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Note: We were out of town and off-line on May 17 and 18, so there was no 'dialogue' on those days. Genocide for profit
As a Mother of 6 who has spent nearly 25 years nursing babies and toddlers, as an outspoken advocate and educator on the healthy NATURE of breastfeeding, we (my family) have never given up the boycott of Nestlé. We have not had a Nestlé product in our home in over 25 years. The tactics of companies such as Nestlé and others who push this fake nutrition in poor nations, especially where clean water supplies are scarce are, in my opinion condemning these babies to DEATH. This is nothing less than genocide for profit by these huge corporations. They should be held criminally accountable. Also, much of their poison peddling happens in countries were illiteracy rates are high and Western culture is looked up to, so these Mothers do not realize until it's too late, that they were lied to and their precious child paid the price.
Prince Harry and the mystery of life
Imagine it on a piece of paper behind your field of vision. Now crumple it up and let it go. ... MORE ...
Simian decency
There's some negative sensationalism in this piece, about policies which might actually be pretty decent and valuable. Orangutan undergoes cataract surgery
Scammed by the state of New Jersey
Not wanting the state to get hold of it, I call the phone number and speak to the nice helpful lady. Since my mom has been deceased since 1995 I have to produce a death certificate, which I don't have, because gave it to her insurance company and they never sent it back. Years passed, my mom had no will, so I had no need for it. No worry, the health dept will send you a copy for $25... Then I have to go to another place to present this copy and something with my mom's old address and another paper with her social security number on it. Then I have to pay them $60 for court fees? To receive a check for $448 minus my two fees, now dwindled down to $363? Now remember, this was PSEG's fault. They are the people who ripped my mom off in the first place, and through our insane bureaucracy in order to get this money back someone has to pay for it? Absolutely ridiculous. Both people said to me it's stupid to let the state get it, but in reality they are getting a portion of it even if I get the money. It's funny ... they discovered this mistake in 1996 and my mom died in 1995. It's unclaimed money, just sitting in an account, and just to send a check out after I produce the correct pieces of paper isn't enough. They just have to get in on the act. I'm not sure that I'll bother with this at all now! Why doesn't PSEG send me the check?
The Riches
I second the recommendation, although I only got to see 4 episodes 'cause the friend w/ cable got busy...it stars [& is produced by maybe?] my beloved Eddie Izzard.
We hide our wounds lest we attract predators
Thank you Cassandra. Your praise is appreciated. Your condolences valued. People are understandably reluctant to share their most hurtful life experiences (I know this because the exam room is where they sometimes do share - confidentially) and to see someone do so is especially compelling. Truth be known, hardly anyone lives a life free of catastrophic loss and sadness. it is understandable that people would be shy considering that, in our society of ruthless competition, truth telling does sometimes attract the wrong kind of attention. So we hide our wounds lest we attract predators. If we succeed in creating a new world, a signal feature will be the ability to share openly and honestly without fear of being singled out by the kind of predators our current society specializes in nurturing. Objectively speaking, I have known numerous admirable and wise people and I know that I am not exactly in their league. Occasionally, while sorting through my boxes of books I come across Gibran's "The Prophet." I always like reading "On Self Knowledge." I end up thinking that honesty is more important than wisdom in that, to the extent that we achieve honesty, we become aware of how short we are of the goal of achieving wisdom and avoid the pitfall of delusional self confidence. To me, wisdom is an imaginary goal who's purpose is to keep us motivated while we deal with our very mundane and human scale problems that persistently and consistently elude solution while aggravating us to accept humility as a more reasonable short term goal. Besides, when, and if, we achieve general agreement about who is, and is not, "wise" we will have established the sort of society where all sorts of wisdom are acknowledged and few will be seen as lacking in their special form of truthful insight and "wisdom" will become an undistinguishing appellation, a normal part of a person' character. What cannot be said on television about health care by Ezekiel J. Emanuel, MD, PhD, It is interesting not for the fact that any thing here is new or controversial but mostly for the fact that these views have been so suppressed that seeing them published in a major journal is deemed newsworthy.
Democrats haven't done a fucking thing
$2.9 TRILLION for one year?!@# That's not a budget, that is an extravaganza! It works out to about $10,000 for every person in the U.S., working or not, all the way up from the tiniest toddler to the grayest geezer. Apparently they aren't up to eliminating waste, just as they aren't up to eliminating the wars or the war criminals...or the various "laws" passed by the GOP. Either some people are going to earn BIG BUCKS and pay big taxes, or these debts will never be repaid. I think it is time to dump the Dems. They've had 6 months in power now and haven't done a fucking thing.
Proof on their side
My point is that there are people out there that won't accept the bigger numbers because there isn't proof behind it. Their numbers are most likely low. Their numbers are able to be accepted even by the biggest skeptics because they have proof on their site for every single civilian causality. and their current number of over 60,000 dead is still quite a figure. The debate I was referring to was the debate over the validity of what IBC was doing.
Islamic winds
Muslim force for Iraq proposed
Gravel rocks
Gravel for President. Ron Paul (a Republican!) for V. Pres. Kucinich for Sec'y of Defense, because he's really for Sec'y of Peace. And Obama for Sec'y of State, which will give the young twerp some experience and exposure
Nestlé's corporate greed
It's outrageous that a company can continue accumulate its wealth without no ethics whatsoever and nothing ever happens. Here's more info on Corporate Villain Nestlé: Socially Responsible Investment Campaign Oxford, Co-op America's Profile on Nestlé, Babymilk Action. Nestlé is also a big enemy to unionists in Colombia and other countries. I've just created a boycott pledge against Nestlé. Let's show them that consumers have power and consumers don't want corporate greed!!
Hakia: A search engine that's not searching you
The Post and Ron Paul
The pendulum always swings back
Great entertainment about a family of "gypsies" AKA "Travelers" in 21st Century America. And the perfect antidote to the ubiquitous worship of fascism portrayed on TV these days. I definitely recommend that you *not* pick up The Riches in the middle, but instead, wait for the reruns or rent/buy the first season on DVD. What is great about the show? The main character, played by Eddie Izzard. Haha. What a piece of work! Minnie Driver plays his wife, and she is "hot" with 3 X's. Basically, they're con artists. And it is fun to watch them escape one disaster after another as they attempt to make a lifestyle change, from being low-life scum con artists to being rich con artists swindling other rich people. This show may mark, I believe, a new cultural shift from Authoritarianism and faux morality back to self-centered anarchy and hedonism. The pendulum always swings back! And proof of that is not just that Mr. Fake Morality (Falwell) just took his well-earned dirt nap today, but the FX channel is about the hottest thing on TV this year, with a multitude of "antihero" series and movies... Their other new TV show this year, "Dirt" (with Courtney Cox) was hugely entertaining (and nasty), and featured another antihero breaking all the rules and living large (Courtney is really hot in "Dirt"!) Of course "The Shield", another FX series, is a nasty piece of work about a psychopathic cop, and might be considered part of the trend... since it is so ugly that even the most diehard fans of official torture and murder ought to be grossed out by the shit these assholes pull. (I doubt it...) The real antihero, of course, is FX's favorite movie star, Vin Diesel, who has played repeat performances in "XXX", "The Fast and the Furious" and "The Chronicles of Riddick". And if you like XXX then you like "The Transporter". Good times. FX renews 'Dirt' and 'The Riches'
New comic
Tomorrow's muse These girls are going to grab some traffic on the net, or die trying.
Regarding Zacharia Sitchin
I find Robert's emails to be very thought-provoking and well written, but I must respectfully question the other writer mentioned in the most recent dialog update. Zacharia Sitchin is a difficult writer to take as a serious source, rather like David Icke. As a big fan of Fortean Times [and all sorts of weirdness] I've attempted to read books by both. Perhaps I have erred in equating Sitchin with Icke, but I'm including a book description [from Amazon.com] regarding Sitchin's theories. While the origins of human life will probably always remain a mystery, it is important that we think and act in the present rather than awaiting a religious or otherworldly solution to the serious problems facing humanity.
Remembering Rev Falwell
In case some of your readers don't quite get the sarcasm Personally, I detested this man. I mean it. I really hated every miserable molecule of his body. For a supposed man of god, he built his career on division and hate. The only thing that made me happy was that he lived long enough to know that he became less than what he believed he was and nothing more than an inept American cultural caricature. What I found most disturbing was the fact that millions of people followed him. For his followers, I guess their lives were made easier if they never had to think for themselves. I think I am going to give up my day job and start my own religion (too bad I wasn't a great science fiction writer, they seem to start great religions!). I think my religion should be represented as a head of cabbage, or an onion. Both vegetables seem to have many hidden layers with really nothing to be found in the center. An apt symbol, don't you think? Don't get me wrong. I have nothing against God, and I am actually quite fond of the concept. I just think it is foolish and dangerous to believe that we humans can manifest an infallible interpretation of god. Perhaps televangelists should heed the wisdom of Will Rogers: After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him... The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut."
Regarding William Cooper
William Cooper, the subject of controversy, I am never of the opinion that a person or subject is off limits until I myself give it its day in court. In this world, I can not think of many things or people that are unbelievable or off limits. I have read or heard over the years, just about everyone's name on the nut case list. He espouses nothing that I have found so far out there, that it is impossible or unbelievable. I would like to know what the controversy is regarding his reputation. Maybe someone will comment and I can look it up. Much appreciation,
Speechless
There is a saying... If you can't say anything nice about a person, don't say anything at all! In this case I am totally speechless.
Iraq Body Count debate
I think that you two were pointing a lot of fingers and arguing about who had the better number. When it gets down to it the Iraq Body Count site is to prove undeniably that there are a lot of civilian deaths in Iraq. They are going about it in a way that no scientist could ever refute and they are doing it very systematically. You're number is probably closer to the truth but there are some who are going to want everything proved. They give exact instances and they can site sources to every one. Think of it this way. Someone who throws away his change may realize that he is losing a lot of money because all those nickels and dimes add up. He can give numbers that are close but he can't really know for sure exactly how much he is losing unless he records every penny. In the end the IBC is giving proof to all those who want to deny that there are a lot of civilians dying in Iraq. They are giving a number that is completely proven and not conjecture. They are giving a number that all the people in the US have heard of all these people dying but don't ever think how many there are in the end.
Falwell was a bat sh*t crazy clown
I guess we should not speak ill of the dead but.... he is well gone !! Though I'm sure some other bat sh*t crazy clown is more than willing to take his place.
Uranium dust for everyone
this is an article i pulled of the What Really Happened website's link to the original. It's very prophetic. It's about depleted uranium floating around the middle east in the wind. The wind will eventually blow it around the world
Black box on board
Bread and circuses, and e-gold and my gut
Killing your own soldiers
Former Marine claims illness from mystery vaccine
There is something seriously fucked up you don't seem to mind killing your own soldiers to cover up a drug companies mistakes.
What is the difference between government work and the Mafia?
The fact is, urine-marinated beef jerky is more popular than George W. Bush these days. Who wouldn't prefer chewing beef jerky soaked in piss to getting a hug or cheek kiss from GWB? Godwin's Law is now superfluous... Speaking of which, if you haven't watched the Godfather trilogy lately, spend a weekend studying it and taking notes. I believe you see in the Godfather movies more truths about U.S. "reality" than you will find in a month of CNN or the New York Times. I spoke with a CNA (nurse) yesterday who wants to switch careers and join the FBI. I recommended the Mafia instead Of course, these days joining the Mafia means getting an MBA and joining Citibank or Merrill Lynch And the really hot, "must have" commodity item for Power Players these days is a media outlet. Controlling the information fed to the masses is more important than owning a thousand judges, senators, cops and FBI agents. Owning a major broadcast network is the geopolitical equivalent of having nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. Which is probably why Google's stock price is so high these days, in spite of the fact that Yahoo is actually much more useful in everyday life. If someone "googles" for info and it isn't there then it must not exist, right? Hell, even border agents use Google to research people trying to enter Amerika (because obviously Google's database is vastly more reliable and useful than the government databases ... say what?) And that takes us full circle back to the awesome Unknown News website, still in business after all these years bringing truth to We The People
Is Wayne Madsen a reliable source? No.
A prank? Or a drill?
There's stupid, there's insensitive, there's Charlton Heston holding an NRA rally practically over the fresh corpses of the Columbine victims, and then there's this atrocity. With Virginia Tech's wounds still open and being pried open further by the unending media coverage and shameless opportunists trying to push their brand of "solution" to the problems of youth violence without honestly addressing the actual issues these Tennessee boneheads go and grind salt-caked glass into it and seal it up with a branding iron. You hear about a stunt like this and you can't help but ask yourself "What in the name of Jack Daniels were they thinking?" Most people ask this rhetorically, unable to look past how blatantly offensive and ill-conceived it is to even consider that the early stages of the idea might have been based on something resembling rational thought and (Dare we hope?) a little concern. I try to be the type to actually think about that kind of thing. Hasn't done much for my view of humanity but hey, at least I'm trying to be fair here. And in the interest of fairness, I looked up the online archive of a Tennessee news site in addition to Angry Annie's link on this site to get their story directly. Their remarkably detail-less, factually devoid, and terribly evasive story: School system says students told to expect prank Prank. Right. So, I brush aside my outrage to look at the concept objectively. From the machine-like lack of consideration for human feelings view it's still pretty stupid but I ALMOST see where they thought they were coming from. There's a drill for almost every kind of disaster. Fire drills. Earthquake drills. Tornado/Hurricane drills. Even Red Dawn scenarios and nuclear disaster drills. Some of these drills are more useful than others. As these situations become ever more common you would almost think it makes sense to have a system in place to contain a dangerous individual and safely evacuate those in danger... but perhaps plan and implement it a little further down the road when the bereaved masses won't be tempted to tear new assholes all around. Even if they waited for the hurting to stop, this little exercise would still have ended in trauma and lawsuits. There were a large number of things wrong with their mock scenario, which I will list for future reference by better thinkers than the teaching community of Murfreesboro, Tennessee... but more because I'm a huge dick and want to rub in that I think I know better. First and foremost, the scripted situation was NOTHING like an actual mad gunman situation. Not in the high-school shooting sense at least. For starters, they were on what I gather was a camping trip in a state park. Also, for the sake of the scenario, they knew the gunman was coming about five or ten minutes before he got there. They don't just 'spot' these guys at the front entrance. In the real life scenarios, the killers will intentionally wait until they are smack in the middle of their intended targets before revealing their presence in a hail of bullets or alternatively they will go for the hostage-taker approach and begin by making threats and demands. The latter would be suitable for a mock up. Second is the countermeasure to the gunman attack. Lock the door, get under the table, lie still, and hope that he will leave you alone... Even if his specific purpose IS to kill you. What? Is he going to assume you're already dead? That's bears, people! Especially with the time to prepare, this tactic is nothing short of retarded. Try lock the door, find anything that could be used as a barricade or a mobile shield, open a line of communication to law enforcement, and begin discussing escape options in the event the gunman tries to batter down the door. They never discussed calling for help, or the possibility of getting the hell out of the danger zone. They're treating it like a fucking earthquake drill, but without the lifesaving information. Third is that in such a situation it is most important for parties outside of the danger zone to act. Once you're IN a life-threatening situation like that and your opportunities to flee or perhaps fight are limited or non-existent you're essentially at the mercy of the one with the gun so you would need to cross your fingers and hope that someone outside the immediate area can get a handle on the situation and hopefully save your ass before the shooter gets bored. As stated before, cooperation and making yourself of as little notice as possible is only going to be effective in a hostage situation. Should they ever try a drill like this again, the onus should be more for the faculty and local law enforcement than the students in the scripted kill-zone. What made Virginia Tech so horrifying is that the killer was not contained nor the school evacuated when the first bodies were found and THAT'S the real priority in these situation. The drills should stress police coordination and response time, leadership and calm action from teachers, and quick thinking on the parts of students, who should be maximizing their survival and escape chances. The real thing is sudden and chaotic, panicking would likely have fatal consequences but inaction and ineptitude is certain death and a long guilt trip on top of that. A sanely orchestrated drill involving police cooperation could potentially be of great help. This traumatic little clusterfuck was anything but sane or helpful. The most effective and realistic exercise would probably be to schedule the drill for a specific day made known to authorities, but not a specific location within the school. Also the fake gunman or gunmen would be randomly selected, (but trustworthy,) students with low power paintball guns. That way it would come at any time or place, simulating the real fear and unpredictability of the situation, and with paintball guns there can easily be mock casualties. Effective, realistic. But that doesn't necessarily make it a good idea. I'm open to better ones. Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions? Insults for defending a bad idea perhaps?
Pressure from yet a greater force
All of your reading is inevitably going to lead you to a few categories, One, political or man-made misery. We have allowed a hand full of very bad, evil men to set us up in a situation that is inevitably going to bring a lot of suffering and pain to this world, you and me included. You need look no further than how the federal reserve works, to see that our entire system of wealth is set against “we the people” of this, and all counties. The more details you take in the more you will find that the ‘elected’ men and women that make up our government do not care any more about you than they do the people of Iraq. It is one of the most difficult realities for people to come to terms with, but essential if you are going to shake off the veil of illusion you base your present reality on. Two, we are at the end of a repeated cycle, this concept has been written about by many authors, but is presented very well by a leading contemporary author Zacharia Sitchin in his book The 12th Planet. You will find that this globe is under the influence of yet a larger cosmic cyclical rhythm, known as the great year. Involving weather patterns, magnetic pole changes, earth frequencies, etc.. This type of knowledge will help you understand that we are a part of a much bigger picture, that the evil men on this planet are under there own strain of pressure from yet a greater force. If you want to dig a bit deeper, you can read William Cooper’s Behold A Pale Horse to see that these men may be subject to many masters and influences. It also helps me feel less ineffectual. Three, that people are generally followers; they do not want the responsibility or to be bothered by the details that make up this complicated world we live in. They are not willing to subject their emotional selves to the ugly truth about how this world operates. The people compelled to be in control, know this and take full advantage of our human nature, which leads us back to the first category. As complicated as all of it seems at times, to me it comes down to timing. We are on this planet at this time for a reason. We all share in the collective experience that is our society. We are all going to be drug through this like it or not, like a bad haircut, once the chopping has begun you are committed to make a decision, either you cut it all off or change your original intent. I have recently found while contributing to unknownnews.com, that all the ranting and observations I could ever produce are not ever going to help our situation. We are collectively fucked, unless we stop pointing out the obvious and start planning for the inevitable. Nothing we say as individuals is going to really help our situation. It might help the individuals that are just learning of this, helping fill in the details, but they could be years from understanding why there is even a reason to want change the situation. Which leads me to the reason for writing this; I believe those of us that have put are time in and have slowly found our realities bending toward the inevitable, the ones past the acceptance stage. Might we have an obligation to stop talking about the wrongs and start helping those that will find themselves in our position soon enough? To me it comes down to two choices; One, we make an effort to change course, since we know a society can be engineered to serve the good of the few, can it not then be redirected to benefit the many? I also know this is a very unlikely scenario. Getting people to push I one direction is complicated to say the least, and waking them up is near impossible. Two, we let the course we are on, have its way. We then have to decide what if any action is best to help as many people as possible. This involves helping people understand that they are going to be on their own, that they need to make decisions now in order to help them minimize the devastating effects a societal crash will have on there lives. This can only be accomplished by helping them understand what they are up against. Unless people understand why they need to prepare, there is no motive for them to prepare. This leads me back to why people searching for answers, that leads me to the word paradox, and the cyclical nature of everything. Is it possible for a small group of souls to change the course of history? Has it ever been accomplished in the past? Does any one even give a shit about this subject? If it is our collective cosmic karma, then the action has already been put in play and there is nothing to be done, but set up the lawn chairs and enjoy the show. I would appreciate all rational thoughts on this subject. Thanks,
Commissions created by Congress
Ah, as usual, your articles incite my brain juices to the boiling point. If I recall, are not officers of the United States Military created by an Act of Congress? Are not their Commissions created by Congress on an individual basis? If that is so then where the fuck do they get off thinking that the very entity that created them suddenly become subservient to them? Perhaps they have forgotten that their next star on their illustrious shoulder is dependent on the good graces of Congress?? Or their next pay raise?? Or their next roll of toilet paper? They may have hitched their star to a horse that is slated for the glue factory in two years. The people who form the enlisted ranks and congress do not forget!!!
Rich beyond all limits
Not so solid brass
And it's been going on for more than a decade. Thanks, China. "Solid brass" from China contains lead. Don't drink from brass faucets or hose nozzles.
Admirable and wise
I'm so very sorry about your son. Psychotropic medicines often cause more problems than the original illness . Having worked in, and been exposed to the mental health field I believe that they can be both more dangerous and more addictive that 'recreational drugs.' You were missed by many. 'Sensationalist' is an adjective that has never occurred to me regarding to you. I would choose 'admirable' or 'wise'. With deepest respect-
Bush in Missouri and Syd Barrett in Heaven
No Obama you're wrong! The day every neocon and Zionist is locked up for war crimes and every soldier is out of Iraq and Afghanistan and the threat of war with Iran is gone, then and only then will we all breathe a sigh of relief. God was this experimental music which laid the early tracks later to be taken apart and used in bits and pieces of Floyd's ''Meddle'' Dark Side Of The Moon'' and even ''The Wall''... Stupid youngsters out there don't know that Floyd goes back to 1965. They think everyone listened to the Beatles and the Stones and later in the late 70s they probably thought we were dancing to disco. GEEZ is that wrong! Ya know, if I could only get my hands on a good tab of window pane acid, I'd have something to look forward too when it all goes down... That, and the Joshua Light show... Yeah baby! No MTV could hold a candle to my past! You just had to be there. Rock on.
Teaching terror in Tennessee
How come this article doesn't use the obvious phrase "child abuse"?
A few of my unfavorite things
The idea that you have some connection with anyone is not a great lie its just a lie that floats around like so much other crap that seems to float around from what we call the universities that have nothing to do but try to kill this country from the inside out instead of a great army trying to do us harm from the outside in. This creep of a person knows that he is free to spit venom at his own choosing, not when we had clinton doing what he wanted to do with the office. Or when carter tried to run the country like a good communist religious liar, or a few other creeps that are working hard to destroy us from within. For those who are in power these days are not people like the leaders of this country, but those who have gathered power by hiding in the shadows and pulling strings. When it hits the fan this country will change and the creeps who will try to come out of the shadows and then all will see, and what will happen then. What will the alcio say, and the judges who over step the boundaries of their offices and what will all the teachers of this country claim at that time as to why students know nothing except their rights. The real problem is not the hollywood types who have brainwashed all if not most of the people without the ability to think and act, the real problem is the big joke they have played on us all. That will be the day we all wish for Armageddon, but it won't come because that is the biggest joke of all and it was played on all of us by us who only know hate and want to also kill this country from within, for if they can't have what they don't deserve then they feel that no one shall have it. The biggest joke will be what we play on us...
Poseurs faking family values
Congressman caught in the act with prostitute, lied, attempted to run from police
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