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How Bad Is It?

2009-11-24T05:36:00.000-08:00

Mexican Families Begin Sending Money to Relatives in U.S.

"Mexico is expected to lose more than 700,000 jobs this year due to a slumping economy that may decline as much as 7.5%. Almost half of the country’s population lives in poverty, and yet, it is managing to reverse a trend of money that has traditionally flowed from north (the United States) to south.

While no statistics are yet available, plenty of anecdotal information suggests an increasing number of Mexican immigrants in the U.S. are now receiving money from relatives in Mexico, instead of sending it. Unemployment is so bad in migrant communities in the U.S. Southwest that some families south of the border are hurting less than those they know in the United States, causing them to wire whatever money they can.

“It’s something that’s surprising, a symptom of the economic crisis,” Martín Zuvire Lucas, who heads a network of community banks in Oaxaca and other underserved Mexican states, told The New York Times. “We haven’t been able to measure it but we hear of more cases where money is going north.”

Restaurants brace for a sour season as consumers lose appetite for dining out

"The number of people visiting restaurants has plunged for four quarters in a row, according to NPD Group."

One in seven Americans went hungry in 2008

Goodbye jobs, hello mom and dad

Duplicitous DNA Database Detentions

2009-11-24T04:05:00.000-08:00

More evidence Britain is one huge lab experiment.

The DNA snatchers: Police arresting innocents just to grab genetic details for Big Brother database

"Police are arresting innocent people in order to get their hands on as many DNA samples as possible, senior Government advisers revealed last night.
The Human Genetics Commission said the Big Brother tactic was creating a 'spiral of suspicion' among the public.
The panel - which contains some of Britain's leading scientists and academics - said officers should no longer routinely take samples at the point of arresting a suspect.
They also called for all police - including support staff - to place their own DNA on the national database in a show of solidarity with a public being routinely placed under suspicion.
By law, officers are only allowed to make an arrest if they have ' reasonable suspicion' that a person has committed a crime.
But the HGC, which has carried out a lengthy review of the merits of the database, said evidence had emerged of police arresting people purely so they could take their DNA."

They're at it over here too.

More Chains We Can Believe In

2009-11-24T03:39:00.000-08:00

Obama Quietly Backs PATRIOT Act Provisions

"With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA PATRIOT Act that civil libertarians say infringe on basic freedoms.
And it is reportedly doing so over the objections of some prominent Democrats.
When a panicky Congress passed the act 45 days after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, three contentious parts of the law were scheduled to expire at the end of next month, and opponents of these sections have been pushing Congress to substitute new provisions with substantially strengthened civil liberties protections.
But with the apparent approval of the Obama White House and a number of Republicans – and over the objections of liberal Senate Democrats including Russ Feingold of Wisconsin and Dick Durbin of Illinois – the Senate Judiciary Committee has voted to extend the three provisions with only minor changes.
Those provisions would leave unaltered the power of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to seize records and to eavesdrop on phone calls and e-mail in the course of counterterrorism investigations."

Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan

"WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama met Monday evening with his national security team to finalize a plan to dispatch some 34,000 additional U.S. troops over the next year to what he's called "a war of necessity" in Afghanistan, U.S. officials told McClatchy."

Oh No

2009-11-24T03:23:00.000-08:00

If You Want Sainthood You Can't Beat Masochism

2009-11-23T19:40:00.000-08:00

Pope John Paul II regularly whipped himself in a sign of "remorse for his sins", a nun has claimed

"The Pope, who died five years ago, is being considered for sainthood by the Catholic Church.
As part of the Vatican's investigation thousands of documents have been collected and examined by officials from the Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
Among them is the testimony of Tobiana Sobodka, a Polish nun of the Sacred Heart of Jesus order, who worked for Pope John Paul in his private Vatican apartments and at his summer residence in Castel Gandolfo near Rome.
Sister Sobodka said: "Several times he (Pope John Paul) would put himself through bodily penance.
"We would hear it – we were in the next room at Castel Gandolfo. You could hear the sound of the blows when he flagellate himself. He did it when he was still capable of moving on his own."

Perfect Example Of How MSM Is Mind Control

2009-11-23T16:47:00.000-08:00

Support for legalizing marijuana grows rapidly around U.S. - Approval for medical use expands alongside criticism of prohibition

"The same day they rejected a gay marriage ballot measure, residents of Maine voted overwhelmingly to allow the sale of medical marijuana over the counter at state-licensed dispensaries.
Later in the month, the American Medical Association reversed a longtime position and urged the federal government to remove marijuana from Schedule One of the Controlled Substances Act, which equates it with heroin.
A few days later, advocates for easing marijuana laws left their biannual strategy conference with plans to press ahead on all fronts -- state law, ballot measures, and court -- in a movement that for the first time in decades appeared to be gaining ground.
"This issue is breaking out in a remarkably rapid way now," said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance. "Public opinion is changing very, very rapidly."

This "report" from the Washington Post is more thinly diguised psychological conditioning to influence, ie manipulate, public consciousness. Our overlords and their media whores have had decades of practice doing this, and they're masters at it.

What they do is insinuate a priori garbage as actual fact to prod you to believe their made up assumptions. Here's an example - we've all heard, ad nauseum, that Ahmadinejad wants to "wipe Israel off the map", a deliberate mistranslation to demonize Iran and reiterate Israel's permanent state of victimhood status. It doesn't matter how many times it's been pointed out that that's not what Iran's president said, MSM just repeats it again and again as if it was established fact.

In the above screed they want you to believe that there's a sea change in how people view the psychotropic aspects of cannabis. Total bullshit. You and I and just about everybody else have always known marijuana laws have been unjust fascist crap and should never have been instituted in the first place. They're trying to convince the unwary that all of a sudden there's a huge shift in opinion about people getting high and that sometime soon, in a little while, just about there, a majority of useless eaters will probably at some point favor legalization. Whoa.

Wanna know what's really going on?
The drug war scam has been very, very lucrative to the scumbags. After all, pretending to pass "laws" protecting the population from drugs and then making sure you have a lock on smuggling those drugs around makes it certain that drug prices stay high for you. You can guarantee yourself huge profits. Posturing as defenders of public morality and health puts a lot of tax money in your pocket while you systematically eliminate your competition. Filling the jails with drug busts gives you a great resume as a staunch defender of justice. Prison populations are great union busting sources of cheap, forced labor. Your police state fantasies come true as you fuck the constitution in the throat.

But there's a problem now. The peasants are restless. Your sweet ride has to change a little because the greatest depression is making people nervous and worried even though Fox is working double overtime to convince them what they're going through is just a minor bump in the road. So what do you do? You legalize some innocuous vegetable material that should never have been made illegal in the first place, stuff that everybody knows is harmless, and pretend that it's a giant leap for mankind.

With this propaganda they want us to think there's this huge shift in public perception and there isn't one. Support for complete legalization has always been overwhelming. This is a tactical policy change by our would be controllers to do certain things. For one, it's impossible anymore to maintain the illusion that pot is harmful. For another, they've always known that getting high will pacify, and they know the mood in this country, especially after eight years of Bush mob hell on earth and the largest financial theft in human history, is getting extremely volitile. Our overlords would like nothing better than to see the rabble crashing on the sofa in front of the tube rather than organizing or out on the streets raising cain. They've apparently decided that now it's more important to let the great unwashed get high than to keep using prohibition as a money making machine and a stepping stone to fascism.

After all, they've already got their police state and are going to fill the jails with political prisoners instead of stoners, so now they want to tax the fuck out of legalized weed, dude.

What Do You Think They've Been Practicing For?

2009-11-23T05:05:00.000-08:00

Counterinsurgency's American Future

"For months we've heard about General McChrystal's "counter-insurgency" strategy in Afghanistan, involving tens of thousands more troops. We've heard much less about the US government's "counter-insurgency" strategy for America. But it's America -- not Afghanistan -- where the strategy is already in place, and where the real action may take place.
According to one report, which documents the "unraveling" of US society, "the demand for guns and ammunition has hit a record high and the gun industry cannot produce enough bullets to keep up with orders. American's are arming themselves to the teeth! In the past year, 100 new armed militia groups have been formed, as militia members have doubled in numbers. Federal authorities are gravely concerned about the "uptick in militia activities." One federal authority recently said, "All it's lacking is a spark. I think it's only a matter of time before you see threats and violence."

Contingency plans for martial law were signed by President Bush just before the election in November 2008. These plans, written in bureaucratic detail, have appeared on the Internet in what seems to be a leak of classified government documents. (US Domestic Control Measures.pdf by Bradley Moscrip)
Giving various reasons that would justify martial law (for example, "the refusal of the population to pay or unusual difficulty to collect rent, taxes, or loan payments"), the plans call for the suspension of the Constitution; the permanent confiscation of all firearms (while telling the gun owners that the confiscation is temporary); and the rounding up of large numbers of the "indigenous population" in detention camps.
Noting that there are presently 600 detention camps (soon to be expanded to 1500, generally in rural uninhabited areas), one of the documents provides the location of 94 of these detention sites in 28 states."

The revolutionary war began with an attempt at gun confiscation.

Terrorist Cats

2009-11-22T21:22:00.000-08:00

Cats Are Illegal; A Potential Terrorist Threat

"The Israeli Prison Administration at the infamous Negev detention camp decided to banish and punish wild cats for befriending Palestinian political prisoners and providing them with light services.

It seems that imprisoning the detainees under conditions that violate the international law and the Fourth Geneva conventions is not enough, it seems torture, medical negligence and solitary confinement is not enough, an issue that pushed the prison administration to punish cats for befriending the detainees, and 'providing them with some services.

The detainees in the Negev detention camp are taking care of some cats that entered the detention camp, in the Negev desert, through the barbed wires, and are feeding them although they do not have sufficient food.

The fact the detainees have some cats as 'wild pets’ or 'friends’ bothered the Prison Administration to the level of decided that cats are not allowed."

"Israeli soldiers manning the detention camp even placed a cat in solitary confinement for a while after suspecting it was helping them, and of course for befriending them."

"The Toilet Paper Currency Pantomime Continues"

2009-11-22T16:19:00.000-08:00

I had a feeling that they just wanted to delay the inevitable long enough to get through one last holiday season, and to have enough time to completely loot every last dime they could before total collapse.

Red Alert: The Second Wave of The Financial Tsunami - The Wave Is gathering force & could hit between the first & second quarter of 2010

"Many of my friends who have been receiving my e-mail alerts over the last two years have lamented that in recent weeks I have not commented on the state of the global economy. I appreciate their anxiety but they forget that I am not a stock market analyst who is paid to write articles to lure investors back into the market. My website is free and I do not sell a financial newsletter so there is no need for me to churn out daily forecasts or analysis.
However, when the data is compelling and supports an inevitable trend, it is time for another review. This Red Alert is to enable visitors to my website to take appropriate actions to safeguard their wealth and welfare of their families in the coming months.
Since the last quarter of 2008, unrelenting currency warfare has been waged by the key global economies and while this competition thus far has been non-antagonistic, it will soon be antagonistic because the inherent differences are irreconcilable. The consequences to the global economy will be devastating and for the ordinary people, massive unemployment and social unrest are assured.
The policy-makers of these countries faced with the total collapse of the international financial architecture have concluded that the solution, the only solution is quantitative easing (i.e. massive injection of liquidity) to salvage the “too big to fail” banks and reflate their depressed economies. This is best reflected in Bernanke’s candid remark that, “the US government has a technology, called the printing press (or today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many US dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost”.

Joseph Moshe H1N1 Ukraine Plague Warning

2009-11-22T09:16:00.000-08:00

Some Crap Is Even Worse Than The Rest

2009-11-21T19:36:00.000-08:00

Batch of H1N1 vaccine recalled for severe reactions

"OTTAWA – A batch of swine flu vaccine is being pulled back for investigation after it appeared to cause higher rates of severe allergic reactions than other lots.
GlaxoSmithKline Inc., which is producing the Canadian order of H1N1 influenza vaccine at its plant in Ste-Foy, Que., said it asked provincial and territorial health authorities Wednesday to stop using doses from a specific lot shipment distributed late last month.
"(GlaxoSmithKline) is taking this cautionary action because (the Public Health Agency of Canada) has received a higher than expected number of reports of anaphylaxis in this lot number compared to other lots," company spokeswoman Megan Spoore said in a statement."

anaphylaxis - Anaphylaxis is a severe allergic reaction disorder that can be life-threatening without prompt treatment.

Location Is Everything

2009-11-21T16:43:00.000-08:00

Honduran Coup: The US Connection

U.S., Colombian officials sign military bases accord

Yemen, US Sign Military Cooperation Pact

US military bases

Operation Grand Slam

2009-11-21T16:05:00.000-08:00

Why Tungsten?

"If anyone were contemplating creating “fake” gold bars, tungsten [at roughly $10 per pound] would be the metal of choice since it has the exact same density as gold making a fake bar salted with tungsten indistinguishable from a solid gold bar by simply weighing it."

" When the news of tungsten “salted” gold bars in Hong Kong first surfaced, many people who I am acquainted with automatically assumed that these bars were manufactured in China – because China is generally viewed as “the knock-off capital of the world”.

Here’s what I now understand really happened:

The amount of “salted tungsten” gold bars in question was allegedly between 5,600 and 5,700 – 400 oz – good delivery bars [roughly 60 metric tonnes].

This was apparently all highly orchestrated by an extremely well financed criminal operation.

Within mere hours of this scam being identified – Chinese officials had many of the perpetrators in custody.

And here’s what the Chinese allegedly uncovered:

Roughly 15 years ago – during the Clinton Administration [think Robert Rubin, Sir Alan Greenspan and Lawrence Summers] – between 1.3 and 1.5 million 400 oz tungsten blanks were allegedly manufactured by a very high-end, sophisticated refiner in the USA [more than 16 Thousand metric tonnes]. Subsequently, 640,000 of these tungsten blanks received their gold plating and WERE shipped to Ft. Knox and remain there to this day. I know folks who have copies of the original shipping docs with dates and exact weights of “tungsten” bars shipped to Ft. Knox."

Silver Certificate from 1899. More historical paper bills here

Afghan Subjugation Goes High Tech

2009-11-21T05:00:00.000-08:00

Solely to make the occupation easier for the occupiers while lives will most assuredly just get worse for Afghans. State terror has done this since forever - forcing Indians onto reservations to 'strategic hamlets' in Vietnam to the concentration camp the US constructed for the people of Fallujah in Iraq. These days they couch it in terms of "security of the people".
Rest assured this is practice for us.

Biometric tests to identify rebels in Afghanistan

"THE inhabitants of combat zones in southern Afghanistan may face biometric tests in a new initiative to prevent the Taliban from infiltrating villages.
After studying counter-insurgency methods employed from the Boer war to the conflict in Iraq, British commanders are drawing up plans for “gated communities” from which the enemy can be excluded by identity checks. The checks may involve fingerprints, retina scans or even DNA tests.
Brigadier James Cowan, the new commander of British forces in Afghanistan, revealed last week how far the campaign in Helmand is being rethought.
“In counter-insurgency you are not here to beat the enemy. You are here to win the people — because the enemy will always be able to regenerate,” he said in the first newspaper interview he has given in his new role. “What you have to be able to do is give people the security they crave.”

Fort Dix

Coffin Nails Dirtier Than Ever

2009-11-20T22:43:00.000-08:00

Cigarettes Harbor Many Pathogenic Bacteria

"ScienceDaily (Nov. 20, 2009) — Cigarettes are "widely contaminated" with bacteria, including some known to cause disease in people, concludes a new international study conducted by a University of Maryland environmental health researcher and microbial ecologists at the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France.
The research team describes the study as the first to show that "cigarettes themselves could be the direct source of exposure to a wide array of potentially pathogenic microbes among smokers and other people exposed to secondhand smoke." Still, the researchers caution that the public health implications are unclear and urge further research.
"We were quite surprised to identify such a wide variety of human bacterial pathogens in these products," says lead researcher Amy R. Sapkota, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland's School of Public Health.
"The commercially-available cigarettes that we tested were chock full of bacteria, as we had hypothesized, but we didn't think we'd find so many that are infectious in humans," explains Sapkota, who holds a joint appointment with the University's Maryland Institute for Applied Environmental Health and the department of epidemiology and biostatistics."

I'm Rendered Speechless

2009-11-20T20:25:00.000-08:00

Arrests made in ring that sold human fat

"(CNN) -- Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling to European labs fat obtained from dead humans.
Officials are investigating the disappearance of at last 60 people they believe were killed by gang members in two mountainous states in central Peru, lead prosecutor Jorge Sanz Quiroz said Friday.
The four suspects have been charged with murder in the September slaying of a Peruvian man, the prosecutor said.
"They killed to obtain human fat because there were European laboratories that would pay them," Sanz Quiroz said.
The suspects told authorities they were paid $15,000 for a liter (about 1 quart) of human fat."

need more buckets

With Israelis involved in trafficking human eggs and organs, you've got to wonder where those "European laboratories" are located.

added - according to this report they're in Italy.

The Sickness Constantly Projects

2009-11-20T20:04:00.000-08:00

pro·jec·tion n The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or suppositions to others

Empire Needs To Own It All

2009-11-20T18:35:00.000-08:00

US prepares contingency plans to seize Pakistani nuclear triggers

"On November 9, the New Yorker magazine published a lengthy article by veteran correspondent Seymour Hersh dealing with the considerable nervousness in US ruling circles over the security of Pakistan’s arsenal of between 80 and 100 nuclear weapons. Hersh’s sources told him that the primary fear was not a Taliban takeover, but a mutiny by anti-American Islamist tendencies inside the Pakistani armed forces, in which they attempt to seize all or parts of the country’s nuclear arsenal.
Like many of Hersh’s exposés, the article uses information leaked by unnamed high-level sources to make public an aspect of US foreign policy causing concerns in ruling circles. In this case, the primary motive appears to be to press for greater Pakistani guarantees over its nuclear weapons and more intrusive American monitoring and involvement.
Hersh alleged that US officials have pushed over the past eight years for an “understanding” with their Pakistani counterparts that American forces can enter Pakistan to secure its nuclear arsenal in the event of a direct threat. According to Hersh’s sources, a special unit drawn from several agencies is on four hours’ notice to deploy to Pakistan from Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland. The objective would be to seize the triggers that are needed to arm the weapons, and fly the devices out of the country. Pakistan reportedly keeps its warheads and nuclear triggers at separate locations.
A deployment nearly took place mid-year, Hersh was told, following an alert that a Pakistani “nuclear component had gone astray”. The special American unit had arrived in Dubai before the reports were deemed to be a false alarm and the mission called off."

But you know how to tell our overseers' true intentions. Just believe exactly the opposite of what they say.

"Hersh’s article provoked a barrage of denials, especially in Pakistan. The Pakistani foreign ministry denounced the claims as “preposterous”. The military labeled them “absurd”. The US State Department added that the US has “no intention of seizing Pakistani nuclear weapons or material” and stated its “confidence in the ability of the Pakistani government to provide adequate security”.

Pakistan nukes safe from terror attacks, says US

No intention of seizing Pak nuclear weapons: US

Our Bestest Little Buddy's Nigger Solution

2009-11-20T17:02:00.000-08:00

New poll: 53% of Israelis think ethnic cleansing is the solution to the conflict

"Israelis talk often and loudly about their desires for peace. But its never been clear precisely what peace concept it is they desire. In particular, Israeli notions of peace have never gone so far as to grant the Palestinians the same national rights that Israelis claim for themselves. Well, according to a new poll by Israeli National News (disclaimer: its a right-wing rag, sample size "more than 6,400″), a majority of Israelis are clear about what kind of "peace" they desire.

53.2% of surveyed Israelis say the "solution" to the conflict was the ethnic cleansing ("transfer") of Palestinians out of occupied Palestine and into other neighboring Arab countries. This was the most popular option among all alternatives, including the two state solution, Jordanian citizenship in the West Bank, status quo, etc. For comparative purposes, only 30.8% of Israelis support the "two-states for two peoples" framework for peace.

Keep this information in mind next to you hear Israeli hasbara about "partners for peace" or when someone tries to claim that the two-state solution is the only "realistic" solution to the conflict. If only those Palestinians would "recognize Israel’s right to exist", then everything would be SO much better."

Aside From All The Rest Of The Reasons To Avoid The Vax, Quality Is A Deadly Crapshoot

2009-11-20T15:49:00.000-08:00

You really wanna roll these dice?

Batch of H1N1 vaccine recalled for severe reactions

"OTTAWA – A batch of swine flu vaccine is being pulled back for investigation after it appeared to cause higher rates of severe allergic reactions than other lots.
GlaxoSmithKline Inc., which is producing the Canadian order of H1N1 influenza vaccine at its plant in Ste-Foy, Que., said it asked provincial and territorial health authorities Wednesday to stop using doses from a specific lot shipment distributed late last month."

First There Was The Dead Microbiologist List

2009-11-20T06:32:00.000-08:00

That can be found here.

Now there's a Dead Banker List

We're The Cops And We're Here To Serve And Protect

2009-11-20T06:07:00.000-08:00

Cops Beat Portland Man To An "Excited Delirium" Death

"Three officers arrested Chasse, 42, on Sept. 17, 2006, after one of the officers said Chasse appeared to be urinating in the street. There was no evidence that he had urinated in the street. Police said he ran when they approached. They chased him, knocked him to the ground and struggled to handcuff him.
Medics called to the scene did not take him to a hospital, saying Chasse's vital signs were normal. But jail staff refused to book him because of his physical condition. Chasse, who suffered from schizophrenia, died while being taken to the hospital in a police car. The medical examiner said he died of broad-based blunt-force trauma to the chest.
Had Chasse received proper medical attention, he probably would have lived, according to Dr. Karen Gunson, the state medical examiner, answering questions in a deposition.
The autopsy found Chasse suffered 26 breaks to 16 ribs, some of which punctured his left lung, and 46 separate abrasions or contusions. In the autopsy report, Gunson made no mention of "excited delirium" as she has in other Oregon cases."

Couple Arrested for Refusing to Pay Tip

"If you’re frustrated by poor service at a restaurant, think twice before you decide to not tip. You may be in for a bit more than just a dirty look from the waiter.
"Nobody, nobody wants to be forced to pay a tip or be arrested for terrible service," Leslie Pope said when her happy hour ended in handcuffs.
Pope and John Wagner were hauled away by police and charged with theft for not paying the mandatory 18 percent gratuity totaling $16 after eating at the Lehigh Pub in Bethlehem, Pa. with six friends.
Pope claimed that they had to wait nearly an hour for their order and that she had to get napkins and silverware for the table herself.
“At this point I became very annoyed because I had already gone up to the bar myself to have my soda refilled because the waitress never came back,” Pope said.
After the $73 bill came, the group paid for food, drinks, and tax but refused to pay the tip. After explaining the bad service to the bartender in charge, Pope claimed he took their money and called police. The couple was handcuffed and placed in the back of a police car."

Two dead teenagers:

Student removes wheel lock from car and returns it to Campus police. Is promptly charged with felony terrorist activity.

"Purdue police have arrested a student in connection with a suspicious package found Thursday morning in the university's Visitor Information Center.
Roy C. Sun, 21, a senior in the College of Engineering from Andover, Mass., faces preliminary charges of terroristic mischief and possession of stolen property. An employee at the center, 504 Northwestern Ave., which also houses Parking Services, alerted police at about 7:50 a.m. about a suspicious box left in a hallway by three college-age men. Police evacuated about 10 people from the building and used a portable X-ray machine to identify the box's contents. The box contained a wheel look, a Purdue parking ticket and $20, Detective Sgt. Matt Rosenbarger said."

The Power Of Garlic

2009-11-20T04:53:00.000-08:00

Moldovan Soldiers Given Onions To Fight Swine Flu

Swine flu causes surge of garlic sales in Serbia

Russian garlic consumption up

The late mythologist Joseph Campbell and others stressed the Power of Myth. He maintained that rather than just fanciful fairy tales, mythology held valuable information that "could serve in the role of a personal mentor, in that its stories provide a psychological road map for the finding of oneself in the labyrinth of the complex modern world."

Myth and folklore also hold physical clues. Ancients were kind enough to imbed deep understanding of the physical world into symbology and metaphor as a way to communicate with generations far in the future, because they knew languages will eventually be lost but imagery and metaphor transcend language. Tales will always be told around a campfire; kids will always grow up teaching their kids the stories they learned as little ones. A wolf is a wolf to everybody.

And that's the way it is with garlic. It's always been considered a superfood by enlightened cultures and it's benefit to health was enshrined in superstition to ward off all sorts of unpleasantries like vampires so it's beneficial qualities could help people all the way through their stupid periods. As in the dark ages, or modern day western culture. It's undeniably extremely healthy:

"Beyond superstition, modern research has confirmed what our ancestors believed about the health benefits of garlic. In 1858, Louis Pasteur documented that garlic kills bacteria, with one millimeter or raw garlic juice proving as effective as 60 milligrams of penicillin. During World War II, when penicillin and sulfa drugs were scarce, the British and Russian armies used diluted garlic solutions as an antiseptic to disinfect open wounds and prevent gangrene. Though not completely understood at the time, today’s research has confirmed that garlic’s healing powers stem from hundreds of volatile sulfur compounds found in the vegetable, including allicin, (which gives garlic its offensive odor), alliin, cycroalliin, and diallyldisulphide.

The allicin in raw, crushed garlic has been shown to kill 23 types of bacteria, including salmonella and staphylococcus. Heated garlic gives off another compound, diallyldisulphide-oxide, which has been shown to lower serum cholesterol by preventing clotting in the arteries.
Vitamins in garlic, such as A, B, and C, stimulate the body to fight carcinogens and get rid of toxins, and may even aid in preventing certain types of cancer, such as stomach cancer. Garlic's sulfur compounds can regulate blood sugar metabolism, stimulate and detoxify the liver, and stimulate the blood circulation and the nervous system."

I'll testify to the magic root. I've eaten several cloves of raw garlic virtually every day with a meal for the past fifteen years or so and I'm not lying when I say I haven't had a cold or flu in a decade. Vampires seem scarce although Foxified zombies are everywhere.

Uncle Scam Wants You

2009-11-19T16:30:00.000-08:00

Why War Is Inevitable

"It always struck me as odd that just before all wars start, the people who have been asked to wage these wars say they don’t want to fight, and insist they want peace. And as a result, all the politicians say they’re for peace, and would never get us into war, especially one in which we had no obvious stake. Then the wars start.
Just before World War I, Woodrow Wilson was the peace candidate, but later lit the fuse that killed 25 million people. Franklin Roosevelt said he’d keep us out of war just before he was elected to a third term, and history has long ago revealed how he engineered Pearl Harbor to get us into WW II, which killed 57 million.
Just before World War I, the sentiment in America was decidedly pro-German, and more the half of all the immigrants coming to this developing land WERE German. Nobody wanted to get involved in a European war. But the media, owned by the same people who were making the weapons, convinced us, apparently, by suddenly and savagely telling hair-raising false stories about the Germans.

This is the great fact Americans continue to ignore. Instead of understanding that bankers create the wars, we prefer to believe the prejudicial hate speak that emanates from American media that our enemies are “krauts,” “gooks,” and “ragheads,” without remembering, as the great suppressed writers have told us, that the folks who control the money also control everything else.
Slowly, we are learning that our real enemies are really the misanthropes making those statements, the bigwigs who control the flow of real wealth with imaginary rules that are nothing but blatant crime schemes. We are learning that these anti-human billionaires — whose income is derived entirely from legalized crime — are the true enemies of all civilized people."

More "Production Errors"

2009-11-19T15:21:00.000-08:00

Fox News again accused of airing misleading video

"For the second time in just over a week, Fox News is coming under fire for misusing old news footage. The latest flap is leading some people to charge that the cable news network is intentionally misleading its audience, while Fox claims a "production error."
Wednesday's incident occurred when Fox News host Gregg Jarrett mentioned that a Sarah Palin appearance and book signing in Grand Rapids, Michigan had a massive turnout. As footage rolled of a smiling and waving Palin amidst a throng of fans, Jarrett noted that the former Republican vice-presidential candidate is "continuing to draw huge crowds while she's promoting her brand-new book,'' adding that the images being shown were "some of the pictures just coming in to us.... The lines earlier had formed this morning."
However, the video used in the segment was from a 2008 McCain/Palin campaign rally. In response to the minor uproar that arose after clips of Jarrett's report hit the Internet, Fox senior vice-president of news Michael Clemente issued an initial statement saying, "This was a production error in which the copy editor changed a script and didn't alert the control room to update the video."

Oh you motherfucking bullshit artists, caught yet again with your lying shenanigans and all you can do is default to your stupid prevarications.

You know something, fools, as a propaganda operation you're a sick joke. What you're doing was established by filthy predecessors back in the 80s, during the Reagan mob years. It's nothing new; it's tired and old and doesn't work anything near as well as you think it does.

What all the lying vermin in your political operation do is just make shit up as they go along for political expediency, knowing that the only thing the mouthbreathers pay attention to are the headlines and not the retractions on page 27. Your loudmouth whoring shitbags spout any crap that they think might get them a bigger payday or more likely, your presstitutes broadcast what they're told to spew.

Faux wants us to think only dems are cocksuckers

You idiots think this scam still works, that making shit up will fool enough people to justify continuing this stupid crap. But hey dirtbags, guess what? This is the computer age, and it stopped working long enough ago so that you're a running joke .

Keep it up. Apparently you don't even know how asinine your filthy message seems. And that's fine because we can use a chuckle now and then.

Iran, Iraq, all the sand niggers are the same.

Case in point, right here. This preening poser was brought on Hannity's cartoon production soley to flap her lips and pretend that her word soup actually means something. She sits there and like, totally forgets the talking points she was coached about, saying Iraq instead of Iran.
It was more important to let her flap than to even gently correct her. Because you scumbags know that a sizable majority of your inbred, drooling audience doesn't know the difference and couldn't give a fuck anyway. So it's far more important to let her drone on with idiocy than to correct her in front of them.

By the way, this is how douchebags move books, a whopping 2 days after publication date:

added - It actually might be possible people at Faux are into sabotage.

Fox Shows Cover Of Palin Takedown Book Instead Of Going Rogue

"Fox News just apologized for showing the wrong book cover during a segment about Sarah Palin's new memoir, Going Rogue.
Instead, they twice showed the cover of Going Rouge, a collection of essays mocking the former governor that came out the same day as Palin's memoir."