MSNBC has the article and video Leaders agree on key parameters for Iran nuclear deal.

In Lausanne, Switzerland, the EU’s Federica Mogherini and Iran Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif announce the framework for the “decisive steps” they have taken in moving closer to a solution for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program.

It is nice to see that there are alternatives to belligerence and intimidation to get agreements among countries. We could have reached this point years ago had not Bush insisted that we needed more sanctions against Iran to get to this point.

See my previous post Netanyahu enters never-never land for the evidence of what I just said about George W. Bush.

Thanks to Jacquelyn Wells for sharing on Facebook msnbc’s video.

Collective Evolution has the article NASA Has Released The Largest Picture Ever Taken. It Will Rock Your Universe.

On January 5th 2015, NASA let out an image of the Andromeda galaxy, which is the closest galaxy to us. They captured the image using the NASA/ESA Hubble Telescope once again, but this time it’s taken to a whole new level. They took 411 images and put them together to create the largest image ever taken. It’s a whopping 1.5 billion pixels and requires about 4.3 GB of disk space!

Here is a video view of that image that tries to visually convey the magnitude of what NASA has done.

Whenever I contemplate some of the wonders that science produces it makes me think of the people who have little knowledge or interest in modern day science.

And to think some people take their view of the world from ancient texts, written thousands of years ago. Compared with what we know today, why would I think that people thousands of years ago had a better understanding than we do today?

I am glad that I saw this article on Matson Haug’s Facebook page.

New Economic Perspectives has the article We Send Teachers to Prison for Rigging the Numbers, Why Not Bankers? The article is by William K. Black

Any reader familiar with my work should be running over in their mind Citigroup’s vastly larger cheating frauds that senior managers produced by using exactly the same tactics to produce hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud.

How did people become suspicious and decide to conduct a real investigation?  They realized that the reported results were too good to be true.  That too is directly parallel to Citi, where massive purchases of “liar’s” loans known to be 90% fraudulent supposedly led to massive profits.

I was thrilled to see this article. Yesterday I made the connection, in the post Net neutrality emails raise suspicions, between the teachers’ conviction and the fraud perpetrated by Koch’s organizations to defraud Congress.  The Koch’s groups’ fraud used a flood of phoney emails on net neutrality to try to convince Congress people that the public is against net neutrality.  It is about time the elite were held to the same standards of honesty that the rest of us must adhere to.

Notice also the tendency of the media to hold public employees to much higher standards than private employees, all the while saying that we need to run government more like a business.  In his article, William K. Black pointed out the irony of this position favoring the techniques of private enterprise.  That is exactly how we got into this mess with the  teachers.