American Consumer Dream

"I think he makes people angry because they have this belief that if only they had a little more money, they'd be happy," Nash says. "His lifestyle is a challenge to their Holy Grail, the American consumer capitalist dream."

That quote is from an interesting human interest article about a college educated person who lives outside Moab in a cave.

"The point is to live freely, in the present, freely giving and freely taking, which is the way of nature," he says. "The idea is to give up control of credit and debt, and just trust the cycle of nature."

California Department of Finance Director Reads Constitution

In this article about California's budget mess, California's finance director claims he looked for a way to secede.

"I looked as hard as I could at how states could declare bankruptcy," said Michael Genest, director of the California Department of Finance who is stepping down at the end of the year. "I literally looked at the federal constitution to see if there was a way for states to return to territory status."

While it is unclear how leaving the USA would help California's budget mess, history is clear about what happened when states tried to secede. Remember the Civil War (sometimes known as the War Against Southern Independence)?

USA Is A Corporation?

Dun and Bradstreet, a provider of business information, provides an interesting view into the federal government.

The following results were obtained by going to http://www.dnb.com/us/
and entering
obama
united states
district of columbia

Why would THE US CAPITOL, GOVERNMENT OF THE UNITED STATES, BARACK H OBAMA, and UNITED STATES SENATE be businesses?

Vaccine Pusher Ca$hing In

This medical doctor is pushing vaccines while owning stock in vaccine manufacturers. This is unethical and a glaring conflict of interest.

Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 by: Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises.

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That evidence includes an SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol SIGA) is a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines.

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Fluorescent Lights Linked To Cancer

An article about CLF bulbs and other fluorescent lighting sources may be linked to increased cancer rates.

Ministers to warn: Exposure to fluorescents may cause skin cancer


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Research carried out in Israel has shown that radiation from the lamps also increases the risk of breast and prostate cancers. Research by the University of Haifa's Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Management, published two years ago, concluded that in Israeli towns whose streets are lit with fluorescent lamps there are more breast cancer cases.
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23 CIA Convicts, CIA Torture

Illegal behavior by the CIA has resulted in conviction and prison sentences.

What would America think if people on American soil were being kidnapped, transferred out of the country, and tortured? Do these kidnap and torture programs by the American government create friends or long-term enemies?


Italian Judge Convicts 23 in CIA Kidnap Case
By COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press Writer

MILAN – An Italian judge on Wednesday convicted 23 Americans in absentia of the 2003 kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric from a Milan street, in a landmark case involving the CIA's extraordinary rendition program in the war on terrorism.
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Former Milan CIA station chief, Robert Seldon Lady, received eight years in prison. The other 22 convicted American defendants each received a five-year sentence.
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The Americans were accused of kidnapping Osama Moustafa Hassan Nasr, also known as Abu Omar, on Feb. 17, 2003, in Milan, then transferring him to U.S. bases in Italy and Germany. He was then moved to Egypt, where he says he was tortured. He has since been released, but has not been permitted to leave Egypt to attend the trial.
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The court also ruled that those convicted must pay 1 million euros to the Egyptian in damages and 500,000 euros to his wife.



CIA sent people to be ‘raped with broken bottles’
The CIA relied on intelligence based on torture in prisons in Uzbekistan, a place where widespread torture practices include raping suspects with broken bottles and boiling them alive, says a former British ambassador to the central Asian country.

Craig Murray, the rector of the University of Dundee in Scotland and until 2004 the UK's ambassador to Uzbekistan, said the CIA not only relied on confessions gleaned through extreme torture, it sent terror war suspects to Uzbekistan as part of its extraordinary rendition program.

"I'm talking of people being raped with broken bottles," he said at a lecture late last month that was re-broadcast by the Real News Network. "I'm talking of people having their children tortured in front of them until they sign a confession. I'm talking of people being boiled alive. And the intelligence from these torture sessions was being received by the CIA, and was being passed on."
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American Cancer Society Admits

The ACS, after decades of evidence, finally admits that early detection of cancer does not extend life span. ACS also admits that some people are harmed by overtreatment.


"The advantages to screening have been exaggerated."

"... vast majority of these additional men did not benefit from early detection."

Read the NPR article A Rethink On Prostate and Breast Cancer Screening.