WEP is the acronym for the Windfall Elimination Provision of the Social Security Administration.  Here is how they describe it. Before 1983, people whose primary job wasn’t covered by Social Security had their Social Security benefits calculated as if they were long-term, low-wage workers. They had the advantage of receiving a Social Security benefit representing a higher percentage of their earnings, plus a pension from a job for which they didn’t pay Social Security taxes. Congress passed the Windfall Elimination Provision to remove that advantage. I just learned about this provision as I was calculating what my income might be … Continue reading

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Automated braking, Lane Keep Assist, Park Assist, Back-Up Cameras, Traction Control, ABS… all this technology is, is idiot-proofing. It operates at the level of an idiot, too. A skilled/competent driver not only doesn’t need it, he can often outperform it. Skill and competence, are, however, not what’s wanted. They are the opposite of what’s wanted. What’s being engineered, arguably. You get what you encourage. And less of what’s discouraged. The automated braking systems soon to be mandated decelerate the car when it’s either not necessary or so prematurely it’s preposterous. Like there’s an old lady (or a Clover) underneath the dashboard somewhere. Which of course … Continue reading

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If Forrest Gump’s mother were around, she would remind us of this fundamental truth: “Socialism is as socialism does.” With all the hoopla surrounding Bernie Sanders’ campaign, let us apply this principle to his message. As far as I have read, he has not recommended that the federal government nationalize America’s industries. He has not called for government ownership of much of anything. If socialism does not mean state ownership of the means of production, then what does it mean? If the distinguishing feature of the socialist ideology is not government ownership, then how can we distinguish socialism from run-of-the-mill … Continue reading

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I know there are many people out there who don’t watch the daily drivel emanating from their 72 inch HD boob tubes. I don’t blame them. Most of the shows on TV are dumbed down to the level of their audience of government educated zombies. The facebooking, twittering, texting, instagraming generation is too shallow, too self-consumed, and too intellectually lazy to connect the dots, understand symbolism or learn moral lessons from well-written thought-provoking TV shows. But there have been a few exceptions over the last few years. Breaking Bad, House of Cards, and Walking Dead are intelligent, brilliantly scripted, morally … Continue reading

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“The evil that men do lives after them,” wrote Shakespeare. A prime example, former US President George W. Bush who appeared last week campaigning in South Carolina for his amiable younger brother, Jeb. George W. continues to haunt the Republican Party and damage its electoral chances. At home, Bush has been staying out of public gaze; abroad, he is widely hated and limits overseas travel due to fear of war crimes arrest for his 2003 invasions of Iraq. Republican spin doctors and the rightwing US media has been trying to soft soap Bush and his mentor, Dick Cheney, for years … Continue reading

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“I was astonished, bewildered. This was America, a country where, whatever its faults, people could speak, write, assemble, demonstrate without fear. It was in the Constitution, the Bill of Rights. We were a democracy… But I knew it wasn’t a dream; there was a painful lump on the side of my head… The state and its police were not neutral referees in a society of contending interests. They were on the side of the rich and powerful. Free speech? Try it and the police will be there with their horses, their clubs, their guns, to stop you. From that moment … Continue reading

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Like most Islamic states, some states in America use criminal penalties to police the morality of their citizens. A recent attempt in Virginia to decriminalize adultery by reducing it from a criminal issue to a civil one has failed. According to the Code of Virginia, Title 18.2, “Crimes and Offenses Generally,” Chapter 8, “Crimes Involving Morals And Decency,” §18.2-365, “Adultery defined; penalty”: Any person, being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any person not his or her spouse shall be guilty of adultery, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor. A Class 4 misdemeanor is the lowest-level criminal offense … Continue reading

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Parts of a sickening video released by Islamic State militants that shows members of the terror group beheading 21 Coptic Christians have been faked, experts have claimed. The footage, which lasts five minutes, shows the Egyptian Christians dressed in jumpsuits being marched one by one along a lonely beach, each held by a fighter clad in black. The captives, their faces uncovered, are made to kneel before being forced to lie down. The masked jihadists then behead them simultaneously. While experts believe the men were killed by the terrorists, questions have been raised over whether some scenes – including one … Continue reading

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‘For now, Canada’s CF-18 fighter jets have flown their last mission in both Iraq and Syria. Canada is transitioning to bringing the jets home and instead dramatically increasing troop presence overseas. Canada is going to triple the number of special forces who are said to be tasked with the objective of training Iraqi forces for […]

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‘A Turkish man has filed a legal complaint against his own wife for insulting country’s President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and turning off the TV during his speeches, local media report. The 40-year-old truck driver, named only as Ali D. by the newspaper Yeni Safak, said that he warned his spouse on numerous occasions against offending […]

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‘A Nigerian health official says nearly 6,500 children were recorded to be severely malnourished in 2015 at camps set up for people made homeless by Boko Haram Takfiri terrorists. Sule Mele, the head of the Borno State Primary Health Care Board, said on Monday that about 6,444 severe cases of malnutrition were recorded in the […]

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Another step in the process of ending the Mideast’s “permanent war and terrorism,” a further step agreed between the Russian Foreign Minister and the U.S. Secretary of State, will now be discussed by Russian President Putin with Barack Obama. But Obama knows nothing but to denounce Putin — who has “miniaturized” him — and to try, unsuccessfully, to organize Asia in a confrontation against China.

There is only one path, by which the war and terrorism which George W. Bush and Obama unleashed on the Mideast and North Africa can be ended. That is Putin’s “flank” begun with his intervention in Syria last September, and the prospect of China’s “New Silk Road” bringing great projects and economic development through that region. That path is also Germany’s only way out of a refugee crisis Europe cannot handle.

But the United States has a President determined to continue to play at the British imperial policy of wars and drone assassinations, and geopolitical plots to “surround” China and Russia, even to provoke war with them. The Obama who does not think the United States needs a lunar or planetary space program, or a fusion power program, and doesn’t think a President needs Congressional authorization for disastrous wars.

It’s Tuesday, and you know what that means at the White House…

Against the leaderships of China, Russia, India, Obama in office belittles the United States and brings it into disrepute; he must be removed.

And the candidates running for that office ignore and deny economic, political, and military reality as if they had been specially chosen — by Wall Street — to do so. Thirty or 40 years ago, no American would have believed that this collection of Presidential candidates could ever be “all there is.”

The United States does have leaders whose grasp of human reality and whose determination to better it, is capable of looking into the future as the leaderships of the BRICS powers do. One is LaRouche Democrat Kesha Rogers of Texas, twice winning Democratic Congressional nominations to “Save NASA; Impeach Obama,” and now leading a national mobilization to restore the U.S. space program and the nation’s scientific culture.

Her colleagues in the LaRouchePAC National Policy Committee have all conducted equally important campaigns, like Rachel Brown Brinkley’s campaigns against Rep. Barney Frank which put restoring Glass-Steagall on the national map beginning in 2010; Michael Steger’s campaign for a real “produce water” solution to the great western drought.

Lyndon and Helga LaRouche, over decades, have actually created, as a worldwide reality, what is now known as China’s New Silk Road, or World Landbridge program of economic development. They have laid down the markers on how to fight British-Saudi “jihadist” terrorism, and the drug traffic which has funded it, in parallel to Putin’s largely successful 20-year war against that scourge.

They know what a “win-win” policy actually is.

A very small leadership force, but capable, if you back them, getting Obama out, of shutting down the collapsing Wall Street casino, of getting the successful policies of President Franklin Roosevelt applied to a real economic recovery. A small force, but capable, like successful national leaderships, of thinking of a better future for the human species.

Sign me up, I’m with you.

Mikael Thalen | “I understand that it can be seen as unusual and disgusting but legislation can not be based on it being disgusting.”

“I understand that it can be seen as unusual and disgusting but legislation can not be based on it being disgusting.”