Henry Rollins: Education is the End of Disaster Capitalism

"(...) so you have a country that is undercutting itself for the cheap, quick buck. They are after the fast high. They are after the grift rather than going all in on America the long term goal and investment.

If it were me I'd be going like China said, 500 years at a time. I'd be looking way up the road. I'd be looking up the road so far my eyes would fall out of my head. That is how much I believe in America. That is how much I love America to where I want America like Europe where they'll educate your kid until his head explodes. You want to go to college, go, we need you, we need doctors because people grow up and fall down and go boom, everyone is going to need a doctor, let's have three doctors per floor of every apartment building in this town. How about that as a good idea? Like that is a good idea.

 Okay, so let's make college tuition either free or really low and if you have a country full of whip-crack smart people you have a country the rest of the world will fear. They will not invade a country of educated people because we are so smart we'll build a laser that will burn you, the enemy, in your sleep before you can even mobilize your air force to kill us. We will kill you so fast because we are so smart and we will have foreign policy that will not piss you off to the point to where you have to attack us."

PTSD A Soldier's Perspective

PTSD is Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The Veteran's Administration provides much information and provides links and other contact information for support and resources to assist with PTSD. On that site, PTSD is defined as follows:

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) can occur after someone goes through a traumatic event like combat, assault, or disaster. Most people have some stress reactions after a trauma. If the reactions don't go away over time or disrupt your life, you may have PTSD.

Give Me Love (Give Me Peace On Earth)

Ivy Mike, Fortunate Sun?

Ivy Mike is the codename given to the first of two nuclear weapon tests done by the United States under Project Ivy in 1952, in the Pacific Proving Grounds which includes some of the Marshall Islands and a few other scattered sites located in the Pacific Ocean.

It was the first ever detonation of a two-stage thermonuclear weapon; what is now commonly known as the 'hydrogen bomb' as opposed to the pure fission 'atomic bombs' which were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki , Japan in 1945.

The difference between the two lies in the nature of the process that occurs at the atomic level in order to create an explosion. The first nuclear weapons, atomic bombs, were created just by fission reactions. Ivy Mike's power came from a fusion reaction triggered by a fission reaction.

Fission is a process in which an atom's nucleus is split into lighter, smaller parts and free neutrons and photons are released as gamma rays.

Fusion is the process by which two or more atoms' nuclei fuse together and form a single nucleus that is heavier than the original nuclei. This process is continually taking place in our sun, as hydrogen atoms are fused into helium atoms. As the lightest known element, Hydrogen is first in the periodic table of elements and Helium is second.

Although the details remain forever highly classified, it is believed that the secondary fusion reaction in Ivy Mike was triggered by an initial fission implosion which compressed the second payload with the x-rays that the fission reaction generated. This in turn caused the fusion reaction in the secondary part of the bomb. The second reaction is much more powerful than the initial triggering reaction and results in a far greater energy release than a pure fission device alone. For this reason it has become the standard design for nuclear weapons developed in the 5 nuclear states signatory to the NPT.

Nuclear reactions are generally about a million times more powerful than comparable chemical reactions; that is, a nuclear explosion releases about a million times more energy than its chemical equivalent.

Ivy Mike's detonation produced an energetic yield of around 10 to 12 megatons. A megaton is a measurement used to describe explosive energy and is equal to the amount of energy released by 1 ton of TNT. It was nearly 500 times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Nagasaki.

Ivy Mike was not a bomb proper, due to size and other constraints, but was built within a structure on Elugelab island in the Enewetak atoll.

 After the mushroom cloud cleared, Elugelab island was no longer there.  All that remained was a large underwater pit.

An Easy Solution to World Hunger

World War One

The True Cost of Military Equipment Spending (and what else it could have bought!)

From: MilitaryEducation.org


Three thousand average household incomes = cost of JUST ONE F-22 Raptor?
Nearly ten thousand family health insurance plans = cost of JUST ONE F-22 Raptor?

Around 17 average household incomes = ONE cruise missile?

Just over ONE MILLION average household incomes are spent on the US Nuclear Weapons Program EVERY YEAR?



Now...think on THIS:

The total cost of hunger to American society is said to be about $90 billion a year.

In contrast, it would only cost about $10 billion to $12 billion a year to virtually end hunger in our nation.

From: dosomething.org


10 B-2 Stealth Bombers = one year's worth of a well-fed (not hungry) America!!

(Rumor has it that the US Air Force has 20 B-2 Stealth Bombers in active service.)