Romney, Politics, and Culture

Mitt Romney is completely wrong in his 47 percent comments. Mitt Romney said that 47 percent of American portray themselves as victims, government dependents, and they will never vote for him anyway. He is wrong, because many of that percentage don't view themselves as victims and even some in the 47 percent include some of his constituency. Just because some individuals don't pay income taxes, doesn't mean that poorer Americans don't pay taxes at all. Some of them pay payroll taxes. He disparage 47 percent of Americans (who are made up of the elderly, the mostly poor human beings, students, etc.) as basically leaches. Romney plays on the old lying stereotype that if you're not super rich, then you must be lazy, weak, or inferior. He also made the remark that if were a Mexican, he would have a better chance of becoming President of the United States. This is the same man that made the racist remark that the Palestinians suffer a lower GDP than the Israelis, because God favored the Israelis (or that the Palestinians have cultural inferiority not because of oppression, barriers to outside trade, or discrimination). Saeb Erekat, a top aide to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, told The Associated Press that Romney’s comment was “a racist statement” and ignorant of the facts. “This man doesn’t realize that the Palestinian economy cannot reach its potential because there is an Israeli occupation,” Erekat said. “It seems to me this man lacks information, knowledge, vision and understanding of this region and its people.” Now, Romney's view that 47 percent of Americans view themselves as victims and refuse to learn personal responsibility is not only offensive, but ignorant. The reason is that as President, you supposed to appeal to as many people as possible beyond a certain percentage. His speech talked about some of his own voters, so Mitt Romney is blatantly anti-poor. He even said that he is not that concerned about poor people. So, what more proof can you see that this man isn't up for the job. Mitt Romney must understand that you have to work for everybody if you want to become President. Romney does believe in redistribution from the poor/middle class to the rich. The Romney/Ryan plan will increase taxes on the poor and middle, while giving more tax breaks to the super rich. Ryan's economic plan will cause the largest redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich in modern American history (according to economic experts). Ryan's economic plan will cuts needed programs that can help the poor Americans.


The Chicago strike ended on Wednesday. It was the first strike since 1987. About 30,000 public school teachers walked off their jobs in Chicago. 350,000 students were out of the class. Some people don't like the deal. The deal increases raises for the teachers among the span of years. Of course, the Republicans oppose the Chicago Teachers Union, because they want the privatization of public education. Chicago's Mayor Rahm Emanuel is another person who supports charter school. He is known to use profanity and to be abrasive. It's even reported that First Lady Michelle Obama isn't too fond of him. Rahm Emanuel is a chief fundraiser of the super PACs (which have grown as a result of the Citizens United Supreme Court decision. That decision gives corporations a free for all in funding campaigns. This ruling was one cause of the Occupy Movements' development in 2011). Organized labor has supported President Barack Obama as well. There is still a Illinois budget deficit of $43.5 billion. Property taxes are still high in Chicago with a 665 million dollar deficit. Yet, Chicago's lawmakers refuse to collect taxes from its corporate constituency. There has been even a 15 million dollar in tax rebates to the Chicago Mercantile Exchange. A November 2009 study by the Institute for Taxation and Economic Policy entitled Who Pays? pegged Illinois as having the fifth most regressive tax system in the nation (Washington, D.C. is number one unsurprisingly). Regressive means that taxes are higher for the poor and lower for the rich. The poorest residents “pay up to six times as much of their incomes in taxes as they ask their wealthy to pay.” In an era of depressed profitability on the whole, embattled corporations have sought tax loopholes – justified by the gutter euphemism ‘incentive’ – to squeeze through since about the time Reaganism slouched out of the Sunshine state. We still have loopholes that are unfair and the elimination of public jobs in a record fashion. According to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies, 627,000 public services workers have been axed since 2009. There are 25 CEOs took home an avaerage compensation of $20 million, up 24 percent since 2010. The tax code gets money from the lowest in the socioeconomic scale to the highest in that scale. There is a high cost for those living in poverty according to the Alliance for a Just Society. Frankily, the current system gives the Democrats power in Chicago and there is still austerity in Illinois. Even former Governor of Arkansas Bill Clinton traded Arkansans to American monopolies for political support. Tyson Foods. Low income families still have high drop out rates and they bear the huge brunt of the tax burden. Also, poverty is related to mass incarceration (in the sense that the poor lack power to fight a lot of unjust convictions). Charter schools are usually non-unionized. Also, charter schools get public money and charge no tuition. The students are picked by a random lottery. Teachers in the public schools of Chicago receive low pay in some circumstances. Today, we have Reaganism still strong. Reaganism is the belief that it's a dog eat dog world. You are on your own and the top 1 percent receive record tax benefits are portions of that philosophy. Wealth is distributed among a smaller section of the U.S. We should live where the oppressed, the poor, single mothers, and all people shouldn't be left to fend among themselves. They should receive help, peace, and righteous treatment period.


The population control extremists never stop to promote their extremism. University of California-Riverside Professor Richard Cardullo made a speech. He said that the cottonseed derivative Goosypol is being proposed as an adequate sterilant to bring down the birthrate in America. This chemical is so dangerous that it can sterilize males. Some want widespread use of this chemical in China plus other third world countries. Cardullo calls it an option to be used in the United States. Usually, these extremists sometimes express their goals in speeches. The professor said that the attended students should lower their standard of living in the world if humans should live in the future. This is sick indeed. The truth is that even UN population models mention that world population growth will level and decrease by 2050. The professor recently was selected by the National Science Foundation, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to join the Partnership for Undergraduate Life Sciences Education (PULSE) program, funded by the federal government. The professor believes the the Earth is overpopulated, which is the opinion of neo-Malthusian regurgitated propaganda. He wants everyone to be vegetarians, because he feels that eating meat will increase the carbon footprint. The reality is that people have the right to voluntarily eat what they desire to. He wants to decrease the American population since we have 313 million people. He wants to use the following ways to do it: "...“These are all what’s called vectors… carriers of disease which we are familiar with (…) horrible things (…). I’m going to show you things that effects populations more than anything (…), it’s those”, states the professor as he points to an image of sperm. “Many scientists want to know: are there ways, are there new ways, that we can control population …or fertility rates, by targeting specific cells, sperm or eggs, so that individuals can make the decision to keep those rates low.” So, scientists know that the cotton derivative Goosypol can cause permanent not just temporary sterility in males. Some want it to be used in China, Nigeria, Brazil, etc. This is so extreme that even the World Health Organization argued against using it. The Rockefeller Foundations funds this chemical. The 1985 Rockefeller Foundation's annual report promoted its use. Indeed, gossypol, a toxic polyphenol derived from the cotton plant, was identified early on in the Foundation’s research as an effective sterilant. The question was, how to implement or integrate the toxic substance into crops. The researchers have decreased its more dangerous side effects (like fatigue, low blood potassium, muscle weakness, etc.). Today, we have Dr. Deborah P. Delmer (the Rockefeller Foundation's associate director of food security) want to promote RNA interference as a means to use gossypol content in cottonseeds. She claims that it can stop hunger, but the catch is that its sterilant effects aren't eliminated at all. We should never use these GM foods or dangerous chemicals at all. The director of the Laboratory for Crop Transformation (Texas A&M University), Keerti Singh Rathore said that: "...A gossypol-free cottonseed would significantly contribute to human nutrition and health, particularly in developing countries, and help meet the requirements of the predicted 50 percent increase in the world population in the next 50 years.” “Rathore’s study”, states the article, “represents the first substantiated case where gossypol was reduced via genetic engineering that targets the genes that make the toxin.” Given the fact that the professor has been selected by large governmental organizations under the general guidance of Obama’s science czar John P. Holdren, we must wonder if the “option” of using Gossypol as a sterilent in the United States may have been inspired by Holdren and Ehrlich in their 1977 book “Ecoscience”, when they wrote: “Adding a sterilant to drinking water or staple foods is a suggestion that seems to horrify people more than most proposals for involuntary fertility control. Indeed, this would pose some very difficult political, legal, and social questions, to say nothing of the technical problems. No such sterilant exists today, nor does one appear to be under development. To be acceptable, such a substance would have to meet some rather stiff requirements: it must be uniformly effective, despite widely varying doses received by individuals, and despite varying degrees of fertility and sensitivity among individuals; it must be free of dangerous or unpleasant side effects; and it must have no effect on members of the opposite sex, children, old people, pets, or livestock.”


Engineering is a very special portion of human endeavors. Its existence spans thousands of years. Engineering is very much important in the development of cities, buildings, mechanical tools, and other basic functions of a civilization. Ironically enough, engineering is vital in our time just as much as it was important thousands of years ago. Engineering is the skill or science that allows people to design plus build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials, and processes. You have to learn scientific, economic, social, and practical knowledge. Any engineer praticipates in engineering. A person learns many sub disciplines in order for a person to be a great, efficient engineer. The simple tools of the pulley, level, and wheel were organizing tools of ancient man that worked to engineer civilizations. The Roman water powered grain mill (as described by Vitruvius), the Pharos of Alexandria, the Great Pyramids of Egypt, the Great Wall of China, the Brihadeshwara temple of Tanjavur and tombs of India, etc. require the mastery of engineering skills. Imhotep of ancient Egypt is known as the first civil engineer. Some view him as the man who first used columns in architecture. In our modern age, we have electrical engineering. This includes the use of motors, microchips, and batteries as a means to power electrical devices. Electronics evolved rapidly from vacuum tubes and transistors to nanotechnology of the 21st century. The inventions of Thomas Savery and Scottish engineer James Watt help to develop modern mechanical engineering. John Smeaton of the UK was a modern civil engineer. He constructed the third Eddystone Lighthouse with the use of hydraulic lime (it is a form of mortar which will set under water). Smeaton formed a technique involving dovetailed blocks of granite in the building of the lighthouse. Civil engineering that John Smeaton was involved in worked with the design of bridges, canals, harbours, and lighthouses. He was a mechanical engineer and a physicist. A physicist is a person that studies the motions of objects in the Universe including natural forces, etc. Physics requires an understanding of science, mathematics, and engineering in a great degree. You have aerospace construction, chemical engineering, mechanical engineering, and other branches of this important field. It's one of the fastest growing career choices in the world. Engineering is fun since a person can use problem solving, logic, knowledge, economics, and mathematics in order to test the best method in constructing a machine or an invention. In our generation, we can use computers in general the models of physical processes and perfect designs for aircraft. Computer aided design or CAD software can assist engineers to create 3-D models, 2D drawings, and schematics of their designs. From the workings of helicopters to the construction of business, engineering will forever become a part of our daily lives. It's a great time to alive indeed since futuristic technology is ever developing all around us.

The real history of Russia relates to the Byzantine Empire in an enumerable amount of ways. To learn the origin or Russia, you must understand about the Steppe region of Europe. The Steppe region is a region of plains that covered southern Russia. It's found many tribes of nomadic pastoralists. These people were migratory and spread far and wide in their territory. The classical scholars of ancient Greece called this area as Scythia. Scythia is known for horsemen and horsewomen. These ancient civilizations in the Pontic Steppe go by many names. You will find the Goths in the Black Sea region near Russia at about the 2nd century A.D. The Turks, the Huns, and the Avars (who are Eurasian tribes. These people have a mixture of European and Asian genetically plus cultural heritage) migrated into Russia all of the time after the time of Christ. Most of the modern day Russian human beings are descended from the Slavic tribes. They traveled in East Russia into Western Russia. Some united with the Finno-Ugric tribes of the Merya, the Muromians, and the Meshchera. The rivers in Russia were key for different tribes and other human beigns to trade resources and cultural ideas. The Volga and the Dnieper are some of the maor rivers in Russia. People traveled, but people had trouble to get into the Caspian and Black Seas. Invasion wasn't common in Russia until later on in its history. Russia today is the largest country in the world in terms of its land size. The capital of Russia now is Moscow. The Slavs during the Byzantine age of Europe formed the powerful city states of Kiev, which was found in the Dnieper River. Kiev is found in Ukraine now. Now, the Byzantine monks Cyril and Methodius created the Cyrillic alphabet. This alphabet is utilized by the Slavic peoples of Russia, Bulgaria, and throughout Eastern Europe to this very day. The Cyrillic alphabet was made by them in order for the monks to try to convert the Russians into Greek Orthodox Christianity. These 2 men spread their message all over Eastern Europe and were called "the Apostles of the Slavs." If you look at the Cyrillic Russian alphabets, many of the character look very similar to the Greek alphabet (which is found in numerous sororities and fraternities in America). The Viking influenced Russia too. The Vikings were called the "Varangians" in the East. the Viking were involved in trade and piracy all over the world. In the mid 800's A.D., the Viking traveled along waterways from the Eastern Baltic to the Black and Caspian Seas. One Varangian named Rurik was the elected ruler or knyaz of Novogorod in ca. 860 A.D. His successors moved south and extended their authority to Kiev. Kiev was already ruled by the Khazars before the Varangians came. The Vikings formed the Kievan Rus by Prince Oleg. The Kievan Rus traded in furs, wax, and slaves between Scandinavia and throughout the Byzantine Empire. In the 900's, the Norse minority merged with the majority Slavic population. Prince Vladimir I of 988 adopted the religion of Christianity. His father was of the Rurik dynasty (filled with Vikings). Vladimir was once polytheistic until he heard the message of the Greek Orthodox Church. In the 1200's, people realized that the Mongols took over Russia. The Mongols were an Asian group of people that competed against ancient Chinese kingdom for hegemonic power and influence in the Asian region. Genghis Khan (a Khan is a leader of Mongol tribes. The origin of the Mongols were from Mongolia) ruled a large part of Russia in his Mongol empire. Genghis Khan and his group of soldiers organized strategic battlefield tactics in order for them to conquer millions of square miles of extensive land territory. Genghis Khan soon died. His grandson named Batu took over Russian territory. The Mongols allowed religious tolerance of the Eastern Orthodox religion. The catch was that the Mongols wanted tribute from the Russia. A tribute is a bribe. A conquered people pay money to the conquerors in order for those people to not be harmed by a conquering army. Ivan III or Ivan the Great control Russia with absolute power after the Mongol powers declines. The Czars were the Russian leaders during the Middle Ages and to 1917.

By Timothy