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March for Science April 14 2018

05 Thursday Apr 2018

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The March for Science is going to be on April 14 this year. It is important this year more than ever to stand up for Science and for STEM in the United States as it is all under attack daily throughout our government in its current iteration.

At a time when America needs science and technology to make significant leaps forward to catch up with the rest of the world who has been supporting education, higher education, science, math, technology and engineering with massive efforts, our nation’s leaders have chosen to make war on science at every opportunity and in every agency, every policy, every possible way.

We need education to support STEM now more than ever and to support education for our children and adults to be competitive in a global playing field where we have fallen behind. Now, rather than supporting our nation to be in a leadership role in science, technology, innovation and education, it is being de-funded, demeaned, derided, discredited, dismantled and destroyed.

These actions will set our nation behind by years upon years against other nations’ efforts supporting STEM, higher education and science, in particular. Please join the March for Science – whether you are a scientist or not to show America’s business leaders and political decision-makers that we stand together supporting fact-based and evidence-based decision making, scientific reason and educated thinking.

  • cricketdiane, 04-05-2018

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The website for the March for Science

https://www.marchforscience.com/

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Making Money In America Today

17 Saturday Mar 2018

Posted by CricketDiane in Activism, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Learning, How To, Online Resourcing, New Technology, Banks Banking Bailouts Wall Street Foreclosures Bankruptcies IMF World Bank Federal Reserve US Treasury, Business Methods, Cricket Diane C Sparky Phillips, Economics, Economy

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So here is what I wrote a couple days ago after doing the research on why Toys R Us is being dismantled because of a private equity group who bought them in 2005 using “equity” from their portfolios of investing other people’s money and leveraging 80% of the price which was then charged to Toys R Us to pay off ultimately destroying them as they threw $400 million out the door every year to service loans which shouldn’t have belonged to them since they were made to purchase the company in the first place.

That is a long winded sentence and I was about to change it – but damn, that’s exactly what they did. It can’t be said in two or three word sentences.

So, rather than tell you all about how to make a great art business and share with you what all I’ve learned about it, from fine art to illustration, art publishing and surface design, showing in art festivals to showing in galleries, to the amazing online opportunities which are mostly work and not really opportunities – I’m going to share what I’ve learned about really making money – if you’re going to –

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The Anatomy of Business in America –

  1. Open a firm. Make it an LLC and get a nice address for it, even if it is shared.
  2. Print a bunch of slick looking brochures and paperwork. Buy some nice desks and expensive chairs.
  3. Hire some men and dress them in very expensive suits.
  4. Get people to give you their money to invest. Borrow against the money they give you to invest more than you have available.
  5. Charge them for investing their money and every time the investments are handled, traded, bought or sold.
  6. Use their money and portfolios as collateral to buy up an existing company in the US – one that has been around for years.
  7. Borrow 80% – 100% of the price the company purchase would be by using these other people’s money and portfolios as you “equity”collateral on the loan promising the company will payoff the loan from its cash earnings inflow
  8. Pay yourself several million dollars for making the deal by taking it from the company you are buying.
  9. Put the entire purchase price of the company you are buying into debt owed by that company and not you and not your company even though you did the borrowing to get ownership of it.
  10. The collateral wasn’t yours, the equity stake put up never moved anywhere and is paid off by the company being bought plus paying for its own purchase by you without any of your money ever being used.
  11. Rob all the cash resources and assets that you can possibly liquidate from the company you now own without ever having to pay anything to get it.
  12. Charge management fees to the company you’ve bought while you dismantle its assets and cash diverting them into your pockets and those of your firm.
  13. Force the company you now own to borrow from you and from your firm some of its new loan money that will satisfy paying off your debt for having bought it, so they are effectively paying you interest on the money you did not actually borrow to buy the company in the first place which is now owed by the company you “bought” who is paying for its purchase price.
  14. After 2 – 5 years of bleeding all the cash possible from the company, either A.) sell it by taking it public and then finding a buyer for it to cash you out, or B.) going into bankruptcy as the company is then required to pay you again three times over in the bankruptcy process.
  15. Get payouts again from any credit default swaps you took out on the loans your firm made to the company that  you forced the company to take to pay the money off that you “borrowed” to “buy” them. Make sure you get hundreds of millions from the bankruptcy of the company while its vendors, landlords contractors and many other creditors get nothing.
  16. Make sure executives are given big fat bonuses by the bankruptcy court because they are your friends and any pension funds or other employee benefit funds are depleted so they get nothing but a layoff notice, (or not even that.)
  17. Enjoy the hundreds of millions of dollars that now are yours which you never built in the first place through hard work, gaining market share, challenging the competition or any other basic tenets of capitalism and market based economics.
  18. Do the same thing to as many companies as you can while continuing to run your firm convincing people to give you their money to invest and charging them while using their money and not yours to be the “equity” / collateral to buy these companies and do the same thing to them to bleed them of all cash resources which you didn’t earn.
  19. Tell everybody how great you are and how nobody else in the United States is worth anything unless they are like you.
  20. Deny you put tens of thousands of families in economic hardship by taking their jobs away, destroying their communities by shutting down large employers and cutting the income from contractors and landlords who had provided real services and goods to the company. And, run for public office.
  • cricketdiane, 03-13,18

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Well, that’s it – that is how money has been being made in America since the 80’s.

  • cricketdiane, 03-17-2018

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Florida Law Clearly States Elected and Public Officials Cannot Profit by their Office

09 Friday Mar 2018

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The 2017 Florida Statutes

112.311 Legislative intent and declaration of policy.—

(1) It is essential to the proper conduct and operation of government that public officials be independent and impartial and that public office not be used for private gain other than the remuneration provided by law. The public interest, therefore, requires that the law protect against any conflict of interest and establish standards for the conduct of elected officials and government employees in situations where conflicts may exist.
(2) It is also essential that government attract those citizens best qualified to serve. Thus, the law against conflict of interest must be so designed as not to impede unreasonably or unnecessarily the recruitment and retention by government of those best qualified to serve. Public officials should not be denied the opportunity, available to all other citizens, to acquire and retain private economic interests except when conflicts with the responsibility of such officials to the public cannot be avoided.
(3) It is likewise essential that the people be free to seek redress of their grievances and express their opinions to all government officials on current issues and past or pending legislative and executive actions at every level of government. In order to preserve and maintain the integrity of the governmental process, it is necessary that the identity, expenditures, and activities of those persons who regularly engage in efforts to persuade public officials to take specific actions, either by direct communication with such officials or by solicitation of others to engage in such efforts, be regularly disclosed to the people.
(4) It is the intent of this act to implement these objectives of protecting the integrity of government and of facilitating the recruitment and retention of qualified personnel by prescribing restrictions against conflicts of interest without creating unnecessary barriers to public service.
(5) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the state that no officer or employee of a state agency or of a county, city, or other political subdivision of the state, and no member of the Legislature or legislative employee, shall have any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or indirect; engage in any business transaction or professional activity; or incur any obligation of any nature which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his or her duties in the public interest. To implement this policy and strengthen the faith and confidence of the people of the state in their government, there is enacted a code of ethics setting forth standards of conduct required of state, county, and city officers and employees, and of officers and employees of other political subdivisions of the state, in the performance of their official duties. It is the intent of the Legislature that this code shall serve not only as a guide for the official conduct of public servants in this state, but also as a basis for discipline of those who violate the provisions of this part.
(6) It is declared to be the policy of the state that public officers and employees, state and local, are agents of the people and hold their positions for the benefit of the public. They are bound to uphold the Constitution of the United States and the State Constitution and to perform efficiently and faithfully their duties under the laws of the federal, state, and local governments. Such officers and employees are bound to observe, in their official acts, the highest standards of ethics consistent with this code and the advisory opinions rendered with respect hereto regardless of personal considerations, recognizing that promoting the public interest and maintaining the respect of the people in their government must be of foremost concern.
History.—s. 1, ch. 67-469; s. 1, ch. 69-335; s. 1, ch. 74-177; s. 2, ch. 75-208; s. 698, ch. 95-147.

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http://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0112/Sections/0112.311.htmlhttp://www.leg.state.fl.us/Statutes/index.cfm?App_mode=Display_Statute&Search_String=&URL=0100-0199/0112/Sections/0112.311.html

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It seems obvious that most, if not all states have laws similar to this as well as the Federal government. Why are these laws meaningless in today’s political environment? I don’t get it. I just happened to pick the Florida law because it was easy to find and well stated.

  • cricketdiane, 03-08-2018

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Brainstorming Possibilities to Deter or Stop School Shootings From Happening and to Protect Students and People When and If Shootings Do Happen

27 Tuesday Feb 2018

Posted by CricketDiane in Activism, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Learning, How To, Online Resourcing, New Technology, Cricket Diane C Sparky Phillips

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After saying on my last post, I’m busy – but trying to make a point about how people act anymore when it is time to start creating possible solutions to something important, I felt bad and took a day of really thinking about the school shootings that people rightly want stopped and safety returned to those places (and others where shootings have occurred.)

With some brainstorming, the thoughts I have now about it are varied. I’m watching great efforts on behalf of many people including students from Parkland where 17 people, many of whom were students – were shot recently by a person with an assault rifle. The several recent blog posts I’ve made looked at some of the thoughts I’ve had about disenfranchisement of so many and the pull of extremist ideologies and groups bringing many of our young men a sense of belonging but at the price of all the dangers that extremist thinking and resulting actions bring – including these mass shootings of people in schools and other public places.

Anyway, the brainstorming I’ve done about this does not have just do-able ideas, and maybe their only value is to inspire something else entirely – but here is part of it:

On twitter yesterday, someone had put an article about bullet proof blankets for students and I know there are already bullet proof backpacks and clothing that are being made, although likely very expensive. There was also a recent invention being sold for police officers and others in the line of fire that uses origami folds and bullet proof technologies to make a shield that folds flat and can be deployed within a few seconds.

Here are those –

Now you can buy a bulletproof blanket specifically made for your kids to use during school shootings

Dec. 4, 2015

http://www.businessinsider.com/bulletproof-blanket-for-kids-during-school-shootings-2015-12

The Bodyguard Blanket, made by a company called ProTecht, is a bulletproof 5/16-inch pad, made from the same materials used by our military, except it’s for kids. They even come in different sizes.

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From Bullet Blocker Company in USA – is this $2,000 bomb blanket that can hang on the wall until it is needed. Seems a bit pricey for every student to have one of those at their desks or hanging on the walls for them – but possible, I suppose.

http://www.bulletblocker.com/bulletblocker-nij-iiia-bulletproof-ballistic-bomb-blanket.html

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In demand bulletproof backpacks put to the test

http://6abc.com/in-demand-bulletproof-backpacks-put-to-the-test/3147256/

My Note – apparently only metal armor would slow down or stop assault rifle rounds coming at innocent people.

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Leatherback Gear Bulletproof Backpacks

http://www.bosstactical.com/c-853-leatherback-gear-bulletproof-backpacks.aspx

 

Leatherback Gear™ is the world’s ONLY patented bulletproof backpack that converts into a protective vest in less than 5 seconds, offering immediate protection in any situation.
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Latest in School Supplies: Bulletproof Plates for Backpacks

Schools also build fortified safe rooms against mass shooters; skeptical experts say a building-wide lockdown is best defense

Feb. 26, 2018

https://www.wsj.com/articles/latest-in-school-supplies-bulletproof-plates-for-backpacks-1519650001

Schools and parents seeking ways to blunt the impact of mass shootings are investing in safe rooms to shelter students, backpacks with bullet-stopping panels and whiteboards that double as bulletproof shields.

(Must subscribe to WSJ to see the entire story – which is not bad really, they have lots of good stuff.)

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Bullet-proof origami: folding Kevlar shield designed by BYU mechanical engineers

BYU mechanical engineers have created an origami-inspired, lightweight bulletproof shield that can protect law enforcement from gunfire. The new ballistic barrier can be folded compactly when not in use, making it easier to transport and deploy. When expanded — which takes only five seconds — it can provide cover for officers and stop bullets from several types of handguns.

(etc.)

The barrier Howell and his colleagues designed is made of 12 layers of bulletproof Kevlar and weighs only 55 pounds (many of the steel-based barriers in current use approach 100 pounds). The BYU-built barrier uses a Yoshimura origami crease pattern to expand around an officer, providing protection on the side in addition to protecting them in the front.

In testing, the barrier successfully stopped bullets from 9 mm, .357 Magnum and .44 Magnum pistols.

https://news.byu.edu/news/byu-researchers-built-bullet-proof-origami-shield-protect-law-enforcement

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Bulletproof Fashion for Men: Extreme Clothing for the World Traveler

JUN 15, 2016

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimdobson/2016/06/15/bulletproof-fashion-for-men-extreme-clothing-for-the-world-traveler/#5eca73e01e01

The development and refinement of bulletproof clothing now includes highly stylized and contemporary fashion for all elite travelers. Armored clothing is moving from hard, stiff fabric to more moveable and soft materials making options even greater. Current fabric offerings include Dupont Kevlar and the incredibly resistant Dyneema. Dupont is currently working on creating more futuristic blast proof materials that will eventually be incorporated into wearable clothing.

There is also a wide variety of bulletproof clothing for all budgets.

(etc. with lots of great info – )

 

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How is bulletproof clothing made?

https://www.bodyarmornews.com/how-is-bulletproof-clothing-made/

 

In order to make bulletproof clothing manufacturers start by producing fiber or filament that is lightweight but strong. One of the most well known is Kevlar®, which is produced by spinning a solid thread from a liquid chemical blend.

Another fiber, Dyneema®, is made from a polyethylene base and is manufactured by means of a gel-spinning process that combines extreme strength with incredible softness.

(Definitely go read all these – really great description of the process without over-complicating it.)

The panels used in bulletproof clothing consist of multiple layers of the basic ballistic material and extensive testing is required to identify the proper thickness of ballistic material. The thickness of the final product depends on what level of protection the manufacturer is trying to achieve.

(etc.)

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If you really want to see how this works – (great explanations and analysis of what happens when bullet proof materials are hit and deflect rounds of ammunition / projectiles.) –

Published in the International Journal of Scientific & Engineering Research, Volume 4, Issue 5, May-2013 [pg.s 1789 – 1796]
ISSN 2229-5518

ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS
USED IN BULLET PROOF VESTS USING
FEM TECHNIQUE.

https://www.ijser.org/researchpaper/analysis-of-composite-materials-used-in-bullet-proof-vests-using-fem-technique.pdf

CONCLUSION
The major goals of this project were to 1) identify the risks and
levels of injury associated with high velocity impacts to the back
2) evaluate ballistic materials in relation to the levels of safety.
From above calculations and analysis we conclude that dyneema
fibers are the best among three fibers that we have analysed, as
it had the minimum deflection under given force of the striking
bullet.

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From 1981 –

ONE ANSWER TO VIOLENCE: BULLETPROOF CLOTHING

Published: May 16, 1981

http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/16/style/one-answer-to-violence-bulletproof-clothing.html

More and more public officials, faced with the threat posed by modern-day terrorists, are turning to the ancient solution of armor. They are having Du Pont’s bulletproof fabric sewn into ordinary clothing such as vests, raincoats, even umbrellas. This so-called soft body armor adds only two to four pounds to the clothing’s weight.

(Yeah – go read the whole thing, seriously. Great info and it is from 1981 before the recent spate of mass shootings in America and at schools.)

Armour of America, a Santa Monica, Calif., security company, reported selling bulletproof blankets and draperies to bankers in the Pacific Northwest. In Houston, a spokesman for South Central Research, a security firm, said customers for bulletproof clothing were mostly oil company executives and lawyers who ”feared for their lives here in Murder Capital, U.S.A.”

Shop owners, some of whom have been previously robbed or wounded, are buying the kind of bulletproof vests used by the police, according to Louis Imperato, owner of John Jovino, a policeoutfitting store in Manhattan. In Los Angeles, a spokesman for Safari Land, said it was receiving inquiries about body armor from ”the Chinese Grocers’ Association, the Retail Liquor Dealers’ Association and everybody in between.” The grocers were interested in bulletproofing their aprons and the liquor dealers wanted bulletproof undershirts.

(etc.)

The vests are made so that the bulletproof material can be taken out and slipped into other vests, jackets or raincoats that have been specially prepared with ”pockets” to hold it.

Solutions also carries Kevlar umbrellas costing $900 to $1,200, which ”are good for shielding submachine gun fire,” and a $1,000 fake arm cast with a Kevlar sling and a .357 magnum pistol molded into the cast. It has sold 250 pairs of $800 ”ballistic knee shields,” mostly to Italian executives Shopping by Mail Order

Progressive Apparel, 29929 Eskridge Road, R-4, Fairfax, Va. 22031 (703-573-0700), also offers by mail order a variety of clothing, including undershirts at $103 to $252, dress shirts in several colors at $131 to $280, suit vests at $228 to $470, wind breakers at $290 to $486 and raincoats at $365 to $638.

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Aside from bullet proof clothing, book bags, shields, umbrellas and other nifty items – all of which seem to be pretty expensive for every student to own and likely not all of them useful every single day, or super fast in deploying them when something happens maybe – I had a couple other brainstorm ideas about increasing safety at the schools to deter a shooting from happening again.

Of course the best way is to do everything possible for it to never happen in the first place –

I thought of stopping people, especially young men such as the ones who have recently been shooting up schools and theaters (and other places) from wanting to get the guns in the first place, or of wanting to use them to shoot people. If every single student from third grade onwards and especially in junior high and high school were required to take anger management every school year in some six week course and include conflict resolution skills, emotional skills and anger management, would it stop shootings from happening because it would give other choices to do something with the anger?

Then the second thought is to disable the shooter while they’re shooting off the gun. Apparently sprinkler systems wouldn’t dissuade a shooter already mowing down people, but if every single person in the school, from students, to teachers to administrators to parents were tactically trained? Could they be standing behind some shooter like that and bop them over the head with a fire extinguisher like in the movies? I don’t know.

The third quick thought I want to include here, although I did write down a bunch of others, was about school security and the costs that people have been talking about in the news, on facebook and on twitter. If schools were moved over to the large shopping malls, some of which have lost anchor tenants and have massive spaces and various storefronts sitting empty, they would be safer because malls already have vast security camera and monitoring equipment set up, an army of security guards and undercover security already being paid during shopping hours and then around the clock to some lesser degree – including both throughout the mall and outside in the parking lots.

Schools could lease the spaces, fit them out for classes – and the security at the shopping malls are already in place and they will be paying to have them there regardless, it is part of the cost of renting space at the malls. So, for a much smaller cost than maintaining and entire security force, buildings and every damn thing else – public schools could hold their classes at shopping malls (or state and federal buildings, many of whom are fully outfitted with metal detectors, x-ray machines, armies of security personnel and vast empty spaces from classroom sized offices to auditoriums, conference rooms and other huge spaces, many of which are not commonly in use or not being used right now at all.)

One last thought before wrapping this up, aside from throwing liquid nitrogen on that AR-15 or any other assault rifle, there is probably not an easy way to stop it from firing once someone has it in hand and is firing it. Running for cover is what is being used now, and maybe that saved everyone else the shooter would have killed if those drills to do that had not been in place, but that cannot be the only answer. If a laser pointer had been aimed at the shooter’s eyes, he might have been temporarily blinded, but with his hand on the trigger, firing would’ve likely continued. Students in the hallway when they were behind or near him and realized he was firing an assault rifle, may or may not have been capable of stopping him by bopping him over the head with something or slitting his throat with a broken cellphone screen or other handy item – even if they were trained in tactical actions and strategies.

However, having nothing else on the menu of choices is not acceptable either. Dogs can be deployed with handlers to sweep schools for gunpowder indicating guns are there, metal detectors can be added – or move the school classes to places that already have those in place.

Let’s find more answers that can help do two or three critical things here – stop shooters from wanting or needing this way of expressing their anger, frustration, AND better protect students, teachers, people at theaters and shopping spaces, and sports events when and if something does happen. ALSO, get people a better understanding of what they can do to protect themselves in these situations with resourcefulness and fast strategic thinking skills to use when it matters most.

  • cricketdiane, 02-27-2018

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Thoughts After the Parkland Shooting Funerals I’ve Seen in the News

22 Thursday Feb 2018

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This was written by me last night / early this morning –

Parkland and America in Mourning – 

I watched the burial today from one of the JROTC students as his casket was being un-draped by the American flag to be lowered into the ground. I tweeted a reply on the tweet with its video clip of it – These children should not be there. It is so wrong. – without saying the fifty other things my mind could see that this young man and all the others killed in Parkland should be alive today doing, walking through their lives, not laying in a casket gone to all of us and their families. It should not have ever been this for their lives.

And what does it matter what I say, on another day from this one, another young man disenfranchised and emotionally charged beyond our help will choose to do it this way again, just as they already have done in our country’s not so distant past several times over.

Is it fair to blame it on the emotional characteristics of our differences or on the weapons used? Even with everything to provide background checks, illegal guns and ammunition are bought – and other kinds of weapons made by those who choose to do this.

But it didn’t start to happen in an instant. These young men who have committed these mass shootings didn’t start the day before or a week before the event.

Often mental health systems and drugs were already in their lives and in use by them even when they committed these horrors. Did those make it worse or more likely?

Was everything we’ve put in place basically useless to help these young men do something else instead, long before they came to this point? Obviously, yes.

Is it right to blame video games or guns or mental illness as the cause when so very many people, including young men have all of these things and never commit some horrific killing rampage on anyone?

Do we really not have anything effective in place to give people the skills and the emotional wherewithal to work through their personal crises any better than this and long before they start buying every weapon they can get their hands on with the constant fantasy of using them? Really? Is that where we are?

That nothing constructive with any real positive force comes close enough to them for this path to be veered off or guided into something more productive, practical and constructive for them and for us? Is that where we are and the best we can do?

Answers At All?

It must be obvious that people engaged in the building of their lives and the real possibilities of their dreams coming to fruition, do not need nor desire to go get a gun and start shooting people.

And, especially when their energies and their goals can be realized in practical ways with their efforts applied to do so – people engage in these constructive types of activities and work on these efforts rather than fulfilling some violent, get back at the world scenario.

But, when every avenue is thwarted or not producing expected results time after time after time and, nor are the possibilities of those efforts being able to achieve any of those things to build one’s life and dreams, what are people going to do? What can be realistically expected for people to do besides becoming in some way destructive, rather than constructive especially as those energies continue to be thwarted or utilized with no success at all?

What happens to the one who is desperate to be loved, who lives in a world today where no real connections are possible with others and no opportunities exist for them to build a jointly beneficially loving and supportive interaction with others – what then? Where do those energies go after repeatedly failing to make any opportunities for connections, for love, support, friendship or belonging?

What happens to the one who wants and needs to earn a living and there is thwarted as well, in the exclusiveness of that because of the way America is today? What then?

What happens to the one longing for respect and status where the world as it is now in America offers little to no opportunities to build and get those either, unless being born into wealth has given an unnatural step towards those doors of options?

What happens to the one wanting to have a house to call home, not as an investment property – but a real home where today, nearly all houses cost far beyond the wages offered by any but a few jobs that are beyond what most people can get? And in every business and industry, even more of those opportunities are disappearing to automation, business decisions to restructure and close business operations.  Add to that, the thousands of jobs being lost or taken by the numerous bankruptcies that our businesses and industries continue to have which are taking those jobs away in great numbers, continuing to take factories out of our country and giving massive bonuses to executives and shareholders while laying off workers and stagnating or even, lowering wages and benefits to employees.

What happens in our nation where communities are no longer real communities anymore but simply a lot of houses in one place where people live and drive their cars into and out of, to shop at stores nearby and eat out but where rarely, if ever, find it socially appropriate to even speak to one another, let alone to engage long enough to build real and lasting friendships.

What happens where nearly every single person who wants to have a marriage, a home together with someone and build a life together is thwarted at every moment and with every attempt to make that happen by the new constraints of our society’s disconnections from one another generally? What then?

My Daughter Read This and Said – Yeah, but There Aren’t Any Solutions You Give –

And sometimes, I really do think up ways to help, share them on this blog and other places, even help get those things put into practice so they work, but today I am acutely aware of what many people in similar situations to mine are experiencing – this covers my thoughts on it today –

I’ve worked and worked hard for a long time getting absolutely nowhere with no real results from it that can provide for me. And, I’ve helped others along the way – as sometimes as well, people have helped me.

But I have discovered this also and I’ve been ignoring it from others for a long time – which is the prevailing attitude in America right now, as well as in my own family and communities which expresses what I’m hearing explained to me when I need to get any help – (from those who could help) – and my comments about it –

Explain To Me How These Attitudes Help Anybody – That is My Question

So, you don’t want to help a person who IS TRYING – and especially if they’ve been trying to accomplish something to help themselves for a long time and failing.

 

And, you don’t want to help a person who IS NOT TRYING – and especially if they’ve never even showed that they are trying to help themselves or have given up.

 

BUT, you claim to be a person who wants to help. What are the determining factors on that help?

 

You DON’T want to help anyone who needs it, because they are needy – why bother.

 

You DON’T want to help anyone who doesn’t need it, because there would be no point to your helping.

 

AND, unless the needy person who needs some help: looks, acts and speaks like they don’t need it, you aren’t about to help them either. 

Oh wait – if they look like they don’t need help – you wouldn’t help them anyway.

 

That about says it.

 

Now, I’m saying it back to you – 

Fix it your own damn self.

I’m busy.

 

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Defining What Causes Mass Shootings Goes Beyond Guns and Mental Health

20 Tuesday Feb 2018

Posted by CricketDiane in Activism, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Learning, How To, Online Resourcing, New Technology, Cricket Diane C Sparky Phillips, Inventing Solutions For America, living in America, Real Time Crises, Real-World, Reality-based Analysis

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Again, we have had a horrific shooting at a school in America. There are a lot of people screaming their thoughts about it today and every day since it happened.

 

I know that people want to help. And, it is easy to say that because of a gun, because it was an assault rifle, because people can buy these weapons – that is what must change.

 

It might help and it might not, but long before that, people need to know that there will then be other weapons, other ways to do it.

 

And, there are people screaming right now about mental health or mental disorders being the problem or “issue”. But, what if it isn’t that, considering how many people with those issues either get some help for them or find other constructive and non-harmful ways to resolve those mental “issues” without shooting or hurting anyone. There are millions of people doing that, in fact.

 

But, what if the real reason these young men are stepping off the edge of reason and sanity to find a gun and equip it with thousands of rounds of ammunition has nothing to do with being able to get the gun nor the mental health industry who has many times been serving these same young men who’ve committed these mass shootings?

 

What if it is something else that indicates an underlying massive real cause of pushing many people including these men into a desperate anger and frustration that makes it seem to them that they have nothing to lose and can’t stand feeling that way another moment? Or, that they must get even and take it out on others to fix it and make those feelings and thinking change or go away, be satisfied that they’ve done something about it no matter how wrong they know it to be in doing it that way?

 

Our society in America has completely disenfranchised entire groups of our nation’s people. Most of us don’t do this as our reaction to that fact, but not everyone’s reaction is going to be the same.

 

Have we been throwing money at mental health programs hoping some psych drugs and a therapist can get people including these young men okay with never being anything but poor, or ever to be able to accomplish anything, or for their entire lives to experience being excluded and rejected from fully participating in having things and doing things with their lives?

 

Is it really right to believe that some mental health approach is going to fix it all and there will no longer be any responsibility on ourselves, in our communities and in our nation towards people who are never going to live out the expectations of the American Dream for themselves the way things are now?

 

When there are no jobs available to them but those which won’t pay the support of living independently and doing well for themselves? When there are no real ways to build friendships that are stable and rational nor to have healthy relationships with a girlfriend or boyfriend blossom into the kind of real relationship everyone has seen and read about where couples build their lives together?

 

When there are no opportunities to have a home, to have a network of supportive and encouraging people they know or to have opportunities to make money, build to have their dreams realized as once was possible in this country?

 

When there is obviously no way for the principles of fairness and equal opportunities to all Americans to be practiced in this environment of all the resources and opportunities being isolated and available to only a few at the top rungs of our society?

 

Across this country for years now, our young men especially, have been reaching out to extremist groups from criminal ones to religious ones to white supremacist and racially charged groups to massive underground subcultures to find there – a sense of belonging, acceptance, purpose and value for who they are.

 

It is obvious they didn’t get that from us as a community or as a nation, otherwise these young men and others would not have sought to find it there in extremist groups. And, the groups know that their members are becoming weapons in their own arsenal for whatever purposes and agendas these groups serve. None of it is a building, constructive, strengthening lives and communities agenda either.

 

Every time there is a mass shooting or horrific crime of this magnitude, we ask ourselves again about access to guns and suggest mental illness has made this happen. Maybe this time it is finally a moment to take a look at, why is it happening in our country and what we can do to form options that leave guns and going crazy over all this stuff wrong in people’s lives from being the only choices left for them.

 

  • Cricketdiane, 02-19-18

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Global March for Science April 22, 2017 Supports Science for Everyone and Appreciation for our Scientists, for Science and Evidence Based Facts

22 Saturday Apr 2017

Posted by CricketDiane in Activism, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Learning, How To, Online Resourcing, New Technology, Cricket Diane C Sparky Phillips, Save The Sea, science, US At Home - Domestic Policy, US Government, US budget, US and State budget deficits, budget cuts, Constitutional issues, US economic crisis, US debt

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Today is Earth Day-this is an annual celebration of the environment and take the time to assess the efforts needed to protect the natural gifts of our planet. Earth Day theme this year is “environment and climate literacy”, all over the world will be celebrating this theme. For more information, please visit (in English): http://www.earthday.org/earthday/ 

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The ‘war on science’ doesn’t just hurt scientists. It hurts everyone.

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Hundreds of thousands of people will march for science this weekend in cities around the world in what is arguably the largest scientific event in history. This March for Science is a direct response to recent attacks on our scientific institutions — on climate and environmental science in particular (including many of the scientists who do this work) and even on the value of evidence-based decision-making by our elected officials.

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These discussions are necessary because the “war on science” is, for the most part, really a war on public science — that is, science for everyone. Today, the majority of scientific research in the United States is publicly funded, administered through the National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and other agencies. Much of this research takes place in state and federal institutions, including universities and national laboratories. This taxpayer-funded science has a mandate to support the national interest. It is science of, by and for the people.

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War on Science in America Defunding Programs and Altering Intellectual Freedoms of Science

21 Friday Apr 2017

Posted by CricketDiane in Activism, Human Rights, Civil Rights, Learning, How To, Online Resourcing, New Technology, Cricket Diane C Sparky Phillips, science, US At Home - Domestic Policy, US Government, US budget, US and State budget deficits, budget cuts, Constitutional issues, US economic crisis, US debt

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LEAD’S HIDDEN TOLL

Hundreds more lead hotspots are identified as Trump prepares to gut programs

Trump’s budget would cut at least $4.7 billion from programs at HUD and the EPA that support healthy housing and lead pollution cleanup efforts, a Reuters analysis found

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(from the Reuters article link above – near the bottom of the article – well worth reading)

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A.A.A.S. Declares for Intellectual Freedom – 1934

(from Science News reprint 04-21-2017)

A.A.A.S. Declares For Intellectual Freedom – 1934

A firm, outspoken protest upon such inroads upon intellectual independence as are being made in Germany and other parts of the world today was one of the most important results of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science at Boston.

The resolution adopted by this principal organization of the nation’s scientists will also be read with significance in some parts of our country where with less openness and without a flying of banners of oppression damaging curtailments of intellectual freedom have been made.

Headed “A Declaration On Intellectual Freedom,” the pronouncement reads:

“The American Association for the Advancement of Science feels grave concern over persistent and threatening inroads upon intellectual freedom which have been made in recent times in many parts of the world.

“Our existing liberties have been won through ages of struggle and at enormous costs. If these are lost or seriously impaired there can be no hope of continued progress in science, of justice in government, of international or domestic peace, or even of lasting material well-being.

“We regard the suppression of independent thought and of its free expression as a major crime against civilization itself. Yet oppression of this sort has been inflicted upon investigators, scholars, teachers and professional men in many ways, whether by governmental action, administrative coercion, or extra-legal violence. We feel it our duty to denounce all such actions as intolerable forms of tyranny.

“There can be no compromise on this issue for even the commonwealth of learning cannot endure ‘half slave and half free.’

“By our life and training as scientists and by our heritage as Americans we must stand for freedom.”

Science News Letter, January 13, 1934

 

Reprinted online at Science News 04-21-2017

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(Below this article from 1938 is the manifesto that was signed by these scientists and which very well applies today against the current war on science happening from the Trump and GOP administration in power both in the Federal government and in the majority of state governorships and many state legislatures.)

Group of Scientists Issue Anti-Fascist Manifesto – 1938

Three Nobel Prize Winners, 64 Academicians, and 85 College Presidents Among the 1,284 Signers

Counting among its 1,284 signers, three Nobel prize winners, 64 members of the National Academy of Sciences and 85 college presidents, a ringing denunciation of Nazi and Fascist attacks on scientific freedom was issued by a committee of distinguished American men of science.

“We publicly condemn the Fascist position toward science . . . . In the present historical epoch democracy alone can preserve intellectual freedom,” the manifesto states.

 

Citing ruthless Nazi persecution of scientists – 1600 teachers and scientists had been driven from their posts by the fall of 1936 – the manifesto asserts that “any attack upon freedom of thought in one sphere, even as non-political a sphere as theoretical physics is in effect an attack on democracy itself.”

Persecution of Jews and “racial” theories of science, publication of one of which furnishes the occasion for this document, are condemned in no uncertain terms. “The racial theories which they (the Fascists) advocate have been demolished time and again.”

The three Nobel prize winners who are among the signers are Dr. Irving Langmuir, associate director of the General Electric Research Laboratory and chemistry prize winner in 1932; Prof. Robert A. Millikan, director of the Norman Bridge Laboratory of Physics, California Institute of Technology and 1923 physics award recipient; and Prof. Harold C. Urey, Columbia University physical chemist honored with the 1923 chemistry prize for the discovery of heavy hydrogen.

The signers, who represent 167 universities and research institutes through the country, pledge themselves to bend their efforts to prevent themselves or America from suffering a similar fate.

The sponsoring committee and the list of signers itself are studded with the names of the noted figures of American science, including many present and former presidents of leading scientific societies. Among the signers and a member of the sponsoring committee is Prof. Wesley C. Mitchell, Columbia University economist who is president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Prof. Franz Boas, former president of the AAAS and the dean of American anthropologists, is a member of the sponsoring committee, as is Prof. Urey. Others on the committee are Prof. Karl M. Bowman of New York University and director of the division of psychiatry of the New York City Department of Hospitals; Dr. John P. Peters of Yale University and secretary of the Committee of Physicians which has been battling the American Medical Association on behalf of group medical care. Dr. Henry E. Sigerist, director of Johns Hopkins University’s Institute of the History of Medicine; Prof. D. J. Struik, Massachusetts Institute of Technology mathematician and editor of “Science and Society”; and Dr. Milton C. Winternitz, professor of pathology and former dean of the Yale Medical School.

Besides those named above, some of the prominent signers include Dr. Karl T. Compton, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Prof. Anton J. Carlson, University of Chicago physiologist; Prof. Clark Wissler, Yale University anthropologist and curator-in-chief of the department of anthropology at the American museum of Natural History; Prof. Edwin G. Conklin of Princeton, past president of the AAAS and president of Science Service; and Prof. Walter B. Cannon of Harvard, co-chairman of the Medical Bureau and north American Committee to Aid Spanish Democracy.

Science News Letter, December 24, 1938

From Science News 04-21-2017

https://www.sciencenews.org/archive/group-scientists-issue-anti-fascist-manifesto

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Manifesto by 1,284 Noted U.S. Scientists Denounces Racialism, Fascist Position on Science

December 11, 1938

NEW YORK (Dec. 9)

The fascist position toward science and the racial theory were denounced today in a manifesto signed by 1,284 American scientists, including three Nobel prize winners, which summoned their colleagues to the defense of democracy to avoid the fate of scientists in totalitarian states.

The manifesto was made public by a committee of prominent scientists headed by Prof. Franz Boas, dean of American anthropologists, who said. “The present outrages in Germany have made it all the more necessary for American scientists to take a firm anti-fascist stand. We are sure that the great majority of German scientists and the German people as a whole abhor fascism. The thousands of teachers and scientists who have been exiled since Hitler came to power bear testimony to the incompatibility of Fascism and science.”

“Our manifesto,” Dr. Boas Added, “declares that we scientists have the moral obligation to educate the American people against all false and unscientific doctrines, such as the racial nonsense of the Nazis. The agents of fascism in this country are becoming more and more active, and we must join with all men of good will in defending democracy today if we are to avoid the fate of our colleagues in Germany, Austria and Italy.

The other members of the committee making public the manifesto are professors Karl M. Bowman, New York University psychiatrist; Wesley Clair Mitchell, Columbia University economist; John P. Peters, Yale University medical scientist; Dr. Henry E. Sigerisy, John Hopkins University medical scientist; D. J. Struik, Massachusetts institute of technology mathematician; Harold C. Urey and Milton C. Winternitz, Yale Pathologist.

UREY, MILLIKAN, LANGMUIR AMONG SIGNERS

The three Nobel Prize winners signing the manifesto are prof. Urey, Columbia University chemist; Prof. Robert A. Millikan, California institute of technology physicist, and Dr. Irving Langmuir, chemist. The signers include 64 members of the National Academy of Sciences.

The manifesto follows:

“In an article entitled ‘the pragmatic and dogmatic spirit in physics,’ which appeared in the April 30 issue of nature (with strong editorial disapproval), wide publicity is given to the official nazi position on science and scientific research. In essence, the article is an attack on all theoretical physics, and, by obvious implication, on scientific theory in general. It introduces the official racialism of the Nazis to divide physicists into good, i.e. non-theoretical and ‘Aryan,’ and bad, i.e., theoretical and Jewish. Similar notions have appeared in many popular magazines and scientific journals in Germany, in the addresses and writings of the Minister of education, of university rectors and deans, of scientists and non-scientists. apart from racial theories, furthermore, science and art are subject to ruthless political censorship. These ideas have found concrete expression in the dismissal and persecution of over 1,600 teachers and scientists (By the fall of 1936) from German Universities and research institutes (and now Austria and Italy too), and in the restriction of higher education to students having the ‘proper’ political and racial qualifications.

GOAL OF SCIENCE STRESSED

“American scientists, trained in a tradition of intellectual freedom, hold fast to their conviction, that, in the words of the resolution adopted by the American association for the Advancement of Science, ‘Science is wholly independent of national boundaries and races and creeds and can flourish only when there is peace and intellectual freedom.’ If science, to quote the AAAS resolution again, is to ‘continue to advance and spread more abundantly its benefits to all mankind — and who can attack that goal — then the man of science has a moral obligation to fulfill. He must educate the people against the acceptance of all false and unscientific doctrines which appear before them in the guise of science, regardless of their origin. only in that way can he insure those conditions of peace and freedom which are essential for him and for the progress of all mankind.

“It is in this light that we publicly condemn the fascist position towards science. The racial theories which they advocate have been demolished time and again. We need only point to the work of Heinrich hertz in physics, fritz Haber and Richard Willstatter in chemistry, Ludwig Traube, Paul Ehrlich, and August Wassermann in biology and medicine, all German Jews and all empirical scientists. The charge that theory leads ‘to a crippling of experimental research’ is tantamount to a denial of the whole history of modern physics. From Copernicus and Kepler on, all the great figures in western science have insisted, in deed or in word, upon the futility of experimental research divorced from theory.

“We firmly believe that in the present historical epoch democracy alone can preserve intellectual freedom. Any attack upon freedom of thought in one sphere, even as non-political a sphere as theoretical physics, is in effect an attack on democracy itself. When men like James Franck, Albert Einstein, or Thomas Mann may no longer continue their work, whether the reason is race, creed, or belief, all mankind suffers the loss. they must be defended in their right to speak the truth as they understand it. If we American scientists wish to avoid a similar fate, if we wish to see the world continue to progress and prosper, we must bend our efforts to that end now.”

http://www.jta.org/1938/12/11/archive/manifesto-by-1284-noted-u-s-scientists-denounces-racialism-fascist-position-on-science

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Science March Sign Making Event at The New York Academy of Sciences and Communicating Science Workshops

19 Wednesday Apr 2017

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The New York Academy of Science March for Science Signmaking Event 5a CricketDiane 2017 AprilThe New York Academy of Science March for Science sign making event was held yesterday in Manhattan.

http://www.nyas.org/default.aspx

Workshops to help scientists and engineers pitch their science more effectively were held by 500 Women Scientists organization in a separate room at the same time.

https://500womenscientists.org/

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The workshops were expressed as scientists pitching their science and were intended to help communicate more effectively with non-scientists. The one I attended of the three scheduled times was an interesting round table style event with great information and ideas.

As I was there to understand how to more effectively communicate to scientists, the science community, engineers, architects, scholars, researchers, academics and applied science fields, why they should get out and march for science – the ideas that shaped my thinking from the workshop are stunning, to say the least.

I discovered that many people engaged in these fields live in something of a bubble but not because the information about people around them isn’t there, but because it is ignored. Maybe I don’t know how many scientists and engineers that I know or meet, or my neighbors know or meet every day or within our daily lives – neither do scientists and engineers know that beyond the few people they are interacting with daily assumed to know science – they’re ignoring the multitude of people they see and come in contact with – who don’t.

That is a problem.

If I see 50 people today, and 43 of them don’t know much of anything about science or haven’t really made the connection between their own lives and the science / engineering & technologies making it possible around them, then what is the true reality of the situation? Am I really in a bubble because I’m only interacting with the seven of the 50 who had common ground with me? Or only the 3 of those 7 that I already knew? It is an interesting question and I discovered that scientists and engineers / architects and academics may be living in self-constrained bubbles not realizing that the rest of us are here too, didn’t study those specialties and may very well not understand them but need to or want to. Or, at the very least, to we may want and need to understand how those sciences and engineering disciplines are valuable to us, enhance our lives, and that, in fact, we are relying on and using the advantages of them every day.

Without the understanding of the physics of combustion, our cars don’t go anywhere. Without getting the dynamics of that combustion harnessed appropriately, not only do our cars not go, but they become a dangerous combination rather than an effective one for transporting us where we want to go. We marvel at helium balloons for celebrations and birthday parties with its lighter than air quality, but never think about the discoveries from science and engineering that developed them and shaped things we could use from those discoveries. Scientists and engineers can point out those things to us in our interactions with them because they do think that way about it and do know – but they’re not.

In the workshop, I also learned that scientists are apologetic about their intelligence and studying to enhance it – to reach for genius within themselves and within their lives where many of us have not thought that important enough to us to do. I’m ashamed that scientists, engineers, researchers, academics or anyone would need to feel that way. Maybe I’m alone in being proud of them working to bring their mind to greater capacity to learn and to understand what is known, to discover beyond those things to develop things that can be done with it all and to strive for greater use of their intelligence and intellectual faculties. It is more than admirable, it is what we should want as a nation and as a community, for every individual to strive to excellence, to learn, to enhance their mind’s capacity to learn and to grasp what science and engineering has already discovered – and to move that beyond where we are today. It should be cherished and supported – every kind of genius and brilliance, not shamed. And, yet it is shamed in our society and I wish that were not so. It could be celebrated rather than shunned.

So, our science community, scientists, intellectuals, academics, engineers, architects and applied scientists may not be interacting with the solid communities of support around them in real daily life, because we don’t act very supportive when they talk and we feel stupid. Or because we know how smart they are and feel stupid when we as fellow community members come into contact with them. But to me, I’m inspired by them to accept that we are all stupid, including me – on so many things and so many levels with many things yet to learn all the time, and it helps me to want to put the time, the work, the effort and the perseverance in that it takes for me to be smarter, learn and think with greater capacity. And, yes – it still makes me feel stupid, but that’s okay.

The workshop helped the group of people who came to understand how to communicate science and engineering to non-scientists and the public. I heard suggestions that were brought into real terms, like describing the warming and more acidic oceans as a place the fish who live there can’t leave simply because conditions become untenable. Well, they didn’t put it quite like that, but the analogy was perfect for communicating the real problems of changes to our oceans. And, I discovered that the science community has many efforts to try and engage with the public but are not getting the audiences that need to engage with them from the general public and communities within it.

Also, I discovered that scientists don’t understand how many of us just don’t get it when it comes to scientific and engineering things. And, across disciplines – many of the scientists and engineers I’ve met including at the workshop and sign making event, don’t get the science and engineering from the other disciplines around them – whether it is that cooking is literally chemistry, or that people are using technology when they turn the key in their car and it works.

The March for Science on April 22 is hosting a lot of groups that are making efforts to engage the public about why science is important and in support of evidence-based facts, rather than alternative facts altered by the political agenda or business needs of the moment. In the workshop, when I said “evidence based facts”, several scientist laughed and the moderator said, “has it really come to that – we have to call it evidence based?” And, I thought – where have you been that you don’t know that?

It is time for scientists and engineers of all disciplines to take a hard look at what is happening in the real world around them, because it is far more pervasive a problem than budget cuts to science funding. Entire areas of research are being denied, excluded or altered for political purposes and business needs of the short term. Areas and specifics where statistical data had been collected in various forms are being changed to suit making the numbers look better, demographics look better, economic outlooks appear better or to redefine groups of information and statistics entirely.

Not only climate research and ocean research are being de-funded, but allowed focuses of study are being put in place to deny much of the possible research yielding facts that would be unsettling to the current political agenda or to the businesses and corporate interests supporting them. Scientific policy is being made by non-scientists, many of whom do not value science or engineering – even as their lives and business interests rely on them without realizing it. Forensic science tools, programs and research are being discarded in favor of other methods more politically motivated than factual.

And, the US population at a time when to be competitive – must be well educated to a college level or above and have a solid understanding of math, physics, science, scientific method, reasoned and critical thinking, technology, finance, economics, basic engineering, computer coding and business how-to, is lagging behind nearly every other nation in the world. The adult population in the US from elderly to working adults to young adults just entering the job market require these levels of education and skills to be competitive, employable and have the global opportunities that exist in order to survive with a basic sustenance to support living. But, the vast majority of Americans – do not have even the most modest level of those skills, education and applied use of them. And, yet we could – and our science communities can help because they know how important it is.

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March for Science April 22

16 Sunday Apr 2017

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The March for Science is being organized for April 22, 2017 and a Climate March is set for April 29, 2017.

Divide and conquer are being used on us to keep our voices and our knowledge out of being joined together for many of these organizing marches.

Many people have asked me why scientists would march at all and for what reason. There is an outright war on science right now and on scientific facts as facts that require a real response from the majority of people who believe evidence based facts and science are critically important.

For too long, scientists, engineers, academics, architects and researchers have simply focused on funding and the science or engineering they were doing. But underlying those efforts was the assumption that we had all agreed on the basic integrity of facts and accurate data as a premise.

Now, we are challenged as a community of scholars and those in the practice of science and its applications, to fight for the substance and importance of that very premise – that evidence based facts are facts and that it is not acceptable to politically alter those facts to suit a given purpose of the moment.

Don’t tell me that, “I’m not a scientist, so it doesn’t matter to me.” It does and will affect everything for scientific fact to no longer be accepted as facts.

Don’t tell me that, “if this effort fails to support some other aspect about diversity or inclusion that you can’t support it.” Stand up and let this opportunity do both.

This is far more basic than that although welcoming to include diversity and inclusion within this effort to stand up for science and evidence based facts, scientific method and respect for its rigorous path to accuracy, peer review and repetition of results before acceptance.

What stops this full on assault against the facts as facts – if not ALL of us standing up who have a vested interest in science, scientific integrity and the importance of facts as accurate and not distorted or altered to suit politics or business or ideologies of the moment.

I said to someone recently that never in our lifetimes have we had to fight for the basic premise of facts as facts. But, that was wrong. Scientists had their work denigrated, funding removed, careers and reputations destroyed by political administrations seeking to undermine facts about climate changes, global warming, ecological harms being done to communities and regions, sea level rise and ocean changes. That fight went unmatched by science activism during many years of previous administrations in America and globally when the data could have been used to make a difference.

Today, in federal agencies and funding sources from the federal government under the Trump administration and GOP held Congress and Senate, permanent changes are being made to science, science funding, scientific data, scientific research, how scientific research and data are gathered, what can be discovered from that data officially (or not), scientific committees and departments, and what scientific data will be kept, made public, published and archived by the federal government.

Where scientific fact disproves or fails to support some political or business agenda or purpose, the agency heads and White House liaison teams from the Trump administration are intent on destroying the science and altering scientific data rather than developing helpful and appropriate policies that would be derived from those facts.

Not collecting the data through NOAA satellite programs and cutting those programs will not alter climate change, rising CO2 levels, rising sea levels, arctic ice destruction, warming ocean currents, changing atmospheric conditions from pollutants. But, that is the answer of the administration in control now – simply don’t collect the data, don’t let scientists work with that data and don’t allow publication of that information and its scientific study – then climate change will go away. It doesn’t work that way, but that is the choice the current administration and Congressional and Senate decision makers are using.

Engineers, architects and applied sciences will have as much, if not more problems with data and scientific facts being made over in the image of political and business ideologies as it is happening now. These disciplines rely on the underlying sciences, scientific principles, accurate data and facts as known quantities to use in their work. Without accuracy, anything engineered, built, created by applied science disciplines is in jeopardy. No one wants loosy-goosy data building a structure that is intended to house people and their lives, contain businesses and their activities that is intended to be safe.

Right now, the Trump and GOP in federal administration and legislature positions of unfettered power, are changing not only scientific access and resources, they are changing the way data is collected at the Bureau of Economic Analysis, included what data will no longer be collected. The forensic science arm of the Department of Justice is being changed, de-funded and in some ways disbanded. Research at the EPA and NOAA, NIH and other federal agencies are being de-funded of grant allotments, in fact entire programs of study and research are disappearing. Part of this is being done through budget cuts, Trump appointed agency heads and liaison teams within the agencies, through the OMB and by Congress and Senate rolling back programs from the previous administration plus cutting programs through the upcoming budget legislation.

For some years, it has been the case, that a portion of propaganda and lobbying has been aimed at falsifying facts, dismissing facts, undermining facts and data, discrediting scientific facts for the purpose of politics and business. In some ways, this right wing thinking is desperate for science and scientific facts to accomplish business purposes and political projects, but desires control over what facts, how those facts are interpreted, and now – having come full circle, are exerting control over supporting only what agrees with what they believe to be the case whether any facts support that or not. Then those facts that do not support what they believe are discarded and discredited as a lie becomes the only allowable truth. That’s where we are now.

Scientists and engineers, architects and the general public, academics and scholars, educated and non-educated citizens alike, need to stand with us to support science for the March for Science, April 22 and for the Climate March on April 29, because science is important and evidenced-based facts are critical to good decision making.

Yes, we need more diversity in science. Yes we need more inclusion in engineering and the fields of architect, developer, builder. Yes, we need more science education across our entire population including our adult population. Yes we need more support for science, engineering, technology, mathematics – and the arts. Yes we need an education system that pulls all of us into a higher level of direct education that we don’t have now.

And, yes we need decision-makers to accept scientific facts as facts, that evidence-based factual information are the facts we accept and work with and agree upon as facts, that we do not accept lies as facts to suit the politics or business needs of the moment, and that decision-makers grounded in reality are critical to good policies, good administration, good thinking and sound judgment.

And, yes – we need to stand together and say that science is important and scientific facts are not constructs of politics, nor will we allow them to be.

  • cricketdiane, 04-16-2017

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A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment

The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy—and we’re tracking them here as they happen.

By Michael Greshko

PUBLISHED APRIL 3, 2017

The stakes are enormous. The Trump administration takes power amid the first days of meaningful international action against climate change, an issue on which political polarization still runs deep. And for the first time in years, Republicans have control of the White House and both houses of Congress—giving them an opportunity to remake the nation’s environmental laws in their image.

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It’s a lot to keep track of, so National Geographic will be maintaining an abbreviated timeline of the Trump administration’s environmental actions and policy changes, as well as reactions to them. We will update this article periodically as news develops.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/

This list is from the first week of April – worth going over and checking it out. Trump and the GOP are waging and all-out war on science. This is only part of it.

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5 ways Trump and the GOP disparaged science this week

An executive order sent the message that climate change doesn’t matter, and the NIH was threatened with an imminent budget cut.

Updated by Brian Resnick@B_resnickbrian@vox.com Mar 31, 2017, 1:30pm EDT
The big news this week: President Trump signed a long-anticipated executive order rolling back many Obama-era climate policies. While it doesn’t pull the United States out of the Paris agreement, it will make it a lot harder for the country to meet emissions reduction goals. Vox’s Brad Plumer has the best summary of what the order does — and cannot do. He explains the executive order’s eight big changes:
http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/3/31/15136266/5-ways-trump-gop-disparaged-science-this-week
Analysis of how the changes in science and scientific fact in Trump’s executive order will impact science and science funding with a bit more detail. Also from the last week of March / first week of April 2017. Worth reading.
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GOP-backed measures seek to rein in science used at EPA (Update)

February 8, 2017 by Michael Biesecker

Pondering new restrictions on how the Environmental Protection Agency can use scientific data, congressional Republicans are seeking advice from the chemical and fossil fuel industries.

House Science, Space and Technology committee chairman Lamar Smith this week accused the Obama administration of relying on faulty and falsified data to justify new regulations, such as limiting carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants. The Texas Republican has been a frequent critic of climate science showing the world is warming and that man-made carbon emissions are to blame.

(etc.) – GOP war on science and scientific facts – worth reading.

 

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-gop-backed-rein-science-epa.html

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