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Chargers pushing for $700 million stadium in spite of city debt
UC's history of selling out academic integrity to the Power of Money is one of the most depressing facts of life over the last 50 years. Their failures to protect quality of life for the long-term future leaves nothing for future generations to look forward to, our legacy sucks more every day and I am totally ashamed of having been associated with UC, but I still communicate with some of them with the never-ending hope that they will change in time.— February 13, 2014 11:56 a.m.
Chargers pushing for $700 million stadium in spite of city debt
As you well know Don, the local worst case scenario occurred when UCSD and the UC Board of Regents marginalized Linus Pauling for daring to speak out for Peace after he won the Nobel Peace Prize, forcing him to leave UC even though there are several UCSD molecular biology buildings because he is the Father of Molecular Biology which resulted in his other Nobel Prize. But the UCSD Powers That Be also tried to defund Charles Keeling's seminal research into atmospheric CO2 because many of his brain-dead colleagues wanted his research funding for themselves. The bottom line, as one of Bob Reich's colleagues told me, is that getting academics to push openly for (social and political) reforms is like herding cats, because they refuse to follow in the footsteps of giants like Pauling and Keeling since failure can be far easier and much more lucrative. That's why we have out of control global warming and inequality problems today, our current intellectual establishment is failing once again to protect civilization from the power of money that controls our political establishment.— February 13, 2014 3:02 a.m.
Chargers pushing for $700 million stadium in spite of city debt
Don the best solution to energy and water is a combined fusion generation and desalination power plant, but Ike warned us in his Farewell Address: "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." So Berkeley still fails to find a way to achieve Teller's promise of fusion generation by the end of the 20th century because it is far more lucrative for academic scientists to suck up to "the power of money" than to actually make the right things happen before global warming gets out of control (we were not supposed to reach 400 ppm CO2 atmospheric concentration before 2030 or so but we did it last year so it is already out of control. Exceeding 350 ppm has been considered "out of control" by many). Freeman Dyson documented the consequences of our failures to heed Ike's warning in his book "Imagined Worlds" chapter on ethics: "The main social benefit provided by pure science in esoteric fields is to serve as a welfare program for scientists and engineers" which also explains Berkeley's failures to give a damn about the mundane needs of humanity.— February 12, 2014 2:33 p.m.
Chargers pushing for $700 million stadium in spite of city debt
I agree Don, Bob is one of the most informative and outgoing professors there is, but he needs to get his academy colleagues to join with him on an international website to openly discuss problems and solutions that can actually be implemented in spite of politicians and those who control them. We really need to reestablish American Democracy controlled by We The People again, which seems to be too much to wish for. Unfortunately, most academics want to maintain their purity and don't want to risk exposing their ignorance by discussing anything with the unwashed general public. It's time for We The People around the world to take the lead in making changes that can protect the long-term quality of life for future generations, and we keep failing at that today even though we have instant, worldwide web communications that have never been available before. We must find a better way soon because the Global Warming clock is ticking.— February 12, 2014 1:29 p.m.
Chargers pushing for $700 million stadium in spite of city debt
Excellent history lesson Don, indeed, it keeps repeating over and over and we never, never learn even with the best education in history. Like Will and Ariel Durant documented in their History of Civilization, it's the politicians and intellectuals who fail to protect civilization from failing every time. The Roman "Us" also pissed off their military retirees "Them" by cutting their benefits so that they joined up with the barbarians to kick them out of Rome. There are also Ancient Athenians who created the first democracies that failed, and back then they made Socrates drink hemlock (he could have walked away from the sentence but while starring at the goblet he probably said to himself - What the Hell, No One Really Cares, which is still a problem today) when he pissed off the tyrants (think Koch Bros.) and oligarchs with annoying philosophy lessons on Truth and Morality. Sadly, if not tragically, we have republicans who are attacking American Democracy while democrats watch and do nothing to stop them in spite of the return of the culture of Roman and Greek tyrants. You might want to also compare notes with Robert Reich relative to his "Inequality for All" motion picture and blog: http://robertreich.org/— February 12, 2014 12:24 p.m.
Defective U-T editorial cartoon could help Alvarez
Don, with money flowing in at local levels, as well as national and state, from $Billionaire tyrants like the Koch brothers, American Democracy is at gravest jeopardy since WWII. We have to fight Manchester and his propaganda machine as if saving American Democracy depends on it. Assume nothing good can happen as long as he controls the U-T.— February 11, 2014 11:48 a.m.
Defective U-T editorial cartoon could help Alvarez
Don, just to clarify, no one in San Diego is more nasty than "Papa"/Pope Manchester who demands total obedience from his Editorial Board of Sycophants, and he will take us back to the dark ages if we let him get away with it.— February 11, 2014 7:19 a.m.
Defective U-T editorial cartoon could help Alvarez
Think of Papa Doug as a return to the Borgia era.— February 10, 2014 1:45 p.m.
Defective U-T editorial cartoon could help Alvarez
It appears that Breen is a runamuck black sock wearing vegetarian, but then the U-T is full of fallacies so that's why the U-T Ed Board idolizes him. Forget about logic when you have an owner who refers to himself as "Papa" as in Pope.— February 10, 2014 12:18 p.m.
Political advocacy group tied to Koch Brothers targets Scott Peters
The Koch brothers control basically all the republicans in the House along with many in red states through their $Billion Power of Money, and now they want to control local politics the same way. This is a lesson in history we keep forgetting clear back to Ancient Greece where they overthrew the first democracies and were called tyrants/oligarchs. Wake-up America, the Koch brothers and others like them are the new tyrants who want to overthrow and control American Democracy.— February 9, 2014 12:49 p.m.