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Some Big Lies of Science

(I agree with all this. Am I a now a left-winger?!)

The Money Lie

Meanwhile no mainstream economic theory makes any mention of the fact that money itself is created wholesale in a fractional reserve banking system owned by secret private interests given a licence to fabricate and deliver debt that must be paid back (with interest) from the real economy, thereby continuously concentrating ownership and power over all local and regional economies.

The rest of us have to earn money rather than simply fabricate it and we never own more when we die. The middle class either pays rent or a mortgage. Wage slavery is perpetuated and degraded in stable areas and installed in its most vicious varieties in all newly conquered territories.

Medicine as Health Lie

Life expectancy has increased in First World countries thanks to a historical absence of civil and territorial wars, better and more accessible food, less work and non-work accidents, and better overall living and working conditions. The single strongest indicator of personal health within and between countries is economy status, irrespective of access to medical technology and pharmaceuticals.

Environmental Lies

Environmental scientists naively and knowingly work hand in hand with finance-corporate shysters, mainstream media, politicians, and state and international bureaucrats to mask real problems and to create profit opportunities for select power elites.

Global Warming as a Threat to Humankind

“I also advance that there are strong societal, institutional, and psychological motivations for having constructed and for continuing to maintain the myth of a global warming dominant threat (global warming myth, for short). I describe these motivations in terms of the workings of the scientific profession and of the global corporate and finance network and its government shadows.”

“I argue that by far the most destructive force on the planet is power-driven financiers and profit-driven corporations and their cartels backed by military might; and that the global warming myth is a red herring that contributes to hiding this truth. In my opinion, activists who, using any justification, feed the global warming myth have effectively been co-opted, or at best neutralized.”

Conclusion

It just goes on and on. What is not a lie?

Look at the recent H1N1 scam – another textbook example. It’s farcical how far these circuses go: Antiseptic gels in every doorway at the blink of an eye; high school students getting high from drinking the alcohol in the gels; out datedness of the viral strain before the pre-paid vaccine can be mass produced; unproven effectiveness; no requirement to prove effectiveness; government guarantees to corporate manufacturers against client lawsuits; university safety officers teaching students how to cough; etc.


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Denis Rancourt was a professor of physics at the University of Ottawa. Rancourt is a recognized scientist but is more widely known for his confrontations with his former employer, the University of Ottawa

Edited by stocks, 26 July 2010 - 04:35 PM.

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The Limits of Conventional Politics

Conventional politics is defined by "leaders" who are actually following the lead of politically powerful constituencies and fiefdoms whose only agenda is protecting their current share of the national income

Conventional politics depends on what I term the illusion of incremental change.
The sickcare reform is a classic example of this illusion: leave the structure entirely intact, but promise miracles will flow from modest policy tweaks.
...the trillion-dollar sinkhole of public union pension plans is being "fixed" with widely heralded tweaks like modest increases in public employees contributions to their own pensions--as if a few million dollars will fill the ever-deepening trillion-dollar sinkhole.

Conventional politics is characterized by this truism: "leaders" are actually "followers" of the status quo constituencies.

Humans only change when there is no other choice.
Thus we can safely predict that the nation's Balkanized constituencies and fiefdoms will resist any systemic reform until the status quo's collapse is visibly inevitable. Then it will be too late for modest policy tweaks to pass as "real reform."

The majority of voters do not vote, leaving the field clear for the nation's Balkanized constituencies and fiefdoms to control the machinery of governance.
As long as the bottom 80% are bought off with SNAP (food stamps), Medicaid and unemployment, their political silence (and thus complicity in the status quo) enables the top 5% to operate with a free hand, electing "leadership" devoted to full-spectrum defense of the status quo.

Republican or Democrat, it doesn't matter; the American Empire continues apace, as do all the other primary fiefdoms: the National Security State, the drug/prison gulag, the Sickcare cartels, the defense industry/Pentagon revolving door, the education "industry," etc.



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