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The drug companies are keeping the drug war going. Thankfully, the rest of the world is beginning to take a stand and allow cannabis research. A Spanish researcher injected THC into the cancer cells of mice and discovered apoptosis (suicide) in the cancer cells while keeping healthy cells intact. Would you rather have that at the risk of getting high or would you rather have your hair fall out and have your healthy cells destroyed in order to kill the cancer cells? Cancer patients should start a class action law suit against the federal government for preventing this priceless research. If you can't help, then get out of the way.
And yet another reason to elect Bernie Sanders President!!!
It strikes me that the drug companies are just like school-yard drug dealers - they get you hooked on their drugs, then jack up the price. Where is the DEA when you need them?
Sounds like the American Gestapo is just getting started. Poor Jennifer! (Today’s guest, can’t remember her last name). According to the Free Thought Project, Officials are screening FOR stupidity and sociopathy. In addition, Alternet, says; “…legally the bank owns the depositor’s funds as soon as they are put in the bank. Our money becomes the bank’s, and we become unsecured creditors holding IOUs or promises to pay. ... But until now the bank has been obligated to pay the money back on demand in the form of cash. Under the FDIC-BOE plan, our IOUs will be converted into “bank equity.” …
Shane-O said today, “It doesn’t make any sense, does it.” It makes perfect sense when you consider that the corporate controlled DOJ is telling officials to ‘do what ever it takes to keep ‘em in line, we got your back’. I personally feel in my gut, though obviously can’t prove it, that new guidelines for police training are being handed down from the DOJ and that they are being taught to kill if they are at all concerned that the person might be dangerous. Subconsciously, or maybe even consciously, the message is that killing and destroying are acceptable because victims deserve it. Get a judge that rules for the victim, “just ignore ‘em, we got your back”.
BTW Thom, Link to Papp’s video from last night re. David Sirota's article; “…A damning new report from the International Business Times explains how Hillary Clinton used her position as Secretary of State to create a pay-to-play atmosphere for world leaders seeking military equipment and defense contractors looking to make a few extra billions.”
Bottom line is they want us to support something without telling us what it is. We must look real stupid to them.
We were unprepared for seventeen guys here legally, using box cutters, and our TSA fails around ninety percent of tests still? As adults we might say "they'll get though on occasion" but it's not worth throwing away our rights for pseudo-safety. Maybe we should stop making enemies faster than we can kill them and their friends.
Yeah, KaraGirl. The most annoying thing to me as a kid was when someone told me to do something, but wouldn't tell me why.
"Don't do __."
"Why?"
"Just don't do it."
Grr.
With the recent U.S. recognition of Cuba, a swarm of transnational corporations will descend on the opportunity to transform the economy into a capitalist's paradise. Prof. Wolff might comment directly on the "cooperative" alternative as Cuba moves away from its state ownership model. Any way to get his material translated into Spanish in a low cost fashion? Many Latin-American countries would be very interested in his views! Mondragon?
I will write to main media....but I forget they don't see or listen .... they don't listen.... to themself!
OK Im gonna swear hear, and I promise to refrain from swearing on all future blogs , but what I have to say is this with regard to TPP
WHAT THE FUCK??? what is TPP? President Obama? WHAT THE FUCK??? I voted for you twice, I cried my eyes out at your inagural ceremony in 2008 with your promise of change. Just like Oprah, I cried and thanked the heavens for you, but seriously what the Fuck? What is up with this TPP? you ran on the card of transparency in the white house, and you put the affordable care act on a website for us all to read, just like the constitution is free for everyone to read we could all read and be informed about the ACA.
Now all of a sudden TPP comes along and all transpairency is taken away, now I don't care if your Joe shmoe, or fucking Jesus of Nazareth come back after two thousand years to fix all of our problems, and defend us against the anti-christ and the devil himself, when you through a deal like TOOK down on the table and it goes like this:
"So president Obama, what is the TPP?"
"I can't tell you."
"Why?"
"Because it's a secret."
"Why is it a secret?"
"I can't tell you, but trust me you will Love it."
"Well that doesn't make any sence."
"I know, isn't it great!!"
WHAT THE FUCK? . Dude put the TPP on a website, just like you did with ACA, get rid of the behind closed doors fasad, and let we the people see it, if it's so great let we the people vote on it. Don't rule us from behind closed doors as a fudal king would, open up your policy on TPP for us all to see, prove to us how great it Is, make it transparent so that we the people can understand, as unless Im wrong by the constitution of the united states of America, the single greatest peice of legislation ever written by mankind, we have a right to know.
Maybe Im wrong, Maybe Im a fool, but it seems that something so life changing, sould be known by we the people before it gets voted into law. That's all I have to say
Kara
Please forgive me for posting something that is off-topic, but I couldn't resist sharing this biographical article about Bernie Sanders. I got it off of Facebook and it is fascinating! Check this out: http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/young-bernie-sanders-liberty-union-vermont
chuckle8, you seem to be confused on the difference between economy and government. The USSR replaced feudalism with socialism (there was no capitalist stage). Stalin's tyranny has nothing to do with it.
Carbon tax!, carbon tax, carbon tax!!!
It has been proven to work, make it more expensive to polite and these carbon burning corporations will put more money into renewable energy. Also why has everyone stopped talking about hydrogen cars? Everyone is all about electric, which is awesome don't get me wrong, and Tesla is proving that electric cars can perform just as well as internal combustion, but it seems as though these carbon burning corporations just have a hard on to burn things, so burn hydrogen, then you can polute all you want, I don't think anyone will complain about to much clean drinking water dripping out of tail pipes as cars go down the highway.
Also don't knock thom for repeating over and over kindergarten progessivness 101, the majority of people out their are still at a kindergarten level when it comes to common sence. :-)
BINGO! They are going to do anyway, with or without 215,
There is just to much money and wealth they are desperate to keep secure.
I agree with Obama on this one. The reason 9/11 happened was we were not ready. Just like 07 Dec 1941 at Pearl Harbor Hawaii. We thought it cannot happen here. But once it did the military didn't stop until every plane was splashed and every boat that participated was in the attack was sank. The Japanese wanted to make a second attack but the Japanese Admiral said no "because we have awakened a sleeping giant." On 11 Sept 01 the giant was again awoke. But instead of attacking the people and country responsible for the worst attack on US soil retaliated against the wrong country and destabilised a region which opened the door and created al Quieda in Iraq which then gave way to ISIS or ISIL. Which now leads to disenfranchised US person being recruited to fight against the United States. The NSA program should be re authorised the intelligence community need the tool to track people who are being recruited to fight against the United States. We cannot afford to fall back into complacency the cost is more than we can bear. As Don Henley sang "This is the end of the innocence" Just as Dec 7th changed America in 1941, America was again changed on Sept 11 2001. I also know what every foiled terror plot in this country is not reported for good reason the American people need to go on about thier daily lives they would be unable to do that if they heard the daily breifing of classified intel from the CIA and the NSA or from the JTTF.
I bring this up every time I see a thread about this sort of thing: people who think the government is "out to get them" or "eavesdropping" on them have serious ego problems. Because they seem to think that anything they are saying is so important as to warrant paying human ears to listen to them. There are HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of phone calls and emails made every day. There are maybe a few hundred people at the NSA who could, theoretically, listen in on a conversation. How many red flags do you think you'd have to raise in their system before you got the attention of an actual human?
This is similar to the righty's fears that the government will come for their guns. Just as self-important egotistical.
Think about all of the calls and emails you've sent in the last month. Has anything been even close to something that would get a human's attention at the NSA?
I mean, I get that it's the principle of it all - the fact that they COULD target your data if they wanted to. It just seems like there's a whole lot more important things to worry about.
Golf ball size hail. High winds. Heavy snow on the roof. Tornados. Floods. I worry more about the weather than I worry about getting blown up at the mall. I think terrorism takes a back seat to the weather. Lets deal with the real enemy.
Seems exceedingly doltish to fear terrorism and simultaneously ignore global warming!
Just because the NSA says it's no longer spying, how can anyone really be so sure? How can we trust anything the corporate government tells us any more? They are poisoning us with fluoride, aspartame, and spraying us with toxic aerosols. When are the people of this once great country going to WakeTF up?
The media is all over Hillary, but maybe they will have to start treating him as a legitamate candidate, what i find totally sad is how the media treats all the republican wannabes that are not really going to run, or if they do they will not get elected, and will just get their name in for moneied purposes, like they are the ultimate.
The media is hung up on celebrities. They view Senator Sanders as an also-ran.
Vegasman56 -- Dr. Sachs sounds like he is describing Bernie. I hope Dr. Sachs is right.
Haha Kilosqrd, The inanity of your [non]argument is evidence that you have nothing of value to add to this discussion. You may just as well listed that data and claimed that the climate crisis is indeed a real threat. In fact, had you done that your list of polluters would have made more sense.
Loren B -- You certainly know more about this than I do. I thought the russian revolution did exactly what you want. However, they had no plan in place to replace capitalism; consequently, they got Stalin.
To repeat myself, in 7000 years of western civilization there was one set of economic policies that exceeded any other. Those policies were those of the New Deal and the Great Society. They were so good they scared the U.S. Chamber of Commerce s@#*less. Why wouldn't we want to go back to those policies?
When it gets to the point where most Americans are willing to put up with daily cavity searches for a false sense of security, invite the Chinese and Russians to take over; it couldn't possibly get any worse.