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Dalai Lama
The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual.
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Good story - more renewable - more sustainable - easier recycling - replace packaging with bamboo - Dell computers ---
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When will managers and accountants look at where real savings are possible? - Ford spends 34% more on advertising (not even counting dealer advertising) than it does on labor - but where does it look for savings? - labor - why? - at least partly because it is visible and easier - GM is worse yet - and remember that car sales numbers are meaningless - cars count as sold when they leave the plant even though they may sit on dealers' lots for a year - transparency? - forget it - also examples of the idiocy of being concerned about minimum wage levels - paying more means less turnover and more employee concern for product - I thought this was a good look at reality v-a-v idiocy - which is reflected too much in our Congress - I have trouble understanding why/how Congress complains about government workers and then thinks they will get better results with cutting wages ---
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Should the FDA become an independent agency like the FED? - less political? - out of the control of the White House? - I'm not so sure - the FED seems to be more controlled by the Corporate Financial Sector than Main Street - what would happen to the FDA? - more Health Sector (corporate) control? - I think the solution is to give more weight to the scientific basis for decision - decrease overrule by the political side ---
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But then this - we may not want anything like the FED in health - Bloomberg said the FED bailout was 7.7 trillion including loan guarantees etc. - now someone says its really 29 trillion - the truth? - who knows - ya picks yo data - assumptions - conclude - regardless - its over the top - Main Street has essentially received zero in comparison - I think accountability is not present - all done by unelected people - is Ron Paul is right? ---
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Bill Moyers in a preface to a book - makes the case for a constitutional amendment to say that corporations are not persons - we the people must fight back ---
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Jim Hightower - says it differently but - it depends on us ---
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A third party? - the Justice Party - Rocky Anderson - former mayor of Salt Lake City - was able to make significant progress in one of the most conservative states - I'm not sure a third party is the right solution but - we do need action on the issues he raises ---
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Jim Hightower - don't call Newt a lobbyist - call him what he is - an influence peddler ---
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Greed - money - inequality - to say this country has no money - to do - to invest - is ridiculous - we just aren't accessing it - 10 greediests Americans? - what more can one say? ---
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Did you say inequity? - more - CEOs - greatest increase ever ---
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Inequality? - greed? - should we tax churches/religion? - I think yes ---
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Banks are back to financial alchemy - are we heading for another 'bubble'? - relationship to reality? - zero ---
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Arab Spring - military exercises - why do we continue to strengthen despots? - repressive governments? - provide advanced training and cooperation to governments concerned about unrest? - i.e. - pro-democracy protests - blowback? - from where will it come? ---
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Why were the Oakland police so violent against the Occupiers? - they trained with Israeli and Bahrain forces - militarization/Israelification of our security forces - civil rights? - yeah - right ---
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Retina scans? - security state? - voluntary but - you will be punished if you don't 'submit' - bad if it happens in other countries - OK here - huuhhhh?? ---
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Inhumanity - children chained and beaten - religious center - Pakistan - ignorance is a major cause of inhumanity - Black Magic? ---
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Self 'abortion'? - prison? - what's next? - wire hangers? - I think that the minimum for any so called 'pro-life' person should be to advocate for free healthcare for all pregnant women and children under five - it would decrease abortions and be pro-life rather than just pro-birth ---
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Bad to worse - Mai Lai redux - massacre in Iraq - documentation ---
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Iraq - the war is dead - Pepe Escobar - satire? - sarcasm? - success? - whatever ---
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Cartoons:
Shock and Awe ---
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Reality? - ignorance? ---
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Republican presidential race - reality ---
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Presidential race - gawd help us ---
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Allies ---
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30s/50s - slow down for the holidays
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