The problem with our "two party" system is the two parties are nearly identical, especially in the leadership. The planks of both parties are considerably different, but it has been a long time since a Republican has followed its party's plank.
Carrol Quigley, Georgetown professor and mentor to Bill Clinton said this in Tragedy & Hope,
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers." "Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
He also had this to say:
It is increasingly clear that, in the twentieth century, the expert will replace... the democratic voter in control of the political system. Hopefully, the elements of choice and freedom may survive for the ordinary individual in that he may be free to make a choice between two opposing political groups (even if these groups have little policy choice within the parameters of policy established by the experts) and he may have the choice to switch his economic support from one large unit to another. But, in general, his freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits
Yeah, but wasn't it one of those 2004 debates where Bush had that bulge from something under his jacket? Did anyone ever really find out what the heck that thing was?
HPV does not cause cervical cancer and FDA documents admit it.
The FDA news release of March 31, 2003 acknowledges that "most infections (by HPV) are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer", in recognition of the advances in medical science and technology since 1988. In other words, since 2003 the scientific staff of the FDA no longer considers HPV infection to be a high-risk disease when writing educational materials for the general public whereas the regulatory arm of the agency is still bound by the old classification scheme that had placed HPV test as a test to stratify risk for cervical cancer in regulating the industry.
As the reclassification petition reveals, HPV infections are naturally self-limiting -- meaning that they are controlled naturally, without requiring intervention with drugs or vaccines. It is not the HPV virus itself that causes cervical cancer but rather a persistent state of ill-health on the part of the patient that makes her vulnerable to persistent infections.
As the petition states:
Based on new scientific information published in the past 15 years, it is now generally agreed that identifying and typing HPV infection does not bear a direct relationship to stratification of the risk for cervical cancer . Most acute infections caused by HPV are self-limiting [1, 4-7]....Repeated sequential transient HPV infections, even when caused by "high-risk" HPVs, are characteristically not associated with high risk of developing squamous intraepithelial lesions, a precursor of cervical cancer.
A woman found to be positive for the same strain (genotype) of HPV on repeated testing is highly likely suffering from a persistent HPV infection and is considered to be at high risk of developing precancerous intraepithelial lesions in the cervix . It is the persistent infection, not the virus, that determines the cancer risk."
Taking Gardasil can actually make you 44.6% more likely to get pre-cancerous lesions if you already have HPV (many sexually active people do).
PCR-based HPV detection device with provision for accurate HPV genotyping is more urgently needed now because vaccination with Gardasil of the women who are already sero-positive and PCR-positive for vaccine-relevant genotypes of HPV has been found to increase the risk of developing high-grade precancerous lesions by 44.6%, according to an FDA VRBPAC Background Document : Gardasil HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine. May 18, 2006 VRBPAC Meeting. www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf
Not only that, but cervical cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer out there. If you are healthy and get regular testings you should have no problem. There is no need for this vaccine.
This guys work was done in the early 80's and is obviously out of date.
It lets them pinpoint what consumers like buying, so they stock up more on the hot sellers.
They can easily know what consumers in general are buying by keeping track of inventory. There is no need to know what a specific individual buys in order to know what to stock in the store.
I can only speculate as to what their real motives for tracking individuals. Most likely the supermarkets/gas stations/etc... are selling it to a private company who does God knows what with the information.
I am still bitter as hell about how both my Senators and Representative voted for the %@$#! Bailout.
It didn't stop them from voting against the desires of their constituents. According to the email one of them sent out as a reply to my comments, most of her constituents were against the Financial Patriot Act and yet she still voted for it.
"speak to citizens and receive feedback" Lies.
Many congressman are simply cowards. They were also lied to as this congressman points out. Many other congressman are simply sellouts. They know who butters their bread. Many congressman get most of their money from financial institutions who will be the only beneficiaries of this bill. Just checkout opensecrets.org
I couldn't be happier that members of Congress are finally allowed to check third parties out. We have all kinds of fresh ideas they could appropriate.
That's only if you trust the government's claims. They have a pretty bad track record. Just do some research on COINTELPRO or Mockingbird. Or realize that the FBI was openly recruiting people to spy on protest groups in Minnesota before the RNC.
Also remember that the patriot act has been used 1000's of times against people who have done nothing terror related. Elliot Spitzer was caught because of the patriot act. It has mostly been used to get drug dealers and shut down strip joints.
Do you also complain about auto manufacturers producing new models every year?
I do because they produce new cars that aren't much better than the year before, then asked to be bailed out to the tune of $25 billion because nobody wants them.
They'll probably use that money to build a factory or two overseas, then use the rest to pay off some bank loans. Meanwhile, we borrowed that $25 billion from the FED at interest who creates it from nothing and the taxpayers are on the hook for it.
You've probably never read NSSM 200 signed by Henry Kissinger where it states that the third world population is a national security threat to the US.
You may not have seen documents from the Congressional Record where people discuss creating "a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired."
2. Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon when we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.
Or maybe you haven't read about the 1000's of times our government has tested biologicals, chemicals, radiologicals on its own citizens.
You also might want to read the law that allows the government to experiment on its own citizens just about anytime it wants.
(b) Exceptions
Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, the
prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a
test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical,
therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or
research activity.
(2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against
toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents.
(3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related
to riot control.
In 2000 The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) wrote a paper called Rebuilding America's Defenses. It talked about using race specific bioweapons as a useful tool.
advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.
PNAC is filled with top Bush administration officials, including Dick Cheney. If you don't like any of my sources you are free to use google or any other source to verify that what I've said is true.
If no one is willing to sell, is it really a market price?
That's why the "bailout" is so bad.
What the bailout bill does is let Bernanke and Paulson buy mortgage related assets at what they were worth before the housing market crash (and you are being charged premium interest for it). That is exactly what both have stated they are going to do.
They can do this to prop up the economy for as long as they want, or until the dollar crashes, which will eventually happen.
If you want to free up credit again, we really need one of the presidential candidates to stand up and say, "There will be no bailout." That will force banks to start doing transactions again. Some might go under, but that's OK. We just need to end this idea that a bailout might happen, because right now that uncertainty is what is preventing people from liquidating their assets.
There are at least 4 Presidential candidates that have stood up and said no to the bailouts (Nader, Baldwin, Barr and McKinney). They also called for the Federal Reserve to be audited. It is just too bad none of them are taken seriously.
I also find it funny that the FED pumped into the financial system almost $700 billion last week and $630 billion yesterday, yet the mainstream press focuses on the "bailout" bill as if that money is really going to do anything. The fact of the matter is the "bailout" bill goes far beyond giving out $700 billion. It is essentially making the treasury/FED a 4th branch of government.
My brother and a few friends have done something similar at card clubs. They had a rather simple system of signals to let each other know what hand you had or were drawing for (i.e. "i have top pair" or "i'm drawing for a straight"). It involved holding your chip(s) in a certain fashion. It was a simple way to make sure that they weren't taking each others money.
Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.
That's what Barton Biggs, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley told everyone to do in his book earlier this year.
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Barton Biggs has some offbeat advice for the rich: Insure yourself against war and disaster by buying a remote farm or ranch and stocking it with ``seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc.''
I've been paying ~$180/month for 64k ISDN to my secret lair in the hills of California. On Monday, though, I get my T1, for $250/month! I think most people that use that much bandwidth may bitch about it, but they'll pay.
It was not my original intent to "Rick Roll" people. I simply typed "mario paint" into youtube and that was one of the top links. It worked out for the best.
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I bet this will not change what they are doing or how they are doing it one bit.
They'll be sure to change the amount of money spent on the program. I don't need to clarify whether it'll be more or less, its too obvious.
Whenever something doesn't work in government it seems to get more money and more power.
That leads me to think that maybe the primary function of government is to pretend to fail.
The problem with our "two party" system is the two parties are nearly identical, especially in the leadership. The planks of both parties are considerably different, but it has been a long time since a Republican has followed its party's plank.
Carrol Quigley, Georgetown professor and mentor to Bill Clinton said this in Tragedy & Hope,
The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers." "Instead, the two parties should be almost identical, so that the American people can 'throw the rascals out' at any election without leading to any profound or extensive shifts in policy.
He also had this to say:
It is increasingly clear that, in the twentieth century, the expert will replace ... the democratic voter in control of the political system. Hopefully, the elements of choice and freedom may survive for the ordinary individual in that he may be free to make a choice between two opposing political groups (even if these groups have little policy choice within the parameters of policy established by the experts) and he may have the choice to switch his economic support from one large unit to another. But, in general, his freedom and choice will be controlled within very narrow alternatives by the fact that he will be numbered from birth and followed, as a number, through his educational training, his required military or other public service, his tax contributions, his health and medical requirements, and his final retirement and death benefits
(Tragedy and Hope: 866).
Man, I wish more people realized the irrelevance of countries. The pointlessness of systems based on false antagonisms and dichotomies.
Actually, I think there's some hope.
Of course you, the pope would say that. You did call for a New World Order in 2005!
(Every pope since 1940 has called for a New World Order, whatever the hell that means)
Yeah, but wasn't it one of those 2004 debates where Bush had that bulge from something under his jacket? Did anyone ever really find out what the heck that thing was?
This page explains it pretty well.
HPV does not cause cervical cancer and FDA documents admit it.
The FDA news release of March 31, 2003 acknowledges that "most infections (by HPV) are short-lived and not associated with cervical cancer", in recognition of the advances in medical science and technology since 1988. In other words, since 2003 the scientific staff of the FDA no longer considers HPV infection to be a high-risk disease when writing educational materials for the general public whereas the regulatory arm of the agency is still bound by the old classification scheme that had placed HPV test as a test to stratify risk for cervical cancer in regulating the industry.
http://www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/dockets/07p0210/07p-0210-ccp0001-01-vol1.pdf
As the reclassification petition reveals, HPV infections are naturally self-limiting -- meaning that they are controlled naturally, without requiring intervention with drugs or vaccines. It is not the HPV virus itself that causes cervical cancer but rather a persistent state of ill-health on the part of the patient that makes her vulnerable to persistent infections.
As the petition states:
Based on new scientific information published in the past 15 years, it is now generally agreed that identifying and typing HPV infection does not bear a direct relationship to stratification of the risk for cervical cancer . Most acute infections caused by HPV are self-limiting [1, 4-7]. ...Repeated sequential transient HPV infections, even when caused by "high-risk" HPVs, are characteristically not associated with high risk of developing squamous intraepithelial lesions, a precursor of cervical cancer.
A woman found to be positive for the same strain (genotype) of HPV on repeated testing is highly likely suffering from a persistent HPV infection and is considered to be at high risk of developing precancerous intraepithelial lesions in the cervix . It is the persistent infection, not the virus, that determines the cancer risk."
Taking Gardasil can actually make you 44.6% more likely to get pre-cancerous lesions if you already have HPV (many sexually active people do).
PCR-based HPV detection device with provision for accurate HPV genotyping is more urgently needed now because vaccination with Gardasil of the women who are already sero-positive and PCR-positive for vaccine-relevant genotypes of HPV has been found to increase the risk of developing high-grade precancerous lesions by 44.6%, according to an FDA VRBPAC Background Document : Gardasil HPV Quadrivalent Vaccine. May 18, 2006 VRBPAC Meeting. www.fda.gov/ohrms/dockets/ac/06/briefing/2006-4222B3.pdf
Not only that, but cervical cancer is one of the most treatable forms of cancer out there. If you are healthy and get regular testings you should have no problem. There is no need for this vaccine.
This guys work was done in the early 80's and is obviously out of date.
Where is my Nobel Prize? :)
It lets them pinpoint what consumers like buying, so they stock up more on the hot sellers.
They can easily know what consumers in general are buying by keeping track of inventory. There is no need to know what a specific individual buys in order to know what to stock in the store.
I can only speculate as to what their real motives for tracking individuals. Most likely the supermarkets/gas stations/etc... are selling it to a private company who does God knows what with the information.
I am still bitter as hell about how both my Senators and Representative voted for the %@$#! Bailout.
It didn't stop them from voting against the desires of their constituents. According to the email one of them sent out as a reply to my comments, most of her constituents were against the Financial Patriot Act and yet she still voted for it.
"speak to citizens and receive feedback" Lies.
Many congressman are simply cowards. They were also lied to as this congressman points out. Many other congressman are simply sellouts. They know who butters their bread. Many congressman get most of their money from financial institutions who will be the only beneficiaries of this bill. Just checkout opensecrets.org
I couldn't be happier that members of Congress are finally allowed to check third parties out. We have all kinds of fresh ideas they could appropriate.
I know one Congressman who does
That's only if you trust the government's claims. They have a pretty bad track record. Just do some research on COINTELPRO or Mockingbird. Or realize that the FBI was openly recruiting people to spy on protest groups in Minnesota before the RNC.
Also remember that the patriot act has been used 1000's of times against people who have done nothing terror related. Elliot Spitzer was caught because of the patriot act. It has mostly been used to get drug dealers and shut down strip joints.
What do you expect when the NSA is the phone company?
Echelon anyone?
Do you also complain about auto manufacturers producing new models every year?
I do because they produce new cars that aren't much better than the year before, then asked to be bailed out to the tune of $25 billion because nobody wants them.
They'll probably use that money to build a factory or two overseas, then use the rest to pay off some bank loans. Meanwhile, we borrowed that $25 billion from the FED at interest who creates it from nothing and the taxpayers are on the hook for it.
Don't worry, there were still plenty of information about reptiallian aliens.
Please don't mark this as troll or flamebait. It is a serious post about a serious topic.
I'm guessing you've never done any research on the subject.
You've probably never read Dr. Len Horowitz's book Emerging Viruses: AIDS And Ebola : Nature, Accident or Intentional?
You've probably never read NSSM 200 signed by Henry Kissinger where it states that the third world population is a national security threat to the US.
You may not have seen documents from the Congressional Record where people discuss creating "a synthetic biological agent, an agent that does not naturally exist and for which no natural immunity could have been acquired."
2. Within the next 5 to 10 years, it would probably be possible to make a new infective microorganism which could differ in certain important aspects from any known disease-causing organisms. Most important of these is that it might be refractory to the immunological and therapeutic processes upon when we depend to maintain our relative freedom from infectious disease.
Or maybe you haven't read about the 1000's of times our government has tested biologicals, chemicals, radiologicals on its own citizens.
You also might want to read the law that allows the government to experiment on its own citizens just about anytime it wants.
(b) Exceptions
Subject to subsections (c), (d), and (e) of this section, the
prohibition in subsection (a) of this section does not apply to a
test or experiment carried out for any of the following purposes:
(1) Any peaceful purpose that is related to a medical,
therapeutic, pharmaceutical, agricultural, industrial, or
research activity.
(2) Any purpose that is directly related to protection against
toxic chemicals or biological weapons and agents.
(3) Any law enforcement purpose, including any purpose related
to riot control.
In 2000 The Project for a New American Century (PNAC) wrote a paper called Rebuilding America's Defenses. It talked about using race specific bioweapons as a useful tool.
advanced forms of biological warfare that can 'target' specific genotypes may transform biological warfare from the realm of terror to a politically useful tool.
PNAC is filled with top Bush administration officials, including Dick Cheney.
If you don't like any of my sources you are free to use google or any other source to verify that what I've said is true.
How to fix it?
Get this piece of legislation out of committee and just maybe we have a chance to turn this country around.
If no one is willing to sell, is it really a market price?
That's why the "bailout" is so bad.
What the bailout bill does is let Bernanke and Paulson buy mortgage related assets at what they were worth before the housing market crash (and you are being charged premium interest for it). That is exactly what both have stated they are going to do.
They can do this to prop up the economy for as long as they want, or until the dollar crashes, which will eventually happen.
heh, until someone hacks it a la Palin fiasco
Just tell them not to answer truthfully on the "security" questions since the answers are probably in the public domain and accessible via google.
If you want to free up credit again, we really need one of the presidential candidates to stand up and say, "There will be no bailout." That will force banks to start doing transactions again. Some might go under, but that's OK. We just need to end this idea that a bailout might happen, because right now that uncertainty is what is preventing people from liquidating their assets.
There are at least 4 Presidential candidates that have stood up and said no to the bailouts (Nader, Baldwin, Barr and McKinney). They also called for the Federal Reserve to be audited. It is just too bad none of them are taken seriously.
I also find it funny that the FED pumped into the financial system almost $700 billion last week and $630 billion yesterday, yet the mainstream press focuses on the "bailout" bill as if that money is really going to do anything. The fact of the matter is the "bailout" bill goes far beyond giving out $700 billion. It is essentially making the treasury/FED a 4th branch of government.
Most of the Congressmen I've called within the past week have gone to voicemail, which is full of course.
Most of the Congressmen I've called also have voicemail's that are completely filled up.
Don't dare complain about it either! To them (Keith Ellison's staff) it isn't their job to clear the voicemail after business hours.
My brother and a few friends have done something similar at card clubs. They had a rather simple system of signals to let each other know what hand you had or were drawing for (i.e. "i have top pair" or "i'm drawing for a straight"). It involved holding your chip(s) in a certain fashion. It was a simple way to make sure that they weren't taking each others money.
Well, it's rather brutal here. Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.
That's what Barton Biggs, former chief strategist at Morgan Stanley told everyone to do in his book earlier this year.
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Barton Biggs has some offbeat advice for the rich: Insure yourself against war and disaster by buying a remote farm or ranch and stocking it with ``seed, fertilizer, canned food, wine, medicine, clothes, etc.''
The ``etc.'' must mean guns.
I've been paying ~$180/month for 64k ISDN to my secret lair in the hills of California. On Monday, though, I get my T1, for $250/month! I think most people that use that much bandwidth may bitch about it, but they'll pay.
64k ought to be enough for any secret lair!
Does anyone else think that this sounds like the beginning of the creation of The Matrix?
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel Prize."
-Tom Lehrer
It was not my original intent to "Rick Roll" people. I simply typed "mario paint" into youtube and that was one of the top links. It worked out for the best.