Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Anthony Kiedis Hospitalized, Band Cancels KROQ Weenie Roast Headlining Slot

He suffered stomach pain.  On a scale of 1 to 10 the pain level was “get me a damned ambulance.”  The show at Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre didn’t go on for the Hot Chili Peppers to the disappointment of fans but the the fans did get to enjoy listening to Weezer. Other bands  included Panic! at the Disco, Empire of the Sun, Garbage, Lumineers, Fitz and the Tantrums and Miike Snow. Blink-182 also performed a surprise set.

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Steven Spielberg Reacts to BFG Author Roald Dahl’s Anti-Semitism: ‘This Is a Story About Embracing Our Differences’

People who go around calling people racist and anti-Semitic are generally just trying to justify their own prejudices against the people they are attacking.  From what I read it appears Ronald Dahl had a general feeling against all religions because of his life experiences; though he wasn’t consumed by any dislike or hatred.  It just was what it was.

The wiki on him is pretty interesting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roald_Dahl

But the part of the criticism comes from:

In 1983 he told a reporter: “There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it’s a kind of lack of generosity toward non-Jews. I mean, there’s always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn’t just pick on them for no reason.”

And also supposedly: In 1990, shortly before his death, he said in an interview that he was “certainly anti-Israel” and that he had become anti-Semitic.

But if Jewish groups want to use that against his legacy and to stop children from enjoying his stories, it kind of would prove his point.  That Steven Spielberg would do a movie based on one of his stories kind of disproves his point.

The truth is that there is good and evil in all groups.  And a person shouldn’t stereotype either to say they are all wonderful or that they are all evil.  If you can’t see each individual tree for looking at the forest, then it is easy to get lost and scared and never find your way back from where you came.

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That Office Depot and Staples were not allowed to merge was a good decision.  There was no benefit to the merger except to hurt customers and to hurt suppliers and to potentially hurt ma & pa stores that might be bought by either.

Both Office supply chains need to roll up their sleeves and figure out how they can make money in today’s economy.  Being distracted by Wall St. games in trying to build a monopoly was of no benefit to either company.  A lot of companies like these two need to understand that bigger is not always better.

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5/17/2016

Notes/Thoughts

Not currently posting to twitter account, sayata, but just keeping a check on it. The impression level is normally less than 200.  Usually a lot less.  And the click response to any links is mostly 0.  Even knowing that it is nearly worthless for me to tweet, it was still addictive, and it is time to end that.

My book sales have fallen to zero.  I am not driving any traffic.

Also note that AT&T provides me very slow DSL (which they could improve by simply putting on the correct pole to reduce distance but they refuse) and the level of graphics now on twitter’s timeline causes loading to hang & it is a hassle.

 

 

5/8/2016

Promotional Book Material & Stories have been removed from this area for now.

Nothing was selling & no money = bad idea.

No hard feelings on my part and hope you don’t either.  Just is what it is.

I probably will start doing quotes and excerpts and promoting that way.

Chuck

Previous Bulletins that are still noteworthy.

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Article:

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-the-new-las-vegas-parking-fee-20160120-column.html

I really don’t have much of an argument against their contention.  I am totally against monopoly powers in the marketplace.  There is no doubt mergers hurt the over all economy.

I will just say when it comes to entertainment & leisure money, people always have a choice. In this industry, even when a company thinks they have a blank check to treat customers anyway which they choose, customers can and often do say no. “I will go somewhere and do something else.”

In leisure, a company can be booming one day and boarding up the windows the next day.  Bad decisions can kill a company that quickly.  And a city built on tourism can fade into a fad people have forgotten just as quickly.

 

 

Series: Erotic Domination of Planet Earth

Book 1: Man In The Painting

Charles Peters

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This book is erotica with both straight and gay sexual descriptions. This story is a over 40,000 words long.

The Haskels from the USA go to Ethiopia. Rogun 19 and Edmund 18 travel with their parents to the foreign land to do missionary work. Rogun, during a celebration, meets Zel Dubois. Zel takes Rogun to a shack to have sex. The shack is owned by a native, Darious. who is an artist and a prophet and sexually likes both women and men.

Four years previous, Darious painted an artwork with Rogun or someone who looks like Rogun in the painting. The art shows the person at a secret sacred well. The hidden well, that history has mostly forgotten, provides an entrance to a place with maps to an ancient spaceship and key. In the spaceship is thought to be a charm which when held by the right person can open the realm Iapetus which was closed by the space alien witches during the time of Noah.

A space alien witch by the name of Madison Grant seems to want to keep the earth witches cursed and defeated. She does not want the realm of Iapetus opened. Some space alien witches are of similar mind. Others are of the mind to want to help the earth witches who have been cursed. Not all of the earth witches have been cursed and some are on the side of the space alien witches.

This series and story is about the struggle between the earth witches and the space alien witches to control and dominate earth. In the mix is the “God Complex” which truly does work in mysterious ways.

This story is fiction.

 

Propaganda sheets continue to try to paint the economy better than it is as the FED plans to begin pulling money out of circulation even as the government (local as well as federal) policies are set to create artificial inflation in the economy that has nothing to do with the money supply.

Ex.  Cost of Obamacare spread through economy

Ex.  Increases in minimum wage

Ex. Cost of regulations

Though the propaganda sheets try to paint the economy as better than it is, there is some anecdotal evidence that the economy is improving.  I know people who were having hard times around last Christmas but they have been making money this summer.  Unfortunately some do not realize a summer does not an economy make since historically businesses use summer for housekeeping projects, inventory builds and the like.  Also there is the tourist money that tends to pick the economy up during the summer.   The economy this summer was also helped by gas prices remaining reasonable.

Anyway, so the labor number is given by the propaganda sheets to suggest all is well with the world.  And that would be nice.

Still you have to look at this:

The Labor Participation rate continues to decline.

There are 64,719,000 people on Social Security.

There are 318.9 million people in the United States.

Over 90 million Americans who are working age, between 16 and over, are not working or looking for work.  The total U.S. population age 16 and over is at least 243 million.

While the Obama administration has been doing little more than Fiddling, excuse me, Playing Golf, the FED has been doing all they can to keep a structurally flawed economy afloat but the broken economy is still broken.

When the propaganda sheets focus on a largely archaic and misleading unemployment number it doesn’t really do much to encourage political leaders to get off their ass and deal with the structural flaws in the economy.

Structural Problem:

Income Inequality due to economic centralism & too few businesses monopolizing too much of the economy.  Economic Centralism is the flaw that brought the Soviet Union down.  One player owning too much property is what brings the game of Monopoly to the its inevitable conclusion.

States make it too hard for self-employed workers to enter and leave the marketplace.

Pretending to support education while allowing the elite to horde intellectual property.  The system should allow inventors to make money from their invention but at the same time allow small business to learn and use that technology.

And the biggest structural flaw of the economy … drum roll please … is having a debt based currency rather than a product based currency.  Federal Governments should NOT have debt.  And I do not say that to suggest an insane Balanced Budget Amendment when we have a debt based currency.

I mean there should be a product bank where businesses can deposit by auction products for currency. Other businesses may in turn take that currency and bid on products in that bank.  And the government’s entire source of revenue should be a 20% fee collected in those auctions.  If the government needs more money than that provides it should not be able to tax the money or borrow the money but go ahead and deflate the value of the currency by printing  the currency, but still have the currency backed by the products in its product bank … NOT DEBT / IOUS.