Ceci n'est pas une lune pic.twitter.com/XU5nPZAZjG
— The Clarke Award (@ClarkeAward) May 7, 2014
That, among other things, is a referent to the famous Rene Magritte painting called, The Treachery of Images, 1929. This currently is housed ironically enough in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art just a few city blocks south of Hollywood. But the silver disc pictured in the tweet above can be readily recognized as the 'Death Star' famous from the 1977 Star Wars movie. It then quotes a character named Obi Wan Kenobi saying, 'that's not a moon', but in french, like the painting of the pipe.
A remarkable breakthrough in conductivity science happened this week.
Big NAVY just solved the Big Oil problem in Big tech advance and nobody noticed?
On May 1 this local article appeared discussing the repeated attempts in Topeka to outlaw wind power generation. This video from May 9 expands and fills out details of this obstruction, for a national audience. More on the policies that state representatives in Kansas tout.
Word continues to spread about the woes of Kansas' state economy. Hjow Governor Brownback's experiment of cutting taxes for rich while raising sales tax for all has resulted in record revenue shortfalls.
Kansas tax revenues fall while other states see rise as found on http://t.co/IOcmLtlTEU "Questions need answers".
— Barbara Casey (@teachn_oz) May 10, 2014
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— tmservo433 (@tmservo433) May 2, 2014
But across the country, survey says more millionaires agree to taxes being raised.
A criticism of modern libertarian and far right economists is that they ignore the growth of the middle class and the progress of the New Deal legislation that got the US out of the economic depression of the 1930's. A pretty typical 20th century libertarian look at major banking houses in the world today that demonizes the US Federal Reserve, pines for a return to the gold standard, in 26 min video. British economist Simon Dixon explains why debt is more real in Britain, 18 min video.
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