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“The Subconscious Mind”

The subconscious mind has proven through research that it is incapable of making... more

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An Open Letter to All the Mankind...

For more about thommo and conspoetry visit http://www.conspoetry.com

Please Help Me

"I am thommo and I am a human being. I write this open request for help to all other human beings on this beautiful planet we share. The world that I am currently living in appears to be broken. It's not irreparable, but it is not far off. That's why I need every one to help me.

In my world, all the resources are used for the financial gain of big corporations and a greedy few that control them. They hold power over the governments in my world and none of them are interested in the needs of their people, in fact, many of them are actively trying to get rid of us. Also in my world, the people are very sick. Unfortunately all our scientists are trained by and have their research paid for by the big corporations. They no longer strive to make life better for us all, merely to make more money. They create cures and then invent the illness. They no longer look to prevent disease, they look to 'treat' it, prolonging the suffering and maximising the revenue stream. They tamper with the genetics of our crops 'for the good of mankind' as if mankind and nature didn't have it pretty well sorted already! Soon all our food will be genetically modified and so will we. Our scientists keep quiet when harmful chemicals and drugs are added to our food and water because if they spoke out they would lose their funding. Our power needs are based on dangerous nuclear power and resource wasting fossil fuels. We have the technology in my world to produce all our power through renewable resources such as solar and geothermal. There is little money in free energy so the corporations block the scientists from finding ways to utilise it for the good of us all. I need your help to set the scientists in my world free so that they can do what they are supposed to"~

(Although I have a biased opinion, I am so proud of what Zaniwhoop has created. We could spend years debating what is wrong in fine detail, but that leads to inaction and nothing will change! An easy place to start is positive thought and it will have such a big affect on everyone. That will give people the strength to unite globally to say 'no more' to the power structure that currently exists. Think positively, act with love and make the change you want happen. Peace, love & respect)~ thommoFor more about thommo and conspoetry visit http://www.conspoetry.com Please Help Me... more

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Who is full of awesome? with Tony DiGerolamo

Ba-ba, ba-baaaaaaaaa! Time for the positive news! News will actually not make you... more

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WWGN - Maya interviews Sarit Maor Simrit Kaur - Editor of Children of Liberty - song for Egypt

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Top Fifty eBooks About Positive Thinking and Visualization

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This Is A Good Sign

This is a positive and uplifting message in a time when its needed most. This is also... more

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Who Is Full of Awesome? with Tony DiGerolamo

Tony D takes a look at the people in the news that are awesome.

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Linkin Park- In Thee End...

Linkin Park put it best...I had to fall to lose it all,But in thee end it doesn't... more

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I'm Just me By: Christopher. S. Cluney

http://www.twitter.com/Day2Day_GodStar I'm just me, a positive person indeed who... more

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The Positive Mind Aligned By: Christopher S. Cluney

http://www.twitter.com/Day2Day_GodStar -As mankind always evolving great minds begin... more

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Is the World Slowly but Surely becoming More Peaceful?

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Why is there stigma related to HIV and AIDS?

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10 Ways the American Economy Is Built on Fraud | | AlterNet

Fraud has become so endemic in this country that it's woven its way into America’s DNA.

April 29, 2010 |

Here are 10 ways the American economy is built on fraud:

1). Accounting Fraud: Last year, America’s leading banks were insolvent. They had tens or hundreds of billions in losses on their books, and the only way to wipe those losses out would be to either a) own up to the mess, raise enormous amounts of money on top of all the bailout money; or b) get out a big fat eraser, and wipe those losses off the books as if they never existed. The first option was nice and all, but a real hassle. So Geithner and Larry Summers chose Door Number Two: Accounting Fraud. They forced the FASB to accept a rule-change in the accounting methodology called “mark-to-model” which let banks decide how much their assets were worth, rather than letting the markets decide. So if for example a BofA owned a complex security called “Orion Butt Fungus” that was worth 5 pesos on the open market, but BofA was too broke to go out and raise 5 pesos to cover that loss, under the new accounting rules, the government told BofA that rather than pricing “Orion Butt Fungus” at what the market will actually pay for it, why not first ask, “How much would BofA like ‘Orion Butt Fungus’ to be worth, in a perfect world?’” If BofA answers, “Doyee, gee I dunno, how about $500 million?” then under the “mark-to-model” accounting rules, BofA could now value “Orion Butt Fungus” at $500 million, and voila! Their problems are over. That wasn’t so hard, was it? Suddenly, BofA looks like it knows how to pick winners! And no one’s going to second-guess them, because everyone else is mark-to-modeling their “Orion Butt Fungi” too! The end result: under the old rules, BofA would have had to raise money just to cover its debts, sort of like you and me have to do, and that’s just a lot of money going to waste. But now that its portfolio is so profitable, BofA has a much easier time raising money, which it uses to pay ginormous bonuses to its executives.

2). Big Pharma Fraud. Remember that scene early in Fight Club, when Edward Norton explained his job, when it was more profitable to let a car defect go and pay whatever lawsuit settlements come from the deaths, and when it’s better to recall the cars because the number of deaths will result in too many lawsuits? This is humanitarian do-gooder stuff compared to the savage real-world fraud-for-profit model that drives America’s drug companies. It’s really simple and it goes like this: the more fraud a drug company commits, so long as it’s off-the-scale fraud with the most horrible consequences for the victims, the drug company’s profits always outdo the criminal fines and lawsuits by factors of 20, 30, 100… It’s as simple as that. Because the billion in penalties here or the two billion in class action lawsuit settlements there are always far less than the tens of billions you earn from pushing harmful drugs on unsuspecting idiots. To wit: Between May 2004 and March 2010, a handful of top drug companies like Pfizer, Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers paid over $7 billion in criminal penalties for bribing doctors to prescribe drugs for unapproved uses, with sometimes deadly consequences. However, as a Bloomberg report noted, the fines are always a fraction of the profits—Pfizer alone paid almost $3 billion in criminal fines since 2004, yet that was just one percent of their total revenues; Eli Lilly got busted bribing doctors to prescribe a schizophrenia drug, Zyprexa, to elderly patients suffering from dementia, even though company-run clinical trials showed an alarming death rate of 31 people out of 1,184 participants (double the placebo rate). Whatever—the market for elderly dementia patients meant billions in extra revenues. So Eli Lilly continued pushing Zyprexa on the elderly for another four years until it the Feds busted them. Eli Lilly got hit with $1.42 billion fine, but that was peanuts compared to the $36 billion it earned on Zyprexa sales from 2000-2008. To make it happen, the drug companies buy off all the checks and balances: lawsuits revealed the enormous bribes they pay to doctors, and even America’s medical journals are so corrupted by drug company influence that they’re no longer reliable as much more than hidden advertisements, according to a recent UCSF study. Medical journals are 5 times more likely to publish “positive” drug reviews than negative reviews, and one-quarter of all clinical trials are never published at all, leading doctors to prescribe drugs assuming they have all the information. The result: prescription drugs kill one American every five minutes …while Americans pay more for drugs than anyone in the world, spending a total of $12 billion on drugs in 1980 to spending $291 billion in 2008—a 1,700% increase. America is ranked only 17th in the world in life expectancy.Fraud has become so endemic in this country that it's woven its way into... more

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In New York Four Summer League players suspended for positive drug tests///

New York.– Four Dominican Summer League players, including a pair of New York... more

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Bio-Electro-Magnetic field - The Key to human happiness!

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Olympic Gold Medalist Lindsey Vonn Supports Youth Snowsports Charity

In addition to being an amazing athlete, Mrs. Vonn also gives back... "SOS... more

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Tending 'the Grow': Marijuana at a Crossroads | | AlterNet

In the warm, luminescent glow of the dust encrusted light fixture, the carpeted and dank hallway disappears into unvacuumed recesses. Darren grabs an unobtrusive handle along the wall's flimsy wood paneling, pulls, and a crack of light pierces the gloom. Pushing aside a black screen of Hefty bags intended to block light and trap heat, he reveals his miniature grow closet. A heavy, supple branch tumbles out. It brushes my hand, leaving a telltale streak of sticky, stinky moistness. The resin goes away with a bit of water. The smell stays.

A ventilator and wooden door couldn't dilute the pungent odor of the maturing female plants. When I point this out, Darren offers me only a mischievous smile. He's proud of this little closet-conversion. Six plants in all, two to a shelf, a 150-watt lamp substituting for sunlight in this hallway cupboard. "You can hide it no problem, but the smell is crazy. Next week my whole house is going to reek! Clipping and all that," he tells me. Ten days away from "pulling" the plants, Darren's "babies" are reaching their most odorous phase.

On this trip, Darren is very ill, a result of his 24-year battle with HIV and his many years as a homeless addict. But he meets with me anyway. He closes the cupboard and I follow the trailing ties of his plaid terrycloth bathrobe to his bedroom where he unceremoniously plops himself on a frameless mattress.

Darren possesses a medical marijuana care receiver ID card, a designation established by California voters in the 1996 Proposition 215, the "Compassionate Use Act", and its updated correlative, Senate Bill 420. "I want to be able to grow enough. I want to be able to do that for my sick friends. I have an obligation," Darren explains, making sure I know his intentions for growing weed. A religious man and a veteran, Darren is not keen on being perceived as a criminal or a profiteer. His medical marijuana prescription had expired 9 months before, but he hadn't been able to afford its replacement, rendering illegal his plants, stash and herbal gifts to another HIV-positive friend who had just suffered an aneurysm.

Of course, even with a prescription, it is all technically illegal because he lives in HUD-supported (read: federally governed) housing. Despite Attorney General Eric Holder's October 19 memorandum backing away from prosecuting medical marijuana in states that have legalized it, drug possession on "federal property" remains a felony and a basis to render Darren homeless again, excluding him from state and federal benefits for life.

"I have to sell my pain meds to get marijuana--my other medicine," he says. "I run short of pain meds every month. I freak out the last few days. Go buy from somebody else with the money I made from selling my meds before. Vicious circle."

It is vicious. Temper tantrums, green skin, hyperactivity or complete incapacitation. The pain meds allow him to get out of bed; the pot allows him to not vomit the meds and all his food. The monthly shuffle usually ends in fraught negotiations with friends for advances and loans, intensified by chronic and piercing pain.

The grow in his house allows him some room to maneuver. Noe, his cousin, set it up in return for a couch and sheets after she fled a dicey situation in Flint, Mich. "Do you know anybody that does identity changes?" he asks, suggesting Noe was actively melting, like so many before, into the haven of California's marijuana hills. Her experience growing hydroponic indoor pot for years in Flint, in factories long since abandoned, would come in handy. Changing the subject, he wrestles his dog into his lap, hugging and petting him with a heavy but careful hand.

Nursing a pipe and becoming more glassy-eyed by the moment, Darren compares Flint, which he describes as a "war zone" of burnt-out houses, to this town in Northern California's mythical "Emerald Triangle"More at link:In the warm, luminescent glow of the dust encrusted light fixture, the carpeted and... more

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Spontaneous Evolution

We are in a world of crisis. From economic collapse to environmental decay to climate... more

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Nation’s Largest Youth Winter Sports Nonprofit Gives 500 Kids A Chance to Snowboard

SOS Outreach, a youth non-profit organization in Colorado, will give about 500 kids a... more

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The Journey - Coed Hills

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