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Ralph Nader, this is the name we are dealing here at this doc. To be sincere, he was a complete unknown to me, as a non US citizen, I knew of the existence of presidential candidates and public figures like Pat Buchanan or who run as independent candidates to the presidency of the United States several time but not Ralph.

Ralph Nader strikes me as the quintessential american, the kind of person that truly believes in the american values, dream, myths and democracy.
Coming from a unknown family of well educated with Cristian Lebanese origin, Ralph must be the most influential person in the US that has caused so much benefit to the little american man. He is a fighter for justice, for your rights, he was responsible to implement the security belts in cars, something that huge corporations like general motors were totally against, but they finally had to give in to Mr. Nader because Ralph was actually right in his arguments, no security belt = you raise the probability of not making it after the road accident.

Well, security belts is something we take for granted
today, it is by default a part of nowadays vehicles, well it wasn’t in the fifties, and there had to be a man who fought so we can actually live, that man was Ralph Nader.
He was also the person behind the implementation of regulations sucha as the obligation to print in cigarettes packages a label warning you that you are increasing your risk to develop illnesses like lung cancer.

He was as well the person pushing work place rights such as being the right to be told in advance by your boss whether a task or work position could harm your health by any specific reason such as gas inhalation, radiation exposure, etc,..
This guy expended his whole life to fight for the little men category, the one that 99.9 % of the people belong to and against the ones that by buying our politicians and later making pass laws more beneficial to their stocks, obviously in detriment to all citizens rights.

During his life of service to the public he organized, established and founded many organizations and institutions with the sole purpose of defending our environment, fighting for medic care, high taxes for the corporations and lower those of the less wealthy, the kind of things that many people leave behind for they are too scared or lack of energies to keep fighting all your life. Well Ralph has gained already a place in Paradise no doubts, for he is not corrupted, for he is not evil, for he is not egoist.

On the other side of the sphere, we have, as the doc depicts, not only the corporations who wouldn’t doubt it to play dirty against this exemplary citizen, but their best allies, the republican party. For when some “third party” agent, pays a visit to the right congressman, senator or even president, and places a certain amount of “zeros” in a certain account, the person behind the 3rd person is definitely getting something in return: help to make a law pass in congress, help to make a law fail,…in either case all is numerable and can be sum up in how many dollars I get from it.

Hey, do not forget, the republicans are not there along, they run, pass, push the same actions all together, the send troops to protect corporations oil in middle east, they don’t give a fuck for the middle american man, they care less for the soldiers who bravely fight for what their government tell them to.
The same republicans and democrats, the two truly representatives of corporations, they go side by side an stand behind the Commission of Presidential Debates, what? didn’t you  know who these guys are? Well they are one democrat and one republican deciding who can and cannot show up in televised election candidates debates, and guess who these two guys are going to let you view in the screen? Only their 2 candidates, other are not invited, very democratic…indeed.

After 2000 elections in the states, after the looser democrats lost it in Florida with Al Gore, lacking all minimal decency and self respect, they go and accused another candidate of their lose, very mature, very manipulating, very evil, what? you thought that only republicans use these shitty techniques? They are as power greedy as their republicans brothers, but they all attack the “bad example” given by Ralph Nader, because they dont want to have anybody ethical enough to fight for those that cannot, to speak for those that would never be heard, to spend his private time for “the others” without expecting in return.

As I said, after the 2000 campaign, democrats accused Nader of their own lose, pathetic! Nevertheless this extraordinary human being stays focused even at his 75 against those who curse them and would like him to step aside from the social consciousness, well fellas, if you democrats are afraid of this individual it’s because he reminds you of how you should be and behave, and
that is a menace to you. The fact is that Ralph Nader was the only candidate of the 2000 that was capable of filling the Madison Square Garden of people that actually paid to see him, no stripers, no band, no monkey jingle jangle like the huge 2 parties are used to, after they pay their “followers” to come to their rallies.
Everybody knows how democracies treat ethical and straight mind that speak what they think and mean what they say, they kill these, like any dictatorship, either physically or socially.

http://www.nader.org/

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Mars Underground tells the tale of a group of people – in this particular case – of scientists, that isn’t accepted by the mainstream decision-makers of their institutional (in this case, scientific) community.  This is the story of the quest for Mars and of the plan’s forefather, Dr. Robert Zubrin. After the Apollo mission to the moon, it was clear to Zubrin that NASA works better if it is entrusted with a mission that has only one, clear, objective – as was the case when they had to master a plan to conquer the moon. Unfortunately for Zubrin, there are politics involved in the NASA budgeting and high position egos are also at stake. How will someone come up with the plan, then?

The main idea is easy: Wasting money on pending space stations or on a second tour to the moon should be halted – and instead, a tour to the only known planet that
has the required resources for humanity to thrive, Mars – should be expedited.

Zubrin’s plan was already given a chance during the Bush senior administration, when NASA asked for $450 billions in expenses in order to finance a second visit to the moon and a first visit to Mars. As expected, the plan was not approved by the US Congress. Zubrin then stepped in and recalculated the whole visit to Mars and concluded that only $25 billions would actually be necessary. He tried to harness support for this plan in NASA and other scientific institutions was actually successful in doing so, until some high positioned NASA big-shots rejected his plan again.

The plan’s key, stated briefly, is to spend more time 0n researching Mars instead of 0n the combustibles to get there. Sticking a flag in the planet’s surface, as was done with the moon, will not suffice or be satisfactory this time around. The first cargo would wait until the orbits of Mars and Earth orbits are closest to each other and would then enter Mar’s atmosphere, saving astronomic sums in combustibles. The first cargo would also include only one space shuttle, that will produce – using a small nuclear  reactor – the sufficient amount of combustible needed for trip back from Mars to planet earth, from the moment it lands on Mars. In the meantime, a second space shuttle will take off from earth, with cosmonauts aboard, who will be expected to stay in Mars for 6 months – thus, dividing the space cargo into 2 parts, which will rotate and be connected to one another and allowing for the needed gravity to be created, with all of its beneficial implications.

The expedition of scientists would eventually set a record for staying in Mars for 1 year,   and will have sufficient time to conduct all warranted researches. Among them, is to try to recover any proof of earlier life that supposedly existed on Mars, another test would be to pollute the planet atmosphere so as to bring about a rise in temperature that will lead the iced waters to melt and water the soil. However, some in NASA still object to the whole idea and claim that staying on Mars will expose the astronauts to great danger emanating from radiation and raise the probability that they will be afflicted with cancer.
In response to this matter, Zubrin suggested that a centered area inside the spaceship will be built, in order to protect the passengers from the extreme radiation caused either by the Sun or other particles traveling in space. Zubrin also pointed out that  “These  cancer odds are greater for smokers, only a 1% increase in the chances of developing cancer would grow for those members of the crew.