<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf="http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/" xmlns:admin="http://webns.net/mvcb/"><channel rdf:about="/rss.aspx"><title>Lava Cocktail</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com</link><description /><dc:publisher>Quick Blogcast</dc:publisher><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://app.onlinequickblog.com/" /><items><rdf:Seq><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/14/i-am-angry.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/13/love-and-forgiveness-are-out-of-style.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/11/wall-street-oligarchs-eyeing-social-security.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/10/the-real-reason-obamas-plan-doesnt-include-a-public-option.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/08/kucinich-war-in-afghanistan-privileged-resolution-update.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/02/25/the-near-death-valley-experience.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/02/13/test.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/02/05/a-perfect-mystery.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/02/03/the-red-book--cg-jungs-hidden-magnum-opus.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/24/illuminating-warning.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/20/russian-dna-discoveries.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/17/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/12/frozen-trophy.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/31/curse-of-the-lutefisk.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/18/mink-totems.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/15/4-corners-museum.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/11/cindy-sheehan-speech-in-oslo.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/05/lava-cocktail-hour-artificial-unconscious.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/05/my-trip-to-god-mart.aspx?ref=rss" /><rdf:li rdf:resource="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/04/monsantos-dominance-draws-antitrust-inquiry.aspx?ref=rss" /></rdf:Seq></items></channel><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/14/i-am-angry.aspx?ref=rss"><title>I Am Angry</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/14/i-am-angry.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/rsnpeti.jpg?a=84"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Please sign this petition and forward to your contacts:&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://readersupportednews.org/index.php?option=com_petitions&amp;amp;view=petition&amp;amp;id=192"&gt;http://readersupportednews.org/index.php?option=com_petitions&amp;amp;view=petition&amp;amp;id=192&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;John Cory's powerful essay published on Reader Supported News on March 06, 2010, drew such an overwhelming response from our readership, so many heartfelt comments, that we felt we should give everyone the opportunity to endorse Cory's words and let the Democratic Party have the benefit of our leadership.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;We, the undersigned, agree with the words of author John Cory, and want it to be known that we demand that the Democratic Party act on, and in the spirit of, the mandate provided by our endorsements herein.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I Am Angry&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;By John Cory, Reader Supported News&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;06 March 2010&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I am angry.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm tired of pundits and know-nothing media gasbags. I'm tired of snarky "inside politics" programming. I am sick of the bigotry and hatred of "birthers" and faux patriotic cranks and their GOP puppet masters. And I'm really pissed at the Democratic Party that confuses having a plate of limp noodles with having a spine.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I'm going to vomit if I hear the word "bipartisanship" one more time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;It was "bipartisanship" that gave us this activist conservative Supreme Court. A Supreme Court that says money is free speech and corporations are persons except when real people try to hold them accountable for their greed and poisonous ways.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Bipartisanship" gave us the Patriot Act and FISA and illegal wiretaps and two wars and "free speech zones" and "no fly" lists. God bless bipartisan America.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;I get nauseated every time the Senate explains how it takes a super majority to do anything for the American people. Tell you what Senate Bozos, if it takes 60 votes to pass legislation then it should take 60% of the popular vote to get you elected.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When some Tea Party crank says, "I want my country back," I respond, "No madam, you want your country backward."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When a deficit-mongering politician says, "How do we pay for this?" Why not ask, "What did you Republicans do with the surplus we Democrats left you?"&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When a compassionate conservative says, "Healthcare reform is socialism," why not answer, "No, sir it is the moral and American way to care for people."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Yes, I can hear it now: "You are naïve and simplistic. These are complicated matters and require sophisticated solutions. Democrats are a big tent and strive for balance. But Republicans block our path at every turn. We are thinking and considering new ways to work in harmony with everyone."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Bite me.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The only thing you get with "harmony" is a Barbershop Quartet.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Democrats stop being Republican Lite. Stop whining about that mean GOP and their nasty messaging. Grow a pair, get a message, get a bumper sticker and hang it out there. Get some strong vivid talking points.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;G-O-P = Greed Over People.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Greed Kills - jobs, people and the economy.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Terrorism is Viagra for Republicans: The more fear - the more excited they get.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;When a soldier dies for America, who dares ask if they were gay or straight?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Don't act so shocked, Democratic Party. Have you looked around lately?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You're losing the young vote that showed up to elect Obama. You're losing those old enough to remember real Democrats. Why? Because you don't talk to them any more than you talk to me. You talk at me. You talk around me. You talk down to me. You talk about me. You don't talk with me. And you don't inspire and you don't champion and without that you are nothing more than an arbitrator of compromise and abdication.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You are facing a bully. Deal with it!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Republicans want the country backwards. They champion superstition over science because it entrenches ignorance and bigotry and captures the easily frightened.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Republicans treat the Constitution the way they treat the Bible, with selective interpretation and selective application to others while exempting themselves from judgment and accountability.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Republicans preach the gospel of fear because fear is darkness and darkness covers their theft of civil liberties and Constitutional principles.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;For thirty years the Republican Party has claimed the mantle of law and order but now quake in dread of the American judicial system when putting terrorists on trial. How criminal is that?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Torture is illegal. Period. John Wayne and Jack Bauer were not our Founding Fathers - only in the make-believe world of Republican drugstore-patriots.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;DADT needs to be repealed. Now. It is unconscionable, immoral, and disgusting.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Empathy, compassion and equality are not pejoratives. They are American values proven again and again throughout our history.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Republicans believe that bake-sales and cookies for chemotherapy best determine the value of life and healthcare because life is a pre-existing condition and the "free market" should not have to take on such a high risk - after all, no one gets out alive, so why should the corporation be left holding the bag? Unless of course the price is right.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Republicans believe that government should keep its hands off healthcare but should put its hands inside a woman's body.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Republicans believe in small government - small enough to hold the "right" people and small enough to be owned and operated by the "right" people. And who are the "right" people? Them. Not you.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Democratic Party, DNC, DLCC, DSCC or whatever your acronym - I have only one question for you: Really?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;You can't win against these guys? You can't get your message out against these guys? You can't give America leadership against these guys?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Really?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://readersupportednews.org/index.php?option=com_petitions&amp;amp;view=petition&amp;amp;id=192"&gt;http://readersupportednews.org/index.php?option=com_petitions&amp;amp;view=petition&amp;amp;id=192&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><dc:subject>politics</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-03-14T16:59:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/13/love-and-forgiveness-are-out-of-style.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Antidotes to Fear Addiction</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/13/love-and-forgiveness-are-out-of-style.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;In this podcast, Jaye Beldo shares his experiences with&lt;br&gt;love and forgiveness, fear addiction and a little known&lt;br&gt;Rumi story about Bill O'Reilly.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/Rumi.jpg?a=64" width="184" height="255"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Recommended Flower Essence:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;table class="featured_product_table" width="600" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="center"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr valign="top"&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" style="padding: 0px 10px 0px 15px;" height="496"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.anandaapothecary.com/flower-images/holly.jpg" alt="Holly Flower" style="float: left; margin-right: 10px; vertical-align: middle;" vspace="15" width="128" height="128" hspace="5"&gt;&lt;span class="oil-title"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anandaapothecary.com/english/holly-flower-essence.html#"&gt;Holly Flower Essence:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="featured_items_links"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Positivequalities:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt; Feeling love and extending love to others; universal compassion, open heart. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt; &lt;span class="featured_items_links" style="margin-top: 5px; display: block;"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Patterns of imbalance:&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;Feeling cut off from love; jealousy, envy, suspicion, anger. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt; Above all else, the soul seeks in its evolution to experience real love. This is the most fundamental lesson for the soul, and at the same time the most challenging. Holly flower essence is therefore a foundational remedy with many broad-based applications, for it restores the soul's ability to feel unity and wholeness.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; When we feel separate from others, we can take no joy or compassionate interest in their affairs; instead our isolation is compounded into negative states of jealousy, envy, suspicion or anger. The soul grasps for its share of love as though it were a limited commodity, rather than realizing that love is an infinite resource which is divinely available to all.&lt;br&gt; &lt;br&gt; Holly flower essence nourishes the heart, helping the individual to make and sustain the shift from a limited and narrow conception of the Self, to one which is expansive and inclusive of others. In this way, the soul experiences wholeness or 'holiness', for it feels permeated with divine love. This sense of sacred unity is the very special gift and &lt;nobr&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.anandaapothecary.com/english/holly-flower-essence.html#" class="PSAdLink" id="PSLINK_1_0_0"&gt;teaching&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt; of Holly flower essence. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;em&gt;- from the '&lt;a href="http://www.anandaapothecary.com/aromatherapy-essential-oil-books.html"&gt;Flower Essence Repertory&lt;/a&gt;',by PatriciaKaminsky and Richard Katz. The most comprehensive and user-friendlyflower essence book we've found. Highly recommended for anypractitioner.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td colspan="3" align="center"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;</description><dc:subject>podcast</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-03-13T15:51:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/11/wall-street-oligarchs-eyeing-social-security.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Wall Street oligarchs eyeing Social Security</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/11/wall-street-oligarchs-eyeing-social-security.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;a target="_blank" href="http://onlinejournal.com/artman/publish/article_5604.shtml"&gt;http://onlinejourna&lt;wbr&gt;l.com/artman/&lt;wbr&gt;publish/article_&lt;wbr&gt;5604.shtml&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;
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By Paul Craig Roberts&lt;br&gt;
Online Journal Contributing Writer&lt;br&gt;
Feb 22, 2010&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Hank Paulson, the Gold Sachs bankster/U.S. Treasury Secretary, who
deregulated the financial system, caused a world crisis that wrecked
the prospects of foreign banks and governments, caused millions of
Americans to lose retirement savings, homes, and jobs, and left
taxpayers burdened with multi-trillions of dollars of new U.S. debt, is
still not in jail. He is writing in the New York Times urging that the
mess he caused be fixed by taking away from working Americans the
Social Security and Medicare for which they have paid in earmarked
taxes all their working lives.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Wall Street's approach to the poor has always been to drive them deeper into the ground.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
As there is no money to be made from the poor, Wall Street fleeces them
by yanking away their entitlements. It has always been thus. During the
Reagan administration, Wall Street decided to boost the values of its
bond and stock portfolios by using Social Security revenues to lower
budget deficits. Wall Street figured that lower deficits would mean
lower interest rates and higher bond and stock prices.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Two Wall Street henchmen, Alan Greenspan and David Stockman, set up the
Social Security raid in this way: The Carter administration had put
Social Security in the black for the foreseeable future by establishing
a schedule for future Social Security payroll tax increases. Greenspan
and Stockman conspired to phase in the payroll tax increases earlier
than were needed in order to gain surplus Social Security revenues that
could be used to finance other government spending, thus reducing the
budget deficit.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
They sold it to President Reagan as "putting Social Security on a sound basis."&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Along the way, Americans were told that the surplus revenues were going
into a special Social Security trust fund at the U.S. Treasury. But
what is in the fund is Treasury IOUs for the spent revenues. When the
"trust funds" are needed to pay Social Security benefits, the Treasury
will have to sell more debt in order to redeem the IOUs.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Social Security was mugged again during the Clinton administration when
the Boskin Commission jimmied the Consumer Price Index in order to
reduce the inflation adjustments that Social Security recipients
receive, thus diverting money from Social Security retirees to other
uses.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
We constantly hear from Wall Street gangsters and from Republicans and
an occasional Democrat that Social Security and Medicare are a form of
welfare that we can't afford, an "unfunded liability." This is a lie.
Social Security is funded with an earmarked tax. People pay for Social
Security and Medicare all their working lives. It is a pay-as-you-go
system in which the taxes paid by those working fund those who are
retired.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Currently these systems are not in deficit. The problem is that
government is using earmarked revenues for other purposes. Indeed,
since the 1980s Social Security revenues have been used to fund general
government. Today Social Security revenues are being used to fund
trillion dollar bailouts for Wall Street and to fund the Bush/Obama
wars of aggression against Muslims.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Having diverted Social Security revenues to war and Wall Street,
Paulson says there is no alternative but to take the promised benefits
away from those who have paid for them.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Republicans have extraordinary animosity toward the poor. In an effort
to talk retirees out of their support systems, Republicans frequently
describe Social Security as a Ponzi scheme and "unsustainable.&lt;p&gt;&lt;wbr&gt;"
They ought to know. The phony trust fund, that they set up to hide the
fact that Wall Street and the Pentagon are running off with Social
Security revenues, is a Ponzi scheme. Social Security itself has been
with us since the 1930s and has yet to wreck our lives and budget. But
it only took Hank Paulson's derivative Ponzi scheme and its bailout a
few years to inflict irreparable damage on our lives and budget.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Years ago with stagflation defeated and a rising stock market, I
favored privatizing Social Security as a way of creating a funded
retirement system and producing greater savings and larger incomes for
retirees. At that time Wall Street was interested, not for my reasons,
but in order to collect the fees from managing the funds.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Had Social Security been privatized, I doubt that Wall Street would
have been permitted to deregulate the financial system. Too much would
have been at stake.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
After the latest crisis brought on by Wall Street's dishonesty and
greed, trusting Wall Street to manage anyone's old age pension requires
a leap of faith that no intelligent person can make.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Wall Street has got away with its raid on the public treasury. Now,
pockets full, it wants to pay for the heist by curtailing Social
Security and Medicare. Having deprived the working population of homes,
jobs, and health care, Wall Street is now after the elderly's old age
security.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Social Security, formerly an untouchable "third rail of politics," is now "unsustainable,&lt;wbr&gt;"
while the real unsustainables -- a pre-1929 unregulated financial
system and open-ended multi-trillion dollar Global War Against Terror
-- are the new untouchables.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
This transformation signals the complete capture of American democracy by an oligarchy of special interests.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
Paul Craig Roberts was Assistant Secretary of the Treasury during
President Reagan's first term. He was Associate Editor of the Wall
Street Journal. He has held numerous academic appointments, including
the William E. Simon Chair, Center for Strategic and International
Studies, Georgetown University, and Senior Research Fellow, Hoover
Institution, Stanford University. He was awarded the Legion of Honor by
French President Francois Mitterrand. He is the author of Supply-Side
Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington;
Alienation and the Soviet Economy and Meltdown: Inside the Soviet
Economy, and is the co-author with Lawrence M. Stratton of The Tyranny
of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the
Constitution in the Name of Justice.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:subject>politics</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-03-11T22:21:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/10/the-real-reason-obamas-plan-doesnt-include-a-public-option.aspx?ref=rss"><title>The Real Reason Obama's Plan Doesn't Include a Public Option</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/03/10/the-real-reason-obamas-plan-doesnt-include-a-public-option.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;div class="float_left fixed_width_author"&gt;
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						&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;The reason Robert Gibbs gives for President Obama's &lt;nobr&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-real-reason-obamas-pl_b_473924.html?view=print#" class="PSAdLink" id="PSLINK_1_0_2"&gt;health care&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;
plan not including a public option -- that despite majority voter
support, it can't get 51 Democratic votes in the Senate -- doesn't hold
up. The real reason is that Obama made a backroom deal last summer with
the for-profit hospital industry that there would be no meaningful
public option.&lt;br&gt;
 &lt;br&gt;
This is one of the great under-reported stories of the health reform
saga. Much has been written about the Obama administration's deal with
big Pharma to continue to block &lt;nobr&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-real-reason-obamas-pl_b_473924.html?view=print#" class="PSAdLink" id="PSLINK_2_0_1"&gt;Medicare&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;
from negotiating for lower drug prices or to allow consumers to buy
cheaper drugs from Canada, in exchange for Pharma running
pro-Democratic ads and giving campaign contributions to Democratic
candidates. That's the reason, under pressure from the White House,
that Senate Democrats voted down an amendment that would have allowed
consumers to buy cheaper drugs from overseas.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But Obama's deal with the for-profit hospital lobby to insure there
would be no public option has, as best I can tell, only been reported
in two articles in &lt;em&gt;The New York Times&lt;/em&gt;. On August 13, &lt;em&gt;The Times &lt;/em&gt;reported
that while President Obama had presented himself as "aloof from the
legislative fray," particularly in connection with the public option,
"Behind the scenes, however, Mr. Obama and advisors have
been...negotiating deals with a degree of cold-eyed political realism
potentially at odds with the president's rhetoric." One of the deals
reported in &lt;em&gt;The Times &lt;/em&gt;article was the Pharma deal. The other
was a deal with the for-profit hospital lobby to limit its cost
reductions to $155 billion over 10 years in exchange for a White House
promise that there would be no meaningful public option. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/13/health/policy/13health.html?_r=2&amp;amp;sq=Chip%20Kahn%20Baucus%20public%20option&amp;amp;st=sce&amp;amp;srp=2&amp;amp;pagewanted=print" target="_hplink"&gt;According to &lt;em&gt;The Times&lt;/em&gt;:&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;"Several hospital lobbyists involved in the White House
deals said it was understood as a condition of their support that the
final legislation would not include a government-run health plan
paying-Medicare rates...or controlled by the secretary of health and &lt;nobr&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-real-reason-obamas-pl_b_473924.html?view=print#" class="PSAdLink" id="PSLINK_3_0_0"&gt;human services&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/nobr&gt;.
'We have an agreement with the White House that I'm very confident will
be seen all the way through conference', one of the industry lobbyists,
Chip Kahn, director of the Federation of American Hospitals, told a
Capitol Hill newsletter...Industry lobbyists say they are not worried
[about a public option.] 'We trust the White House,' Mr. Kahn said."&lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Mr. Kahn's lobbying group, with whom the White House made the deal,
represents America's investor-owned, hospitals whose profits could be
diminished by a public option with the negotiating clout to negotiate
lower prices. To say that the deal included ensuring that any public
option would not be "controlled by the secretary of health and human
services" is code for saying it would not be national in scope and
would lack negotiating clout--In other words, the Obama administration
made a deal that a national public option on day one comparable to
Medicare was off the table.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;On September 9, a few weeks after &lt;em&gt;The Times &lt;/em&gt;reported
Obama's deal to gut the public option, President Obama gave his big
health care speech to a Joint Session of Congress. In the speech, Obama
said one of the programs he was considering was a "not-for-profit
public option available in the insurance exchange." Supporters of the
public option took this as a sign that Obama was on their side. &lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;But Washington insiders noticed that Obama parsed his words very carefully. &lt;em&gt;The New York Times &lt;/em&gt;noted that:&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;blockquote&gt;"Mr. Obama's call for a public plan, however, omitted any
discussion of what rates it might pay or who might control it...'He
worded it really carefully, because he said 'not for profit' and he
didn't say it had to be controlled by the government,' Mr. Kahn [the
hospital lobbyist] added. 'The way he described it, we could support
that!" &lt;/blockquote&gt;

&lt;p&gt;In other words, Obama signaled the private health care industry that
his deal that there would be no meaningful public option still stood.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Throughout the process, the White House has given vague statements
supporting the public option -- enough to keep liberals and progressive
on board -- while repeatedly undermining the public option in practice.
Jane Hamsher has &lt;a href="http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2009/10/26/the-history-of-the-conspiracy-to-link-obama-to-triggers/" target="_hplink"&gt;written a useful timeline &lt;/a&gt;of White House efforts to undermine the public option.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;There is no evidence that President Obama has ever twisted the arm
of a single Senator to support a public option and plenty of evidence
that he has assiduously avoided doing so, sending a message to Senators
that he doesn't want a public option. When the Senate passed its
version of the health reform bill, the reason the White House gave for
there being no public option was that it couldn't garner 60 votes. But
Joe Lieberman, who could have been the 60th vote, insists that the
Obama administration never pressured him to support either a public
option or a Medicare buy-in. And Sen. Russ Feingold blamed the demise
of the public option in the Senate on the White House's failure to push
for it.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;Now the White House is saying they're not including a public option
in Obama's plan because they can't get even 51 Democratic votes in the
Senate. Does anyone really believe that if President Obama really
wanted a public option -- if he hadn't dealt the public option away in
a backroom deal with the for-profit hospital industry -- he couldn't
get 51 out of 59 members of the Senate Democratic caucus to vote for it?&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;As a long-time supporter of single payer, I'm not the world's
biggest fan of the public option and I've written about its limitations
in these pages many times, included &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-public-option-in-cong_b_340501.html" target="_hplink"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;.
But at this point, when it comes to health care reform, the Democrats
face a Hobson's choice of their own making between two suboptimal
alternatives. Either they can use reconciliation to pass a &lt;a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/miles-mogulescu/the-democrats-authoritari_b_402146.html" target="_hplink"&gt;defective health care bill &lt;/a&gt;that's
supported by only 1/3 of the voters. Or, as in 1993, they can let
health reform die for this year. The first choice means passing an
unpopular bill, but at least it would show that when Democrats set out
to accomplish something, they actually have the strength to do it. The
second choice means admitting that their year-long efforts to pass
health reform were a failure.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;The most popular aspect of health care reform is the public option,
which is supported by nearly 60% of voters while the overall bill is
supported by only about 33%. Adding a public option to the final
legislation may be the only thing that can boost its popularity among
voters. &lt;/p&gt;

Will the Obama administration continue to cling to its deal with the
for-profit hospital industry to block the public option, even at the
price of public support? Or will it finally release at least 51
Democratic Senators to include a public option in the final bill
through reconciliation? Its decision may be decisive in determining
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				&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi, Dennis here,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This week a privileged resolution will be brought to the floor of
the House of Representatives to make an attempt to try to get America
out of the war in Afghanistan. &lt;/p&gt;


&lt;p&gt;This resolution, which I wrote, requires the President to remove the
troops within 30 days from the time the resolution is passed and no
later than December 31st, 2010. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;There are many reasons why we need to get out of Afghanistan; I'll just name a few.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We're spending hundreds of billions of dollars - total waste -
because the Afghanistan central government is totally corrupt. We have
a thousand troops whose lives have been lost. And many more injured,
some of them permanently. Countless individual Afghanistan citizens
have been killed or injured as a result of this conflict. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We should take heed from the Russian experience in Afghanistan.
Afghanistan is not going to be conquered and we have to understand that
the weight of history has been against our efforts from the start. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now we have to determine whether or not America will take a new
direction in Afghanistan. Not to go in deeper with the surge, but to
get out. That's what is going to be discussed this week in Washington. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please, help us. &lt;a href="http://kucinich.us/afghanistan"&gt;Please, get the word out.&lt;/a&gt;
Please, contact anyone who you think could be influential in getting
members of Congress to pay close attention to this vote. The vote will
occur on Wednesday. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you, as always, for your help and for your determination to see a more peaceful world created. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Thank you.&lt;br&gt;
  Dennis&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;

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&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;A quick scan of my personal library reveals a dust
covered confession: all Jungian books put on the bottom shelves years ago and
deliberately forgotten. The primary motive for relegating them to such a low
caste status stems from&amp;nbsp; my profound disgust with what&amp;nbsp; has been done
with a once vibrant and unique form of psychology.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Jung's living
vision of the psyche has been cookie cuttered into a convenient,&amp;nbsp;suffocating
typology by fame hungry therapists who have willingly taken the depth out of
his depth psychology.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; Such ironic reductionism is ultimately an
attempt to con people into believing that contemporary Jungians somehow have
the ability to understand and adequately map the unconscious through such now
hackneyed&amp;nbsp;phrases as individuation, the numinous, puer/puella and&amp;nbsp;
anima/ animus.&amp;nbsp; Jung no doubt would chastise these opportunists for
bastardizing his work, all in the name of giving themselves an&amp;nbsp;air of
infallible authority and command.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
While fretting about how corrupt Jung's original vision has become in the short
span of 90 years since its inception, someone synchronistically loaned me a
copy of &lt;em&gt;The Red Book: Liber Novus&lt;/em&gt;, a collection of Jung’s astonishing
artwork and&amp;nbsp; calligraphically inscribed journal entries that he wisely
chose to keep hidden for his entire life. Paging through this rather imposing
tome of coffee table book dimensions, it became immediately apparent why he&amp;nbsp;kept
his true magnum opus incognito.&amp;nbsp; If he had put his potent&amp;nbsp; musings
into the public domain early on, he would have been crucified by his colleagues
who would not have been able to handle the power or import of his wondrous
mandalas, masks, mosaic serpents, arabesque sea monsters and other
inter-dimensional wonders he&amp;nbsp; unabashedly filled the book
with.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; They could not have handled Jung’s one on one relation with
the ultimate core of the psyche that lies far beyond analysis and&amp;nbsp;codification.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;The&amp;nbsp; Red Book&lt;/em&gt; should be perused by anyone wary of exploring&amp;nbsp;
Jungian psychology in its current degraded form. Doing so will help one
appreciate how Jung himself had to carefully toe the empirical line in order to
survive total persecution and how he did this by keeping this work
private.&amp;nbsp; It is something we ourselves should do-with our powerful dreams,
visions and insights in order to sufficiently incubate them. &lt;em&gt;The Red Book&lt;/em&gt;
will rightfully remind one that&amp;nbsp; Jung was and will continue to be an
alchemist, esotericist, artist-the very things that cannot be contained by the
dogmatic&amp;nbsp; lexicon that most post Jungians continue to abuse&amp;nbsp; in their
quest to make a profitable, systematic industry out of depth psychology.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;br&gt;
(C)2010-Jaye Beldo&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;br&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><dc:subject>Book Reviews</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-02-04T04:00:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/24/illuminating-warning.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Illuminated Warning</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/24/illuminating-warning.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/flashflood.jpg?a=98"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;from The Fever Chronicles&amp;nbsp; (C)1987-Jaye Beldo&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><dc:subject>Humor</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-01-24T18:57:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/20/russian-dna-discoveries.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Russian DNA Discoveries</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/20/russian-dna-discoveries.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>
  








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&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font color="#336699" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/russian_dna_discoveries.htm"&gt;http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/russian_dna_discoveries.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font color="#336699" face="Verdana"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/bead_aquamarine.gif" width="20" border="0" height="20"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 102, 153);"&gt;All 
information is from the book "Vernetzte Intelligenz" von Grazyna Fosar und Franz 
Bludorf, ISBN 3930243237.&lt;br&gt;
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&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/dna_spiral.gif" width="44" align="right" border="0" height="112"&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: rgb(51, 102, 153);"&gt;Article 
edited and translated from German.&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;
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Summarized and commented by



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The book is unfortunately only available in German so far.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;







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&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"&gt;You can reach the 
authors here: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;strong&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"&gt;Kontext - Forum for Border Science &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"&gt;
&lt;a target="_blank" style="color: black; text-decoration: underline;" href="http://www.fosar-bludorf.com/"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.fosar-bludorf.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span"&gt;www.fosar-bludorf.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span&lt;/a&gt; style="color: rgb(128, 0, 0);"&gt; .&lt;br&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"&gt;Esoteric and spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body 
is programmable by language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically 
proven and explained.&lt;br&gt;
Published for the first time in this website on February 10, 2004.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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          &lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/purple_ball.GIF" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/human_aura.jpg" width="126" align="right" border="0" height="200"&gt;The 
human DNA is a biological Internet and superior in many 
aspects to the artificial one. The latest Russian scientific research directly 
or indirectly explains phenomena such as clairvoyance, intuition, spontaneous 
and remote acts of healing, self healing, affirmation techniques, unusual 
light/auras around people (namely spiritual masters), mind&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;’&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;s 
influence on weather patterns and much more.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/DNAdoublehelicalmolecule.gif" width="450" align="left" border="0" height="450"&gt;In 
addition, there is evidence for a whole new type of medicine in which DNA can be 
influenced and reprogrammed by words and frequencies WITHOUT cutting out and 
replacing single genes. Only 10% of our DNA 
is being used for building proteins. It is this subset of DNA that is of 
interest to western researchers and is being examined and categorized. The other 
90% are considered "junk DNA."&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;The Russian 
researchers, however, convinced that nature was not dumb, joined linguists and 
geneticists in a venture to explore that 90% of "junk DNA." Their results, 
findings and conclusions are simply revolutionary!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;According to there 
findings, our DNA 
is not only responsible for the construction of our body but also serves as data 
storage and communication. The Russian linguists found that the genetic code
—especially 
in the apparent "useless" 90%— 
follows the same rules as all our human languages.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;To this end they 
compared the rules of &lt;strong&gt;syntax &lt;/strong&gt;(the way in which words are put together to 
form phrases and sentences), &lt;strong&gt;semantics&lt;/strong&gt; (the study of meaning in language 
forms) and the basic &lt;strong&gt;rules of grammar&lt;/strong&gt;. &amp;nbsp;They found that the alkalines of 
our DNA follow a regular grammar and do have set rules just like our languages. 
Therefore, human languages did not appear coincidentally but are a reflection of 
our inherent DNA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;The Russian 
biophysicist and molecular biologist Pjotr Garjajev and his colleagues also 
explored the vibrational behavior of DNA.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In brief the bottom line was: 
"Living chromosomes function just like a holographic computer using endogenous DNA 
laser radiation." This means that they managed, for example, to modulate certain 
frequency patterns (sound) onto a laser-like ray which influenced DNA frequency 
and thus the genetic information itself.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Since the basic 
structure of DNA-alkaline 
pairs and of language (as explained earlier) is of the same structure, no DNA 
decoding is necessary. One can simply use words and sentences of the human 
language! This, too, was experimentally proven!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Living DNA substance (in living tissue, not in vitro) will 
always react to language-modulated laser rays and even to radio waves, if the 
proper frequencies (sound) are being used. &lt;strong&gt;This finally and scientifically 
explains why affirmations, hypnosis and the like can have such strong effects on 
humans and their bodies. &lt;em&gt;It is entirely normal and natural for our &lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;
&lt;strong&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;DNA 
to react to language.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;While western 
researchers cut single genes from DNA strands and insert them elsewhere, the 
Russians enthusiastically created devices that influence cellular metabolism 
through modulated radio and light frequencies, thus repairing genetic defects.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;They even captured 
information patterns of a particular DNA and transmitted it onto another, thus 
reprogramming cells to another genome. So they successfully transformed, for 
example, frog embryos to salamander embryos simply by transmitting the DNA 
information patterns! This way the entire information was transmitted without 
any of the side effects or disharmonies encountered when cutting out and 
re-introducing single genes from the DNA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;This represents an 
unbelievable, world-transforming revolution and sensation: by simply applying 
vibration (sound frequencies) and language instead of the archaic cutting-out 
procedure!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;This experiment 
points to the immense power of wave genetics, which obviously has a greater 
influence on the formation of organisms than the biochemical processes of 
alkaline sequences.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Esoteric and 
spiritual teachers have known for ages that our body is programmable by 
language, words and thought. This has now been scientifically proven and 
explained.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Of course the 
frequency has to be correct. And this is why not everybody is equally successful 
or can do it with always the same strength. The individual person must work on 
the inner processes and development in order to establish a conscious 
communication with the DNA.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;The Russian 
researchers work on a method that is not dependent on these factors but will 
ALWAYS work, provided one uses the correct frequency. But the higher developed 
an individual's consciousness is, the less need is there for any type of device: 
one can achieve these results by oneself. &amp;nbsp;Science will finally stop laughing at 
such ideas and will confirm and explain the results. And it doesn't end there.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;The Russian 
scientists also found out that our DNA can cause disturbing patterns in a 
vacuum, thus producing magnetized wormholes!&amp;nbsp; Wormholes are the microscopic 
equivalents of the so-called Einstein-Rosen bridges in the vicinity of black 
holes (left by burned-out stars).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;These are tunnel 
connections between entirely different areas in the universe through which 
information can be transmitted outside of space and time. The DNA attracts these 
bits of information and passes them on to our consciousness.&amp;nbsp; This process of 
hyper-communication (telepathy, channeling) is most effective in a state of 
relaxation.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Stress, worry or a 
hyperactive intellect prevent successful hyper-communication or the information 
will be totally distorted and useless. In nature, hyper-communication has been 
successfully applied for millions of years. The organized flow of life in 
insects proves this dramatically. Modern man knows it only on a much more subtle 
level as "intuition."&amp;nbsp; But we, too, can regain full use of it.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/culona_ant1.gif" width="200" align="right" border="0" height="100"&gt;As 
an example from nature, when a queen ant is separated from her colony, the 
remaining worker ants will continue building fervently according to plan.&amp;nbsp; 
However, if the queen is killed, all work in the colony stops. No ant will know 
what to do. Apparently, the queen transmits the "building plans"&amp;nbsp;even if far 
away —via 
the group consciousness with her subjects. She can be as far away as she wants, 
as long as she is alive.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;In humans, 
hyper-communication is most often encountered when one suddenly gains access to 
information that is outside one's knowledge base.&amp;nbsp; Such hyper-communication is 
then experienced as inspiration or intuition (also in trance channeling). The 
Italian composer Giuseppe Tartini, for instance, dreamt one night that a devil 
sat at his bedside playing the violin. The next morning Tartini was able to note 
down the piece exactly from memory.&amp;nbsp; He called it the Devil's Trill Sonata.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;For years, a 
42-year old male nurse dreamt of a situation in which he was hooked up to a kind 
of knowledge CD-ROM. Verifiable knowledge from all imaginable fields was then 
transmitted to him that he was able to recall in the morning. There was such a 
flood of information that it seemed a whole encyclopedia was transmitted at 
night. The majorities of facts were outside his personal knowledge base and 
reached technical details of which he knew absolutely nothing. When 
hyper-communication occurs, one can observe in the DNA, as well as in the human, 
supernatural phenomena.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;The Russian 
scientists irradiated DNA 
samples with laser light. &amp;nbsp;On screen, a typical wave pattern was formed.&amp;nbsp; When 
they removed the DNA sample, the wave pattern did not disappear, it remained. 
Many controlled experiments showed that the pattern continued to come from the 
removed sample, whose energy field apparently remained by itself. This effect is 
now called phantom DNA effect.&amp;nbsp; It is surmised that energy from outside of space 
and time still flows through the activated wormholes after the DNA 
was removed. The side effects encountered most often in hyper-communication in 
humans are inexplicable electromagnetic fields in the vicinity of the persons 
concerned.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Electronic devices 
like CD players and the like can be irritated and cease to function for hours. 
When the electromagnetic field slowly dissipates, the devices function normally 
again.&amp;nbsp; Many healers and psychics know this effect from their work:&amp;nbsp; the better 
the atmosphere and energy, the more frustrating it can be for recording devices 
as they stop functioning at that exact moment.&amp;nbsp; Often by next morning all is 
back to normal.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Perhaps this is 
reassuring to read for many, as it has nothing to do with them being technically 
inept; it means they are good at hyper-communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;In their book &lt;em&gt;
Vernetzte Intelligenz&lt;/em&gt;, Grazyna Gosar and Franz Bludorf explain these 
connections precisely and clearly. The authors also quote sources presuming that 
in earlier times humanity had been just like the animals: very strongly 
connected to group consciousness and thereby acted as a group.&amp;nbsp; In order to 
develop and experience individuality, however, we humans had to forget 
hyper-communication almost completely.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Now that we are 
fairly stable in our individual consciousness, we can create a new form of group 
consciousness —namely 
one in which we attain access to all information via our DNA 
without being forced or remotely controlled about what to do with that 
information. We now know that just as we use the internet, our DNA can feed 
proper data into the network, can retrieve data from the network, and can 
establish contact with other participants in the network. Remote healing, 
telepathy or "remote sensing" about the state of another can thus be explained. 
Some animals know from afar when their owners plan to return home. This can be 
freshly interpreted and explained via the concepts of group consciousness and 
hyper-communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Any collective 
consciousness cannot be sensibly used over any period of time without a 
distinctive individuality; otherwise we would revert to a primitive herd 
instinct that is easily manipulated.&amp;nbsp; Hyper-communication in the new millennium 
means something quite different.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;
Researchers 
think that if humans with full individuality would regain group consciousness, 
they would have a god-like power to create, alter and shape things on Earth! AND 
humanity is collectively moving toward such a group consciousness of the new 
kind.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;font color="#333399"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;Fifty percent of 
children will become a problem as soon as they go to school, since the system 
lumps everyone together and demands adjustment. But the individuality of
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"&gt;
&lt;a href="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/indigoes.htm"&gt;&lt;font color="#333399"&gt;today's children&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font color="#333399"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt; is so strong that they refuse this 
adjustment and resist giving up their idiosyncrasies in the most diverse ways.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;font color="#333399"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt;At the same time 
more and more &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: maroon;"&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/indigoes.htm"&gt;
&lt;font color="#333399"&gt;clairvoyant children&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font color="#333399"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"&gt; are born.&amp;nbsp; 
Something in those children is striving more towards the group consciousness of 
the new kind, and it can no longer be suppressed.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;As a rule, weather 
for example is rather difficult to influence by a single individual. But it may 
be influenced by group consciousness (nothing new about this to some indigenous 
tribes). Weather is strongly influenced by Earth resonance frequencies (Schumann 
frequencies). But those same frequencies are also produced in our brains, and 
when many people synchronize their thinking or when individuals (spiritual 
masters, for instance) focus their thoughts in a laser-like fashion, then it is 
not at all surprising that they can influence the weather.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;
&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;A 
modern day civilization which develops group consciousness would have neither 
environmental problems nor scarcity of energy:&amp;nbsp; for if it were to use such 
mental powers as a unified civilization, it would have control of the energies 
of its home planet as a natural consequence.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;When a great 
number of people become unified with higher intention as in meditating on peace
—potentials 
of violence also dissolve.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Apparently, DNA is also an organic superconductor that can work 
at normal body temperature, as opposed to artificial superconductors which 
require extremely low temperatures between -200 and -140°C to function.&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; In 
addition, all superconductors are able to store light and thus information. This 
further explains how DNA can store 
information.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;There is another 
phenomenon linked to DNA 
and wormholes. Normally, these super-small wormholes are highly unstable and are 
maintained only for the tiniest fractions of a second. Under certain conditions 
stable wormholes can organize themselves, which then form distinctive vacuum 
domains in which for example, gravity can transform into electricity. Vacuum 
domains are self-radiant balls of ionized gas that contain considerable amounts 
of energy.&amp;nbsp; There are regions in Russia where such radiant balls appear very 
often.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Following the 
ensuing confusion the Russians started massive research programs leading finally 
to some of the discoveries mentioned above. Many people know vacuum domains as 
shiny balls in the sky. The attentive look at them in wonder and ask themselves, 
what they could be.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;I thought once: 
"Hello up there.&amp;nbsp; If you happen to be a UFO, fly in a triangle." And suddenly, 
the light balls moved in a triangle. Or they shot across the sky like ice hockey 
pucks: they accelerated from zero to crazy speeds while sliding silently across 
the sky. One is left gawking and I have, as many others, too, thought them to be 
UFOs. Friendly ones, apparently, as they flew in triangles just to please me.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/aura1.jpg" width="296" align="right" border="0" height="400"&gt;Now, 
the Russians found —in 
the regions where vacuum domains often appear— 
that sometimes fly as balls of light from the ground upwards into the sky, and 
that these balls can be guided by thought. &amp;nbsp;Since then it has been found that 
vacuum domains emit waves of low frequency that are also produced in our brains 
and because of this similarity of waves they are able to react to our thoughts. 
To run excitedly into one that is on ground level might not be such a great 
idea, because those balls of light can contain immense energies and are capable 
of mutating our genes.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Many spiritual 
teachers also produce such visible balls or columns of light in deep meditation 
or during energy work, which trigger decidedly pleasant feelings and do not 
cause any harm. Apparently this is also dependent on some inner order, quality 
and origin of the vacuum domain. There are some spiritual teachers, like the 
young Englishman Ananda, for example, with whom nothing is seen at first, but 
when one tries to take a photograph while they sit and speak or meditate in 
hyper-communication, one gets only a picture of a white cloud on a chair.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;In certain Earth 
healing projects, such light effects also appear on photographs. Simply put, 
this phenomena has to do with gravity and anti-gravity forces that are ever more 
stable forms of wormholes and displays of hyper-communication with energies from 
outside our time and space structure. Earlier generations that experienced such 
hyper-communication and visible vacuum domains were convinced that an angel had 
appeared before them:&amp;nbsp; and we cannot be too sure to what forms of consciousness 
we can get access when using hyper-communication.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p class="MsoNormal"&gt;
&lt;span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; color: rgb(51, 51, 153);"&gt;Not having 
scientific proof for their actual existence, people having had such experiences 
do NOT all suffer from hallucinations.&amp;nbsp; We have simply made another giant step 
towards understanding our reality. Official science also knows of gravity 
anomalies on Earth that contribute to the formation of vacuum domains.&amp;nbsp; Recently 
gravity anomalies have been found in Rocca di Papa, south of Rome.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;font color="#333399" size="2"&gt;
&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.luisprada.com/Protected/IMAGES/yellow_bullet.gif" width="14" border="0" height="14"&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:subject>Innovation</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-01-20T14:29:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/17/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust.aspx?ref=rss"><title>The Right Testicle of Hell: History of a Haitian Holocaust</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/17/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;h2&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/the-right-testicle-of-hell-history-of-a-haitian-holocaust/" rel="bookmark"&gt;

        &lt;strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;
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      &lt;div class="dateOnPost"&gt;&lt;br&gt;
        Sunday, January 17, 2010      &lt;/div&gt;

      

        &lt;p&gt;&lt;font size="3"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Blackwater before drinking water&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;by Greg Palast&lt;/em&gt; for &lt;em&gt;The Huffington Post&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gregpalast.com/images/iceland_cr.png" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.gregpalast.com/images/iceland_cr.png" alt="long way" style="margin-right: 5px;" width="400"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Click on image to enlarge&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;p&gt;1.&lt;br&gt;
Bless the President for having rescue teams in the air almost
immediately. That was President Olafur Grimsson of Iceland. On
Wednesday, the AP reported that the President of the United States
promised, "The initial contingent of 2,000 Marines could be deployed to
the quake-ravaged country within the next few days." "&lt;em&gt;In a few days&lt;/em&gt;," Mr. Obama? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;2.&lt;br&gt;
There's no such thing as a 'natural' disaster. 200,000 Haitians have
been slaughtered by slum housing and IMF "austerity" plans.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;3.&lt;br&gt;
A friend of mine called. Do I know a journalist who could get medicine
to her father? And she added, trying to hold her voice together, "My
sister, she's under the rubble. Is anyone going who can help, anyone?"
Should I tell her, "Obama will have Marines there in 'a few days'"?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;4.&lt;br&gt;
China deployed rescuers with sniffer dogs within 48 hours. &lt;em&gt;China&lt;/em&gt;, Mr. President.  &lt;em&gt;China&lt;/em&gt;:  8,000 miles distant.  Miami:  700 miles close.  US bases in Puerto Rico:  &lt;em&gt;right there&lt;/em&gt;.  &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;5.&lt;br&gt;
Obama's Defense Secretary Robert Gates said, "I don't know how this
government could have responded faster or more comprehensively than it
has." We know Gates doesn't know. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;6.&lt;br&gt;
From my own work in the field, I know that FEMA has access to
ready-to-go potable water, generators, mobile medical equipment and
more for hurricane relief on the Gulf Coast. It's all still there.&lt;span id="more-3272"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
Army Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who served as the task force commander for
emergency response after Hurricane Katrina, told the Christian Science
Monitor, “I thought we had learned that from Katrina, take food and
water and start evacuating people." Maybe &lt;em&gt;we&lt;/em&gt; learned but, apparently, Gates and the Defense Department missed school that day.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;7.&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Send in the Marines&lt;/em&gt;. That's America's response. That's what
we're good at. The aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson finally showed up
after three days. With what? It was dramatically deployed — without &lt;em&gt;any&lt;/em&gt; emergency relief supplies.  It has sidewinder missiles and 19 helicopters.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;8.&lt;br&gt;
But don't worry, the International Search and Rescue Team, fully
equipped and self-sufficient for up to seven days in the field,
deployed immediately with ten metric tons of tools and equipment, three
tons of water, tents, advanced communication equipment and water
purifying capability. They're from Iceland.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;9.&lt;br&gt;
Gates wouldn't send in food and water because, he said, there was no
"structure ... to provide security." For Gates, appointed by Bush and
allowed to hang around by Obama, it's &lt;em&gt;security first&lt;/em&gt;.  That was &lt;em&gt;his&lt;/em&gt; lesson from Hurricane Katrina.  Blackwater before drinking water.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;10.&lt;br&gt;
Previous US presidents have acted far more swiftly in getting troops on
the ground on that island. Haiti is the right half of the island of
Hispaniola. It's treated like the right testicle of Hell. The Dominican
Republic the left. In 1965, when Dominicans demanded the return of Juan
Bosch, their elected President, deposed by a junta, Lyndon Johnson
reacted to this crisis rapidly, landing 45,000 US Marines on the
beaches to prevent the return of the elected president.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;11.&lt;br&gt;
How did Haiti end up so economically weakened, with infrastructure,
from hospitals to water systems, busted or non-existent - there are &lt;em&gt;two&lt;/em&gt;
fire stations in the entire nation - and infrastructure so frail that
the nation was simply waiting for "nature" to finish it off? &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Don’t blame Mother Nature for all this death and destruction. That
dishonor goes to Papa Doc and Baby Doc, the Duvalier dictatorship,
which looted the nation for 28 years. Papa and his Baby put an
estimated 80% of world aid into their own pockets - with the complicity
of the US government happy to have the Duvaliers and their voodoo
militia, Tonton Macoutes, as allies in the Cold War. (The war was
easily won: the Duvaliers’ death squads murdered as many as 60,000
opponents of the regime.) &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;12.&lt;br&gt;
What Papa and Baby didn't run off with, the IMF finished off through
its "austerity" plans. An austerity plan is a form of voodoo
orchestrated by economists zomby-fied by an irrational belief that
cutting government services will somehow help a nation prosper. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;13.&lt;br&gt;
In 1991, five years after the murderous Baby fled, Haitians elected a
priest, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, who resisted the IMF's austerity
diktats. Within months, the military, to the applause of Papa George HW
Bush, deposed him.&lt;br&gt;
History repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce. The farce was
George W. Bush. In 2004, after the priest Aristide was re-elected
President, he was kidnapped and removed again, to the applause of Baby
Bush.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;14.&lt;br&gt;
Haiti was once a wealthy nation, the wealthiest in the hemisphere,
worth more, wrote Voltaire in the 18th century, than that rocky, cold
colony known as New England. Haiti's wealth was in black gold: slaves.
But then the slaves rebelled - and have been paying for it ever since.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;From 1825 to 1947, France forced Haiti to pay an annual fee to
reimburse the profits lost by French slaveholders caused by their
slaves’ successful uprising. Rather than enslave individual Haitians,
France thought it more efficient to simply enslave the entire nation.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;15.&lt;br&gt;
Secretary Gates tells us, "There are just some certain facts of life
that affect how quickly you can do some of these things." The Navy's
hospital boat will be there in, oh, a week or so. Heckuva job, Brownie!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;16.&lt;br&gt;
Note just received from my friend. Her sister was found, dead; and her
other sister had to bury her. Her father needs his anti-seizure
medicines. That's a fact of life too, Mr. President.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;***&lt;br&gt;
&lt;em&gt;Through our journalism network, we are trying to get my friend's
medicines to her father. If any reader does have someone getting into
or near Port-au-Prince, please contact &lt;a href="mailto:haiti@gregpalast.com"&gt;Haiti@GregPalast.com&lt;/a&gt; immediately.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Urgently recommended reading -&lt;/em&gt; The Black Jacobins: Toussaint L'Ouverture and the San Domingo Revolution, &lt;em&gt;the history of the successful slave uprising in Hispaniola by the brilliant CLR James.&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:subject>politics</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-01-17T22:55:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/12/frozen-trophy.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Conceptual Trophy</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2010/01/12/frozen-trophy.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/deer.JPG?a=39" width="579" height="386"&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;</description><dc:subject>Art</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2010-01-12T21:36:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/31/curse-of-the-lutefisk.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Curse of the Lutefisk</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/31/curse-of-the-lutefisk.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>by &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Jaye Beldo&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.lavacocktail.com"&gt;www.lavacocktail.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/Lutefisk1.jpg?a=3" width="201" height="150"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;An Acquired Taste: Lutefisk&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;Prior to a Vikings game at the old Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington in 1967,&lt;font class="Arial-13px402885b"&gt; &lt;/font&gt;a well meaning Samaritan named Sven Larson tried entering said facility with a case of Lutefisk he intended to give away to fans as a goodwill gesture, one he hoped would insure the&amp;nbsp; team a Superbowl win that year.&amp;nbsp; However, security guards prevented Sven from entering, primarily because of the strong odor the jellied codfish was giving off and which they feared other fans would find most offensive.&amp;nbsp; As the irate Norwegian walked back towards the parking lot, he turned around and proclaimed for all to hear, that the Vikings would be forever cursed and that they would never win a Superbowl until the end of time.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/vikingslog.jpg?a=20"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Obviously Sven Larson's Lutefisk curse has worked quite well in the last 43 years, as the Minnesota Vikings have failed a total of &lt;strong&gt;four times&lt;/strong&gt; to win the coveted title.&amp;nbsp; It is even rumored that field goal kicker Gary Anderson, who missed a critical three point try in the 1998 Superbowl game, after a flawless season, caught a whiff of the dreaded fish just before making his field goal attempt that surely would have secured a win for the team if he had made it.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/svena.jpg?a=79" width="140" height="168"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;font size="1"&gt;Sven Larson: "The Vikings will&lt;br&gt;never win a Super Bowl!"&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Like the Curse of the Billy Goat waged on the Chicago Cubs by tavern owner&amp;nbsp; Billy Sianis in 1945 at Wrigley Field, the Lutefisk curse will need the help of curse breaking experts, if not a full out exorcism of the Metrodome stadium and whatever stadium is built in the future for the Vikings, for the curse will&amp;nbsp; follow the team wherever it goes, even if it is sold and moved to another state.&amp;nbsp; A little know fact amongst die hard Vikings fans is that the real reason the Metropolitan Stadium was torn down in the first place, was not to make room for the the Mall of America, but rather a desperate attempt to break the Lutefisk Curse.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/metropolitanstadium.jpg?a=36" width="261" height="156"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;While the Vikings continue to show signs of weakening, esp. after the critical loss to the Chicago Bears last Monday and millions of devout fans pray for another Superbowl chance for the team, the Lutefisk curse will most likely persist,&amp;nbsp; at least until the soul of Sven Larson finds peace at last and he is allowed to bring his malodorous delicacy into whatever afterlife stadium he so chooses to enter.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;(C)2009-Jaye Beldo&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:subject>blog</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-31T18:28:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/18/mink-totems.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Mink Totem</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/18/mink-totems.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>While XC skiing on a frozen lake today, I caught sight of a mink who then quickly slinked into a hollow log which I peered into.&amp;nbsp; When I remembered a previous encounter years ago, I backed away.&amp;nbsp; A dog of mine had squared off with one in a rock pile and it was vicious, hissing like a banshee and baring its razor point teeth.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The following is from:&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/weasel.htm"&gt; &lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/weasel.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/weasel.htm"&gt; &lt;font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"&gt;&lt;font size="2"&gt;&lt;font color="#008000"&gt;www.linsdomain.com/totems/pages/weasel.htm&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;table&gt; &lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td width="310" height="20"&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.linsdomain.com/totems/pictures/weasel.jpg" width="300" border="0" height="309"&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;    &lt;td width="390" height="20"&gt;      &lt;p align="center"&gt;		&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;		&lt;font size="4" color="#800000"&gt;Deep, old magic of the dark,&lt;br&gt;		Warrior balance of the light,&lt;br&gt;		Teach that evil lies within,&lt;br&gt;		Never in the day or night.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calligraph421 BT;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;		&lt;/font&gt;      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;    &lt;td colspan="2" width="690" height="20"&gt;      &amp;nbsp;&lt;/td&gt;  &lt;/tr&gt;  &lt;tr&gt;    &lt;td colspan="2" width="690" height="20"&gt;      &lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center"&gt;		&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calligraph421 BT&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Stealth,      Silent Observation&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;		&lt;p class="MsoNormal" align="center"&gt;		&lt;font size="4"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: Calligraph421 BT;"&gt;The Weasel 		totem family includes Ermines, Minks and Ferrets.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/p&gt;      &lt;p align="center"&gt;		&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calligraph421 BT&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;This totem is a      difficult power totem to have.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;      It is a rare gift and great ability. &lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;      Weasel medicine can teach you to find out secrets through the power of      silent observation.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&amp;nbsp; 		&lt;/font&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;      &lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;		&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calligraph421 BT&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Most Weasel people are      loners, graceful, solitary and silent.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;      &lt;/span&gt;They are very intelligent.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;      People do not see their power immediately and often underestimate them.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;span style=""&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/font&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p align="center"&gt;		&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Calligraph421 BT&amp;quot;;"&gt;&lt;font size="4"&gt;Weasel totem will      awaken your innate ability for observation.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp;      &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;      Trust your own instincts and you will avoid trouble and pursue your goals      to greatest success.&lt;span style=""&gt;&amp;nbsp; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br&gt;      Use your Weasel medicine to observe what or who needs attention &lt;br&gt;      and offer assistance in your quiet or discreet way.&lt;/font&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><dc:subject>Spirit in Nature</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-18T17:07:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/15/4-corners-museum.aspx?ref=rss"><title>4 Corners Museum</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/15/4-corners-museum.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>In the '80's I came across this unusual 'museum' and recently resurrected the footage.  Enjoy:






&lt;object width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8205973&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff9933&amp;amp;fullscreen=1"&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=8205973&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff9933&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="400" height="300"&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/8205973"&gt;4 Corners Museum&lt;/a&gt; from &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/user1875510"&gt;Lava Cocktail&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com"&gt;Vimeo&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;</description><dc:subject>Art</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-16T00:45:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/11/cindy-sheehan-speech-in-oslo.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Cindy Sheehan Speech in Oslo</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/11/cindy-sheehan-speech-in-oslo.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;object width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/APtT9Ovigss&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/APtT9Ovigss&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xb1b1b1&amp;color2=0xcfcfcf&amp;hl=en_US&amp;feature=player_embedded&amp;fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowScriptAccess="always" width="425" height="344"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;



&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;a href="http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/cindy-sheehan-how-dare-you/"&gt;http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/2009/12/10/cindy-sheehan-how-dare-you/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Below is the text of the speech Cindy gave at the “true peace” event this evening in the very cold, evening air of Oslo, Norway.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;“Hello friends! I have three words for the Nobel committee and for my president: ´how dare you!´&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How
dare the committee give the Peace Prize (which will be known from here
forward as the ´Peace Prize´) to Obama and how dare he accept it?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How dare the committee legitimize the war crimes and other crimes of the Bush regime by rewarding Obama for continuing them?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The
committee said that Obama ordered the closure of Guantanamo prison,
while it remains open and the torture policies have been broadened and
expanded to Bagram in Afghanistan!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How dare they award the
´Peace Prize´to a man who they say wants to reduce nuclear arms, but is
waging a terrifying nuclear war in the Middle East by using weapons
coated with depleted uranium that is causing a sharp rise in cancers
and birth defects there?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;How dare they award the prize to a man
who they claim exemplifies American Values when those values are war,
torture, environmental degradation, and drone bombing abroad and
environmental and economic ruin at home?&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This `Peace Prize`to
Obama was nothing but a slap in the face to people in Iraq,
Afghanistan, Pakistan, Palestine, Iran, North Korea, Colombia,
Honduras, Venezuela and anywhere that Obama´s boot of Empire is
crushing or threatening to crush.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This ´Peace Prize´ is a slap
in the fact to parents like myself whose child has been killed in the
Bush/Obama wars, now approved of by ´Peace committees.´&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;This award was a slap in the face to us–we who have been sacrificing and struggling for true peace for years.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If
you listened really carefully to the speeches today–with ears not
clogged by the hope-nosis of Empire–you heard Obama say ´War is
Peace´and you heard the clarion call of the international Robber Class,
that the only way to peace is through war, war, and more war! The
Robber Class has told us, once again, that there is no other way! War
is the only way!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Well, I join with you in solidarity today to
tell the Robber Class: Bullshit, we reject such stinking thinking and
we reject the ´honors´of the establishment as we say to them: `We
refuse to play your violent games!´&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;If they want awards, they
can give them to each other. If they think that killing children is
´Peace,´then they can send their own and leave ours the hell alone! If
they want their wars then they can fight them their selves!&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;The
violent extremists of the world just rewarded themselves for their
crimes in an orgy of self-congratulatory pageantry, but I want to say
that I have not one enemy here or in Iraq, Afghanistan or Pakistan.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;My
only enemy is yours too, the violent extremists of the world´s Robber
Class and we must join together to fight them, not fight in their wars,
to bring true and lasting peace.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Thank you for inviting me here and giving me the honor of addressing true peace warriors!”
</description><dc:subject>Politics</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-12T01:50:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/05/lava-cocktail-hour-artificial-unconscious.aspx?ref=rss"><title>Lava Cocktail Hour: Artificial Unconscious</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/05/lava-cocktail-hour-artificial-unconscious.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/lavalogobannercopy.jpg?a=37" width="303" height="77"&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;In this podcast, Jaye Beldo delves into the possibility that&lt;br&gt;the so called unconscious mind is fabricated, a form of&lt;br&gt;frequency jamming inserted into human consciousness&lt;br&gt;designed to cause us to self sabotage:&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><dc:subject>Lava Cocktail Hour</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-06T01:19:00Z</dc:date></item><item rdf:about="http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/05/my-trip-to-god-mart.aspx?ref=rss"><title>My trip to God Mart</title><link>http://blog.lavacocktail.com/2009/12/05/my-trip-to-god-mart.aspx?ref=rss</link><description>&lt;strong&gt;Here are some groovy pics I took today @ Hurley's Religious &lt;br&gt;Supplies store in Fargo, N.D.:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/fargo3.jpg?a=78" width="367" height="489"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Insert caption here:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/fargo2.jpg?a=15" width="360" height="480"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Call on her when you desire world peace!&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;img src="http://images.quickblogcast.com/105927-98700/fargo4.jpg?a=53" width="364" height="485"&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Cheaper by the Dozen&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;div&gt; &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br&gt;</description><dc:subject>Travelogues</dc:subject><dc:creator>lava@lavacocktail.com (Lava Cocktail)</dc:creator><dc:date>2009-12-05T21:40:00Z</dc:date></item></rdf:RDF>