Result of Flagging Scams on Craiglist?

 I got this post from a fan.

Korean Media Frenzy Due To Conservative Party Candidate Drop In Polls!

Presidential elections in early March 2022.

The mostly conservative Korean media is trying to frame negative and sensational accusations against the ruling liberal party candidate as newsworthy and relevant. Also, the conservative party candidate, Yoon Seok-youl, has taken to slandering and insulting the current President and ruling party candidate, Lee Jae-myung. 

I think it's not wise to call for Yoon to call people fools and idiots, and say that Lee is a felon. 

Yoon used to be the leading candidate with around 47% selecting him in polls. Now, the percentage of people voting for Yoon in polls is around 29% and people voting for Lee is  around 37%.

Apparently the change in the polls has moved Yoon to act and talk even more like Trump. LOL. Out of touch with the times. 

Yoon also has a lot of other problems with his mother-in-law being recently jailed, wife falsifying resumes in the past, and allegations of personal wrongdoing.

Due to the elections, the liberal party is now sending spokespeople to news shows to counter conservative speakers. I don't normally watch the news, but nowadays it's just so enjoyable to hear logical arguments to conservative nonsense.

Yonhap News: Lee leads Yoon 37.4 pct to 29.3 pct: poll

Self-related Matters Are Processed Separately By Brain

Scientists found a section of the brain that is responsible for self-related matters. 

That could be how "self" is created...

Scientific American: How Our Brain Preserves Our Sense Of Self

Strike 1 for Big Bang Theory

If the Big Bang and Inflation theory is correct, light in the cosmic microwave background should be polarized in two ways: B-modes, which are swirly patterns, and E-modes, which are more of a straight-line pattern. They could only find E-modes.

Scientists say the detection instruments might need to be more sensitive to find the B-modes, but I count this as a strike. 

CNN: The problem with the Big Bang theory

Pot Can Cure Autism and Epilepsy in Children?

According to CNN's Gupta, in some tests that were conducted, absolutely yes. This could be a game changer. Medical studies proving the effectiveness of pot for certain illnesses where other medications have serious side effects.

I could be a little autistic. Definitely not sociable. Pot should be legalized in Korea. I might be in need of medication for my illness.

Read that Germany and many other countries are legalizing recreational weed. Thailand allows medicinal marijuana. Canada, Georgia, Malta, Mexico, South Africa, Uruguay, part of the US and Australia have legalized cannabis. Portugal has decriminalized drugs for decades, I think.

A lot of progress over the last decade. Wonder if it will accelerate? Corporations, equity funds, and other entities seeking profits are involved in the cannabis business now. So much wealth has been accumulated by the wealthy, if society had progressed at the same pace, the world would have been a much better place.

Property, equity, intellectual property rights. The system has to change, but won't? Are all people created equal? Definitely not. Some are wealthy at birth, some are orphans at birth.

Evolutionary Path to Cognition

How cognition in cells could evolve into higher order cognition in animals explained in Scientific American - New Clues about the Origins of Biological Intelligence.

Still a little dubious about how it could lead to self-awareness and a self-learning collective consciousness of cells and such.

Deep reflection on major concepts (death, life, beginning, end, good, bad) seems to inevitably lead to questions on consciousness. 

What about a collective conscious of living things (bacteria, plants, animals, cells)?  What about viruses and inanimate objects? I read that viruses are more inanimate than "alive". Anyway, I am leaning towards a collective conscious of "live" things. What drives this life? Probably a "field", "energy", or "dimension".

Being More Conscious?

Some are more "conscious" than others, naturally. What is being more "conscious"? 

More awareness of words, meanings, concepts, environment, smells, taste, rhythms, etc. 

More intelligence? I was taught that everyone is equal. Some things that I was taught have turned out to be wrong...

Many seem to be limited in their awareness, or consciousness. Too centered on enjoyment, envying wealth and power, avoiding certain thoughts (death, meaning of life, pain, mistakes, sins, ethics)...?

Meditation? If you fall into deep thought, I believe that is meditation. Really easy and natural.

Only about a third of the world population seem to be "enlightened", while another third seem to be cognitively dissonant (illogical) and the remaining third somewhere in between.

Problem is that during elections, misinformation from the cognitively dissonant is prevalent in the media due to several factors. 

Welcome to my world. Three months away from Korean presidential elections. Conservative candidate (former prosecutor who praised former dictator Chun Doo-hwan stating that apart from the Gwangju massacre, he did many good things) is way in the lead in some polls, believe it or not.

Gallup has the race neck and neck between the conservative party candidate and the ruling party candidate. Many Korean polls have the conservative party candidate leading by a wide margin. They say it's due to different methods used in polling. They are a mixture of land lines, regular mobile phones, base rate mobile phones, ARS.

Housing prices have stabilized over the past week in Korea. Increasing property taxes has been the solution to rising prices for the past half century, but the rich had blocked all property tax increase proposals since they had the majority in the National Assembly. 

The ruling Democratic party obtained a majority in the last parliamentary elections and passed the increases. 

According to polls, over half of Koreans are against the tax increases. Most of them believe that they hear on the mostly conservative news media, and in the angry outbursts of the rich.

I know a lot of people with more than two homes. One for living and the others to make money. People with more than two homes all hate the ruling Democratic party and it seems to be affecting the people who like to hang around rich people. 

From my observation, many of the Korean rich seem to be Scrooges and have an aversion to paying any tax.

Property taxes are still VERY low in Korea, as long as you only own one that is worth less than a million dollars. If you own more than one, then the property taxes are similar to what one would pay in the US, I think. Maybe a little more, if you have several really expensive apartments or houses. 

Many news announcers on TV have more than two homes. LOL!!! 

Korea is still trying to implement a five day, 40-hour work week. Things take time, I guess.