Be pro-social
The US government has a draft history document of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq. The highlights of the report present an incomprehensibly incompetent and partisan US government led by Bush and Rumsfeld.
“In New Jersey, some people in same-sex relationships have been denied the health insurance provided to their partners because the provider does not recognize civil unions, the report said.” This could also deny health insurance to children in the relationship. Anti-gay is anti-family.
“The whole concept that the law represents an uninvolved, decisive, third-party perspective on judging transgression may not be as distinct as perhaps our legal system would like it to be”
Over the last year, homelessness has increased by 12 percent in 25 major cities. Giving more than $2,000,000,000 to major companies while homelessness increases? Mission accomplished.
“Pictures you are observing can now be recreated with software that uses nothing but scans of your brain. It is the first ‘mind reading’ technology to create such images from scratch, rather than picking them out from a pool of possible images.”
Two wealthy brothers tried to bully the small island of Sark into electing their candidates. When Sark rejected seven out of nine of the brothers’s candidates and instead elected nine of the twelve axis of evil candidates, the two rich men closed their businesses in Sark: laying off one-sixth of the island’s citizens from work. … Read more
“Mr Madoff told them that he was ‘finished’, that he had ‘absolutely nothing’, and that ‘it’s all just one big lie’. He said the investment arm of his firm was ‘basically a giant Ponzi scheme,’ and that it had been insolvent for years.”
“In some instances, evolution becomes a symbol for Western dominance and a sign of modernity. Evolution can act as a lighting rod, as a symbol of the West and everything that is bad about the West – usually translated as material culture or materialism.”
“The abuse of prisoners at Abu Ghraib, the report says, ‘was not simply the result of a few soldiers acting on their own’ but grew out of interrogation policies approved by Mr. Rumsfeld and other top officials, who ‘conveyed the message that physical pressures and degradation were appropriate treatment for detainees.’”
