Another research provided more evidence that anticholinergic medications could cause short-term and long-term illnesses for a person’s brain such as dementia and cognitive impairment. Anticholinergic medications have been used in over-the-counter drugs and prescription drugs for sleep problems, hypertension, and other health problems: “If you use Benadryl, Paxil, Dramamine it's REALLY time to stop: definite links to dementia, cognitive damage found with these OTC allergy drugs” (http://www.naturalnews.com/053835_OTC_medication_cognitive_impairment_anticholinergic_drugs.html). The biotechnology public and private sectors should do a lot more thorough research on its theories, services, and products. Any organism involves very complex and dynamic biochemistry. This makes biotechnology very unpredictable or risky.
Gas prices for San Diego currently range from ~$2.50 to ~$3.50, and the typical price is more or less $2.75. These gas prices are low when compared to gas prices a few years ago. The major causes for these relatively low prices are OPEC, its oil-exporting partners, and the petrodollar's global scams (e.g., central banksters' monopoly money, exclusive deals with oil-and-gas nations, inflation tax, usury, financial fees, infinite debt, unending derivatives, cartels, and sanctions).
Saudi Arabia led the high extraction and export of oil and gas, but this created lower revenue for the Saudi regime and other oil-and-gas exporters. The decreased income quickly created debt problems for the Saudi regime. Why would the Saudi regime do this?
One theory is that the Saudi regime is trying to eliminate the fracking industry in the US. The idea is to undercut the competition until the competition disappears or becomes insignificant. However, the Saudi regime should know fracking has exaggerated benefits (e.g., greatly overestimated gas-reserves) and understated drawbacks (e.g., introduction of toxic chemicals into ground water and the vast release of controversial gases into the atmosphere). Over the short run, fracking could somewhat compete with the Saudi regime’s vast oil and gas reserves. Over the long run, fracking is a lousy solution.
I think the real target has been Russia. The real goal is to launch sneak attacks on Russia’s economy and to contain Russia with proxy regimes and proxy rebels. For a few years, Russia and the EU struggled with their oil-and-gas deals (e.g., exporter Russia wants to charge higher costs, but importer EU wants to pay lower costs), and Russia disputed with the US and the EU over the fate of Ukraine and Syria. The result was the US and EU applying sanctions on Russia and providing more support to the proxy rebel-junta in Ukraine and to the proxy rebels in Syria (i.e., freedom fighters, “moderate” terrorists, ISIS, ISIL, and regional rebels).
The backward Saudi regime, the hypocritically apartheid Israeli regime, and the shamelessly genocidal Turkish regime also provided support to the proxy rebels in Syria, and these proxy rebels coordinated with the proxy rebels in Iraq. For about 2 years, these proxy rebels in Syria and Iraq were unstoppable. Then Russia worked with the Syrian regime to conduct air strikes against the proxy rebels inside Syria. One or two Turkish F-16 fighter jets snuck up and shot down a Russian attack jet. Turkey claimed the Russian attack jet violated Turkish air-space, but Russia disagreed and accused Turkey of being hypocritical and rash. Turkey has a history of air-space violations against Greece and Syria. Russia sanctioned Turkey (which substantially decreased Turkey’s economy) and increased its fighter-jet patrols inside Syrian air-space, but did not launch a counter-attack inside Turkey, because Turkey is a NATO member. Within 6 months, Russia’s supposedly dilapidated air-force crippled the proxy rebels inside Syria.
Then Russia and the Syrian regime started a fragile cease-fire with the proxy rebels. The goal of the Russian regime is to continue its alliance with the Syrian regime. The goal of the Syrian regime is to stay in power and to rebuild its war-torn regions. This requires a stable or peaceful Syria.
The US regime, the EU regime, the Saudi regime, the Israeli regime, and the Turkish regime want to overthrow the Syrian regime and install a new proxy regime. This requires a chaotic Syria that is ripe for a coup d’etat. If this proxy-rebel-junta plan fails, then leave Syria in a dysfunctional and weak state. Thus, Syria cannot be a good ally for anyone else and cannot create any significant regional influences. In other words, apply the anti-Gaddafi Libyan plan to the established Assad-regime in Syria.
At the same time, the Saudi regime led the massive increase in oil and gas exports. This damaged the revenue for Saudi Arabia, but it also damaged the revenue for Russia. According to the political leaders, economic experts, and mainstream media of the US and the EU, Russia’s economy was going to disintegrate, because Russia could not handle the sanctions and decreased revenue from its oil-and-gas exports. However, Russia’s domestic economy and exports are vastly more diverse than Saudi Arabia’s. Thus, Russia’s economy has been gradually recovering, and the Saudi regime’s economy continues to struggle.
The high oil-and-gas exports result in lower costs for consumers and lower revenue for producers. It also damaged the solvency of solar-panel producers. Critics of solar power constantly slander solar-panel producers for using government grants, subsidies, special loans, and other government benefits. However, this is a totally unfair criticism. The oil-and-gas industry also relies on various government financial benefits, government-approved violation of environmental regulations, and very costly military operations. The US military is by far the most expensive military in the entire world. Most of the US military is NOT for national defense. Most of it is for enforcing the petrodollar’s global scams and other cartels of the worldwide empire.
The Saudi regime also buys lots of police-state and military technology, training, and support from the US and EU. Staying in power requires persistent application of power. It also requires propaganda to brainwash as many people as possible to peacefully obey the ruling class. Thus, the US regime also has the world’s most costly news (i.e., cherry-picked partial truths mixed with lies) and entertainment industry (i.e., agitprop). The Saudi regime uses Al-Jazeera for its global propaganda. Anyhow, regimes around the world seem to be lukewarm in regard to solar technology.
The obvious problem with solar technology is the relatively high cost and inconsistent supply of solar radiation around the world’s surface throughout various seasons. However, solar technology could decrease pollution problems that are caused by oil-and–gas technology, and advancing solar technology could become more important in an oil-and-gas depleted future. The future benefits of solar panels could be overrated, because there is a possibility that oil and gas will never run out, because the earth has abundant supplies, the earth constantly generates more oil and gas, and/or advancing technology will continuously find new oil-and-gas reserves. Thus, solar technology is not an obvious solution for the world’s energy needs.
Anyhow, the Saudi regime recently tried to persuade oil-and-gas exporting nations to decrease their oil-and-gas exports. Iran refused this offer, because Iran has been under official or unofficial sanctions by the US. Thus, Iran wants to increase its global trade by exporting its abundant oil and gas. Then the Saudi regime admitted it needs to diversify its economy from oil-and-gas exports.
The US regime justifies its punishments against Russia by repeatedly accusing Russia of various human rights abuses, violations of international law, oppressive domestic and foreign policies, etc. However, the US regime’s moral code is highly selective, and selective morals are sanctimonious. The US regime provides lots of low tech to hi-tech weaponry and combat support (e.g., training and GPS) to the Saudi regime, which has been inhumanely attacking Yemen.
The Saudi regime probably wants to stop the Yemeni rebels from spreading into Saudi Arabia, because the Saudi regime has a history of suppressing its own protesters and rebels. The Saudi regime also wants to build a canal from Yemen through Saudi Arabia in order to avoid Iran. The US regime admonishes the Saudi regime, but refuses to apply any significant punishments. The US regime needs the petrodollar to fund its global empire, and the petrodollar heavily depends on the vast oil-and-gas reserves in Saudi Arabia.
Turkey has a history of slaughtering, threatening, torturing, and imprisoning independent journalists, Kurds, Armenians, and other anti-establishment minorities and anti-establishment rebels. Turkey is a NATO partner, thus, the US regime only admonishes the Turkish regime. Israel is one of the most unpopular nations in the entire world due to Israel’s hypocritically pharisaical genocide against Palestine. Israel continues to receive a full range of direct and indirect welfare from the US regime, which claims to be the global leader of dumb-mock-crazy elections, majority tyranny, or the superiority of mob rule. You’ll find similar scenarios in Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras, Colombia, and various African nations.
The US regime strictly outlaws violent rebellions and unregulated, peaceful protests inside its own territories. The US regime allows its proxy regimes and proxy rebels to use both peaceful and violent means to defeat their domestic competitors, protesters, rebels, and independent factions. At the same time, the US regime criticizes and/or punishes independent regimes for outlawing and/or suppressing their own protesters and rebels. The US regime assists protesters and rebels inside independent regimes. This is obviously a double standard.
Thus, the US regime’s sanctions, threats, and accusations against Russia are based on moral pretexts. The US regime truly seeks to create proxy regimes and proxy rebels in Russia, China, and other independent nations. The goal is to monopolize international resources and labor. This addiction for infinite loot is nothing new. Every empire throughout history wants more than what is within its own borders. Thus, it needs to constantly expand its influence into foreign territories.
This is especially true for the US oligarchy and its economic system, which are based on a high per-capita consumption and the expectation of infinite growth in consumption. This consumption goes way beyond the capacity of natural resources within the US. Thus, the US regime constantly experiences an increasing cost-of-living that must be mitigated with global resources and global cheap labor. The US regime uses the petrodollar scams, international cartels, a convoluted military, proxy regimes, proxy rebels, and other foreign entanglements to acquire resources and cheap labor around the world.
These supply-and-demand problems have been complicated by a world population that continually increases (7+ billion persons as of now), technology that constantly struggles to find and extract more global resources, and technology that frequently falters to properly contain and/or recycle the accumulation of pollution and waste. Super advanced technology and/or outer-space advancements are suppose to be our salvation, but the actual results greatly vary.
Fusion technology (or anything with tremendous & long-lasting energy output) and space-travel technology (e.g., gravity-control engine, ionic thrusters, warp drives, super-efficient & human-controlled ecosystem, space colonies in an extreme variety of inhospitable environments, and/or superior biochemistry against alien microbes) should solve the aforementioned problems with overpopulation, inadequate resources, and trash aggregation. However, this is based on shoulda, coulda, woulda, or science fiction. As of now, we must patiently wait for these scientific revolutions.
Democracy is suppose to fix these problems, but it can’t. Look at the world’s most costly democratic system, the USA. Right now, we have Hillary Clinton vs Donald Trump for the 2016 presidency. Hillary Clinton is clearly a pro-oligarchy or pro-establishment candidate. Trump is suppose to be The All-American Revolutionary, but Trump’s background shows he is an oligarch, and Trump's advisers consist of the establishment Republican Party’s Zionist Jews and Zionist Christians like John Bolton. Trump is full of hype. Obama was full of hype. Trump's fans are fanatical. Obama's supporters were overzealous. This is an obvious pattern. The average voter keeps bouncing back and forth between false saviors from the oligarchy’s cartels. The average person is simply too dumb, too inexperienced, or too busy to understand the political mind-games of the ruling class. Thus, the superior benefits of dumb-mock-crazy elections, majority tyranny, and mob-rule are modern-day myths.
We’re suppose to believe that our only good political options are the Zionist-liberal Democrat Party and the Zionist-Christian Republican Party. In reality, both political parties are more or less the same oligarchy. Our real choices include the US oligarchy vs the Russian oligarchy vs the China oligarchy vs the other lesser oligarchies around the world such as the EU oligarchy, Japan’s oligarchy, South Korea’s oligarchy, the various Middle Eastern royal-families, Latin American oligarchies, and so forth. That is authentic political competition, but it is still sub-optimally based on propaganda. Today’s slogans are yesterday’s magic spells. We need a political system that consistently yields tangible improvements or sustainment of our quality of lives.
You don’t need to be a car engineer or auto mechanic to differentiate between a better car and an inferior car. You don’t need to be a computer hardware engineer and software programmer to discriminate between a superior electronic device and an inferior electronic device. You don’t need to be a chef to taste the difference between a delicious dish and a disgusting dish. The average person does not know and does not NEED to know the intricate details of hotdog production, but the average person enjoys a hotdog. You don’t need to be a medical doctor to appreciate correct surgery vs. substandard surgery. In addition, different people have different preferences. As the truism goes, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.
Thus, we should eschew political systems that are based on one-size-fits-all solutions. We should avoid political systems that require us to be closely involved with the political process. The political system should use up-to-date surveys in order to develop diverse political solutions for various cultures or lifestyles. Let each person choose for him/herself (and no one else) the offered political solutions that s/he wants and reject the tendered political solutions that s/he disfavors. To minimize excessive political problems, we need a Bill of Rights that safeguards fundamental rights and demands essential responsibilities from each person.
The monetary system needs to be completely redone. Money is a superb facilitator of trades, but a very crude indicator of value (e.g., compare the similarities and differences between a $40,000 truck vs a $40,000 minivan vs. a $40,000 sports sedan). In addition, central banksters use monopoly money, the inflation tax, usury, perpetual debt, limitless derivatives, cartels, and other financial scams to control people’s careers (e.g., who is hired, laid off, fired, promoted, and demoted), ideas & inventions (e.g., buy up other people’s creative labor), loyalties (e.g., bribery), lifestyles (e.g., cartels that dominate real-estate), etc. This economic model masquerades as capitalism (in order to placate the masses with an illusion of personal freedom), but it’s truly neo-feudalism mixed with socialism and fascism. In addition, modern economics incorrectly assumes correlation equals causation, and cherry-picked partial truths mixed with lies equal realistic data.
Modern economics should be based on scientific cause-and-effect. Modern economics should accept the genetic and phenotypical similarities and differences amongst various ethnic groups. Modern economics should recognize and respect the similarities and differences of various cultures and lifestyles. Modern economics should understand the limitations of technology. Not everyone on this planet has the ability and/or desire to over-consume as much as the average American. Different communities prefer different lifestyles. Based on some analysts, this planet with 7+ billion persons lacks the resources for mass production and waste management to give every person an American way-of-life. Worsening overpopulation combined with genetic regression-to-the-mean will significantly hinder the advancement of civilization. However, America’s mainstream economists insist the oligarchy’s one-size-fits-all solutions of consumerism-gone-wild are the only good or legal options.
Failed economics, inaccurate economics, or economic superstitions have been the major causes for the world’s various problems and conflicts in personal lives and throughout communities. Some oligarchs know this, but they & their loyal servants create more pretexts, propaganda, and agitprop to perpetuate these myths, because they have a faulty moral compass, and they profit enormously from other’s stupidity, inexperience, and gullibility. Exploitation (e.g., slavery, peasantry, robbery, thievery, dishonest persuasions that use exaggerated benefits and understated drawbacks, and warfare) is one the earliest techniques of economics. Other oligarchs surround themselves with luxury and elite privileges, thus, they are out-of-touch with reality. Their loyal servants have lower standards, thus, they are more easily satisfied and fooled.
Humanity has achieved great advancements since prehistoric or paleolithic times, but today’s world has been dragged down by outdated politics and backward economics.