#states
The United States of Go Figure
The #United #States of #Go #Figure #James #Kunstler
"You realize, don’t you, that everything going on around the #Ukraine fiasco on the #NATO side is completely insane? The folks running the #US government — Barack #Obama and his witches’ coven — started the whole thing over there in concert with a #gang of #corporate players (BlackRock, sundry oil-and-gas companies, Haliburton types, arms-makers, bunch of big banks), plus the dastardly #WEF for “guidance” (ha!), looking to grab the mineral wealth of Ukraine and, ultimately, of #Russia itself. Nice try. Didn’t work out. Tons of money pounded down a rat hole."
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Half of all #US #states, specifically 25, have names that originate from Native American languages or have Native American origins. These names reflect the rich history and cultural heritage of the Indigenous peoples who inhabited these lands before European colonization. The states with Native American names include:
1. Alabama - Derived from the Alabama tribe, a Muskogean-speaking people.
2. Alaska - Derived from the Aleut word "alaxsxaq" or "agunalaksh," meaning "the mainland" or "great land."
3. Arizona - Derived from the O'odham word "Alĭ ṣonak," meaning "small spring" or "place of the small spring."
4. Arkansas - Derived from the French interpretation of the name given to the Quapaw people, a tribe living along the Arkansas River.
5. Connecticut - Derived from the Mohegan-Pequot word "quinatucquet," meaning "long tidal river" or "beside the long, tidal river."
6. Delaware - Named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman, but influenced by the Lenape tribe living in the area.
7. Illinois - Derived from the French interpretation of the name given to the Illiniwek people, a confederation of Native American tribes.
8. Iowa - Derived from the Dakota Sioux word "ayúxba," meaning "sleepy ones" or "beautiful land."
9. Kansas - Derived from the Kansa tribe, also known as the Kaw people.
10. Kentucky - Derived from the Wyandot or Iroquoian word "kenhtà:ke," meaning "meadow" or "prairie."
11. Massachusetts - Derived from the language of the Wampanoag tribe, meaning "at the great hill" or "at the range of hills."
12. Michigan - Derived from the Ojibwe word "mishigamaa," meaning "large water" or "great lake."
13. Minnesota - Derived from the Dakota Sioux word "mnisota," meaning "clear blue water" or "sky-tinted water."
14. Mississippi - Derived from the Ojibwe word "misi-ziibi," meaning "great river" or "gathering of waters."
15. Missouri - Named after the Missouri tribe, a Siouan-speaking people.
16. Nebraska - Derived from the Omaha-Ponca word "ni brásge," meaning "flat water" or "broad river."
17. North Dakota - Derived from the Dakota Sioux word "dakȟóta," meaning "friend" or "ally."
18. Ohio - Derived from the Iroquoian word "ohiːyo," meaning "great river" or "good river."
19. Oklahoma - Derived from the Choctaw words "okla" meaning "people" and "humma" meaning "red," together meaning "red people" or "red man."
20. Oregon - Derived from the Spanish interpretation of the name given to the Columbia River by the local Native American tribes.
21. South Dakota - Derived from the Dakota Sioux word "dakȟóta," meaning "friend" or "ally."
22. Tennessee - Named after the Cherokee village of Tanasi.
23. Texas - Derived from the Caddo word "teysha" or "taysha," meaning "friend" or "allies."
24. Utah - Derived from the Ute tribe, a Numic-speaking people.
25. Wisconsin - Derived from the Ojibwe word "wiskonsin," meaning "place of the beaver" or "gathering of waters."
These Native American names pay tribute to the original inhabitants of these lands and serve as a reminder of their lasting influence on the cultural and geographical landscape of the United States.
#history
source: Spirit Animal Lover
Wealth over fairness: Shocking report unveils #tax favoritism for the #rich in 41 #US #states
According to the #report, in 41 out of 50 states, the wealthiest 1 percent are subjected to lower tax rates compared to other #income groups.
Ruth Milka -January 10, 2024
..."The report contextualizes the current tax systems against the backdrop of recent trends in various states. Notably, several states have embarked on tax-cutting sprees, significantly reducing rates for #corporations and the #wealthy. This trend comes at a time when reports indicate that ultra-rich #Americans hold an estimated $8.5 trillion in untaxed assets.
In contrast to the prevailing trend, six states – California, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, and Vermont – along with the District of Columbia, have implemented progressive tax systems. For instance, Massachusetts’ introduction of a millionaires tax led to a substantial improvement in the state’s ranking on ITEP’s Tax Inequality Index. Similarly, Minnesota has enhanced its tax policies for high earners while providing benefits for lower-income families.
Florida stands out as having the most regressive tax code in the U.S., with the wealthiest 1% paying a tax rate of only 2.7 percent, in stark contrast to the 13.2 percent rate for the poorest 20 percent. The lack of personal income taxes in Florida and similar states leads to a heavier reliance on regressive consumption and property taxes.
Recent years have seen a trend towards more regressive tax systems in many states. Kentucky, for example, has moved toward a flat tax system, resulting in significant tax cuts for higher-income families, offset by increased sales and excise taxes on a range of services and goods.
Some states are showing that tax regressivity can be addressed. New Mexico and Massachusetts have made notable progress through reforms to refundable credits and increased taxation of top earners. These efforts demonstrate the potential for policy changes to create more equitable tax systems.
The ITEP report sheds light on the pervasive issue of tax inequality across the United States. With 41 states taxing their wealthiest citizens at lower rates than other income groups, the study calls into question the fairness and effectiveness of current state tax policies. As ITEP’s Aidan Davis puts it, “The regressive state tax laws we see today are a policy choice, and it’s clear there are better choices available to lawmakers.” This conclusion underscores the need for a reevaluation of tax systems in favor of a more equitable approach."...
https://civxnow.org/end-of-session-recap-states-make-progress-in-civic-education-policy/
#States Make Progress In #Civic #Education #Policy
..." Since January, the CivXNow policy team tracked 131 bills in 38 states pertaining to civic education. 76 of these bills aligned with the CivXNow state policy menu. What follows is a summary of the significant policy successes this session:
The New Hampshire Civics coalition led advocacy efforts f..."
"iCivics is a 501(c)(3) working to inspire life-long civic engagement by providing high quality and engaging civics resources to teachers and students across our nation. We champion equitable, non-partisan civic education so the practice of democracy is learned by each new generation."
Hydrogen production kicks off at Constellation’s Nine Mile Point Nuclear Plant in Oswego
With the start of hydrogen production, the Constellation Energy Corporation (Nasdaq: CEG) facility in New York aims to address the climate crisis by demonstrating the value of producing hydrogen (H2) from carbon-free nuclear energy to power a clean economy.
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/hydrogen-production-constellation/8557736/
#fuel, #clean, #hydrogen, #states, #industry, #cell, #news, #united
#dontmakeproblemsoutofsolutions
i have tried to meditate for 2 hours in the morning, to little avail.
however the veil has falled harder, and i see my-self and all its evil.
for example, to get the 2 hours, i have to "establish myself in daily routine"
and that is so much for a householder.
therefore galactic society augments a world towards local householders--the tier 3 of satya-bound consciousness. this realizes connection with nature and allows for visitors with whom every local can share their traditions.
vaishna वैश्य comes from the same root as "vishnu" meaning that which penetrates. Where Visnu means "the immanent, vaishya would be "one who results from having settled somewhere", and later (as with the meanings of "guest" and "host(-ile)", transformed to include trade and hospitality.
For the Monotheist reasurrance, let us give both poly- and mono-theism the benefit of the doubt here.
Let's say that Vishnu does represent the principle of omni-penetration (inherance) theologically,
But we will also refrain from attributing Godhood onto his representatives.
Insecurities are allowed, confidence is silent.
Christians can therefore confidently engage in discourse with Hindus on a theo-logical basis while abstaining from Vishnu worship--the common referent shall be the principle of inherance. Thence we can speak freely in common discourse, and each can consider ones own faith God's personal challenge for your own soul's developed entanglement in material nature.
in kali yuga, everyone would work if it meant survival--too bad (gets good) the power-structure does not know how to make work. shudra means the foot of state, which today toes all humanity in our comon obsession with identity (states promising futures and pasts, the struggle to simply maintain a living space for one's own beloved)--therefore we should forgive all but the ignorant proponent, and give them the good world.
adligation: oblige the future to effect the past--the connection between a present-state's (2) future-state (3) and its former-state (1) is the negation of 2>3+1--where the future and the past are always greater than the present, because their existence is undeniable. Because it negates truth, rather than proposing a false truth, it is considered funny and the basis for humor.
threshold: the point beyond which a values-pair requires new ordinances from the control structure.
The bonds of identity and state exceed beyond the threshold of adligation>obligation threshold in the form of, for example, arranged marriages. This is to say that identity and state will exist for themselves as obligations for people in arranged marriages, whereas those who are not so obligated can mimic or return to them using adligation.
Soft-historicity hypothesis: the (equally necessary) approach to truth which regards qualities to be sufficiently ascribable (truthfrul) when based on traditions or telling alone. Truth is drawn from knowledge, not fact. It is necessary because it allows for local instances to be maximally truthful, whereas global truths may also be known.
Hard-historicity hypothesis: qualities ascribable to logic with logic suffice as logical truths and–if so weighted–facts.
When playful or genuine, adligation can find its place in society.
However once flirty and post-feminist (post equal-status/rights for women--therefore the locker-room talk can be extended to "equal" women) it can and should get ruled-out by the control structure--the well-known formula for divide and conquer: degrade values, fight fundamentalism. We are approaching the total rectification of values--the convergence event.
Because the adligation/obligation threshold is a threshold, the control structure has saught to abuse it (advertising sex--pushing the possibility to adligate beyond reasonable bounds (flirtation in general in society, rather than a private matter). But because this has occurred over so many values--humanity stands at the threshold of thresholds: the time for a Great Awakening. For the first time this can happen globally. We are the immune system winning the war against false truth--do not get sloppy.
"Either adligation or control-structure" does not mean one or the other: it means a balanced world where traditions can insulate themselves from a fluxus of potential in general--a world that is supported by local householders and common global traditions and liberties (individual/state rights and free communications/municipation).
For people are naturally free--and since adligation regards non-real entities (future state), as well as the past (by virtue of soft-historicity, own-truth) as non-real, it is naturally more correct. Obligation is 1+3>2, because it claims that a non-real entity (the past, debatable) and its counterpart (future obligation, human invention) are greater than the present moment.
This is the basis of all #states, because they require a statement and an approach to that statement, as well as someone to ascribe to. Often people will state things about the world that only apply to themselves. The difference between the bases (SHH, HHH) and states in general, is that any state can use both hypotheses arbitrarily, whereas perception requires both to trust reality at local and global levels. At a certain point even the hardest logician lets go and acts on impulse, and similarly even the severest fundamentalist will be capable of recognizing the need for own-interpretation (free-will). Furthermore, oral traditions and those in possession of the "flexible timelines" can and do listen to reason--however unless we have a higher instance (a local global order), then judgement becomes a failed mechanism, drawing out imagined future garden paths and losing the connection to reality, to the convergent universe--I do not say multiverse, unless you consider each human a world in themselves. Until our intentions are clean and clear, so that all can work together, then how shall anyone abide our brotherhood--let alone those unions which exist locally.
For man must stop killing man, so that any union can exist. Therefore we require the brotherhood of man--and for this common sense.
Know that divergence and a single person being right above all is an impossibility in the long run. The multitude of skills and advancement in this present decadent state is the exception that proves the rule. We are being blessed by the better Way, and should follow it to perfection, freedom, and liberty.
Adligation is 3*1<>2. Where it is given and acknowledged that the dignity of the present and all its company outweigh any of our imagined futures (because it is negating a truth, not proposing a false truth). Theologically this is the necessity of God's omnipresence (above all penetrating existence)--correct application of this to the right logical spaces, and proper leniency with it regarding non-global truths are necessary for peaceful planet. The * indicates that order matters. We have a future dictated by a past and adligation invites to a future-past, the adligator and the producer can laugh at their flirtation with a future more fixed than the past: perhaps because it aligns with tradition (1).
Originally #banned in the United States for its graphic #sexual content, Henry Miller’s classic #novel, Tropic of Cancer (1934), follows an unnamed narrator on his travels throughout Paris in the 1930s. The narrator is now widely accepted as being Miller himself, the book based on his own encounters in the French capital. The book is considered one of the #most #important #novels of the twentieth century. Best known for #challenging conventional #restraints on free speech in literature, Miller’s works are graphic and reflective in nature.
Now hailed as an #American #classic Tropic of Cancer, #Henry #Miller’s masterpiece, was #banned as #obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a #historic #court #ruling that #changed American #censorship standards, ushering in a new era of #freedom and #frankness in modern #literature, permitted the publication of this first volume of Miller’s famed mixture of memoir and fiction...
Tropic of Cancer is a novel by Henry Miller that has been described as "notorious for its candid sexuality" and as responsible for the "free speech that we now take for granted in literature." It was first published in 1934 by the Obelisk Press in Paris, France, but this edition was #banned in the United #States. ... . In 1964, the U.S. #Supreme #Court #declared the book #non-obscene. It is regarded as an important work of #20th-century #literature.
https://ledocteurburz.wordpress.com/2022/06/01/la-liberte-cest-tuer-tuons-la-liberte/
Les Ricains à l'honneur avec le #1erAmendement, la valeur des démocraties tueuses de masses et consorts...
"La liberté c’est tuer, tuons la liberté."
©Le Docteur solde ses dernières libertés, une arme achetée un like offert.
Where does YOUR country stand?
World survey of conscription and conscientious objection to military service
War Resisters' International maintains the World survey of #conscription and conscientious objection to #military service - a database of country profiles and information on the situation for conscientious objectors (COs) and #conscripts around the world. This unique resource exists to assist #activists, #researchers, lawyers and other interested parties to find out more about both trends in conscription worldwide, and specific information on individual #states. It has been used to assist COs seeking #asylum, to give #solidarity activists #information in planning campaigns, to give campaigners against conscription examples from other states to put pressure on their own #governments, and in academic #research.
#peace #antiwar #pacifist #pacifism #ConscientiousObjectors #ConscientiousObjection
Hyperion to build $297 million fuel cell manufacturing hub in Ohio
Hyperion Companies Inc has announced that it intends to invest over $297 million into the construction of a next-gen fuel cell manufacturing facility in Columbus, Ohio.
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/fuel-cell-manufacturing-hyperion/8551307/
#states, #united, #cell, #news, #hydrogen, #fuel, #companies
California pours $2 billion into renewable hydrogen and offshore wind
California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced that there is “no one more committed” to supporting clean energy production use and storage as massive investments are aimed at renewable hydrogen and offshore wind energy.
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/renewable-hydrogen-ca-funding/8550947/
#states, #hydrogen, #wind, #united, #energy, #blueprint, #green, #news
Cummins to build H2 fuel cell innovation center in West Sacramento
Cummins (NYSE stock symbol CMI) has announced that it will be opening an H2 fuel cell innovation center in West Sacramento in 18,000 square feet of space in the California Fuel Cell partnership building.
http://www.hydrogenfuelnews.com/h2-fuel-cummins/8550471/
#california, #hydrogen, #united, #cell, #fuel, #news, #states
