There’s no gentle way to put it: People who give in to racism and prejudice may simply be dumb, according to a new study that is bound to stir public controversy.
The research finds that children with low intelligence are more likely to hold prejudiced attitudes as adults. These findings point to a vicious cycle, according to lead researcher Gordon Hodson, a psychologist at Brock University in Ontario. Low-intelligence adults tend to gravitate toward socially conservative ideologies, the study found. Those ideologies, in turn, stress hierarchy and resistance to change, attitudes that can contribute to prejudice, Hodson wrote in an email to LiveScience. Read more…
Argue all you want, call me all the names in the world, like commie, liberal, even though you probably don’t know the definitions of those terms or what aspects of those terms apply here…but the hard fact is that medicine for profit is simply vile and shameful, but worse, it is counter productive…”
Michael Moore’s SiCKO sought to educate Americans about the criminal absurdities of the American health system, but, in the end, the demagogy and betrayals of the Democrats doomed the reform effort to a colossal giveaway to those very responsible for this outrageous state of affairs.
WITH ALL THE DEBATE ABOUT HEALTH CARE REFORM (which is NOT what is going on…see below), the epidemic of American idiocy is being totally ignored. The debate about the state of health care serves to demonstrate how economic overlords have completely destroyed the average American’s ability to think critically or to see the obvious. American’s are fooled into being their own worst enemies on so many levels. But when it comes to the debate on health care, it is absolutely frightening to see how stupid this nation has become.
The Obama administration is preparing to release next week a proposal for hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts to federal health care programs, including Medicare and Medicaid. These cuts will have catastrophic consequences for the American people.
The proposed cuts will be submitted to the congressional “super committee” tasked with finding at least $1.5 trillion in deficit-reducing measures. Obama is urging the committee, established by the bill passed August 2 to raise the debt ceiling, to go far beyond its mandate, putting in place cuts that previously would have been considered politically impossible. Read more…
Special— Has the scourge of cancer always been present in the history of our species? And if so, has it always struck with the same devastating impact as today?
I HAVE HAD some more interesting responses to my article on the relationship of refined sugar to cancer. Several writers independently suggested that the reason there is more cancer today than in former times is that present-day people live much longer. Since cancer is primarily a disease of middle and old age, these writers claim, there simply weren’t enough people in former ages who lived long enough to develop this disease.“For all of history the average life span was about 35-40 years,” wrote one of these commentators. “In the last hundred years life spans in industrialized countries have increased to 70 years.” Therefore, what appears to be a fault of civilization (an increase in cancer) is actually another one of its blessings.One often runs into this argument about the alleged doubling of life span in the past century or so. This is flattering to the medical profession, to be sure. But how true is this claim? There are reasons to doubt it. During my morning walk, I pass an old churchyard, dating from the time of the American Revolution. The other day, spurred by these questions about the average span of human existence, I slowed down to study the gravestones. Read more…
Few countries offer as eloquent a picture of what a brutal and corrupt form of freewheeling capitalism can do to people than the transformation of Russia after the toppling of the Soviet Union, a highly flawed system, no doubt, but where runaway gangsterism, corruption and social destitution were unheard of. Incidentally, this should not be read as a plea to further police and criminalize drugs, but to regulate them in a rational and compassionate manner.—Eds
Effects of "Krokodil" on a Russian addict.
In the United States, OxyContin addiction is spreading across the country and causing a rash of problems.A powerful narcotic, Oxy’s grip on addicts is so tight it even drives people to murder, as was evidenced last week in Long Island, where an addict’s pharmacy burglary of 8,000 pills left four people dead. Read more…
Editor’s Note: The article below is NOT written from a clear left or radical standpoint, but from a totally mainstream, establishment position. We thought it was worth republishing here because as you will see below, even among mainstream voices the raising of the income cap in social security contributions is seen as the most effective and simple path toward removing this issue from the table as a national problem. Yet the politicians do not act. Isn’t that yet another piece of evidence pointing to the shameless bankruptcy of the US political class? This is a nation without real popular representation. The sooner the masses get that little fact through their benighted heads the sooner some real solutions will have a chance of being discussed. —PG Read more…
Escherichia coli O157:H7 is an enterohemorrhagic strain.
EHEC (“enterohaemorrhagic E. coli”) – a new label to conjure with, joining other fear-inducing abbreviations like TB, AIDS, CJD and BSE. At the time of writing, EHEC has affected some 3-4,000 people, mostly in Northern Germany, claiming some 36 victims among the more than 700 who developed the more serious, potentially lethal, HUS (haemolytic-uremic syndrome) form.
Under the headline “Doctors Shaken by Outbreak’s Neurological Devastation”, SPIEGEL Online (09/06/2011) reported that at first “doctors were most concerned about the kidneys of patients with EHEC. In the past week, however, it has become apparent that the neurological side-effects of the bacterial infection could be even worse”. The report quotes Daniel Wertheimer, head physician at a specialist neurology clinic in Hamburg: “We were all looking at the kidney symptoms at first, but perhaps EHEC will eventually go down in history as the pathogen that caused serious damage to the central nervous system. (…) Three weeks ago I would have said that 15 to 20 percent of the severe cases would develop neurological complications. Today I would say it’s about half”. Read more…
Revolutionary Violence vs Institutionalized Violence
"There were two 'Reigns of Terror,' if we could but remember and consider it; the one wrought murder in hot passions, the other in heartless cold blood; the one lasted mere months, the other had lasted a thousand years; the one inflicted death upon a thousand persons, the other upon a hundred million; but our shudders are all for the "horrors" of the minor Terror, the momentary Terror, so to speak; whereas, what is the horror of swift death by the axe compared with lifelong death from hunger, cold, insult, cruelty and heartbreak? A city cemetery could contain the coffins filled by that brief terror that we have all been so diligently taught to shiver at and mourn over; but all France could hardly contain the coffins filled by that older and real Terror - that unspeakable bitter and awful Terror which none of us has been taught to see in its vastness or pity as it deserves..." —Mark Twain, writing about the French Revolution.
Make creeps like Kissinger
and Palin miserable.
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