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Humanpapillomavirus (HPV) Not just for women. Step aside ladies, men are taking the lead on HPV. Oral cases of infections with men, are surpassing the number of infections of women. (In case you didn't know it. HPV is known as the "silent epidemic").
Sources: Bloomberg News 1/26/2012
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Time magazine (Healthland) 1/27/2012
http://healthland.time.com/2012/01/27/men-are-more-likely-to-have-oral-hpv-than-women/
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What can be done to counter the current full blown republican fascism benefitting only the 1%? First we need a govt. willing and able to represent the vast majority, the 99%, of it's citizens. In a true democracy, corporate tyranny would dissipate with both lawful regulations and the unionization of most workplace settings. How do we do this?
Sadly, for now anyway, it may be as simple, yet difficult, as the 99% out spending anti-democracy pimps like the Kochs and replacing their Cantor/Ryan whores with true democracy reps like Senator Sanders......and occupy everything in sight!
I'd bet that Robert Bales won't go through the same kind of hell that they have put Bradley Manning through. After all,
7 years ago, 24 Iraqi civilians, in Haditha, were targeted and assassinated by 9 US servicemen and none of them have every been punished for their crimes. Oh, the leader got a slap on the wrist.
You can't call these massacres collateral damage but rather targeted assassinations of innocent civilians. And I believe that the authorities are trying to cover up by using Robert Bales as a patsy. Mind control? Manchurian candidate in so far as he was made to believe he did this all himself? Paid off to take the heat?
And now, the authorities are saying they have a video of Robert Bales turning himself in...taken from a spy balloon. Although, they haven't released that video...or if they even ever would (yeah, like the military has promised to release the Granai Massacre video, three years ago, when Julian Assange said he had the videos too and would release his as well...but he never has either...I suspect it is so horrible that it would create a lot of controversy and Assange is holding on to it as insurance).
And talking about spying....
Here's an article about CIA spying:
CIA Chief: We’ll Spy on You Through Your Dishwasher
By Spencer Ackerman
Email Author
March 15, 2012 |
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/03/petraeus-tv-remote/#more-76086
Thom, your diagnose of the problem is impecable. However, your solution is dead wrong. How can more government generate more freedom? Libertarians are not wrong. They stand for the right of the individual to do as they wish. If you have a bunch of politicians under the pocket of the corporations deciding on our destiny, we are all doomed. You think washington can protect us from corporations. In reality, government collude with corporations and create a control grid that reduces individual freedoms. I like your honesty and style Thom, but I don't agree with some of your views about the benefits of big government.
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Rick Santorum's statement on Puerto Rico is just as assanine as Newt saying Latino's get their language from the ghetto.
To all who don't see it : It is criminal to fraud or rob other people. Generally you can live your greed, as long as you don't infringe other people's rights. If you do things that make other people starve, be hemorrhaged or poisoned ect./ect., you're a criminal.
Whoever doesn't get that, is probably a criminal mind : Somebody who doesn't understand that other people have a right to live as well.
Pull a Saigon? How can anybody be expected to value your opinion when you use such an ignorant phrase.
You are implying that the fall of Saigon at the end of April 1975 was a result of a bums rush to the door. It's an ignorant and offensive thing to say and has no relationship to the truth.
Offensive operations by US troops had ended in January 1973 and the troop withdrawal started then. Scene you are trying to use of the helicopters picking people up from the rooftops was the final removal of US Embassy personnel from that very building.
US combat troops had been long gone by then.
So, unless you mean "pull a Saigon" to mean a planned gradual pullout of our troops, you are insulting the truth.
We went to Afghanistan because that's where Osama and his bunch were. They were there because the Taliban was the only power on earth that would allow them to be anywhere. It was worse than a lawless land, they had protected status from the Taliban. Then Bush had his village idiot adventure in Iraq and our attention was diverted from what was the righteous fight.
Our reason for being there was 2 things. 1; get them, and they are largely got. 2; Make certain they can't come back and regroup in a place that's protected and out of reach of the outside world.
That's the job that isn't complete. It would have had not Bush had to have his excuse to use his expensive shiny toys in Iraq, but it is not.
Zangabad Village Massacres,
According to the investigative team who interviewed relatives and other citizens of the villages, were done in the middle of the night by two teams of US soldiers and lasted about an hour and females were sexually abused after which they tried to destroy evidence by burning the lower half of the bodies.
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2012/03/15/20-us-troops-executed-panjwai-massa...
How is this for a scenario...
Robert Bales (38 with 11 years in the Army) was having a lot of financial problems..two houses that he was losing because they were having problems paying for them..thanks in large part because of the housing scam bursting the bubble and making mortgages much larger than the potential sales price.
One house was very run down, with no running water, and not lived in for several years, according to neighbors...and it had a sign on it saying "Do Not Occupy".
He had been on 3 previous deployments to Iraq, and wanted to be deployed again to Afghanistan (because he liked it? Friends and neighbors said that he liked the military and going to Iraq. Or, because of financial problems?). His wife seemed to be getting discouraged (understandably) with the financial problems and the many years of separation, even though she had work at a small (all-female, I've read) business communications company. I've heard sources say that they were having marital problems (again, if this is true, very understandable).
So, what if the massacres in Afghanistan were carried out by up to 20 US soldiers, females raped or sexually molested (as it has been reported) and this explosive situation needed to be covered up. But since it was unlikely that it could be covered up, they needed to find a patsy to take the heat away from what would otherwise be seen as an institutional problem.
We don't know what Robert Bales has said, or will say...and it is quite possible that he has agreed to take the heat in exchange for large sums of money. His family would be taken care of..and he may even get out of the brig one day to enjoy the money. Either way, if he is just a patsy, voluntarily or involuntarily, he could very well be in danger of some unfortunate accident or untraceable "natural" demise while in the brig. Those other guys who allegedly participated in the massacre may also be in danger...yet another helicopter accident? That's the way these criminal elite do things. They get rid of anyone who could talk.
The story we get from the military is that Robert Bales got drunk and went on a murdering rampage. As part of their propaganda, they claim that they found booz in his living quarters. So, if they didn't plant it...could the other soldiers have been partying..perhaps along with Bales...or maybe Bales was just part of the 20 soldiers that participated? Like a good soldier...and one who might have been bribed...he would take the fall for the massacres?
Robert Bales' attorney has said that Robert Bales didn't have a "drinking problem". Yeah, I know, whose going to believe a liar, I mean lawyer?
The Afghan investigative team said that they didn't believe that one man could do all of these massacres...and along with the eyewitness reports of up to 20 US soldiers, in two teams, raping, killing, and then even trying to destroy evidence by burning the victims...and why did they set the lower halfs of the bodies on fire? Maybe to destroy evidence of rape?
The "official" US story sounds very fishy and not very sound. But then again, so has it been for all of the other atrocities that the US has tried to get us to believe in. Pearl Harbor, Kennedy/Lee Harvey Oswald, OKC bombing, 911 and many others.
The 3 letter agencies have used the sucker/patsy routine many, many times. Like that Iranian car dealer in Texas that had massive financial problems...they tried to set him up to be the next terrorist-bust they like to pride themselves with.
"An Afghan parliamentary investigation team has implicated up to 20 US troops in the massacre of 16 civilians in Kandahar early on Sunday morning. It contradicts NATO's account that insists one rogue soldier was behind the slaughter.
The team of Afghan lawmakers has spent two days collating reports from witnesses, survivors and inhabitants of the villages where the tragedy took place.
“We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time, and the 16 civilians, most of them children and women, have been killed by the two groups,” investigator Hamizai Lali told Afghan News."
http://rt.com/news/massacre-kandahar-soldier-american-705/
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Scoundrel-Media-Afghan-Mas-by-Stephen-L...
This, of course, is not unusual....US has often used the "crazy lone gunman" as a patsy to take all the heat. Much easier for the public to shrug off, after a while, and much less complicated so that the truth can more easily be buried.
http://domnogin.blogspot.com A good question deserves a good answer. Republicans are able to deceive voters into wrongfully voting for them because Ronald Reagan removed the Fairness Doctrine that forced airwaves to be used for the public good instead of for private profit, because Bill Clinton signed the Telecommunications Act of 1996 that broke up that maximum radio stations for a company at one each of AM and FM per market, and because Chris Matthews publicly humiliated Howard Dean during the 2004 for even thinking of breaking up the media conglomerates worsened since 1996. I was in a well-known motel chain in Tampa, Florida recently and had no problem watching Fox News and HBO but had no access to MSNBC or Current TV; the medium is now the message. Senator Obama had the 2008 advantage of Air America Radio and its affilliate stations; South Florida radio host Nicole Sandler in January 2010 found herself trying to cover the Citizens United decision by the Supreme Court for an Air America Radio that had just expired, two changes that hurts President Obama in 2012 despite his fund-raising abilities. Let's save the world, not just the Obama Administration.
This just in...scissors banned by HomeLand Security...seig heil..and Mother Mary full of grace! Just kidding! We got regulators alright...and they want to regulate the 99% into being placid and gullible dummies that will swill down their pink slime, risk our money in the casino slot machine that is Wall Street...and keep it there for the long term.
Yes, Lewis Sinclair's "The Jungle" woke up a lot of people about the excesses of capitalism including selling us sewage as food. And they didn't even have Mad Cow Disease (aka: BSE Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis disease when it is in cows and CJD Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease when it is in people) back then...or did they?
You can't kill the infected prion protein that causes Mad Cow Disease because it is not really "alive" to begin with. You can't really destroy it no matter how well you cook it...unlike some of the other dreaded sicknesses caused by bacteria...which can also kill you. But at least if you cook bacteria-laden meat well enough you can kill the bacteria. The CDC says that the "incubation period may be as long as 50 years".
BSE eats holes in your brain and there is nothing they can do about it once you become infected. You will start getting Parkinson's disease-like symptoms and then you will die. I stopped eating beef and "red meats" a long time ago because of the Mad Cow Diseases that were reported to have broken out in Britain. Now if chickens or fish ever start infecting us with Mad Chicken or Mad Fish disease then I will have to go strictly vegan, I suppose.
This is worse than any so-called "terrorist"... and Homeland Security is not even watching out for it. Our FDA has been just as emasculated as the other government watchdog that used to go after financial criminals. The CDC is studying it, I suppose, but one wonders just how muted the CDC might be by the meat industry and, perhaps, overly cautious about admitting the dangers of eating some meats..like beef..and some other red meats.
I think it time for folks to read Lewis Sinclair's "The Jungle" to see how the meat industry handled being under no regulations and completely free market conditions.
Actually if you read about the development of food law, it is usually in response to people taking advantage of free markets without regulations and selling for example colored water as beer so Food regulations were developed.
If anyone saw Billl Maher show last week, and this week, they have seen snippets of Alexandra Palosi's documentary films which are ticking off both Republican and Democrats.
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/alexandra-pelosi-debuts-new-video-on-real-tim...
I hope both Palosi and Maher keep up their good work to expose these people and corrupt institutions.
But as Palosi said in her interview by Maher...that even though you may look at this guy (the black guy waiting in line for food stamps who said something like..."I want a career...not just a job!") as typical of many who are milking the system because their egos are too big to take "just a job" (oh, but they don't mind a handout from the government) you have to compare the cost of these programs to the cost of the military spending(which is 10 times greater). The reality is that those rip-off artists in the military industrial complex are really no better than this guy receiving government handouts....they are just as, or even way more disgusting and pathetic than this guy. These MIC "corporate welfare queens" should be equated to lazy connivers bilking the system. They are no better than these guys standing in line for food stamps and if you handed these poor people all that money that the MIC receives...you'd have the same kind of people who currently managed to rip us all off. Just as selfish and smug. How many Wall Street big shots would turn their noses up to "just a job" and say they are too good not to have "a career"...and a well-paid career? These A-holes in these high level positions who call their clients muppets should all be forced into prison-camps and forced to do an honest day's work at hard labor. Then we could all call them someones bitch. Hey, Blankenfein..(rhymes with Frankenstein)..wanna be some jailbird's muppet bitch?
Of course, the fact is that not everyone on food stamps are as smug and conceited as the guy in the film...most would starve...and their families would starve. Most really don't have any choice because they can't find jobs...because even the lowly jobs are not available to anyone but illegal aliens...who don't pay taxes and earn slave wages (which may be sufficient for the Mexican economy but not for ours). Or our jobs are shipped over to China...and they are just not available to those who would work these jobs...if they were only available.
The wealthy, the ones who have unpatriotically and greedily shipped our jobs overseas, and who trapped people into buying "the American Dream" create and control the propaganda that makes the people in the bread lines out to be lazy and undeserving while the wealthy laugh all the way to their offshore banks. They think we are all muppets. 300 million muppets, all armed with scissors, would scare the bejesus out of these future prison butt-buddies, eh? Scissors, to start, may be to cut up all credit cards, voting ballots, or any other symbol of corrupt America. Then, what they do with their scissors would have to be totally up to them. I'm not gonna tell people what to do with their scissors. But, a scissors brigade may be long overdue. Snip, snip here and snip, stab (I mean snip) there. Here a snip, there a snip.....or, we can just go out an vote, again, and again and hope, and then hope again. The definition of insanity, I've heard, is the repetition of the same old thing, expecting change for the better, despite never seeing any positive results.
Sorry, I saw the movie "Spider" with Ralph Fienes last night and I'm off my meds.
I wonder if the real reason why they stopped reporting M3 (in 2006) in the US was because it was looking more and more like the M3 in India. Maybe we should call Fractional Banking ... Fracking like they call the process of fracturing the rocks to squeeze out gas. A few people manage to become extremely wealthy at the expense of everyone else who can ignite their drinking water and die of cancers due to carcinogens in the water. I'd sure like to light up a few Frackers...both gas and banking.
I forgot to give the source of my reference to the Casablanca film. The Wizard of Oz is also supposed to be remastered and release for it's 75th year annivesary in 2014. I think it would be a lot better to see these on the big screen.
http://www.digitalspy.com/movies/news/a369741/casablanca-for-70th-annive...
Oh, they digitalized Casablanca again!* I actually have a really decent DVD, but if they did it again it must be really brilliant now. That's fascinating, THANKS! You can't say anything against Casablanca, this is really great art! I'm very much into those 30s movies with Jean Arthur which are pretty sociocritical, as those Busby Berkely musical films from 1933, which addressed the Great Depression.
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* I bought my version pretty cheap in a shopping mall. Maybe they threw them out, because they already knew they would bring a better one on the market. ;o)
"Here's looking at you kid"
Just yesterday, I saw a preview of the re-released, digitally remastered version of Casablanca on the big screen. Looks and sounds fantastic! It is to be shown for one day only on theaters across the nation next week, Wednesday March 21st. And the DVDs and Blu-Rays will be out on the 27th.
I don't understand how the poor and working people here in the south can vote for the republicans; it baffles me. In my area here in Tennessee is one of the poorest areas in the nation and they keep electing them knowing the republicans will not do any for them. They still beleive in trickle down but nothing trickle to them and they blame the demicrats for it.
$1 trillion of minerals
How about $1 trillion worth of copper, cobalt, gold, and lithium? And you don't think the US criminal overlords that control the USG..the banksters and Wall Street... aren't interested in the vast money from poppies..ie: heroin? And, of course, having bases and control of the region makes it possible to keep other countries like China, and others, in check. And, of course, there is the oil pipeline that was the initial reason why all this went down....unless, of course, they also knew about all those minerals at the time as well..and we, the public, are just now finding out about it. Maybe even the Russians knew about it before they invaded.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?_r=1&pagewa...
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I typed in el cambio on Facebook and everything it pulls up is in spanish. Nothing related to Northwestern High School in MD. Maybe they referenced the wrong face book page or had the spelling wrong?
I was never well enough informed about SOPA and PIPA, to see the extend of a threat. I just joined the SOPA protest in January with my blog sweet&hot. I'm already too much in politics and my field is not so much media issues. But I am a pretty experienced singer and musician and feel like making one more point on copyright........
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Reproducing Gershwin Shellac
If a producer uses a 1920 shellac, with Fred Astaire singing Gershwin, to make a DC on which the sound is very much better than on the original shellac, the improved sound is copyrighted. I guess, if you use that original shellac yourself and burn its sound on CD, you have no copyright problems if you use that in public. But the sound of that producer's tracks sounds very much better and you probably would love to play rather that. But this is not free.
So there you are : What Gershwin composed is copyright-free, the 1920s shellacs on which you can hear Fred Astaire singing Gershwin's songs should be as well. But if you buy a CD with original recordings, this is not the original shellac sound, and this is a copyright issue.
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A Point in Which Government Should 'Break' Copyright
Much more obvious it is with 1930s movies. The pictures bleach out, you hardly understand what they talked and the music sounds hollow and not clear at all. Warner Bros. actually makes reproductions which pretty much have the best quality on the market. The pictures are clear again, the sound is okay. But these reproductions are long-winded and expensive. We have to consider that. If classic movie lovers break the copyright and share these films on the internet, this strangles those reproductions. So if they want corporations like Warner Bros. to re-release more classics in good quality, they better be honest and buy.
I actually think, government should go into this classic movie re-release business too. Because this stuff is all about American culture and history. In Archives there are many films from the 20s and 30s -- partly even older -- that haven't been digitalized yet. These films bleach and bleach and bleach, so it's actually urgent. This is where our government could really create jobs. There are many films, corporations are not re-releasing, because they think they wouldn't sell well enough.
In order to start such a government project, to save valuable old films and create jobs, Congress has to roll back copyright protection -- of course only in this point: If a corporation owns the copyrights for an old movie, but they're not ready to digitalize it in decent quality, our government should have a right to use this movie copyright-free for government reproduction. Because this film doesn't just belong to this corporation, it's also part of American culture and American history.
I assure you, there's lots of work to do.......
Checks & balances, howardb4!!!
So you wanna join those idiots who dream about anarchy. You love chaos, to live the heel, is that so? Anarchy doesn't work and this goes for the free market as well! Libertarians are idiots, PERIOD. We're not going back to stone age. Government was invented to end boundless killing, robbing, frauding, raping, preying, exploiting among humans.
Democratic institutions base on checks & balances and government is part of it in Democracy. Our government is checked & balanced and therefore the only institution to trust! Libertarians want to destroy that trust. Government is not perfect, but it is necessary to keep human rights, order and justice. Do you also have a problem with discipline howardb4? Are you a messy man who cannot accept order?
Thom,
..the only "way" forward is truth. You havn't steadily provided it, though you make mention now and again. Here it is: The U.S. $6.5 trillion, world $16.5 trillion per year economies have been destroyed for over 3 years already, on the way to 10-20 more. Noone has followed the $$$$ to SHOW how much it actually takes to perpetrate this level of economic destruction, nor where that $$$$ is.
Yet it is impossible to keep such a secret. It is 95% owned by 6 U.S. "investment banks" in derivatives market, which went from $880 billion value, 2001, to over $600 trillion by 2007. Forecasts are for another 15 QUARTERS of bankruptcies and foreclosures..we know these banks are holding back for 80%, what would be only worth 35% if market flooded, dribbling bad securities onto market. We know the difference between "securitized mortgages", and "mortgage backed securities", and how each was used by Wall $treet; that difference involves the original move to "securitize" mortgages. We know what "securities" are used for, and the link with Treasury Sec. Paulson who went to SEC to deregulate "leverage"=collateral, 2003. We know Lehman Bros was Goldman-Sachs major competitor; was "leveraged" at 100-1, which caused demise. Challenge people daily to FOLLOW THE $$$$..because noone has-will EVER be able to contradict the numbers, or lie forth an equivalency...lastly, Wall $treet="financial sector" 2001, controlled 19% of U.S. economy-by 2007, that number was 41%...banks trading paper debt. What did people think when bushcheney allowed credit card industry lobbyists to re-write bankruptcy law? I thought one whole helluva lot of people were going to go bankrupt..here's documentation FBI knew, 2004, Wall $treet was criminally corrupting mortgages-securities-but bushcheney shut down investigation-reassigned FBI to homeland security:
http://www.alternet.org/economy/153997/why_do_dangerous_financial_crimin...
Derivatives sources:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90006000
http://www.newdeal20.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/raj-revised-testimon...