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U-T shuns climate change in wildfire stories
Don, as we have discussed many times, the sad fact is that we live in the age of No One Really Cares (NORC). And one reason they probably do not care is the it no longer matters which party wins, they are both corrupted by the Power of Money, which also corrupts all other social and economic institutions including universities and religions. Why else are there 1000s of Christian denominations competing with each other with false profits as leaders, and a university like Berkeley that is over $400 Million in debt for a last place team football stadium instead of enabling 1000s of eligible California kids to go to college that cannot afford it now. So what's this global warming thing you're talking about? Didn't Pogo mention it at the 1970 Earth Day and absolutely no one paid attention except for a few people who could think but were, and still are marginalized by the power of money.— June 20, 2014 1:01 p.m.
Armed with papers
Founder, I agree completely, and that's another reason why I want the READER to find a way to replace the U-T. Manchester and his board of sycophants are a threat to Democracy and our way of life in San Diego. They have enabled SCE, PG&E and the CPUC to murder customers with gas pipelines and threaten us with nuclear contamination at San Onofre. Tragically, Gov. Brown and his legislature are watching and doing nothing to protect Californians because of the power of money that corrupts them also.— June 20, 2014 11:48 a.m.
Armed with papers
Founder, great proof of gross criminal negligence by SCE executives who, along with the CPUC, totally ignored public safety so they could maximize their profits, and they are still a threat to everyone in Southern California.— June 20, 2014 3:36 a.m.
Armed with papers
Founder, one of the paramount facts of life that keeps far too many people confused is our institutions (political, corporate, religious, universities) protect their own survival as a much higher priority than the survival of the human race. Sophists confused the people of Greece into believing oligarchs so they could control the first democracies and nothing has changed, except we don't have to drink hemlock anymore if we keep asking embarrassing questions, we are simply marginalized so we can't inform anybody.— June 19, 2014 2:50 p.m.
Armed with papers
Don, the total corruption of UCAN, CPUC, both political parties in Sacramento et al. has now proven that this is the new age of the California Oligarchy and the end of democracy, but we guessed this was inevitable when the oligarchs took over total control of Congress and SCOTUS after having totally controlled the Bush Administration. The READER is the last source of reliable information for San Diegans.— June 19, 2014 11:16 a.m.
Armed with papers
Thank you for your references and comments Founder. It's time that we replaced UCAN and the U-T with the READER as our advocate and source of information. We must wake up the public to the corruption and threats against our safety, economy and quality of life that are out of control and the READER has proven to be the best way to do that.— June 19, 2014 4:28 a.m.
Armed with papers
Don, the top two public enemies in California are Peevey who enabled the PG@E gas explosion deaths and the SONGS radiation threat to public safety due to gross criminal negligence by the CPUC and SCE executives. The other is Gov. Brown and his legislature for allowing Peevey et al. to continue to threaten us with public safety disasters, skyrocketing rates and failing grid reliability that enrich Peevey and his henchmen as documented most recently this morning in the L.A. Times "Not the same old grid."— June 18, 2014 11:56 a.m.
California or Corrupt Public Utilities Commission?
Don, Brown just proves that corruption rules in Sacramento, as well as Washington and San Diego, and that democrats are no longer any better than republicans. When are we going to stop calling it a democracy, now that we are the latest democracy to follow in the footsteps of Ancient Athens where Solon produced the first democracy, but they kept going back to oligarchies until they said the hell with it, which is what we are doing today? Far too few Americans even bother to vote anymore, we have in fact given up already. No wonder Socrates drank the hemlock. The reality is that all institutions around the world have become corrupt and the power of money rules everything today.— June 9, 2014 12:28 p.m.
California or Corrupt Public Utilities Commission?
Excellent question Don, CPUC/Utility corruption reached the threat to public safety due to criminal negligence stage at SONGS and with the PG&E gas pipeline deaths, this era must be ended now. Either Brown acts today, or we must put Recall Brown on the next ballot so we can elect a Governor who will end these threats to public safety and the California economy.— June 9, 2014 5:06 a.m.
Public utilities commission's rape of the ratepayers
Don, the never-ending failures by federal, state and local politicians are the greatest threat there is to our survival and future generations shall be suffering the gravest of consequences, the worst possible legacy we can give them. American politicians in both parties are enabling global warming, outrageous inequalities and loss of rights, along with the overthrow of American Democracy that SCOTUS just produced. We have allowed the CPUC to have some powers similar to SCOTUS.— May 4, 2014 10:08 a.m.