NZ Dumps Jesus

You can read about it here:

https://voiceofeurope.com/2019/03/new-zealand-removes-any-reference-to-jesus-from-parliamentary-prayer/

The entire Western world is dumping Jesus. Why is that? Is it all about the Benjamins?

Can We Believe Beto ???

Apparently Beto wants to open our borders to unlimited immigration:

https://apnews.com/613cde1ab0914ca7a08fcadbe9f75d8a

But we seem to be overwhelmed with their numbers already:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/03/30/migrants-overflow-border-federal-facilities-local-strain-wall-trump/3309462002/

Who is telling the truth here?

When a nation appears to be near bankruptcy (i.e., more than $22 trillion in debt), should it take on MORE obligations, or fewer?

http://www.usdebtclock.org/index.html

What do you think?

Who Owns Golan Heights ???

Trump wants to give Israel sovereignty over Syrian territory:

https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/21/politics/trump-golan-heights-tweet/index.html

The entire Middle East has been carved up again and again by people who don't live in the region. It's time to let the peoples who do live there decide what is to be done.

That said, territory should NOT be seized and annexed by wars of aggression. To give this land to Israel sets a dangerous precedent, one which benefits Israel and no one else.

Let the UN decide. Isn't that one of the reasons it was created?

Restore The Electoral College

According to some, we don't need an "electoral college":

https://www.yahoo.com/news/electoral-college-keep-ditch-overhaul-181616698.html

I think The Founders had the following in mind:

a. We The People are represented in the House;

b. The several states are represented in the Senate; and

c. The president is chosen by a "college" of the best and brightest people in the land.

We've essentially allowed "a" to become meaningless. The Civil War destroyed "b", and our current system has made a mockery of "c".

All these provisions should be RESTORED, not eliminated or changed. And the provision that direct taxes should be EQUAL also should be restored. Our government is supposed to be funded by taxes and levies on trade and commerce, not by onerous taxes levied on We the People.

And we need good and intelligent people as our chief executives, not celebrities and clowns elected by children and non-citizens and paid by corporations and foreign interests.

Amen.

And You Still Want To Fly ???

Here is the alleged skinny on how the 737 MAX was certified:

As Boeing hustled in 2015 to catch up to Airbus and certify its new 737 MAX, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) managers pushed the agency’s safety engineers to delegate safety assessments to Boeing itself, and to speedily approve the resulting analysis.

But the original safety analysis that Boeing delivered to the FAA for a new flight control system on the MAX — a report used to certify the plane as safe to fly — had several crucial flaws.

That flight control system, called MCAS (Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System), is now under scrutiny after two crashes of the jet in less than five months resulted in Wednesday’s FAA order to ground the plane.

Current and former engineers directly involved with the evaluations or familiar with the document shared details of Boeing’s “System Safety Analysis” of MCAS, which The Seattle Times confirmed.

The safety analysis:

• Understated the power of the new flight control system, which was designed to swivel the horizontal tail to push the nose of the plane down to avert a stall. When the planes later entered service, MCAS was capable of moving the tail more than four times farther than was stated in the initial safety analysis document.
• Failed to account for how the system could reset itself each time a pilot responded, thereby missing the potential impact of the system repeatedly pushing the airplane’s nose downward.
• Assessed a failure of the system as one level below “catastrophic.” But even that “hazardous” danger level should have precluded activation of the system based on input from a single sensor — and yet that’s how it was designed.

You can read the rest @
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/boeing-aerospace/failed-certification-faa-missed-safety-issues-in-the-737-max-system-implicated-in-the-lion-air-crash/

This is almost unbelievable. If it is true, several people should be fired and permanently barred from the industry.

Death By Plastic

A young whale that washed up in the Philippines died from “gastric shock” after ingesting 40kg of plastic bags.

Marine biologists and volunteers from the D’Bone Collector Museum in Davao City, in the Philippine island of Mindanao, were shocked to discover the brutal cause of death for the young Cuvier’s beaked whale, which washed ashore on Saturday.

In a damning statement on their Facebook page, the museum said they uncovered “40 kilos of plastic bags, including 16 rice sacks. 4 banana plantation style bags and multiple shopping bags” in the whale’s stomach after conducting an autopsy.

You can read the rest @
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/mar/18/dead-whale-washed-up-in-philippines-had-40kg-of-plastic-bags-in-its-stomach

We have turned our once beautiful planet into a cesspool. Sooner or later, we'll kill ourselves, too.

Median CEO Pay Tops $1 Million Per Month

The median income for 132 CEOs of major US corporations jumped to $12.4 million in 2018, more than $1 million a month, according to an analysis published Sunday by the Wall Street Journal. The CEOs, representing about one-quarter of the S&P 500 firms for which figures have thus far been released, saw pay rises of about 6.4 percent apiece compared to 2017.

You can read the rest @
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/03/18/ceos-m18.html

Frankly, this is obscene. Most of these people have done NOTHING to warrant such a high level of pay. They are, in a very large sense, uncaring sociopaths.