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Propaganda

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 15:14:54 GMT

clipped by: indolin
clipper's remarks: ‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will give you the man.’ (Jesuit saying)

Clip Source: alternativereel.com

"It is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, whilst the brain is impressible, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason."
—Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man, 1871

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Fare Free Buses

Sat, 07 Jul 2007 18:33:08 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com

But former King County Metro Director Chuck Collins advocates eliminating fares as a step toward alleviating congestion, along with smaller, more widely dispersed buses that can serve today's less-centralized commuting patterns.

"The return in ridership that you get for that, even though it is not a long-term solution, just makes too much sense not to do it," he said. Bellevue is considering a free stand-alone "circulator" service to ease traffic in its growing downtown core.

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GIs in Iraq are no longer buying what BushCo is selling

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 07:02:23 GMT

clipped by: Thorne

Clip Source: sirenschronicles.com

I don’t want any more of my guys to get hurt or die. If it was something I felt righteous about, maybe.

It makes the horror all the more intolerable for me. I have really, in some twisted inner vision, wanted them to believe they were making a difference. I want them to believe in what they did when they were blown to hell, that it was worth it. I would rather have them be at peace with all they had done and seen when they died in the sand so friggin far away.

With my niece in harms way in Afghanistan, I have the right to feel this way about George Bush’s war and what it is doing to every man and woman that is fighting it. Their only goal is to keep their friends alive. They have the noblest of intentions.

They send them back after only nine stinking months at home.

Lying to me is one thing but sweet Jesus, lying to them is criminal.

Tags: bush, lies, soldiers, futility

Babies not as innocent as they pretend

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 11:45:17 GMT

clipped by: wildcat

Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Whether lying about raiding the biscuit tin or denying they broke a toy, all children try to mislead their parents at some time. Yet it now appears that babies learn to deceive from a far younger age than anyone previously suspected.

Behavioural experts have found that infants begin to lie from as young as six months. Simple fibs help to train them for more complex deceptions in later life.

Until now, psychologists had thought the developing brains were not capable of the difficult art of lying until four years old.

Following studies of more than 50 children and interviews with parents, Dr Vasudevi Reddy, of the University of Portsmouth's psychology department, says she has identified seven categories of deception used between six months and three-years-old.

"It demonstrates they're clearly able to distinguish that what they are doing will have an effect. This is essentially all adults do when they tell lies, except in adults it becomes more morally loaded."

Tags: science, research, babies, pretending, lying, evolution

Tetrachromat Females

Tue, 26 Jun 2007 14:48:40 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: ray.tomes.biz

A recent paper by Kimberly Jameson, Susan Highnote and Linda Wasserman of the University of California, San Diego, concerning females who may have tetrachromacy shows amazing results. Up to 50 per cent of women are tetrachromatic and can use their extra pigments in "contextually rich viewing circumstances". For example, when looking at a rainbow, tetrachromat females can segment it into, on average, 10 different colours, whereas their trichromat brothers and sisters can see only seven, much as Isaac Newton's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet. Consequently, for those special tetrachromat women, this island that they inhabit may be seen in emerald, jade, verdant, olive, lime, bottle and 34 other shades of green. Apparently, men and women do see the world differently.

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world poverty

Sun, 24 Jun 2007 23:29:56 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: www.awakenedwoman.com

The poor are not those who have been "left behind"; they are the ones who have been robbed.

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babies and plastic

Sat, 16 Jun 2007 02:56:58 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: www.bestlifeonline.com

“Prenatal exposure, even in very low doses, can cause irreversible damage in an unborn baby’s reproductive organs.” And after the baby is born, he or she is hardly out of the woods. Frederick vom Saal, Ph.D., a professor at the University of Missouri at Columbia who specifically studies estrogenic chemicals in plastics, warns parents to “steer clear of polycarbonate baby bottles. They’re particularly dangerous for newborns, whose brains, immune systems, and gonads are still developing.” Dr. vom Saal’s research spurred him to throw out every polycarbonate plastic item in his house, and to stop buying plastic-wrapped food and canned goods (cans are plastic-lined) at the grocery store.

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Favorite Country and Western Song Titles

Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:13:58 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: prorev.com

I Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Bed Crying On My Pillow Over You.

I'm So Miserable Without You, It's Almost like Having You Here

I Want a Beer as Cold as My Ex-Wife's Heart

If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me

If You Don't Leave Me, I'll Find Someone Who Will

What Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me

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the rulers will rule

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 22:58:20 GMT

clipped by: indolin
clipper's remarks: After ascending the economic heights there is just one thing left that might bring you down, a social revolution. Someone in the ruling class has to pay attention to that possibility and look for avenues to ward it off. It is true that the people with economic power are the only ones capable of delivering reforms --that is unless we someday take the power away from them and form a real democracy

Clip Source: blogs.wsj.com

Labor unions, religious groups and socialist politicians played a strong role, of course. But it was largely the aristocracy and billionaires who eventually pushed for political and economic changes that spread the wealth more evenly throughout the population and created the modern middle class.

Mr. Johnson says that for Rockefeller, it was a case of economic survival and stability.

“If you take a hard-headed political view, I think he felt that a stable society was in the best interests of business. He lived through some unstable times, like the panic of 1893 and labor strikes. There’s a calculation involved, where you can take the enlightened view and say “we don’t have to have it all. It would be much better to create a stable prosperous society where as many people benefit as possible, rather than having it all for yourself. Otherwise, the whole thing collapses.”

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Founding Fathers

Wed, 13 Jun 2007 21:41:25 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: www.globalresearch.ca

So action was needed to restore them to their proper status - quiescent, letting "the people who own the country....run it" (for their own benefit). Those were Founding Father John Jay's words, our first Supreme Court Chief Justice, showing his contempt for ordinary people.

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Detailed look at Oil in Iraq

Wed, 16 May 2007 15:55:54 GMT

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Clip Source: www.alternet.org

Yet today, every leading politician of either party is strangely convinced that the key "benchmark" the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki must pass to prove its mettle is the onerous oil law, now stalled in Parliament, that has been forced upon it by the Bush administration. In the piece below, Tomdispatch regular Michael Schwartz follows the oil slicks deep into the Gulf of Catastrophe in Iraq. He offers a sweeping view of the role oil, the prize of prizes in Iraq, has played in Bush administration considerations and what role the new oil law is likely to play in that country's future.

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Aberdeen, WA Wobblies

Sun, 06 May 2007 18:07:06 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: www.iww.org

That same year in Aberdeen, Washington, once again laws against free speech, arrests, prison, and, unexpectedly, victory. One of the men arrested, "Stumpy" Payne, a carpenter, farm hand, editor of an IWW newspaper, wrote about the experience:

Here they were, eighteen men in the vigor of life, most of whom came long distances through snow and hostile towns by beating their way, penniless and hungry, into a place where a jail sentence was the gentlest treatment that could be expected, and where many had already been driven into the swamps and beaten nearly to death. ... Yet here they were, laughing with boyish glee at tragic things that to them were jokes. ...

But what was the motive behind the actions of these men? ... Why were they here? Is the call of Brotherhood in the human race greater than any fear or discomfort, despite the efforts of the masters of life for six thousand years to root out that call of Brotherhood from our minds?

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Wobblies in Aberdeen, WA 1912

Sun, 06 May 2007 18:04:32 GMT

clipped by: indolin

Clip Source: books.google.com

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Timeline for the build up to war on Iran

Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:49:38 GMT

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Clip Source: www.rawstory.com

The Build Up To Iran Timeline

RAW STORY
Published: Thursday January 25, 2007

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George Burns quote

Sun, 15 Apr 2007 18:22:41 GMT

clipped by: indolin
clipper's remarks: You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

Clip Source: en.wikiquote.org

You've got to be honest; if you can fake that, you've got it made.

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