Joni Never Loved Chachi - She Just Wanted to get close enough to fuck Fonzi

That's right. How do you know she loved Chachi? Because the words say so. Set aside for the moment the fact that the people I speak of in the title are a fiction. They serve the point I make well. Let us start with a few questions - Do you even know Joni? Have you ever met her? spoken to her? at length? About anything serious? Love and relationships?
I thought not. You couldn't have because you have only watched what she said and did on TV - You have no real knowledge of the kind of person she was/is or what may drive or motivate her to act in one way - and not another.

Deep Breath now.

How are politicians different?

Have you ever met a politician?

Surely have seen one on TV.

You may have met a politician once - perhaps met several in your life thus far. Did you have a meaningful conversation? I use the word "meaningful" in my question holding what I call meaningful in mind. i.e.: Did you truly speak? Was it more than "hello-how are you - thank you"? Were you able to talk for a time? To be allowed to 'ask a question' is not the same as conversation. To talk or converse is to let thoughts in one's mind come out, be shared and then responded to with thoughts prompted by the initiate - it is reciprocal - there is no format - it is not "question and answer". Listening to a speech and then saying "great speech!" is not "meeting" someone. Asking a question and then having the one questioned take a deep breath and soapbox is not "meeting" someone, and it is not conversation.

So, I ask again have you ever met a politician? do you know one personally? Can you "vouch"? Dot dot dot...

Take it a step further. How do you know what you know? Through direct perception and experience. Well, let us be honest - not all the time. What do you "know" about the world that you didn't hear second or third hand through someone else? What do you believe about the world that you didn't learn in school from a teacher or textbook? (please question now who decided what was included in/excluded from those textbooks) If you watch television or read printed media you are no better off. Why are you you?

Is it because you believe in the tried methods of comfortable institutions who are not often questioned for accuracy or for any other reason? Ha. Separate in your mind the things you know because you "know" them and the things you know because you heard/saw it on TV. Perception/Experience Vs. Propaganda. Wow. One list big - one list small.

Again the question - How do you know what you know? Whether one source or another is "believed" or not is irrelevant. Is not your account of history - the world - how life is - pieced together from what you consider to be voices of trust - reliable - or perhaps those who's opinion you find comfort in. If you cannot account for how you know what you know now - at this moment or beyond that in total - therein lies a problem.

Your decision making process in this and any moment is based on reference to a body of knowledge existing in your mind created over your lifetime - What I beg you to examine is:

How did that knowledge get there.

This was no accident - and no -though you would like to belive it - you weren't born with it.



The Donkey

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Stop The Codex Before It Kills

Pay attention to this, I'm going to introduce you to the "Codex Alimentarius". It's initial intentions were unclear, and may have been good. But make no mistake, it is what the Codex is being used for NOW, by the people behind it that should concern you. From the Health Freedom USA website:

1) Started in 1962 by UN, Imposed by WTO Sanctions

Codex Alimentarius was created in 1962 as a trade Commission by the UN to control the international trade of food. Its initial intentions may have been altruistic but it has been taken over by corporate interests, most notably the pharmaceutical, pesticide, biotechnology and chemical industries.

Codex Alimentarius is backed up by the crippling trade sanctions of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Any non Codex-compliant nation would face huge economic punishment since they would automatically lose in any food-trade dispute with a Codex compliant country.

2) “Nutrients are Toxins” Is Junk Science

Codex Alimentarius Commission (CAC) has two committees which impact nutrition.

One of them, the “Codex Committee on Nutrition and Foods for Special Dietary Uses” (CCNFSDU), is chaired by Dr. Rolf Grossklaus, a physician who believes that nutrition has no role in health. This is the “top-guy” for Codex nutritional policy, and he has stated that “nutrition is not relevant to health”.

As unbelievable as it may sound, Dr. Grossklaus actually declared nutrients to be toxins in 1994 and instituted the use of toxicology (Risk Assessment) to prevent nutrients from having any impact on humans who take supplements! It is worth mentioning that Dr. Grossklaus happens to own the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on this issue. This company makes money when its toxicology services are used for the “assessment” of nutrients. Here in the U.S. we call that a “conflict of interest”.

Codex is made up of thousands of standards and guidelines. One of them, the Vitamin and Mineral Guideline (VMG), is designed to permit only ultra low doses of vitamins and minerals (and make clinically effective nutrients illegal). How can the VMG restrict dosages of vitamins and minerals? By using Risk Assessment (toxicology) to assess nutrients.

While Risk Assessment is a legitimate science (it is a branch of toxicology), it is the wrong science for assessing nutrients! In fact, in this context, it is actually junk science. Biochemistry, the science of life processes, is the correct science for assessing nutrients. Codex Alimentarius treats nutrients as toxins, which is literally insane.

Nutrients are not toxins - they are essential for life.

No matter what Codex Alimentarius officials say to convince you that Risk Assessment is a “science-based” approach to nutrients, it is not.

And it is worth repeating that Dr. Grossklaus, the head of Codex Alimentarius, owns the Risk Assessment company advising CCNFSDU and Codex on the “benefit” of using Risk Assessment to assess nutrients.

Don't think that the UN is not going to try and bring the Codex here to the US, it is already happening.

Unfortunately, one-time defenders of health freedom such as National Nutritional Foods Association (NNFA) and Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN) have joined the propaganda bandwagon and are spreading false information saying that Codex Alimentarius is either “harmless” or benevolent “consumer protection”. Neither is true.

The membership of these one-time defenders of health freedom has become permeated by people from the pharmaceutical industry (for example, CRN counts as its members corporations such as Monsanto® and Bayer®).

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If Codex Alimentarius is implemented in the United States of America, therapeutic dosages of vitamins and minerals (and all other nutrients soon to follow) will become unavailable because they will literally become illegal.

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Codex Alimentarius is a shrewd vehicle for protecting the pharmaceutical industry from the loss of income it stands to suffer due to the inevitable growth of natural healthcare.

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Furthermore, Codex is based in the Napoleonic Code, not Common Law. That means that under Codex Alimentarius, anything not explicitly permitted is forbidden. Under Common Law, we hold that anything not explicitly forbidden is permitted. The difference is the difference between health freedom and health tyranny. Codex Alimentarius would be able to ban supplements by default.

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Codex Alimentarius will go into global implementation by December 31, 2009, unless We, the People, avert it. We must act now because right now, with $758 Million spent on declared Congressional lobbying by Big Pharma last year, there are members of Congress who are trying to overturn DSHEA and allow Pharma-friendly free reign for Codex. If protective laws like DSHEA are destroyed, the sanctioning power of the autocratic WTO kicks in, and it will be impossible to get out from under Codex Alimentarius. We can protect our access to high potency nutrients and stave off an adulterated food supply only by putting pressure on Congress.

You must stay on top of this one. I urge you to read up on this, start with Health Freedom USA's website linked to at the top of the page and again here. Do whatever you can to ensure the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act (DSHEA, 1994), an American law classifying our supplements and herbs as foods (which can have no upper limit set on their use) does not get overturned or altered in any way.


Here are links to two videos dealing with the same topic:

Codex and Nutricide - This is with Dr. Rima E. Laibow who has studied the Codex documentation extensively and wrote the material on the healthfreedomusa.org website.

We Become Silent : The last Days Of Health Freedom - This one is narrated by Dame Judi Dench and produced by Well TV.




I'm going to use the bottom half of this post to draw your attention to some recent issues concerning the FDA, which regulates almost one-quarter of the U.S. economy, that may get you to pay closer attention.



Read this 2005 article from The Nation about President Bush's appointee to the Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs.

Susan B. Wood resigns. More here. Her interview on Diane Rehm
here.

Agency suffers with no confirmed head.

FDA and drug safety.

Meet Dr. Lester M. Crawford,
the veterinarian, who temporarily headed the FDA twice and was nominated by Bush to keep the job was criminally charged for holding stock in companies (Pepsico Inc., Sysco etc.) that were regulated by the agency and lying about it. He plead guilty and paid a 90,000 fine and was put on probation. More here. And here.

Daniel E. Troy, former FDA chief counsel and his conflict of interest. After he resigned he went back to work as a corporate food lawyer. Industry advocate, to regulator, back to advocate. To fully understand why this is bad for you, the citizen consumer, read the excellent summary on NY Rep. Maurice Hinchey's official website. In this administration Troy is only one of hundreds. All presidents appoint those who share their political bias, but appointing lobbyists to high positions in government agencies enters into an entirely new realm of disregard for the average American. In whose interests do they serve?


Tell Someone.

Path To 9/11

When true stories are adapted for TV movies they are often dramatized  and exaggerated. This is widely known, it's a pop culture joke. "Who's gonna play you in the TV movie?" Everything is bigger, flashier, faster, the actors are always better looking than the real people. Major events in history are often reinterpreted; presented in the way the filmmaker chooses to achieve the desired effect. (Think Titanic, Jack The Ripper, the Civil War, The Passion of the Christ, Tora,Tora,Tora, JFK, Schindler's List... and on and on).



Something "based on a true story" is far removed from a Documentary.

So what, Right?



The problem I'm having here is that this "docudrama" is furthering the confusion and misconceptions about what really happened on 9/11/01. It seems as though this is intentional. It's been pointed out that screenwriter:

(Cyrus)Nowrasteh spoke last year on a panel aimed at bringing a conservative tilt to Hollywood. Conservative talk-radio host Rush Limbaugh received an advance copy of the film and has raved about it on the air.

From a letter written by the democratic leaders in the senate:

"That Disney would seek to broadcast an admittedly and proven false recounting of the events of 9/11 raises serious questions about the motivations of its creators and those who approved the deeply flawed program," the senators wrote. "Finally, that Disney plans to air commercial-free a program that reportedly cost it $40 million to produce serves to add fuel to these concerns."

The timing of the release of this film, the fact that Disney footed the bill and broadcast it without sponsorship, and that Scholastic Corporation (that's right, the school book company) planned to distribute "Learning Guides" to schools along with copies of the film should make you ask some questions. Like who produced this gem of a picture?



This is old news in a way since the movie came out last year, but similar things happen every day. What is important here is that we keep fact separated from fiction, especially revisionist fiction that seeks to hide truth or corrupt what's left of the public mind. Many people don't know what is really happening around them. Much of the media is busy trying to engage the public in argument and debate of false issues. Worse still, it is often the case that neither side's belief is true. People fight bitterly and call each other all sorts of names defending fiercely held positions when all of it is just make believe. It equates to children fighting over cartoons while the parents tackle the real issues that will ultimately shape their lives. You're pro Bugs Bunny and your neighbor supports Mickey Mouse, and you don't see eye to eye. Meanwhile truth goes unnoticed.



Sadly, in this story we never grow up. We don't get to be the "parents". It is that way by design.



Changing gears, and shuffling through some older stuff trying to get it posted, it's more Iraq. Glenn Greenwald had a great post in January about just how right Scott Ritter was about Iraq back in 2002.



Examples of Wingnuttery in the Iraq-false-debate vein from The Poor Man, while you're there you can take your final exam in country music.



Yet another reason to hate the Chinese government. As if more are needed.



Read This: "Where We Are (after Bede)" by Stephen Dobyns.



Last - Watch this short 6 minute film by Darren Williams called Pentagon Strike and compare it to what you remember about that day or what's been told to you since. WaPo says nothing.





Next: Oil Pipelines.

Jumble

Here is a classic photo of Rummy in Baghdad back in 1983 from the national security archive.





How important is it to report enemy kills on a regular basis? One reason why the civilian death toll is high but is not reported as being high, is that this has been going on from the beginning. A death can't be both an enemy kill and a civilian casualty, can it?



Secrets secrets secrets. No more oversight and accountability in the name of national security. Follow the presidents lead and answer to no one. The people who? We the ones who pay for all of it.



What the fuck is "decline in labor force participation"? Sounds like a bullshit way of saying that unemployment is down even though the number of people without jobs is up. Sure is cognitive dissonance. Fudge some more numbers! It makes America great.



Does the Bush administration run on the Peter Principle and it's addendums (1 2..5)?



I don't think that the president GWB is as dumb as some give him credit for... Seems more like bad breeding.



Remember when Cheney shot his buddy in the face? He wasn't hunting legally. No harm no foul? I would've had to pay the fine.



I didn't know the UN was into using Legos in ad campaigns.



The FGC promotes connectedness in a disconnected world.... Check out the Wombat.



Politics. The environment. Classic Rove. Karl is yet another man in power who expects others to do something he would never do himself.



Tony Snow with some airtight logic on torture. Read more about it in this piece in Slate.



In the name of god. Apparently god punishes the sports franchises of cities that pass gay rights legislation.



Everything that the internet is about could be destroyed. Read up, educate yourself and spread the info. Verizon (gatekeeper) where I live in NY is already offering fiber-optic service at three different speeds for three different prices.



Baghdad Burning. Must read blog from Iraq... An Iraqi girls view of all this madness. Also look at the diary of Saad Eskander, the director of the Iraqi National Library Archive.



Being an activist can and often does cause government to fuck with you.



Hear the last gasps of diversity in media ownwership.



Please. Read the facts. Know whats at stake.

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Big Brother is Watching

I said earlier that we are living in an Orwellian society, (I believe) and one could argue to what degree and nitpick over the details and so forth... But I believe the basic concepts he presented in "1984" are in place already, they just look and smell different. I suppose it's possible to have fun with the situation. Other folks, like NYC's Surveillance Camera Players



try to point out as often as possible that surveillance cameras in public places are a violation of our constitutional right to privacy. Not sure if you get it? Check out this map of the area around Times Square in Manhattan.



Anyway, in the irony of all ironies check out this sign in front of Plaza de George Orwell in Barcelona Spain.



Ahhh, the beauty of streamlined corruption. The Government wants you to know as little as possible about how they spend your money... But, contrarily wants to know anything and everything about what you do with your money. Uncle Sam is not the only one though, so why don't you be a good consumer... Just record everything you buy, and help us help our clients sell you things more effectively.



Remember, Big Brother is watching.



Best Of February 2006 Bonus:

• On an episode of Dallas SWAT, a SWAT team raided a FEMA housing complex in the middle of the night and found that several displaced Katrina victims had a dime-bag of marijuana. episode description is online.
• Drug Czar John Walters kicked off an initiative in Denver this week which appears to have the goal of having every American tested for drug use. ChoicePoint, an Alpharetta, Georgia-based company that sells information in three markets - insurance, business and government, and marketing, has been buying up drug testing companies. What kind of information you ask?

ChoicePoint sells: "claims history data, motor vehicle records, police records, credit information and modeling services...employment background screenings and drug testing administration services, public record searches, vital record services, credential verification, due diligence information, Uniform Commercial Code searches and filings, DNA identification services, authentication services and people and shareholder locator information searches...print fulfillment, teleservices, database and campaign management services..."

Sleep tight.

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More of Berto's Top Hits

An Attorney General Flashback: Who does Alberto Gonzales believe is dumber, Al Qaeda or the American People?

"For weeks and weeks we've heard about how the NYT story on domestic spying damaged national security, but we've never been told why. Biden just asked Gonzales. Gonzales acknowledged that Al Qaeda was probably already aware that we were trying to conduct surveillance on them, but that as long as it wasn't in the newspapers, sometimes they forget." (jesselee www.dccc.org)

Seriously, how can any right-thinking human being buy this shit? It is laughable. In a sad sad way. This is what happens when time after time in case after case George W. Bush has filled the positions in his administration with the loyal and the willing, avoiding the best and brightest at all costs. I think as a nice side project I'll assemble a list of all the cronies and the many fiascos associated with them. I accept that cronyism is a part of politics, it always has been, but THIS FUCKING GUY

is ridiculous.

Flash. Bang. More soon.

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