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It's really not complicated, we can build wind turbines, and install solar, instead of continued installation of an industrial war/spy complex looking for war to keep themselves economically viable. Fifty cents of every tax dollar is being invested in the possibility of war for profit. Why not spend 40 cents of this on the real enemy....climate change? Expensive conventional warfare is dead, time to move on, the most recent so called enemy fought us with $50 IED's......Why do we continue to spend more than the rest of the world combined on a warfare economy? Time to stop listening to Dick and his warhawk gang! He got filthy rich off the last mass killing, lets fffnn move on.
chuckle8 ~ That's strange. I have ulcerative colitis too--as well as diverticulitis and Crohn's Disease. Isn't colitis fun? The ultimate cost of a low fiber diet. I almost had to quit my job as a result of these "issues." I'm a field engineer and you know how it can be to be several miles from a bathroom when an episode occurs. Several miles and several feet really make little difference. Fortunately, I responded well to the least toxic treatment and now am in full remission. However, my Doctor only has me scheduled for colonoscopies every three years. Even that seems too frequent for me. Perhaps it is our ages that make that frequency of exam difference? That doesn't give me much to look forward too.
However, I have a friend in Mexico who just turned 90. He too has had ulcerative colitis for most of his life and has managed it well. He is one of the healthiest people I know for his age. I'll never forget when he was in his 80's he beat me walking up the to the top of Janitzio plaza in Mexico. If you've never been there Isla de Janitzio is the main island of Lake Pátzcuaro in the state of Michoacán, Mexico. Essentially, it is a city made up of irregular stairs that all lead up to the same statue platform. Even the statue at the top is hollow and has stairs leading all the way up to the head. I couldn't go that far. I'm afraid of heights and those stairs in the statute have no rail. All the houses, which are mostly partly tourist shops, are built on the stairs. My friend Daniel beat our entire party to the top and waited there patiently for the rest of us to show up. He wasn't winded and didn't even break a sweat. I hope I'm that wiry when I get that age.
JANITZIO, MICHOACAN, MEXICO
I can't imagine what problem you have with a clear water diet. Perhaps being hungry? I love water and rarely drink anything else except tea and tequila--not necessarily in that order. I certainly would have no problem with being completely knocked out during the procedure. The least they could do is give me more sentatives. Being awake, alert and watching the screen--which my physician conveniently place right in front of my face--really isn't necessary. If I really wanted to shove my head up my a$$ I would become a Republican.
Any copay for any preventative procedure is an act of genocide. This is why I made the joke about the tactical nuke I made above. I wanted to emphasize the fact that people who undergo preventative procedures are really heros. Our goal should be having everyone undergo preventative procedures; and, as an incentive, we should not charge people anything. We should also make it clear that undergoing these procedures is a heroic act. When problems are caught early they cost less money and resources to deal with. That money and resources is then made available to treat others. Whenever, people have preventative procedures performed they are doing their part to save the lives of others, as well as themselves. They are heros, and should be treated as such as part of their incentive.
Sounds great to me. Still looking for Senator or Representative with the huevos to pitch it. Hoping there would be press to cover the outcome, too.
Also, is anyone tracking the negative correlation between the number BP, Exxon-mobil, Chevron etc ads on TV and news about climate change?
DAM etc. -- I have a colonoscopy annually (is that anally annually?). I have to do this because of ulcerative colitis which was the cause of bleeding colon I mentioned before. I probably have had 25 or more of them. They have changed over the years. The first 4 or 5 I was given some kind of intravaneious valium. That was wonderful, and I was aware of the procedure. I remember one year I had a splitting headache when they gave me the valium, As it moved through my veins, I could feel the headache disappear from the front of my head to the back of my head. The last 20 the just put me to "sleep". (damn it).
The main point that motivated me to write this blog entry was that no one mentioned the water diet I have to go on before the procedure. My doctor requests that I go on a clear water diet the day before the procedure (the first colonoscipies, he had be go on a 2 day water diet). That diet is the worse part for me.
Another interesting thing was the hospital charges and what insurance paid. While I was working the hospital would charge $10,000 and my insurance at work would pay $1000 (my cost was about $150 in 2005). The first year I went on medicare, the hospital charged $10,000 and medicare paid the whole amount (I think the republicans were trying to bankrupt medicare). Every year after that, medicare paid the $1000 like the insurance companies did.
People\human standards is the concept for a more equal and just society.
Not just one person but the many who are r espoonsible should be fired without recompence.
In addition to everything else, to say that the Canadian system and the current American system are the only two possibilities for healthcare is to create a false dichotomy.
All politics in the U.S. is victimology. This claim of special immunity for veterans is the playing of a "victim card" (like playing the race card, gender card, etc.), a strategy the right adopted in the '80s to bring about its resurgence. The consciousness of genuine victimization raised in the '60s was intentionally misapplied to characterize the rich, the powerful, the white, the male and/or the heterosexual as victims of society.
They should bring it down to no more than 10 times the lowest paid worker on small buisnesses, 20 times on medium sized and 40 times on the large. Then you have an issue of who gets the extra, because in most cases the CEO owns the majoority of stock. It gets complicated.
I checked out a claim in a recent local letter to the editor. The datum appears to come from a climate denial blog which didn't cite a source. Neither could I establish a funding background although the blog puts out massive amounts of disinformation. The blog's name is "c3headlines." Can anyone track its funding source?
Palindromedary and Aliceinwonderland ~ Thanks so much for checking out those links by Loren Bliss. Everything you've said about him is absolutely true. I've checked him out thoroughly in the past and have learned to trust his judgement as well. It comes as no great surprise to me that this nation is controlled by a secret cabal of former Nazis. The JFK assassination alone had Nazis written all over it. I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the very secret societies JFK spoke of belonged to a Neo-Nazi regime. So has every covert and overt war I've ever seen happen in my lifetime backed by the US--and my gut tells me it goes back much further before that. Of course Nazi and Satanists are not necessarily two mutually exclusive groups. I still hold fast to my contention that behind all of this--the Nazi menace as well--is a driving presence of occult worship. Although there are a plethora of facts out there to back up this contention, my main reason for this contention is out of premonition and intuition. I've learned to trust my gut feelings; and, in this case, I would have to see good reason to believe otherwise. It is imperative to understand one's enemy in order to anticipate their behavior. Case in point, why commit genocide against the Jews and people of the middle east? Perhaps to snuff out the bloodlines of the family and friends of the origin of Christianity? Palindromedary, did you not just say that U.S. backed terrorists in Syria were beheading Christians? I know Palindromedary that you don't like to take anything the "Burble" says seriously. Just because the "Burble" says The Synagogue of Satan will be waging war with Christians in the end times doesn't mean that's going to happen right? It's just a ferry tale, right? However, there sure are a lot of slain Jews all throughout Europe in the 40's, slain Muslims in the Middle East in the last few decades, and now a bunch of headless Christians in Syria right now who might just disagree with you. What you want to believe is your business--it is what the person holding the sword to your throat believes that you should concern yourself with. The validity of these belief systems is irrelevant. The fact that they influence human behavior is. The belief systems of the "Burble" are a very powerful and effective method of mind control. In the wrong hands it is nothing less than a Super Cult on steroids. That is exactly what I believe is behind the motivation of all the foot soldiers for the Nazi Empire. After all, what is really in it for them anyway? They're never going to see a piece of the pie they are killing and dying for. What is their motivation, if not a Super Cult?
Until we fully understand our enemy, we won't have a chance of defeating them.
DAnneMarc: No problem..that's what these forums are all about...often challenging one another in order to wring out some consensus on ideas. All though some of us are unbending in some matters, there are other, more important matters that, by challenging one another, gets us all to think more about them. Perhaps some will change their minds on some issues, perhaps not. At least if certain things are put on the table now, they might not come as a surprise later. No one else is ever perfect to any one of us and neither is Bernie Sanders; but, Bernie Sanders seems to come very close to being perfect in my mind. If Bernie Sanders does decide to go through with a run for the Presidency, we will be hearing all kinds of propaganda from his detractors. It is best to be prepared for that.
Me too! I don't know of one thing that I have ever disagreed with what Loren Bliss has said either here in this forum, in other forums, or his own.
Anti-Terrorism Spending 50,000 Times More Than on Any Other Cause of Death
http://thinkbynumbers.org/government-spending/anti-terrorism-spending-di...
Has some interesting charts as well.
hese just a few of the highlights from Bernie's speech:
The top 1% owns 38% of the financial wealth of america. The bottom 60% owns just 2.3%.
The Walton Family are now worth $148 billion which is 40% of the total of what Americans own.
From 2009-2012, 95% of all new income earned in this country went to the top 1%.
The top 25 hedge fund managers made last year over $24 billion. That is enough to pay the salaries of more than 425,000 public school teachers.
The koch brothers, they are the second wealthiest family in this country. In the last year alone, that one family saw a $12 billion increase in their wealth. $12 billion in one year, bringing their total wealth to up to $80 billion.
http://readersupportednews.org/opinion2/277-75/22830-focus-a-threat-to-a...
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1384 billionaires in the US in 2013. And here they are:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/erincarlyle/2013/03/06/full-list-u-s-billion...
Wow! I just listened to Bernie's 22 minute speech in Congress and it was a very powerful one. Very impressive!
By the way, the transcript is there as well. Although I have no problem hearing and understanding every word that Bernie Sanders says, it is still nice to follow along with the printed transcript.
www.readersupportednews.org
I'm strongly leaning toward voting for Bernie Sanders, should he run. Bernie Sanders is very Presidential..that's for sure! I really hope (there, I said the "h" word) he runs and wins the election.
I read that article that Loren Bliss gave us...including about 50 pages of the 100 pages in the link in that article. That link was about how the US intelligence agencies and intelligence agencies of a number of other countries helped Nazi war criminals escape. It was based on more recent declassified documents.
I also read a good bit in Loren's blog as well..very talented and informed writer. He had some links for a web site that looks to be pretty interesting.. www.readersupportednews.org
There is an article there, now, on Bernie Sanders called:
A Threat to American Democracy
And get this...that web site also has an article on: Vietnam is assassinating their corrupt banksters. YAAAAYY! At least someone has the gumption to do what is necessary!
"Vietnam Is Sentencing Corrupt Bankers to Death by Firing Squad"
Aliceinwonderland ~ Don't be creeped out. The Nazi's have been doing this now for over 20 years before you were born. Nothing has changed. Nothing is new. You just learned something you didn't know before. We all did. That enlightenment should please you. Don't forget--the first step to overcoming your enemy is to understand them.
Look on the bright side, at least you didn't have to have a colonoscopy to learn that.
That is true; or, so I have been told. Personally, I've tripped on better $h!t when I took the finals in advanced Calculus and still got an A+. No, what they give you for this procedure is less than one drink of alcohol. I'm sorry! I'm not that cheap of a date. You want to violate me I need something strong enough that I couldn't even begin to get out of a chair on. I better be so whacked that I wouldn't care if you used a flexible hose or a Samurai Sword.
Relatively speaking of course. I take it that once--at least--you were audited by the IRS; or, perhaps, spent some quality time in prison?
Oh, you are so right. In fact, I had mine framed and hung on the wall in front of my desk where I'm typing right now. It's so much cooler to look at than looking at all those photos of my in laws that used to hang there.
Wow dude! You're really doing a great job selling this procedure. You say, now I might have to wait in line? I can't have one right away anymore. Oh, gee!! I'm soooo disappointed. "Thanks Obama!!"
THANKS OBAMA!!
Very good points! AIW. It is a form of control...isn't it?
It's the Fourth Reich, out to conquer the world! And it bloody creeps me out. - AIW
Oh, you too? Thanks for telling me. I thought I was being kinda weird. But I guess I'm not alone.! ;-}
I hear the citizens of Ukraine are at it again...this time it is the people against the people who overthrew the government the first time. It's mostly in the Eastern part of the Ukraine. I just wonder if this might not give the Russians an excuse to go in to keep the peace...and, of course, restore the original regime.
The US is just so bogged down with ridiculous quagmires all around the world, wasting all that money. The US needs to stop trying to be the world's policemen. This country has already been embarrassed enough...giving aid to Al Qaeda in Syria. What the heck are they thinking? Maybe world conquest?
Some may think they can finally, completely squash Russia..they've already got them surrounded by NATO countries and radar sites and missile silos in those countries.
The problem is that the Russians already tried capitalism after the Iron Curtain fell, and there have been pressures to go back to the old Communist way. A very few people got extremely wealthy and the people got the shaft...just as in all the other countries who got suckered into western bankster's schemes. And the former Ukraine President Victor Yanukovych realized that if he sold out to the west they'd suffer the same kind of economic oppression that other countries, who fell for the scams of the western banksters, suffered. Not to mention that they get a lot of their gas from Russia and could be cut off. But the Ukrainian Nazis aided by the west overthrew him.
What if Florida decided to go Communist and secede from the US and have Russian troops building up in Cuba in case the US invaded Florida to take it back? The US would invade immediately and take it back. And we really don't need Florida as much as the Russians need Crimea. The Crimea is the Russian's only warm water port...without that they would be dead in the water. And NATO want's it badly. The Crimea is about the same distance from Moscow as Florida is from Washington, DC. The US needs to stop creating civil unrest and quit instigating the overthrow of other governments. Everyone around the world knows that's what the US has been doing. It's hegemony, absolutely.
Wow Chuck! So all it takes is a new software system for the VA to cut healthcare costs in half. Yet the only people outside the VA to adopt it into their systems were foreigners, not Americans… Amazing! But here's what I think lies behind such a baffling dichotomy. In this grrreat country, health care denial is not simply a way to profit off health care, even as huge an incentive as that might be! Health care denial is also a means of control. A citizenry living on the edge, paycheck-to-paycheck, just one illness or accident away from total ruin, is a frightened citizenry. When people are demoralized and scared, they are more easily manipulated and controlled.
If our so-called public servants really wanted us all to have access to health care, it wouldn't be that difficult. All it requires is a rearrangement of priorities. Had our politicians enough incentive to resolve this problem, it would have been done decades ago. It's not that they can't, but that they won't. - Alice I.W.