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The pharmacuetial industry has had too much control over research and the direction that cures take for too long. The alternative treatments that are allowed in other countries and that have been shown to be effective, but are not allowed here, makes me frustrated.
When any industry has too much control and can control government policies, it is frighting. Look at the NRA, Oil, Health Care, and Pharma.
Are things be done for the welfare and benefit of We The People, or for the profit of those industries?
Thom,
The magic hand of the free market economy will encourage investment in the region but probably the reality will be taking more jobs off shore since labor and specific safety standards in developing nations are a century behind the times.
I use to think that most American's cared about products made in America and the jobs it protected. Now I don't know. Actual middle class working Americans elected our Congress and they seem perfectly fine in taking us back to Victorian age economic policies.
Of course we should be setting policy to bring new manufacturing jobs so we can produce widgets that will spur economic recovery, but Thom that sounds like European Socialism if you listen to those poor bastards who keep Congress loaded with neo-conservative mono brow representaives.
No Thom, I use to think shows like yours would make understanding what our country needs to succeed but after wittnessing the Bush II years and even President Obama at work I don't hold out for any sensible policies that will grow our economy for over 95 percent of our citizens.
Good luck trying, I'll do my part voting and sharing about progressive ideas that worked with President's FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson and yes even Nixon.
Concerned citizen,
JND
Vegasman56 -- The last and current leader of Brazil seem to be doing wonderful things. For example, they went to the WTO and received permission to put a 47% tariff on incoming Apple products from China. As a consequence, Apple decided to build a factory in Brazil. The other thing I recall that the leaders did was in response to an oil spill. About a year ago there was a small (in comparison to the BP disaster) oil spill and the response was to take away all the passports of the executives of the oil company. One of them was an American. Are any of the Brazilian leader's actions reducing wealth and income inequality?
First I've come to enjoy everyone's exchanges on this blog. It's so entertaining that I might have to start getting involved.
From fridays blog on the part about discussing home invasions:
@Ken You do realize the likelyhood that you'd be able to protect yourself against a home invasion with a gun is virtually slim to none right? I personally also own a glock for home protection and I'm quite good with it. But I don't live in a fantasy world where I don't know general statistics of how often an invasion is thwarted by a gun or have some sort of superman complex created by the movie industry telling me that I can be the hero in these situations. There are so many variables that go into dealing with a home invasion -- most of which are involuntary reactions of which you can not say you'll be able to follow through with unless you've actually done it. Not only that but generally the person with the element of surprise is going to win the race every last time.
I'd love to see how you can back up your assuredness of any man's capibility to protect themselves in a home invasion. Aside from falsified stories written by NRA supported think tanks of course.
@DAnne
I mostly agree with you but I have to say you are being idealistic about stopping them from raping or murdering you and your family with your wit. The likelyhood of that is probably less than holding that gun. People that aren't interested in hurting the home owners commit robberies -- aka robbing a home while the tenants aren't there to avoid these situations. The other ones maliciously commit home invasions with the intent of hurting the occupants nearly every time -- aside from maybe meth heads that don't what they are doing. Their first priority is terrorism and they may follow up with stealing your crap as an after thought as well. Though, maybe not.
You have to think of these things in a realistic nature. No one likes to though, because the outcome is nearly always grim no matter how you prepare yourself.
It is a dilemma isn’t it Thom, that is a hard decision to make, should we keep supplying jobs by supporting the military-industrial complex, or transition to a more productive employment for American citizens. Of course I’ll always choose the more productive employment for our country. And I agree with you to bring back more of the industrial employment for this nation will make us leaders again for the rest of the world to follow. The austerity measures that the Republicans want to bring upon this country will only benefit one group of people, and that would be the top 1 to 2% and take the common working family to a lower level. A good example we can look at is, Rio de Janeiro where there’s only two classes, the fabulous Rich, and their servants. And that’s a past I do not want to go down
PalinD and others:
Have you heard Peter B. Collins latest two interviews with the "NSA 4," prosecuted whistleblowers (truth tellers)? About the privatization of the NSA.
Also, Peter's interview with Richard Scrushy shows how innocent men (Scrushy and Don Siegelman) can be charged with crimes they didn't commit and spend 6+ years in prison.
Palindromedary and Ken Ware ~ I must say it has been fun discussing this topic with you both. I feel I've learned a lot in a short time. I thank you both for that.
Ken Ware ~ There is nothing wrong with disagreeing about an issue like this. I respect your opinion. It's like when the nozzle on my garden hose disappeared one day about a year ago. I looked everywhere for it unsuccessfully. The next day an identical nozzle magically appeared on my neighbor's garden hose. I convinced myself that it was merely a coincidence and bought a new nozzle. However, I now store my new nozzle in the garage and only take it out when I need it. I still believe I can trust my neighbor; but, I find I can't trust my nozzle anymore! Life goes on and we all get along. Therefore, if I am capable of rationalizing my view of reality to suit my needs, who am I to judge you. We all do the same thing to one extent or another. Let's just get over it and move on. Concerning home guns and my suggestion of buying yourself flowers to remember me by sounding a little too feminine for you, Ken, then I suggest this: If I'm found dead from a gun shot wound in my home, and you want to do something appropriate, comb this Blog's archives and copy every one of my posts and use them to compose a book. Consider this post to be written permission to do so after my death. Publish the book on line for me, take all the proceeds and open up a low risk, high yield trust account for you little grandchild. When she turns 18 give it to her and say its a present from Uncle DAnneMarc. Earmarked to be used to help pay for her college.
Palindromedary ~ Again, thanks for that education. I still find it hard to believe that paper was published in 2009 and I didn't hear about it till last week. It should have been on the front page of every newspaper in the world. I can see why Ken Ware has his doubts. I too tend to secretly wish it is bogus myself; however, the study was so meticulously documented it would take an equally disciplined counter study to debunk it--IMHO. Keep up the good work my friend, and keep sharing that research.
Happy Cinco de Mayo everyone! Viva la Revolucion!
Palindromedary ~ You squirt coffee up your "Panama Canal"? To cure Cancer? Seems like that's a good way to get Cancer. So, assuming this isn't a joke, do you take your coffee black or with cream? One lump or two?
Would that green juice that goes with it be made out of Napaletos--a Mexican cactus? If so, did you learn about this treatment in Mexico? It sounds like a treatment administered to me once while there. I thought it was a joke but went along with it anyway just to be respectful and nice. At the time, I figured it must be a strange customary way of greeting strangers. In retrospect, since I've never been diagnosed with Cancer, maybe the treatment works!
It's amazing how much more advanced some primitive areas of the world are in medicine. I wonder if the original Hills Brothers ever heard about this breakthrough; or, for that matter Joe Dimaggio--the original Mr. Coffee. "He one Mojo filter."
Jack Reacher. From The New York Times bestselling author Lee Child comes one of the most compelling heroes to step from novel to screen - ex-military investigator Jack Reacher (Tom Cruise). When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: “Get Jack Reacher!” So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher against an unexpected enemy, with a skill for violence and a secret to keep and a target on Reacher’s back.a plat form where you can online sell any thing.
bobthebear ~ Thank you sincerely! What a compliment!
The sad fact of the matter is that people don't realize that the truly victimized person in most armed robberies is the person with the arms. The chances are that he is simply a person down on his luck who needs a capital infusion and knows no better way to obtain it.
This person needs to be treated with understanding and respect; and not, with a confrontation that no one can win. Thank you for recognizing the value of life my friend. World peace to us all!
Mark_Pash -- Isn't cutting taxes on the rich part of a monetary-Financial system?
The main reason I ask is that I keep saying bring back the tax structrue of the 1950's (tax rates corp and personal, the loop holes, the tariffs, the death taxes and probably some others). Would that be considered a monetary-finacial system?
Because "Drupal" is French for "Drop all"!
Just kidding.
Actually, my original reply to you was dropped and now I have to retype it.
In answer to your question about those symbols:
Max Gerson believed that there is a far better place to put your coffee, as many as 5 times a day, than drinking it. But don't try it with hot coffee...very bad. But you also had to drink something like 11 glasses of green juice everyday. He believed that it cured cancer (and a lot of other ailments)...hence the Caduceus symbol and the lazy 69 Cancer symbol. The moons and stars are just for decoration and mean nothing. I'll let you figure out what NMAS means.
☕NMAS ☤ ♋?
☾★☆★☆☽
Why did my last reply say to #4 when it was this message I replied to?
re·pres·sion [ ri présh'n ]
1.being kept down by force: the process of suppressing a population, or the condition of having political, social, or cultural freedom controlled by force or military means
2.psychological protective mechanism: in Freudian psychology, a mechanism by which people protect themselves from threatening thoughts by blocking them out of the conscious mind
Or by a “debatable method” that Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin of the University of Massachusetts found in Reinhart and Rogoff selectively cherry picking for a data base.
In a PDF file Thom maybe interested in, written by Reinhart describes A subtle type of debt restructuring takes the form of “financial repression.”
http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2011/res2/pdf/crbs.pdf
financed by of course, Peterson Institute for International Economics, no shame here for warp ten of blowing up the American economy.
Yikes. My point is the basic financial name for the algorithm was not published. Such algorithms use prominent mathematicians as reference. Here, there is no reference begging the notion their algorithm is a some Patch Adams blend mucked up to hope for the right look to succeed. When in fact it is financial martial arts in deception that is not the mask of Zorro it was intended to perpetrate. Again another Republican illusion.
What is troubling is that America has decades and decades of this stuff drifting through the system ready to blow up anytime. It was interesting to read Abbots list of off shore companies that have a little mail box in the Cayman Islands for corporations yet many have multibillion dollar brick and mortar buildings here in America. Heck if there was ever a pipeline of money laundering that has to be the key to America’s new one percent fund economy. The real keystone of money pipelines. Incredible a multibillon dollar building on one side and a dinky mail box on the other side.
Palin - Are these the symbols of your secret society?
Electronically Hijacking the WTC Attack Aircraft
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/war/homerun.htm
http://www.sweetliberty.org/issues/war/op911.htm
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Global Hawk Makes Historic First Unmanned Flight To Australia--April 24, 2001
http://www.spacedaily.com/news/uav-01d.html
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Army's School of Advanced Military Studies (SAMS):
On September 10, 2001, The Washington Times ran a front page story which quoted SAMS officers:
"Of the Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service, the SAMS officers say: 'Wildcard. Ruthless and cunning. Has capability to target US forces and make it look like a Palestinian/Arab act.'" ("US troops would enforce peace under Army study," Washington Times, Sept.. 10, 2001, pg. A1, 9.)
Just 24 hours after this story appeared, the Pentagon was hit and the Arabs were being blamed.
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Since 1959, NORAD personnel have been installing remote control units in a variety of aircraft and remotely controlling those aircraft in sophisticated aeronautical maneuvers, including combat practice.
http://www.public-action.com/911/noradsend.html
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Thwarting skyjackings from the ground
By Alan Staats
Posted to FACSNET Oct. 2, 2001
Published in Quill magazine {February 1998}
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http://www.public-action.com/911/facsnet/aviation.php3
ken: don't worry, man, I know you by now...at least I think I do..and I don't get upset at all...even when you call me names like paranoid. I realize that some people, when they are losing an argument, will lose their cool and resort to hurling epithets. ;-} Or maybe, you are not really losing your cool but just having fun..and name-calling is just part of getting your jollies. Great! I'm actually having fun myself! I don't get mad at you. I can understand why you would not, or could not, believe some of these things. Yes, they are pretty incredible..if true. I don't absolutely believe any of the things I say. The key word here is "absolutely".
But I do believe that there is an awful lot that is rotten in Denmark (I mean the US) here. It seems to me that if you believe that they weren't truthful with the American people during the the JFK assassination that they could also not be telling us the truth about 911. That they didn't tell us the truth about OKC bombing or any of the other bad things that have happened like this.
The more I read about people like Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols and Mohammed Atta I think "holy sh1t!..I have many of the same beliefs as they had...not all, of course. I am an atheist and I don't have any weird religion or prejudice against other races...ie: racism. But then the next thing I read I think "holy sh1t! that sounds like Ken Ware...McVeigh and Nichols were both very pro military...until, in McVeigh's case he actually blew someone's head off in Iraq...he got a medal for that but he soon went batty thinking about it. In fact, both guys, came to realize that they were lied to about these people they were killing over there and came to resent the US for sending them over there to kill these people under false pretenses.
Mohammed Atta was very religious and he, needless to say..but I will anyway, hated the US for what they were doing in the Middle East. Hell, I don't blame him, I hate the US for what they have done and are doing in the Middle East! But I have my guard up against any recruiter or infiltrator that may want to use me as some patsy in their plot. Of course, one never knows when they will plant evidence like they probably did in Nichol's house basement in Kansas. Roger Moore? I think the FBI watched too many 007 movies.
I would never even dream of doing anything violent against anyone. And I hope to live a long and relatively free life until I die of natural causes...what little there may be left. I am not as young or idealistic as some of these other people have been.
Benevolence was originally founded overseas by two wealthy Saudis, Sheikh Adel Abdul Jalil Batterjee (related story) and Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden and a top al Qaeda financier.
al Qaeda terrorist operatives opened an office of the Benevolence International Foundation (BIF) in Plantation in February 1992. Both McVeigh and Moore were in the Fort Lauderdale area throughout February.
Led by Sheikh Omar Abdel Rahman, members of the NYC cell helped recruit U.S. military veterans as terrorists
Nichols accused Moore of being an FBI informant, according to a prison informant's report released last month (related story). The FBI did not confirm to the LA Times whether Moore's fingerprints were on the material taken from Nichols' basement.
Rumours have swirled for years that Moore (or his girlfriend, Karen Anderson) might have been FBI informants. Nichols may very well believe Moore was an informant, regardless of whether that belief has any merit.
WHO IS ROGER MOORE?
Moore, who also used the alias Bob Miller, worked the gun show circuit and ran an ammunition business called The American Assault Co., sometimes referred to as "The Candy Store." Moore also owned a home and a boat-repair business in Fort Lauderdale, where he purportedly first met Timothy McVeigh.
Mohammed Atta had "closed-mindedness and intensely introverted personality". He pretty much kept to himself and did not socialize. After going to the school in Germany, and having been laid off from the job he was most suited architecture, and after 5 years of relative unemployment...wanted to go to Chechnya to fight Russians, but instead was persuaded to go to Afghanistan instead. The Al Qaida leader, Al Hafs recognized Atta as very well qualified for their "planes operation". So, after Atta and the other 18 go to the US under the guise of wanting to train as pilots Atta becomes very talkative.
On June 6, 2002, ABC's "World News Tonight" broadcast an interview with Johnelle Bryant, former loan officer at the U.S. Department of Agriculture in South Florida, who told about her encounter with Mohamed Atta. This encounter took place “around the third week of April to the third week of May of 2000”, before Atta’s official entry date into the United States (see below). According to Bryant, Atta wanted to finance the purchase of a crop-duster. "He wanted to finance a twin-engine, six-passenger aircraft and remove the seats," Bryant told ABC's "World News Tonight". He insisted that she write his name as ATTA, that he originally was from Egypt but had moved to Afghanistan, that he was an engineer and that his dream was to go to a flight school. He asked about the Pentagon and the White House. He said he wanted to visit the World Trade Center and asked Bryant about the security there. He mentioned Al Qaeda and said the organization “could use memberships from Americans”. He mentioned Osama bin Laden and said “this man would someday be known as the world's greatest leader.” Bryant said “the picture that came out in the newspaper, that's exactly what that man looked like.”[59][60] Bryant contacted the authorities after recognizing Atta in news reports.[61] Law-enforcement officials said Bryant passed a lie-detector exam.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Atta
So, why would Atta say all those things if it was his mission to pull off a very big covert operation in the US? A formerly secretive person like this, on a mission to crash airliners into buildings, lives in various places around the US, near military bases, even next door to the NSA complex between Baltimore and Washngton DC, yet he is blabbing and bragging and making overt threats...why? to be remembered? so that the US authorities who planned and engineered the whole 911 false flag could say...see there! see how guilty they were! see, there's the proof that THEY did it to us!
I believe that Atta and the other "terrorists" were being used as patsies. I beieve that OBL and the terrorist organizations are being manipulated through their masters in the US...all covertly of course and people like OBL and Al Hafs are working for these people. They can get patsies who may hate the US and fill their heads full of their religious non-sense and make them think they are going to die in a Jihad against a great evil for which they will go to Muslim heaven, shake Muhammed's hand, get blessed by Allah, and get awarded 72 virgins. But they have been played for useful idiot dummies by rich and powerful men in the US who are manipulating us all to be very scared.
I believe that Atta and the others all believed they were on a mission against the US but none of them had the skills to fly those airliners enough to get them to their targets. I believe those aircraft were rigged to be electronically hijacked and were remotely guided to hit their targets.
The 911 landing gear that was recently in the news found between two buildings...is this the one? It keeps showing up periodically...back in 2010...and just recently..go down to figure 9-122.
http://cryptome.org/info/wtc-punch/wtc-punch.htm
http://cryptome.org/wtc/wtc-photos.htm
http://www.westernjournalism.com/the-fbi-and-its-untouchable-oklahoma-ci...
Palin - You almost had me considering a black ops covert group may have used thermite devices, but electronically controlled aircraft! You really are spaced out if you actually believe your own rhetoric. Now, who is jiving whom here? Of course, the technology has been around for half a century or more, but does that mean someone rigged these aircraft to fly by remote control! Checks out the websites using Google, terrorists learn to fly in U.S. Of course, you will just add these reports to your list of duped people or they were part of the conspiracy. Come on let us at least stay in the real world for a while, Palin! Bear get use to this type of dialogue between Palin and I!
It may be of interest that Rogoff is a Bilderberger.
bobthebear & DeAnne - I do not question your experience while in the Marines. But, I assure you I can stop an intruder whether he is three feet in front of me or at a distance of up to twenty yards with my .357 Magnum. I suppose it would depend on one's training and familiarity with a weapon. And the Magnum carries a great deal more of kicking power then a standard 1911 .45. that the military once used. They have switched over to the 9 M.M. from the .45 ACP. The Torrance Police all carry 9 M.M. Automatics and they have great fire power against an individual, but are not as effective against the thick windshield of a car. And in the excitement they thought the driver was a well-trained ex-seal and police officer their fire power may have been off, thankfully .I live in the South Bay and I am familiar with the Torrance Police Department, they are usually not so quick to draw and fire, could have been rookie's! If everyone gave up their firearms, I think it would be great if everyone was unarmed. But, unfortunately the bad guys will never give up their fire power, especially when committing a crime against other people, especially if they have already served two terms and would be facing life without Parole here in California. Semi-automatic assault rifles should not be sold to the PUBLIC, there is no logical reason to own that type of fire power, handguns and shot guns are a different story all together.
Palin - We both can get a little nasty when things get to a point of combustion, and that is not a pun concerning the towers. I will just add that your theory could have taken place, I just do not agree. My theory concerning the C.I.A. and the Pentagon using Nano-thermite devises to bring down the towers was at first just a joke, but somehow it even seems plausible to me. Especially since it may have been proven that there were microscopic traces of elements that could have been part of a Nano-thermite device. This is not to say that they were correct in their hypothesis that these particles actually existed in the dust collected from the site. I would like to take a stance where we agree to disagree in a friendly manner. As far as the terrorists learning to fly large aircraft, if you Google the question of terrorist learning to fly in the U.S. you will find several articles and statements from people who run flight schools who state they trained some of these men. Why they chose to train here instead of in schools in the Middle East is a good question. One of the school instructors was troubled by a comment by one of the men he trained that he only was concerned with taking off and flying the aircraft and landing was not important. Again this could be attributed to hear say and not real evidence concerning the training of these individuals. I agree the government has a history of lying to us; we just disagree on how far they would go to get what they want and the rationale behind destroying buildings and killing thousands of people to go to war.
It is apparent they, the President and Congress, are more concerned with people having to wait because of delays in their flights then in the crushing affects Sequestration will have on the lower middleclass and the poor in our country. I am sure that the delays affect the Senators and Congressmen and women on their weekly flights home and that played a large part in passing legislation that exempts the F.A.A. from the budgetary cuts! I, like yourself, am not a fan of those politicians in Washington and do not trust them at all. We just have a difference of opinion on how far they will go to accomplish what they want. Have a good Sunday.
Why don't you guys leave this conspiricy stuff for the science/fiction writers. As I said about the gun freaks, nothing is going to change anyone's mind. Unless you're going to write a book and get paid for your thought, why not leave the subject alone? In this blog alone there are plenty of other subjects to discuss and they may have some currency.