Tidbits From The Web #78

“All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.”




Dogs are awesome...
One-of-a-kind posters...
270 films in 6 minutes...
10 resolutions to make...
Watch Muse in 360 degrees...
A look back at the year 2010...
Animal crackers...
Dogs are awesome part II...
One year in 40 seconds...
It's a hydro...it's a car...it's a Hydrocar!
Skip the egg nog...make this concoction instead...
GI Joe predicted the evil agenda!
Dog are awesome part III...
How to slash a cold...
Time to open the archives indeed...
9 things Mom was right about...
Is mistletoe the kiss of death?
Raw milk...it does a body good...
Drunken squirrel...
Holograms coming to cell phones...
Now that is an alarm clock!
Cablevision, Verizon, Time Warner...they all lie like rugs...
Money...it's a crime...
Minority Report has finally become reality...
Blame the EPA for all the dead honeybees...
Recycle your soon-to-be dead xmas tree back to nature...
If you aren't going to watch the first 2...at least watch the last...
Top 10 survival downloads...


The Christmas Conspiracy: The Pagan Origins of Christmas




Animated short illustrates Fed looting of America...




KNOWLEDGE:

CES 2011 Preview 3D Television Viewing with Wireless Communications Bill Wong of Electronic Design magazine talks with Victor Berrios of Freescale Semiconductor about new technology that allows for wireless, not IR, communication to 3D television viewing eye-wear.

The world according to the USA...

David Icke

YOUR BODY IS NOT YOUR OWN …

… AND YET PEOPLE STILL THINK THEY'RE FREE

Codex Alimentarius is now on the verge of its long-time goal of giving control of vitamins, supplements and food to the Illuminati corporations - with much reduced dosages - and putting the independents out of business.

They are doing this through the technique used by the Rockefeller family to hijack 'health care' in the United States and then worldwide - a system of licencing. The scam is simple: you introduce licences for something and then anyone who wants to do that 'something' must do it within your 'guidelines' (limits and restrictions) or they don't get a licence and so cannot practice.

And if you want to stop certain people doing that 'something' you make the requirements to get a licence so complex and costly that you are, in effect, denying them the right to practice or produce.

They use the licencing technique throughout society to impose control and nowhere more so than in what passes for 'medicine'. A doctor needs a licence to practice and if they use healing methods that work, but are not recognised by the arbiters of the licence (ultimately Big Pharma) they lose their licence and are 'struck off'.

The licencing noose is also being used ever more widely in alternative and complimentary medicine to install centralised control and dictatorship by a self-appointed authority and the major corporations have been buying up health store chains for years to kidnap the industry ...

... This week the UK Independent (yeah, right) newspaper reported that 'hundreds of herbal medicinal products will be banned from sale in Britain next year under what campaigners say is a "discriminatory and disproportionate" European law'.

How are they going to do it? Licencing.

How to Live Longer - Reduce Your Need for This

Posted By Dr. Mercola | November 30 2010

A new study recently compared patient-physician relationships and relief of symptoms between complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and conventional primary care (COM). The study was part of a Swiss evaluation of complementary and alternative medicine.

Researchers looked at more than 6,000 patients. The study included patients of 77 non-certified CAM physicians and of 71 conventional physicians.

The patients completed a questionnaire which asked questions about symptom relief, patient satisfaction, and quality of patient-physician interaction.

According to Biomed Central:

"CAM physicians treated significantly more patients with chronic conditions than COM physicians.

CAM Patients had significant higher healing expectations than COM patients.

General patient satisfaction was significantly higher in CAM patients, although patient-reported symptom relief was significantly poorer, The quality of patient-physician communication was rated significantly better in CAM patients."

The study concluded that more effective communication patterns by complementary and alternative medicine could play an important role in allowing patients to maintain more positive outcome expectations.

Sources:

Biomed Central November 4, 2010

Dr. Mercola's Comments:

Patient-physician communication is an integral part of clinical practice, but this skill has slowly but surely eroded over the years, with insurance companies and financial incentives significantly dictating doctors' behaviors.

Most conventional physicians get paid for the number of patients they see and the number of procedures they perform – not for how much time they spend on these tasks. As a result, there's a real incentive for them to spend as little time as possible with each patient.

Lack of quality face-time with their doctor is a major complaint by most patients, and naturally, it can lead to everything from misdiagnosis, or missed diagnosis, to incorrect treatment or being improperly medicated…

So, it's no wonder most CAM patients rate their satisfaction as greater than those seeing a conventional medical doctor. CAM doctors typically operate under a different set of incentives, such as obtaining results in order to build a good reputation to build their (non-insurance-based) business, for example.

What is CAM?

Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) refers to a wide-ranging collection of medical and health care practices and products that do not fall outside the realm of "conventional medicine."

CAM practices include, but are not limited to:

• Nutritional medicine
• Energy medicine
• Naturopathy
• Chiropractic medicine
• Herbalism, homeopathy, and nutritional-based therapies
• Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and acupuncture
• Ayurveda
• Meditation and hypnosis

The Moral Crux for Modern Medicine

Aside from the detrimental financial incentives mentioned above, another moral crux for modern medicine is that if too many people actually improve their health, many in the medical industry would lose their jobs.

This fact cannot be ignored, and this is probably a major reason why modern medicine drags its feet when it comes to implementing preventive practices and/or recommending the use of CAM.

Quite simply, the current medical paradigm focuses on treating disease, not promoting health, and the government is complicit it spurring and promoting disease as well.

For example, government drives the obesity/diabetes epidemic by subsidizing the production of non-nutrient-dense foods and high-fructose corn syrup. And statin anti-cholesterol drugs are approved by the FDA even though they don't reduce mortality rates...

Modern medicine is an industry that wants more, not less, disease to treat.

This is why you can't get common-sense disease prevention advice from your doctor, and this is why conventional medicine has such an abysmal success rate when it comes to chronic disease (as opposed to emergency medicine, where conventional medicine truly shines).

This is also why conventional medicine is so quick to dismiss preventive therapies as "unproven."

But guess what…

More than HALF of All Conventional Medical Therapies have "UNKNOWN" Effectiveness!

Conventional medicine prides itself on being science-based, and shuns alternative medicine for being "unproven," but did you know that more than half of all conventional therapies have UNKNOWN effectiveness?

Worse yet, only a paltry 11 percent of all conventional treatments are actually estimated to be beneficial!

These remarkable statistics can be found in the journal Clinical Evidence.

The article states that "the figures suggest that the research community has a large task ahead and that most decisions about treatments still rest on the individual judgments of clinicians and patients."

Indeed!

If you get run over by a bus, the modern emergency room is a blessing. But when it comes to promoting health and treating most all chronic diseases, conventional medicine still has a long way to go, and, more often than not, will send your health into a downward spiral.

More People Opt for CAM as Drug Paradigm Shows Its True Colors

As of 2008, an estimated 38 percent of U.S. adults, along with 12 percent of children, use some type of complementary and alternative medicine.

This is not just because alternative medicine typically offers a more positive treatment experience and typically produces better results, but Americans are also increasingly distrustful of prescription medicines, and rightfully so!

Prescription drug use causes an estimated 700,000 emergency room visits a year in the US alone, and according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), adverse drug reactions from drugs that are properly prescribed and properly administered cause about 106,000 deaths per year, making prescription drugs the fourth-leading cause of death in the U.S.

Furthermore, in 2003, Johns Hopkins Medical School discovered that if you add medical errors and prescription drugs together, the conventional medical system may actually be the LEADING cause of death in the US!

It's a remarkable testament to the power of denial that a system with a track record like that can still considered the primary, and officially promoted as the best, form of "health" care…

Interestingly, the study above, published in Biomed Central, found that CAM patients had significantly higher healing expectations than those using conventional medicine. And this may be a major part of the equation –how invested you are in taking control of your health...

Taking Control of Your Health

It is important to understand that additional government involvement doesn't hold the answer to the health care crisis in the US. What is needed is more personal involvement -- your personal involvement -- in the form of a commitment to your own health.

If you carefully follow some basic health principles -- simple things like exercising, eating whole foods, sleeping enough, getting sun exposure, reducing stress in your life, and nurturing personal relationships -- you will drastically reduce your need for conventional medical care, which in and of itself will reduce your chances of suffering ill side effects.

As drug sales are now dwindling due to a depressed economy, you and your children are likely to be bombarded with increasingly aggressive pharmaceutical direct-to-consumer advertising, and lobbying for more forced drugging and mandatory vaccinations.

Don't fall for the scare tactics and disease mongering!

And don't believe the fairy tale that taking a pill with a laundry list of side effects will somehow improve your health...

The more you take responsibility for your own health -- in the form of nurturing your body to prevent disease -- the less you need to rely on the "disease care" that passes for health care in the United States in the first place.

Take if from a man who knows what he's talking about… 109-year old Bernardo LaPallo offers this sage advice:

"Your health should be your first priority, and in order to do that, you [have to] eat properly."

Indeed, promoting health and preventing disease is not nearly as complex or difficult as conventional medicine would like you to believe.

Fun

Changing Money
A Republican and a Democrat were walking down the street when they came to a homeless person. The Republican gave him his business card and told him to stop by for a job. He then took $20 out of his pocket and handed it to him.

The Democrat was impressed, and when they came to another homeless person, he decided it was his turn to help. So he reached into the Republican's pocket and gave the homeless man $50.

Today's Quotes

HUMOR

"Laugh at yourself and at life. Not in the spirit of derision or whining self-pity, but as a remedy, a miracle drug, that will ease your pain, cure your depression, and help you to put in perspective that seemingly terrible defeat and worry with laughter at your predicaments, thus freeing your mind to think clearly toward the solution that is certain to come." -- Og Mandino

"Gentlemen, why don't you laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me night and day, if I did not laugh, I should die." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Wit penetrates; humor envelopes. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature." -- Peggy Noonan

"The amount you laugh in your relationships with others is the true measure of the health of your personality." -- Brian Tracy

Crazed Junkies

• The evil Irish twins of 1913 and 1914
• Drug laws are stupid
• The craziest junkies are perfectly legal

Gary Gibson, Baltimore, Maryland…

The year was 1914. The government had just birthed the Federal Reserve — the abomination conceived on Jekyll Island — a few days before the start of the year.

Do you know what other unholy beast the government spat out of its loins in 1914?

The Harrison Narcotics Act, an “Irish twin” of the Federal Reserve Act.

And that Act is ruining your life right now, much like the Federal Reserve Act still is.

The feds lie. I mean really lie. They tell the big lies to rouse our fears and get us to go along with them. The first casualty of every war is the truth and the War on Drugs is no different.

Read on to learn the naked truth...

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Whiskey & Gunpowder
By Daniel E. Williams
December 15, 2010
Excerpted from The Naked Truth About Drugs

Introduction to The Naked Truth About Drugs

For nearly one hundred years our government has been wrong about drugs, about the people who use them and the risks they pose to society. Much of what they report is blatant misinformation, if not outright lies, despite a veneer of good intentions. It is also my contention millions of Americans agree with me. And it is not just the millions doing drugs responsibly, either. It is the millions more who’ve come to see society’s approach to the drug crisis generate more harm than good. They cut across all age, income and race demographics. Over the last thirty-plus years I’ve made it a point to talk with a number of them. And listen.

What I’ve gathered reflects not so much a change of mind as it does a change of heart. We still consider drugs to be harmful, but have come to view our drug laws as worse--and many of us no longer consider legalization a four-letter word. But when Richard Nixon first convened his drug war council, escalating the conflict, hardly anyone outside of what was derisively labeled the “lunatic fringe” favored legalization. How dare we, they scolded, when marijuana tuned innocents into murderers and LSD would sufficiently scramble our DNA to produce three-headed babies. None of that was true of course, but it is what our government wanted citizens to believe. And many did.

But that was then. This is now. We have come to see the responsible use theory, the one so close to the alcohol lobby heart, parallel itself in the illicit drug environment: as not every drinker is a drunkard, so too is not every drug user an abuser.

The Naked Truth About Drugs...

All drugs were legal and cheap and readily available in America prior to 1914, and we were even encouraged to use them. Heroin was available from the Sears mail order catalog, as was morphine, opium and cocaine. But if you couldn’t wait for the mailman, all those same drugs were sold at the corner grocery or drugstore. Our addiction rate then was very low, near identical to now. And we had no drug crime [emphasis mine].

What changed it all, what disrupted our peaceful co-existence, was the Harrison Narcotics Act of 1914, a confluence of religious arrogance and racial bigotry, spread by a surprisingly small number of men and all tinged with political opportunism. All of which metastasized over the years and morphed into Richard Nixon’s War on Drugs.

There are a variety of sound arguments for the repeal of drug prohibition. One is the Declaration of Independence, which guarantees our right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, arguing the sovereignty of our bodies. Another is the Constitution, which defines treason against our United States as “levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.” We are not fighting drugs per se; we are levying war against those who use them. Meanwhile drug prohibition has enriched our enemies with hundreds of billions of dollars and will guarantee hundreds of billions more, giving more than enough aid to any comfort.

The best argument, where I believe we share the greatest commonality and the least polarity, is the one for law and order. The hugely inflated prices addicts pay for illegal drugs force many into a life of crime, committing nearly all our larceny-thefts, crimes the FBI report as non-violent. And though some addicts would just as soon shoot you as look at you, most drug violence occurs at the higher echelons of the black market, stemming from territorial and distribution conflicts. Repealing drug prohibition will bankrupt the black market and reduce the overall Crime Index by at least 50%, an argument central to the debate and hard to counter.

History is replete with drug stories and tales both good and bad, but all provide empirical data, unequivocal in its conclusion, that drugs are here to stay. So we are going to live with them one way or another. We lived in peace for over a century and have been at war nearly as long, ninety years. And rumor has it drug warriors, no longer intent on maintaining the status quo, have plans on paper just itching to be implemented that will end the drug war once and for all. It will not be pretty, making today’s methods seem almost quaint.

We drink, we smoke, we ingest and inject. It is part of who we are that no policy can change, no law. So we change our law and policy. But the biggest canard of the drug debate portrays those favoring repeal as being “soft on drugs.” Not at all true. We’re just being hard on stupidity. Whish is why ending drug prohibition is society’s smartest step toward jackhammering all those good intentions paving the way to hell.

By Daniel E. Williams

This essay comes from the introduction to his book The Naked Truth About Drugs.

Daniel E. Williams, was Libertarian Party vice-presidential candidate in 2008. In a response to Randall H. Miller’s review of The Naked Truth About Drugs, Mr. Williams wrote in part: …I’ve done a lot of drugs… …Which, though I’m candid about an affinity for certain substances, is not the point of my book. The point is that drug prohibition simply doesn’t work — and more of us are paying attention. Which leads me to believe we’ve reached the tipping point regarding drug prohibition. And here’s why. There now exists two large groups in America: those outside the recreational drug environment, and those within. For those outside, it has not been so much a change of mind — they still consider all drugs dangerous — as it’s been a change of heart: they’ve come to view our drug laws as worse than drug use itself. Since Tricky Dick declared his war, over 20 million families have witnessed a wife, husband, son or daughter arrested, and often convicted, for non-violent drug offenses. That’s a lot of pissed-off folks, justifiably so. For those inside, recreational drug use has now become multi-generational: boomers, their children and grandchildren live active and productive lives and are simply tired of being considered criminals — and hunted down like dogs. My research has shown these two groups to number north of 70 million — a large constituency. And every one of them has had enough — the proverbial tipping point. The “war” on drugs, as with all wars, exists for one reason and one reason only and that is to expand the police powers of the state. In the early 20th Century when the harpies were demonstrating against booze, the average man in the street, with a good sixth grade education, knew it would take a constitutional amendment to prohibit the stuff. And it was done. The result was crime and the BATF and a greatly expanded FBI. Now with millions of products of “higher education” populating our nation, government agents run roughshod over the people’s rights and liberties and find little resistance and the power of the state expands. No one can deny the success of government education in producing obedient servants of the state. Testify! Mr. Williams tells us in his introduction: “The Naked Truth About Drugs explores America’s affinity for drugs, providing historical context, and my own, on virtually every drug we consume. And some of what you read may surprise you.” Some of what you’ll learn: How to reduce crime at least 50% right now Just how badly your government has been lying to you Why the drug dealers will ALWAYS trump the government How prohibition has led to even worse drugs Sure libertarians say that drugs aren’t as dangerous as propaganda has made them out to be…but is that really true? Exactly what happens when those drugs get into your body? For example, will LSD really “sit in the brain” and cause flashbacks twenty years after the last hit? Before you swallow every exaggeration and lie spun by those who are looking for every excuse to butt into your lives even more… Get your facts straight. Regards, Gary Gibson Managing Editor, Whiskey & Gunpowder

Lies, Lies, Lies

The New Foundation of the Financial System

Bill Bonner Reporting from Baltimore, Maryland... Let's begin by thinking about this, a quote from The Daily Bell: "The problem with where America is now is that the country has been built on one lie after another for the past decade and the lies show no signs of slowing down." And then, there's this from Charles Hugh Smith via Marc Faber: "[T]he status quo would collapse were systemic fraud and complicity banished... They have become the foundation of the US economy and financial system..." You will recall how Goldman Sachs wowed the whole world with its dazzling trading. Day in, day out...the traders at Goldman made money. The firm turned in "perfect" trading quarters, with not a single day showing a loss. Surely, one of the junior traders would have miscalculated at least once? Or a seasoned old pro, after a well-irrigated lunch, take his fat finger and hit the wrong button? Nope. Not once did Goldman's trading machine err. It was uncanny. Almost unnatural. Who was on the other side of those trades, we wondered? Trading is a zero sum game. One side wins. The other loses. So some poor schmuck must have taken a loss for every gain earned by Goldman's geniuses. Imagine him taking his lumps day after day...and still coming back for more. How could anyone stand so many losses? What kind of fighter could take that kind of beating and still be on his feet? And yet, there were no major new bankruptcies announced during that period. How was it possible? Who was losing all that money? We were perplexed. But now we know who the schmuck was...the poor sap was us! Had it not been for Senator Bernie Sanders from the Green Mountain State, who insisted that the Federal Reserve expose its shenanigans to the outside world, we would never have known what had happened to the Fed's $3.3 trillion in bailout cash. Now we know. Goldman helped itself 212 times - roughly every business day - during the 12 month period beginning in March '09, all the while telling the world that it needed no bailout. Lies, lies, lies... Corruption is not only at the top. Like a Christmas pudding steeped in rum, the whole economy - from top to bottom - reeks of it. Here's the latest proof from Bloomberg: Americans want Congress to bring down a federal budget deficit that many believe is "dangerously out of control," only under two conditions: minimize the pain and make the rich pay. The public wants Congress to keep its hands off entitlements such as Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, a Bloomberg National Poll shows. They oppose cuts in most other major domestic programs and defense. They want to maintain subsidies for farmers and tax breaks like the mortgage-interest deduction. And they're against an increase in the gasoline tax. Let's see, how does that work again? Yeah, balance the books...says the noble citizen...but make sure it's at someone else's expense. Make the rich pay. That's how corruption works. People want something for nothing all the time. But only some of the time are they able to get it. Now, Goldman gets free money from the Fed. The taxpayers expect free money too. And so, the whole society lives a lie - that each man can live at the expense of someone else. But why CAN'T people live by taking money from the rich? Well, of course they can. For a while. Maybe even a long while. But not forever. And every time they spend someone else's money the less money there is left to spend. The rich are just as self-interested as everyone else. Take away their money and they dodge. They feint. They play dead. They hire lobbyists, bribe Congressmen and play the game. If that doesn't work, they hide their loot and flee. The problem with trying to live at the expense of others is that others don't like it much. They stop producing and try to live at someone else's expense too. And pretty soon, you have a nation of poor zombies...feeding on the little living flesh still left alive. "The idea that we can solve our structural-deficit problems merely by asking more of the well-off is totally unrealistic," said David Walker, who was US comptroller general from 1998 to 2008 and now leads a group advocating against deficits. "The math simply doesn't work." But that never stops the rabble from attempting it. "The one place Americans are willing to see sacrifice is in the wallets of the wealthy and Wall Street," Bloomberg News relates. "While Americans say they strongly support balancing the budget over the next 20 years, when offered a list of more than a dozen possible spending cuts or tax increases, majorities opposed every one of them except imposing a bigger burden on the rich. "A majority backs raising the cap on earnings covered by the tax on the Social Security retirement program above the current limit of $107,000. Two-thirds would means test Social Security and Medicare benefits. Six of 10 would end tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans. And 7 of 10 favor a tax on Wall Street profits. " Taxing the "rich" to fix the budget deficit is a ruse, a charade, a something-for-nothing game. Lies, lies, lies... The first lie was the biggest whopper of all - that you could get rich by spending money rather than saving it. The second was that the stock market would make you rich. All you had to do was to buy a well-balanced portfolio and hold for the long run. When that one ran into a wall, along came the lie that you couldn't lose money in real estate. There was also the lie that the free market would make people rich...and if it didn't, the authorities would force it to do so! Then there was the lie that an economy saturated in debt could be stimulated to heights of prosperity by splashing on more debt. And then there was the lie that you didn't need real money in the system; the authorities could manage a flexible, paper money system so as to help maintain full employment. And then, after half a century of adding cash and credit, when the Wall Street speculators cried and moaned, we were told that they were "too big to fail." They needed to be saved. Then came the lie that monetary and fiscal stimulus would lead to "recovery." When recovery didn't come, we were told that "quantitative easing" would do the trick - so they pumped hundreds of billions of dollars into Wall Street's failed institutions. When it didn't work, we got QEII. And now, the federal government is headed to bankruptcy. We are told not to worry. No need to change course. Tax. Spend. Overspend. Stimulate. The same goofballs, liars and incompetents who have brought us this far say they'll take care of us. Which is what we're worried about.

Insight

MEMORIES


Perhaps the most important things are those we don't remember in a precise way, that we remember unconsciously.

Jorge Luis Borges


The beauty of memory is that it still sees beauty when beauty has faded.

Paul Boese

Bits & Pieces

PURPOSE

The question for each man is not what he would do if he had the means, time, influence and educational advantages, but what he will do with the things he has.

Frank Hamilton


As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being.

Carl Jung

Peace, love, and happiness...until next time...