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The Woman Who Should be President!

16 May 2019 Leave a comment

by Max T. Furr in Con Games, Corruption in the U.S. Government, economy, Politics, Presidential campaigns, Uncategorized Tags: Democratic Candidate, Economic Justice, Elizabeth Warren, Social Justice, Trickle-down economics, video, Woman President

Who, among the Democratic presidential hopefuls, has the best policies?

This video interview was made in 2004. Elizabeth Warren has not wavered from this position—she is every corrupt corporation’s worst nightmare! She has the policies that will, if we give her a progressive Congress, reverse the neoconservative, trickle-down economics the economic system that, for the past four decades, has been (and still is) redistributing the collective wealth of the working class upward to the already wealthy while suppressing wages.

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS NOT THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD!

09 Feb 2018 7 Comments

by Max T. Furr in a just society, Con Games, courage, Politics, Social Justice, TRUTH IN FICTION Tags: America is NOT the greatest, Newsroom, Politics, Social Justice, video

This video clip is probably my favorite political statement of all. It’s time, even more so than any other time, to make it go viral:

Tucker Carlson’s Cognitive Dissonance

02 Mar 2017 6 Comments

by Max T. Furr in Antipathy, Con Games, Creationism and Evolution, Uncategorized Tags: Cognitive Dissonance, evolution, Global Warming, Psychology of Denial, science, territoriality

LOL! Tucker Carlson did his best with his constant interruptions designed to unhinge Bill Nye, but became unhinged himself as Nye remained quite calm and provided the answers to what he was asking. But then, Carlson denied Nye was answering the questions because Carlson couldn’t understand the very simple, factual answers.

We humans are still territorial creatures, a legacy of our evolutionary past. Today, we can see our territoriality in political borders, properties and land possessions, supported by law, the police and the military.

We have psychological territories as well (subjective belief that cannot be independently verified as true), such as religion, politics and, yes, even negatives such as global warming science denial.

Many of us cannot allow objective facts (e.g., independently verifiable, human caused, global warming) to encroach on our subjective territories. Tucker’s angry conflict arose when Nye’s objective facts came in contact with his subjective border, and Nye correctly identified it as Tucker’s “cognitive dissonance.”

That Carlson rushed to his border to fight against Nye’s objective facts demonstrates his belief that his territory was threatened, which is why he became angry.

Bill Maher on the Magic (R)

24 Feb 2017 4 Comments

by Max T. Furr in America's shame, Con Games, Dishoner, Uncategorized Tags: Bill Maher, Conservatism, political integrity, Politics, Republicanism, Trumpism

A fascinating take on conservatism v. Trumpism and political integrity on the Right. Maher is well known for telling it like it is and adding a degree of humor even as he is being serious. He nailed this on!

ONGOING: The Greatest Heist in History

06 Apr 2016 8 Comments

by Max T. Furr in Antipathy, Con Games Tags: Corporatocracy, Donald Trump, Indifference, oligarchy, Plutocracy, Wall Street

From Bloomberg Businessweek

By Jesse Drucker JesseDrucker

The World’s Favorite New Tax Haven Is the United States

Moving money out of the usual offshore secrecy havens and into the U.S. is a brisk new business.

Last September, at a law firm overlooking San Francisco Bay, Andrew Penney, a managing director at Rothschild & Co., gave a talk on how the world’s wealthy elite can avoid paying taxes.

Read the report here.

–’tis I, Don Quixote, fighting corporate windmills–Image from Pinterest

And From Spiegel Online

Oligarchs and dictators’ daughters apparently have a penchant for bunkering their assets on the British Virgin Islands. Barons and composers, on the other hand, seem to prefer the Cook Islands. To cheat on taxes, they create bogus firms with imaginative names like Tantris, Moon Crystal or Sequoia.

. . . and conservatives in the U.S. blame the poor and the working poor for being poor.

Can there be a better argument for voting for Bernie Sanders for president and progressive candidates for Congress?

The greatest sin of humankind is indifference to poverty and suffering. Think about it! GET THE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS! VOTE FOR PROGRESSIVES!

Max T. Furr is author of The Empathy Imperative, a philosophical novel featuring a trial of God. A bold story that takes a logical look at the god of the Abrahamic Religions.

Is the pious loved by the gods because it is pious, or is it pious because it is loved by the gods?–from Plato’s dialogue, Euthyphro–a Socratic dialogue.

Is an act of God just and right because god does it, or does God do only that which is just and right?–Author’s paraphrase

Seeking funds for Flint, Democrats block energy bill

26 Feb 2016 2 Comments

by Max T. Furr in 9/11, Acts of the Ignoble, Antipathy, Con Games, Dishoner, Rebuilding America's Defenses, The Project for a New American Century, Uncategorized Tags: 9/11 conspiracy, Flint Michigan, Led in water, Project for a New American Century, Rebuilding America's Defenses, The Empathy Imperative

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When will America wake up? There appears to be no depth to which congressional conservatives will not sink in their utterly disgraceful attempts to undermine the president at the expense of the lives of thousands, even millions of citizens, including the lives of children. Their complete indifference to suffering is simply without precedent, at least in this nation. It appears, to them, the public is no more than a Machiavellian means to power.

I have to say that, even though I do not tend to favor conspiracy theories, knowing the sheer insensitivity, incivility, and inhumanity of leading conservatives, there isn’t much I wouldn’t put past them.

Thus, I have come to lean toward the theory that the Cheney-Bush Administration knew in advance of the 9/11 attack and let it happen (or even facilitated it) in order to fulfill their Project for the New American Century dream of “reconstructing” the Middle East for American control the oil fields.

Although the original site for this document has been taken down (surprise, suprise), I found it.

The key line in this PDF document is the statement that their designs on the Middle East would take a long time to accomplish “absent some catastrophic catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor” (Italic mine).

Now, this:

Washington (CNN) Frustrated Senate Democrats blocked a bipartisan energy bill Thursday after Republicans refused to allow a vote on an amendment to help the city of Flint, Michigan, respond to its catastrophic water crisis. READ MORE HERE.

How did Republicans become so insensitive, deceitful and belligerent? I researched the rise of the neoconservatives from my novel, The Empathy Imperative. I plan to post the relevant pages on The Benevolent Thou shortly.

‘Post-Materialist’ Science?’

30 Jan 2016 6 Comments

by Max T. Furr in Con Games, Dishoner, Faith v. Reason, Intellectual Dishonesty, Pseudoscience, The Matrix Tags: Con artists, post materialist science, Pseudoscience

ouija_board My notion of grownups, from tothood (which can be excused) through high school (which is much less excusable), was that they were, generally, beings of integrity and honor.

Obviously, I was not paying a lot of attention. It wasn’t until I went to college, however, that I realized how wrong I was.

There are a great many (apparent) frauds in politics, religion (rather easy to see for those who dare to use reason), and science (not so easy to see) where agenda-motivated sophistry abounds, easily and dangerously deceiving the uninformed, the faith-locked, and the ill educated.

I have no doubt that critical thinking (informal logic), world religions, and ethics should be taught as early in

: A scientist reviews Dr. Oz’s work

public schools as possible (well before college). These courses, like math, reading, writing, and science should be mandatory. We truly need an informed and logically minded public.

‘Post-Materialist’ Science? A Smokescreen for Woo

Sadri Hassani

Skeptical Inquirer Volume 39.5, September/October 2015

Pseudoscience has been rapidly gaining ground in the past few decades. Dietary supplements and homeopathic preparations, advertised by the disgraced Dr. Oz and his ilk, now constitute a multi-billion-dollar industry. . . read more at http://www.csicop.org/si/show/post-materialist_science_a_smokescreen_for_woo

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