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To: The Brookings Institute, Subject: Eliminating Poverty, Racism, & War
By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago
CC: Heritage Foundation, Cato Institute, Economic Policy Institute, American Enterprise Institute, Aspen Institute, Center for American Progress, RAND Corporation, as well as any and all other DC based Economic Think Tanks who are interested in ...
Freedom and The Economic Democracy Act
By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago
George W. Bush, Mitt Romney, and Donald J. Trump (among others, i.e. the 1%) are “independently wealthy.” That is to say, they never DEPEND on an employer or the government for their financial wherewithal. They ...
"AFTER HOURS" by The Weeknd
By Elias Stergiou · 2 years ago
Abel Tesfaye finally delivers on his long-running vision, leveraging a self-loathing villain into an irresistible cinematic narrative with his most satisfying collision of synth, new wave, ‘80s dream pop, and, most and foremost, R&B/Soul. “After ...
One Person One Vote is Not Enough to Rescue America’s Faltering Democracy
By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago
While Democrats struggle to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act, Republican/Trump controlled state legislatures continue to pass laws that restrict and suppress voting rights for people of color. Welcome to America in 2022.
But ...
'Keeping in Mind: Social and Scientific Perspectives on Psychiatry'
By Dónal Maceoin · 2 years ago
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‘Keeping in Mind: Social and Scientific Perspectives on Psychiatry’.
Dónal MacEoin.
Dec. 2021.
Galway, Ireland.
Epigraph
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”- George Bernard Shaw. ...
Numerology Effects and Number Meaning
By Tina Sebastian · 2 years ago
Numbers affect each other: they reinforce, balance, and weaken each other’s effects.
The predominance and lack of numbers is also a problem.
The energies missing from the numeroscope can be imported somewhat with a proper ...
Make Every Citizen an Owner! The Case for Universal Basic Ownership!
By Rick Osbourne · 2 years ago
According to a Federal Reserve 2018 estimate, the American economy, on average, creates $4,000,000,000,000 (4 trillion dollars) worth of wealth producing capital assets annually. That translates into about $12,000 for every man, woman, and child ...
Everything Progressives Want, While Reducing Taxes, Balancing the Budget, and Systematically Paying Down the National Debt!
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
Does this sound impossible? Inconceivable? Totally nuts? If so, check out the following scenario. And when you’re done reading see if you’ve changed your mind about what’s possible and what's impossible.
According to a Federal ...
Just Imagine…330 Million Economically Productive American Citizens!
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
The US currently has a total population of about 330 million people including approximately 73 million children under the age of 18. There are over 46 million retired people. And there are 8 million disabled ...
Halloween Fun
By Charlene Harvey-Gallant · 2 years ago
There are plenty of ways to get into the Halloween spirit. Here are 13 ideas that will help you welcome the spookiest time of the year!
1) Make your own Halloween decorations A great way ...
Bernie Would Be President Today If He Had Endorsed Economic Democracy Over Democratic Socialism
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
Words matter. And in the vocabulary of many Americans the word Socialism is a dirty word. In that light, when a politician runs for the Presidency of the United States and describes himself as a ...
Economic Emancipation VS Wage Slavery in the USA
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
If you own enough wealth producing capital assets such as land, buildings, machinery, patents, copyrights, stocks, or bonds YOUR MONEY IS WORKING FOR YOU and it’s probably producing a stream of capital income from which ...
Negotiation etiquette: why conspicuous body armor can make negotiations difficult. The opinion of owner of "Demidov Armor"
By Martin Davis · 3 years ago
An owner of the atelier just moved to the capital for business in the line of selling body armor. The atelier is named “Demidov Armor” and has now an outlet in the capital. The clients ...
Has carnism gone too far?
By Denis Jalsovec · 3 years ago
Society and environmental conditioning have been causing significant pressure and impact on our decisions, as well as the eating norms, so it’s not uncommon that people give up their ideas, succumb to peer pressure, and ...
How to Build Back Better Without INFLATION!
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
Inflation is what happens whenever the government prints money that’s backed ONLY by INCREASED DEBT instead of tangible assets, and then distributes it in order to save the ship of state from sinking into oblivion. ...
Defending America’s Democracy? Here’s How to Fund it!
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss, his totally unproven claims of election fraud, the January 6th insurrection, and in the midst of Republican attacks on voting rights across the nation, there’s also ...
There’s Only One Way Out of America’s Current Economic Crisis!
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
Let’s start with the obvious. America cannot have a legitimate political democracy (a government of the people, by the people, and for the people) when so much wealth/power is concentrated in the hands of so ...
Having to Choose Between a Job You Hate and Starvation?
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
Have you ever wondered what would happen if working-class Americans could AVOID HAVING TO CHOOSE BETWEEN accepting a job that’s mind-numbingly repetitious, mechanical, boring, demeaning, unfulfilling, as well as life-negating, AND being unable to feed ...
Banquo's Ghost
By Benjamin Grey · 3 years ago
Only when we learn that we are not better than our fathers, do we receive the grace to do better than our fathers.
Experience is the best teacher, but only when learning from someone else’s ...
Childhood Poverty in the USA Eliminated Forever!
By Rick Osbourne · 3 years ago
If the Economic Democracy Act (EDA) was implemented today, every child in the USA would have $10,000 invested on their behalf ANNUALLY, and their money would be working for them instead of them working for ...