Waching daily Oct 3 2017

Hey there.

This week I have been lucky enough to stay with friends in Bavaria, a southern region

of Germany.

It's been a super traditional Oktoberfest trip.

It's been fun, but walking around Bavaria has gotten me thinking about the ends of empires,

and how powerful states lose their place on top.

I'm from the United States, and I think a lot about American Empire, or the American

world Order, and how it's going to end.

I'm not a big fan of American empire, but what I want is a peaceful evolution, an evolution

into a system that everybody can buy into.

What I don't want is a fiery crash into war.

And that's exactly what I think Washington, DC is working towards.

I'm not just talking about Donald Trump.

US policy, from Clinton through Bush and Obama Has been geared towards more war.

They don't know much about history in Washington, DC, and they're missing one of history's

central lessons.

There is nothing worse for the traditional power on top than war.

Bavaria illustrates this very nicely.

For centuries Bavaria was an independent country, and it wasn't the only one.

Germany was a mess of separate states up until 1871.

They had different interests, and they'd frequently go to war against each other.

For two hundred years, France had been the most powerful country in Europe.

It always took massive coalitions of European powers to defeat France.

So what changed all of this?

What made France lose its traditional position on top?

It was War.

Bavaria was tremendously proud of its independence, it still is to some degree today.

But French aggression was the main driver of German unification.

Over centuries, before and after the French revolution, Kings, Republican Dictators and

Emperors thought that invading German states was the right way to prop up their power.

That's what Napoleon III, the French leader in 1870, thought as well.

He attacked Germany one last time.

It was the final catastrophe.

It convinced the Bavarian king to join the German Empire.

France lost to Germany in 1870.

It took the United States to save France from Germany in 1918, and France lost to Germany

completely in 1940.

Germany remains the most powerful country in Europe today, even after losing two world

wars, and it's the French love of war that made this happen more than anything else.

We see this again, and again and again in history.

The Austro-Hungarians, and Ottomans thought that World War One would save their tottering

empires.

Instead, the war destroyed both of them.

The British won World Wars One and Two, but the cost of those wars ended their empire

as well.

The central point I'm making here is that there is nothing more dangerous to the country

on top than war.

Even if you win, you lose valuable resources, and you create resentment.

Nobody in Washington, DC seems to understand this simple principle.

Not Trump, not the generals who are keeping the government functioning, and nobody in

Congress either, Republican or Democrat.

The United States is not France in 1870.

But we may be France in 1800.

It's a horrible thing to contemplate, but we still have the power to utterly destroy

Iran or North Korea.

We're still the first Napoleon rather than the Third.

But we're at the start of a bad process.

Napoleon III's failure was set up by the first Napoleon's successes.

Our constant aggression is already turning the rest of the world against us.

The American world order really does have the potential to survive long after the Chinese

and Indian militaries are larger than ours.

But it won't survive if we keep inventing reasons to start wars.

After having the stage set by 16 years of desperately stupid Middle East policy, Trump

now risks creating a grand coalition of countries against us.

The Trump Administration, and all of Washington, DC desperately needs to learn this simple

lesson.

There is nothing worse for the country on top than War.

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Thank you.

For more infomation >> War Is The Problem Washington, DC Does Not Understand - Duration: 5:45.

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Trump Admin Hides Report Showing Their Tax Plan Is A Scam - Duration: 3:43.

Last week, we get a full taste of the Republicans and Donald Trump's tax package, which includes

massive tax giveaways to corporations and the top 1%, while actually raising taxes on

the bottom level of income earners in the United States in order to pay for those massive

tax cuts.

But something that happened during the release of that tax package is something that should

have us all very very concerned, because nobody paid attention to it at the time.

In fact most media outlets completely missed it.

What happened was that all the way back in 2012, the Office of Tax Analysis within the

federal government, did a report on how trickle-down economics is snake oil.

How it is a scam and how it will never work, and more importantly how it's screws over

average American workers.

Here is what that specific report said.

It said, "That when you lower taxes on corporations, the tax burden within the corporation, which

is usually 82% of the taxes are paid by the corporation itself.

The other 18 are actually paid by the employees.

But when you lower their taxes, they pay 75% but the workers share increases to 25%.

So taxes on the workers go up.

Taxes on the corporation itself go down.

The extra money goes back into the pockets of shareholders and CEOs."

It does not work, and it creates an increased burden on the workers themselves.

And the Trump Administration fearing that people in this country would see that report,

because it was on the Office of Tax Analysis website decided to bury that report.

They deleted it.

They hid it from the American public so that we could not get a look at it, and understand

that their tax policy was a complete fraud.

All of the promises they been making publicly like, this was going to help American workers,

this was going to help small businesses, this was going to create job growth.

Every one of those talking points was thoroughly debunked in this government report.

So the Trump Administration decided to do what they do best, and pretend that it didn't

exist.

And the American public no longer had access to it through the government's website.

There is a link, in the video description for this video, to a Politico article that

has a pdf of the official report in it.

I encourage everyone to follow that link.

Download that report, and share it to as many supply-side economics fanatics as you can.

Because as we've stated time and time again, trickle-down economics does not work.

It has not worked ever.

It will not work ever.

In every available report on it shows that, yep it can't work.

All it does is increase the tax liability for workers and American families, while lower

taxes on the top 1% and corporations who put that money in their pockets rather than spending

it to create more American jobs.

The Trump Administration is praying that you don't get your hands on that information.

So I encourage everyone, download the report, and share it will every single

person that you know.

For more infomation >> Trump Admin Hides Report Showing Their Tax Plan Is A Scam - Duration: 3:43.

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Is Oprah Running for President in 2020? (2017) - Duration: 2:20.

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How A Grieving Mom Is Keeping Her Son's Memory Alive – And How You Can Help - Duration: 3:00.

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Is Ted Danson in a Good Place? | AARP - Duration: 2:52.

You are all, simply put,

good people, but how do we know that you are good?

I just finished shooting "The Good Place."

It deals a lot with ethics and philosophy,

and it asks that question:

"What does it mean to be good?"

"What's the right thing to do right now?"

And it involves being kind to yourself

as well as those around you.

We're talking about really,

genuinely important things, but it's, like, wrapped

in a 9-year-old's sense of humor,

sprinkled with all this visual magic.

I love it when mothers or fathers come up and go,

"We're watching this with our kids."

What I do now is I look

for the most creative people in the room,

ask them very nicely if I can be part

of whatever it is they're doing.

Just be around writers

who have this scream inside of them

that they have to get out,

and then be part of that,

because the odds are

it'll be something authentic.

Since about the mid-'80s,

I have been involved with ocean issues.

Please join American Oceans Campaign and help save…

The biggest threat facing the oceans

at the time was, and still is,

overfishing. One-third of the world's catch

is thrown overboard — dead, gone, wasteful.

Let science set quotas so you know

how many fish you can take out of the ocean

and still have a sustainable fishery.

If you do that,

you could conceivably have 1 billion fish

meals a day, forever, to feed this planet.

That's huge.

Here's my philosophical thought

that is so liberating.

Give a smile.

If you succeed and lead the perfect life,

save the planet, save the oceans,

eat all the right foods,

be the sweetest person in the world

and then you die.

So, you know, go for it, do the best you can.

Yeah, that's funny…

These are the kind of, on a good day,

my guiding principles.

By the way, as soon as the plane hits a little bump,

a little turbulence, I'm in total fear,

all philosophy goes flying out the window.

And you immediately, you know,

get up and step into a pile of karmic dog poo.

O-hoooo, easy, boy.

Is there any, like, dog poo around?

For more infomation >> Is Ted Danson in a Good Place? | AARP - Duration: 2:52.

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October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month! - Duration: 3:42.

My name is Jamie Jarboe and I'm a hematology, oncology physician at Graves Gilbert Clinic.

I'm Dr. Pamela Smith and I am a hematology, oncology physician here at Graves Gilbert

Clinic.

With breast cancer I think it's important to realize that we want to do everything necessary

to get rid of the cancer, but not do anything that you don't need.

So that is why it's so important first of all to catch it early, but also there are

many physicians involved in the team of taking care of you.

The most important thing is for women to talk to their doctors about getting mammograms.

If your doctor doesn't bring it up, you bring it up.

Mammograms are our way for early detection.

Mammograms have gotten better and better.

We have 2D mammograms, now we have 3D mammograms so our ability to find these cancers when

they are small is really good, but there's no ability if you don't go get a mammogram,

there's nothing and so you just have to go and you have to talk about it and you talk

with your doctor about the risks and the benefits of mammogram screening, about your family

history, and about when and how these things should take place.

I like this place.

I feel like Graves Gilbert helped save my life.

First with finding the cancer and second with treating it as it has been treated and the

people that have embraced me and I feel like have loved me through a dreaded disease.

So I'm glad to be here.

If I need labs, its there, if I need X-Ray's it's here.

No matter the need when I come in it's right here.

So whenever you have a place like Graves Gilbert that can have all their doctors working in

concert together, a lot of times the right things are done easier and so whenever those

things are done easier, it gives you a better patient outcome at the end of the day and

it let's you take care of those patients.

We have made sure we have state-of-the-art equipment.

We have the best things that we can have for our patients and their imaging.

We have an advanced form of mammography called breast tomosynthesis, or three dimensional

mammography and it has been somewhat revolutionary in mammography in that the computer generates

actually a three dimensional image of the breast.

With breast tomosynthesis we can detect more cancers, smaller cancers, and particularly

in women with dense breasts.

The cancer can be taken out surgically, but after the surgery there are many other things

that come after that to prevent the cancer from recurring.

That may be radiology, it may be hormone treatments, it might be chemotherapy and for each individual

patient we determine exactly what needs to be done, again to try to cure this disease,

but also do as little to you that we have to get that accomplished and that's different

for every patient depending on what the cancer looks like when we see it.

You know October is breast cancer awareness month and we turn things pink, but we really

want women to think about their mammograms all year round and whether or not it's time

for them to have one and to really, you know if your doctor's not pushing the conversation,

you push the conversation.

"Hey, do I need a mammogram?"

Ask your friends, "Hey did you get your mammogram?"

Ask your mom.

So don't be afraid to talk about it and to bring it up.