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UT-TV goes dark on cable
Manchester's editorial policy is, as Goebbels proved: "You can lie to all the republicans all the time and they will believe everything you tell them to believe" because republicans do not believe in democracy.— February 22, 2014 2:24 a.m.
UT-TV goes dark on cable
Don, I must admit that I never even came close to watching U-T TV, but Sara Libby of VOSD gave me everything I needed to know about it. It appears that U-T TV should have been named "Fox Poop," another of "Papa" Doug's (aka Pope Borgia v.21C) failed ventures. He has not only trashed the U-T completely but has also failed totally at a second media enterprise that he never should have tried except that he has a maniacal lust to be the Rupert Murdoch of San Diego and control our local, state and federal politics completely. Basically he got carried away with media ventures because he was able to fleece San Diego taxpayers out of $millions adding these corporate welfare gains to his personal fortune by controlling all the republican mayors who subsidized his hotel empire. His media failures prove that he never would have made the extra hotel $millions in the first place without corrupt San Diego politicians like Sanders, Hedgecock, Wilson et al. that he controlled like puppets.— February 20, 2014 12:57 p.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Don, FYI, interesting Bloomberg article on Desalination: "Israel Desalination Shows California Not to Fear Drought" http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-02-13/israel-d…— February 19, 2014 1:28 p.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Don: Having agreed to that, it appears that we must make every effort to get our university professors to join together to educate and motivate We The People to save our democracy and environment from politicians and the power of money that controls them. Or the climate changes (including drought and polar vortex) and inequalities we are currently experiencing shall take more and more survival options completely out of our control.— February 19, 2014 4:18 a.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Founder and Don, the two most threatening problems we have in San Diego, America and throughout our entire civilization that must be solved with the greatest sense of urgency are Global Warming (especially including food and water) and Inequality (especially social and economic). If peoples around the world don't unite and focus on solving our greatest problems ever, then we are in gravest jeopardy in history because time is most rapidly running out now that we have exceeded the totally unacceptable level of 400 ppm atmospheric CO2.— February 18, 2014 2:42 p.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Founder, sadly indeed: "USA of today is no longer the USA of the 1950's, 60's and 70's; now it is much more like the Rome of old before it collapsed (from within)." The attacks against Truth, Morality and our Democracy now are much more like Ancient Athens. Some of our science, quality of life and toys may seem amazing today, but our failures to improve our thinking and behavior beyond the social psychology during days of Ancient Athens and Imperial Rome still keep most of the population of earth trying to achieve Maslow's lowest (physiological) stage in his hierarchy of needs. Interestingly though, the Romans tried to plan and build to meet their water needs further into the future than we have, they lasted longer than we have, but they didn't have a democracy.— February 16, 2014 11:39 a.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Don, Ike's grave warning in his 1961 Farewell Address says it better than anything: "The prospect of domination of the nation's scholars by Federal employment, project allocations, and the power of money is ever present – and is gravely to be regarded." And a 1997 conclusion by Freeman Dyson confirmed what Ike warned: "pure scientists have become more detached from the mundane needs of humanity, and the applied scientists have become more attached to immediate profitability." So we have no combined fusion generator-desalination plants along the coast to solve our, and the world's water and power problems in 2014.— February 16, 2014 4:03 a.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Don, interesting line of thought, San Diego is as populated as it is today because we turned a desert into a mecca with imported water, and we not only forgot about the reality of the desert origin, but we also failed to consider the future in case the inevitable happened, and we have thus started to run out of water. There are at least three social, political and economic failures in our California culture: 1. UC Berkeley began fusion experiments during WWII and later hired Edward Teller (Father of the H-Bomb) to found the Berkeley Lab to accelerate that research. In the 60s Teller also promised that we would have fusion generation to take care of all the needs of humanity by the end of the 20th century. Greed by the researchers for easy money by spending their time on simpler research, and the power of money (from BP type research sponsors) that controlled that research has continuously prevented that dream from coming true. 2. We waste outrageous quantities of water on landscaping (lawns, etc.) that serve no useful purpose except to achieve our lust for conspicuous consumption, while water authorities and politicians are afraid of dealing with that waste for fear of political retribution from the power of money that controls them. 3. Worst of all, we keep proving the fact of life that our brains are not capable of protecting the long-term future of our civilization from our greed and lusts regardless of destructive consequences for future generations, which shall suffer those consequences in this century.— February 15, 2014 2:48 p.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
"Can our society tackle these problems? Perhaps slowly -- far too slowly." That is the fact of life we have allowed ourselves to live with today, especially the "far too slowly" part because of the destructive power of money that is destroying American Democracy today. All of our establishments are failing to protect our civilization from Us. Our brains have simply not evolved nearly enough to separate us from chimpanzees in order to save ourselves from all the problems you have documented over the decades. Things keep getting worse, not better, it appears that the last half of the 20th century following WWII gave us our best opportunities to build a better world and we have responded with more wars and hate, out of control global warming and inequality. Our religions and universities could have saved us from ourselves, but they have failed due to the basic failure modes of immorality + greed + hate + corruption + Us v. Them.— February 15, 2014 11:31 a.m.
Water board calls for more conservation efforts
Don, you are the best journalist in San Diego at defining the gravest risks we are experiencing today. We must find better ways to solve problems of global warming and inequality, better ways for people to participate in producing solutions that can be implemented ASAP because, as you know far better than I, time is running out for our civilization. We must protect the earth and democracy for future generations. Thanks Don.— February 15, 2014 3:52 a.m.