Tons of people left behind or forgotten by rulers of the country

The working class. The unemployed. The homeless. Kids who probably are smarter than our elected leaders. Kids without good educations. The person you see walking on the street in say Downtown LA. The list goes on, but they are all people to whom political and economic leaders have no concern or care of, instead focusing on the lives and well-being of famous insiders and rich people. It's sickening.

Yabberz update

So some time ago, I wrote a post critical of comments on the internet and in particular Yabberz. Sine then, I've found that the articles of this site have started showing up on Yabberz, so I took a look. And two things have struck me. One is that somehow, despite several posts that go into controversial ideas sure to bring in a response from moderates and extremists on the site, barely any feedback or blowback or whatever. And second, that it seems the site has gotten rid of most of its far right element, judging from the articles and comments I could see. So here at SoCal Editorial, there will no longer be anything criticizing Yabberz after this post, unless circumstances change in the future. Not just because it seems the right-wing idiots taking it over seem to be gone, but also because it's ultimately a site with little potential for actual changes or anything, from what I saw it's a small thing full of bickering nobodies who sometimes are incoherent, and just debate without any substance or useful things coming out of them. Freedom of speech is very very important, obviously, but this is just a place full of jabberers, and frankly this site has more important things to do and cover.

Korea must be reunited

Currently the Korean peninsula is divided and technically at war, a state f affairs that cannot exist much longer without problems. Plenty of other articles explain the current situation, but point is, it is time for the two Koreas to be reunified into one government, no war, and no threat of nuking itself to pieces. And also, the DMZ should be made a permanent natural preserve. How to do it is a different question for another time, I'm just suggesting sooner than later.

Open letter to the Koch brothers

Point of note: I am aware that there are many other billionaires only interested in their own schemes and not the world at large and such, but this is specifically addressed to the Kochs.

To Charles and David Koch:
If you ever read this, and I hope you do but chances are slim to none you will, I have a few questions. Do you really care government intruding into small businesses and other places, or just your companies? Do you love money, more than possibly people and life? you both are old enough that you will probably die before 2030 barring any unexpected advances in medicine, why jump into the political fray to get more power and control now and keep on jumping in? Do you have any loved ones you would rather spend your time with, than working to promote policies and ideologies from your love of money? Do you have, quite frankly, any knowledge of science and climate and energy at all? I assume you do since somehow you both got degrees in engineering at MIT, somehow. And finally, do you need all that money? Do you need billions of dollars and even more political power, already seen with candidates hoping to become beneficiaries of yourselves? Can you literally not survive without being soem of the wealthiest persons on the small rocky planet we call home?

Signed,
SoCal Editorial

Stop worldwide slave labor

There is slave labor still going on worldwide, and it needs to be fought. The slave exist everywhere, from picking chocolate and coffee beans in the Ivory Coast, to near-slavery in Chinese electronics factories, to sex slavery in Thailand, it still pervades the world. And it needs to stop. However, instead of railing against slave "owners" and such, I suggest that readers out there take steps to start fighting slavery, in your own lives, or someone else's.

An open call for nonviolent rebellion against those buying the system

Reading an article on the Koch brothers looking to spend billions in the 2016 elections,  it got me thinking "These guys just get keep getting more and more power and in public, somehow". It's incredible, and one of the worst parts is that they, not just the Kochs, but buyers of the political system, mega-corporations, lobbyists, special interest's, etc, keep acting like Superman from the Golden Age to the Silver Age, just keeping on getting stronger and more invulnerable, with none seeming to oppose them. And the current system just does not seem to be counteracting, or if it is, it's doing a poor job of it. Which is why I'm calling for a kind of open rebellion at this corrupt status quo, from all of us, not in a "mob mentality" way, but, you know what I mean. However, I'm not suggesting a violent uprising, and violence is not the answer. Instead, I suggest civil disobedience, nonviolent disobedience, open figurative pantsing of the would-be emperor-builders, et cetera. Protest, boycott, gain attention, petition, expose, question, provide alternatives or solutions, it's all up to you, I'm not leading or anything. It's all up to you.

We need a Muslim candidate for president

Simply put, there is a lot of Islamophobia in the news and such, as well as a lack of diversity in the presidential candidates (both genetically and politically). So I'm saying, to solve these problems, or at least lessen them, that at least one candidate or more for the Presidency should be of the Islamic faith, and also of any denomination within. Although I am not suggesting that the person should let their religious affiliation define them, they are people after all. And there is a risk of this being mistaken to have a "token" Muslim candidate, but that is not the intention. But the hope is that knowledge is power, and with a major Muslim candidate in the public eye, prejudices and bigotries will go down, and hate-mongers like pretty much everyone at Fox news and Bill Maher will become much influential in this matter. But this should not be the only reason to nominate a candidate, the most important thing is that they have ideas, are competent, all that jazz.
By the way, this is not a piece of "Muslim apologism",  before anyone gets the idea that it is. The point is not to and extremist of frankly any ideology, but to help educat voters and give representation to a large portion of the populace.

Comment sections and Yabberz

I know no one will read this, but every time I read a comment section on an article, it just gives more evidence to the case that humanity should not be allowed to continue. I am sure someone in the far future will eventually read this and say "yeah, I've seen that too", and in all likelihood someone else will write a comment calling me a "bigoted socialist who is a zombie for Nancy Pelosi", which is a good example of the kinds of comments seen. Like this one, an honest-to-goodness comment I did not make up but pulled off an article's comment section, "Why do democrats want to encourage communism to grow and spread? It's because the majority of the democratic party is made up of Communist, Socialist, Fascist, Marxist, Muslims, and every other anti America human piece of  garbage that lives on the planet. Isn't it funny that democrats have demonized republicans as domestic terrorists though." That is a real comment, completely insane, and there are plenty of other examples, usually on Disqus. And there's also this site called Yabberz, which I months ago joined, thinking it'd be a good place to discuss, but soon I saw a different picture, more of the same idiots form the comment boards, plus some new ones, and mostly under the control of the right-wing. For example, I started a discussion about the Sony leak and Idris Elba as James Bond, and after several posters made racist comments, I called them out on it, but instead they and a few new posters accused me of "playing the race card". I was pointing out their racism, and they made me the bad guy? And some other posts of theirs, like one guy using drug-dealing as a way to explain economics to "us leftists", and I quit the site, but not before telling them off. Yabberz is full of those right-wing idiots and "independents" who claim to be "more mature", and they basically took over. Point is, if you look at comment sections, you realize that these people actually exist, and you wonder "Wait, why am I looking to help humans again?".

Don't give up

Doing something different today. Simply put, I wanted to right now to write about how so many world leaders and such as Henry Kissinger should be arrested for war crimes, or about how every candidate is a manufactured name who should never be in charge of anything, but then I thought, no, not today. Instead, I want to give a hopeful post. And not some one-size-fits-all self help jargon and BS, but something else, I think. Basically, I say, do not give up hope. If politics and those in power are too stupid or blind or whatever, then you can still try other avenues for changing and making the world a better place. That's really all I can think of without starting to write jargon.

An open letter to all 2016 declared and prospective candidates, as well as every political party

To whom all it concerns, such as anyone officially running for president, and any and all political parties in the United States.

I am posting this out in the open for all of you to answer, since I wanted to originally request interviews, but I realized it would be too time-consuming (with 260 registered candidates at last count). So instead, I'm putting this out for all to see and then answer back, to me, which I will then post here. All I ask is a response to answer the questions and topics posed, it could be a simple yes or a long paragraph for each. I promise there will be no modifications, and all responses will be presented as is. SoCal Editorial does not endorse (just yet anyway), and a lot of you will probably be be criticized, but in the interest of fairness and informing the public, I'm asking for just these no matter what.

This is a long list, so there might not be time to answer all of these. Anyway, here are the questions and topics:

• Do you want to help the world?
• Do you know anything bout anthropology at all?
• Do you know anything or care about the Havana Mob in the 1950s?
• Does the largeness of the universe have any effect on you at all?
• Would you help homeless teens? How?
• To congressional and Senate Republicans running for president:How can you guys say that you hate gridlock in DC when a lot of it is caused and facilitated by you guys?
• Do you really care about the non-rich?
• What is your take or idea on worldwide nuclear disarmament?
• Would you support a moneyless society if the means were available and practical?
• What is you goal (or goals) in regards to the planet's environment?
• Would you work for increased public transportation?
• Superpowered vigilantes appear in the streets, what do you do?
• Would you be interested in World Game developed by Buckminster Fuller to use in international relations or something?
• Would you support space exploration?
• Are you quietly waiting for the catastrophe of of your personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting and modern? (credit to Frank O'Hara)
• What is your take on genetic engineering?
• What do you think of transhumanism?
• Do you think work is drudgery?
• To Republicans: What is your relationship with the Koch brothers? 
• Who is funding your campaign? Are they anonymous? Why?
• Do you ever think, or are you deliberately ignoring big issues while riling up small ones?
• Have you ever read the works of the Marquis de Sade?
• How would you face an unpleasant issue, for example incest? (Not supporting incest, by the way, it's just a question)
• What if you're just wrong in general. what would you do?
• Have you ever been in an existential crisis due to the very large scale of the universe and its elemental structure?
• For you, is perpetual peace a goal?
• Are you a heavy anthropocentric?
• (To Republicans this is relevant to) Is your love of Ayn Rand a brute fact?
• Hilbert space: Are you for or against it?
• What is your take on metaphysical and/or existential nihilism?
• Would you ever consider humans being nothing more than money-and-sex-obsessed sacks of saltwater and goo?
• Where do you see the species in the year 3800 CE?
• Is it possible the current status quo paradigm of liberal-conservative is false?
• (To Ted Cruz and anyone else relevant) You know that Galileo also dismissed the ideas of Kepler, possibly religious-based, right?
• Do you believe God has a plan to modify humans so they can survive the future?
• Are you obsessed with economics? Why or why not?
• Do you know what a googolplex is, and if so would you try to create it?
• Do you know what a rafflesia is?
• Do you know what a picometer is?
• Do you know what a neutron star is?
• How far is the nearest star relative to us, and what is it called?
• (Especially Republican candidates) Do you have a hatred of Muslim people, like regarding them as "others" and not human?
• Would you say you have a huge confirmation bias?
• (To global climate skeptics) You are aware that taking one article from the 1970s out of thousands is basically cherry picking, right?
• What methods of problem solving do you believe in and recommend, such as heuristics?
• Say you are reading for example L'Assommoir by Emile Zola, assuming you've at least heard of it, what would you say to a person in the situation as seen in the novel? (If you don't know, look it up on Wikipedia, then read the plot summary)
• What would you say to a satirical mockery of your person?
• What would you consider pornography?
• Would you invest in building arcologies?
• What is your take on, and solution to, deforestation?
• Democrats: Why are you guys such capitulators?
• What are your thoughts on lobbying? Should it be outlawed? 
• Is there such a thing as an absolute, timeless enemy?
• What should be done to help child soldiers?
• Do you carry any pain?
• Would you look into energy and paper alternatives?
• Given a lot of American policymakers in history secretly wanting control of Cuba, would you at least consider the idea of turning it into a state in the Union? (Again, not advocating, just posing a hypothetical)
• Do you believe we are currently on a path toward destruction?
• Do you believe it is time for a new American dream?
• Do you believe humanity has an inherent goodness found in at least most people? An inherent evil and destructiveness? Both? Neither? Explain.
• Do you believe America is the center of the moral universe?
• Do you support current and future extinction of other lifeforms in pursuit of human wants?
• Would you ever support the selling of the U.S. government outright to corporations?
• Could or should cyberspace be a public property and space?
• Why do you want to be President?
• Did you ever pick on other kids in school, such as classmates with developmental disorders?
• How and what should be done to improve public transportation?
• What should be done to find places for the homeless?
• Name 7 countries on the continent of Africa.
• Are you running solely for power?
• Are you running to turn the country into a testing ground for your ideology?
• Hypothetical: If the technology were available, would you authorize the development of superhumans with extra-human abilities in service to you or the U.S.?
• California drought: What do you think? What should be done to fix this?
• Do you believe the ends justify the means?
• Nationalism, your thoughts.
• Would you take money in order to vote a different way?
• (To non-major candidates) How "out there" are you?
• How to fix racial inequality?
• Interstellar migration jump-starting ideas?
• Any thoughts on banality
• Are suburbs mind-numbing?
• Have you ever watched a pornographic film involving nuns and/or bondage?
• Are we in a post-industrial society?
• What are your thoughts on nanotechnology?
• What are your thoughts on sex robots and VR?
• Have you ever read the Codex Seraphinianus?
• Would you ever consider civilization a mistake, ever?
• What are your thoughts on the sex drive? Do you believe in humans it's increasing or declining?
• Do you think humans can ever be "happy"?
• Are there limits to anthropocentrism?
• A former marine sees his family killed by criminals, and starts attacking criminally., Your reaction.
• What do you do think are ultimate implications of our modern-day world?
• Have you ever seen a burlesque show in Las Vegas?
• Complete this statement: the current status of women around the world is ___.
• If powerful persons offered you access to your own private orgy on their dime, in exchange for something or other, would you accept?
• What would you say constitutes "reality"?
• Do you think countries are a self-imposed myth?
• Do you think the present is definite or indefinite?
• Would you support horrible examples of humanity if they helped your aims?
• Do you think of yourself as a prophet or messiah?
• Do you see yourself as a Hero?
• What came first for you, the ideas or the ideology?
• Do you think that there are problems in the universe that cannot be solved?
• Would you ever consider everything as a dark joke?
• What solutions do you propose to fight poverty?
• How would you help biodiversity?
• Is consumerism a problem?
• Would any of you think about raising up videos games as a specter to be banned or such? Possibly as a way to get some "moral panic" out of prospective voters?
• Are life and death quantifiable?
• Do you think time is simultaneous?
• Would you ever consider that a lot of things (such as in politics) are lethal mistakes made over and over?
• Are you a psychopath?
• Would you support a rule pledging persons in public offices to celibacy oaths while in term?
• Would you mind being bland and business-ish and straight to the point, dull without a personality, if it meant getting things done?
• What would you call a synthetic truth?
• Thoughts on political dogma?
• Would you ever walk around Wilshire and Normandie in Los Angeles, unaccompanied?
• What are your thoughts on abnormal psychology?
• Would you support insect-based foods to help fight things like world hunger and drought?
• Do you understand anything about the water cycle?
• Do you know what the carbon cycle is?
• Do you think adulthood is a crock?
• If you were a curious child, what would you ask about politics today?
• Would you ever "bang" a household servant or something?
• Did you ever believe Ebola was spread as a plot by ISIS to infect "pure" Americans?
• What would you do to address the problems and needs of indigenous populations in this country?
• Hypothetical: Would you ever sell your soul to achieve what you want?
• Thoughts on folk music?
• Hypothetical: Lynchings are resurgent in the states. What do you do?
• Solutions for overpopulation?
• Working class person leads a revolt against their employer. Your reaction.
• Would you ever consider legalizing prostitution?
• Would you support research into spaceflight programs?
• Would you ever put any effort away from work and into secretly subverting and sabotaging any opponents and opposing viewpoints? Be honest.
• How can peace best be accomplished?
• Solutions and ideas for racism
• Solutions and ideas for police racism
• Solutions and ideas for institutional racism
• Solutions and ideas for police brutality
• Solutions and ideas for authoritarian regimes
• Thoughts on national parks
• Solutions and ideas for homeless persons in LA
• Solutions and ideas for college tuition and debt
• Solutions and ideas for discrimination against the mentally challenged and different.
• Solutions and ideas for global climate problems
• Solutions and ideas for Russia's corrupt oligarchy
• Solutions and ideas for lack of NASA funding
• Solutions and ideas for the California drought
• Solutions and ideas for agricultural problems
• Solutions and ideas for industrial agriculture
• Solutions and ideas for pollution
• Solutions and ideas for dealing with the bushmeat trade
• Solutions and ideas for dealing with chemical weapon stockpiles
• Solutions and ideas for nuclear disarmament
• Solutions and ideas for indigenous peoples around the world
• Solutions and ideas for language extinction
• Solutions and ideas for worldwide to personal-level violence
• Solutions and ideas for animal rights
• Solutions and ideas for joblessness and unemployment
• Thoughts and worries on private military companies
• Soft core porn: Are you for or against it?
• Solutions and ideas for doomsday preparations
• Solutions and ideas for dealing with and stopping organized crime
• Solutions and ideas for stopping street crime
• What to do with daylight savings time
• Thoughts on culture jamming
• Solutions and ideas for biosecurity
• Thoughts on drones
• Thoughts on identity politics
• Solutions and ideas for stopping the Mexican cartels (without blowback)
• Solutions and ideas for land reform
• Solutions and ideas for political corruption
• Thoughts on denialism
• Solutions and ideas for the minimum wage
• Solutions and ideas for urban planning
• Thoughts on censorship
• Solutions and ideas for inequality
• Thoughts on collective rights
• Solutions and ideas for human rights violations
• Solutions and ideas for Israel and Palestine conflict
• Thoughts on future AI
• Thoughts on electric cars
• Thoughts on hacking
• Predestination or free will? Can both co-exist?
• Solutions and ideas for social alienation
• Thoughts on fusion energy
• Thoughts on sending people to Mars
• Are many banks and financial firms monopolies violating anti-trust laws?
• Is there such a thing as a "Heroic War"?
• Income inequality.
• Ownership of endangered tiger species, what would you do?
• What is the modern opiate of the masses?

• Is the concept of a nation-state outdated?
• Do you have any prejudice toward Latinos and persons of descent from Mexico down to Argentina?

Contact me if you are a presidential candidate or party or entity that this is written for.

End geopolitical psoturing

I was recently reading an issue of Foreign Affairs, and in it was an article saying to deter China, America should set up a defense barrier on other islands around China to prevent expansion. Otherwise known as "containment". It is 2015, and we are still seeing countries led by incompetent officials and policy persons using ideas formulated back in the Cold War, and didn't work that well back then too. That brings me to this post, that this has got to stop, this geopolitical, hypermasculine-almost system of proving who has the biggest force, the wanting to bully and square off against other nations and ignore one's own peoples. It goes for the US, China, Russia, all of the "great powers", it's getting us nowhere and it has to be gotten rid of and replaced with a good  system.

A simple message

I have a simple message, to Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, David Koch, Charles Koch, Hillary Clinton, Vlaidmir Putin, Mike Pence, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Fox news, CNN, MSNBC, TheBlaze, Newsmax, Rush Limbaugh, Ann Coulter, Mike Huckabee, William Kristol, Jim DeMint, Dennis Miller, Jeff Dunham, Eric Garcetti, the US Senate, the House of Representatives, the Supreme Court, jerks driving SUVS n the middle of Los Angeles and parking them in front of my driveway, the right wing, corporate guys wanting money, and a bunch of others I could name but I won't, a simple message from me, with no apologies for language in this case: Go, fuck, yourselves.

Down with the cartels

Down with the cartels in Mexico down to wherever their influence spreads. They are murdering, brutal, power-wielding thugs who are taking over and causing so much terror and fear and death upon the country. And down with the very corrupt power structure and leadership in Mexico, as it has been since before the Revolution in the 1910s, that uses military force against the cartels that doesn't work at all. And to the United States, which has funded a lot of the Mexican government's forces, end the war on drugs and come up with much less militaristic policies and such that haven't helped, like maybe saying that it's a crisis or major problem to fix than a war. I urge the people, the citizens, the everyday people of Mexico, to take a stand and say no to the criminals in charge, no to the cartels, no to the administration.

The US: Take back an import permit for rhino hunter

It has recently been announced that a big game hunter from Dallas who "won" at auction the right to kill an old bull black rhinoceros in Namibia, got a permit to import the trophy corpse back to the States. Essentially meaning that it won't be a problem to get it back here, and a major deterrent is removed. This is messed up on a lot of levels. First off, there are actually "safari clubs" in places like Dallas where big game hunting for sport is accepted?  What year is this, 1909, and Teddy Roosevelt's tagging along? Then there's also the reason they approved it: All the proceeds apparently go toward conservation of the species itself. Which raises the question, how badly are conservation efforts underfunded that they have to resort to hunting a member of the species for funding money? And how badly are they managed? If it'd been funded maybe by the US or something, the whole thing might not be happening right now. And I am aware the rhino is an old bull keeping other males form mating, and that poachers are a huge problem in this matter, but is contracting this out like a Mafia hit really the best way to go about it?

I have some proposals in this section. First, the FWS should take back the import permit. Second, the US and other countries involved in the colonial period and Cold War should fund reformed and more effective conservation and wildlife protection and breeding programs and projects, like maybe even some improved cloning and gene banks. The reason I suggest those countries is basically they helped cause a whole ton of problems on the continent, and they should pick up the tab to fix the mess thye helped, while freeing up funds for the countries themselves to use in other areas and programs like law enforcement and housing.

Finally, to the hunter who bought this shooting permit, Corey Knowlton: I doubt you'll read this, but I want to say that I think deep in my heart that you're not an evil person at all, but unfortunately all signs point to you as a very stupid, stupid, stupid oblivious rich guy.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11500229/US-says-Texas-big-game-hunter-can-import-trophy-black-rhino-head-from-Namibia.html

Say No to Ted Cruz

Ted Cruz just announced he's running for president. And I'm going to put my foot down and say no. Even if Ted Cruz does not win the party nomination, he's still a sign and symptom of a very large problem that should not be in power. If he or his allies or GOP friends are elected, I suggest you either turn your home into a Canticle for Leibowitz situation, or head to Washington DC and go all revolution on those ibn power like it's 1789 France.

Police reform

It is time to completely reform the police of the country, right down to the very concepts and foundation. First off, I want to saw there probably are a lot of honest and hard-working cops who are good people wanting to do the right thing, and this post is not directed at them. But there are a lot of problems with the current police structure utilized pretty much everywhere. The results of which has a long history of corruption and military mentality and such. For example, living in Los Angeles County, I'm aware of more than a few examples, such as the extreme corruption in the department pre-1950, Bloody Christmas, the death of Ruben Salazar, racial profiling (experienced by a person I knew who once was pulled over for having slightly darkened skin by the cops), the Rodney King beating and the 92 riots, Rampart and CRASH, May Day 2007, the LA County Sheriff's clique called the Jump Out Boys who were basically rogue and claimed "We are alpha dogs who think and act like the wolf, but never become the wolf", I could go on. And then there are other instances in policing that might show the whole current system at least a major part of the problem. Such as the military equipment and siege mentality seen in a lot of departments in recent days such as in Missouri and New York City, the pepper-spraying of students at UC Davis and Santa Monica College, there's plenty others, if anyone wants to comment below on their own experiences. But it's clear there are a lot of flaws, and some things that produce for example the feeling in police forces to act like a gang. And I'm not proposing anything specific, maybe like less emphasis on becoming "wolves" to fight crime.

Federal cinema project

(Note form the author: This isn't currently a big priority, it's under a lot of the other stuff I've proposed and such, so don't complain about me making a big deal out of this)
I propose the federal government start providing funding for independent film making and such.  Motion pictures, cinema, film, or cinematic arts is a relatively nascent medium, and while profitable the current output by the major industry based here in Los Angeles is only a tiny percentage of what could be. And many persons in the US with film ideas might never get any work made, due to the incredibly inefficient process within the metaphor known as "Hollywood". So this would basically be funding for all that, basically support for the arts and speech. The government however would not be a censor, a distributor, or an influencing body, only an unconditional crate-Blanche financier, and the films would not be turned into like subtle films to influence viewers based on some politicians's influence. I mean if something is illegal (like something endangering child actors) then the can step in and stop it. But it's all about the films and giving life blood to them.

Open letter to the FEC

An open letter to the Federal Election Commission: Please reform your rules so that it is no longer necessary for someone wanting to be a candidate to have to spend or receive more than $5000 in order to be declared a candidate. And before you try and exploit a loophole, I also will say make it much much less expensive, or better yet remove money from the equation, since that's a big problem in the political system today. By removing the requisite money, many more people could run for public office, and not those in the service of political kingmakers and corporate backers, but ordinary people, nonfamous people, or people who can offer more ideas to voters without trappings of the current system. The choice is yours, but I'm telling you to reform that rule.

The Israeli election

(Note:The following may be taken as controversial, even though the author intends little controversy, but for the record it must be advised that this is what the author is thinking off the top of his head, and may not be necessarily true)
So the elections in Israel are over, and Netanyahu has already pledged a bunch of stuff, such as against Palestinians and such. And looking at the results and news, it's hard not to think “He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster . . . when you gaze long into the abyss the abyss also gazes into you” Basically that by fighting anti-Semites and enemies, Israel (might have) has become something it would hate otherwise: Voting in and accepting far-right politicians and personalities, hating on a group of people within its borders viewed as a threat due to being of different genetics or whatever excuse is made, increased territorial expansion  that in the back of my mind kept flashing "Lebensraum", you get the drill. The ideology isn't the same, but a lot of behaviors and tactics are. And with the re-election of Netanyahu, it might be too late when some self-reflection happens, and the picture Israel sees in itself is frightening.

(By the way, I am aware the quote is from Friedrich Nietzsche, but also be aware that Nietzsche was anti-nationalist and his connection to the Nazis was because of his sister rewriting his works when he started losing his brain.)

Comedy and mocking authority

What happened to comedy? And I mean by that is savage mocking comedy against power? Where are the Mads and National Lampoons? What happened to questioning very questionable authority figures? I don't want to sound like an old codger doing this, but I might, and I apologize. Is it the absurdity and insanity of the modern world, pressures placed where the brain stops working, where subversive humor can't have a place? Or perhaps the targets are better at actively fighting any satirical criticism by painting whoever is doing it as pure evil puked up by Satan, and any attempts instantly get played as political bias? (Examples, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter, advertising executives, Bernie Goldberg, pretty much anyone of the right wing internet and cable)Where Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon don't bother to face any corrupt political figures on their shows. Is it because corrupt authority has simply evolved into some kind of supervirus that simply lambasts or ignores any criticism of itself? (Example ted Cruz with NASA) What happened?

Irreligion

I just want to point out that the correct name for what is currently called New Atheism is actually irreligion or being irreligious or nonreligious. There are lots of atheist religions, such as Buddhism (I think, I need to double check), and also a lot of militant atheists are real jerks with a lot of the same personality traits and behaviors as their enemies.

Alternative economic zones

The United States should officially set alternative economic zones, of sorts, for several reasons such as: Provide some experimental, theoretical, hypothetical, practical, and other kids of testing grounds; Provide a place for people wishing to find alternatives to the current economic world, or even to perhaps escape economics altogether; a place to set up non-conflictual competition with the literal and metaphorical Wall Street. Um, I can't think of nay others right now.

Los Angeles Pleistocene

I propose that animals and plants related to, or possibly cloned or genetically engineered to closely resemble, Pleistocene and Ice Age lifeforms should be reintroduced into the Los Angeles Basin. And if you're wondering "wait, wouldn't that mean the creatures walking among us?", well, probably, maybe at first they live on what were the county's numerous golf courses, maybe some set-up corridors and tunnels in case humans are concerned about anything.

Trillions of ideas

An open message to anyone: Indifference is only one thing to do, but there are trillions of ideas out there in the cosmos. And while this day and age things are going pretty badly, there is a lot for hope. It's a double edged sword, I know, one that produces the kind of pictures that if aliens from other worlds looked at Earth they'd think "This is sane and smart to these chuckleheads?", but anyway, there's a lot that can be done with the technologies of the present, like I'm doing with this blog. You don't have to stand by and feel powerless, or decide to not care, or think it wouldn't fit into the context presented by many. Go out and dream it, build it, demonstrate, protest, fulfill life, something. Like I said, there's a trillion or more ideas out there that haven't even been seen yet.

More land to the indigenous

The United States (and other countries over the world) should give and put aside more land for indigenous peoples, as well as plants and animals too.

Sustainable settlements

The United States should set up set-aside sustainable development settlements in its borders. Not sure what else to say, since my brain is currently still waking up, but basically it'd be, um, maybe I'm getting confused with another term. But still, zones set up for sustainable development, maybe just take existing logging towns and turn them into these?

Third parties and no parties

The current two-party system is incredibly corrupt and obsolete in a lot of ways, as well as harmful to how things are done in this country. Now that I write that, I'm not sure how, but the conclusion is still valid. It's a failing way to look at and understand world around us, plus the two parties currently in both houses of Congress have a track record of incompetence, petty power playing, and utterly, utterly stupid and often illegal things, such as taking bribes, becoming more obsessed with money and campaigns than actual work, spending taxpayer money on "extreme adventures", shutting down the whole federal government over a health care insurance act, being often deliberately scientifically illiterate and being placed on the science and technology committees, I could go on. But instead, I'm calling on everyone for a fresh slate, or, something. To start your own third parties, or better yet, not even giving to the party system and declare yourself a candidate witohut any affiliation except to solving many problems of today and tomorrow. I've probably said this before, but usually I'm indifferent to politics, but with the state of the world as it is, I would rather those in power and making the globe-affecting decisions not be there.

Get rid of the state lottery

The state lottery should be gotten rid of. Why? For one, it's basically what the Mob did in Miami and Havana back in the 40s and 50s to suck money out of people's pockets. It's basically gambling, and i don't like gambling unless I'm cheating because mathematically, the chances of winning are so low, thee is a higher chance of getting eaten by a shark than winning in the lottery or casino. Plus,as with all gambling it's always rigged. Second, no money from it goes to education. $68 billion, and yet I notice a lot of schools are just run down and underfunded. Third, if you need any more reasons, just look up "lottery winners fates" on Google.

Abolish the permanent standing armed forces of the United States

A simple proposal to anyone this may concern, or not: Abolish the permanent standing armed forces of the United States, and not like the National Guard or Coast Guard, but the Army, the Marines, the Air Force, that stuff. I know the Coast Guard is part of the federal military services too, but I don't know, maritime law enforcement is very important so it's needed. And the navy too, although it could be downsized a lot. But anyway, the reasons and arguments for suggesting it. One, the money spent on a constant permanent army, in the hundreds of billions, is obscene,  especially in an economic recession. That money could be going into so many other things. Two, the Cold War is over, even if a ton of people don't think it, such as Congress, Israeli leadership, Russian leadership, Iranian leadership. A large giant military complex is great unnecessary for situations these days. Three, it would be a great example of a state abandoning power projection tactics and such, and while some might say it's a sign of weakness to enemy nations who will then invade us, to them I say "try to think outside the conspiracy bubble". Fourth, abolishing a permanent military might make diplomatic relations and foreign policy much less militaristic, where the emphasis is on power and force in a geopolitical dick-length contest, maybe, I'm still getting used to the time change and my head's still a little loopy. Fifth, I like peace, and I don't want a future where warfare could erupt and we all die (as seen in any future-set Call of Duty game), or at least some do very painfully. Getting rid of the world's top armed forces could make that a much lower chance of happening. Sixth, a lot of problems over the years all over the world can be attributed to use (or probably misuse and abuse) of the military in situations, for example the US-Mexico war, interventions in the banana republics, the Spanish-American war, IS from after the Iraq War, I could go on. Although to be fair, a lot of problems that came back later were made by non-armed figures doing stuff, such as the US giving support to various unsavory (to say the least) figures if they were anti-Communist, such as Batista, Trujillo, Savimbi, the mujaheddin, Diem in South Vietnam, et cetera, without direct armed invasions. Plus, I'm just opposed to lots and lots of violence and such.

Now I'm not suggesting completely doing away with armed forces in the United States, because in a perfect world I'd suggest completely abolishing it, threats, emergencies, and unexpected problems do occur (the odds are a different story). My proposal is the permanent standing armed forces under the Department of Defense be gotten rid of and very much downsized to very small standby uniformed services, but with the ability for rapid troop build-up in case of an emergency where absolutely no other solution than armed force and defense can be worked out, and Congress decides to raise an army. Also, I propose closing all overseas bases, since with a much smaller organization it'd be difficult to upkeep. In addition, military R&D would be similarly downsized, and most of it put into peaceful and civilian purpose, while personnel currently enlisted could choose to sign up for new non-military groups that would be directly based on a lot of functions previously held by the military system in some cases, such as international humanitarian work. and veterans would get more benefits and help due to the freed-up budget.

So that's the post. I left out more "radical" and out-there stuff because I couldn't come up with any (So don't say I'm being a sellout). Comment if you have any additional stuff I didn't write down, or if you have your own proposals and alternatives.

Call of Duty remastered

Tons of important things and problems in the world go unnoticed everyday, with nary an active voice or group of people working to make a difference in the face of indifference. Economic inequality, suffering, wars, the degradation of the environment, et cetera. The idea of possibly changing the world gets squashed. Meanwhile, a petition to release a remastered version of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 gets 100,000 signatures and national internet attention. There is no God.

"I, Russian Occupier"

I do not get it. Some crypto-fascist asshole in Russia named Evgeny Zhurov makes a propaganda film addressed to President Obama called "I, Russian Occupier", basically saying, and these are words form the video itself translated, "I'm an occupier by birthright. An aggressor and a bloodthirsty monster", and it goes viral across the Internet. Meanwhile, I sit here and sound off in the hopes of somehow preventing people like this guy from taking over the world, and I really want to make the world a better place, nothing, I've barely gotten any stats whatsoever. Guess the universe does have a sadistic sense of humor.

Peace in Korea

To the United Nations, and anybody who might read this: Work to bring peace between North and South Korea. The two countries are still technically in a state of war, and a peace plan could at least hasten the end of the totalitarian North Korean regime, and possibly unify the two countries into one hopefully way before 2045 (the centennial of the partitioning).

Half Earth

To the President and Congress of the United States, the United Nations, and whomever might read this: Please consider a plan by E. O. Wilson to set aside half the Earth for wild areas and such, or any similar ambitious environmental plans. http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/can-world-really-set-aside-half-planet-wildlife-180952379/?no-ist

To the City of Los Angeles: Monorails and infrastructure

To the city government of Los Angeles, including no-response mayor Eric Garcetti, please put in research and funds for building monorail, people mover, and tram lines across the city, and please please be more efficient with the infrastructure rebuilding, otherwise the city could fall apart in the next few years.

Reform the CIA

An open letter to President Obama, Congress, or whoever reads this: Please reform, change, strip, whatever, the Central Intelligence Agency back into the original role it was to be back in 1947, just a simple intelligence gather and analyzing agency. No covert ops, no torture, no assassinations, no coups, no military ops, no drug traffic, no funding sociopaths in foreign countries, none of that. Even Harry Truman was complaining about what it'd become back in the 1960s, as found in this article. http://www.maebrussell.com/Prouty/Harry%20Truman%27s%20CIA%20article.html
Reform it, restructure it, put it under a parent agency, close loopholes allowing covert action, heck even replace the National Security Act of 1947, but it needs reform, and has a long history to prove it.

To US leaders: Please stop ignoring the Mexican cartels (and other organized crime)

In the news for the last half or more year has been filled with headlines of the horrors of the terrorist group known as the Islamic State, but while those are very horrifying and the psychotics of IS should be arrested or something, there are many other groups within the Americas that authorities and the public seem to be overlooking who are as bad or worse, such as, and especially I guess, the Mexican drug cartels, who have killed more people than IS. http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/10/isil-vs-mexican-drugcartelsunitedstatesislamophobia.html But also there are plenty of organized criminal groups who still walk around, such as the Yakuza, the Triads, the hell's Angels, the Outlaws MC, the Mongols MC, the Latin Kings, the Israeli mafia, the Korean Killers, MS-13, the Russian mafia, Aryan Brotherhood, , I could go on and on, but that's not the point. The point is these groups are still around, even as crime rates have dropped in years, but they're still around, and going about with their crimes and dealings. So to pundits, persons in power,  and other US leaders, please stop ignoring all these guys who are dangerous criminals and syndicates.

To the CIA: Declassify and release every file

The CIA has a long history of clandestine and often very illegal and unethical activities, but a lot of which are not yet public, and have given rise to a lot of conspiracy theories. Basically, this isn't a sole document request, but a call to action to the Central Intelligence Agency, to get over their disdain for FOIA and such, and release every bit of information, every record, every file, classified, top secret, everything, that can be found in their vaults or hard drives or whatever, unredacted and intact rather than destroyed. Declassify it all, CIA. I want to know, and I am sure a lot of others do too.

US Apology to Cuba

The United States should apologize, at least, for its behavior for more than a century towards Cuba, such as supporting the dictator Batista's regime after his 1952 coup d'etat; military interventions in Cuba during 1906 – 1909, 1912 and 1917 – 1922; and all the other jazz that's been done to it.

Worldwide nuclear disarmament

I say we should completely ban and disarm all nuclear weapons across the world. Why? Well, I don't want to be on the receiving end of the off chance that I die in an apocalyptic firestorm because guys with penis insecurities running nuclear-armed countries do not like each other. Or anyone else to fdie in a nuclear fireball, for that matter.

Los Angeles Homeless

The recent shooting of a homeless man in Skid Row by LAPD officers has got me thinking, the city of Los Angeles is ignoring the large number of homeless people on its streets, and it's resulting in things like officers shooting at them. So I propose, one, the city stop focusing on the problems of the rich elite and instead on caring for the homeless, two, take a page from George Carlin and convert golf courses into low-income housing and shelter for homeless persons, and three, give officers training in how to deal with mentally ill suspects. That, and look into investigating aggressive LAPD officers who are trigger-happy as NYPD officers are chokehold-happy.

Putin and the Moscow Murder

I want to say, and I will say, that my suspicions of the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov was orchestrated, or at least connected to Russian president Vladimir Putin. There's no evidence, but it's simple deduction, Nemtsov was a critic of Putin, who is well known to be basically a crooked narcissistic mobster in power with a penchant for having enemies killed. But I'm also wondering that it might be something else, like a rival of Nemtsov, or a business interest threatened by lack of war in the Ukraine, or even an unscrupulous Western figure looking to frame the Putin administration. It could be thousands of suspects ho did it. But until we get more information, I accuse Vladimir Putin and his administration of ordering and organizing the murder of Boris Nemtsov. Simple as that. When more emerges, then this post can be looked on as inaccurate in hindsight. I'm also thinking, I hadn't even heard of this guy, but this murder might become as big as the Kennedy assassination, and some big blowback.

On Rudy Guiliani

Hey, I'm not that big on loving America, I'm not a person who gives any part of identity to the country and time-space location I was born, and another one of the reasons is the fact that a blustering corrupt politician (Rudy Guiliani) can make some stupid statements suited for the first Roosevelt administration, and instead of focusing on important issues faced by people like you and me who live in the outside world, pretty much every news outlet gets more corrupt politicians (Walker, Jindal, Barbour, etc.) to weigh in and debate all this. We live on a huge rock floating in outer space, in a universe so big it'd take billions of years to cross it, a tiny dust speck in God's eye, racked with problems both current and future, and this is the top headline on the Sunday morning news. We're hosed.
Update: I did not hear about the Mall of America threats until after I posted this, but still the Giuliani thing was the first thing on Meet the Press, so I think this post still has value.

Bye Bye O'Reilly

I just want to say that I hope in the following days Bill O'Reilly is fired and sent to jail. Doesn't even matter if the Falklands War reporting of his was fake (which it probably was), he's a constant liar, a hypocrite, a right-wing fascist and closet totalitarian, violent Islamophobe, who jerks off to war films and footage of enemies being killed (that last part I made up, but it might be true for all I know),  and he's gotten away with it so long, I was beginning to think he'd never go away. But after this, I have some hope he might and, by implication, hope for the future.

Fusion power

I would suggest to any and all policymakers to put more funding and interest into Lockheed Martin's controlled nuclear fusion project, and other potentials, instead of stuff like the Keystone XL pipeline. It might not be immediate, might turn out to be a dud like cold fusion, but if it works, it would have huge implications for energy. Also, don't listen to oil and gas industry lobbies and their commercials.

Beverly Hills DWB

It's pretty much out there that the Beverly Hills Police Department keeps pulling drivers for DWB, Driving While Black, and yet no one has done or said anything about it as far as I can tell. But it is true, I have seen it myself in action, and so I'm urging you, if you read this, to protest the racist Beverly Hills police department, that is if you live in the vicinity of that city, if not then you don't really need to.

LA doesn't need an NFL team

Los Angeles does not need an NFL team, for many reasons, such as traffic, pollution, energy cost, water needed for grass, and my not caring about sports), and that's there are so many sports teams in Greater Los Angeles who could get that attention instead, such as 4 rugby teams, 13 basketball teams, heck even 5 football teams, four in the women's American football leagues alone. And of course soccer (or association football), there are 11 pro teams, and another football club starting in Major league Soccer in 2017. There are so many of these already, why not give your attention to them instead of bringing back the NFL?

Proposal: Get rid of the golf courses of Los Angeles

We should get rid of golf courses in Los Angeles County. There are so many already, plus they use up so much water wile we're in the middle of a drought. And the space they occupy could be used for other means, such as parks, reserves for regional plant and animal life, or housing for the homeless.

To the UN: Arrest Vladimir Putin

This is an open letter to the United Nations, should any delegates or members read this, here is the message: Please set out an arrest warrant for Russian resident Vladimir Putin, since it is pretty clear he's been helping and arming the rebels in the Ukraine in violation of international laws starting after the ousting of Ukrainian president Yanukovych by a popular revolution, as well as other crimes such as money laundering in Cyprus, and persecution of LGBT(QIP etc) persons. But definitely for the Ukraine things.

First post: Purpose of this site

Greetings! Right off the bat, I'm going to say this is not a news site, or a news aggregate site, or some BS pundit thing (although it might be that last one if things change). I started this site because it's 2015 and I'm sick and tired of pretty much the insanity of the world, You have irresponsible news outlets, blogs that complain on every little detail of inconsequential stuff without making an impact, the right wing in control of the congress who can make a child think "Wait, all this stuff they've been teaching us in school never mentioned these crazy worlds out there." You have a senator, Rand Paul, who is supposedly a doctor makes comments about not getting vaccinations, latching onto the headlines like a blood-sucking leech seeking to sound principled. And another senator named Thom Tillis says that restaurants should be able to opt out of laws requiring hand washing since "the market will make sure those places go out of business". And yet another a senator named Tom Cotton said Gitmo detainees, with no distinction between those in there who are guilty or who are innocent, should "rot in there", and gets a giant chorus of John Birchers and others to sing his praises here on Facebook.  You have Brian Williams, who could make Edward R. Murrow spin in his grave. The list could go on. And then there's a whole list of stuff not even mentioned in the headlines, or if it is, then it doesn't make a small impact. The purpose of this whole thing is to give a voice, to myself, to others, et cetera, and to serve as as a platform for various things, such as questioning officials in power and making sure the corrupt no longer stay unaffected. And also some stuff that's like calls to actions or petitions but without signatures.

If this is all confusing, forgive me, it's my first post, and I haven't quite gotten the hang of it yet. But I will say this: Screw Truthrevolt, screw Breitbart, screw TheBlaze, screw Twitchy, screw Salon, screw Slate, screw Gawker, screw CNN, screw Fox news, screw MSNBC, screw Brian Williams, screw TMZ, screw Rand Paul, screw Chris Christie, screw Hillary Clinton, screw Congress, screw Chris Kyle, screw the military, screw corporate owners and lobbyists in this country, screw Valdimir Putin, screw the Chinese government, screw the American right-wing, screw the internet, screw autism-haters, screw the current state of affairs that sounds almost exactly like 50s years ago (what with the soldiers and heroism and dualism and environmental problems), screw jerkasses who love themselves so much they'll take over the news just to hear themselves speak, screw the narrowness of the voices and world of the internet, screw the NRA, and screw the NFL for good measure too.