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Whenever someone asks you to believe that war is good for the economy, he asks you to acquiesce in a conspiracy that murders to get gain.

In a move reminiscent of a more naive decade, Coke has bribed doctors to say soda pop is good for you. Coke hired the official-sounding American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP), to create "educational" propaganda for its product. You can rest assured that the findings of these "doctors" will be as unbiased as that of their predecessors, the Soda Pop Board of America. from Food Politics. You say soda, I say pop

Would you guess one company is to blame for the housing bubble, the internet bubble, high gas prices last year? Matt Taibbi wrote that it all leads back to Goldman Sachs. His great article starts: "The first thing you need to know about Goldman Sachs is that it's everywhere. The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money." If you don't feel like reading the whole article , you can watch this 4 part interview that sums of some of its arguments: Click over to youtube to watch the 3 remaining parts. So why is the greatest investigative journalist a writer for a rock and roll magazine? I don't know, but that's pretty rock and roll. Other excellent excerpts from Taibbi's article: "organized greed always defeats disorganized democracy" "The formula is relatively simple: Goldman positions itself in the middle of ...

But it's a Christ I've heard many people testify of, and fervently worship. A political group called "The Family" is "the oldest Christian conservative organization in Washington and it goes back seventy years. And the founder believed that god gave him a new revelation saying that Christianity had gotten it wrong for two thousand years and that what most people think of as Christianity, as being about, you know, helping the weak and the poor and the meek and the down and out, he believes god came to him one night in April in 1935 and said what Christianity should really be about is building more power for the already powerful. " -from Crooks and Liars Though this is an extreme, I seem to constantly battle this idea among Mormons that poor people are lazy and get what they deserve, and that we shouldn't help them, and that capitalism is equivalent to the gospel. These sound ideas of respected business and hard-work are nothing more than the resurrection ...

Crazy Republicans wanted the same thing during the election ( here , and here ). Some in the government want us to be scared. A frightened populace is willing to exchange liberty for security, by giving the government more power. The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c Osama bin Laden Needs to Attack America thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor Jason Jones in Iran Watch the full video here . Crazy quote at 6.55. I just read Human Smoke about World War II. Same things were happening then. Roosevelt and Churchill wanted the Japanese to attack the U.S. so that Roosevelt would have an excuse to enter the war. They provoked them to attack with economic warfare (depriving the Japanese of oil and gasoline), by putting America's navy as close to Japan as possible, by training and arming Chinese pilots to bomb Japan, and by planning full-scale attacks on Japan.

In fear after 9/11, we gave more power to the president, and we passed anti-terrorist laws to protect ourselves. Former president Bush abused that power, and Obama intends to keep it . Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News , World News , and News about the Economy And the laws that were supposed to protect us from terrorists are being used to subdue civil unrest . Acting in fear is unwise. We acted in fearful haste after 9/11, and we have approached the current economic crisis with that same mindset. Glenn Beck is trying to peg this tyranny on Obama. That way you will vote for a Republican next time around. And you will get the same result. This tyranny originated with Bush, and will not go away by voting for either party. They both want this power when they hold the reins. Tyranny is the natural result of a complacent and ignorant populace. Ron Paul promised to end this of unconstitutional abuse of power. But he will never become president. Why? Because he will not support the int...

Paul wrote that: " the a love of b money is the root of all evil " — 1 Tim. 6:10 So I am putting up a PayPal widget to help you get rid of your evil. Any excess evil money you have, you can give to me, and I'll dispose of it appropriately. I also hope one of my wealthy readers will be so inspired by my blog as to give me all the funds necessary to make my dreams come true. And I'm adding Google Ad Sense. So I'm selling out. But it's only temporary: " For we brought a nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out. " — 1 Tim. 6:7

1. I just realized why Amazon.com's Kindle sucks (Kindle displays electronic text). It's not just that reading off a screen grates the eyes, and doesn't compete with a paper book. The problem is that they're not really giving you anything. They are respectable pirates who take a cut from the people who actually do the work. Yar * Let me explain it like this. Before electronic media, if you wrote a book, you took the pages to a printer, who performed an actual service. He printed several copies of your book. You would either pay the printer to do this, or promise the printer a cut of each of the books sold. The money received for each book was compensation for the time the author took to write it, the time the printer took to print it, and for the paper it was printed on. "Edward is so dreamy" * With electronic books, what is the compensation for? Copying and pasting the texts literally takes no time and no resources. Amazon.com should therefore recei...

ProjectCensored.org came up with a list of 25 news stories that didn't make the news: #1. Over One Million Iraqi Deaths Caused by US Occupation # 2 Security and Prosperity Partnership: Militarized NAFTA # 3 InfraGard: The FBI Deputizes Business # 4 ILEA: Is the US Restarting Dirty Wars in Latin America? # 5 Seizing War Protesters’ Assets # 6 The Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act # 7 Guest Workers Inc.: Fraud and Human Trafficking # 8 Executive Orders Can Be Changed Secretly # 9 Iraq and Afghanistan Vets Testify # 10 APA Complicit in CIA Torture # 11 El Salvador’s Water Privatization and the Global War on Terror # 12 Bush Profiteers Collect Billions From No Child Left Behind # 13 Tracking Billions of Dollars Lost in Iraq # 14 Mainstreaming Nuclear Waste # 15 Worldwide Slavery # 16 Annual Survey on Trade Union Rights # 17 UN’s Empty Declaration of Indigenous Rights # 18 Cruelty and Death in Juvenile Detention Centers # 19 Indigenous Herders and Small Farmers Fight Livestock Extincti...

Remember how your mom used to say: "Eat that last bite, because children are starving in China." I just figured out why. We will be fattened and delicious, so when the starving Chinese take over they can eat us. Turns out your mom is a terrorist, or a sleeper agent, or a socialist, or a communist, or whatever it is that the government wants us to be afraid of nowadays.

We work all our lives for someone else. You have to go to school to make money, so you take out a loan from the bank to pay the school, and you are in debt to the bank. Then you have to buy a house to raise your family, so you take out a loan to pay the home owner, and you are in debt to the bank. There are other things you want to buy, a car to get to work, other goods to make life worth living. So you get a loan, or use your credit card. And you are in debt to the bank. Then you get sick of your job and want to be your own boss, so you take out a loan to start a company. And you are in debt to the bank. Every day you go to work for someone else. You put in a good day's labor, but you don't get to keep what you make. A big portion of your money will go to those who own you, until you are too old and worn to work anymore. It is a pretty good system. We are happy slaves. And others profit from our work, because they have money. They do not need to work. That is our job.

A co-worker brought up that late-night comics make fun of Republicans seven times more than they tease Democrats. He then said, "Why does that not surprise me?" Instead of telling him, I'm going to blog about it, because I'm anti-social. It's simple. If Obama had chosen a hillbilly as a potential president, Democrats would get a fairer share of jokes. But Obama chose someone who is qualified . More smart than funny. Also, American culture is youth-focused. Americans treat oldness like a disease. They get surgeries, take pills, and change their lifestyles to avoid it. You see? To Americans, John McCain isn't just old, he's a victim of disease. One of those gross diseases. And we can't help but stare . We have to laugh to keep from crying. One more point. Not only has McCain's pick provided plenty of ammunition for jokes, it has also cast doubt in the minds of voters on McCain's qualifications. If McCain is reckless enough to pick someo...

One of McCain's biggest rallying cries has been "Drill here, Drill Now." And "Drill, Baby, Drill." A rise in gas prices has made many Americans get riled up over these catch phrases. But now gas prices are dropping. Are low gas prices hurting the McCain campaign? I think so. And I think I know who done it. I think Saudi Arabia, and other oil-producing Middle East countries have pumped out more oil in an effort to lower gas prices in America. Why? Because they don't want McCain to win. They don't want another war-hungry fundamentalist in the white house. They want peace in the Middle East. And if they get Fox News in Saudi Arabia, maybe they think Obama is a Muslim.

I just watched a spooky video that linked Sarah Palin with Alaska's radical independent party. Apparently secession is a pretty big debate in Alaska. The Alaskan Independence Party is the third largest party in Alaska. Some of them are violently anti-American. We have a few crazies in Utah too, so it probably means nothing. But I have just one thought. It's possible that in a hundred years, the President of the U.S. will have to deal with the secession of Alaska. Alaska could ally with either Russia or the states of northern Canada. Maybe. Crazies in California also want to secede . They have a GDP greater than any other state . If our economy tanks, and California secedes, soon we could all be illegal immigrants.