SHOW AUDIO:  kpft_2014-04-02_2200, Museum Prices, McCutcheon v FEC, Speed-Trading, Fukushima, Nutrition

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• You’re entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts;
• An educated electorate is a prerequisite for a democracy.

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TOPIC: Open Forum (Discussed include museum admission costs, Zoo Euthanasia, Fukushima,

NOTE: This post is subject to update before and after the show.

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Some of the links used for this show are BELOW the break:

SOURCES (Below the break) Not all topics discussed on tonight’s show:

• ON EDUCATION: Not “school education” at which Lord knows we have to do better. I’m talking about “optional” or “extracurricular” education. “At Will” education. My family went to the Houston Zoo yesterday.
  1. Normally, the Houston Zoo it’s about $15/person. It was the first Tuesday of the month, so it was free after 2PM
  2. Houston Museum of Natural Science: $15-20/person for the PERMANENT Exhibits (FREE from 3:00 – 6:00 p.m. on Thursdays)
  3. Children’s Museum of Houston | 1500 Binz, Houston, TX 77004 | Phone: (713) 522-1138, $15/person.
  4. Museum of Fine Arts Houston, General Admission (Admission is free on Thursdays, courtesy of Shell Oil Company Foundation.)
     1. Senior (65+): $ 10.00
     2. Adult: $ 15.00
     3. Youth 13-18: $ 7.50
  5. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum:FREE (First Come, First Served)
     1. US Gov’t Owned: Charter Provisions of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum (Current)
     2. ALL US Govt-owned museums are free in DC.

Retweeted by @TheBradBlog (Brad Friedman) George R. ‏@notincomunicado9m :: Re the Supreme Court’s rulings I’m beginning to wonder if the next step is to replace the 1st Amendment with”1% Amendment”.

• McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission: Supreme Court says political donors can spread wealth much more widely. By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau
• High-Speed Traders Rip Investors Off, Michael Lewis Says, By Nick Baker and Sam Mamudi ,Mar 30, 2014 11:01 PM CT (Bloomberg News)
  1. End of WESTERN IMPERIALISM, start of ‘EASTERN’ IMPERIALISM’
  2. Russia, China
     1. China showing increasing signs of territorial assertiveness.
     2. Russia showing signs of ‘annexation fever’.
  3. FUKUSHIMA: Using the poor and jobless as radiation fodder 
     1. Special Report: Japan’s homeless recruited for murky Fukushima clean-up (By Mari Saito and Antoni Slodkowski,(SENDAI, Japan Mon Dec 30, 2013 4:22am EST )
     2. Fukushima’s “crisis of manpower”: Unskilled and destitute workers have taken over the cleanup process: “Nowhere to go? Come to Fukushima” Monday, Mar 17, 2014 11:11 AM CDT
     3. FUKUSHIMA UPDATE: Nuclear News from Japan
     4. US Ex-Nuclear Chief: Fukushima Lesson Is Phase-Out
• “Zoo euthanizes four lions, despite giraffe backlash”, Jolie Lee, USA TODAY Network 3:37 p.m. EDT March 25, 2014
• Nasa-funded study: industrial civilisation headed for ‘irreversible collapse’?
  1. Link to original article (with thanks to Robert Sorokanich): A Minimal Model for Human and Nature Interaction

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