What is Fascism and NAZI-ism?

In this day and age, the terms ‘fascist’ and ‘NAZI’ have become substitutes for rotten eggs and tomatoes. They are thrown at anybody who disagrees with left-wing or right-wing ideologists. However, most people do not know what they really mean or used to mean. . .

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What Stimulates the Economy and what is Inflation?

Many people believe that government spending of tax money creates an extra stimulus to the economy. This belief is wrong. Here is why: If a person earns e.g. $100 through work in the free market and the government takes away – say – $30 in taxes, the government can now spend the $30 for goods and services in the marketplace, while the earner (taxpayer) can now only spend the remaining $70. At best, the combined effect would be the same as if the earner had been allowed to keep and spend his/her $100. In either case, $100 would have flown into the economy to stimulate it. The part of the $100 that was taxed away and then spent by the government, produces no additional stimulating effect for the economy. . .

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Climate Change

The world is about 4.5 billion years old, mankind about 1 million years. If we equate earth’s age with one day at 86 400 sec, humans have been around for just 18 seconds of earth’s life. Not long enough to experience earth’s mean climate, which is much warmer than today’s climate. . .

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