Tuesday, January 11, 2022

Cryptocurrency can never work.

IT REQUIRES ENORMOUS AMONTS OF ENERGY TO SUSTAIN IT and as a result petroleum and coal sales are increasing.

Crytocurrency is a wet dream that is assisting in the high prices of energy and completely unsustainable while conflicting with the best outcomes for Earth and it's people.

...The Digiconomist's Bitcoin Energy Consumption Index (click here) estimated that one Bitcoin transaction takes 1,544 kWh to complete, or the equivalent of approximately 53 days of power for the average US household.

To put that into money terms, the average cost per kWh in the US is 13 cents. That means a Bitcoin transaction would generate more than $200 in energy bills.

Bitcoin mining used more energy than Argentina, according to an analysis from Cambridge University in February. At 121.36 terawatt-hours, crypto mining would be in the top 30 of countries based on energy consumption....

The UK shuts down Cryto mining operations. They cause too much strain on the grid while being completely unsustainable in the real world attempting to end the climate crisis.

China has rejected cryptocurrencies and that could conceivably be a win for a greener country.

This is why Vladimir Putin and is ideology of reconstituting the Soviet Union is grossly corrupt and dangerous.

Vladimir Putin is a confused man. He attempted to create his own economic power engine by linking with other countries of the old Soviet Union. Then for the countries still autonomous from the communists, Putin destroys their economy as if it is not necessary.

Putin destroys economies while attemptiing to reconstitute the old Soviet Union and building an economic powerhouse. He does not realize it is over for the old Soviet Union and the communists he is dedicated to in his elections have no concept of why destruction of a country's infrastructure, both physical, people and economy is a bad idea.

Vladimir Putin is an illegitimate president that was corruptly returned to office so the Russian communists can carry on with reclamation of Former Soviet states. IT DOESN'T WORK!  GIVE IT UP!!

In Kazakhstan the Russians are leaving today. They came, they killed, maimed and destroyed and now they are leaving. They have accomplished nothing except to destroy the Kazakhstan economy. Of course Putin is going to take credit for saving the country of Kazakhstan while people bury their dead, but, in fact he is a maniacal dictator that sows destruction in the name of a long dead Soviet Union. The Soviet Union feel because IT DIDN'T WORK.

A country with borders can exist because people live there, but, that doesn't automatically make the people happy, healthy, employed with a quality of life that provides promise for the future and future generations. Invading a country with people that are rightfully upset about the lack of economy that allows for increased energy prices is nothing but brutal and insane. The people now dead in Kazakhstan were good people. They weren't overthrowing their government, they were protesting a huge impact on their ability to take care of themselves and their family.

Vladimir Putin needs to be removed from his post at the top of Communist Russia to end the killing spree he sees as legitimate. He is hurting people and countries and setting their ability to be civilized and competitive in the global market place back decades.

How many people now dead in Kazakhstan were valuable to the country's economy? ALL OF THEM! How many were educated to contribute to the brain trust of the country? Most likely many of them. Putin is a danger to the world and every country weaker than Russia's military within it's reach.

January 9, 2021
By Isabelle Lee

It's been days since thousands of protesters (click here) stormed the streets of Kazakhstan to express outrage against the rising prices of liquefied petroleum gas, which means it's also been days since the internet was shut down nationwide, compromising the safety and security of many businesses and residents.

Among the sectors that were hit hardest was bitcoin mining, a burgeoning industry in the Central Asian nation.

Kazakhstan last year became the world's second-largest center for bitcoin mining after China clamped down on crypto activities, according to data from the Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance.

Hours after the internet was cut off Tuesday evening, bitcoin's hash rate dropped by 12%, Larry Cermak, VP of research at The Block, said in a tweet. Hash rate is a key measure of how much computing power is required to support the network and to create new bitcoin....

Executive Bonuses need to be docked from future paychecks.

This is an outrage. The Executive employees since DeJoy have lead a corrupt and devastating raid of the best public post office in the world. The monies provided as executive bonuses must be based in any profit the entire postal system recognized. This must end until the US Post Office which is protected by the USA Constitution is back to normal.

November 16, 2021
By Alexia Fernández Campbell

The U.S. Postal Service (click here) paid its top executives more in bonuses and perks last year than at any other point in the past decade, adding up to $370,622 in extra income for Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and four of his deputies, according to a Center for Public Integrity review of the agency’s financial disclosures.

DeJoy got a $75,000 performance bonus in fiscal year 2021, plus about $56,000 in other perks, which includes membership in two airline clubs, retirement counseling and financial planning services, according to the Postal Service’s newly released 10-K report. DeJoy earned this in addition to his $305,681 salary, the highest ever paid for the top job at USPS. In all, DeJoy earned about as much as President Joe Biden....

I have never seen such a devoted President to return the USA back to it's status.

Both domestically and internationally the ideas of a USA supreme status is being brought back by President Biden at every turn. President Biden isn't turning his back on reality when addressing voting rights. 

January 10, 2021
By Nicole Chavez

A coalition of voting rights groups (click here) in Georgia announced Monday that they will not attend events surrounding President Joe Biden's expected visit to Atlanta.

Cliff Albright, co-founder of Black Voters Matter, and representatives of several voting rights groups are urging Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to remain in Washington on Tuesday if they don't have a clear plan to advance voting rights legislatio

n."We don't need even more photo ops. We need action, and that action is in the form of the John Lewis Voting Rights (Advancement) Act as well as the Freedom to Vote Act, and we need that immediately," Albright told reporters on Monday.

Some of the groups urging Biden to skip his Atlanta trip are the Asian American Advocacy Fund, GALEO Impact Fund Inc. and New Georgia Project Action Fund....

President Biden has a keen sense of fairness. The fact voting rights in the states. The Republicans are going to have to stop cheating and lying in order to win elections.

The US Senate filibuster is simply wrong. It has no place in law no matter it's form. Returning the Senate filibuster to it's HISTORICAL parameters is the correct thing to do at this time. A TALKING filibuster allows the Senate minority to be heard. That was the original purpose of the Senate filibuster. The minority wanted to voice their points when attempting to defeat any bill brought to the Senate floor for a vote.

Today, the changes of the Senate filibuster that allows unlimited pressure on the Senate rights to pass effective legislation for the country is a violation of the Rule of Law. A US Senate filibuster should never have more power than the USA Constitution and it currently does.

The current US Senate filibuster erases the right of the Rule of Law. US Senate rules are supposed to enhance the practices in the US Senate to do the people's business. The current form of the filibuster is not a worthy instrument and prohibits the purpose of the Senate and it's ability to pass laws to benefit the country.

I support President Biden and his willingness to establish sound practices within governance that supports the will of the people to bring fairness to US Senate proceedings.

January 11, 2021
By Katie Rogers

President Biden (click here) will endorse changing Senate rules to pass new voting rights protections during a speech in Atlanta on Tuesday, the most significant step he will have taken to pressure lawmakers to act on an issue he has called the biggest test of America’s democracy since the Civil War.

Mr. Biden will not go so far as to call for full-scale elimination of the filibuster, a Senate tradition that allows the minority party to kill legislation that fails to garner 60 votes, according to a senior administration official who previewed the speech. But Mr. Biden will say he supports a filibuster “carve-out” in the case of voting rights, the official said.

Citing “repeated obstruction” by Republicans, Mr. Biden will endorse changing the Senate rules, the official said, and the president will contend that the filibuster has protected “extreme attacks on the most basic constitutional right.”

“The next few days, when these bills come to a vote, will mark a turning point in this nation,” Mr. Biden will say on Tuesday, according to a preview of his remarks provided by the White House. “Will we choose democracy over autocracy, light over shadow, justice over injustice? I know where I stand.”...

The Senate Republicans don't want the filibuster to be returned to it's original purpose because they like to bring OBSTRUCTION to the practices of the US Senate and that is simply unethical.

"The Big Lie" had its beginning before Trump was elected in 2016.

January 9, 2022
By Peter Wade

Update - Responding to Rounds’ comments, (click here) former President Trump released a lengthy screed berating him as “crazy or just stupid.” In the statement, Trump wrote that Brown “went woke” when he claimed the election was fair. “The numbers are conclusive, and the fraudulent and irregular votes are massive,” Trump said. (The numbers are
 conclusive. Biden won, and no massive fraud took place.) “The only reason he did this is because he got my endorsement and easily won his state in 2020, so now he thinks he has time, and those are the only ones, the weak, who will break away. Even though his election will not be coming up for 5 years, I will never endorse this jerk again.”...