from falling into debt. It also allowed companies to form without paying high salaries and commissions even before one starts.

As a result of the 2008-10 great recession, millions lost jobs, homes, but the government in Washington has increased benefits. Now it routine to see workers at Walmart and many other places, make so little money that they cannot live. In this case, the US government must return to the roots of polity and economy - the re-distribution of surpluses.

There will be those business people who warp ideological, loudly decrying any hint of socialism, but the redistribution of wealth is actually very good for the economy at large. At certain times in history, ordinary people could hold shares, save and invest, becoming capitalist. So those who descry helping the poor forget the poor would buy things, even to save and invest. That is prosperity, and not the enrichment of a few at the top. Such monopolization of wealth, power, metals, knowledge and information by urban magnates and landlords, had grave consequences, even for polities ringed with brutal troops and cavalry.

Secession Now Approved by state and citizens

Secession has become a practical, workable idea. Back in October, when a bitter battle over funding the federal government was taking place, farmers from three northern counties in Colorado, staged a press conference in which they advocated secession from Colorado. Many people secretly nodded. Then Time Magazine put the secession Texas on its front cover in November, 2013. One can see how organized the southern half-wits are. There are active secessionist parties in 36 states, plus Puerto Rico and Guam. It turns out that there is a lot more thought has been put into this issue, than was recognized by the government, science, the press and by individuals.

'The South will rise again,' they say, and indeed, it has. The main thing rising is heated dust: a legacy of 11 years of drought. Yet the militarist pastors and christ mockers verbally condemn everyone unlike themselves. Texas plays herd boss as sick southern states draws them into a devil's pact. First, destroy 'Obamacare,' what they call the Affordable Insurance Act. These rich bigots do not care to see the millions of Americans who, denied specialist medicare, die. At the same time, they call themselves 'Apostles of Christ' which puts the entire southern Republican political discourse into La La land. Have you seen any bigger hypocrites?

Here in Western Massachusetts we have been preparing for Quebec's eventual independence. That will split Canada in half. That would be a good time for New England to invite the Canadian maritimes to form a greater New England.  Boston is rich enough to support the move.

There are all sorts of combinations. One thinks of the nine nations of NorthAmerica. Need we name them? The Pacific NW from San Francisco to Alaska; Mexiamerica, the SW states, led by Texas; the Empty Quarter: Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Montana; the Breadbasket, the Mid West; Dixie; Miami and the Caribbean; the Rust Belt, from Sudbury Canada to Louisville Kentucky, from New York to Chicago; New England, including the Canadian Maritimes. And Quebec.

There are other combinations. So much research has been done on US counties that one can chart the fault lines of ideology and identification. The people of the USA are richer and poorer at the same time. Half the people make enough to save, the other half cannot earn enough at work to live on.

The economy is something of an illusion. Only because the US treasury and bank have been injecting $85 billion a month into the financial industry, is the economy functioning at all. In bad times, all the capitals return like birds to their roosts. US business people are spooked, baffled, and certainly reluctant to share the wealth with the workers.