WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXII: THE CONSTITUTION OF THE PEOPLE OF PLANET EARTH
Preamble
We the People of Planet Earth, in Order to form a more perfect World Unity, establish Universal Justice, insure Global Tranquility, provide for the peaceful common defense, promote the general and Universal Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty and ongoing Operational Planetary Integrity to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for Spaceship Planet Earth.
Article I
Hereafter and henceforth, the ongoing operational integrity of Planet Earth shall be central to all human decisions and actions. We have but one Spaces...
WANT NATIONAL SECURITY? DISMANTLE THE FOREVER WAR MACHINE
(printed by permission from Yes! Magazine (9/21/16)
The recent 15th anniversary of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade towers was a reminder of the terrible consequences when a nation ignores the lessons of history—including its own recent history. The U.S. military budget is a tragic example.
We currently spend roughly $598 billion on defense, which is more than the next seven biggest military spenders combined: China, Saudi Arabia, Russia, the United Kingdom, India, France, and Japan. This represents 54 percent of federal discretionary ...
WHAT EXACTLY IS THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE?
My Australian relatives have asked me to define the Electoral College. They are trying to figure out how the USA democracy works. Why doesn’t the popular vote count directly for the president? This is what I told them.
The Electoral College is made up of 538 electors who votes for the USA President and Vice-President. Voters on November 8 actually choose their state’s electors. The candidates receiving the majority of electoral votes (270) wins the Presidency. The number 538 is the total of the USA 435 Representatives, 100 Senators and 3 electors for the District of ...
LIFE AFTER THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
You have survived the election process. Regardless of who gets elected, progressives have their work cut out for them.
Big Money still has too much power in US politics. The work to bring about clean, transparent government needs to continue. We need to protect each person’s equal voice.
Wisconsin Democracy Campaign headquartered in Madison is working for full disclosure of the donors who fund phony issue ad groups. Montana already has a law that requires such disclosure. Republicans and Democrats in Montana joined together to create the Bipartisan Montana Disclo...
RENEWABLE ENERGY
Greensburg, Kansas is the second U.S. city to go 100 percent renewable after Burlington, Vermont. In May 2007, an EF-5 tornado leveled the small town. Half of the town’s population of 1500 people left town and never returned.
But out of the rubble came an actual model for renewable energy and sustainable development. The city rebuilt every building to LEED-platinum standards and converted every street light to LEDs, the first in the nation to do both.
The city has curbside recycling and saves water with low flow fixtures. It collects rainwater for irrigation and ...
November Events
NOVEMBER EVENTS…
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 1….DRINKING LIBERALLY
Malarkey’s Pub
408 Third Street, Wausau
5:30 – 7 p.m.
See you at Malarkey's Tuesday November 1st for some last minute frights and/or flights before Election Day. The pre-election and post Halloween Drinking Liberally is this Tuesday, November 1st from 5:30 - 7 pm. I know we are all a little tired of the election, but let's have one more drink to the candidates before all is decided on Election Day on Nov. 8th...or was that Nov. 28th? See you Tuesday!
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 3…MARY HOEFT AND ...
Forum with 85th and 86th Assembly District Candidates
YOU ARE INVITED……..
Monday, October 17—Forum with 85th and 86th Assembly District Candidates
5:30 to 8 p.m.
Thrive Foodery
2105 N. Second Street, Wausau
Sponsored by Wausau Daily Herald and Wausau Region Chamber of Commerce’s E3YP Group
Come and learn about the candidates and their stances on issues affecting young people.
Cost: None
Register: https://www.wausauchamber.com/events/
Thursday, October 27—Wausau United to Amend presents the Documentary, “Killing Us Softly” by Jeanne Kilbourne.
How does the media define our society, ...
Economic Justice and the Wisconsin Uprising
Since the uprising in February 2011, Wisconsin’s legislature has implemented a raft of legislation that denies basic rights for all working people, not just unions. The agenda advances corporate power over the interests of average families, including corporate takeover of public resources such as education.
The real occupy movement today is found in state houses across this great land where big money interests aided by faux journalistic outfits, think tanks, and lurid amounts of campaign funding run roughshod over the rights of working men and women. Ultimately, many ...
CHILD CARE CRISIS IN MARATHON COUNTY
A child care crisis exists in Marathon County and throughout Wisconsin. This has a negative effect on business. Families looking for quality care are discovering that they cannot find quality child care.
Child care providers leave their positions for better pay and benefits. Child care covering shift work is almost non-existent. Waitlists for infant care are long and cause problems for parents who wish to return to work.
In addition, many children are suffering in substandard care. This adds to short and long-term workforce issues. All these problems negatively ...
WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXI: THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF PLANET EARTH
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people – the people of Planet Earth – to dissolve the economic manipulations and predations which have divided us, and to assume our intellectual and ethical responsibility to protect the ongoing integrity of Spaceship Earth for ourselves and our posterity, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to their actions.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator and the ...