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Negative Future Projection and Medicare Equality for All

From No Blood for Hubris:

How we look at things matters.

How we choose to look at things matters.

How we think about things matters.

If we assume, as our fearless unelected leaders in the occult cabal clique-who-must-be-obeyed have, that outcome A is hopeless, we will clearly be unable to take steps to achieve outcome A.

This is negative future projection, and it is a cognitive style with behavioral implications.

Weirdly enough, this aberrant cognitive style has gone viral, and has nearly wiped out Medicare Equality for All, as an outcome.

It's like one of those dog-torture scenarios: delivering electric shocks that are unavoidable, so the dog sinks deeper and deeper into hopelessness, then goes belly-up, and submits and dies.

This self-appointed Steering Committee uses classic social pressure to shame and blame those who have not given in to the --[we can't achieve Medicare Equality for All] -- Cabal Core Belief with hopes that the rest of us will submit and STFU.

Besides all this narcissistic bullying, the greater problem is -- they're dead wrong.

Read the rest.

WHEN GOD CREATED THE HORSE

HE SAID TO THE MAGNIFICIENT CREATURE:
I HAVE MADE THEE UNLIKE ANY OTHER:
ALL THE TREASURES OF THE EARTH LIE BETWEEN THINE EYES.
THOU SHALL CAST MINE ENEMIES BETWEEN THY HOOVES
BUT THOU SHALL CAST MY FRIENDS UPON THY BACK.
THIS SHALL BE THE SEAT FROM WHICH PRAYERS RISE UP UNTO ME.
THOU SHALL FIND HAPPINESS ALL OVER THE EARTH
AND THOU SHALT BE FAVORED ABOVE ALL OTHER CREATURES.
THOU SHALT FLY WITHOUT WINGS
AND CONQUER WITHOUT A SWORD.

- Koran

Have we learned from history? Nope!

From Welcome Back to Pottersville:

He's our President

If you've been an American for more than 60 seconds, then you don't need me or anyone else to tell you what happened on November 22, 1963. It wasn't just the day Aldous Huxley died.
Many, many Americans who were alive when President Kennedy was shot in Dallas have also since passed. Fewer and fewer Americans remain alive, people who were around and felt the jarring, world-shaking impact of however many bullets were fired by snipers. Even Kennedy's enemies were horrified. The nation unified, rallied around Lyndon Johnson, the 36th president, from the moment he took office at Love Field in Dallas. It was a unification that wouldn't be given another Chief Executive until the next major disaster on 9/11/2001.
But everything, even the most horrendous events, ossify into history. Everything loses its impact, starting with living emotional memory.
Now we're making another of the same mistakes that humans make in their cyclical idiocy. People are telling us to prepare for war if democracy and the majority of voters fail to vote out people they don't like. People are "praying" for President Obama, even if the prayer is from Psalm 109:8, that states, "Let his days be few; and let another take his office."
Even Kennedy's mortal enemies, and he had many to be sure, weren't so crass as to try to make a buck off their own derangement syndrome.
We have learned nothing. We have not even learned that we have learned nothing, we're such a historically-comatose, stupified nation, a collectively bloated, self-absorbed WALL*E nation of semi-sentient blobs. We still have yet to learn, nor will likely ever learn, of the folly, the tragedy, the sheer human and financial waste of needlessly invading and occupying nations. We've yet to learn how dangerous our words are when political commentary plainly veers into sedition, treason and openly inciting violence. Read the rest.

More Militant Vegans, Less Ethical Butchers

Mickey Z. -- World News Trust

A friend of mine recently brought to my attention a former vegan who has now re-invented himself as the "Ethical Butcher" (a title right up there with Peacekeeper missiles, limited autonomy, and military intelligence). The butcher writes: "After 14 years as a vegetarian, a few of those as a quite 'militant' vegan, I became a butcher. The factors that went into me taking the position are many, but the result was maybe quite predictable. Within a month I was a full-fledged meat eater. What has not changed is my passion for the welfare of animals. Through my work as a butcher and chef, I now see a more direct way to influence and work for change in the meat industry and to improve the quality of life for all of the animals we rely on for food."

Such backlash in the face of compassionate evolution is not uncommon. For example, just as more and more women begin to challenge gender roles, the patriarchal culture countered with Howard Stern, Maxim, and Spike TV. But I digress…

Becoming a butcher in the name of animal welfare is like joining the Marines to promote peace. What's next, the Ethical Executioner with his "passion" for the "welfare" of prisoners? Surely, he'd just be choosing a "more direct way to influence and work for change," following the lead of his butcher comrade.

In a society less and less capable of critical, independent thought, this pro-meat character will probably be widely praised as the antidote to "militant" vegans. You know, the food Nazis. By current standards, you could pack a calf into a veal crate or pump food down a goose's gullet or grind up live male chicks to fertilize your fields and run no risk of being called militant. For that matter, you can clear cut forests, blow off mountain tops in search of coal, and drop white phosphorous on villages filled with brown children and garner virtually no attention at all…let alone be labeled a militant.

Choose a lifestyle of compassion and logic, speak out against vivisection, or protest the use of fur? You, my friends, are a worthy of a Hitler mustache.
-Democratic Underground

Freaky Friday Post: Live it up like a Hamster!

By Meredith Woerner
From io9:

Live Like a Hamster for $150.00 per night


The future of the hotel industry: pandering to a mixture of furry fetishes and minimalism.



Check out the Hamster Villa, where you can dress like a hamster and sleep on hay.

In this French hamster villa guests put on furry hamster hats, run on their own exercise wheels, nibble on hamster food, and sleep on stacks of hay. This is madness — $150 a night to sleep on hay? If this is the minimalist movement, I'm terrified for the kennel clubs that are bound to open up in the states.

Here's a contagion that's actually scary

Tymoshenko, prime minister of Ukraine and a candidate in upcoming national elections, visits a children's hospital in western Ukraine ~ where a deadly virus has plunged the country and its neighbors into a state of panic.



A cocktail of three [Baxter] flu viruses are reported to have mutated into a deadly pneumonic virus, which may be far more dangerous than swine flu ~ and it appears to have strangled Western Ukraine and its neighbors in panic.
- Allen Roland

..More than 1 million people have been infected, most of them in the nine regions of Western Ukraine... Universities, schools and kindergartens have been closed, public meetings have been banned and theatres shut. Last week several border crossings in the country were also closed... Neighboring Poland has called on the EU to take action, fearing the mystery virus may spread westwards....Russia, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary and Romania, countries that border Ukraine, have already launched health checks on Ukrainians entering their territory. Slovakia has closed two of five border crossings. A doctor in Western Ukraine who did not want to be named, said:” We have carried out post mortems on two victims and found their lungs are as black as charcoal ~ they look like they have been burned. It’s terrifying.”
Doctors have now learned why Ukrainians are dying so rapidly ~ all the victims died of viral distress syndrome ( the total destruction of the lungs ) MIGnews.com.ua picks up the sequence from there ~ " Cardio-pulmonary insufficiency comes and consequently cardiogenic shock develops, which causes cardiac standstill and death, said the bureau chief of the Chernivtsi regional forensic examination, doctor of science, Professor Viktor Bachynsky, UNIAN reports. "The virus, which causes death, is very aggressive, it does not strike the trachea, but immediately gets into the lungs and causes heavy swelling and solid hemorrhage. Mixed types of parainfluenza and influenza A/N1N1 lead to this state. This is a very toxic strain, which has not yet answered to the treatment of the Ministry of Health", said Viktor Bachinsky. Read the rest.

Is a common chemical in food and beverage containers leaving you limp?

That's it! No more plastic pop bottles for me. But it's probably in the cans my beans are packed in, and the Progresso lentil soup cans, as well. (Lentil soup is the only kind I don't make myself). I'm also wondering if it's in plastic peanut butter jars. The exposure to BPA is linked to a constellation of chronic diseases, and it affects both men and women. This chemical disrupts the endocrine system, your hormones, and gawd only knows what else.

Is BPA, a Chemical Commonly Found in Food Containers, Ruining Your Sex Life?
By Elaine Shannon, AlterNet.

Erectile dysfunction and ejaculation problems were two side effects in a recent study of men exposed to high levels of bisphenol A, or BPA.
When people ask whether modern synthetics are damaging their health and endangering future generations, Topic A is nearly always bisphenol A (BPA), a synthetic estrogen, an integral component of polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resins and one of the highest volume industrial chemicals in existence.

Now a ground-breaking study released in the journal of Human Reproduction offers what its authors call "the first evidence that exposure to BPA in the workplace could have an adverse effect on male sexual dysfunction."

The scientific team, underwritten by Kaiser Permanente's Division of Research in Oakland, CA., spent five years studying 634 Chinese factory workers whose bodies had been severely contaminated with BPA...

After a year of being bombarded with BPA, the Chinese workers reported disturbing sexual problems: four times as much erectile dysfunction and seven times as many ejaculation difficulties as a control group, the Kaiser team found.
Read the rest.

Rise like lions after slumber

In unvanquishable number

Shake your chains to earth like dew

Which in sleep has fallen on you

Ye are many - they are few

-Percy Shelley

Evidence of War Crimes: The Obstructionist Doctrine of Barack Obama

By Dark Wraith
From Big Brass Blog:

Congress has now authorized President Obama, at the discretion of his Administration, to prohibit release of photographs taken between 2002 and 2009 showing American soldiers, contractors, and agency personnel violently abusing foreign detainees in Iraq and Afghanistan. This effectively ends a lawsuit before the U.S. Supreme Court in which the American Civil Liberties Union had sought the release of 21 such photos under the Freedom of Information Act. Lower courts, including the influential 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals, had ruled against the government's efforts to hide the pictures, but with new authority granted by Congress, which came in a budget bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, Defense Secretary Robert Gates moved quickly to block judicial review of the ACLU case.

Gates went further to block an additional 23 pictures that are rumored to show more abuses contrary to American law and international treaties to which the United States is a signatory.

Among the acts clearly evident in the photos is at least one of a prisoner apparently being sodomized by an American soldier using a broom handle. Other rape or simulated rape photos — along with various alternate demonstrations of brutality, degradation, and violence against prisoners, including mock executions — are said to be in the now-sequestered images.

In signing the bill to keep the photographs of what some allege are American war crimes from being released, President Obama defended the Administration's successful thwarting of the Freedom of Information Act by saying that allowing the pictures to be seen by the public would "further inflame anti-American opinion" and "put our troops in greater danger."

Obama's stance on the evidence of war crimes committed by Americans involved in foreign conflicts flies directly in the face of his declarations and directives on his first full day in office, when he said, "My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government."
Read more here.

Take THIS to the bank...

Brasscheck TV helpfully provided this little video trip down memory lane:




Well, he was right about one thing.

He took it to the banks.

That's the one thing he has done since he took office.

A new front man for a corrupt system.

Coke or Pepsi. Choice in America.