tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63089383890552672362024-02-20T11:06:08.347-08:00Disturbing TrendsAnalysis of dangers to the world including the environment, terrorism and the wars manufacturing terrorists, 9/11 and its lingering effects on America, the Islamic death cult Al Qaeda, Iraq, Iran, North Korea, the West empowerment of the state to reduce the democratic rights of individualsAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.comBlogger340125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-56996896835986918642011-11-13T00:56:00.001-08:002012-07-01T23:45:28.403-07:00New edition - future postsDisturbing Trends - carries on commenting on the world on <a href="http://disturbingtrends.org/">http://disturbingtrends.org</a><br />
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This site, http://distrends.blogspot.com was an earlier edition (on Blogger)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-85492377010701767672011-05-02T01:57:00.001-07:002011-05-17T15:13:56.911-07:00OSAMA KILLED<a href="http://disturbingtrends.org/wordpress/2011/05/04/osama-bin-laden-2/">Osama Bin Laden is dead.</a> Disturbing Trends Epitaph<br />
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Also, <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/02/osama-bin-laden-dead-pakistan">Guardian article</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-65659626813934462532011-04-29T04:04:00.001-07:002011-04-29T04:04:51.846-07:00Russian view of AmericaRT's outspoken Keiser Report on the US economy <br />
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<iframe width="425" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/K-qBCVmjqHo" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-88227639101671103772011-04-27T05:47:00.000-07:002011-04-27T05:47:58.223-07:00Sony HackedSony Playstation network was shutdown after a hacker stole nearly 80 million identities of people who are obviously ready to spend online. <a href="http://medianightmare.blogspot.com/2011/04/security-and-big-companies.html">Who is at fault, and why?</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-83120633292957497692011-04-22T01:18:00.001-07:002011-04-22T04:26:48.322-07:00In Memory of Tim Hetherington<iframe src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/18497543?title=0&byline=0&portrait=0" width="400" height="295" frameborder="0"></iframe><p><a href="http://vimeo.com/18497543">Diary (2010)</a> from <a href="http://vimeo.com/timhetherington">Tim Hetherington</a> on <a href="http://vimeo.com">Vimeo</a>.<br />
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<a href="http://disturbingtrends.org/wordpress/2011/04/22/tim-hetherington/">Full article</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-33018564526901542192011-04-17T10:34:00.000-07:002011-04-17T10:34:21.836-07:00Social Equity<b>The very act of enacting laws is an erosion of the unfettered freedom some believe is necessary for business to succeed<i></i></b><br />
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from Social Equity<br />
<a href="http://disturbingtrends.org/wordpress/2011/04/17/social-equity/">Read the full article</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-58871890833670997282011-04-13T23:53:00.001-07:002011-04-13T23:55:17.945-07:00Energy<iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/LqaXcY21D5g" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen style="margin-left:-12px"></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-61651230102516504052011-03-13T08:17:00.001-07:002011-03-13T09:10:20.278-07:00Tsunami terror<div style="margin-left:-18px;"><iframe title="YouTube video player" width="480" height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/5-zfCBCq-8I" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><br />
</div>This amazing footage shows exactly what the terror of the Tsunami feels like as yachts stumble over the beach line, and water starts pouring onto roadways. It is well shot, with good sound by someone who must have survived along with the beach-side property it was shot from.<br />
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<a href="http://disturbingtrends.org/wordpress/2011/03/14/tsunami-terror-and-theory/">Full article including a theory for increased seismic activity</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-17322258979636403972011-03-13T03:31:00.000-07:002011-03-13T03:31:02.559-07:00Nuclear threat"There are now problems at the number three reactor - the concern is that it is overheating. They're trying to pump sea water through it at the moment. That's an unusual, somewhat innovative solution to the problem. But the fact that they're prepared to consider unusual solutions like that gives you a hint of just how serious the problem is." - Chris Hogg - BBCAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-22942611468848213722011-03-11T14:31:00.001-08:002011-03-11T23:28:02.317-08:00Stopping the Tsunami<h3>The Tsunami</h3>Theories as to what causes Earthquakes are well established. The Earth has a group of tectonic plates which move gradually. This causes continental drift and parts of the world that are more likely to get volcanoes and earthquakes. There are a few countries that are more likely to get seismic activity due to their location and indeed origin as land masses drawn out of the Earth's mantle, the product of volcanic activity. <br />
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</ul>Examine the plate map around the Ring of Fire - the edges of the Pacific plate. Japan and New Zealand are both dissected by subduction zones, where the plates are pushing towards each other. So is Iceland (although the Atlantic plates are moving apart. Other trouble zones are evident around the Pacific rim, Indonesia and north of the Indian Plate. Mutual subduction results in mountain ranges and continental drift takes these land deposits and slowly but certainly reorders them. So New Zealand and Japan, in Geological time, are likely to both increase in land mass. The water in the atmosphere and sea and the fuming vents of the Earth appear to have interdependent roles in the maintenance of the conditions of life.<br />
<h3>Tsunami</h3>A Tsunami arises from the sudden upward thrust of one plate, the friction causes the earthquake and the land mass suddenly moving up creates a powerful wave that radiates rapidly. The displacement of large amounts of water is carried on the waves and move like a rapid tide. The laws of gravity counterbalance the effects of these waves, and the tide is drawn back out to sea. This has disastrous consequences for shorelines close to the wave and certain types of shoreline that may be distant but have a "line of sight" to the event.<br />
<h3>Preventing a Tsunami</h3>A Tsunami can not be stopped from our current technological options. Ideas are listed below of theoretical means by which a tsunami could be stopped or prevented from causing remote damage.<br />
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<b>Ideas to Stop a Tsunami</b><br />
<ul><li>a tractor beam wall from a network of satellites protecting coastlines near faults that can be switched on when an earthquake is detected</li>
<li>offshore barriers or baffles close to the fault line that absorb the energy of the wave</li>
<li>giant fans that blow the waves away on potentially hazardous coastline</li>
<li>underground plumbing</li>
<li>hoping it will never happen again</li>
</ul><h3>Poetry</h3><a href="http://chaosandmatter.blogspot.com/2011/03/stopping-tsunami.html">The Tsunami</a> (poetry)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-79037801726424941172011-03-06T09:16:00.000-08:002011-03-06T10:05:08.334-08:00The Vote<div style="font-size:small;border:1px inset #ccc;padding:12px;margin:4px;background-color:#ddd"><p>Cameron is going to have to come up with some better arguments about the alternative vote if he wants to win the argument. In his speech he used this analogy:<br />
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<i>Imagine it's the Olympics, London 2012. We're all watching the 100 metres. Usain Bolt powers home over the line. But then he gets to the podium, it's the guy who came third who gets the gold. We wouldn't put up with this in the Olympics. We shouldn't put up with it in our democracy.<br />
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If Cameron carries on like this, he's going to have to hand back that Oxford PPE first. An Olympic final is designed to establish who can run the fastest. An election is designed to establish who can govern with consent.<br />
</p><i>from <b>The Guardian</b></i><br />
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AV? Alternative Vote means that you do not vote for one candidate but exercise a sort of "internal democracy" apportioning a diminishing vote from your first to last choice of candidates. In this way, a tie can be broken by a third vote that is marginally larger, who receives a large majority of second votes. By allowing the preference vote to cover more than just the first three or five selections, it becomes an exercise in democratic ignorance for most, most of us are not familiar with every point of view on offer nor should be be over concerned for the opinions of those we find philosophically untenable to be significant. <br />
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The attraction of FPP is that history can be blamed on the proportionality of the sub legislature, by which is meant that constituencies are not "equal" in that they may encompass populations that have no chance in overturning a local majority due to the established conservatism of the very wealthy (who in turn consider that social immobility is of value), or where the enterprising have no chance for a political voice because of a dominance of the more frequently occupied seats of economic fortune in the council estates of cities.<br />
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The constituency system has its illusion of traditional democratic choice. But it is more likely to express a government that slowly swings harshly to the left or right. A coalition government where significant minority voices are at least able to express policy options does not seek to divide peoples only by where they live.<br />
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A real democracy is enriched by the input of many voices. Nick Clegg has not a shit show of selling AV over Cameron backing the more decisive and "intelligent choice" or whatever soapsuds he will manage to briefly enchant the voter with until they wake up.<br />
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More ideas for progress are available if no regard to artificial "original" values are ascribed to them. Egalitarian societies would be a fortunate but unlikely result of Cameron's philosophy. What he hopes to foster is unfortunately coloured by an increased perceived imbalance, a widening so sharp one can not help but view this Big Society as something very unpleasant that can also be subject to whitewash as well as swallow it as necessary punishment.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-60991599449366998302011-02-05T21:55:00.000-08:002011-02-05T21:55:08.464-08:00Egyptian DemocracyNoam Chomsky on the people power revolution that the Egyptian government appears intent on suppressing with violence.<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/feb/04/radical-islam-united-states-independence">Guardian article</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-14779406404124638622011-01-13T16:30:00.000-08:002011-01-13T16:34:20.851-08:00Swine Flu updates<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2011/jan/13/flu-death-toll-millions-unvaccinated">While millions in the UK remain unvaccinated</a> against H1N1, <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-12152500">good news for those who lived through it</a>. The virus seems to result in a sort of super immunity against most other strains of flu.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-16287870256876486102011-01-08T14:21:00.000-08:002011-01-10T14:59:09.142-08:00Murder or Assassination<h1>Assassination Attempt</h1><br />
<i>The Right Wing (Tea Party/Sarah Palin) rhetoric did not create an extremist, but their words effectively authorize violence</i><br />
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US Congress member Gabrielle Giffords was shot by Jared Loughner an individual brandishing a semi automatic execution weapon. A bullet through her brain, and at this moment she is undergoing surgery in a critical condition. Among the 5 dead was a US Federal Judge.<br />
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Although it brings the gun laws into clear focus as a dangerous option in today's world, it is very unlikely to shift the view that an armed citizenry prevents invasion, and the US almost religious adherence to the risks of such a view is the correct basis in American law.<br />
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Bluntly, it is an act of terrorism and appears possibly inspired by rhetoric from the Tea Party, Sarah Palin most directly who placed advertisements with weapon sights targeting each Democrat by State. But there is no provable offense when the interpretation is causing the fanatic to attach themselves to it like a religious truth.<br />
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That could be Sarah Palin's personal 9/11 event. <br />
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"Giffords had been named as a political campaign target for conservatives in November's elections by former Alaskan governor Sarah Palin for her strong support of Obama's reforms. Palin had published a "target map" on her website using images of gun sights to identify 20 House Democrats, including Giffords, for backing the new health care law. At an event in 2009 which was similar to the one Giffords was holding today, a protester was removed by police when his pistol fell to the supermarket floor." - <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/08/gabrielle-giffords-shot-tucson-arizona">Guardian, UK</a>.<br />
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It appears to be political assassination. Worse than an act of terrorism. It is an act of treason, a crime against the State, the people and the Law. A tear in the meaning of the flag. <br />
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Update: Giffords' assailant was last night named as 22-year-old Afghanistan veteran Jared Lee Loughner<br />
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Update: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=373854973434&id=24718773587" target="_blank">Sarah Palin's Facebook still shows the map with crosshairs</a> encouraging extremists to kill politicians. The map was removed from her website. <br />
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As unlikely as it may be that this map with cross hairs and the statements that Democrats should have an M16 taken to them are the primary justification of this insane individual's acts of terrorism, the fact remains that it could cause that kind of behaviour. <br />
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Is the map with crosshairs an incitement to terrorism? Is it a hate crime or poltical dialogue? More succinctly, is it what the Tea Party want folk to consider as a solution to their woes? Whatever political leaning you have, encouraging violence like this is the voice of extremism. <br />
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For God's sake. Change the message.<br />
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Update: Jared Loughner <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2011/01/09/us/AP-US-Congresswoman-Shot-Charges.html?ref=global-home">has been charged with 5 charges</a>, including a charge of Attempted Assassination and MurderAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-31691319002528916332010-12-21T13:45:00.000-08:002010-12-31T06:16:07.590-08:00Swine FluIt looks like an epidemic of one of the more dangerous viruses to face our medical science. It is not as though we did not know about Swine Flu, but is the UK ready for it? <br />
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In a land obsessed by the snow and the Prime Minister speaking about the terrible state of delays and cancellations at Heathrow (which is a failure of privatisation and necessary Government action), thousands of stranded passengers sleeping rough at the airport provides the perfect incubator by collecting together people from all over the UK in one unhealthy environment who are then going to fly all over the world. <br />
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More than 300 people lie in critical care beds and at this writing, 17 people have lost their lives. Lost their ability to breathe. <br />
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And the Government worries about what a minister says. David Cameron has failed to govern and if his Government holds together it will not be due to his taking courageous or necessary action to prevent disaster. <br />
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What is the Government going to do? They are going to take apart the National Health system by the looks of what they are doing to schools and universities. It is back to tooth and claw. Do not sneeze.<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/21/swine-flu-top-doctor-crisis">Guardian article</a><br />
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Dec 24th update: the situation worsens <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/8224138/Flu-intensive-care-cases-double-in-a-week-as-cases-accelerate.html">Telegraph</a> 460 now in intensive care, 27 deaths<br />
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Dec 31st update: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/dec/30/winter-flu-vaccinations-andrew-lansley">Government immunisation efforts</a> - the Government has left the immunisation campaign a little late, but is mass immunisation the answer? Is it necessary for people to suffer a new flu variety or is protection better in that it does not provide continued opportunities for the virus to mutate?<br />
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Dec 31st update: <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/dec/31/flu-outbreak-hospitals-intensive-care">The Department of Health says 738 people with confirmed or suspected flu are in intensive care, up 60% on last week's figure of 460. They include 42 children under five.</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-6879339658286006352010-12-12T09:44:00.000-08:002010-12-12T09:53:52.711-08:00WIkileaksRon Paul on Wikileaks.<br />
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They are very concerned about this, and kept it away from the general public. One must consider the question as to why Governments should want to keep this secret. The prospect of mass panic does not seem to apply, the public has lived under the yoke of nuclear threat for so long and it would seem important to raise public awareness rather than to hide the obvious.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-15069088464076383772010-11-30T01:06:00.000-08:002010-11-30T01:25:45.465-08:00ChinaChina does not want any more trouble. North Korea should be absorbed by the vastly more successful South in the private views of the Chinese government. It would make a lot of sense, but a peace treaty between Korea and China, and another one with Japan does not guarantee stability, but 1,000,000 soldiers burning all the oxygen is disproportionate to the potential for goodwill in the world for a resurgent, united Korea. <br />
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It would mean the end of fear. It would be the end of poverty for the population of the North. Gradually, things would improve because the North would be able to produce something to exchange with the rest of the world. At the moment all it produces is fear. China may isolate it, but will it change or will it now start to threaten China also?Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-12446834738665825172010-11-24T04:57:00.000-08:002010-11-24T04:57:17.485-08:00AspirinSalicylic acid, or Aspirin may be a health food - a naturally occurring plant defense that helps dispose of rubbish (old cells) in the body. A daily intake of about 75mg has been considered medically a good idea for most although the side effect of intestinal bleeding for 0.1% of the population deters general use. But for most a daily small dose of Aspirin is an inexpensive way to ward off heart disease, various cancers and dementia. <br />
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See: <a href="http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Salicylic:acid.html">http://www.economicexpert.com/a/Salicylic:acid.html</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-31629785901089166922010-11-23T03:42:00.000-08:002010-11-23T03:42:28.000-08:00Sarah Palin gets personalSarah Palin's new book explores Obama's background. Early shots in a nasty campaign to come.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-21459802014296033742010-11-23T03:38:00.000-08:002010-11-23T03:38:56.490-08:00Who is a trusted enemy?A Taleban "leader" sent to negotiate with Hamid Karzai turns out to be a shopkeeper. <br />
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Reuters: <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM19920101123">http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6AM19920101123</a>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-72849201746218650332010-11-14T08:05:00.000-08:002010-11-14T08:23:28.136-08:00Happiness defined as "Being in the Moment"If you define happiness as being in the moment, then the corollary sounds logical.<br />
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To say that the wandering mind causes depression is to tell every parent to be concerned when their child is introspective. Most intellectual behaviour may be like that. <br />
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Dreaming does not result in depression. However, addiction to external stimuli do create patterns in modes of thinking and when the stimuli is removed bad feelings logically follow. <br />
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Creativity often involves introspection and the mind wandering. Creativity is being in the moment of thought. <br />
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See also:<br />
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<li><a href="http://disturbingtrends.org/wordpress/articles/happiness/">Full article</a></li>
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With thugs and guns what otherwise looks exactly like a fertilizer shipping business, the distribution of cocaine or heroin, becomes criminal. Is it so because it is harmful or because there is an untaxed profit? Or is the Afghanistan war part of the war on drugs? What does "winning" mean? Will it change anything?<br />
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That the Taleban seem to survive on the export of drugs to a snorting army of customers is the war against the rest of the world. It is as though one country had the one weapon that could destroy whole cities. It wealds power over the part of the world affected by its deadly threat. Nuclear weapons will not return a sustainable profit but the drug trade does. <br />
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Prince Charles believes in the politics of harmony - being in tune with the direction of nature. The Green movement in varying degrees believe humans to be part of something far greater that affords our respect, our humility. Objectivism at the other extreme believes in the power of individual achievement. When the objective is achieved the result looks tastes and smells like fascism. The rights of ownership and control of assets become the rights of ownership and control of people. <br />
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The politics of the "Liberal Democrats" is fundamentally two faced. It is the convenience of truth that informs it. If Liberal means more freedom to exploit and democrat means in the hands of the people, the amalgam of these two ideas is everyone screwing everyone else. No wonder Clegg won so much power.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6308938389055267236.post-19549731934103779142010-11-02T12:26:00.000-07:002010-11-02T12:27:44.041-07:00Strange EventsWhile cosmic rays hit the earth, we look inside the actions of viruses, how they infect cells by injecting the cell with itself and changing the cell's DNA. But meantime the body has been able to fight viruses by attaching immune cells to the protein well of the virus, and thus being injected with it, attracting special virual cell deconstruction factories that tear the virus cell to pieces. The goings on at the cellular level follow very severe war policies, take no prisoners, in fact, evaporate them!<br />
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So research is going on for anti-virals that work in a similar fashion.<br />
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"The discovery, which is reported in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, could pave the way for a new generation of antiviral drugs that fight infections by supercharging the body's own defences.<br />
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"Future treatments based on James's work are only expected to work against a class of viruses that do not shed their protein coats when they invade healthy cells. Those that do would leave the attached antibodies outside the cells, and so not trigger the cell's own immune attack."<br />
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<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/nov/01/viruses-immune-system-antibody">Guardian, Nov 1, 2010</a><br />
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The idea of a virus that sheds its protein coat and thus defeat the virus defences sounds like a virus that would cause a cell to mutate, and as cells become virus factories, effectively grow - a hybrid semi foreign version of the cell. If antivirals can defeat this type of virus, it seems quite possible that there may be hope of attacking the many cancers will may be caused in this way.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17113426316236474278noreply@blogger.com0