...Congress cuts unemployment benefits. I disagree with the writer’s assertion that the Democrats “wanted to continue” unemployment benefits. Are you kidding me? These are the same people going along with Third Way mentality that wants to end New Deal social programs….
…meanwhile, they budgeted $500 Billion for the defense budget….a budget that should be reigned in, because they have too many contractors, too much waste, (want to find money to support the jobless, give food to the hungry, and find homes for the homeless? $430 MILLION in cutting waste is a place to start) and an NSA that is running amok.
There is just something very, very wrong when a country spends more money to kill people than save them.
<sigh> Well, folks, if you were feeling a little more secure about our Constitution with the last court ruling on NSA surveillance...think again.
As the commenters said, I wonder what kind of dirt the NSA has on Judge William Pauley. There is no way on Earth that this is in keeping with the Fourth Amendment:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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This bears repeating: No warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause supported by oath or affirmation, particularly describing the place to be searched and the persons or things to be seized.
Probable cause is required for searching a person, their houses, papers, and effects. A court must agree that there is probable cause in order for the agency to violate someone’s privacy.
This amendment protects a person from a government abusing its power, as we saw in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, and China. People who are not doing anything wrong have a right to be let alone.
The more I learn about the gut and neurological health, the more amazed I am at the intricate workings of our miracle bodies…and how spot on Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride is with the GAPS diet…
I’ve been all over the ‘net this morning, reading blog after blog on probiotics. One linked to this post on the gut-brain-skin axis.
Some of this is over my head, but it appears that probiotics help reduce inflammation after a heart attack.
Here’s a good paper on the connection between probiotics and the brain. It is so interesting that fermented food, like sauerkraut, can contain acetylcholine, a neurotransmitter. Blows me away.
This blog has a recipe for GAPS yogurt. Since I was very sensitive at first, I gave up on yogurt. I tried making my own according to another member’s method of putting it in an electric skillet on low heat, but didn’t have satisfactory results. It could have been that I didn’t use yogurt starter, but rather, used store-bought kefir. I found out later that this brand, an expensive organic brand, was putting the live cultures back in after processing it.
Yeah, that’s not going to work.
I like her idea of using raw milk. But since obtaining raw milk is a crime…I’ll have to go through the Mafia to get some. /super snarky
She talks about using her food dehydrator for growing the culture, but I thought it might be easier to use a yogurt maker. I looked at several brands, and they had automatic shutoffs at 6-10 hours, which is waaaay too short a time to allow the cultures to develop…but there was this one that follows GAPS, too. Not having tried it, I’m not able to give any kind of review on its ease of use or reliability.
You might remember this post with a quote that says the words “third way”. Not long after I posted it, Ed on the Ed Show (MSNBC) mentioned the Third Way. I can’t remember exactly what he said, but it was negative and the segment intrigued me.
I’ve just now gotten around to doing a bit of research on Third Way. Whew…do you smell a rat?? Me, too.
Red flags are going off with Elizabeth Warren being attacked by supposed Democrats for…speaking out against selling us out to the 1% by cutting Social Security and other social programs….calling them “populist”. Um-hmmm…that and the word “entitlement” are key words for the “I’ve-got-mine-screw-you” crowd.
Now, getting back to the previous post with Hillary Clinton’s religious leader saying those words: third way…and how they wanted to do away with New Deal programs:
It emerged, he [Reverend Don Jones] says, as a third way, a reaction against both separatist fundamentalism and the New Deal’s labor-based liberalism.
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Social Security. Public Schools. Medicaid. Medicare. Public employees like fire fighters, police. Public Libraries. A decent living wage.
I know that it’s hard to believe they want to destroy it all, but all signs are pointing towards that very end.
Please, please run for President, Elizabeth. Please!! I’ll go knocking on doors…whatever needs done to help get you votes. Hillary Clinton is nothing but a Goldwater Girl doing the dirty work of the bankers, warmongers, education profiteers, Big Oil, Monsanto, and no doubt countless other organizations that don’t give a crap about Americans or America, the poor, the elderly, the children, the environment, nor the middle class.
Wisconsin, bless their little hearts, have drafted a resolution that they are a “TPP-free” zone. The negotiations have been shielded from public scrutiny but the article states that bits have leaked out and…it’s scary as hell–a Monsanto lobbyist is leading the negotiations.
From the article:
Countries, including those in the European Union, could also find it increasingly difficult to ban, or even require the labeling of, genetically modified organisms (GMOs) if biotech companies determine that those countries’ strict policies restrict fair trade and infringe on the companies’ “rights” to profit.
To top it off, corporations would be allowed to resolve trade disputes in special international tribunals, effectively wiping out hundreds of domestic and international food sovereignty laws. Products labeled fair trade, organic, country-of-origin, animal-welfare approved, or GMO-free, could all be challenged as “barriers to trade.”
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It’s an attack on local autonomy….the right to decide what is best for your community.Good Grief, these corporations can.not.get.enough.profits. Greed, greed, greed.
Look at this segment on ABC News on the ruling that what the NSA is doing is Unconstitutional.
Just the wording alone is alarmist:
CIA Spy Ruling Could Be a Major Setback for the War on Terror
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The segment states that this is a victory for Edward Snowden. (!)
Wow. Just wow. Journalists…er, um, people who get a paycheck pretending to be journalists…who didn’t do their job in the first place, making it imperative for someone else–in this case Edward Snowden–to do what they should have been doing are putting this as a victory for him.
Instead, they should be saying this is a victory for our democracy.
This is a victory for upholding our Constitution.
They frame it as a blow to the war on terror when, as the judge states, there is no evidence that this has saved lives.
And eavesdropping on friendly countries…? How is that helping the war on terror? Is Angela Merkel a terrorist?
Idle No More has a virtual “teach-in” up on the web (scroll down) by Sharon Venne. It’s a really interesting piece on the historical treatment of the indigenous and how s-l-o-w-l-y their culture and their land has been “disappeared”.
As she says in her talk, it goes on over such a slow period of time, that one doesn’t realize what is happening until it’s almost too late….like the frog put in a pan of water that the heat is turned up so slowly that the frog doesn’t realize it’s being boiled to death.
It’s really worth watching it all the way through–she has such a good story to tell of her own struggle to get an education. She tells the story of not being able to read until going to university. (By the way, Literacy Volunteers are out there to help folks learn to read–check with your local library). She was continually kept in stress mode by them not sending her monthly stipends on time so she could pay her rent. God Bless the administrator who helped her.
She makes an important point at about 29:00 minutes in– of what sounds like the precursor to “corporations are people, too”. If anything, we need to pay better attention to what is going on in other countries…especially to the poor and minorities…because it seems to be a worldwide power grab–given that there have been austerity measures all over the globe and attacks on teacher’s unions and such. More here.
Deutsch29 has an excellent blog up on the *cough* Center for Union Facts (CUF) running a full page ad in the NY Times. Upon closer examination, our old friend, Rick Berman, gun for hire, is behind CUF, among other organizations. Note the letter from his son, David. Pretty sad, eh?
AFT has a short video up on the 5 myths about school performance.
Also–someone posted this link in the comments section on the Top 10 ingredients used in fracking. You might recall that Nurse Cathy Behr was made ill when coming in contact with these toxins!
Elliott at firedoglake has this preview of a book salon today at 5:00 p.m. EST. Wow. Just listening to the short video just sends the mind reeling….if there were any reason for limiting the power of the defense dept, and especially defense contractors, this is IT. Dulles had entirely too much power to manipulate situations towards his own personal goals instead of what was best. And his warped view of what freedom means is just stunning….it’s all about the money.
I’ve read a couple of blogs on JFK and the CIA theories, and Huffpost mentions Senator Hart, who was on the Church Committee to investigate. He put it on the press’ failure to follow up on the witnesses being shot and other leads. He also states that nobody wants to put this out there because whomever did it is still “out there”. Well, I don’t know about that particular person or persons, since it was 50 years ago….but yeah, there are still mercenaries born every minute who would just as soon shoot you as look at you. It’s called courage, Gary, when you speak out even though you’re scared.
Another Presbyterian, Maggie Kuhn, spoke the phrase: “Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.”
Funny that she and Allen Dulles could be of the same faith with such opposing views…
Eagle 
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