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Sales stats show that the industry understands this reality. Most firms are making products people will choose to buy. Some are trying to legislate closed market rules to protect their obsolete products, but fortunately, as we see in the video, they are rightfully and increasingly ridiculed.

In addition, check out this documentary of The world according to monsanto... pretty eye opening.

If you are American, I hope your anti-French nationalism does not blind you while seeing this film.

Perhaps they need to do this more?

Humor can be very effective (helping nervous speakers and captivating the audience) if it's integrated seamlessly into the speech, is not too heavy-handed, and is relevant to the topic. No pausing for knock-knock jokes or honking clown horns in the audience's faces.

For class I gave a speech on kayaking. I began the speech with, "This is my paddle. There are many others like it but this one is mine..."

Another speech was about Linux. Most of the audience (classmates) knew nothing about linux, so I mentioned the fact that Dave Chappelle gave a shoutout to Linux (well, behind Windows and Mac) in a skit ("Pop Copy") in the first episode of his show. That kind of pop-culture penetration is significant, even if it flew right over the heads of most of the audience. Here is a vid of the sketch, the Linux shoutout happens at 2:25 (and note that the timer counts backwards, not forwards).

Great ... another confusing Canon law and Thoraic law. You are correct that, in theory, the punishment for homosexual sex in the old testament, and according to the Jewish religion, one should be stoned for same-sex relations (or any sexual relations outside of marriage).

You could make the same statement about adultery, and could be technically telling the truth. Nevertheless, we all know the story of Jesus and the adulterous woman : he didn't approve those relations, at all, and yet he specifically forbade executing her for it. So why am I saying this ? Doesn't this story apply to women ?

Well, no, it doesn't. You see, homosexual sex (not temptation, not sexual orientation, all those are "free") is only a crime because of the same reason Jews wanted to stone that woman before Jesus : it's illicit sexual relations. Sex outside of wedlock.

And clearly, any 2-year-old and his mother know that Christianity does not condone, at all, capital punishment for illicit sexual relations. Which is not to say it condones them.

I am not aware of these roman laws, I was under the impression most of those were lost, and you do not specify your sources. And yes, many European states, which were Christian, did have laws outlawing homosexuality (they did not, despite what you say, prescribe capital punishment however).

I would also like to note that even the subject of our discussion was not executed, at least not by the state, for homosexuality. He was given the choice : chemically repress any sexual urges*, so as to never act on his sexual orientation OR be removed from society.

* he was first, of course, asked to repress them without chemicals. He failed.

Which is a world of difference, compared to what would happen to him today in Saudi Arabia : if 2 muslim male "witnesses" suspected (no, that's the right word, I do not mean that they actually saw him do anything) him of homosexuality this would happen.

Well, Morgan used to make a 3 wheel sports car, and they used to be able to lap Brooklands at over a ton (all power from a big twin bike engine).

The configuration's still available today - here's a video of an old Moggie and a Grinnall Scorpion being let out to play.

Pretty stable, no?

Maybe we'll see what happens in the future: some countries have maybe learnt their lesson and hopefully others can learn without making the same mistakes.
I'm not suggesting that the World Bank is corrupt, rather that they open the door to corruption. They are more likely to grant a loan to countries that allow inward investment (common sense) but those "inward investing" companies do not necessarily give a country the best deal.
Good example is the Volta Dam in Ghana (a producer of "fair trade" cocoa but not Aluminium, in spite of quite large resouces). The World Bank warned Ghana's government that the deal they were getting from Kaiser Aluminium might not help their economy but then gave them the loan anyway. Within a few years, the country was bankrupt (they got a dam - run for the benefit of Kaiser - plus some roads, buildings and monuments for their trouble).
Should the World Bank have given the loan? It's tricky - would Ghana be worse off if they hadn't?

Now that everyone has become aware of the ability of broadcasters to insert fake content into a supposedly live event, we should turn our attention to an event several years ago that was also faked: 'hijacked aircraft flying into the World Trade Center'. There's a convenient video course about what was done and how, called "September Clues" You can find the first installment here:

http://www.livevideo.com/video/embedLink/6F393F4DE41C4CF798CBB438E6378129/228144/september-clues-part1.aspx

P. Orin Zack
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I write pointed political short stories at my blog, http://klurgsheld.wordpress.com/
First at Google on a search for political short stories.

Do you think there's any incentive for the multi-billion dollar industry to look for evidence that it's own products are in some cases worthless in others harmful? That's not going to happen anytime soon.

Here's an example of someone who has tried the complicated task of judging the evidence:
Polio, smallpox presentation

Is it reasonable to have a 'can do no wrong' view of any complex medicine? Because of manufacturing practices, lack of knowledge at the very start and refusal to disclose because of the consequence after; the vaccine industry infected millions of people with cancer causing viruses like S40 and others. Their manufacturing techniques were horrible, leaving a veritable soup of viruses and all to push vaccines that had no positive health benefits in the great majority of use cases after a simple risk-benefit analysis.
Please ignore the horrible re-editing of this PBS documentary but it is the best Example I found.

Oh and as a last point, vaccination by definition can't be effective (you state there's ample evidence of it). Only immunization can be effective and those are not synonyms. Sometimes it takes multiple vaccinations to produce any immunization.