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As a former loan officer and now real estate appraiser, I offer the price of the house is a function of income. When the Phoenix metro area hit the peak in 2006, the median price of a house was $263,000 while median family income was only $53,000 or the price was a multiple of 5 to income. My mother, who grew up in the depression, advised me to spend no more that 1 years income for a house but that was when interest rates were 5-7% with 15 year loans. I've always been lower than 2 and the lower the income the more pressure from unexpected expenses (kids, health, school, etc.) can be on homeowner success or abilty to purchase. The banksters made loans regardless of the abiltiy to pay as they weren't holding the debt by letting someone else "hold the bag" but this time the bag was filled with poo.
Opiates are used because they work really well, not at stopping pain, but at getting you high enough that you don't care that it hurts, the problem is that the highly refined versions used in medicine are much higher dosages then you'd get if you just smoked a little opium which leads to dependence on them.
It's pretty rare these days to see anyone at least in the US that smokes opum, yet there is no end to people hooked on oxycodone, codine, morphine, hydrocodone and the other purified or synthetic opiate drugs while the instances of people hooked on heroine are down, since they can get the same high from a bottle of pills and not have to use a sketchy syringe.
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Big Pharma is of course one of the biggest instigators where keeping their drug sales monopoly in place is concerned. I will always despize them just for keeping hemp and Marijuana illegal for all these decades, all for the sake of keeping anyone else from making any money accept for them. Their corporate fascism is at our country's throat. Their money is what they are now using as weapons against the people of America. Money that they couldn't have made if not for all of us buying their man made products, most of which none of us need, nor should we use.
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I guess I am being screwed by big Pharma, but don't know for sure. I am a 68 year old female with a high risk for osteoporosis because of family history and I am on the thin side. I as on hormone replacement therapy for several years and stopped that when the panic went out for that drug. My doctor let me try a few things like black cohosh, but she did not like my bone density results and eventually I was put on Actonel. I have been on that for over 5 years 4 continuous years stopped for about a year or more then the endocrinologist allowed a compromise of every other week. About a little over a year ago I started having back pains and pain that would shoot down my leg. I was sent for physical therapy, but that did not help and felt like it was making it worse, so I was sent to an orthopedist and was given the option of an epidural injection (steroids) or surgery. I took the first injection of the cortisteroids about a month ago. Then really started to look around on the internet and am seeing that people who have been on the bisphosponates are having pain like I am experieincing. I brought it up on my return to see the orthopedist and he smiled and said I made it a little more complicated. I am having some relief so he just told me that before I decide to curtail my normal activitiy I should come back and see him about the surgery. It is a simple surgery so it is something I could consider. But it gets a little more complicated in that my sister-in-law has the same diagnoses as I have spinal stenosis. We are two different body types, she was always on the heavy side and I was always on the thin side, but she has been on Fosamax for 10 years and her spinal stenosis was being treated with 6 injections a year even though every thing I see says they should not and most doctors will not do more than 3 per year. She is in very bad condition and will be having a surgery done that will last for 8 hours and will have to have a screw or screws put in. But first she has to go for another MRI, I think this is for a higher point on her spine. We are all very nervous for her, and my brother had heart bypass done several years ago, and there is the potential she could be paralyzed. I don't want to go further, but just want to say I guess I and my sister-in-law have been screwed by big pharma.
I did vote yes, but the housing market, like everything else in this country will depend in large part on the outcome of the elections this November. I was not heartened when I heard tonight that the UK says that banks can self report crimes. Right, like that will ever happened. Of course it was commented on that there are very few crimes left for them to commit so much has been made legal. The US is on a fast track to catch up with them. I am beginning to think that true capitalism is dead and we are left with pillagers and rapists who show no mercy. We have been sold out by the very people we elect to represent our interests. Instead, they sell us out to the highest bidder. It's like an auction, and our lives are on the block. Do I think people will just lay down and take it this time around? I do not. Will people now surrender their very basic rights to live peacefully with dignity? I do not. The human spirit has been suppressed for millenia and it's time to stop, for now is the time of the great awakening and the people will no longer stay silent.
Thank you Intok for all of those ideas and recommendations. I have been searching for an alternative to Google...I'll give DuckDuckGo a go. There are many search engines but many of those all revert back and use Google anyway. Your suggestion about using a Linux distro like Ubuntu on a live thumb drive is a good idea. BackTrack on a live thumb drive is a good idea if you are into learning about and exploring how the internet works ;-} But using Ubuntu, for example, on a live thumb drive or CD is almost the more cautionary way to bank on-line...especially if you still have Windows. But I don't bank on-line because I know how terribly unsafe and unsecure it is.
60 minutes did an "expose' " on counterfeit drugs and some of the disgusting, filthy, and even dangerous drugs that are not only counterfeited in other countries but that these same drugs are often being sold by well known pharmaceutical bandits with prominent names....names we are otherwise led to believe are safe. It is not isolated incidents and is widespread and I thought I heard a very high percentage...50%?..of the drugs we are now paying top dollar for from name brand pharmaceuticals are actually counterfeit and many of those are drugs that are actually harming us. I did get the impression, though, that they were trying to nudge us into avoiding non-name brand drugs...ie: those bought more cheaply in Canada or elsewhere. As long as we continue to waste our money on the name-brand pharmaceutical mafioso that monopolizes drugs in the world they don't mind a bit that we will end up dying while they profit.
Several major areas of the country have been hit, some may recover to some degree, such as Florida, California, and Vegas, snowbird areas. Others, like Detroit may never come close to recovery. One thing for certain, some banks, are still milking & bilking for all they can get. One bank ( I can't mention names, for my own protection, as I was employed in this area, though in good conscience could not stay there and be part of it.) is notorious for dragging out short sales and costing home owners thousands, in related fees.
When I’m interrupted with the commercials on TV and the pharmaceuticals advertise their remedy pill for a particular malady, the trailer disclosure for the side effects of the treatment are worst than the malady. What’s up?
We had a strong prominent Constitutional Democratic Republic since President Franklin D. Roosevelt to President Ronald Reagan. We've fought this fight for over 30 years. We've given tax breaks to the Rich, and with their money the Rich have bought the best Government that money can buy. The battle for a return to a Constitutional Democratic Republic continues, hopefully...
It is time as well to acknowledge that the owner of the illegal opium and legal opium trade is the same entity.
Why are all the pain-killing drugs ultimately opiates?
Why is pain treatment with opium the only ultimate option? What Nazi-like science has held up advances in pain relief which are not addicting or fatal?
Why are prescription drugs such as benzodiazepines made, to make one feel perfectly wonderful, till their tolerance builds up and the medical practitioner then takes the drug away?
Why do so many people need anti-depressants plus other psycho-active medications to enhance the antipressant, plus a cogener to make the pair less toxic?
Why does anyone have trouble sleeping? Sleeping is fantastic!
Sleep deprivation, pain, addiction- all means to population control.
And, we have have our established triumvirate, Sandoz, Eli Lilly, and the CIA, who have experimented extensively with mind control and drugs.
And we have a toxic pair with no cogener, General Dynamics and Wyeth, also under the same control, just to make sure they never lose.
For example, as Romney pointed out, Chase didn't really lose that two billion, they just lost it.
Chase B o A Citi Wells Fargo Goldman Sachs are all ; crooked ' All Made possible by 30 yrs of Reagan Bush GOP pushed deregulation policies. .President Clinton's part ? Caving to Goldman boys Alan Greenspan Larry Rubin & Sommers to end Glass Steagal .That goes for NAFTA too
Housing will take many years to recover . Maybe our kids will see the profits when we ' go'
eswiderski is right. You've got to become untraceable. However, this is more easily accomplished than learning to become a magician and snapping your fingers to become invisible, or subscribing to a proxy service:
Instead of using google or yahoo, or any of the other - well, or somewhat known search engines use www.startpage.com which will give you an accurate search without recording your IP address, or your searches, or anything, and gives you the option of visiting the web page you decide to visit directly (this for trusted sites) or visiting through their Ixquick Proxy where none of your personal info is recorded or forwarded, and no cookies. Nothing to download - no subscriber fees.
You now have the power to strike back against the machines, and those who see you simply as a mark to profit from without regard for your privacy. Try it, like it, then spread the word.
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Thom, you can take back your own "Filter Bubble" by not using Google and adding a little armor plating to your browser. Personally I use DuckDuckGo https://duckduckgo.com/ as my search engine as the results are pretty relevent and the search tools they have are getting really good. Ideally you want to anonimize your browsing and reduce your browser's surface area to advertisers and other 3rd party servers, your browser shouldonly be talking to the servers you are actually connectinog to, not the advertisers that are running through them as there are many cases where the advertisers used by major sites have been hacked and serve out malware to anyone visiting those sites.
All of these solutions are free and most of them are open source, and all of that convenience is still there, you just log out of the site to keep them from being able to track you when you are not using specifically their site, like Facebook, when you aren't checking it, these tools will keep those Facebook "Like" buttons you see everywhere from tracking what web pages and articles you are reading.
Firefox has an opt out "Do Not Track Me" option, it's located at Edit>Prefrences>Privacy as a caller stated, you can use addons https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/ like Adblock Plus, Ghostery, , the MAFIAAFire addons, BeefTACO, RightToClick etc. Another great one is HTTPS Everywhere, made by the Electronic Fronteir Foundation https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
If you have to use Flash you should use the open source versions like Lightspark or Gnash and also use Better Privacy, and FlashBlock to prevent Flash cookies from installing and to minimize malware vectors.
What is really scary is that Google not only knows your search they have your Android phone with a GPS tracker in it, as well as Chrome browser, Google Earth, Google Desktop, Picasa Photo manager, GTalk chat, Google Docs, GMail, on your desktop. Not ony that but they are now pushing Laptops and Desktops running their custom OS called ChromeOS, which means Google has an inteligence infastructure that puts the feds to shame.
Shame that the OptimizeGoogle http://sourceforge.net/projects/optimizegoogle/ firefox addon project has died due to the developer nolonger having the time to chase after Google's constant changes to their site to prevent the scrambling of all Google tracking methods* while still giving full access to the site. * Void if you are logged in to Google.
The Onion Router is another great tool https://www.torproject.org/
As to using other computers, you can use Portable Apps http://portableapps.com/ on a USB stick on Windows to carry around your own personal and secured browser with you, for even better security you can make a Linux Live USB stick and just reboot the computer so that you are running not just a few custom apps on someone else's install, but your own completely custom operating system, I used this when I was in university as I didn't have the money to replace my dead laptop, they allowed me to use any computer with a boot from USB option to run everything I needed.
Now if only we could get more people to use Linux, Mint and Ubutnu are the best choices for someone comming fromWindows or OS X.
That is is fully true in my personally views as i see this matter in a different way and all of them looks corrupted to me ans i will definiately be voting in the positive field.
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I voted...and all I got was this damn jury duty..and a continuation of the myth that there is democracy in America. As sure as there is a Faux News...there is a Faux Democracy..they are both controlled by the super rich. There are few things that will reverse this situation...and voting for yet another idiot politician will be an exercise in futility. Despite Obama's recent campaign rhetoric he will continue to be owned by the super rich but it would be dreadful if Romney won. Don't vote and Romney may win...how horrible! Vote and you will have four more years of the same old gutless wonder that is constantly giving in to the rich. We will likely lose Social Security either way. But never accept that. Never give in to the bastards. Never resign yourselves to a defeatist attitude about social security. If they can spend trillions on stupid illegal wars and spy on us in the name of security...they can reach down into those same coffers and cough up the money that they owe us for social security. Sell off the damn White House or Capital Building to the Chinese...for all I care...these rat bastards owe us the money we put into social security.
For most people the following is sufficient:
- Use search engines anonymously, don't sign in.
- Clear browser cache and cookies after each use.
For the paranoids:
- Use anonymizer software installed on your computer to block additional system information that makes you identifiable.
- Subscribe to a proxy service that sits between you and the internet and relays all information sent and received.
Internet content filtered by google when searching on google?
set your browser to autmatically Clear your cookies and search form data every time you close the browser. its like you never used the web before every time you restart the browser.
Only very briefly through a world war can Crapitalism create full employment.I guess we should not wish for world war 3 since this time we will probably all be replaced by drones.Hoarding is a form of mental illness and shouldn't be encouraged.The hoarding of wealth, power, land, resources-the amount of land we have wasted tied up in ornamental lawns.Why can't the urban poor occupy a homeowner's front or back yard and grow food and split the harvest with the homeowner?Food, being essential for life; should be free and abundant for all.The dole only gives me half of what I need to lead a decent life-I have no acces to any other resources-I can't even raid recycling bins sins that's a $100 fine for $2hr work.
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