Earth From Space

SRI EV1 Electric Off Road Racer - First Electric Baja Race Car

Trial testing footage of the SRI (Strategic Recovery Institute) EV1 Race Car. The all electric Off road racer was built by SRD - Strategic Racing Designs in Vista, CA, with an all electric drivetrain built by EV West. The car has swappable, and rechargeable Lithium Ion battery packs for quick pit stops and on the fly chase truck charging. With instant torque and quick punch of 400 kW of power, this car has smooth, linear power delivery that makes you think it's a full size RC car.

Šis un tas par Nodokļiem...

Vai cilvēka dzīves mērķis ir maksāt nodokļus? Vai valsts neesam mēs paši? Vai tā nav mūsu pašu izvēle - maksāt vai nemaksāt? Vai nebūtu jārēķinās ar šādu sabiedrības viedokli veidojot attiecības ar sabiedrību?

Droši vien ir vēl daudzi jautājumi, kurus uzdodot, tā īsti viennozīmīgi atbildēt nevarēsim. Bet laiks iet uz priekšu un tas prasa atbildēt uz šiem jautājumiem. 

Šodien, lasot periodiskos izdevumus, valsts veido kaut ko līdzīgu nodokļu maratonam, kur nepārtraukti tur sabiedrību zināmā spriedzē un informē par savu veiksmīgi realizēto nodokļu iekasēšanas un administrēšanas politiku. Tikko izlasīju, ka nodokļi atkal ir iekasēti par vairāk kā 110% no plānotā apjoma. Šī informācija manī izraisa divējādas emocijas - varbūt tiešām viss iet uz augšu un viss ir kārtībā, bet no otras puses man jāsmejas, jo apkārtējā atmosfēra nabūt neliecina par apmierinātiem pilsoņiem, kuri dāsni iemaksā naudiņu valsts kasē. Un vai tikai šie skaitļi, ar ko operē plašzaziņas līdzekļi, nav stipri virtuāli, jo zinu daudzus uzņēmumus, kuriem kontos ir milzīgas summas, tikai tās ir ar mīnus zīmi.

Uzrakstīt par pārdomas par nodokļiem mani mudināja raksts, kurā kāds sabiedrība zināma persona mudināja pielāgot vēl lielākus sodusun vēl lielākas represijas, tiem, kuri nemaksā nodokļus. Tas man atsauca atmiņā iepriekš lasīto par to, kas tad īsti ir nodokļi un vai mums tiem būtu nepieciešams upurēties.

Vena no paskām par to kā nodokļi radās......Kādreiz senos laikos, kā arī raksta vēsures grāmatās, cilvēku suga bija divās sadalijusies divās nometnēs - klejotāji un tie, kuri bija izveidojuši apmetnes. Apmetnes pārvērtās ciemos, ciemi - apdzīvotās vietās, apdzīvotās vietas - pilsētās. Savukārt klejotāji klejoja no vienas vietas uz otru nopostot un aplaupot. Laikam ejot, radās situācija, ka klejotājiem/aupītājiem nebija, ko laupīt, jo nāca citi laupītāji, kuri neļāva atkopties ciematu un pilsētu iedzīvotājiem. Tad nāca periods, kas laupītāji nobāzējās pilsētā, tā solot aizsargāt tās iedzīvotājis, bet pretī prasot maksāt nodokļus. Šo sabiedrības modeli varētu saukt par  vienu no pirmajiem valsts struktūras izveides un nodokļu maksāšanas pirmsākumiem. 

Vai šī formula kaut ko neatgādina, ja to salīdzinam ar mūsdienām? Nemaksāsi nodokļus - tiksi cietumā. Tā patreiz tiek popularizēta nodokļu maksāšanas politika. Bet pēc būtības būtu jābūt otrādāk - nodokļi, ja tādi vispār jāmaksā - būtu jāmaksā labprātīgi un apjomos, kādus pats uzskati par  pieņemamiem?

Uzskatu, ka nodokļi ir tikai aizbrga augšējā daļa. Pati aizberga lielākā daļa sastāv no daudz nopietnākiem jautājumiem, kuri jārisina pirmām kārtām: 

- Kas ir valsts un kas ir valdība? Vai valsts un valdība sabiedrībai ir nepieciešama? Kas jāmaina valdības struktūrā vai organizācijā, lai visi sabiedrības locekļi būtu apmierināti?

- Ja valdība nepieciešama, tad kādas funkcijas tai jāveic - kontrolēt? dalīt un pārdalīt? organizēt? ko organizēt? 

- Kas ir nauda? vai tā ir vispār ir nepieciešama? Vai varat iedomāties kādas iespējas mums pavērtos, ja nebūtu naudas?

- Un pats galvanais - kas ir sabiedrības, un tās sastāvdaļas - personas, mērķis? Dzīvot? Mācīties? Izzināt? Radīt?

Tā es te kaut ko sagrābstīju nedaudz par šo, nedaudz par to. Bet tomēr galvenais jautājums ir - UZ KURIENI EJAM UN KO GRIBAM? Lai katrs uz šo jautājumu atbild pats.

Lai Jums Veicas!

Solar System Shift

Our World is Changing: http://youtu.be/woVitezc-zU Electromagnetic Event: http://youtu.be/uI10tKuLtFU STARWATER: http://youtu.be/LiC-92YgZvQ

Transition to a resource - based economy pitch - Oskar Gonzalez

Here I propose a different conceptual approach to the idea of transitioning into a resource-based economy. The first part addresses what arriving at solutions means, then my application of those concepts to deliver solutions that I have arrived at: how to transition into a RBE.

Imagining a World Without Money

Born on March 13, 1916, Jacque Fresco started his professional career as design consultant for Rotor Craft Helicopter Company. He served in the Army Design and Development Unit at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio, U.S. and worked for the Raymond De-Icer Corporation based in Los Angeles, California, U.S., as a research engineer.[5][4] He worked for many companies and in many fields such as technical consultant and technical advisor to the motion picture industry, industrial design instructor at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. In Los Angeles, he was colleague and work associate of psychologist Donald Powell Wilson.[5][4] In 1942, Fresco started the Revell Plastics Company (now Revell-Monogram) with Lou Glaser, working variously in aerospace research and development, architecture, efficient automobile design, bare-eye 3D cinematic projection methods and medical equipment design where he developed a three dimensional X-ray unit amongst other things. he Venus Project was started around 1975[2] by Fresco[1][6] and by former portrait artist, Roxanne Meadows[2] in Venus, Florida, USA. Its research center is a 21-acre (85,000 m2) property with various domed buildings of his design, where they work on books and films to demonstrate their concepts and ideas. Fresco has produced an extensive range of scale models based on his designs. [4] The Venus Project was incorporated in 1995.[7][8] Venus project was founded on the idea that poverty is caused by the stifling of progress in technology, which itself is caused by the present world's profit-driven economic system.[9] The progression of technology, if it were carried on independent of its profitability, Fresco theorizes, would make more resources available to more people thereby reducing corruption and greed, and instead make people more likely to help each other.[10][6][11] Fresco advocates against a money-based economy in favor of what he refers to as a resource-based economy.[12] In a 2008 interview with Fresco and Meadows, Fresco stated that a 'lack of credentials' has made it difficult for him to gain influence in academic circles.[2] He adds that when universities do invite him to speak, they often don't give him enough time to explain his views.

The controversial practice of exorcism is experiencing a popular revival. This disturbing report investigates the priests on the frontline, who claim they are fighting battles in a war against the devil. "I command you Satan: leave this woman immediately!" Father Massimiliano Pusceddu is a member of the growing band of young exorcists in the ranks of the Roman Catholic church. He's part of the fight against growing reports of demonic possession, attributed to "dark forces preying on the young". But the practice is not without critics. According to activist Marco Dimitri, "the problem is that most exorcisms are performed on people who are not of sound mind, who need psychological help. And that's why it's a criminal act". Whether superstition or gospel truth, this rare glimpse inside the practice makes one thing clear: the ritual is hugely traumatic for all of the individuals involved.

Zeitgeist founder calls for a resource based system

Worldwide there are many issues that have arisen in the last few years. Many countries like Egypt and Libya have sought revolution due to the desire for change. Many think that society as a whole needs to be overhauled. One of those individuals is Peter Joseph, filmmaker and founder of the Zeitgeist Movement, and he is here to share his thoughts.

Picture of an Atom's Shadow—Smallest Ever Photographed

Scientists have taken the first ever snapshot of an atom's shadow—the smallest ever photographed using visible light. The imaging technique could have big implications for genetic research and cryptography, researchers say.

The pioneering shutterbugs used an electrical field to suspend a charged atom, or ion, of the element ytterbium in a vacuum chamber. They then shot a laser beam—about a thousand times wider than the atom—at the ytterbium.

The ytterbium atom absorbed a tiny portion of the light, and the resulting shadow was magnified by a lens attached to a microscope, then recorded via a digital camera sensor.

The team used ytterbium because they knew they could create lasers of the right color to be strongly absorbed by the element.

"Each element responds to different specific wavelengths ... so we would need different laser systems to use this technique on a different atom," said study leader Dave Kielpinski. Atoms, he added, are the smallest things that can be seen in visible light, and though the team's shadow shots are unprecedented, atoms themselves have been photographed before.

Since capturing the unique picture, the team has been refining their technique, creating (as yet unreleased) photos of ytterbium shadows twice as dark as in the above image, said Kielpinski, a physicist at Australia's Griffith University.

The group is also working on increasing the resolution of their images, so that it might one day be possible to see how the electrons orbiting an atom affect the shape of its shadow.

(Related: "Proton Smaller Than Thought—May Rewrite Laws of Physics.")

Atomic Encryption

The shadow-imaging technique could one day enable scientists to study DNA inside living cells by shining a laser at them and observing patterns of light absorption, the researchers say. Current techniques—involving attaching special molecules to DNA—are potentially harmful to cells.

(Also see "Higgs Boson Found? Without 'God Particle,' No Galaxies—And No Life.")

The technology might also one day be harnessed to send information across "quantum cryptography networks," which would use single atoms as data-storage devices and quantum physics to guarantee privacy, Kielpinski said.

"Our work gives a new way to get light to talk to single atoms," he added, "so we can cook up new protocols for these storage nodes."

The atom-shadow research is detailed in the July 3 issue of the journal Nature Communications.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120710-first-picture-atom-shadow-photograph-science-nature-smallest/

So Real it's Scary

LG IPS Monitors. So Real, it's scary!

The Crisis of Civilization

Like the book on which it is based, the film consists of seven parts which explore the interconnected dynamic of global crises of Climate Catastrophe; Peak Energy; Peak Food; Economic Instability; International Terrorism; and the Militarization Tendency -- with a final section on The Post-Peak World.

Society without Money. Prof. Franz Hörmann

Prof. Franz Hörmann is Assistant Professor and Lecturer at the department for Business Taxation and Tax Planning, of the Department for Accounting at the University of Economics and Business Administration, Vienna. Works on further development of the semantical accounting theory, an approach studying accounting information systems from a linguistic perspective (the main proponents being Yuji Ijiri, Ahmed Riahi-Belkaoui). The results of those researches should lead towards more usable accounting information systems in the future, resulting in knowledge management in the fields of accounting and semantic business modelling using predicate logic. Development of network-based cooperative software tools for "Economy 2.0". TEDxPannonia is hosted by DREAM ACADEMIA. TEDxPannonia 2011 was crossing borders for "infinite dreams"! On Sep 11, 2010, it was the first TEDx-Event in Austria. The second TEDx-Event in 2010 was TEDxPannonia WOMEN on Dec 7, 2010. TEDxPannonia 2011 took place at the Monastery of Sopronbánfalva (Kloster Wandorf) in Sopron, Hungary.

Great Latvia Success Story!

The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of The World by Niall Ferguson...

Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls Planet Finance. http://www.niallferguson.com Bread, cash, dosh, dough, loot, lucre, moolah, readies, the wherewithal: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of all evil. To generals, it's the sinews of war. To revolutionaries, it's the chains of labor. But in The Ascent of Money, Niall Ferguson shows that finance is in fact the foundation of human progress. What's more, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history. Through Ferguson's expert lens familiar historical landmarks appear in a new and sharper financial focus. Suddenly, the civilization of the Renaissance looks very different: a boom in the market for art and architecture made possible when Italian bankers adopted Arabic mathematics. The rise of the Dutch republic is reinterpreted as the triumph of the world's first modern bond market over insolvent Habsburg absolutism. And the origins of the French Revolution are traced back to a stock market bubble caused by a convicted Scot murderer. With the clarity and verve for which he is known, Ferguson elucidates key financial institutions and concepts by showing where they came from. What is money? What do banks do? What's the difference between a stock and a bond? Why buy insurance or real estate? And what exactly does a hedge fund do? This is history for the present. Ferguson travels to post-Katrina New Orleans to ask why the free market can't provide adequate protection against catastrophe. He delves into the origins of the subprime mortgage crisis. Perhaps most important, The Ascent of Money documents how a new financial revolution is propelling the world's biggest countries, India and China, from poverty to wealth in the space of a single generation—an economic transformation unprecedented in human history. Yet the central lesson of the financial history is that sooner or later every bubble bursts—sooner or later the bearish sellers outnumber the bullish buyers, sooner or later greed flips into fear. And that's why, whether you're scraping by or rolling in it, there's never been a better time to understand the ascent of money.

10 Most Indebted Countries

The End of Money - Chuck Missler

Bashar : Take Action - End of Money

Строение Вакуума

Новый российский научно-популярный фильм об эфире, снятый "Леннаучфильмом". В фильме рассказывается о несостоятельности эксперимента Майкельсона—Морли, на который опирается современная наука, для обоснования отсутствия эфира. Освещаются работы А.В. Рыкова и многие другие замечательные научные труды и исследования.

Light of Radiant Energy

Katalonijas premjers: Eiropas Savienībai jāgatavojas valstu izjukšanai

Gadījumā, ja neiznāks vienoties par nodokļu iekasēšanas kārtību, parādu krīzes nomocītās Spānijas bagātākais reģions Katalonija varētu lemt par neatkarības pasludināšanu, brīdinājis autonomā apgabala premjers Arturs Mass (Artur Mass).

Viņš arī uzsvēra, ka Eiropas Savienībai (ES) ir jāsagatavojas savās robežās esošo valstu izjukšanai, raksta britu laikraksts The Daily Telegraph. «Pienāks brīdis, kad Eiropai par šo jautājumu būs jāsāk domāt. Būtu bezjēdzīgi, ka kaut kādu stingru normu dēļ tā [ES] nespētu piemēroties mainīgai realitātei,» sacīja Katalonijas premjers.

Katalonija, kas jau tā bauda plašu autonomiju, vēlas panākt lielāku fiskālo neatkarību no Madrides. Reģions vēlas pats iekasēt nodokļus, no kuriem Madridei izmaksātu tikai noteiktu daļu. Līdzīga kārtība ir Spānijas ziemeļos esošajā Basku zemē.

Otrdien Katalonijas galvaspilsētā Barselonā demonstrācijā pulcējās 1,5 miljoni cilvēku jeb viena piektā daļa no reģiona iedzīvotāju skaita. Demonstrācijas dalībnieki pieprasīja Katalonijas neatkarību un pauda neizpratni par to, ka reģiona nauda tiek izmantota Spānijas krīzes ugunsgrēka dzēšanai.

Katalonijas premjers uzsvēra, ka otrdienas demonstrācija reģiona vēsturē bijusi pagrieziena punkts un liecina, ka apgabals nevar turpināt pašreizējo ceļu. «Tas nebija negaidīts vasaras drudzis. Katalonijai vajag savu projektu,» sacīja A. Mass. Katalonijas premjers arī pats esot vēlējies pievienoties demonstrantiem, no tā viņu atturējuši tikai viņa pienākumi. «Katalonijai nepieciešama valsts. Gadiem ilgi mēs domājām, ka tā būs Spānijas valsts,» sacīja A. Mass.

Reģiona premjers norādīja, ka Katalonijas iedzīvotāji vēlētos palikt Eiropas Savienībā un arī eirozonā. Nākamajā nedēļā paredzēta Katalonijas premjera tikšanās ar Spānijas kolēģi Marjano Rahoju, lai apspriestu reģiona ieceres. Katalonija iepriekš Madridei lūdza aizdevumu piecu miljardu eiro apmērā, jo pamanījusies uzkrāt ievērojamus parādus.

Jāatgādina, ka Skotijas valdība, kuru kontrolē Skotijas Nacionālā partija, 2014. gadā plāno sarīkot referendumu par neatkarību no Lielbritānijas. Izskanējuši pieņēmumi, ka Skotijas neatkarības gadījumā tā neskaitītos ES valsts.

Db.lv jau vēstīja, ka Eiropas Komisijas (EK) prezidents Žozē Manuels Barrozu izteicies, ka ES jākļūst par nacionālu valstu federāciju, lai tādējādi pārvarētu ekonomisko un politisko krīzi. «Es aicinu izveidot nacionālu valstu federāciju. Nevis superlielvalsti, bet demokrātisku federāciju, kas var atrisināt mūsu kopējās problēmas, daloties suverenitātē tādā veidā, lai katra valsts un tās pilsoņi varētu labāk kontrolēt savu likteni,» Strasbūrā uzrunājot Eiropas Parlamentu, sacīja EK prezidents.

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