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Thomas Paine

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

Wednesday, November 25, 2009

25 Nov - Disputes in the Garden of Good and Evil

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Red State Reality: Unhealthiest Residents, Worst Health Care
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog/archives/001671.htm
Throughout their all-out campaign to stop health care reform, Republican leaders have relied on questionable forecasts from the Lewin Group, a subsidiary of insurer UnitedHealth Group. Now, another study funded by UnitedHealth has some unwelcome news for the GOP braintrust: the red states they represent are the unhealthiest in the nation. Following on the heels of the Commonwealth Fund's 2009 Scorecard of state health care system performance, the United Health Foundation's report is just the latest confirmation that health care is worst where Republicans poll best.
As Forbes noted:

The annual ranking looks at 22 indicators of health, including everything from how many children receive recommended vaccinations, to obesity and smoking rates, to cancer deaths.
The diagnosis isn't pretty for Republicans committed to denying the health care their constituents need most of all. The 2009 rankings reveal that nine of the top 10 healthiest states voted for Barack Obama in 2008. Conversely, 9 of the 10 cellar dwellers backed John McCain in 2008; four years earlier, the 15 unhealthiest states voted for George W. Bush for President.

With Vermont topping the list and Mississippi bringing up the rear, Americans would do to listen to Dr. Howard Dean and not Governor Haley Barbour when it comes to the health care debate.
Vermont ranked first this year thanks in part to its low rate of obesity, high number of doctors and a low rate of child poverty. New England in general sets a benchmark for the country, the report found. All six New England states are in the top 10. These states have favorable demographics and an excellent public health infrastructure, including a large number of doctors per capita. Eight of the 10 bottom-ranked states are from the south, with Mississippi coming in dead last for the ninth consecutive year. Mississippi has a sky-high death rate from heart disease and high infant mortality. In general, residents of these states are more likely to be smokers or to be obese, the report found. They also have worse health insurance coverage, fewer physicians per capita and live in areas with high violent crime and more child poverty.
As it turns out, Mississippi residents aren't merely the sickest in the United States. They are also plagued by the worst state health care system in America.

Ari Fleischer Puts the BS in the BCS
http://www.perrspectives.com/blog
It's a crisis so serious that Republican Congressman from Utah and Texas have held hearings and called for investigations. Not into the Bush's administration's manipulation of Iraq intelligence, its detainee torture, the denial of global warming or the Katrina disaster. No, the outrage is the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) by which Division I college football annually determines its champion. And in an altogether fitting turn of events, the BCS has selected Ari Fleischer, the same Bush press secretary who faithfully dissembled for his boss on almost every issue, as its new PR spinmeister.
As the legions of fans disgruntled with the BCS ranking system and the frequent exclusion of teams from smaller conferences are already learning, Fleischer is bringing the same smug, dismissive tone to his new job:
"Playoff advocates have had an easy ride where they have never been called on to explain exactly how they would create an alternative. There is tremendous division among playoff advocates. While the BCS has its share of critics, once people see both sides of the issue, they will see why the system has its great support."
If the BCS was looking for a man whose public statements consistently fly in the face of majority opinion, common decency and the truth, they've found their man in Ari Fleischer.
Consider his work on national energy policy. As Dick Cheney's secret energy task force prepared to do its dirty work, then press secretary Ari Fleischer made clear that energy conservation would not be part of President Bush's agenda. The demands of climate change and national security, Fleischer insisted on May 7, 2001, would not result in demands on the American people:
Q: Is one of the problems with this, and the entire energy field, American lifestyles? Does the President believe that, given the amount of energy Americans consume per capita, how much it exceeds any other citizen in any other country in the world, does the President believe we need to correct our lifestyles to address the energy problem? MR. FLEISCHER: That's a big no. The President believes that it's an American way of life, and that it should be the goal of policy makers to protect the American way of life. The American way of life is a blessed one. And we have a bounty of resources in this country. What we need to do is make certain that we're able to get those resources in an efficient way, in a way that also emphasizes protecting the environment and conservation, into the hands of consumers so they can make the choices that they want to make as they live their lives day to day.
And to be sure, Fleischer can be counted to insist that no dissent from advocates of an NCAA football playoff system will be tolerated. After comedian Bill Maher was fired by ABC for commenting in the wake of the 9/11 attacks that the terrorists who slammed planes into buildings were "not cowardly," Fleischer strongly endorsed Maher's silencing:
"There are reminders to all Americans that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that. There never is."
During an April 30, 2001 press conference, Fleischer announced that "The President continues to believe the don't-ask-don't-tell policy is the best policy." As it turned out, that policy extended to Fleischer's audience in the White House press corps. Ari Fleischer certainly wasn't going to tell anyone that he brought male escort turned right-wing stenographer Jeff Gannon into the White House press room. And no one asked about it until the Fleischer was long gone and the hapless Scott McClellan ensconced in his place.
Even six years after the invasion of Iraq, Fleischer continues to peddle the long ago debunked Republican myth of a link between Saddam Hussein and the 9/11 Al Qaeda attacks in the U.S. As he told MSNBC's Chris Matthews this March:
"After September 11th having been hit once how could we take a chance that Saddam might strike again? And that's the threat that has been removed and I think we are all safer with that threat removed."
As became clear during the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame, Fleischer was only too happy to do the Bush administration's bidding not only in defending the President's bogus 16 words on uranium in Niger but in leading the campaign of retribution against Valerie and Joe Wilson. It wasn't until the trial of Cheney chief of staff Scooter Libby that Fleischer revealed that Libby had lied when he claimed he had only learned about Plame from reporters.
And it was during the Libby trial that Fleischer finally acknowledged that he was a willing lackey for the Bush administration and its disinformation campaign. As the New York Times recounted in January 2007:
In fact, as Mr. Fleischer disclosed in court testimony on Monday, he only knew what the truly powerful chose to tell him, and sometimes that was not much. On occasion he would pronounce with great authority the administration's position on a topic only to find it had changed and nobody had bothered to let him know. In July 2003, for example, after Mr. Fleischer had spent months defending a 16-word sentence in the president's State of the Union address asserting that Iraq had sought uranium for nuclear weapons in Africa, he was directed not to repeat his assurances that the information was correct. But his bosses had not yet decided on their revised view.
"The worst place to stand as press secretary is where the ground is shifting," Mr. Fleischer told the jury in the perjury trial of I. Lewis Libby Jr., Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff. "You can't say yes, and you can't say no."
When pressed by reporters on the issue, he said, "I basically punted."
So when it came to telling the truth, Fleischer punted. What better qualification could the BCS ask for?
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Common Plastics Chemicals Linked to ADHD Symptoms
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/authored_newsitem.cws_home/companynews05_01362
Philadelphia, PA, 19 November 2009 - Phthalates are important components of many consumer products, including toys, cleaning materials, plastics, and personal care items. Studies to date on phthalates have been inconsistent, with some linking exposure to these chemicals to hormone disruptions, birth defects, asthma, and reproductive problems, while others have found no significant association between exposure and adverse effects.
A new report by Korean scientists, published by Elsevier in the November 15th issue of Biological Psychiatry, adds to the potentially alarming findings about phthalates. They measured urine phthalate concentrations and evaluated symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) using teacher-reported symptoms and computerized tests that measured attention and impulsivity.
They found a significant positive association between phthalate exposure and ADHD, meaning that the higher the concentration of phthalate metabolites in the urine, the worse the ADHD symptoms and/or test scores.
Senior author Yun-Chul Hong, MD, PhD, explained that “these data represent the first documented association between phthalate exposure and ADHD symptoms in school-aged children.” John Krystal, MD, the Editor of Biological Psychiatry, also commented: “This emerging link between phthalates and symptoms of ADHD raises the concern that accidental environmental exposure to phthalates may be contributing to behavioral and cognitive problems in children. This concern calls for more definitive research.”
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in the Summary of their 2005 Third National Report on Human Exposure to Environmental Chemicals, state that “very limited scientific information is available on potential human health effects of phthalates at levels” found in the U.S. population. Although this study was performed in a Korean population, their levels of exposure are likely comparable to a U.S. population.
The current findings do not prove that phthalate exposure caused ADHD symptoms. However, these initial findings provide a rationale for further research on this association.


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But I'm far too conservative to take any of this seriously, right ? Funny.
I've called the Texas Mafia the Fourth Reich for a long time : and I know the kind of ruthlessness implied by the outfit sponsored by the U.S. which implemented "The Final Solution."
{Outrageous ? Mmm. So are thousands of ICBMs capable of independent warhead targeting with a great deal of precision and 'wars' in many countries at the same time which render millions homeless.
Then again : if you've read my collections listing ways in which this planet is being rendered unfit to live in...maybe the surprise isn't so much. }
Nor was I ever impressed by the 'rationale' for Vietnam, for instance, which was eventually disavowed by Robert McNamara himself. 
After WW II the vanishing of the SS 'into the ether' was accomplished with bags of money : many lived in the U.S., granted immunity for war crimes.
{ What sort of precedent did that set for Bu$hCo ? }

But do I believe in an International Jewish Conspiracy?
Depends : I certainly believe in one in which Zionists are at the centre of the action....along with the Hapsburgs and who knows who else...like the Rothschilds.
There are lists of those in the Bilderbergers, Council of Foreign Relations and more available. The Conspirators are those super rich who have always benefited from the losses of others. That goes back eons, as do Families' machinations.


The enabling condition has been the cover of secrecy and lies. When that is blown because of an avoidable technological change...one would think discovery has become immaterial...or desired.








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