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  1. Oct 2024
    1. 50:32 Currency is the governments I.O.U. 52:04 When the government gets its tax, it no longer has the debt so it burns the currency which was an I.O.U.

    2. 34:59 A government does not need money. It needs citizens to need money so that they can pay taxes

      Governments FORCE PEOPLE TO NEED MONEY

  2. Sep 2024
  3. digital-exhibits.libraries.mit.edu digital-exhibits.libraries.mit.edu
    1. Wiener arrived at the ISI at a historic time for India as Mahalanobis had been appointed by Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to draw up India’s Second Five Year Plan that focused on rapid industrialization and the development of the public sector based on statistical analysis and research at the ISI. Weiner was impressed with what the people and institutions he collaborated with.

      it is interesting to learn that he had a great role to play in the future of our countries development, just because he was a great scientist who wanted to explore beyond his country. It makes me think about how science is universal and scientists are seldom concerned about politics. Yet, bureaucratics and governments consider everything as a product of their country and try to protect it from other nations. For better or worse. Writing this, I also get reminded about Oppenheimer and how it beautifully dissects the crossover in science and governments from the perspectives of both governments and scientists,'

  4. Jul 2024
    1. G0v

      The g0v movement, or g0v, (pronounced gov-zero /ɡʌvziroʊ/) is an open source, open government collaboration started by Chia-liang Kao ("clkao"), ipa, kirby and others in late 2012 in Taiwan.

  5. May 2024
  6. Apr 2024
    1. Cohen, Rachel M. “What the Supreme Court Case on Tent Encampments Could Mean for Homeless People.” Vox, April 21, 2024. https://www.vox.com/scotus/24123323/grants-pass-scotus-supreme-court-homeless-tent-encampments.

    2. The city council president said Grants Pass’s goal was to “make it uncomfortable enough for them in our city so they will want to move on down the road.”

      Why is it that so many of Americans' gut reactions is to "kick the can down the road" rather than to solve the underlying problems?

  7. Nov 2022
    1. Der deutsche Finanzminister Lindner weil Übergewinne von fossilen Energieunternehmen nur mit dem von der EU geforderten Minimum besteuern. Die Abschöpfung bei Strom und damit bei erneuerbaren Energien ist wesentlich höher.

  8. Jul 2022
  9. Aug 2020
  10. Dec 2018
    1. owever, that desire to belong, reflecting what a person perceives to be the views of the majority, is also used by those in power to control large numbers of people, especially if it is paired with heavy punishments for the visible troublemakers who might set a diff erent example to follow. In fact, for many repressive governments, fostering a sense of loneliness among dissidents while making an example of them to scare off everyone else has long been a trusted method of ruling.
    2. Governments and powerful people also expend great efforts to control the public sphere in their own favor because doing so is a key method through which they rule and exercise power.
  11. Sep 2017
  12. Oct 2016
    1. The president is not a prime minister — it’s an individual making decisions, sitting atop an entire branch of government.

      So, Prime Ministers don’t make decisions, sitting atop an entire branch of government?

  13. Sep 2013
    1. We must also notice the ends which the various forms of government pursue, since people choose in practice such actions as will lead to the realization of their ends.

      The importance of understanding various forms of government and their primary ends