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"Oh Shit! ... GMO Food Sterilizes People ... And It's Really A Form of Population Control?"
"There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live—did live, from habit that became instinct—in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
Alexander King, Bertrand Schneider - founder Club of Rome - The First Global Revolution, pp.104-105
"In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill ... All these dangers are caused by human intervention and it is only through changed attitudes and behaviour that they can be overcome. The real enemy, then, is humanity itself."
GET A CHICK...
Were We All Kunta Kinte? Or Are We Also Mansa Musa?
Barry Goldwater 1909-1998
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. "
The Honorable Elijah Muhammad
"It Is Easier To Change A Man's Religion Than It Is To Change His Diet"
Private Prison Industry
2,000,000 human beings in American prisons and counting
IS THIS LITTLE GUY A PERSON?
The founders of the American state understood that the proper functioning of a democracy required an educated electorate. It is this understanding that justifies a system of public education and that led slaveholders to resist the spread of literacy among their chattels. But the meaning of "educated" has changed beyond recognition in two hundred years. Reading, writing, and arithmetic are no longer sufficient to decide on public policy. Now we need quantum mechanics and molecular biology. The knowledge required for political rationality, once available to the masses, is now in the possession of a specially educated elite, a situation that creates a series of tensions and contradictions in the operation of representative democracy.
"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth.”
Margaret Sanger. Woman, Morality, and Birth Control. New York: New York Publishing Company, 1922. P
"We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population. and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members."
Louis Pasteur
"The Microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything."
Beverly Johnson. Beverly Hills. 1978
"Bra! Tell Me About It!"
"Most of the trouble I have had in advancing the cause of the race has come from Negroes."
Ted Turner - CNN founder and UN supporter - quoted in the The McAlvany Intelligence Advisor, June '
"A total population of 250-300 million people, a 95% decline from present levels, would be ideal."
Lord Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science On Society (Routledge Press: New York, 1951).
"At present the population of the world is increasing at about 58,000 per diem. War, so far, has had no very great effect on this increase, which continued throughout each of the world wars.. War has hitherto been disappointing in this respect, but perhaps bacteriological war may prove effective. If a Black Death could spread throughout the world once in every generation, survivors could procreate freely without making the world too full. The state of affairs might be unpleasant, but what of it?"
Denmark Vesey For President 08
1. Troops Out Of Iraq Immediately. Like By Monday. 2. Money Owed To Haliburton and War Contractors Be Given Directly To The Iraqi People 3. Complete Electoral Reform 4. No Corporate Conglomerate Will Be Allowed To Control More Than 5% Of News Market 5. Federal Reserve Abolished 6. For-Profit Prison Industry Abolished
*George Orwell (1903-1950) English novelist, critic
Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness... If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear... The great enemy of clear language is insincerity... The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it... To see what is in front of one's nose requires a constant struggle... For a creative writer possession of the truth is less important than emotional sincerity.
“The technotronic era involves the gradual appearance of a more controlled society. Such a society will be dominated by an elite, unrestrained by traditional values.” – Zbigniew Brzezinski
God Don't Make No Mistakes
Gordon Parks 1912-2006
"I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand."
Great Grandmother Harris
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Isn't it? An intellectual cop out?
I propose that all people who classify themselves as white should only be allowed to marry and attempt to procreate with members of their own sex. That would satisfy GLAAD and God both at the same time.
I was unsuccessful in my attempt to respond to Casper on this subject in the Friday post, but I'll make another effort. Gay white men are indeed a powerful interest group. I've come across an unverified anecdote that says they are the wealthiest households on a per capita basis. The March 2007 issue of Atlantic Monthly had a revealing piece with Tim Gill, a wealthy gay man based in Colorado, who leads a national network of pecuniarily endowed homosexuals that targets local politicians antithetical to their interests. Moreover, gays have successfully aligned their unique interests with general advocacy for civil rights.
This all leads me to admit that my support for Obama has become attenuated. I'm beginning to think that his ambition exceeds his courage. His absence during a recent key foreign policy vote in the Senate and his hawkish emulation of Clinton on Iran have left me disappointed. The notion that blacks have a particularly virulent form of homophobia is untrue. The fact is that under the Bush administration simple moral judgements have resulted in a pervasive self-righteousness. This manifests itself in the misguided 'War on Terror' and most cultural critiques of hip hop and gay marriage.
After the Israeli Lobby, the gay lobby is the most powerful force in the Democratic Party. They are well-financed, loud and well-organized.
lol it was only a few years ago when members of the right wing community (while hiding in the closet) attempted to slander the gay community with talk of anti gay marriage, moral family values, and etc. Now today, standing alongside of so called white progressive, and the homosexual community they declare Obama public enemy #1, because he's going on tour with an ex gay man who considers homosexuality a choice. Give me a break...
lol it was only a few years ago when members of the right wing community (while hiding in the closet) attempted to slander the gay community with talk of anti gay marriage, moral family values, and etc. Now today, standing alongside of so called white progressives, and the homosexual community they declare Obama public enemy #1, because he's going on tour with an ex gay man who considers homosexuality a choice! Give me a break...
it's funny how they are attempting to do the very thing they criticize the government for.
Freedom of choice.
Why are they hell bent on convincing EVERYONE that homosexuality is ok and normal? They, of all people, should promote freedom of choice like what brother Obama is saying here.
Gimme a break, Glaad
Top Lobbying Groups: Forbes
1. American Association of Retired Persons
2. National Federation of Independent Business
3. American Israel Public Affairs Committee
4. National Rifle Association of America
5. ALF-CIO
6. Association of Trial Lawyers of America
7. Christian Coalition
8. National Right to Life
9. American Medical Association
10. US Chamber of Commerce
11. Credit Union National Association
12. Independent Insurance Agents of America
13. National Association of Manufacturers
14. American Farm Bureau Federation
15. National Restaurant Association
16. National Association of Home Builders
17. National Association of Realtors
18. National Association of Broadcasters
19. Motion Picture Association of America
20. American Bankers Association
21. National Education Association
22. Health Insurance Association of America
23. American Council of Life Insurance
24. Veterans of Foreign Wars
25. GLADD
Top Lobbying Groups: Denmark Vesey
The fucking lobbying group that has the United States mired in a war more in the interest of the state of Israel, than in the interest of the American people.
$1 Billion per day
4,000 American Lives
660,000 Iraqi people
and now the Israel Lobby and it's media pundits are pushing America into a catastrophic war with Iran.
AARP my ass.
Casper,
i'm sure forbes criteria for this list has more to do with income and expenditures than with impact and influence. My point is that this list does not lead me to believe that GLAAD is less powerful than the other 20-something groups on the list.
The fact that i don't see anything about pharmaceuticals (like PhRMA) pretty much discredits this whole list in my opinion, unless the AMA encompasses it.
What point were you making with the posting of this list? Was it just informational or was there something else you were trying to say?
ditto @ kalena
What percentage of the U.S. population is gay?
Joe
Collingwood, Canada
Dear Joe:
Ever since famed researcher Alfred Kinsey released a study claiming 10 percent of American males "admitted to having been predominantly homosexual for at least three years between the ages of 16 and 55," folks have debated the validity of his findings -- as well as the question.
After all, with so many men and women unwilling to disclose their sexual orientation, it may be impossible to ever come up with a truly accurate number. This article from the Seattle Times acknowledges that difficulty, but also mentions that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has estimated America's gay, lesbian, and bisexual population at around 8.8 million people. That translates to somewhere between 2.5 and 3 percent.
A site called GayDemographics.org offers up a different set of statistics, placing an emphasis on the number of same-sex couples in the United States. According to their findings, there were a total of 61,064,407 couples in 2004. Approximately 707,196 (or 1.16 percent) were same-sex couples.
Are these statistics totally accurate? We doubt it. However, they do offer an interesting perspective on one of our country's more controversial questions.
In July 2003, 35.9 million
people were aged 65 and older in
the United States, or 12 percent
of the total population. Among
the older population, 18.3 million
people were aged 65 to 74, 12.9
million were aged 75 to 84, and
4.7 million were 85 and older.1
So?
Many supportive straight people recognize anti-gay governmental policies for what they really are: discriminatory and unfair. But is anti-gay discrimination also bad for the U.S. economy? This theory, proposed by a heterosexual economics professor, is one that more and more businesses and cities are taking seriously, and that could have a big impact on the future of gay people's pursuit of equal rights.
It's always tricky to talk about economics and gay people in the same breath. In order to justify denying us civil rights, right-wingers have often invoked the idea that gay people have huge reserves of disposable income that we spend like drunken sailors; and wealthy people, of course, can't be oppressed. For example, some conservatives have claimed that same-sex couples don't really need legal marriage rights, because we can easily buy ourselves the costly paperwork that simulates what our heterosexual counterparts enjoy for the small price of a marriage license.
However, the research of economist M.V. Lee Badgett of the Institute for Gay and Lesbian Strategic Studies has pointed out the serious flaws in studies that indicate we're wealthier than straight people. Badgett's work actually suggests that many gay people -- especially lesbians -- earn less than the average American.
http://www.planetout.com/news/feature.html?sernum=848
The Top 25 Interest Groups
1. National Rifle Association
2. American Association of Retired People (AARP)
3. National Federation of Independent Business
4. American Israel Foreign Affairs Committee
5. Association of Trial Lawyers of America
6. AFL-CIO
7. Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America
8. National Beer Wholesalers of America
9. National Association of Realtors
10. National Association of Manufacturers
11. National Association of Homebuilders of the United States
12. American Medical Association
13. American Hospital Association
14. National Education Association of the United States
15. American Farm Bureau Federation
16. Motion Picture Association of America
17. National Association of Broadcasters
18. National Right to Life Committee
19. Health Insurance Association of America
20. National Restaurant Association
21. National Governors' Association
22. Recording Industry Association of America
23. American Bankers Association
24. Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America
25. International Brotherhood of Teamsters
http://www.fortune.com/lists/power25/index.html
Could it be? Nah....., there's gotta be some other reason Obama is catching it from this quarter.
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