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"It's time to break free of the false dichotomy of ballots or bullets. This workshop will explore non-electoral, nonviolent strategies to decrease the state's ability to coerce us and increase our own powers of resistance."
"From every sector of America's political spectrum that contains people still capable of thinking rationally arise denunciations of the recently enacted Military Commissions Act. Beyond any doubt, major portions of that statute are blatantly unconstitutional. Beyond any doubt, through those portions of the statute the individuals now controlling Congress and the Executive Branch have in effect declared war on constitutional government in this country. But the question remains: NOW WHAT?!"
http://www.newswithviews.com/Vieira/edwin48.htm
"Several months ago, I wrote a column here about the case of Cory Maye, a man in Mississippi on death row for shooting the son of the local town police chief during a botched drug raid. … Cory Maye shouldn't be in prison. His reprieve from the death chamber is a good start (perhaps the best benefit of that is that he'll now be able to actually touch his children when they visit, something he hasn't been permitted to do for two-and-a-half years while on death row)."
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,219042,00.html
"According to the National Center for Education Statistics, 31 percent of homeschooling parents are concerned about the environment of other schools; 30 percent choose to homeschool for religious reasons and 16 percent are dissatisfied with academic instruction. ... There are hundreds of ways to homeschool. The Hobbs use classical methodology and have a schoolroom where the majority of schoolwork takes place. The Coopers use the unschooling method-they don't use a particular curriculum program and have school anywhere, anytime. Many homeschoolers participate in a co-op or swap classes with other parents who have different strengths."
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1815&dept_id=59849&newsid=17306948&PAG=461&rfi=9
"My impression is that much of the public wants authoritarian rule, or would be perfectly content with it if it even noticed its arrival. No, I can't prove it. But what do most people care about beyond television on screens that grow ever larger, beyond porn, beer, and the competitive purchase of grander SUVs? I ask this not as a lifelong curmudgeon being tiresome (though doubtless I am both) but seriously. Who in a sprawling TV-besotted country cares about the Constitution? A comfortable police state is after all comfortable."
http://www.fredoneverything.net/BushPower.shtml
"The crimes signal, to me, the proximity of a great impenetrable moral singularity, a black hole of monstrosity, whose gravitational pull on our splintering, shivering civilization is only increasing. We orbit closer and closer to the event horizon of final disintegration, when all will have been stripped away."
http://www.thornwalker.com/ditch/lights146.htm
"Marijuana advocate Ed Rosenthal, who successfully appealed his federal convictions for growing plants for a San Francisco medical marijuana club, was indicted again Thursday on an expanded set of charges, including filing false tax returns and money laundering."
http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/10/13/BAGTFLOQH31.DTL
"A document first disclosed last December by NBC News showed that the military had maintained a database, known as Talon, containing information about more than 1,500 'suspicious incidents' around the country in 2004 and 2005. Dozens of alerts on antiwar meetings and peaceful protests appear to have remained in the database even after analysts had decided that they posed no threat to military bases or personnel."
http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/1013-01.htm
"Those who wonder if it is possible for people to live in a condition of anarchy need look no further than the example of the Amish. These people refuse to have any dealings with the state – except for the taxes they are forced to pay – and respect the inviolability of one another’s person or property interests. Their contracts with one another are grounded in nothing more than mutual promises to perform. Their system of protection and security is found in one another, not in institutions. Anyone who deviates from Amish community standards need fear no jails, fines, beatings, or confiscation of their property: the neighbors will simply refuse to deal with them – to withhold their approval – until the offender reforms."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/shaffer/shaffer146.html
"Society is the answer to our problems: the fashioning of markets, communities, networks, and organizations on a voluntary basis, allowing people the freedom to experiment, innovate, band together, and part ways based on their own interests and judgment. We defend our families by allying ourselves with our neighbors, hiring agents among a proven pool of open competitors, and sharing information and advice. Protecting children is best accomplished by the people who understand the stakes: parents and communities."
"When the cop turns on his lights and pulls you over for failure to wear a seat belt, are you going to ignore him, or pull over? I will pull over. I will do this only because I understand that this person is a savage who has the will and intent to do anything, up to and including killing me, to enforce his or her wishes on me. "
http://www.strike-the-root.com/62/nonentity/nonentity3.html
"Since 1973, we have seen government grab powers, increase taxes, and regulate wealth out of existence. However, despite the growth of government and the continued debasement of the once-proud dollar by the Federal Reserve System, entrepreneurs and producers have still managed to make breathtaking achievements and to provide opportunities for others."
http://www.mises.org/story/2325
"Given Iraq's recent history, these groups are fighting each other because they fear that the new central government will be used to oppress whatever group or groups are not in power. The only way to ease their fears is to make the central government weak or nonexistent."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1829
"If you were a Sunni, having watched government-allied death squads kill and ethnic-cleanse your people, would you accept a piece of paper that said that this government will now give you one third of Iraq's oil revenues if you disarm?"
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15177998/site/newsweek/
"It is not inevitable that every society must organise itself as a state. There have been successful stateless societies in the past, and may be again. The nation-state's day may well be passing, as absolute monarchy, chattel slavery, and other institutions once claimed to be essential to civilisation have largely passed."
"If I were the dictator of my own little country, I'd concentrate much of my defense resources on a nuclear program. That's because I know I'd get my butt whipped in a conventional war, and I know that the United States would be inclined to invade my country because I wouldn't play ball in the War on Drugs, allow American troops on my soil, or let my country be controlled by World Bank and IMF hit men. But that's why nuclear weapons are so important. If I have nukes, they couldn't mess with me."
http://independentcountry.blogspot.com/2006/10/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and.html
The Military Commissions act vs. The Bill of Rights, who wins? Not you! Video w/audio
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UntkKtyUKk
"Americans do not think about their government or their leaders in historical terms. Without this historical perspective, we do not recognize the imminent end to our once proud history of individual liberty. We may blame the last president, or the one to come, but the already widespread American acceptance of a 'legal' and 'appropriate' unitary executive has put several heavy nails into the coffin of the Republic. ... Two legs of the American disaster are already defined -- a peculiar type of bigmanism in Washington, and pervasive -- and strangely popular -- policies that have encouraged mass pauperism at home and in our occupied territories, and nationalization and militarization of economies we control."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/kwiatkowski/kwiatkowski162.html
"President Bush has once again decreed that his personal pen is the highest law of the land. In a statement issued on October 4, 2006, he announced that he would ignore many provisions of the Homeland Security appropriations act he signed earlier in the day. His action vivifies that the rule of law now means little more than the enforcement of the secret thoughts of the commander in chief."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610c.asp
"Sensenbrenner angrily recoiled at the proposed disappearance of the Great Writ and forced Ashcroft to strike it from the Patriot Act. Five years later, Sensenbrenner helped shepherd through Congress the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which prevents detainees held by us anywhere in the world, not only at Guantanamo, from having lawyers file habeas petitions in our courts concerning their conditions of confinement."
http://villagevoice.com/news/0641,hentoff,74664,6.html
"At least 41 American troops have been killed in Iraq this month. Approximately 300 have been wounded. The "battle for Baghdad" is going nowhere. A Marine friend just back from Ramadi said to me, "It didn’t get any better while I was there, and it’s not going to get better." Virtually everyone in Washington, except the people in the White House, knows that is true for all of Iraq. Actually, I think the White House knows it too. Why then does it insist on 'staying the course' at a casualty rate of more than one thousand Americans per month? The answer is breathtaking in its cynicism: so the retreat from Iraq happens on the next President's watch. That is why we still fight."
http://www.lewrockwell.com/lind/lind110.html
"The Republican electoral strategy thus rests on two pillars: on Bush's reported private quip during the 2004 campaign, 'You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you have to concentrate on,' while keeping the rest distracted, divided, and on the defensive; and on the opposition party's tearing itself apart trying to devise a positive alternative policy, with some leaders, including Hillary Clinton, still endorsing John Kerry's message in 2004, The Bright Promise of Letting Us Handle Iraq Better. "
http://amconmag.com/2006/2006_10_09/cover.html
"In fact, what we are seeing today is just a logical continuation of a foundation laid during the Clinton era. Before the now well-known Patriot Act there was The Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which was signed into law following the Oklahoma City bombing."
http://brickburner.blogs.com/my_weblog/2006/10/bye_bye_civil_l.html
"The fact that so few questions and criticisms were raised about an election so obviously tainted illustrates that, for most of the American media, 'democracy' is simply whatever the U.S. government says it is. The same newspapers that would have denounced similar abuses in an East Bloc regime or in a Third World tin-horn dictatorship embraced and broadcast the Bush administration's ludicrous claims."
http://www.fff.org/freedom/fd0607c.asp
"Population growth does not require bigger government and higher taxes, either. Paying for roads, schools, and medical care are problems today not because we have too many people, but because the government is so heavily involved in providing those services. Notice we never worry about who will pay for the new houses, grocery stores, gas stations, and shopping malls that accompany a growing population. The market supplies those goods and services, efficiently and abundantly, and we eagerly pay for what we get."
http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=6729
"While U.S. government purchasing media is believed by many to be a governmental monopoly, in fact there are several local currencies which circulate, as well as local exchange trading systems which use the US dollar as the unit of account but do not use US dollars as the medium. There have also been private liberty dollars issued by the National Organization for the Repeal of the Federal Reserve Act and the Internal Revenue Code (NORFED) company, started in 1998 by Bernard von NotHouse. Each Liberty Dollar is a silver certificate, a transferable warehouse paper receipt backed by 1/20th of a troy ounce of silver."
http://www.freeliberal.com/archives/002354.html
"Who says there are 'too many' immigrants? In 1910, immigrants constituted 14 percent of the U.S. population; today, the proportion is 11 percent. Who says immigrants don't speak English? Nine out of 10 are bilingual and the second generation speaks better English than Spanish. Who says most immigrants get more in government services than they pay in taxes? According to the National Academy of Sciences, the average immigrant, over the course of a lifetime, will pay $80,000 more than he or she will get in government services."
http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=1830
"Conventional wisdom has long held that humans hide all signs of ovulation, even from themselves and their mates. Indeed, numerous scientific studies have been devoted to identifying what the evolutionary advantage might be to disguising fertility. Yet the study, which publishes Oct. 10 in the online version of the scholarly journal Hormones and Behavior, found that even total strangers could detect a difference in women's grooming habits when they approached ovulation."
http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?RelNum=7328
"Maybe capitalism is associated with entrenched wealth and power precisely because entrenched wealth and power have worked so hard through the state to entrench themselves. Most of American capitalism's departures from the free-market ideal have been on behalf of those interests. That it is not impossible for an upstart entrepreneur to succeed must not blind us to the systemic protectionism (subsidies, licensing, taxes, regulations, patents, tariffs) that reduces the forces of competition and shelters incumbents from the dynamism Phelps admires."
http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=843
"[C]orporatism is not capitalism, and there is no inherent rivalry between the great corporations and the national governments. Indeed, such a rivalry is impossible, since corporations are nothing more than creations of the state, artificial persons created from the clay of legalese and given life in the form of a tax identification number by the secretary of state. As children of the state, they are subject to their masters and helpless before them.... The true relationship between government and corporation is a symbiotic one, with the latter often acting as an agent of the former in preying upon the wealth of the population."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52348
"Crude is almost always weak in the fourth quarter, and the price had gotten ahead of itself in recent months--not surprising, given Israel and Lebanon going to toe-to-toe. But the timing of oil's decline also coincides with another event: U.S. mid-term elections. Although these two things sound unrelated, oil and politics in fact go hand in hand. In fact, there is an eye-opening correlation between U.S. president George Bush's popularity and American gasoline prices over the past four years."
http://www.financialsense.com/editorials/casey/2006/0928.html
"Trevino claimed she had given birth to a child after the divorce and sued Barreras for child support, claiming he was the father. This fraud dissolved in 2004, when it was finally discovered that there was no such child. But Barreras, who works as a corrections officer in law enforcement, was forced to spend the ensuing years trying to make the New Mexico courts and child welfare service even look at evidence that the child for whom he was paying support did not exist."
http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,219497,00.html
"Judging by all this, one might certainly think that for the foreseeable future American society is in a fight for its life. But if one views American life more broadly, one sees a dramatic disconnect with Bush's words and assertions of power. America doesn't feel like it's under siege. 'Everything' hasn’t changed since 9/11. When he's not stoking the war rhetoric, Bush -- inconsistently -- is telling us to go about our normal lives. And that is quite easy to do. We are issued no ration tickets. There is no military draft. And no special wartime restrictions hamper our movement or other activities. For now at least, we can speak our minds even in dissent."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610b.asp
"Randolph Bourne once sagely noted that 'war is the health of the state,' by which he meant that war is particularly fertile soil for growing government power. ... At the beginning of WWII, the US government was powerful but on a par with a half-dozen other states. But the war enabled it to reinvent itself as the centrepiece of American society and the controlling force in the economy."
http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/article/12102006.html
"And so Rumsfeld joins the roster of Bush Regime boardroom honchos who once trumpeted their 'business savvy' as selling points for their aspirations to national leadership but now claim to have been 'hands-off' figureheads who had no idea what their companies were up to. "
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=877&Itemid=135
"Since power corrupts, we cannot trust the ones with power. Then how can we trust them with the weapons to protect us from foreign threats; especially since we are at the same time forcefully disarmed by our 'protectors.' The real question here is: Can we trust political power with weapons to destroy us and our earth? Can government be trusted?"
"Over the centuries of struggle against royal tyranny, the English people came to the realization that rights were meaningless unless they could be enforced against government officials who jailed them for exercising them. Moreover, the English people had learned what our American ancestors had learned -- that the greatest threat to people's fundamental rights and freedoms lay not with foreign enemies but rather with their own government officials. ... Thus, the English people demanded and got the Habeas Corpus Act of 1679, which stated that 'the writ of Habeas Corpus cannot be denied.' A hundred years later, Americans, who had just a few years before been Englishmen who had revolted against their own government, inserted a similar restriction in the U.S. Constitution."
http://www.fff.org/comment/com0610d.asp
"For twenty years, as the stock market and then the housing market boomed in the U.S. (and around much of the rest of the world), easy money--of the paper variety, that is--was seen as a good thing. Savings were out, speculation was in, and the Greenspan Fed kept on priming the pump, dropping interest rates close to zero. The worlds of finance and politics are now so entwined that even presidents are merely 'serving their vested interests,' says Jim, 'those who put them in power, which are the bankers. Because once you break the link with the bankers, the government doesn’t have the ability to borrow whatever it wants.' Neither party wants this particular dance to end, as government gets to inflate rather than tax and banks get to ring up the profits."
http://www.caseyresearch.com/displayArchiveArticleWwnk.php?id=221
"{T}he recently passed Military Commissions Act removes the United States from the ranks of civilized nations. It codifies racial and political discrimination, legalizes kidnapping and torture of those the government deems its political enemies, and eliminates habeas corpus--the ancient precept that prevents the police from arresting and holding you without cause--a basic protection common to all (other) modern legal systems, and one that dates to the Magna Carta."
http://www.uexpress.com/tedrall/index.html?uc_full_date=20061010
"Meanwhile, Continental Congress had repeatedly assured anyone who would listen that the continental currency would one day be redeemed at its face value, and that it was 'derogatory' to the Congress's honor that anyone would spread rumors to the contrary. In March 1780, Congress announced a plan for redeeming the currency at one-fortieth of its face value. So much for Congress's honor."
http://www.mises.org/story/2340
"When asked about the report, President Bush stated: 'I don't consider it a credible report.' Bush, of course, is not reality-based, and he knows that any unfavorable news is 'enemy propaganda.' That's what the neocons who pull his strings tell him, and that is what he believes. What percentage of these 655,000 deaths were insurgents or 'terrorists'? Probably 1% and no more than 2%. Bush's 'war on terror' is, in fact, a war on Iraqi civilians."
http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts10122006.html
"If the Johns Hopkins study is 'politics,' then it is an oddly ineffective effort: it is hardly politic to imply that your own side is engaged in mass murder on a scale approached by only the worst regimes of the modern era. The U.S. military has steadfastly refused to maintain Iraqi body counts: for obvious reasons, they'd rather we didn't know how many Iraqi souls have been permanently 'liberated' from their bodies. ... And the hypocrisy! Here, after all, is a nation that was supposed to be 'liberated' -- and, instead, it has been turned into a slaughterhouse. Whatever the numbers, that is the cruel reality."
http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=9854
"Around 655,000 people have died in Iraq as a result of the US-led coalition invasion, according to the largest scientific analysis yet. That is 2.5% of the country's entire population. The study was conducted by US and Iraqi scientists to determine how many Iraqis have died since the invasion in March 2003. "
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn10276?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn10276
"Born on my country's birthday in 1946, I had grown up in the shadow of the Cold War after the great victory of World War Two. Both my mother and father had served in the Navy during that war. It was where they met and were married, and we their children were to be called the 'Baby Boom.' It was a beautiful time, a time of innocence, a time of patriotism, a time of loyalty, conformity and obedience. The threat of Communism was everywhere. We did not question. We did not doubt. We believed and we trusted our leaders. America was always right. How could we ever be wrong? We were the most powerful nation on earth and we had never lost a war, but all that was to change, all that was to be shattered in Vietnam."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/101206O.shtml
"Though he was concerned with political topics, his hope was a world without politics, which to him meant a world without the coercion inherent in all collective action. It was his own creative interpretation of the message of his intellectual mentors, among which he counted Ludwig von Mises."
http://www.mises.org/freemarket_detail.asp?control=362
"The first war tax resistance 'how to' guide, Handbook on Nonpayment of War Taxes, was published by Marion and Ernest Bromley in 1963. Bromley participated in the first meeting of the National War Tax Resistance Coordinating Committee in 1982."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marion_Bromley
" In 1957 he teamed up once again with Leonard Bernstein on a musical he had been discussing with him and playwright Arthur Laurents for some years: West Side Story, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet set against a background of gang warfare in New York’s Puerto Rican ghetto. Directed by Robbins, with his electrifying street-smart choreography integrated into the action, West Side Story was arguably the first 'concept musical'; it broke the mold of the Broadway show and also established Robbins's reputation as a perfectionistic, difficult taskmaster -- a reputation that was one factor in his dismissal as director of the 1961 film version. He won an Academy Award for his direction nonetheless -- sharing the Oscar with co-director Robert Wise -- as well as one for choreography."
http://jeromerobbins.org/bio-vaill.htm
"Lennon had a brilliant sense of humour and a deeply romantic heart. He could be cruel and unbelievably kind; he could love you one minute and destroy you with his tongue a few minutes later."
http://www.john-lennon.com/bio.htm
Historical action / adventure stars Patrick Bergin, Uma Thurman, Jürgen Prochnow, Jeroen Krabbé; screenplay by Sam Resnick and John McGrath, directed by John Irvin. "1991 brought the release of two separate movie productions of the tale of Robin Hood. I've seen them both. In my opinion this film easily surpasses the other in direction, sets, script and performances. However, the other film had stars with bigger names at the time. In many respects this film ranks as highly as the 1938 classic Technicolor version.”
http://endervidualism.com/agora/robin_hood_1991.htm
"Far from being a free nation, the United States is regulated to the point of absurdity. National identification cards, internal borders, RFID chips in money - why is the government so intent on monitoring its own citizens? Is it to combat terrorists or fellow Americans who realize they've been raked over the coals? We torture our own citizens, we eavesdrop on their conversations and their e-mails. We spend money we don't have to fight for freedoms abroad that we no longer enjoy here."
http://www.thesimon.com/magazine/articles/canon_fodder/01250_america_freedom_fascism.html
"Shortly before the old Robert Heinlein was dead, the New York Times's Gerald Jonas anointed Spider Robinson 'the new Robert Heinlein.' For almost 20 years now -- Jonas's review of Robinson's Mindkiller was printed in 1988 -- you cannot pick up one of Robinson's books without seeing this pull-quote splashed across its cover. Problem is, of course, is that it's not true. Which isn't to speak ill of either Heinlein or Robinson's vast bodies of work. But to compare one to the other is to lessen both."
http://www.bookslut.com/specfic_floozy/2006_10_010051.php
First verse: "A viper lived in Johnny's house, so all in the family understood that they must watch their steps although the snake had not struck -- they knew it could." Happy ending.
http://www.lewrockwell.com/higgs/higgs49.html
The nuclear test will be a boon to North Korea's economy, which is tribute based. [Or if Comedy Central's player doesn't work for you, YouTube has this longer cut.]
http://www.comedycentral.com/sitewide/media_player/play.jhtml?itemId=76476
"The poll, which was conducted by the University of Minnesota's Opinion Research Institute and asked likely voters to rate one hundred different professions according to their ethics, showed congressmen near the bottom of the list, besting only crack dealers and lawyers."
http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6603&srch=
"Instant Messaging to Victory" -- animated Flash cartoon video w/audio
http://www.markfiore.com/animation/messaging.html
"Following a recent ruling by a U.S. District Court that blocked the sale of 1.7 million acres of federally protected caribou, President Bush urged Congress Tuesday to pass an appropriations bill that would enable expanded drilling of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge's animals."
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/53924
"Things go wrong because of human stupidity; things get worse when stupidity is mixed with pride, greed, envy, or some other 'deadly sin.' And that is how organizations 'go wrong.' Human organizations function best when the people involved are committed to the procedures and purpose of the organization. If the organization loses its focus it could become bloated and collapse on its own weight."
http://partialobserver.com/article.cfm?id=1983
"[R]ealize -- as she realized -- that this stark barbarism is not confined to the Kremlin. It's a living virus in our common human nature, it's always mutating into new forms, adapting itself to whatever local conditions it finds then pushing and pushing to spread and dominate. It's in all of us, this destructive urge toward the Other, this primitive yearning to eradicate and 'cleanse' those whom our brains lock onto as enemies. As we fight it and transcend it in ourselves, we must fight it and transcend it in our societies."
http://www.chris-floyd.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=882&Itemid=135
"Proponents of torture present a false choice between tortured intelligence and no intelligence at all. There is, in fact, a well-established American alternative to torture that we might call empathetic interrogation. U.S. Marines first used this technique during World War II to extract accurate intelligence from fanatical Japanese captives on Saipan and Tinian within forty-eight hours of landing, and the FBI has practiced it with great success in the decades since."
http://www.progressive.org/mag_mccoy1006
"[I]f the invasion of Poland was a crime against peace when Adolf Hitler and high-ranking German officers and diplomats planned and executed it in 1939, then (to cite but one example) surely the invasion of Iraq, when planned and committed in 2001-2003 by George W. Bush, Tony Blair, John Howard and their military and diplomatic subordinates, is no less a crime against peace? ... Whether waged by Nazis or neocons, a pre-emptive war is necessarily a crime against peace."
http://www.quebecoislibre.org/06/061008-2.htm
"Such coordination of emotions, cardiovascular reactions or brain states between two people has been studied in mothers with their infants, marital partners arguing and even among people in meetings. Reviewing decades of such data, Lisa Diamond and Lisa Aspinwall, psychologists at the University of Utah, offer the infelicitous term 'a mutually regulating psychobiological unit' to describe the merging of two physiologies into a connected circuit. To the degree that this occurs, Diamond and Aspinwall argue, emotional closeness allows the biology of one person to influence that of the other."
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/11/healthscience/snsocial.php
"[W]hat's striking is that governments with nuclear weapons have decided not to use them even when the victims would have been countries whose governments had no nuclear weapons. And this happened, argues Schelling, because a taboo against nuclear weapons gradually grew and took hold."
http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=9818
"To spell out the truth would illuminate the collusion of an entire political class. Instead, the shameless neither-fish-nor-fowl tribunes speak and write incessantly of a 'mistake,' a 'blunder,' even a Shakespearean tragedy (for the war criminal, not his victims). From their studios and editorial offices, they declare the mendacious and dishonest banalities of their unclad emperor 'brilliant'."
http://www.johnpilger.com/page.asp?partid=414
"Bandages containing fluids secreted by maggots could help accelerate the body's healing process, research suggests. Live maggots are sometimes applied to chronic wounds because they eat dead tissue, but leave healthy tissue alone, boosting healing. But now it has been demonstrated that the fluids produced by maggots also contain enzymes that actually accelerate tissue repair."
http://www.newscientisttech.com/article/dn10260?DCMP=NLC-nletter&nsref=dn10260
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