Bear In Mind

Breaking news around these parts of North Mississippi was a black bear that was spotted in Prentiss county this past week.   I live in the neighboring Tishomingo county and this bear was sighted just some 40 or so miles from where I live.  This is a big deal!  Well it is around these parts.  We don’t have bears around here!  I have never heard of one in 45 years living in the area.  Hannah Kate Jackson actually got a photo of this bear in a tree.  The MS department of wildlife, fisheries, and parks knew the bear was coming this way for some time.  It had been sighted in north Alabama on June 4th  and was headed west.  He is just looking for a home.   He has been heading in a westward direction for over a month.  Not really sure where he came from or where he is headed.  I am surprised some redneck hasn’t taken him out.  There are no plans to capture this bear as long as he minds his business.  Authorities are going to let nature do its thing.

Actual Pic By Hannah Jackson

Black bears can be found in the state near the Mississippi River and on the lower coastal counties but this is really rare for one to be seen up here in the hill country.  We have had several species of animals make this area home over the past few decades.  The fire ant, coyote, armadillo, and several fish species in Pickwick lake are new.  There have been a lot of reports of mountain lions being sighted in and around Tishomingo county but there hasn’t been any photos to prove it.    He is just looking for a new home and was probably pushed away from his mother’s home range.  He could have been relocated and is trying to find his way back, however he doesn’t have a tag.  I hope bears don’t move into this area.  They will eat a baby fawn if given the chance and I don’t need any more competition with my deer population.  I will be more aware of my surroundings when I head to my tree stand in the future.

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IDEOLOGIES CLASHING IN FANTASY OF AMERICAN GENERAL STRIKE

I was asked to offer my opinion on the viability and usefulness of a general strike in the USA having participated in 20 in various countries around the world. My response was that it was a very good idea because it unifies, has a good chance of bearing results, and carries very little risk because at that point the system needs the people more than the people need the system. Someone responded that Americans need to study Latin America and Europe to see how it’s done but that the problem with my analysis was that a general strike was useless in and of itself but rather should be a dress rehearsal for the overthrow of the capitalist system in favor of Marxism. This, naturally, from an American who had never been to Latin America or Europe nor had been part of a general strike while I had been a participant in one 6 weeks ago! How very typical.

At any rate, as usual with Americans you have to teach them everything because they believe they know the encyclopedia when they barely know page 5 of TV Guide.

KELSO’S SCHOOL-ROOM
If you feel my analysis of the prospects of a general strike in the USA are insufficiently anti-capitalist and we haven’t discussed South America, I’m really going to have to plead guilty. I’d certainly like to see the end of imperial corporatism to be replaced with a model that’s sui generis to Americans. I don’t know what that system is. I’ve only been alive during American Imperial corporatism. If you say it has to be communism or at least let’s toss the dialectical materialist dice and see who wins or what the synthesis is I don’t know any syntheses other than Bolivarianism or anarco-sindicalism and I cannot imagine either of those being satisfactory to you.

Bolivarianism is the South American Enlightenment-based market-socialist and community voluntarist “trueque” system that is inspired by Boliver, Jefferson, Smith, Paine, Henry, Ricardo and Rousseau with maybe a hint of Bellegarigue. That doesn’t sound like your cup of tea at all. But it is the only egalitarian large-scale movement of success well kind of EVER. I don’t know what you know about Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolívia or Argentina so I can’t use this as a jumping-off point with you. Read up on it. Read Eva Golinger. Read Greg Palast. Listen to any English language youtubes you can if you don’t understand Spanish. Stone’s movie isn’t bad. Sean Penn gives a pretty fair accounting of parts of it. Read the economic data. Read Perkins because the IMF neo-liberal corporatism and debt peonage was the problem Bolivarianism was solving.

But there are only certain elements of socialism in it such as collective ownership of strategic industries, a generous social sector, and many forms of worker and trade-union empowerment. The rest is kind of Chomsky/Herman classical conservatism: high budget surpluses to pay for the generous social sector, asset-based monetary systems, banking and corporate finance laws which go far beyond the bullshit of FDR but not so much that Alan Mulally of the Ford Motor Company and Vladimir Bogdanov of Surgutneftegaz aren’t very happy in Venezuela, for example. Worker empowerment has the goals of strong union penetration and various options for workers’ egalitarian control of private enterprise, replacing elite billionaires with huge numbers of new millionaires from the working class. Do you like the idea of auto-workers each with say $800,000 worth of equity, yearly dividends of $100,000 and $50/hr pay with rotating board seats and directorships? And “management” receiving the same compensation because the managers are drawn from the same trade union pool? I’m guessing “NO WAY.” Auto-workers and oil-riggers and roustabouts would just be the “new elites” because service sector workers couldn’t make that much money although they do well and far better than before. What about auto-workers who don’t want to gamble their pensions and just settle for the high salaries? It’s all good by the trade-union councils but there are folks with more and folks with less and savings and investment and economic growth and all that icky stuff.

Anarco-sindicalism I assume you have some familiarity with from the work of Anselmo Lorenzo. You have very strong organized labor of course and you have by law the RIGHTS that redound to the unit of labor being always equal to the rights that redound to the unit of capital. And at the end of each fiscal period the returns to each should balance or be close enough one way or the other. On the other hand, the system of government is Federalist not Central, which each unit of government deciding what’s appropriate for them with a smallish central government responsible for such things as the national health, environmental regulation, bank law, and a monetary system for fair international trade but any and all agreed-to methods of settlement locally would be law and there would be fungibility back and forth into and out of the national currency which could be asset-based or debt-based depending on the resources of the country in question.

Decisions at all levels of government could be republican or democratic but would have everywhere some variant of instant-runoff voting to avoid tyrannies of small majorities as well as down the field coalitions which overwhelm the peoples’ choices.

Now, you’re thinking “what the fuck is this?????” I didn’t sign on for the Cynthia McKinney campaign! I want my dictatorship of the proletariart! And I’m sure the state will wither away but until it does what’s the regional government shit? And while there is a dictatorship of the proletariat I damned well better have my spot in the Politburo or as the official poetry writer!

I am the great great nephew of Russian Revolutionaries who were miners in Chernigov. They were not poetry writers. Their value to Krasny Oktyabr were as KILLERS. Between Filip and Abram they probably killed 150 of the Tsar’s forces and maybe another 50 innocent women and 50 innocent children. And do you know what happened when the dictatorship of the proletariat was set up? It was run by the same racist Slavs who were the bosses in Tsarist monarchy. Gospodin Bronstein got it with an icepick in DF, si o no? So, their internal passports carried a stamp that read “ZHID” and it was back to the mines in Chernigov and no Komsomol for their kids. YURI CROW, baby. No spot even to be Red Army officers despite their facility with violence: “ZHID”. Other internal passports had “TATAR” and “KAZAKH” and “ABKHAZ” etc, There’s your “end of capitalism”

They killed a few Slavs and got their asses to England and then Uruguay. I hope you are well set up ethnically for the end of capitalism if the generall strike is merely a dress rehearsal because Marxist-Leninism sucked cock and Stalinism sucked diseased cock. Cuba is a tiny oligarchy with capitalism for some in the inner circle and crapola for everybody else other than what they can hustle. China is a rapacious Plutocracy whose best virtue is that they deal fairly with other nations and don’t want blood, only assets and as much profit as possible and they don’t fuck with other cultures that they’re dealing with anymore. North Korea? Militarist dictatorship. Vietnam? The Cong just do capitalism better than Thieu’s stooge state did.

Now, let’s talk about wealth and private gain. I know pan-Latinoamericanista leftist politics very, very, well. It bears no relationship to the American conception of “left and right”. Your range of ideologies vary from country to country and in the worst stooge-state both far LEFT (FARC) and far RIGHT (AUC) have nothing to do with ideology at all anymore. Both are ultra-violent terrorists. There’s a Bolivarian Party (ADP). There’s the world’s only power Green Party. There’s an institutional center-left Liberal Party. There’s an institutional center-right Conservative Party. And there’s the Authoritarian governing US-backed strong arm right wing party (PDLU). That’s Colombia. Other countries have other mixes. But I’ll tell you this right now. Let’s take a solid Bolivarian market-socialist nation like Ecuador. Very good president. Very good governing party, the PPA. All the basic needs nationalized. Growing economy with some urban v rural class issues but nothing nightmarish. If I’m an Equatoriano businessperson in Quito and you don’t like that I have a net worth of $5 million and you want to take some of it from me, you better bring a fucking army because I’d kill you soon as look at you and it would be considered self-defense by the courts.

There is a concept called national sovereignty, you know. And after years of dictatorship down here we like our independence no matter what style of democratic-republic or socialist-republic we have. My society agrees on basic standards that are culturally appropriate. My society determines its tax rates. My society establishes what is socially prudent a ratio of CEO to worker pay. Here in Panamá it’s 30/1, for example. You may have wonderful ideals of how to end capitalism but the real world works as the real world works. And I´ll tell you this our PRD may not live up to your idea of a left wing party but you’ve never lived with a party as far left as the PRD.

I believe a general strike to crush the imperial corporatist system and have some social equity and peoples’ needs met and redress for grievances and an independent republic with laws is not such a bad thing. I could be wrong and Americans might LOVE your Marxist-Leninism. And that’s cool with me. Every country is sovereign and should make its own choices.

I should clarify something so there are no misunderstandings. There are a number of people in this discussion (I directed my views to Grok because he was the only one to direct his to me) who want communism and see a general strike as a means to the end of smashing this American statist set-up with a Marxist or Marxist-Leninist one. Grok mentioned Latin America which along with a toughening Iceland has the only true egalitarian peoples’ movement politics that come close to just a socialism with more market features than socialist ones. Still, the Bolivarians have a way better record than the Europeans in crushing the IMF and neo-liberal debt-peonage privatization by force systems in place in Europe, North America, and Oceania.

There are a few reasons for that but none are germane to the USA. (1) The brutality of the dirty wars which really started in 1954 with the overthrow of Jacobo Arbenz in Guatemala and lasted through the 60s in a milder form, in the 70s in an intense form starting with the overthrow of Allende in Chile, in the 80s during the Reagan/Bush Sr era, and the vestiges still remain in Colómbia today. The 90s of course were characterized by the IMF neo-liberal debt enslavement with less violence but still a region with de facto dictatorships and 1.party stooge state systems of the Anglo american empire. Not good. The wounds are still fresh. I personally wish every day that Colin Powell would die of very slow and painful cancer. We recovered from the Guernica he brought to us as prep for the Gulf War I just as Hitler used Guernica as a lab. A lot of you don’t know much about “Operation Just Cause” which we call “El Chorrillo”. Colin Powell might even seem OK to some of you. He is not. He is the devil incarnate and I’m not religious. Everything he did to us he did on his own AFTER Bush Sr had given the stand-down order because Noriega was trapped.

Sure Bush wanted to test some of the new shit out but he didn’t want to slaughter 5000 civilians in a dense urban neighborhood! He didn’t want to displace 100,000 people. And he surely didn’t want a post-capture psyop of MASS RAPE throughout a city of 3 million people who didn’t love Noriega but he was way better than the stooge they put in, Endara. Bush and Noriega were coke business partners who had a falling out because Noriega saw how much money Freeway Ricky Ross was making from rock and he wanted a bigger cut because he was taking all the risks and Bush and the CIA were stingy. Noriega didn’t fuck with you if you didn’t fuck with him and in his last year, he had become very interested in leftist politics and had begun some reforms. We’re better off without him but what Colin Powell did he did for FUN. El Chorrillo has been left as a living memorial and was never rebuilt. It’s heartbreaking to see during the day and too terrifying to see at night.

There are stories like this in every Latin country. I don’t know if people realize this but the play and movie “Evita” is so offensive that the only way Argentinos and Jews and Arabs especially deal with it is to laugh at it as if it were “The Producers” with “Springtime For Hitler”. Chile was almost as bad as South Africa after Pinochet overthrew Allende and that Naomi girl has done you all a terrible disservice in what she writes about it in THE SHOCK DOCTRINE. The amazing thing about it is that she’s Jewish and again, the Jewish and Arab community took the worst of it with the Catholic left also getting it bad but she blames mass genocide of over 1mm people on a random professor of economics, Milton Friedman, who travelled in the same DC pundit circles she does. Ask yourself if it makes sense that a massive Chilean military with the aid of the entire US war complex and Kissinger to do the planning needed to trick people into their torture murder and expropriation by telling them that a free-market utopia was good so hand over the money and your bodies? Does that make sense? None of this had the slightest thing to do with Milton Friedman. People were rounded up tortured and murdered and all they money was stolen. FULL STOP. Nobody gave a fuck about Milton Friedman or knew who the fuck he was. The leading economists who all fled were Eduardo Schwartz, Armando Majluf and Manfred Neff. So, Naomi stop with the Blue v Red anti libertarian shit already. It’s still offensive.

That’s the anger which Americans have no concept of whatsoever. None. Zero. America is the EMPIRE AND THE PERPETRATOR. And the people are only coming to understand that they are victims too and not bosses just in the past year. And that goes for every sub group. You cry like babies because some Republican back-bencher wants to cut 10mm from Planned Parenthood. I’ve had American guns pointed at me. I’ve been robbed and coerced byAmerican military. And I´ve had it way easy compared to most of the sub-continent. Now, think of the REAL VICTIMS HERE and you’ll get an idea of why when the time was right we did it with the ballot not the bullet.

And there are other reasons. Because of Bolivar we have a 100 year head start on you in ending African enslavement by the Spanish, Portuguese and French. And even before Bolivar the slave laws were nothing as psycho as in the USA. A child born to two African slaves was born free, for example. I’m not saying any of this was good. I’m saying we had a big jump on you in moral values and race relations. We are also a continent of immigrants just like you. You are not special with that.So stop with the ONLY IN AMERICA shit. Example: there are 50,000 Celtic Irish in Cali, Colómbia alone. Who look totally Celtic and speak only Spanish. Every group you have we have.

Your dominant religion is Baptist. Ours is a very mellow Catholicism that is far more liberal than Jesuit and heavily dominated by Revolution Theology. And the Catholic church here is not only cut off from Rome, it’s out of politics in every way but holidays. Marriages? By notary public and gay is fine. American Jews practice Zionism. Latin Jews practice pan-Semitic brotherhood and sisterhood. The majority of nations here recognize the state of Palestine. Every city has over 12 daily papers and we don’t have the Maddow/Hannity thing. We have serious political shows. The TV news is THE NEWS. I get American news in Spanish that you don’t get in English! There are shows like Saturday Nite for political comedy not only weird joking shit all the time.

You have harsh attacking slashing political correctness and complicated connotative political words with 1000s of meanings. We have an over the top manners culture as a social glue, which has the paradoxical effect of making general strikes much easier because nobody argues over trivia. Only over shit that’s fucked up and boom we’re out in the streets. We aren’t at war with anyone! We have no empires or military presence anywhere. The militaries are tiny. And the poice are de.militarized. Russia, China and India are our bodyguards. Oh yeah. We all have the national health and free university. My doctor makes weekend house calls! For $10.

I`m not saying that what I wrote before was a lie. I know the USA is finally ready for mass collective action to shut the awful system down. My point though is crucial and everything has been leading up to it. IF WE HAVE THAT BIG AN ADVANTAGE IN ALL HUMANIST RESPECTS OVER YOU AND ARE BETTER EDUCATED AND PERSONALLY BRAVER AND TOUGHER AND WAY MORE COMPASSIONATE AND SOPHISTICATED AND HAVE NO POLICE STATES AND MUCH MORE PERSONAL LIBERTY AND WAY LOWER TAXES AND MORE COMITY AND THE MOST LEFT WING SYSTEM WE CAN COME UP WITH IS ONLY BOLIVARIAN MARKET-SOCIALISM, HOW EXACTLY DO YOU PLAN TO HAVE MARXISM WHICH REQUIRES A SOPHISTICATION TO MAKE WORK THAT I CANNOT EVEN CONCEIVE OF?

The America Strain

Conspiracy Dude got me to thinking on his latest post about measles being imported into the U. S. I have been looking into and thinking about a show’s subject matter I just saw on a History Channel documentary.  Early September of  1918, a Liberty Loan parade in Philadelphia prompts a huge outbreak of the flu epidemic in the city. By the time the epidemic ended, an estimated 30 million people were dead worldwide.  This flu ran its course.  Do you understand that no cure was found and the flu itself died.  It ran out of host.  In July 1918 Philadelphia’s Bureau of Public Health had issued a bulletin about the “Spanish Influenza”. But health officials had not listed influenza as a reportable disease, and this denial of the danger of what was happening had encouraged people to take foolish risks and this spread throughout the country and  across the world.  30 Million people died worldwide as a result.  The world had 1.8 billion people in 1918.  The amount of world travel or travel abroad way pales in comparison today.  The amount of human interaction is huge compared to 1918. “Influenza pandemics are natural phenomenon, like earthquakes,” said Klaus Stohr, coordinator of the global flu program at the WHO. “The problem is bad preparedness.”Influenza is highly contagious and has killed millions over the past 100 years. It has traditionally moved in cycles, and some scientists say a major outbreak is already overdue.

To say we are ill prepared to handle a major out break of a 8.0 on the scale of flu is an understatement.  We as people have handled the latest minor out breaks of bird and swine flu to some degree, but in time we will have an outbreak that could send us back in technology 100 or so years for the survivors.   If your lucky enough not to be killed in the first three weeks,  you might just make it,  if your prepared.  The people who make vaccinations will be so overwhelmed during this time they will not have time to come up with a shot to protect the people.  A flu this strong in today’s well-connected world will take about a month to wipe out way more per capita of the world’s population as it did in 1918.   It could have a death toll of 75 to 85 percent of the world’s population.  It will flood hospitals in the first several days to a point people will be in the street.  Shelters and triage centers will be overrun.  It will spread from these areas like wildfire.  Hundreds of flights are taking off at several hundred airports everywhere with sick people showing no symptoms.  It will be in every major populated country including both poles in ten to fourteen days.  Protocols to protect the important people who may just find a vaccine will not have provided enough time to catch a flu like this in time.   Stores run out of food and soon the gas pumps dry up.  Your power is out and your water pressure is very low.  The internet crashes.  Water is gone by the third or fourth week.  Half the people left are in shock.  You don’t know close to a billion people are dead in the world.  Neither do you know that 3 to 4 more billion are going to die.

You have made it a month so now what do you do?   Not a single person is working unless they are military if there is one left.  Do you have enough food?  Water?  A way of getting those two things?  Because those two things are all that matters to you now.  Is it just you or are you providing for your wife and kids too.  Staying in your house was the smartest thing you have ever done.  This is the way to survive the first month or so.  Did you have three months of food and water and essential meds to make it this long without having to venture out?  Did the military have enough time to move you into a camp, as will happen in most major cities?  If so,  you’re going to be in the second round of deaths from this in one way or the other.   I know you have locked yourself up at home and had enough water and food to make it.  Now have you survived the looters who are trying to get your stash of goodies?  If you have stored up enough of the right kind of goodies you might just make it.

Survivors now around the second month are dealing with dead bodies everywhere in the major populated areas.  People will literally die where they are standing with this flu.  Rural areas are now banded together and formed a network to help each other as they can.  Unless you have set this up before hand you can count yourself out.

It could be years before you have power again.  Hopefully someone who knows how to make fuel will have survived.  This is a big what if scenario.  For all the crap you have stacked up in your house, make a couple piles of food and water.  Enough to make it at least three months.  Cause politics and all the stuff we complain about will be the least of your worries.   For the sake of this argument they and the military, other than small bands will not survive either.  Some scientist say this is a when and not an if.  It is just something to think about.

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Barack Obama is Bisexual

Can you believe this load of crap. Sure many of us had our doubts for some time now, but this removes all of them.

Barack Obama and David Cameron are kissing

To bad .. or should I say good thing this isn’t true. It is photo shopped. Here is the image used of Barack kissing Michelle Obama. I’ll circle the proof for you. Within the circle is a patch of skin the person who made the photo shopped image forgot to remove. There are other tells if you look close enough in your own photo editing software, but the skin is the most obvious to the naked eye.

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Importing Measles

via~ Centers for Disease Control

During the first 19 weeks of 2011, 118 cases of measles were reported, the highest number reported for this period since 1996. Of the 118 cases, 105 (89%) were associated with importation from other countries, including 46 importations (34 among U.S. residents traveling abroad and 12 among foreign visitors). Among those 46 cases, 40 (87%) were importations from the World Health Organization (WHO) European and South-East Asia regions. Of the 118, 105 (89%) patients were unvaccinated. Forty-seven (40%) patients were hospitalized and nine had pneumonia. The increased number of measles importations into the United States this year underscores the importance of vaccination to prevent measles and its complications.

I have a better way. Screen those wishing entrance to Amerika.

As a result of high vaccination coverage, measles elimination (i.e., the absence of endemic transmission) was achieved in the United States in the late 1990s (1) and likely in the rest of the Americas since the early 2000s (5). However, as long as measles remains endemic in the rest of the world, importations into the Western Hemisphere will continue.

The prices we pay for a ‘global economy’ that make rich people richer.

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Oink

Right before I quit Facebook, I had a small run-in with Sam (I have linked to his blog here many times in the past). In that exchange, I saw that he was a “lesser of two evils” numbskull, still pushing “vote Dem”, even tho he would bitch left and right about what they were doing to ruin this country. But voting reTHUGlican would be even worse, so, go vote for the demoRAT, no matter how bad things are going, since it would be worse if the “other side” were to win.

You know, the same old story that keeps us in the bondage we find ourselves in. As a matter of fact, I have had this very same run-in and have been banned from various “Progressive” blogs when I point out the idiocy in that perspective and the fact that we are chumps when we play right into their damned game. I have said it here and elsewhere many times, I cannot vote R or D ever again because I am tired of being their chump and always getting the shitty end of the stick.

So, when I read Arthur’s latest, I knew I had to share, at least the last few sentences (and please go read the entire thing).

Revisiting “The Honor of Being Human,” or: Don’t Be a Pigfucker

You can make whatever excuses you want, and you can offer shabby rationalizations like those put forth by Smith. The brute and brutal, murderous fact remains unchanged: If you vote for Obama, if you vote for any Democrat or Republican, you are supporting these horrors.

That means that you are a pigfucker, too.

Given developments of the last few years, I would now go further. If you participate in national elections at all, you are supporting these horrors…

 

Seven Mile Long Oil Slick In Gulf of Mexico

At 10:51 AM EDT June 8 2011 I tweeted:

Mystery #Oil Slick, Breton Sound, #GOM http://1.usa.gov/meA33J

The link within my tweet is to IncidentNews, which is a .gov website that provides publicly available information related to oil and hazardous material spills, both current and historical.

This is what ‘IncidentNews reported on June 8:

Mystery Slick, Breton Sound (NRC 978985)
Breton Sound, GOM 2011-Jun-08

At 1014 hours local time on 8 June 2011, USCG Sector New Orleans notified the NOAA Scientific Support Coordinator of a reported mystery slick WSW of Breton Island. The size of slick is reported as “several miles” in length. The initial information is sketchy, and the USCG has launched a helicopter and small boat to investigate as well as coordinating with the USFWS Breton Wildlife Refuge Manager. No responsible party is yet known. NOAA was requested to provide an Initial Trajectory Analysis and Resources at Risk analysis. In 2005, this same refuge was impacted by a small spill resulting in the death of more than 600 pelican. USFWS reports that there are nearly 7000 pelican on North Breton Island currently and this is nesting season.

Incident Details
Spill, potential spill, or other: Oil Spill
Cause of incident: Mystery Spill
Products of concern: Unknown

Latitude (approximate): 29° 26.08′ North
Longitude (approximate): 89° 16.42′ West

"The size of slick is reported as “several miles” in length."

From an AP article in the NYTimes June 8 Louisiana: Coast Guard Investigates Origin of Oil Slick in Gulf of Mexico. We see they report the Oil Slick as being a "seven-mile slick" and thought to be from BP’s oil spill last year, yet the origin has not been determined.

I have looked around and as of now [June 13] have not found anything other than the above, the same by various media outlets. Nothing new.

Are they keeping this hush hush ?

Is the capped BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo well spewing oil again ?

Is this oil once deposited on the Gulf of Mexico’s floor through the use of dispersants [Corexit] now surfacing ?

Is this a new leak from a well, or a ruptured seabed ?

Will we ever know ?

Now we know….

Update June 14: Found this today – Bird’s Eye View: Have You Seen This?

You may recall reports last week that a fisherman discovered a several miles long slick and that efforts were underway to find whether it was BP oil resurfacing from last year’s blowout. By week’s end, our friends at the National Wildlife Federation had already determined that the oil near Venice was not from the BP disaster. They were able to retrieve a sample from the fisherman and have it tested at a lab at LSU, which concluded it was not oil from BP’s Macondo well.

The link above has a link to the National Wildlife Federation report, and a slide show of the new oil leak from a different well in the Gulf Of Mexico. While this oil spill is no ‘BP Deepwater Horizon Macondo’, it is still an oil spill that is being ignored. Ignored because this is an everyday occurrence in the Gulf of Mexico.

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Cuttin’ Nuts

The Number One nut-cuttin’ issue facing us today is whether or not 911 was an inside job (so many tangents are related to this one day and WHO did it). Besides the fact that I can never vote R or D again, I could never vote for Ron Paul because of this:

Did you know that he just can’t “handle the controversy” of that infamous day?

h/t Corbett Report

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Richard Noggin Saturday: Ayn Rand and All Of Her Sycophantic Ass-Kissers

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I happened upon this CBS interview that Mike Wallace did with Ayn Rand in 1959. I can now see why the fools that are in the GOP (including Ron and Rand Paul) are so morally bankrupt.

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B’Man’s Hypocrite Watch: To Kill, Steal and Destroy

Satan’s Trap?

The nutjobs that run the AFA are certainly focused on Satan’s Trap, aren’t they? They put most of the focus on attacking McDonalds, Pepsi, Home Depot and other companies  for their support of gay rights (not to mention their “war on Christmas” and war on spring egg nonsense), but what do they say about what Jesus addresses that the thief’s (Satan) purpose on Earth is.

New Living Translation(©2007)
The thief’s purpose is to steal and kill and destroy. My purpose is to give them a rich and satisfying life.

But look around and find me one little scribble about war, especially the immoral wars we have undertaken in America, instigated by their favorite right-winged, neocon Herr Leaders.

Their Mission

The mission of the American Family Association is to inform, equip, and activate individuals to strengthen the moral foundations of American culture, and give aid to the church here and abroad in its task of fulfilling the Great Commission.

So, they focus on gay issues and never mention what America does in its emulation of the thief: which is to steal, KILL and destroy.

This is precisely why, as a Mississippian (they were founded in Tupelo, MS) I am embarrassed and consider them to be a farce whose real agenda is little more than being a mouthpiece for right-wing agendas that are meant to separate and divide the American public with some of the least important issues facing us. It is a sick joke to read their action statement IF they have no inkling of what Jesus’ stance on war and peace is. As a matter of fact, their actions betray Christ, which is why so many thinking people (including Christians) think of them as a farce and tool of the GOP.

Instead of speaking out against war, they mouthpieces (namely Bryan Fischer) speak in some of the most revolting SUPPORT of war and killing:

So the question is this: when are we going to start awarding the Medal of Honor once again for soldiers who kill people and break things so our families can sleep safely at night?…

…However, Jesus’ act of self-sacrifice would ultimately have been meaningless – yes, meaningless – if he had not inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy while giving up his own life.

Jesus inflicted a mortal wound on the enemy? Can you say “retarded”?

There were many things this monster was called in the comments section of that writing. There were many folks who called him out for what he is: a preacher with kill-lust (which is the antithesis of The Christ). So much so, that he felt he needed to write a Part II.

He then goes to the Old Testament, instead of anything Jesus would have to say, to bolster his blood-lust for killing and ends with this doozy:

War is certainly a terrible thing, and should only be waged for the highest and most just of causes. But if the cause is just, then there is great honor in achieving military success, success which should be celebrated and rewarded.

The bottom line here is that the God of the Bible clearly honors those who show valor and gallantry in waging aggressive war in a just cause against the enemies of freedom, even while inflicting massive casualties in the process. What I’m saying is that it’s time we started imitating God’s example again.

First of all, the wars we are currently using for murder and world control are anything BUT “just”. To the contrary, they are the least “just” wars America has ever undertaken and are, as I have said many times at this blog, illegal and immoral. To equate David or any of the Jewish wars and actions to America is idiotic and nothing more than an attempt to justify something which has no basis in fact. America was never attacked by Afghanistan or Iraq. Fact. We were NEVER put into any mode of self-defense, because neither of these countries could ever have harmed us in any way.

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A message from Adam Gadahn for the sheeple of Amerika

Hello Amerika,

This is to let you know that I support the ‘Gun Control’ agenda in your country. In my latest video release this past Friday put together with the help of the CIA and Mossad, I said many many scary things. Since the death of Osama Bin Laden, various agencies have taken a renewed interest in what I can do for them.

In a report released to various news outlets in Amerika they failed to do their homework on the facts. Then again, this story was intended and targeted at those of you with your heads in the sand, or those of you who have no idea what goes on in your country.

You see my friends, many of you know that it is impossible to purchase a ‘Fully Automatic Weapon’ at a gun show. However, my handlers put this in the story in hopes of furthering their agenda of Gun CONtol in your great country. Don’t believe me ? Check for yourself Here, or read it in this snapshot I took to preserve history in the making.

The CONtrollers of news in Amerkia also included some more propaganda for you sheeple. They said .. well let me show you in this snapshot I took….

Isn’t it a good thing that so many of you have no idea of the real restrictions in your county in regards to acquiring a firearm. There are some of you who caught on rather quickly. I first saw this from a person that goes by the name ‘Conspiracydude’ @Buelahman in a tweet he made on Saturday at 12:26 pm his local time. He tweeted, "Adam Gadahn supports / furthers GUN CONTROL agenda". Others have since seen this tweet and are spreading the word.

I must say that word of this isn’t spreading, and thats a good thing. If more people realized how much disinformation and propaganda their news agencies spread, our job would be impossible.

Well Amerika, thats about all I have time for at the moment. My handlers are waiting for me to make more videos. Long live the bogeyman… uh.. Osama.

Yours truly,

Adam Pearlman aka Adam Gadahn, new head of al qaeda.

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I.B.E.W, Sickley & Needy

Most of you know I have a band and I play guitar.  We play a lot of gigs and have fun.  We do a lot of benefits and try to help out where we can.  We had a gig scheduled last Saturday in Guntown, MS just north of Tupelo.  We were told it was at the city park then we were told it was at the shooting range.  It was supposed to be a gig for the local IBEW chapter of Lee county’s power association workers.  You really never know what you’re getting into with these types of gigs and some are a bust with very little attendance or you’re not paid what your promised.  This was a last-minute kinda deal and I was not looking forward to it because of the heat (close to 98) that day.  When we showed up we turned down this long gravel road and went about two miles off the road.  We came to a gate and I noticed a lot of R.V.’s parked (about 75) off in a field.  The guy at the gate said “The band is here” and told me to drive straight to the pavilion and set up.  I was met by two guys and said they would help us get set up.  I notice a rather large “cooker” the kind you see at the MIM bar b Q festival.  I also notice a huge crowd of 200 or so gathered and milling around.

400lbs. Of Ribs Cooked

So we get set up and I realize after talking to these guys this was not a local event but a national event these guys do every year to help out their brothers who have fallen ill or got hurt at work.  I met people from over twenty states and a big group from Florida was there and  also New York.  You never know how a crowd is going to respond to your “type” of music and these guys looked like a rough group to say the least.  We broke out with “Can’t get Enough” by Bad Co. and after the song ….the crowd went wild and from that moment on it was a party jam fest that every band likes to have.  People danced sang a long and generally had a blast!   They treated us like rock stars and kept the beer flowing and fed us well too.

Nice Crowd

In between sets I got to know some of these guys and they let me know this was a benefit they do from time to time to help out where the union stops.  They like others have been dis-satisfied with how their union has been handling things of late.  I have always been told a union is only as strong as its people.  These guys take that to heart and mean what they say.  They were going to take some of these funds and help some brothers out who have lost their homes in the recent storms across the nation of late.  They had an auction and sold “Mississippi cherries” off to the highest bidder.  This is cherries soaked in Moonshine.  They went for about 75 bucks a jar and they had twenty or so of them to auction off.  We sat an open guitar case in front of us and they announced we, Last Leg would give back 20% of any tips we made for their cause.  A line soon formed and people were dropping 20′s, 10′s and some dropped in a few “C” notes as well.  I was blown away at how these guys operated.  They really took care of their own.  I played for about six hours that day in the heat but I had a blast as did everyone there.  It was nice to see with all that is going on in  the world today that people still help and help big.  I think they raised a total of $9,600 this day and want us to do future shows with them and we agreed with no hesitation.  We also had a couple of guys that sat in with us and one very talented drummer really helped out with us since it was so hot and it is very demanding banging on the drums all day.

Auctioning “Mississippi Cherries”

Where In The World Is Universal Healthcare? France

We were supposed to take BuelahGirl to the doctor for a check-up related to a busted ear drum which was the result of ear tubes being placed in her ear canals as a means of minimizing ear infections and related sickness. Of course, at the time she had that surgery, I had a good job and good insurance (but was still out several thousands of dollars). Such is the idea of “good insurance” in America.

Since, however, I was laid off (along with the other sales people) from the company, even tho it was my efforts that was keeping them afloat and subsequently, they have made money off of my endeavors, without me being compensated, nor paid the money that I had on the books (in others words, they used me and kept the money I made them). Such is a “good job” in America.

After being ripped off, we used all of our savings and cashed out what little retirement I had accumulated and have been barely getting by on the meager unemployment compensation. But, we were able to qualify my daughter for TennCare, which is supposed to be a life saver for people put into my predicament. The problem is that almost all the doctors we were using refuse to accept Tenncare and now we find ourselves searching for a doctor that will, even though it was the previous doctor’s operation that CAUSED this problem in the first place. Again, such is “good healthcare” in America.

But let me show you what good healthcare actually is by pointing to the world’s Number 1 country… those stinky under-armed French.

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 The World Health Organization (WHO) ranks the French health care system as the best in the world. The U.S. system ranks 37th. The complex details of the procedures used to determine these rankings are available on the WHO website. The WHO has hundreds of rankings on health related topics as specific as beer consumption by country. The U.S. fails to distinguish itself favorably in any of them.

Read all of that Rag Blog article to get a taste for how poorly we add up to France and then come here and tell me how we are Number 1. But let me share a quick synopsis:

• France spends $3,300 per capita, while we pay $6,400.
• Infant mortality in France is 3.9 per 1,000 live births, we are 7.0 per 1,000.
• Deaths from respiratory disease in France is 31.2 per 100,000, we are 61.5 per 100,000.
• Deaths preventable with good healthcare (amenable mortality) in France is number 1 of 19 industrialized countries, we are last.
• 65% of the French are satisfied with their healthcare, but only 40% in America are happy (and I would bet it is far lower than that).
• The French have Universal coverage, yet we have 15.4% that are not covered at all (and twice that many are UNDERinsured).
• French insurance companies MUST offer “guaranteed renewability”, so you can’t be dropped due to illness. Here, let me laugh.
• Doctors are paid far less in France, but have no student loans to pay back as we have.
• French doctors are mandated to provide preventative care, here, as my doctor recently told me, she only practices AFTER one is sick.
• French people can go to any doctor they like, even specialists (without referral) and experience no long waits. But here, I have the exact opposite experience.
• France, like us, has new mandatory “Co-Pays”, but a doctor’s visit is roughly $1.42 out of the individual’s pocket… $.71 for a prescription… and a whopping $24/day for a hospital stay. what did you pay in co-pays lately?
• Because the French take care of their citizens so well, especially early on, they live longer and have far better lives.

Yes, those filthy French are horrible, aren’t they? They pay far less than us, but have far superior health and lives. Unlike us and our crazy-assed Ayn Rand wannabes who make policy decisions based simply upon self and as much money as can possibly be made, they actually care for each other over there and are willing to help those (the poor) who can’t afford it by taxes and guaranteeing universal healthcare for everyone. Here, in the Greatest Nation In The World (trademark), however, we are so stupid to realize that our system is nothing more than a corrupt money gobbling system intent on as much profit from every avenue they can find a penny to squeeze it from.

And we continue to fall from our self-perceived perch of grandiosity.

We are truly the stupidest people on the face of the planet for allowing it.

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Fukushima Disaster Is Now Far Worse Than Chernobyl Ever Was

graciously provided by DublinMick

I wonder what the clowns who kept saying to not worry or even those I once linked to who kept saying that people like me were over-reacting are saying now? I wonder if their narcissistic tendencies could ever allow them to acknowledge what a tool they are for not considering what has been overly apparent.

Fukushima is now far worse than Chernobyl ever was

Learn more: http://www.naturalnews.com/032568_Fukushima_dead_zone.html#ixzz1O9PnazPQ

Does it matter to those fools that both the American and Japanese governments have been lying thru their teeth at every opportunity? Did it ever occur to the fools who were screaming “Chicken Little” and suggesting that the very MSM they despise were playing it up, when the exact opposite was taking place? Does it matter to the nay-saying Richard Noggins that both governments are doing everything they can to change “acceptable levels”, pushing the idea that radioactive contamination is not only not a problem, but in some cases, good for us?

I have suspected the lies from the beginning. I have suggested that things are far worse than we will ever hear from the MSM sources. I knew that independent sources would soon find out the truth, because it IS so damned bad that even the most corrupt, money-grubbing sycophantic idiots would realize that their lives and families’ lives are at stake and would not be able to keep quiet forever.

The real question is, how bad will it be. If you read the natural News link above, you will see that the supposed “safe zone” of 12 miles is a hoax. You will learn that even up to 230 square miles, extremely unsafe levels are found. You will learn that Fukushima prefecture and a huge surrounding area within Japan is now a “dead zone”, much like atomic bomb test sites and that the real levels of contamination far exceed those of Chernobyl.

Over a month ago we were hearing from a few sources that death estimates would be far more than the sycophantic fools could ever dream of. Ethan Jacobs, J.D., of The Activist Post quoted several of these sources in his article, “Fukushima Radiation: A Soft-Kill Operation“:

Arnold Gunderson, a 39-year veteran of the nuclear industry, stated: “I absolutely disagree with the scientists who say that Fukushima’s not going to hurt anyone. The numbers I’ve seen, from reputable scientists, are that Fukushima is going to kill 200,000 from increased cancers over the next 50 years.”

Likewise, Dr. Christopher Busby, Scientific Secretary of the European Committee on Radiation Risk, states that 400,000 people will develop cancer within a 200 kilometer radius of Fukushima.  He believes that TEPCO and the Japanese government were criminally negligent for failing to inform the public of the true danger.

Natalia Manzurova, one of the few survivors among those directly involved in the Chernobyl clean-up, is an advocate for radiation victims.  Her advice for the Japanese people was to “run away as quickly as possible. Don’t wait.  Save yourself and don’t rely on the government because the government lies. They don’t want you to know the truth because the nuclear industry is so powerful.”

Nationally acclaimed neurosurgeon Russell Blaylock, M.D.stated with the Fukushima radiation hitting the United States, there is going to be a risk of increased cancer.

When we look at Chernobyl, most of West Germany was heavily contaminated. Norway, Sweden. Hungary was terribly contaminated. The radiation was taken up into the plants. The food was radioactive. They took the milk and turned it into cheese. The cheese was radioactive.
That’s the big danger, the crops in this country being contaminated, the milk in particular, with Strontium 90. That radiation is incorporated into the bones and stays for a lifetime.


On April 12th, Japan finally raised the Fukushima meltdown from a 5 to a 7, putting it on par with Chernobyl.  “A level 7 incident means a major release of radiation with a widespread health and environmental impact” according to the International Atomic Agency.  As we learned from Chernobyl and Three Mile Island, the actual amount of radiation-induced deaths and injuries dramatically exceed estimates.

And, to be honest (although I can’t prove it), it would not surprise me one bit to know that this is a “soft-kill” operation with a population reduction agenda.

But there may be several things people can do to fight what is sure to occur as time progresses. There are various chemicals and drugs available (supposedly) to assist. But what if there were a wholly natural substance that could help you? What if you could Fight Radiation Damage the Natural Way with Cannabis?

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B’Man’s Rights Watch: 2nd Amendment

 

 

 

 

 

image courtesy of Wikipedia

The Second Amendment to the United States Constitution states:

A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.

There are few inalienable rights more important than this one (although I believe that many actually work hand in hand to provide protections of the citizenry FROM a rogue government). As Wikipedia puts it:

The Bill of Rights is a series of limitations on the power of the United States federal government, protecting the natural rights of liberty and property including freedom of speech, a free press, free assembly, and free association, as well as the right to keep and bear arms.

The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. Each one initiated by Congress and then ratified by at least 3/4 of the states. In the case of the 2nd, the only real difference between Congress’ version and the ratified version is a couple of capital letter (which may or may not hold significance). Legaleze and certain rules in writing can mean totally different things. But that is beyond the scope of this writing.

It is apparent to me that the original authors and signatories understood that the citizenry needed a way to defend themselves, their homes and their state. To take away such a right is to put oneself, their family and their state in mortal jeopardy.

There are other countries that have taken away these rights (or never had them to begin with) and it is plain to see that it does not make people safer when they are relinquished, but to the contrary, makes them vulnerable to rogue agents both in government and criminal activities such as theft, assault and home invasions. Case in point is Australia:

Crime stats speak for themselves,  but in case you missed it, this is what happened to crime as a result of this ban on guns in Australia:

Armed Robberies have gone up 69%

Assaults involving guns up 28%

Gun murders up 19%

Home invasions up 21%

So, would it surprise you that our government would want to thwart the original Founding Fathers’ intent so that they can control the population’s last remaining source of stopping their rogue takeover which culminates in total iron-fisted control? Would it surprise you that they would lie and cheat to attempt to convince an ever-growing gullible Sheople that we need to take away the 2nd Amendment “for our own good”? Do you think that they would actually sell high power automatic weapons to other countries, ultimately disappearing into the hands of the Mexican drug cartels (to the tune of more money made selling weapons to Iraq or Afghanistan)? And do you think that they are killing two birds with one stone by empowering the drug cartels as a way to convince the Sheople that a continuation of a failed Drug War is needed “for our own good”?

To understand the depths they will stoop, let us look at some stunning facts about how many deaths occur from “noble” sources, such as health related deaths, compared to deaths caused by guns. There are far more deaths caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice than from firearm deaths (homicides and suicides combined): medical related deaths range from 225,000 up to 284,000 depending on where you get the estimates. I’ll use the conservative numbers available.

First, firearm deaths:

 

Firearms deaths:
All firearm deaths: 30,694
Firearm homicides: 12,352
Firearm suicides: 17,002

If you do the math, you find: 12,352 + 17,002 = 29,354. 30,694 – 29,354 = 1,340 (the accidental deaths from firearms). Needless to say, the figure for accidental firearm deaths is probably much less than 30,694, no matter how you cut it.

Accidents with firearms are mostly categorized as negligent homicides.

But, to be clear, let’s break it down even further to make a point:

(DETAIL DATA FOR FIREARM DEATHS)

All firearm deaths
Number of deaths:30,694
Deaths per 100,000 population: 10.4
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Table 18
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm

Assault or Homicide
(Data are for the U.S.)

Number of emergency department visits for assault: 1.8 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13

Mortality
- All homicides
Number of deaths: 18,124
Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.1
Cause of death rank: 15
- Firearm homicides
Number of deaths: 12,352
Deaths per 100,000 population: 4.2
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables B, 18″
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/homicide.htm

Suicide and Self-Inflicted Injury
(Data are for the U.S.)
Number of emergency department visits for self-inflicted injury: 594,000
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13

Mortality
All suicides
Number of deaths: 32,637
Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.0
Cause of death rank: 11

Firearm suicides
Number of deaths: 17,002
Deaths per 100,000 population: 5.7
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/suicide.htm

So, let us compare firearm deaths (intended or not, suicide or homicide or accidental) to other accidents or unintentional injuries:

Accidents or Unintentional Injuries
(Data are for the U.S.)
Number of emergency department visits for unintentional inujuries: 27.7 million
Source: National Hospital Ambulatory Medical Care Survey: 2006 Emergency Department Summary, Table 13

Mortality
All unintentional injury deaths
Number of deaths: 117, 809
Deaths per 100,000 population: 39.7
Cause of death rank: 5

Motor vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 43,667
Deaths per 100,000 population: 14.7
Unintentional poisoning deaths
Number of deaths: 23,618
Deaths per 100,000 population: 8.0
Unintentional fall deaths
Number of deaths: 19,656
Deaths per 100,000 population: 6.6
Source: Deaths: Final Data for 2005, Tables B, 18″
Source and further information:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/acc-inj.htm

No matter how you calculate the numbers, when you compare the firearm deaths of any nature to all other deaths we see quite a radical difference which suggests to me that we are being hoodwinked into believing we have a much bigger problem than we actually do.

What makes it even worse is when you look to the “noble” sources of death from the medical field’s ineptitude and knack for making mistakes. To understand, let us review what is termed Iatrogenesis at wikipedia:

The terms iatrogenesis and iatrogenic artifact refer to adverse effects or complications caused by or resulting from medical treatment or advice. In addition to harmful consequences of actions by physicians, iatrogenesis can also refer to actions by other healthcare professionals, such as psychologists, therapists, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, and others. Iatrogenisis is not restricted to conventional medicine and can also result from complementary and alternative medicine treatments.

In other words, medical mistakes and many other medical phenomena, such as: medical error; poor prescription handwriting; negligence; faulty procedures, techniques, information, or methods; prescription drug interaction; adverse effects of prescription drugs; over-use of drugs leading to antibiotic resistance in bacteria; nosocomial infection; blood transfusion; and others.

Wiki continues:

“Iatrogenesis is a major phenomenon, and a severe risk to patients. A study carried out in 1981 more than one-third of illnesses of patients in a university hospital were iatrogenic, nearly one in ten were considered major, and in 2% of the patients, the iatrogenic disorder ended in death. Complications were most strongly associated with exposure to drugs and medications. In another study, the main factors leading to problems were inadequate patient evaluation, lack of monitoring and follow-up, and failure to perform necessary tests.

But how bad are the numbers?

In the United State alone, recorded deaths per year (2000):
12,000—unnecessary surgery
7,000—medication errors in hospitals
20,000—other errors in hospitals
80,000—infections in hospitals
106,000—non-error, negative effects of drugs

Based on these figures, 225,000 deaths per year constitutes the third leading cause of death in the United States, after deaths from heart disease and cancer. Also, there is a wide margin between these numbers of deaths and the next leading cause of death (cerebrovascular disease).

225,000 deaths per year from iatrogenic causes. But you must understand that most of the data is derived from studies in hospitalized patients (what about the ones who died and never went to the hospital).

I can also point to an Institute of Medicine report entitled “To Err Is Human“, which points out JUST the mistakes, disregarding the other iatrogenic disorders that ended in death:

Health care in the United States is not as safe as it should be–and can be. At least 44,000 people, and perhaps as many as 98,000 people, die in hospitals each year as a result of medical errors that could have been prevented, according to estimates from two major studies. Even using the lower estimate, preventable medical errors in hospitals exceed attributable deaths to such feared threats as motor-vehicle wrecks, breast cancer, and AIDS.

Do the math. See that medical procedures, medications, mistakes, etc far out weigh firearm deaths of ANY sort, yet you NEVER hear of banning them, nor will you ever hear of it. So, what does any thinking person see in this: that we are being lied to. That we are having information held from us, unless you dig like I have. Why? To take away more of our liberties and to keep the inept and criminal medical industry alive, ensuring political campaign money flowing to the criminals we elect.

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