Phantasmix (aka Re: money)

Here’s a few things that caught and held my attention for a few minutes today.

Mexicans are being encouraged to reclaim a piece of Texas, more than 150 years after they lost the Lone Star state to the United States.

Texan estate agents are heading south of the border to drum up the interest in buying cut-price land and property in the foreclosure-hit state.

Source: Telegraph

Funny.

The debut of powerful atom-smasher

The most powerful atom-smasher ever built could make some bizarre discoveries, such as invisible matter or extra dimensions in space, after it is switched on in August.

This collider, called the largest scientific experiment in history, is expected to begin test runs in August.

But some critics fear the Large Hadron Collider could exceed physicists’ wildest conjectures: Will it spawn a black hole that could swallow Earth? Or spit out particles that could turn the planet into a hot dead clump?……

….CERN team this month issued a report concluding that there is “no conceivable danger” of a cataclysmic event

Can’t you tell that the lawyers wrote this report? So these scientists have no idea what might happen, but there’s no “conceivable danger”. In other words, there is danger, they just can’t imagine what it might be.

I can’t stand any of the current U.S. presidential candidates in the running, disgusting lying puppets. Today I learned that Obama’s election campaign slogan is “Change you can vote for”. It’s really a pretty loaded and clever sentence “change you are allowed to vote for” is another way of putting it (but I’m biased).

Still can’t believe Americans don’t vote directly for candidates. Supposedly un-democratic Russia or just about all ex-USSR member countries have a system where you can have 15 or 20 or whatever number of candidates from numerous parties in existence there. And you vote directly for the party, and directly for the candidate. Not for a representative of the representative, and not one of the two available parties, often having to pick “the lesser of two evils”.

Dwight McDonald (American writer, editor, social critic, philosopher, and political radical) wrote:

“Americans often imagine that facts are solid, concrete and distinct objects like marbles, but they are far from this. Rather, they are subtle essences full of mystery and metaphysics, which change form, color and sense according to the context in which they are presented. They must always be treated with skepticism, and the judgment must be based not on the number of facts that can be mobilized in support of an opinion, but on a skillful discrimination between them and the objectivity with which they are treated to arrive at the truth, which is something altogether different from the facts, although there is some connection between them.”

I don’t think it’s fair to say that only Americans are like that. Most other people prefer clarity as well.

Below is a modified clip from the movie “Network”, cut out from documentary “Zeitgeist”.

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/169/petition-to-stop-bill-c51

Proposed by the conservative government this bill will severely restrict natural products, and heavily favours pharmaceutical drugs.

Even if you’re personally not interested in taking vitamins/supplements, please recognize this as a personal freedom-limiting law and protest. You don’t have to be a Canadian to sign the petition.

Does this seem reasonable to you?

Canada’s Police State Bill C51 Camouflaged as a Health Bill

Under Bill C-51 the State could:
· Enter private property without a warrant
· Take your property at their discretion
· Dispose of your property at will
· Not reimburse you for your losses
· Seize your bank accounts without a warrant
· Charge owners shipping and storage charges for seized property
· Store your property indefinitely
· Levy fines of up to $5,000,000.00 and/or seek 2 years in jail per charge
· Will not have to report seizures to a court.
· They can charge you just for talking about or promoting natural alternatives

Bill C-51 full text

politician, noun
1: a leader engaged in civil administration
2: a person active in party politics
3: a schemer who tries to gain advantage in an organization in sly or underhanded ways

This third definition is usually omitted from modern dictionaries. Older ones would sometimes say “see also liar“.

This insanity is contagious, please vote and stop it.

Bill C-33 provides a $2.2 billion subsidy for biofuels and requires that all gasoline include 5% biofuel content by 2010.

Yet there is increasing evidence to show that the rush to biofuels will do more environmental harm than good. And converting food crops to fuel, amidst a serious food crisis, is increasing food prices and speculation.

This is putting food further out of reach of millions of hungry people and is a “crime against humanity,” says United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, Jean Ziegler.

Any day now, Bill C-33 could come up for 3rd and final reading and vote in Parliament.

Please write immediately and ask Opposition Parties to vote NO to Bill C-33. If your MP is a Liberal, this is especially important, as they are split on the issue.

I highly recommend this video: http://www.storyofstuff.com/

It’s only 20 minutes long, and is very amusing, quite amazing, and in the end - just shocking.