The U.S. may, again, try to ban the sale of vitamins
Posted 6:58 PM

It sounds like something out of the DaVinci Code, but there's a group called the Codex Alimentarius that plans on stopping U.S. citizens from buying vitamins.

That's crazy right? How could some group of foriegners stop U.S. citizens from buying whatever they damn-well please? Aren't I allowed to be as healthy as humanly possible? It's true, it's nasty, and it's a directed manipulation of the health and well-being of the masses.

In the new America, do we just bend over and take it when groups of politicians seek to take away our rights? Clinton did it. Bush did it. Who's next...the Codex?
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Do germs "cause" disease?
Posted 5:37 PM

Suppose you have a fortress. Inside this fortress is your kingdom's most prized possessions. Every day, armies, liars, thieves and vandals come and try to steal your treasure. But your fortress is ancient and powerful, and these thieves stand no chance against such a fortress.

Then one day, you realize that the kingdom is spending a lot of effort defending itself from these invaders. Instead, it tries to "kill off" all the people who would try to steal its treasure. The problem is, it's hard to tell which sorts of people would try to steal it. First, they kill off all the people of different races. Then they kill off all the people who were seen wearing black. Still, the thievery persists. What's more, the new thieves can hardly be identified! They are now, always, the same race, and they dress like commoners.

In a similar way, we fight disease. Rather than bolster our immune system (our fortress), we have decided to wage a preemptive war on germs. The problem is that there are two culprits in any crime. The germ (bacteria or viruses), surely is required to be present - but there will always be germs because there are an infinite variety of them. By killing off the obvious ones, we strengthen the germs that look like our own cells and are harder to identify.

A new way of thinking is in order. Rather than designing new ways to kill off germs, science could be working to foster powerful, healthy bodies. Check out the WTA for more of this kind of thinking.

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In a Quantum State of Mind
Posted 8:58 AM

A woman, dressed and painted in silver, carrying a oddly shaped thing made of styrofoam, stepped onto the subway this morning. I asked her what she was doing. She said she was a dancer. It was her first day doing a new piece and she was excited. She asked me what I was doing.

I described to her a conversation I was having with "Heartpump" - a WTA member - about the quantum nature of the mind.

Despite their seemingly chaotic nature, feedback automata have a predisposition to stabilize into attractors, which are stable states. Our minds, in order to maintain adaptability in addition to memory/logic functions, would need to "break out" of these stable states. Perhaps it may be taking advantage of quantum unpredictability. This could have naturally evolved in our brains as neuron density increased. Microchips are running into quantum effects today, as chip density increases.

She concluded, "Yes, that's why I dance. It gets me out of my head." She smiled, "Some people call unknowable things God - instead of quantum unpredictability."

Too true.

I don't have any reasons
I've left them all behind
I'm in a New York state of mind - Billy Joel

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QOTD
Posted 8:23 AM

The internet is the sailboat to the flat world of political fraud.
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U.S. election results forged?
Posted 3:19 AM

You can download the numbers yourself from the Federal Election Commission and the Florida division of Elections. I highly recommend keeping an archive of these numbers. The governor of Florida is already working to try and remove and/or alter them.

This is the set of enight.dos.state.fl.us election results by district in Florida.

This is the set of election.dos.state.fl.us voter registration by district in Florida.

You can see, by downloading the originals, that registered Democrats, for some inexplicable reason, voted consistently for Bush in some counties - but not in others.

Why would this pattern of behavior be split by county?

Here is a website that puts all the numbers together for you. Apparently, the counties where Diebold machines were installed overwhelmingly went to Bush.


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Howard Dean Would Have Won
Posted 11:19 AM

To the DNC: I hate to say "I told you so". But "I told you so". Howard Dean was the best candidate for the party. Watching Kerry pretend to go to church and pretend to hunt and apologize for being a liberal was embarassing. We needed a progressive who doesn't apologize.

Howard Dean would have beat Bush.
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Universal Healthcare produces better quality medicine
Posted 11:02 AM

America's third-rade healthcare system has wealthy patients leaving the country to obtain better medical care.

"Today, the average 75-year-old American has three chronic medical conditions and takes five prescription drugs. ... Seniors in Europe, with universal health care, not only live longer than Americans, but live two to three more years without disability. But we can do much better."

What can we do? According to James Hughes, Health Policy professor at Trinity College in Hartford Connecticut, the solution is Universal Coverage.

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Bush voting scandal and Canada
Posted 3:25 AM

Polls pointed to Kerry's victory in both Ohio and Florida, but the Bush administration claims these polls were "skewed". According to a Bloomberg article, Wall Street investors were convinced that Bush would lose the election based on widely reported polling data.

But, as I predicted over and over again, massive-scale voting fraud tipped this year's election in Bush's favor. Bush won in every district with a large percentage of electronic voting machines coming from Sequoia systems and Diebold. In 2002, Republicans overturned Democrats for the first time in 134 years in a congressional district in Georgia. Audit logs were missing from electronic voting stations, making recounts and inspections impossible.

But all of this makes sense. This is a presidenct who, apparently, believes that Democracy can be legitimately forced upon a nation - whether the people support it or not.

My only problem is that Canada is just too cold for me.
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